The Era of the Great Harvest Has Arrived

This couldn't be right!?

That was everyone's first thought after seeing Foster Mining Company's accusations.

But thinking about it carefully, what they said did seem to make sense.

To fulfill so many orders, they would definitely have to recruit more people.

Who would be willing to work as miners?

Mining was dangerous and exhausting, and miners had low status. No normal person would be willing to dig in the mines, so who would be willing to do it?

Slaves! Refugees! The vermin and rats living in the city sewers!

Gathering these people together was actually easy, but they could turn on you even more easily.

You could provide them with employment, let them earn money, and give them something to gain. They were indeed passable laborers.

But the moment you could no longer provide them with the necessities for basic survival, the power they unleashed would definitely put you in an extremely passive position.

Foster Mining Company seemed to have fallen into exactly such a situation.

To fulfill their orders, they had gathered an extremely large number of people like this.

And these people would certainly have to be supported in the future.

If there was truly so much steel that the people in the market could not sell it all, then even if Foster Mining Company dug it out, they would not be able to turn it into cash immediately. Supporting all these people would naturally mean operating at a loss.

It seemed they had truly fallen into an extremely passive position.

Of course, if one calculated things carefully, one would find that something seemed a little off.

There were so many orders in the Futures Market now, and they had genuinely paid for every single one of them.

No matter how much the Futures Market rose or fell,