Everyone froze.
"What do you mean?" President Morgan asked again.
"It's simple. Let's take your merchant guild as an example, President Morgan. Do you think just anyone could do the work in your mines?" Xu Yi asked in return.
President Morgan immediately shook his head. "Of course not. Some of the work in the mines is just simple physical labor, but plenty of jobs are quite dangerous. If we don't teach people first, something is bound to go wrong."
"Exactly. Here's another example. You're all familiar with magic locomotives by now, aren't you?" Xu Yi asked.
Everyone smiled.
Magic locomotives had been on the market for six months. Although that was not long, their enormous advantages over horse-drawn carriages in speed, carrying capacity, and cost savings had already given every merchant guild in Bunta City a thorough appreciation of their benefits. They had now fully embraced replacing horse-drawn carriages with magic locomotives.
If the Xinfei Merchant Guild's magic locomotive Production Workshop had been able to keep up with demand, horse-drawn carriages would have all but vanished from Bunta City by now, replaced entirely by magic locomotives.
"You need to earn a driving license to drive a magic locomotive. More precisely, you need certain driving skills before you can operate one. Even after getting a license, becoming a skilled magic locomotive driver still takes time and practice. So this is another job you can't just grab anyone to do," Xu Yi continued.
"President Xu, I understand what you mean," President Vincent interjected. "You're saying that... although more outsiders will pour into Bunta City this year, not many of them will actually be useful? That they won't really mean much to merchant guilds like ours?"
"That's more or less what I mean, though it wouldn't be right to say they'll be no