Perhaps because they had witnessed the changes in the Norma Tribe firsthand, Chief Monto and the two elders were full of hope about cooperating with Xu Yi. As a result, the entire negotiation... no, it could really be called an ordinary business discussion, went very smoothly.
In just one short day, Xu Yi and Chief Monto settled almost all the details.
For the hundred dwarf craftsmen provided by the Angola Tribe, Xu Yi offered the same monthly salary of eight gold coins that Canby and the other dwarves received.
Their other benefits, however, would be somewhat less generous.
That was because Canby and the other dwarves had already worked at the Xinfei Merchant Guild for over two months and were now skilled workers. The dwarves from the Angola Tribe were newcomers, so naturally, they could not receive exactly the same treatment.
Chief Monto and the two elders had no objection to this. After all, a monthly salary of eight gold coins for each tribesman was already enough to satisfy them.
What was more, Xu Yi had promised to establish a materials laboratory in the Angola Tribe as well. Not only would he provide a fixed monthly research budget of a hundred gold coins, but whenever they produced a research result that the Xinfei Merchant Guild ultimately adopted, they would receive an additional reward of five hundred gold coins.
For the Angola Tribe, which had lived in poverty for so long, both the fixed monthly salary of eight gold coins earned by working at the Xinfei Merchant Guild and the five hundred gold coins awarded for a successful research result were like rain after a long drought. They could not have been more satisfied, so how could they ask for anything more now?
The dwarves were honest and straightforward by nature.