After the business was concluded, Liwei went "offline" to work on his business.
On this side:
Jana began to study magic with Salfani, and taught her to master her talent preliminarily.
After a long wait, the Elvin and his wife met their No. 2 business partner, Professor Victor of Peartworth University.
Victor Win is elegant and distinguished, with a strong scholar temperament in his speech and behavior. So he was loved by Elvin and his wife, the two technology-based entrepreneurs, as soon as he appeared.
After in-depth exchange of relevant technical issues with Victor and confirmation and admiration of the other party's identity, background and academic ability, Elvin finally put down the last trace of vigilance:
"Professor Victor, we can sign the contract with you now. I hope you can enjoy your cooperation!"
Elvin showed his sincerity.
But Victor shook his head: "Don't worry, the contract can be signed later."
"Why?" Elvin wondered.
Victor took a deep look at him:
Because of the signing of this contract, this guy will be formally turned into a thief.
The Elvin family will also be implicated if something happens to the leader.
The leader is not Bill Giwart's Jianghu hero, and should not use this deception to earn people to Liangshan.
Otherwise, once Elvin discovers the truth, the trust that the two sides have built up with difficulty will be completely broken.
At that time, will he stay on the mountain and sit in a chair by mistake, or will he find a chance to surrender and be appeased by the imperial court That's hard to say.
In a word, leaders need like-minded companions, not time bombs.
So
"Mr. Elvin, I hope we can first deepen our understanding of each other, and then formally confirm the cooperation relationship with your full consent." Victor explained sincerely.
"Well..." Elvin thought only that he was Victor, and he wanted to make more on-the-spot visits to his factory for a period of time: "It's also good. Both sides can have more time to think about it."
"Professor Victor, would you like me to accompany you to the factory now?"
"I just want to tell you about this." Victor smiled: "I hope the factory can be suspended for a day. Let me and my students go to the front line of the factory to learn about the situation on the spot."
"You and your students?" Elvin was a little curious
"Yes, and quite a few. This is a kind of social practice in our college, right?"
"Good." Elvin thought for a while, "I will stop the factory now and let the workers go back to rest."
"No, you just need to let the local workers in Piltwoff go back."
"What about the Zu'an apprentice?"
"They need to stay. My students and I are here for them."
Hearing this answer, Elvin's eyes flashed a strange color.
In fact, he has smelled something wrong.
Because he has believed in the existence of Jana, and believes that Levi is the divine choice of Jana goddess.
Twenty years ago that desperate night, his tears, his helpless prayer Besides himself, I'm afraid only the goddess knows.
Then just think about it:
After hundreds of years, the goddess Jana came to the world again. Is it just to open a factory, make music, and earn pocket money for herself in Piltwoff?
Liwei and Victor, as well as the goddess Jana behind them, definitely have a grand goal.
Students, workers, professors These people will be united under the banner of the goddess. What do they want to do?
Elvin dared not think deeply.
But after hesitating, he reached out to Victor:
"No problem, Professor Victor."
"Although I don't know what you and your students want to 'practice' here, if this is what the goddess Jana means..." The goddess Jana is the patron saint of Zu'an, a symbol of kindness and kindness: "I would like to believe it."
"This factory will be handed over to you for the time being."
"Thank you!" Victor shook hands gratefully.
Then he took out two pamphlets from his arms.
The first volume was written by Li Wei yesterday and printed this morning.
The other volume was compiled by Victor according to Li Wei's speech this morning, Zuan, where to go.
The first volume is about what and why, and the second volume is about how to do it.
The content of the latter is obviously somewhat sensitive.
Victor thought for a moment, and for the time being only handed the first pamphlet to Elvin:
"Mr. Elvin, perhaps you can read this article."
"If you understand, you will know what we are doing."
...............................
An afternoon passed, and darkness fell quietly.
The Hicks audio factory of Elvin's family is still full of lights and energy. But what is busy here today is not the workers, but the group of Zu'an students brought by Victor.
They are trying to face and solve a problem:
How to carry out the work of the leader?
Nobody knows.
It is the first time for everyone to accumulate experience through practice.
Fortunately, these students are all from poor backgrounds and can talk with apprentices.
They are also future scientists who know how to conduct scientific investigations.
And those Zu'an apprentices are happy to chat with them when they see that they can get white-collar salaries without going to work today, and these students are all introduced by Erwen's boss.
For these young students, this is undoubtedly the best starting point for their future work.
After this afternoon's exchange and investigation, we finally got to know the specific situation of this factory.
"Professor Victor!" Lena took everyone's summarized opinions and found Victor, who was in charge here.
She reported the survey results of this afternoon in detail:
"The survey shows that this Elvin Hicks technology audio factory has a total of 51 local employees in Pirtwaff and 148 apprentices in Zu'an..."
"Wait a minute." As soon as the report started, Victor heard something strange: "Why are there so many Zu'an apprentices?"
"Isn't it stipulated that the ratio of local employees to foreign workers should not be less than 50%?"
In order to give priority to the employment of local people, Picheng does have such regulations.
"But that's all paper rules..."
Victor had a teacher with him when he was in Zu'an. So he didn't suffer much from the factory, so he successfully passed the exam to Pieterwolf.
After he came to Picheng, he hadn't left the school for more than ten years, and he hadn't seen what the factory looked like.
Compared with Victor, who has been in the ivory tower for a long time, Lena, the poor ancestral sister, knows more about the social reality of Piltwoff:
"Zu'an people are cheap and work hard."
"Who doesn't want to recruit less spoiled Pi Chenglao and more hardworking Zu'an people?"
"So even though Picheng has such regulations, these business owners can also secretly increase the proportion of migrant workers in the factory by means of concealment, affiliation, contract workers, etc."
"This... concealment? Affiliation? Package worker?" Victor was confused.
He has been a scholar for a long time. I really don't know what this is.
"The simplest way to conceal the truth is to hide those smugglers who have no legal apprenticeship salary, and employ them to work as illegal workers in the factory at a price twice as low as that of normal apprentices." Lena explained
"Mr. Elvin may be too timid to do this."
"But of the 148 Zu'anxue apprentices in his factory, 32 are 'affiliated workers' -"
"They are nominally attached to Mr. Elvin's home, as well as the 'domestic servants' in the homes of some of his acquaintances, but actually they are doing apprenticeship work in Mr. Elvin's factory."
"Another 65 people are 'contract workers' -"
"That is to sign a contract with the head contractor in the society, and those powerful and well-established head contractors will send their workers to work in the factory."
"These people are not formal apprentices of Zu'an, nor do they occupy the factory staff."
"So after careful calculation, there are only 51 formal apprentices in the name of this factory - which is exactly the same as the local workers in Picheng, accounting for 50%, and does not violate the employment security regulations of the local people in Pirtwaff."
"This..." If I didn't check, I was shocked.
Victor didn't expect that Mr. Elvin, who seemed kind and honest on the surface, could still play so many flower jobs behind his back.
Thanks to his sincere expression when he mentioned the goddess Jana.
Oh, no, his pamphlet can't be delivered to the wrong person, can it?
"No, it's really not Mr. Elvin's fault." Lena shook her head reluctantly: "The owners of Picheng do it like this, and he's already honest."
"Is that honesty?"
"In Piltwoff, yes."
“......”
Victor was silent for a long time and sighed:
"I thought I was a teacher in this practice."
Great professors and intellectuals should be leaders and enlighteners of the masses at first sight.
Even the modest Victor instinctively thought that he stood higher, looked farther and was more intelligent than those students and workers.
But now, when he really walked out of the campus and into the factory, Victor found that:
"So... I am the student."