Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1316 Child Labor

Le Yu said that this time her grandfather told her that if she didn't learn her lesson she would be locked up.

Tie Hongyan asked her what it was about.

Le Yu told Tie Hongyan that she and her grandfather came back from outside that day and saw a hungry child rummaging through the garbage dump for food. She happened to have some food she had brought back from outside in her hand, so she gave a bag to the child.

Tie Hongyan said "Oh?" at first. She felt that this matter was not enough to make Lian Boyuan scold Le Yu. After she said, "In this case, generally speaking, Elder Lian should not be angry with you," she immediately thought of the reason, so she said, unless the child is a blue-armored person. She asked Le Yu if she met the child outside the area of ​​Tiecang Court where blue-armored people were prohibited from entering.

Le Yu said yes.

Tie Hongyan felt at this time that the child was most likely a blue-armored person. To further confirm this, she asked Le Yu if there was any number on the child's clothes. Le Yu said it seemed like there was.

Tie Hongyan told her that the children with numbers on their clothes were child laborers without relatives, all of whom were blue-armored people. In the past, some of these children ran around while working, and those numbers were marked on their clothes for the convenience of managing them.

Only then did Le Yu understand why her grandfather scolded her like that.

She remembered what Le Yu told her about the blue-armored child laborers digging through the garbage to eat, and she wanted to change this situation as soon as possible. After returning to the meeting hall of Ao Qian Palace, Tie Hongyan immediately summoned his men to inquire about the situation.

She asked her subordinates how efficient the child laborers who had no relatives were at work. They said that their work efficiency had never been very good, but they were more economical in food and space.

Tie Hongyan said: "Just to save food and space, using these inefficient blue-armored people is not worth the loss, right?"

Her subordinates told her that this problem had always existed before, but it was not so obvious. Ever since the work originally done by the infected blue-armored people was replaced by the iron warehouse people, the problem of low efficiency in those places in the Iron Warehouse Court that were still done by the blue-armored people became prominent, especially the blue-armored child laborers, whose efficiency was so low that it was hard to describe.

The subordinates also said: "Those child laborers are more annoying than donkeys. They may not work faster even if they are whipped, and they are always hungry. How can we feed them if they are inefficient? We catch them to work, not to waste food!"

Tie Hongyan felt sorry for the child laborers after listening to what her subordinates said, but of course, she didn't show it at all. She said she wanted to improve the efficiency of work in Tiecang Court, and said to her subordinates: "Pass the order to control all the child laborers. For the work that was originally done by child laborers, increase the wages and hire adult Tiecang people to do it."

Her subordinates asked her how she was going to deal with the child laborers. In order to make her subordinates think that she really wanted to replace the child laborers because she thought they were too inefficient, Tie Hongyan smiled viciously and said, "Haha, you should know!"

The subordinate knew that she was going to "play" again, so he said he understood.

Tie Hongyan looked at her subordinate's reaction and thought that he must have guessed that she was going to "play" again. In order to make her subordinates believe that she gave this order purely because she couldn't stand the low efficiency of those child laborers, she said: "I will send them to the west soon! All the blue-armored people who obviously affect Tie Cangting's work efficiency will pay the price!"

(End of this chapter)