Chapter 605: Cross-Border Hiring

Xuanyuan immediately made the decision for Baifeng: "Your son's guard Soldiers, as long as they do not exceed two hundred, are all fine, but you must strictly require them, apart from protecting your son, to also handle daily life, and they are not allowed to wander around or look around in other parts of our Xuanyuan Tribe. How about that?"

Baifeng readily agreed: "Of course, no problem. However, I will only arrange at most one hundred guards for him, and at the same time arrange another one hundred Soldiers to protect our Embassy. How is that? After all, any accident is possible. At critical moments, the only ones who can protect you are your own people. Likewise, you can also arrange your Soldiers to protect your Embassy in Huaxia."

Xuanyuan agreed: "Good, no problem. Then, regarding what you said about having our Soldiers protect your son, how exactly should they protect him?"

Baifeng thought about the wording for a moment: "Hmm, let's put it this way. In our Huaxia, there is a practice called hiring. It means that some people, who usually do their own things, when they are free, or when they see a task they deem suitable, will be hired by an employer with a certain amount of food to work for others. It could be plowing land, or it could be clearing wasteland."

As for your Soldiers, the purpose of hiring them is to protect my son. When facing wild beasts, they only need to protect my son well so he doesn't get hurt. In the worst-case scenario, he must not be severely injured or die. My son can die, but only on the condition that the Soldiers protecting him are all dead, and the hired Soldiers are also all dead. My son can only be the last one to die.

However, I don't think there are any wild beasts that could kill several hundred Soldiers, right?"

Xuanyuan nodded: "That's right. I can also guarantee that I will absolutely not let your son die in our Xuanyuan Tribe. However, how is the food required for this hiring calculated?"

Baifeng asked in return: "How much food is one of your elite Soldiers allocated per day?"

Xuanyuan started to speak but stopped, because he felt this matter could not be disclosed to Baifeng.

Seeing that the Xuanyuan Tribe wanted to speak, Baifeng did not press him and continued on his own: "Our Huaxia elite Soldiers can eat eight taels of various Grass and grain food every day, plus a certain amount of oil, vegetables, and fruit. Every seven days, they can be allocated one jin of meat. Since it is our Huaxia doing the hiring, I will follow our Huaxia standards."

"Every day, we hire your Soldiers based on double the daily food quota of our elite Soldiers. It is equivalent to them doing one day of work and receiving two days' worth of food, and it is the best kind at that. Do you think your Soldiers will be satisfied with this treatment, and will you be satisfied?"

Changxian was already so surprised that his mouth hung open on the side. He did not expect that Huaxia's elite Soldiers could eat so well. Although the meat was a little less than what they could get, the other grains were truly enough to eat their fill. Because Huaxia and the Xuanyuan Tribe had long-term trade, the unit of jin was also used in the Xuanyuan Tribe, and they all had a concept of how much one jin was.

Xuanyuan felt slightly embarrassed, because by comparison, the Soldiers of their Xuanyuan Tribe ate a bit worse. However, this proposal from Baifeng was a good thing. His own Soldiers only needed to go out and accompany Baifeng's son to wander in the wild and drive away wild beasts. With such a large number of people, the danger was almost non-existent, and they could earn so much food. It could be said to be very cost-effective.

So Xuanyuan revealed a smile: "Of course that works. I think this condition is generous enough. When our Soldiers are free, they will not refuse."

Baifeng clapped his hands: "Good, that's good. But I also want to say this upfront: because we are providing compensation according to the standard of elite Soldiers, the Soldiers must also be elite Soldiers. Otherwise, the hiring standard will definitely be lowered. We certainly cannot use the standard of elite Soldiers to hire people who have no combat capability at all."

Xuanyuan also expressed agreement: "That is of course."

Baifeng continued: "The Soldiers hired each time can be different, it all depends on the willingness of your Xuanyuan Tribe Soldiers. However, I hope that when my son goes out, even if no one is willing to accept the hiring, you still need to mandatorily arrange at least one hundred Soldiers to protect him. The cost will still be borne by us. If we can hire enough people ourselves, you won't need to arrange them mandatorily. How about that?"

Xuanyuan still readily agreed. After all, the number of Soldiers in the Xuanyuan Tribe was very large, and being able to use Huaxia's supplies to support them was very acceptable to Xuanyuan. Even if Baifeng asked for a few hundred more people, he could fully agree. However, what Baifeng said next still took him by surprise.

"Because the Weapons of your Xuanyuan Tribe are, more or less... you know, so, for the sake of my son's safety, even for the hired Soldiers, we will provide our Huaxia Weapons. But after the hiring task is finished, they need to be returned. What do you think?"

Xuanyuan was slightly stunned for two seconds before saying: "Good... good."

Regarding the issue of Changle, it was solved to everyone's satisfaction. Because Baifeng had already explained to Xuanyuan what hiring was, Baifeng then brought up another bold idea of his.

"Xuanyuan, does your tribe have enough spare labor?"

Xuanyuan said with a smile: "There is a lot, but don't even think about it. It is impossible for me to sell my tribesmen to you."

Baifeng also waved his hand with a smile and said: "No, no, I didn't think about trading your tribesmen. It is difficult enough for me to support my own tribesmen now. What I mean is, I want to hire your tribesmen to work in our Huaxia. What do you think?"

"Hmm?" Several intense gazes instantly focused on Baifeng. Xuanyuan also asked with great curiosity: "Hire my tribesmen to work in your Huaxia? What does this mean?"

Baifeng then explained without any hesitation: "Our Huaxia's population is already enough, but to develop our territory, we need more labor. However, buying or trading is too unrealistic. Not to mention whether you would sell them or not, even if we bought them back, we couldn't afford to support them. But hiring is different. We only need to pay food when they are working. Then let them help us work, and when the work is finished, they can return to your Xuanyuan Tribe to continue living."

"The people are still yours in the Xuanyuan Tribe, they are just working here for us."

Xuanyuan thought about it and felt that this was also a good method. But for the sake of his own tribesmen, he still asked: "What kind of work do you mainly need them to do?"

Baifeng said: "It's nothing more than clearing wasteland, moving various things, and cutting down trees. There won't be any danger. As long as they are working outside Huaxia City, if there are many people, we will have Soldiers to protect them. Moreover, if your tribesmen we hire die accidentally while working, or are killed by wild beasts or our Huaxia's enemies, we will provide you with compensation."