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Chapter 696 Refusal to Show Up
Perfect was truly relieved. After announcing her retirement from all positions and not meeting anyone, she had gained the long-lost peace and quiet.

No one came to disturb him, no government affairs bothered her, she could do whatever she wanted.

She doesn't need to care about money. As the world's number one alchemist, even if she could only reveal a little bit of her skills from between her fingernails, it would be enough to make people rich.

Oliver is the one who has experienced this most personally.

Perfect simply helped him improve two products in his spare time as his rent, and Oliver made a huge amount of money in a short period of time through these two improved products.

He didn't even use the Perfectoct name. He simply announced the product's performance and let people try it out on site. Then, he opened up the market with its excellent product performance and low price.

The first batch of goods was sold out in a very short time.

This forced Oliver to order the factory to work overtime to speed up production, and he even offered three times the overtime pay to keep the workers working at full capacity.

"I didn't expect you to be so generous. You give me triple overtime pay. This is much more generous than other factory owners in the North." Perfect was also wandering around Oliver's factory at this time. While helping him digest his food after a meal, he also provided Oliver with some technical after-sales service.

Perfect was surprised and approved of the fact that Oliver had issued triple overtime pay.

After all, from the perspective of capitalists, how much profit will be lost if the wages are tripled? Do you really think that the master is doing charity by opening a factory?
Of course, Oliver didn't want to pay three times as much, but Perfect was right next to him, and Oliver couldn't guarantee that if he withheld workers' wages, Perfect would build him into the wall.

This kind of thing has happened before. There were some conspicuous people who thought they could ignore Perfect and blatantly violated the labor protection laws formulated by Perfect, deducting workers' wages and making them work overtime.

This matter was reported to Perfectok by the Workers' Union. Perfectok, who was worried that he had no one to establish his authority, investigated and confirmed that the matter was true. He then dragged this smart guy out for public trial. After the execution, he was directly built against a wall at the trial site and wailed for three days before he died.

And on that wall, there is not just one such smart person. There are at least a dozen smart people built into the wall, making the wall famous in the North.

Of course, that wall also gave the laws of the North unparalleled deterrent power.

After all, no one wants to be the next smart guy built into a wall as a decoration.

Paying workers high wages will indeed result in some loss of profits, but Oliver can still tell the difference between being built into the wall as decoration and which is more important.

Moreover, after Perfect helped him improve the product technology, the price of a product was reduced by 10% from the original basis. After deducting the additional expenses, he was still able to make a profit equivalent to 1.5 times that of the past. This was enough for Oliver to willingly pay overtime to the workers.

But for Oliver, it was really unbearable to have a Buddha like Perfect standing by his side every day.

Although Perfect would occasionally throw him something that slipped through her fingers, for Oliver, this only made him happy.

Perfect's presence still made him feel uncomfortable. "My Lord, the people outside are looking for you like crazy, are you really not going to consider showing up?" Although Oliver did not mean to send the god away, his words were still trying to find out and test when Perfect would leave him.

"Show up? Why should I show up? I am just an ordinary imperial noble now. I don't hold any public office. Why should I show up in public?" Perfect didn't care at all. He picked up a part from the production line, weighed it in his hand, and when he saw that there was no problem, he put it back.

She could see that the workers in Oliver's factory were in good spirits and were not depressed by long hours of work and overtime.

At the same time, these people all look rosy-cheeked and healthy, proving that their living conditions are also pretty good.

From these two points, we can see that although Oliver is a businessman who will do anything to get what he wants, he still treats his workers better than most people.

At least the workers have enough food to eat, warm clothes to wear, and can get enough compensation from him.

Compared with his peers, Oliver has done a good enough job. At least the workers can get enough compensation from him.

"My dear lady, please be kind and have mercy on me! I can't eat or sleep well every day while you're here, and I've lost a lot of weight!" Oliver immediately started to act pitifully in front of Perfectcot: "You don't know that the Empire is just short of issuing a bounty notice to find you! If people knew that you've been hiding here, I really wouldn't be able to do business anymore!"

"Don't worry, once I finish my new design, you won't have to worry about this problem anymore." Perfect patted Oliver on the shoulder with a smile, and then warned him, "Of course, if the news of my presence gets out, you won't have to worry about this problem anymore."

Oliver was numb after listening to Perfectcot's warning. He didn't think that the latter one that Perfectcot said he didn't need to consider was a good thing.

But as a businessman, he was still curious and asked Perfecto, "My Lord, do you have any new designs to come out?"

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"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. This matter has not been confirmed yet, but if you do what you should do, you will definitely benefit in the future." Perfect didn't mind giving Oliver benefits, and he believed that Oliver was reliable, as long as he could give him enough benefits.

"I understand. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, no one will know you are here." Oliver made the assurance seriously.

The workers in his factory did not know the origins of Perfecto, and he announced to the public that this was an alchemist he had newly hired to solve the factory's technical problems.

This statement had no flaws in the face of Perfecto's powerful alchemy attainments, and in order to hide her identity, she also disguised herself slightly, so others would never associate her with the Lord of the North.

As for their conversation just now? If someone could eavesdrop on their conversation between the roaring machines that required shouting to speak, Perfect felt that there was no need for her to hide her identity.

Because it could only mean that her identity had been discovered.

"Also, I will make a list for you later, please help me prepare the items on the list." Perfecto planned to make a model of a floating city first, and the materials needed were naturally squeezed from Oliver.

(End of this chapter)