Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 450: The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

"Next."

Inside a certain office building, experts at the Foundation Establishment Stage from major families around the globe were lining up to apply for a job.

Yes, you read that right.

Foundation Establishment Experts, coming forth to apply for work at the mines in the star system where Li Yan resided.

For now, the Li family only wished to mine at one spirit stone mine, so they were recruiting a workforce of one thousand.

Due to the recent explosion in the number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, nearly fifty thousand were worried about finding work.

Therefore, as soon as the news of the Li family mining spirit stone mines was released, various families promptly sent their Foundation Establishment Experts to apply.

With the current salary treatment of 400 low-grade spirit stones per month at the mines, it was still very attractive for these Foundation Establishment Cultivators and their families.

You should know that a Foundation Establishment Cultivator could only exchange for 10 spirit stones per month using points from the "Arena"; obviously, working on an extraterrestrial mine was more cost-effective.

Thus, as long as there was a job opportunity, these masters, who were considered Immortals in the eyes of mortals, were as eager as college graduates freshly entering the job market.

"Do you have a Magical Treasure?" Li Yan’s second uncle, Li Er, was today’s recruiter, responsible for reviewing the basic qualifications of the applicants.

The applicant sitting opposite shook their head.

Li Er could only shake his head apologetically and say, "Then you should go back and wait for news."

The expert who had just advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage stood up regretfully, bowed slightly, and left.

After striking out a name, Li Er rubbed his eyes, feeling tired, but for the sake of his family’s spirit mine business, he had to persist.

It wasn’t just about recruiting miners, but also about making distinctions among the numerous Foundation Establishment Experts.

Having a Magical Treasure and not having one were two different matters.

You have to understand that the sudden changes and rock densities and structural resistances of other star systems are no less challenging than those of Earth.

Even the ability to spawn and nurture crystals like spirit crystals is not something density like Earth’s can compare to.

Without a Magical Treasure, it’s extremely tough to split the stratum.

And even if one possesses Magical Treasure, Li Er still had to distinguish whether they were using an offensive flying sword type or defense or utility type.

There were details to consider.

Efficiency was paramount in the mining area, and they preferred Foundation Establishment workers with offensive flying sword type Magical Treasures.

In this way, they were able to deploy their skills to successively break open the mines, then they also needed to cut the spirit stones according to size.

Thus, not all Foundation Establishment Cultivators could be employed.

And most of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators actually lacked Magical Treasures.

These things now had limited availability and were basically only in the hands of top families and some resourceful cultivators.

In the competition for jobs in the mining area, Loose Cultivators indeed found it challenging to compete with cultivators from big families.

The big families had a lot of materials for making Magical Treasures.

They were usually consumed internally.

"Take this and report to the Li family star system, where a person in charge will welcome you and take you to the mining area."

When Li Er hired someone on the spot, he would give the person a Li family identification token.

"Alright, thank you, Steward Li Er," the recruited Foundation Establishment Cultivator happily took the token, evoking some envy among the others queuing up to apply.

After all, the people who came to apply today were lined up from the office door all the way down to the bottom of the building.

Nearly several thousand people.

At this moment, Li Yan’s wife, Zhan Yufen, walked in; the recruiting team and Li Er immediately stood up and bowed in greeting.

Zhan Yufen’s status was now equivalent to Li Yan’s proxy.

She was the absolute spokesperson for the Li and Zhan families on Earth, even her father had to obey Zhan Yufen’s commands.

Because often, Zhan Yufen’s orders were Li Yan’s directives.

Li Yan went to establish his Cave Mansion in his own star system, and he spent a lot of time consolidating his realm, so he had no time to return to Earth.

Besides, if a Nascent Soul returns to Earth, their realm would be weakened to the middle stage of Core Formation, and you wouldn’t be able to cultivate either.

So, in order not to delay his cultivation, many of Earth’s mundane matters were presided over by Zhan Yufen.

"Go ahead with your work," Zhan Yufen waved her hand in a laid-back manner, signaling for the job interviews to continue, and she just walked into an office, "Uncle Er, please come in."

Li Er nodded, signaling to his assistant to continue work, and then followed her into the office.

Zhan Yufen sat on the sofa and said to him, "We’ve settled on our Star System Main Star, so when you have time, you should start planning out the construction of the main urban area on the Main Star."

Li Er knew that each Star System Lord’s main urban area would need a palace constructed.

"Alright, I’ll get in touch with people from the other families."

Zhan Yufen continued, "Regarding payment, we don’t have that much cash. If we pay with spirit stones, we also need time to mine them. Brother Yan suggests we do like his sister-in-law’s sect, and use a small spirit stone mine as compensation. As for the price standards, you just follow what his sister-in-law’s sect has set."

"Okay, I’ll get to it right away," Li Er said busily.

On the other hand, Jiang Xue and Liu Yuan were busy collecting design plans from the major families’ design teams and handing them over to Lin Yue for review.

Lin Yue wasn’t interested and let them handle it.

Jiang Xue and Liu Yuan’s preferences didn’t match, and in the end, they performed a clever maneuver by laying out all hundreds of 3D design diagrams on the floor and having the future Sect Leader, Gu Qingxue, choose.

At two months old, Gu Qingxue could clumsily crawl with her chubby arms and legs.

On the spacious and luxurious pure cashmere carpet, she looked at the hundreds of colorful papers, seemingly searching for the most brightly colored pictures.

Then she picked up a design plan.

"Does Little Xue like this design?" Jiang Xue and Liu Yuan immediately went over and picked up Gu Qingxue.

Gu Qingxue, drooling with the drawing in hand, chewed on it unconsciously. Upon discovering it wasn’t tasty, she bared her teeth in frustration, feeling tricked and about to cry with a pitiful expression.

Liu Yuan gave her a bottle while laughing, "Then let’s use the design Little Xue chose."

Lin Yue rolled her eyes, "You really plan to trick my daughter, huh?"

This time, it was Liu Yuan and Jiang Xue’s turn to roll their eyes at her.

They both had worked hard to bind Gu Qingxue with the sect.

They knew Lin Yue’s laissez-faire nature all too well; she might whisk away with her husband into the cosmos at any moment, leaving everything else unattended.

Instead of relying on Lin Yue, it was better to keep Gu Qingxue, the pride of the heavens, firmly tied down.

Nearby, Eileen and Huo Yi, who were responsible for gathering up the other design plans, couldn’t help but face-palm themselves.

Such a misstep!

They hadn’t anticipated that their little junior sister would make such a decision!

The two of them had powerful backers.

One was the South American Cultivation Alliance.

The other was the Hong Kong Circle, led by the Huo Family.

In fact, they had been stuffing their own designs into the pile through the two of them.

Moreover, both understood their master’s preferences and had often guided their respective family-backed design teams.

But it never crossed their minds that something as important as constructing the main headquarters of the sect would be decided by a two-month-old infant on a whim!

When the news got out, it indeed shocked all the families—who would have thought?

The design plan that Gu Qingxue had grabbed turned out to be from a third-rate cultivation family, originating from the newly returned Liuqiu Chamber of Commerce.

Since the project involved a stake of at least a million low-grade spirit stones, when the Liuqiu Chamber of Commerce received the bid, just like the Singapore consortium before them, their door was visited by high-level members from various family camps.

They demanded the Liuqiu Chamber of Commerce give up at least 80% of the share, so everyone could participate in the construction and share the mine.

As the Liuqiu Chamber of Commerce had only just returned to the fold of the Dragon Nation and was virtually invisible in the entire capital circle, they were even doing worse than the Hong Kong Circle and their fellow Fujian Minnan Chamber of Commerce and had no strong capital power to resist harassment.

With no other choice, the president of the chamber had to personally take a trip to Beijing to represent Liuqiu and childishly report and complain to the authorities for the first time.