The second incident was this: Xavier saw a female worker who had suddenly died.
It was said that the female worker died after a twenty-hour overtime shift. Her colleagues were indifferent to it; such things were commonplace in textile factories, but Xavier found it unbelievable.
It's worth noting that when he was young, his hometown had a textile factory.
His family were mere small lords, only able to run a basic water-powered textile factory. The textile process required huge amounts of manpower, and workers needed to work 12 to 14 hours a day just to make ends meet.
The industrial textile factories in Grimland used the most advanced steam-powered looms, with fabric production efficiency sixty times that of the water-powered looms.
But why did Mace say that Grimland's textile workers needed to work 16 to 18 hours a day to survive, and 20-hour overtime was a common occurrence?
