Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 54: Mia

The working years of female Camore weavers were actually similar to those of cotton farmers. While they weren't subjected to the same horrifying conditions as the first-generation workers in the British Empire's sweatshops—where living people entered and came out as corpses—the intensity of their work was no less than that of the workers in the Kenyan Empire's textile factories in the north.

Despite enduring similar hardships as the textile workers of the Kenyan Empire, the wages and living standards of Camore's female textile workers were only a fraction of their counterparts.

The reason behind this discrepancy lay in the profitability of the Duchy of Shiga's textile industry.

The Duchy of Shiga was a traditional agricultural country, influenced by the Goddess of Prosperity's teachings and dogma. Citizens pursued a self-sufficient agrarian economy, while the majority of them were more interested in accumulating wealth and maintaining a conservative approach to commercial activities.

In other words, the tens of thousands of cotton clothes produced by Camore's weavers were simply too much for the surrounding markets to absorb.

In this world, the concept of "road construction" didn't exist, so the expenses of transporting goods from Camore to be sold were well beyond imaginable.

Camore's noblemen put in some effort to consolidate land and tame the local commoners into cheap, disposable laborers. Since a significant portion of the profits from the textile industry went toward transportation costs, these cheap laborers were not treated with any kindness.

Skilled female weavers of Camore spent their days at home, tirelessly weaving textiles and only earning about 300 copper coins per month.

Given the Duchy of Shiga's consumption standards, this amount seemed quite substantial, but it had to be remembered that Camore commoners had no land, and every meal for their families had to be purchased with this money.

Half a kilogram of rye bread cost three 3 coins.

A strip of thin pork cost 10 copper coins.

A jar of b

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