THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
The two planter's representatives arrived back amid their waiting comrades, to give feedback on their meeting.

One among them brought out a folded sheet of paper, with a golden seal, and said.

"This is the new contract agreement."

"Read it out for us." The men cried out.

"This agreement was made in the year nineteen-eighty -five, between the royal house of Greenwich island, and the local planters. That the issuer of this contract agreed to pay the sum of ten dollars for a kilogram of opium seed."

"Is that all, What about our other demands?" Another man asked with a loud voice.

"Be patient, and let me read it out," the man answered back, peered closer at the contact form, and resumed his speech.

"And that we agree to be paying the planters the sum of six hundred dollars per week, during the dried season, but all beneficiaries planters are expected to do other community services for their payment."

"What community service? surely we won't be cleaning the palace's toilet?" Anot
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