"He keeps the excess? A greedy man, my Lord… If he wished to assist you, surely he ought to have been a little less gold-eyed about it?" Verdant said disapprovingly.
"No. As with you, it makes sense. I do not need men to throw away their lives for me. If our businesses can be mutually beneficial, then they should be. Even if Greeves were to get two hundred golds off them, as long as he raises my initial number from sixty to a hundred, I would not begrudge him the extra," Oliver said. "It seems to me though, that I need to double that number… Two hundred golds a week, and I should be able to comfortably pay the wages of a hundred men on the outside, and twenty men on the inside, whilst still having an amount left over should any difficulties occur."
