The small commotion outside the house did not enter the eyes of everyone in the house at all. Lin also stated the purpose of his trip, which was neither to find experimental materials, to sacrifice the entire village, nor to summon demons.
Ceremony. He came here just for the fruits that filled the mountains and valleys, but no one cared about them.
Of course, Lin didn't just need the output of one or two trees. If he only needed that little, he and his two young apprentices could just do it themselves. Anyway, this forest was ownerless, and the villagers could only stare.
He didn't dare to do anything to the magician with two huge monsters.
However, Lin hopes to pick and process as much as possible, so he needs help from manpower and a place to do the work. What better manpower can there be than the mountain people who live in this mountain and worry about food for the winter during the slack period?
.
The requirement is very simple. Follow Lin's processing procedures to peel off the pulp and peel of the fruit, leaving only the seeds inside. Lin will be paid accordingly according to the weight of the seeds in the final product.
When he shook a money bag and made a crisp sound to attract everyone's attention. Then he casually spread the money bag on the table, revealing the yellow color inside, and no one questioned Lin's credit anymore. They only asked if he wanted to
do what.
Lin Xian picked out 5 gold coins from his purse, pushed it in front of the old man, and said: "This is the deposit I will give you first. It is probably the price we agreed on, and the quantity of xxv (25) barrels of green beans. I expect to stay
One to two months. If during this period, the output of beans is less than xxv barrels, I will not ask you to pay back the remaining money. But if the output is much greater than the amount of xxv, I will of course pay the agreed amount.
, pay you the remuneration you deserve."
Because there is no good gunny bag technology in this world, Lin simply chooses wooden barrels for storage. In terms of breathability, moisture-proof, fresh-keeping, moth-proof, insect-proof and other effects, wooden barrels are better than gunny bags. The disadvantages are also obvious, that is
Heavy. But for a magician, does weight matter? So Lin didn't consider it.
The agreed wooden barrel should be filled with xxx ten days, which is 30 kilograms of raw beans. For every five barrels, Lin will pay i kiel (1 gold); and i kiel can buy four mouthfuls.
The family's coarse grains for half a year. In other words, the kir (5 gold) paid by Lin in advance is enough for everyone in the village to survive a month of winter. With their original grain storage, they can save food.
Be frugal and you won't have to worry about it this winter.
That's right, when the scale of the economy is still in its primitive state, and most people at the bottom have neither spending power nor consumer demand, the purchasing power of kiel, that is, gold coins, is very strong.
As for the way to organize and manage manpower, Lin chose the old man in front of him as a window to communicate with the villagers. This included giving orders for work, collecting rewards, and then distributing them to everyone. Of course, if he had any opinions, he could come through the old man.
Communicate with him instead of personally organizing villagers who are willing to work for you.
Is this fair?
All I can say is, not entirely.
At least for Lin, the employer, it would be difficult to prevent the old man from using his power for personal gain without getting too deeply involved. Naturally, there would be no fairness at all.
But there are several advantages to doing this. The most direct point is that you only have gold coins and no coins of smaller value, so it is difficult to give everyone corresponding rewards according to their labor. In this case, if you give it to one person,
Then he can use other methods to reasonably pay the fruits of everyone's labor, which will save Lin a lot of trouble.
The second point is that Lin is not familiar with the people in this village at all. If he wants to manage everyone as a hired worker, not to mention how much energy this will consume, will the other party trust him? How motivated is everyone?
High? Who is suitable for what? Lin doesn't know these things, so there is no need to mention work efficiency.
In this case, it is better to adopt the form of contract work. Lin is only responsible for one person, and this person coordinates other chores. And the best candidate is, of course, the first old man who dares to contact him, and the only one who accepts his expression of goodwill.
The gift──is the original gold coin──to the person.
For such a person, as long as Lin does not ask for too much, the old man will implicitly stand on Lin's side. Because he will understand that his power comes from the money given by Lin. Therefore, he does not want to lose the power of the fox and the tiger.
If there is a chance, I can only fawn a little bit.
Furthermore, this is only the first transaction. When they can definitely get rewards for their hard work, we will discuss with them how to plant coffee trees on a large scale and in a planned way, and improve the subsequent processing procedures, and then
Deliver it to yourself who lives in Wulian City.
These words will be more useful after they have tasted the first sweetness. If you make such a request now and make a plan that you think is 100%, it will be like drawing a big pie and putting it in front of them.
Nothing is different. No initial trust has been established, and subsequent plans and ideas are empty talk. I am not the lord of this place and have no authority to order anyone.
However, these considerations do not seem to have ever existed in the minds of these mountain people. They simply think that there are advantages or disadvantages to doing so. If it is beneficial, they will do it, if it is disadvantageous, they will reject it. Their attitude towards life is that simple.
So under Lin's instructions, nearly a hundred people in the village, including the elderly and children, started to move. Maybe some old and weak people are not suitable for heavy work, but there is no age limit for picking fruits. As long as there is
You have both hands and feet, so at most you just need to walk back and forth a few more times to collect the fruits in your basket.
Even if your feet are really inconvenient, you can still take on the second step, the task of selecting beans. The main task here is to pick out impurities, such as small stones, and eliminate obviously inferior beans.
Starting from the third step, it is a bit rough. The first step is to dig a pond, and there is a mountain stream next to the small village, which flows continuously from the higher mountain, just enough to divert water into the pond. The next step is to throw all the coffee berries into the pond.
In the water, ripe and full fruits will sink to the bottom of the tank, while immature or incomplete fruits will float to the surface.
There are differences starting from the fourth step. Half of the fruits will be spread on the exposure field in the village for sun drying. They must be turned over every day to allow the fruits to dry evenly. They must be covered at night to avoid moisture. Exposure time,
It takes about two to four weeks. This is the so-called solarization method in the processing of green coffee beans.
The other method is of course the water washing method. It requires roughly removing the peel and pulp, and then putting the coffee seeds attached to the mucous membrane into the fermentation tank. In about a day to a day and a half, the pectin mucosa will become very good.
Clean. Use plenty of water to remove the mucous membrane and remaining pulp.
The fifth step of the sun-drying method is to remove the hardened outer layer and take off the outer shell of the seeds. In this way, it is completed.
The fifth step of the water washing method is to expose and dry the coffee beans, which takes about one to three weeks. Finally, the beans are shelled, and all steps are completed.
Of course, the flavor is different between the two. Lin has never tasted it, so naturally he doesn’t know which method is suitable for Midi’s coffee. As for the sun-drying method and the washing method, the time required is about the same. To say the difference, it is
The water washing method requires a large amount of clean water, so it is difficult to carry out in places with insufficient water resources.
The work was carried out quite smoothly. After all, it was a matter in the land, which this group of people was very familiar with.
Various plans, including exposure sites, treatment plants, fermentation tanks, cleaning tanks, etc., were all formed one by one under the leadership of the strong men in the village.
In the meantime, apart from giving some guidance, Lin offered no other assistance. In any case, he was considered his employer. This was not a war, and one had to take the lead to boost morale. Doing too much or doing too much would be too much.
, may not necessarily please others, but will only increase pressure on others.
And in terms of proficiency, I'm definitely not as good as these people who have been doing farming all their lives, so don't make any trouble.
In the entire mountain forest, coffee trees are only one type, and they account for a relatively large proportion of tree species. Because they are wild plants and have not been planned and cared for, the yield of coffee fruits is definitely not as good as that of coffee estates on the earth. But Lin roughly calculated that this
A mountain forest can produce approximately 3,600 barrels of coffee.
But that is the inference data of the use of machine-assisted production on the earth. Considering that some parts of the mountains are not conducive to harvesting, the villagers here are doing this kind of work for the first time besides doing it purely manually. There may not be many steps in the process.
Smooth. Therefore, this output will be discounted.
In the next month, during the operation, because only Lin knew the complete processing process, and only he knew what kind of thing he would get in the end. Although he did not keep an eye on everyone's work at all times, he still followed the old man's invitation
, confirm whether each step is appropriate.
Many machines and equipment are not available in the Lost World, so I can only think of some alternative methods. When Lin made the request, he did not force everyone to follow the method he said. Instead, he proposed some possible solutions to discuss with everyone.
Of course, someone can come up with a better solution, and it will actually be recognized by everyone after using it. Lin is not stingy with rewards.
The reward of one gold coin at a time greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the villagers. It was not that there were no whimsical opinions, but Lin did not provide any assistance, and asked the people who made suggestions to do it themselves.
With their ability as ordinary people, they can complete the work and get everyone's approval. This kind of craftsmanship is what he needs. If everything has to be done by magicians and solved with magic, that doesn't mean that every year he has to do it.
In order to complete the harvesting and processing of coffee beans, it is a bit putting the cart before the horse.
It was in this environment that the Midi version of the pulp separator and shelling machine came into being. Although it is very simple, it is already several times more efficient than manually processing such a large amount of coffee cherries.