There are still five days left before Chu Ye marries the princess, and the palace is already stepping up preparations. The palace has also rewarded many gold, silver, jewelry, silks and satins, and has decreed that Wang Xiangjun can be canonized as Princess Zunyi. The emperor does his best to curry favor with Chu Ye.
, of course to let his guard down.
Yin Le deliberately avoided Chu Ye's wedding, so he took Shou Tou to the tea garden to inspect the situation. The tea garden had not yet harvested, so it was not very busy. Most of the tea workers went to drain and irrigate to prevent drought in autumn.
Newly planted tea gardens need to be constructed and applied with lime powder to prevent insects, but this is a day job and can be completed in only two or three hours a day.
Liu Qin was managing the tea garden. When he saw Yin Le coming, he took Yin Le to patrol around. Yin Le asked about the situation of the tea workers in the tea garden and said: "We don't need so many people now. They work two or three hours a day, and some of them are off duty."
We also pay wages, which is not conducive to the development of the enterprise. One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink. There are too many workers, no one wants to work, and they waste time. I suggest cutting off some of them.
people."
Liu Qin frowned and said: "But in this case, when the tea picking season comes, we will not have enough manpower. We are raising them now just to have enough manpower during the tea picking season."
Yin Le said: "The time for picking spring tea is on the first day of May. At that time, spring plowing has just passed and many people are free. We can pay double the price to hire temporary workers, which is better than 365 days a year."
It’s much cheaper to keep them.”
"Temporary workers?" Liu Qin had never thought about this problem before. In addition, the old man was always kind and treated his employees very well, so he would rather spend a lot of money to support the people in the tea garden than fire the lazy employees. Liu Qin
After listening to Yin Le's suggestion, he felt that it was somewhat feasible. He thought for a moment and said, "The idea is good, but I just fired so many people suddenly because I'm afraid they will cause trouble."
"Everything in the world cannot be avoided. We spend real money to hire them to do work. But now the workload is light and only one-third of the people are needed to do it. Who is willing to lose such a big sum every month?"
Expenses? As long as you tell the employees, they will understand. If they want to make money, they can come to help during tea picking in the spring and Qingming tea picking, and their wages will be doubled by then. During the rest of the time, they can do other things to make a living.
Our Liu family's industry is not limited to tea gardens. Loading goods at the dock also requires a lot of coolies. If they are willing, they can earn coolie money. Although it is hard work, the coolie money is twice as high as in the tea plantations. How much you pay and how much you earn are in line with market rules.
." She had learned before that the Liu family wholesales tea to various places and is constantly transporting it from the capital to various places. Therefore, there is a shortage of manpower for transportation, and even high prices cannot be hired. The tea gardens are in the suburbs, and the people in the suburbs have to work hard.
They are willing to do it, but the locals in the capital are not willing to do coolies, and would rather do other easy but less expensive jobs. Therefore, relatively speaking, there is a serious shortage of manpower for transporting coolies.
"Then I'll go back and ask my aunt for her opinion on this matter," Liu Qin said.
Yin Le said calmly: "From now on, you will take care of everything in the tea garden. You will be directly responsible to me. There is no need to discuss with other people. Your aunt is not from the tea garden. Since she has chosen to help in the store, let her continue to stay."
Let’s go to the main store.”
Liu Qin couldn't believe it and said in surprise: "You mean, I will manage the tea garden from now on?"
"Do you think you are incompetent?" Yin Le asked back. Liu Qin had always taken care of the tea garden, but there were also many old ministers who were arrogant and domineering here, bullying the eldest grandson of a concubine. The old man was worried about Liu Qin, so Liu Yanxiang and the old ministers would
Put pressure on Liu Qin. Here, he is actually the supervisor of the tea pickers. He has to intervene in many things. I thought that when Yin Le took over the old man's position, his situation would be more difficult, but he didn't expect that he would let him go as soon as he came.
Manage tea gardens.
He hesitated and said, "Why don't you ask grandpa for advice on this matter first? I'm afraid his old man will object." He also knew that grandpa didn't pay much attention to him and always felt that he was not smart enough.
Yin Ledao: "The reason why I put you in the tea garden is because you have a calm temperament. I am worried if you stay in the store. The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and you have no qualifications for intrigue. So management in the tea garden is the most suitable. Uncle,
You and Liu Ye are brothers, this is the Liu family's property, you will always take over it in the future, now is the time."
Liu Qin was a little touched. He had never thought about taking over the Liu family's property. His previous thought was that after his grandfather died, he could get some of the family property and then go out to work alone or put the money in a bank to collect interest. He knew that was not the case.
The reason why all the business materials were left in the tea garden was not only arranged by the old man, but also because I like tea and the atmosphere in the tea garden.
He looked at Yin Le and said gratefully: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
"They are all our own brothers. If you say these things, you are going outside. You go and summon the old officials in the tea garden and tell them that I want to hold a meeting and announce this matter by the way." Yin Le said.
Liu Qin said: "Okay, I'll go right away!"
Before Liu Qin left, he glanced at Shou Tou, who looked at him blankly. Liu Qin smiled and said, "Fifth brother, are you bored? I'll take you to have a cup of tea, okay?"
Shoutou said happily: "I don't want to go drink tea. I want to go up to the mountain to have a look. It's boring to stay with my sister."
"Okay," Liu Qin said with a smile, and called a worker and said, "Ah Quan, take Fifth Master up the mountain to have a look. Remember, keep an eye on it. If anything happens, you are the only one asking."
Ah Quan is an honest worker. He has been working in the tea plantation for more than ten years. The whole family relies on his wages to live. Just now I heard Yin Le said that a large number of employees would be laid off, and he also heard that he could earn more money by working as a coolie. He was a little worried.
He was excited. Now when he heard Liu Qin calling him to go up the mountain with Shou, he came up to Yin Le and asked Yin Le respectfully, "My boss, are they really in need of workers at the dock? How much money per month?"
Yin Le snorted and said, "You can ask the uncle about this. From now on, all matters in the tea garden will be managed by the uncle. If you want to transfer work types, you can apply to the uncle."
Ah Quan quickly bowed and said: "Okay, thank you, boss!"
"Sister, then I'm going with Uncle Quan." Shoutou said happily.
"Go, Hongyan, you go up together." Yin Le brought Hongyan over today. As for Mo Yan, he went to protect Ye Rong, and Lu He went to Xing'er, saying they were reminiscing about old times, but they had been reminiscing about old times for several days.
As Yin Le carried out manpower reforms in the tea garden, tensions were also rising in the court.
The emperor insisted on sending troops to conquer North Korea, but Chu Ye believed that North Korea had always kept a low profile and had no intention of invading. As a vassal state, he entered the palace on time every year. Even the princess of North Korea had been married into the palace as a concubine. Here,
Under such circumstances, Zhao had no reason to attack North Korea. Therefore, Chu Ye strongly opposed sending troops.
Now that the Zhao State's treasury is empty, once the army is raised, the people's taxes will definitely increase. If this continues, the people will be resentful for a lifetime, and the emperor will lose public support. He will be more inclined to Chu Ye, but Chu Ye is not willing to use war to exchange for people's support. Zhao State is the ancestor
Although Chu Ye was dissatisfied with the emperor after conquering the country, he was not willing to make fun of the country.
In the Jinluan Palace, there was a quarrel, and the two parties continued to quote scriptures and describe the pros and cons of going to war or not. When the tension was at stake, Chu Kun walked away. He needed such an opportunity to make contributions. He believed that as long as he captured North Korea, he could resume his career.
To win the hearts of the people. So even though he was afraid of Chu Ye, he was not willing to be outdone. So in the end, when he saw that most people were leaning towards Chu Ye, he became angry and left angrily.