This section of the road that Zhou Man was responsible for progressed very quickly. It was scheduled to take ten days, but it was completed on the eighth day. However, it was too late that day, and there were still a dozen steps to go, so we had to work early the next morning.
a while.
Wu Lang simply didn't rush back to the city, and he and the three foremen crowded into a bunk to sleep, while he lit a fire in the field and chatted with them.
"Have the rice seeds sprouted now?"
"It's almost the same, but there is little rain this year and my land is dry, so I don't know if I have planted it yet."
"This is just the right time. I can level the fields when I get back. Once the seedlings grow, they can be planted."
Wu Lang raised his head and glanced at the stars in the sky, and sighed: "The stars are so bright, it will be a sunny day again tomorrow."
"It's not a bad day on a sunny day. This road has just been repaired. It needs to be exposed to the sun for two days first. The sun will be strong so that people and livestock will not be damaged in the future."
Wu Lang looked at them like idiots, "It's been a drought since the beginning of spring. Do you think it has rained a few times since the dragon raised its head?"
"twice?"
After doing this calculation, everyone was shocked.
Wu Lang said: "Last year, when the Qintian Supervisor said that there was going to be a snowstorm in the Central Plains and the south, our husband said that there would be a drought in the spring next year, and it turned out to be a drought."
Everyone is not in a good mood, after all, everyone depends on farming for food.
Wu Lang said: "So I guess we need to use water to transplant the rice seedlings, and we have to wait a little longer."
"It will rain soon?"
"Even if it doesn't rain here, it will definitely rain elsewhere," he said. "When the water from the Wei River comes up, it will be easier for us to water."
Everyone thinks so.
Friday Lang took the opportunity to ask: "Anyway, it's still some time before spring planting, what are you going to do next?"
Everyone was confused: "Let's go home and level the land."
"The wheat seedlings have also turned green. The wheat seedlings that survived last year's snowstorm are growing very well. If you weed carefully, you can still have a good harvest of wheat even if you can't grow rice."
So there are still a lot of things to do. Farming is really interesting and you can do it twelve months a year.
There is no work in sight, the grass is taller than the wheat seedlings, and people still feel that it is not yet the farming season.
Friday Lang touched his nose and said directly: "There is still time anyway, do you want to stay a few more days to build the road?"
Not only the three foremen, but also the people sitting next to them were shocked and looked at Wu Lang with disbelief. We thought you were a brother and a good person, but you actually wanted to prolong our labor, oppress us, and exploit us.
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"Her Highness the Princess should be responsible for the section of road below. She gave me money and asked me to find someone to do the work. I have calculated it. If you work with me, I will give you fifty cents a day as wages, and I will still be in charge of one person.
We have three meals a day, and I can even ask someone to bring the stones for the floor here, so we don’t have to pull them ourselves. How about it, do you want to do it?" Wu Lang looked at them with a wink.
The above shock and anger dissipated instantly. The foreman thought seriously and asked: "Will you pay me when you finish the work?"
Wu Lang nodded and promised: "Everything will be settled on the day it is completed. By the way, if you are willing, you can return me to take care of things. I will give you an extra twenty cents a day."
The three of them became more and more excited and looked at the villagers behind them.
They can be foremen because their family has great prestige within the community, so their attitude is very important.
The three of them did not agree immediately, but said: "We have to discuss it."
"Okay!" Zhou Wulang said: "You guys give me a promise tomorrow. If you are willing to stay, I will not treat you badly. It's not surprising if you don't want to stay. I will go to the outer west city to find the missing person."
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There are many people from other places over there who have set up shacks to make a living in the capital. As long as they are given money, they can work.
The three foremen shuttled among their own people, and after discussing for a whole night, most of them stayed. Only a dozen of them chose to go home because they had few people at home and had to go back to work on the farm.
Wu Lang was happy, now he had familiar people under his command. The key was that they were also familiar with road construction, so the speed would be faster.
Wu Wulang said: "You go home to meet your family today, and come back tomorrow morning, and I will also find some people to gather 300 people. If the speed is fast enough, it may be completed in seven or eight days.
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When the three foremen heard this, their eyes flashed, and they pulled him aside and said: "If we don't rush to look for it now, why don't we wait until we go back to the village to find someone. Maybe there will be someone willing to come?"
"Yes, they are all familiar with each other from the same village, and they are taken care of when they work."
The three hundred people who are coming now are not from the same village, but from three villages. One village only has 70 households, and they must have relatives in other villages. They can find someone they know to do this job.
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Wu Lang thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
So everyone sealed the remaining road, packed up their things, and dispersed.
Before leaving, the foreman asked Wu Lang to confirm, "This is considered a ten-day service order."
Wu Wulang nodded, "Yes, counting ten days, I will report it to the county government tomorrow."
Everyone then dispersed with confidence.
As expected, they brought people back the next day to make up for those who left, no more, no less, exactly three hundred people.
Wu Lang breathed a sigh of relief and took them to continue repairing the section of road they repaired yesterday.
Bai Erlang ran to take a look and saw that they were divided into three groups, and three road sections were being built at the same time, very quickly.
He stood next to Wu Lang and praised: "Okay, Brother Wu Wu, it's very large."
It was also the first time that Wu Lang took care of so many people, and he was very proud, "It's okay, it's okay."
Bai Erlang asked: "How long will it take to build this section of road?"
"Ten days at most, at least," Wu Lang looked around and whispered: "I gave 20,000 yuan to the people at the stone farm, and they will transport the stones to us every day."
It will be much faster that way.
Bai Erlang did the math and asked puzzledly: "How much does their food cost for a day?"
Wu Lang said: "It costs about eighty-nine cents per person."
After all, you need to have meat, do hard work, and eat a lot.
Bai Erlang: "...Then what else do you earn?"
He and Mingda gave him 200,000 yuan.
Wu Lang said with a serious face: "Just wait, I will definitely make money."
Even if you don’t make money, you shouldn’t lose money, right?
Wu Wulang swallowed his saliva, but he actually felt a little guilty. Is his salary higher? Or is it lower than Bai Erlang and the others?
Facts have proved that the loss is not a loss, because with the efforts of the quarry specifically to deliver stones, everyone has experience, and because of the salary, everyone works harder, and the road was built outside the new city at noon on the sixth day.
It is connected to the main road outside the new city.
Wu Lang breathed a sigh of relief and immediately picked ten people to drive the bullock cart to the workshop to transport the money. Once the road was repaired and he confirmed that there was no problem, he had people move baskets of money down.
He took out a sling of money from the basket and said, "Everyone, watch out. This sling is worth a thousand dollars. I will give it directly to your foreman, who will take it back and distribute it to you."
It was the first time that the villagers saw so much money, and they all gathered around the baskets with their eyes shining.