The man was used to it and said "Oh" and then said: "Zhu Sanlang, you know all the rules, right? The wages are paid every three days. We who farm the land are paid twenty cents a day, and the county government provides us with food and drink."
He said: "Don't be lazy because you think this job is easy. Look over there."
The three of them turned to look in the direction he pointed. It was a group of people digging a trench with hoes. He said, "The slow ones are being dragged there to dig trenches. Their wages are fifteen cents."
One day, I will tell you the rules first, which are also set by the county government. Although the county government is short of people, not everyone wants them."
"Those who are talented include literacy, calculation, carpentry, etc. They do other jobs, and the wages are different from us." Reading, literacy and having talents are something they envy but cannot envy. "We people,
Most of them earn twenty cents a day, and if they are quick with their hands and feet, if they catch the eye of a noble person, they can be transferred to other jobs, and the wages are different."
"We are not talking about the hard-working people now, but we are talking about the procrastinating and lazy people who urinate a lot. They first reduced their wages to dig ditches. If they still can't do it well, then they will change. The ones with the lowest wages here are
Ten coins a day, if it's irrelevant, then you have to pay back all the money for clothes and soap." He waved three fingers in front of the three of them and said loudly: "The total is thirty coins!"
The young man's eyes widened, "So expensive?"
The person leading them also thought it was expensive, but he copied Fang Xian Cheng's words, "If you think about it carefully, it's only a day and a half's wages. In the past, who could buy a set of clothes, shoes and socks with a day and a half's wages and still get a piece of it?"
Medicated soap and cloth?”
Zhu Sanlang thought it was true, so he suppressed the reluctance in his heart. What he was more concerned about was, "Are wages really paid?"
The person leading them was no longer surprised by this question. He was also skeptical when he first came here. But he has been working here for ten days and he is indeed paid every three days, so he nodded, "You guys
Lucky for you, we just finished the payout yesterday, and in two days it will be time to pay out wages again, and you will be able to get it by then."
Zhu Sanlang's eyes flashed slightly, "Can I get it if it takes less than three days?"
"These three days started on the day when this place was built, not on the day you came in. Otherwise, if people come in every day, wouldn't they have to be paid every day? It's too chaotic. No, here we are, this is the bathhouse.
, we built it ourselves, and everyone will make do with it. Go there to get a wooden bucket and a cloth towel. There is a place to boil hot water. Go get water to take a bath. No one is allowed to throw the clothes you took off there.
If you take it inside the house and discover it, you will be fined."
"Master Zhou said that there were a lot of bugs on those clothes. Now that we have new clothes, they will be burned."
Zhu Sanlang: "Just one thing..."
"So after you get paid, you can buy another one from the county government. It's not expensive. It's twenty cents, which is just one day's wages."
Zhu Sanlang: "..."
So why did Bai Shan and the others recruit so many women? In addition to farming and growing vegetables, of course they were weaving and making clothes.
Some people didn't know how to make clothes, so Bai Shan simply sent people to Qingzhou City to invite some weavers and embroiderers to teach them how to make clothes.
For this reason, he has signed a contract with someone, and he will provide for them in their old age in the future. Otherwise, how could they teach others how to eat when there are still so many people.
That's simply stealing a job.
Bai Shan was not short of money now, so he started asking people to buy linen, linen, cloth and other items from other counties. Even Yin You, who was summering in the mountains, was urged to come down from the mountain and started to help him collect things everywhere.
Bai Erlang had just returned from Qingzhou. As soon as he entered the city, he first saw a group of ragged people sitting under the wall. They looked like beggars, but one look at their age showed that they were refugees.
He couldn't help but look at them several times, then turned to talk to Yin You: "It's strange that there are still refugees in the county. I thought Bai Shan had raided them all."
Yin You leaned slightly and glanced out the window, then looked away and said, "You just arrived, right?"
Bai Erlang sighed, "It's so pitiful, they will disappear in less than two days."
Yin You: "...If someone who didn't know what you said heard this, they would think he was an evil official. What would he do if he took someone captive?"
"They may not have been taken captive, but the two of us were. I'm here for a summer vacation. Why do I have to run back and forth like this?"
In contrast, Bai Shan can still stay in Beihai County, and seems to be much more comfortable than him.
The two of them went directly to the Beihai County Government Office. This time they brought back several carts of fabrics for Bai Shan and negotiated several businesses for him. "We have negotiated with the shops in Qingzhou City. A total of five hundred
A wooden barrel will be delivered by themselves when it is ready."
Yin Orze said: "We have also ordered a batch of farm tools in three counties, Qingzhou City, Linzi and Qiancheng. They are all the ones you gave us. I have also seen them. They can make them. Because the quantity is large, they can also make them."
Willing to deliver.”
Bai Erlang scratched his head and said, "It's true that we didn't buy much grain. We went to grain stores in various places to look. Although the autumn harvest has come and grain prices have dropped slightly, they are still very expensive. We might as well go directly to the countryside to buy them."
After all, he made his fortune in the grain business. He first went to the fields and asked about the prices, then went to the shops and found that the prices were quite different.
Bai Shan asked: "How is the harvest in Qingzhou this year?"
Bai Erlang said: "The weather is good. Except for some places in Qiancheng County that were slightly dry during the grouting period, everyone else said that this year's harvest is better than last year."
"Then just wait a few more days and we'll go directly to the fields to collect them."
Bai Erlang asked: "How much do you want to buy?"
"Let me give you five thousand stones first."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened: "...Why did you buy so much grain?"
Bai Shandao: "To be prepared, I now have more than 700 soldiers under my command. Not counting the county officials and the helpers from outside, there are a thousand or so people. Now there are so many long-term workers. Next year
Before the summer harvest, they have to buy everything they eat from outside. Five thousand shi may seem like a lot, but it’s actually not much.”
It's strange that Bai Erlang believed him. It's not like he doesn't know how much food a person eats every day, and he still "comes first", which means he will buy more later.
Before his thoughts could develop, Yin Or had already asked, "Are you afraid that the salt farm incident will cause a big problem and someone will stop grain from entering Beihai County?"
Bai Shan smiled slightly, "It's better to be prepared. Although I am also forming an alliance now, the benefits are exciting."
Who knows if the allies he has made now will turn around and throw themselves into the arms of others. The gentleman once said that a person must be honest, but he must also know that the word "treacherous" is indispensable in being an official. We may not be treacherous, but we must be honest.