The Blessed
/ The Blessed Chapter 287
Published at 8th of March 2022 08:48:05 PM
“Be quiet, everyone. This is Childe Ling, the landlord you are working for.”
Guarantor Liu took a few strides forward. Under his introduction, all the people's line of sight fell on Ling Jingxuan who just arrived. Being stared at by over a thousand people, others might have already had his legs turning into jello. But Ling Jingxuan, Yan Shengrui and Chu Ci just walked over like they had been used to it.
“Master!”
More than one thousand people called him at the same time, even making one's eardrum ache, Ling Jingxuan waved his hand to signal them to be quiet, “Everyone, you are here to work, so I won't talk much crap. As long as you work hard, I will treat you fairly. But, if anyone tries to fish in troubled waters, don't blame my rudeness then!”
The easy-going atmosphere suddenly changed. Those who thought he was weak and might be a pushover all made a shudder, with fear crawling onto their face. They are just some farmers. However they performed at home, they still had no clout when outside. So when facing someone overwhelming, it was impossible they were not scared.
“In order to improve the efficiency of your work, I have decided to divide all of you into 24 groups, 50 people of each group, and each group has a head of cattle. For the group that does the most work, in addition to the fixed wages, I will reward each one in that group extra five copper coins. And for the group that does the least work won't be punished, but if you are too far behind, then I can only say sorry and ask you all to leave, now, you can find your own acquaintance to form a team, later, each group elects your team leader. As for the details about how to do your job, I'll explain to your team leaders alone.
With rewards and punishment, one would have the motivation to work. And group work can effectively avoid lazy individual. On the way here, he had made the calculations, one thousand and two hundred people, if one could reclaim two my of land per day, they could finish all the land in 20 days or more, but the premise is, no one loafed on his job.
As those words fell, those people began to chat about their work, but most of them were with a smile. If they would do their work well enough, they could get extra five copper coins! Besides, they had long heard that this family was pretty good to their workers. They never underpaid and also provided free lunch. And they also heard it was all warm stuffed buns, steamed bun and bone soup!
A few crafty people complained in the heart. Originally, they thought that there were so many people of them, the landlord couldn't watch each of them, so they might have a chance to be lady and also get their pay easily. Never expected that Ling Jingxuan made such a move to cut off their back road.
“What is Ling Jingxuan thinking? Got his head cracked by the door? It's find that he'd like to spend so much money for the wasteland. Now he even provides such high pay for the workers? Doesn't he know that everything will be in vain when the sea water flows back?”
“Who knows? Maybe he has too much money and doesn't know how to waste it.”
“Haha..anyway, the offer is so good that even I want to work for him.”
“Save it. Now Ling Jingxuan is rich and he has already born the grudge against us. How would he ever hire us?”
“You can't say that. As long as we work hard, he shouldn't turn us down. After all, we are from the same village…”
“You're right. Why don't we go and ask about it? If we can make some money at home, it's not a bad thing.”
Those onlooking villagers could also hear what Ling Jingxuan said, their gossiping sound nearly outdid that of those workers, including sarcasm, envy, and admiration, all kinds of reactions, but only there was no sincerity. While thinking about how to earn some money from him, their faces showed naked contempt. As long as Ling Jingxuan was not a dumbass, he would never hire any of them.
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It also needed some time for those workers to form groups. So, taking the time, Yan Shengrui complained, apparently he had a problem that his Jingxuan hid it from him.
“Come on.”
Noticing what he was thinking with a glance, Ling Jingxuan rolled his eyes, saying while shaking his head, “I also came up with it just now, when Guarantor Liu said he only borrowed twenty cattle for us. We have three, Brother Zhao has one, it's twenty four, and those people can be divided into twenty four groups. And after we get more cattle, I'll divide them into small groups, so they'd also improve their productivity. It'd be better as long as we could finish it earlier.”
It was said that the sea water would flow back in October, but who can guarantee that it wouldn't flow back ahead of time? The natural world was like a mystery, hard to explain, and in order to make sure that next year's winemaking project could be launched in time, he had to get all this land reclaimed, no matter how much he spent this year.
“Heihei…I just feel it's unfair. I am your man, how can you treat me like others? Do you know how frustrated I feel when I know I am the last to know?”
Making a fake laugh, Yan Shengrui was thick-skinned enough to move over. Guarantor Liu aside got dumbfounded there, even doubted that if he had blurred vision, while Chu Ci looked poised, “That's a good idea. Although we'd have to pay extra few hundreds of copper coins a day, it could avoid those who try to loaf on their job.”
Though Chu Ci still wore that cold and indifferent appearance, only he himself knew how he admired Ling Jingxuan.
“Hehe…that's what I want. I am not bragging. I don't care about the money, but I really don't want to hire those gaggers. Anyway, it's slack season now. There are enough workers out there. Why should I spend money to disgust myself?”
With one hand held behind, Ling Jingxuan ignored that one playing shamelessly beside, with a confident smile on the face, mixed with some kind of overwhelming feeling. Chu Ci turned to throw him a look, and no longer said anything. The reason he came was completely out of curiosity. If possible, he really wanted to know how he could grow things out of this wasteland.
Chapter end
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