Chapter 168 I feel like I have earned it
The people who came cleaned them and after checking their bodies, each of them gave me a set of grass skirts.
But what Shi Tou and others are concerned about is not the straw sandals, but the pottery bowls that shine brightly in the sun.
After wearing the grass skirt, it was finally time to release the pottery bowl.
Wang Wei personally handed them bowls.
However, before delivering the bowl, each of them was asked.
That is to ask them whether they are willing to work in the royal family or are willing to work in a short-term job.
Long-term worker and short-term worker are another new term, but after Wang Wei's explanation, Shi Tou and the others finally understood.
The so-called short-term worker is a daily salary, and you will go wherever you need people every day.
The salary of a short-term worker is five pottery coins per day.
The Changgong specializes in doing a certain job according to the requirements of the royal family.
I heard in the early stage that I had to learn something.
Moreover, the monthly salary is paid, and it takes half a month's salary.
If you stop doing it, you need to explain the situation to the royal family half a month in advance, otherwise the salary will not be paid for half a month.
But the difference is that the salary of long-term workers is seven pottery coins per day.
The people of the Stone Clan felt a little confused about the pottery coins.
The promised reward is food, pottery and various tools, but why has it suddenly turned into pottery coins now?
But after Wang Wei's explanation, they finally understood.
The pottery coins were actually something Wang Wei made for their consideration.
There is no private property in this era.
Although more than 20 people came to Shitou and the others, they can be regarded as a whole.
If there is no pottery coins in the middle as a replacement for exchange, what they want to change is too complicated.
Suppose they want to exchange pottery bowls.
The current price of a pottery bowl is fifty-five pottery coins to exchange for one.
In other words, a short worker can change to a pottery bowl for eleven days, or eleven people can change to a one for a day.
This kind of calculation is not difficult for Wang Wei or the royal family who have studied mathematics for a period of time.
But for Shitou and the others, it is like listening to a heavenly book, which is difficult to calculate at all.
So, for the sake of simplicity and clarity, I would just give them the pottery coins of the day every day, and then ask them to summarize the pottery coins. If you want to exchange them, just use them to buy them with the old woman.
After this explanation, Shi Tou and the others finally accepted the suggestion of using pottery coins to settle their rewards.
At the same time, they also asked Wang Wei to assure that no matter at any time, the royal family would not refuse to exchange pottery coins for things.
After discussion by Shi Tou and the others, all the Shi tribe members chose to do short-term work.
Although the salary of long-term workers is higher than that of short-term workers, there are too many restrictions.
They first arrived, and the daily wages were more attractive to them than higher wages.
Since they were here to work, they were not idle that day.
After having lunch with Wang Wei and the others, they were assigned to work in the afternoon.
Because they came too suddenly and they didn't understand the situation of the royal family, they could only do some simple work for the time being.
Some of the men went to fight against wood, while some were arranged to dig and make bricks at the pottery factory.
Several women were assigned to work as a dry meat piece.
After their work was allocated, Wang Meng, who had been following Wang Wei, finally couldn't help but speak in his inner doubts.
"Wei, their reward seems to be a bit too high!" Wang Xiong couldn't help but speak.
Hearing Wang Xiong's doubts, Wang Wei smiled and said, "Tell me what you think!"
"Even if a pottery bowl is fifty or five pottery coins, they can change one after working for eleven days. I think even if we set the price of a pottery bowl at 200, or even three hundred pottery coins, they will not think it is expensive." Wang Meng said.
Wang Wei thought for a while and said, "Then have you ever calculated the cost and profit?"
"Costs and profits?" Wang Meng said in confusion.
"That's right, the manpower and material resources we need to make a pottery bowl is the cost. The work they do, minus the cost of producing a pottery bowl, is the profit we get!" Wang Wei smiled.
Then he explained carefully: "Let me calculate it for you. Now that we have a pottery kiln, the speed of burning pottery is much faster. Suppose that a person can burn thirty pottery bowls in a day, from digging, calculating, and firing a person can burn thirty pottery bowls in a day, and then removing the upstream logging, transportation, charcoal, and building kilns. If one person can burn ten pottery bowls a day, then one day can make 110 pottery bowls.
As for these people, I need to manage food and accommodation, and then eliminate these costs, I can cook seven or eight pottery bowls a day by one person.
In eleven days of working hours, there are seventy or eighty pottery bowls, and the only thing they can exchange is only one pottery bowl. In the middle, we made seventy or eighty times, even far more profits. Although these are all profits brought by technological advantages, do you still think the exchange price is expensive now?"
Wang Wei's rhetoric made Wang Meng swallow.
He looked shocked and murmured: "Seven, seventy or eighty times the profit?"
Wang Wei looked at the shocked Wang Meng, smiled and shook his head, and sighed in his heart.
Alas! Still too young!
Wang Meng is very quick to learn things, and he can only talk to him at a glance, but he only knows when the habit of being simple and kind is to be changed.
If you want to dominate this world, simplicity and kindness are the most harmful evil roots!
After a while, Wang Meng finally came to his senses. He looked at Wang Wei and opened his mouth and said, "Wei, I think this price is not good!"
Wang Wei shook his head and said, "Don't advise me to lower the price. Now the supply of pottery is in short supply. If I don't set a limit and wait until the rest of the tribes come, I rely on them to compete for it myself, I don't know how many more prices will rise!"
Wang Meng shook his head and said, "No, I mean, seventy or eighty times are not integers, it's too difficult to calculate. Why don't we set an integer, such as a profit of one hundred times, which is easier to calculate!"
What Wang Wei wanted to say was immediately stuck. He looked at Wang Meng with a serious look and rolled his eyes speechlessly.
I thought I was so dark, but who knew this guy was even darker than me.
It seems that I am too simple and kind!
Wang Wei shook his head and explained: "It is not good to have too high prices. This requires considering their desire to buy. Ceramic bowls are not necessities like salt, clay pots, etc., and there are many things that can be replaced. The cost-effectiveness is too low, so they will not buy them."
Speaking of this, Wang Wei paused for a moment and continued: "Of course, the ability to achieve such high-speed profits mainly comes from our technological advantages and market demand. Now people have a large demand for pottery, but this kind of thing is not a consumable after all. If you buy one, as long as it will not break, it will basically last for a lifetime. So when the market of pottery is saturated in the future, the profit will naturally drop. However, it is estimated that by that time, the market economy will have already been rolled out. We only need to implement a large-scale macro-control and follow the market. There is no need to carry out a planned economy like now."
Looking at Wang Meng's confused look, Wang Wei smiled and said, "Don't worry, what is the market, what is the economy, what is the link between the issuance of pottery coins and where the profit comes from, I will teach you these things slowly. If you can learn the fastest, in our royal family in the future, you will be able to shoulder the heaviest burden."
Wang Meng was a little confused. He didn't understand it well, but he nodded and then asked in confusion: "Then they only need to do eleven days of work to change to a pottery bowl. Why do we have to compensate them for seventy-five pottery coins if the pottery bowl we sent them is damaged?"
"This involves the division of interests between the collective and the individual. The use of the bowl belongs to the individual. Most of the damage is due to personal reasons. However, the compensation is definitely the compensation for them collectively. The losses caused by individuals are borne by the tribe collective. This was natural in the past, because individuals cannot survive without the tribe. However, when they come to the moment when our royal family works, the importance of the tribe will become smaller and smaller, and the individual's self-awareness will become stronger and stronger. Such compensation issues can easily create a crack between the tribe and the individual. The bigger the crack, the greater the possibility of individuals leaving their original tribe, and joining our royal family. This is just a small foreshadowing for the future disintegration of the tribe. There will be many things like this in the future, and I will tell you about it later."
To be honest, Wang Meng didn't understand most of the things Wang Wei said.
But he understood Wang Wei's final disintegration of the tribe.
These four words brought him a deep shock. When he came to his senses, Wang Wei had already left to work.
He deeply pressed Wang Wei to his words in his heart, and Wang Xiong also went to do his own work.
That night, each of them got two to three pottery coins that had been working for most of the day.
The men and women combined, a total of 63 pottery coins were divided into.
They invited a clan member who could count the royal family, counted out fifty-five pottery coins, and then found the old woman, and exchanged the fifty-five pottery coins with the old woman for a pottery bowl.
The moment they got the pottery bowl, the people of the stone clan were ecstatic.
From now on, this pottery bowl belongs to their stone tribe.
Such a precious pottery bowl, they could only change to one after working for half a day, which made them feel extremely cost-effective.
Wang Wei, who was beside him, was very satisfied with the work these Stone tribe members who were reporting today.
A pottery bowl can be exchanged for a coolie with more than 20 people for a long time, which is extremely cost-effective for him.
Shi Tou saw Wang Wei, saluted him respectfully, and then grinned.
Wang Wei looked at the happy Shi tribe members and grinned.
Chapter completed!