Chapter 40 How can my people be hungry!
It’s not that these people are shocked. Who has ever heard of the lords who would pay to exchange farm tools for the lords?
The land belongs to the lord, and the residents in the territory are fundamentally also belong to the lord. There are so many residents, so how can the lord care about the lives and deaths of the residents?
As long as taxes are collected regularly, the lord will not care about so much.
But Tang En, the lord, was abnormal. After taking office, he did not plunder it, but instead threw a lot of money out!
One thousand two hundred and thirty-two households!
One gold coin per household!
That's one thousand two hundred and thirty-two gold coins! Just one sentence, I threw it out!
Lord Lord, don’t treat gold coins as gold coins!
Everyone was shocked, and then, what followed was the crazy cheers!
"Long live Lord!"
"Long live Lord Tang En!"
All individuals are crazy. Although the subsidy is only for farmers, in fact, farmers in Ellington are closely related to each other and are very familiar with each other. Besides, farmers have changed their tools, the efficiency is high, and the harvest is good, and the price of grain will naturally drop, and they can also get real benefits.
Fiona looked at Tang En with a complicated look. Although he did not know how to manage finances, he was very good at making the residents of the territory more united. Especially in the past few days, Tang En's several measures were almost all beneficial to the Ellington civilians, which was almost unimaginable before.
When every lord in other places takes office, the first thing he has to do is to erase the traces left by his ex, and then strengthen the rule and strengthen the armed forces to suppress the rebels. However, Tang En did the opposite, which was simply...
But Fiona has to say that Tang En's methods are very effective.
Just today's announcement of the acquisition of mint grass made everyone in Ellington smile.
As long as you are willing to work, you can earn income. Is there any more popular guarantee than this?
After more than an hour of busyness, Fiona and the others finally completed the acquisition of all the mint grass, but this is not the end. There are still many mint grass by the Emerald River, and I am afraid that they will not be collected in the next month.
“How many have been acquired in total?”
“…more than two tons of mint grass.”
Fiona looked through the notebook before finding the unit.
Tang En raised his eyebrows: "On average, everyone picked one kilogram?"
"No, there are only more than 400 people today, which is equivalent to each of them collecting more than two kilograms. With today's news, there may be explosive growth tomorrow."
Fiona frowned slightly: "The mint grass has been transferred to the warehouse, but it has been collected. I'm afraid it won't last long. When will you make these into mint candies?"
"Who said it's all made into mint candies?"
Tang En raised his eyebrows: "First extract mint essential oil... You will start recruiting temporary workers tomorrow, I will train in a unified manner, and start working in the warehouse the day after tomorrow, and you will have ten silver coins a day. What is the price?"
"Ten silver coins a day!?"
Fiona suddenly raised her tone: "Even in Yarinks, ordinary workers don't have such a high salary! Five silver coins are enough!"
"Five silver coins?"
Tang En smiled: "If it were before, I'm afraid they would be very happy, but after today..."
Fiona thought it was true. Five silver coins are only five kilograms of mint grass. There is no need to learn to collect mint grass, just collect it. I don’t know if I can make money this afternoon. They have collected so much. They still have to dig it hard tomorrow?
"There are really not many ten silver coins, but this job is also a technical job..." Tang En pondered for a moment, "limit the recruited workers to adults, or young girls, and give priority to those who live in a tight life and have no other means of making a living."
"Okay, how many people do you want?"
"Please set ten, and the specific amount depends on how much mint grass can be collected tomorrow... By the way, I took the time to make a document on the promotion of mint grass planting and tell them that purchasing mint grass is a long-term job. If you are willing to grow it, you can come to the Lord's Mansion to report it. You can divide some land for them to grow mint grass, and the tax can be appropriately lower."
"I see."
"In addition, has the Guards' reward amount been counted?"
Tang En still remembers that he assured the guards that the bandits rewarded gold coins after the bandit suppression ended, but after he came back, he was busy and he stopped paying attention to this matter when he threw it to Fiona.
"It's been counted and I'm going to tell you."
Fiona sighed: "You spend money too ruthlessly. If you say this casually, you will spend thousands of gold coins and will be given to them tomorrow after the recruitment is over."
"I think it's worth it, at least they're all motivated now, right?"
Tang En smiled and said, "And they will need their efforts to defend Ellington in the future. They want the horse to run away and don't give it to the horse to eat grass."
"It's enough to have you..."
Fiona muttered, if all Tangen's strength was revealed, who would dare to attack Ellington?
"Those are the things for the time being. I work overtime tonight, get all the distillers out, move them to the warehouse tomorrow, and start training after recruiting good staff."
"OK."
Donn went to Edgar's place and got some iron ingots back and immediately started to get busy.
It’s not okay to not work overtime. After training them tomorrow, they will use distillers and determine the process and process. The metal farm tools will be all ready the day after tomorrow. When the farmers get the metal farm tools, they will be advised to Edgar and Brian to start making water trucks.
Waterwheel is very important to Ellington at present. If the water in the fields cannot be replenished in time, the harvest this year's harvest in the harvest month is probably terrible. Many people may starve to death when winter comes - this is not an exaggeration.
The next day, as soon as the news of Tang En's recruitment of workers was released, a group of people came to apply for the job.
Not to mention that the salary Tang En gave is very tempting, just working for the lord is enough to make them lose their brains.
Fiona shouted sternly: "Don't squeeze! Cable! Whoever squeezes will be disqualified!"
With the order, the lineup was immediately neatly arranged, and everyone did not want to lose the opportunity to work.
"The Lord Lord has an order. Because the venue problem has not been resolved, only ten people are recruited for the time being. In addition, due to the requirements of this job, the age is limited to under 30 years old and over 15 years old. Those who do not comply with the rules can leave. When the candy factory is completed in the future, the recruitment of personnel will be expanded again, and everyone will have a job opportunity at that time."
Hearing this request, some people who were over the standard had to leave. Before those who stayed were excited, Fiona said again: "The Lord has also given instructions that in order to provide help to families with difficult lives, this time, the job opportunities are given priority to those people with relatively high burdens and poor lives in the family. When the recruitment is expanded in the future, they will be recruited fairly. Please understand."
Originally, Tang En thought that the second request would make these people quarrel, but unexpectedly, they all understood it very well and took the initiative to let those who knew and lived a very poor life out.
This surprised Tang En.
After two rounds of screening, there were not many people left. After counting, there were thirteen people, all of them were women.
Plandal is very dangerous, so the mortality rate of men who often go out is very high. It is normal for more women and fewer men. Generally, a man will find a way to make a living, and the only ones that are left are these helpless women.
They all have them from fifteen to over twenties. One of the most common characteristics is that they are pale and thin, very thin, and their clothes are worn out and patched.
Tang En recognized these people. They were the most active group of people who collected mint grass yesterday. Now they still have bags in their hands. It is probably not because of recruiting workers here that they continued to collect mint grass.
After a while, Fiona came to Tang En with a look of embarrassment and said, "Lord, the lives of these girls are very difficult, and they all need this job very much. It will be difficult for me to remove any three more people, why don't you choose?"
Tang En was speechless. This girl, if you don’t want to pretend to be a bad person, just let me be the one?
Don’t you know that the employees are just taking the blame for the boss?
That is, if the boss doesn't let his unspoken rules and doesn't help take the blame, he will definitely lose his job on earth...
Tang En took a step forward, and the thirteen girls in front looked at Tang En with a nervous look on their faces. They all knew that Tang En's words could determine their fate.
With this job, they can have enough food, dress well, and spend this winter smoothly. If they don’t have this job, it is likely that when winter comes, they will be their doomsday.
"you……"
When the thirteen people heard Tang En speak, they felt nervous.
Tang En said very simply: "All have been hired."
"ah?"
The unexpected words made them stunned.
"Lord..."
A thin little girl said timidly: "Didn't you say that you only recruit ten people... If the Lord is in a dilemma..."
"So," Tang En pointed at his nose very seriously, "I am the lord, I have the final say. I will ask for a few, you are all hired - of course, if today's training is not qualified, don't blame me."
"Um!"
The thirteen nodded fiercely and shed tears of excitement. If the lord gave them a chance and they could not grasp it, they would have to deserve them to die.
"Let's prepare for training... That little girl, stop covering her stomach, I hear the noise."
Tang En's words made the thin girl very uneasy: "Yes, I'm sorry Lord..."
Tang En was speechless: "Just say sorry?"
This scared the little girl and knelt down to Tang En in a flash: "I know I'm wrong. Lord, please forgive me! I really need this job!"
"Hmph, do you want to forgive me or not? Tina, arrange breakfast for them! How can my people go hungry!"
The little girl was stunned and looked at Tang En, and shed tears again.
Lord Lord, he is really a good person...
Chapter completed!