Chapter 40 How Can My People Be Hungry!

No wonder these people were shocked. Who ever heard that the lord would pay the lord to replace the farm tools?

The land belongs to the lord, and the inhabitants of the territory also belong to the lord. There are so many residents, how can the lord control the life and death of the residents?

As long as taxes are collected regularly, the lord will not care so much.

But the lord Tang En was uncharacteristically. After taking office, he didn't search for it ruthlessly, but poured out a lot of money!

One thousand two hundred and thirty-two!

One coin per household!

That's one thousand two hundred and thirty-two gold coins! In a word, it was thrown out!

Lord Lord, this is not to treat gold coins as gold coins!

Everyone was shocked, and then, what followed was crazy cheers!

"Long live the lord!"

"Long live Mr. Tang En!"

A single person is like crazy. Although this subsidy is only for farmers, in fact, farmers in Ellington are closely related to everyone, and they are familiar with each other. Well, the price of food will naturally drop by then, and they can also get tangible benefits.

Fiona looked at Dunn with a complicated expression. Although he didn't understand financial management, he was very good at how to make the residents of the territory more united, especially in the past few days, Dunn's several measures , almost all of which are beneficial to the civilian population of Ellington, which was almost unthinkable before.

When every lord in other places takes office, the first thing to do is to erase the traces left by his predecessor, and then to strengthen his rule and strengthen the armed forces to suppress the rebels, but Tang En did the opposite, which is simply...

But Fiona had to say that Dunn's method was very effective.

Just today's announcement of the acquisition of Mint Grass has brought a smile to everyone's face in Ellington.

As long as you are willing to work, you can earn income. Is there a more popular guarantee than this?

After more than an hour of busy work, Fiona and the others considered that they had completed the acquisition of all the mint herbs, but this was not the end. There were still a lot of mint herbs by the Emerald River, and they might not be able to collect them in the next month.

"How many have been acquired in total?"

"...more than two tons of mint grass."

Fiona flipped through the book to find the unit.

Tang En raised his eyebrows: "On average, everyone picks one kilogram?"

"No, there are only more than 400 people in total today, which means that everyone has collected more than two kilograms. With today's news, tomorrow may usher in explosive growth."

Fiona frowned slightly: "The mint grass has been transferred to the warehouse, but it has been collected. I'm afraid it won't be stored for a long time. When will you be able to make these into mints?"

"Who said they were made into mints?"

Tang En raised his eyebrows: "First extract peppermint essential oil and then...Tomorrow you will start recruiting temporary workers, I will train them uniformly, and start working in the warehouse the day after tomorrow, ten silver coins a day, what is the price?"

"Ten silver coins a day!?"

Fiona suddenly raised her tone: "Even in Alinks, ordinary workers don't have such a high salary! Five silver coins are enough!"

"Five silver coins?"

Tang En smiled: "If it was before, I'm afraid they would be very happy, but after today..."

Fiona thinks about it too. Five silver coins is the income of five kilograms of mint grass. You don't need to learn to collect mint grass. You can just start collecting it. When I didn't know if I could make money this afternoon, they all collected so much. Tomorrow They have to dig hard?

"Ten silver coins are really not many, but this work is considered technical work..." Tang En pondered for a while, "Limit the recruited workers to adults, or teenagers and girls, and give priority to those who have a stressful life and nothing else. means of making a living.”

"Okay, how many people do you want?"

"Tentatively set ten, depending on how much mint grass can be harvested tomorrow... By the way, take the time to make an official document for the promotion of mint grass planting, telling them that buying peppermint grass is a long-term job, if you want to plant it, you can come. The lord's office reports that they can be allocated some land to plant mint grass, and the tax can be appropriately lower."

"I understand."

"Also, has the reward amount of the guards been calculated?"

Dunn still remembered that he assured the members of the guard team that the bandits would be rewarded with gold coins after the end of the bandit suppression, but he had been busy since he came back, and he threw it to Fiona and didn't pay attention to this matter.

"It's been counted, and I'm about to tell you."

Fiona sighed: "You spend too much money. If you say this casually, thousands of gold coins have been spent, and they will be sent to them after the recruitment is over tomorrow."

"I think it's worth it, at least they're all motivated now, don't they?"

Dunn said with a smile: "And in the future, defending Ellington will also require their efforts. They want the horses to run, and how can they not eat grass for the horses."

"It's enough to have you..."

Fiona murmured, if Dunn's strength is fully displayed, who would dare to attack Ellington's idea?

"That's all for now. I work overtime at night to get all the stills out. I'll move it to the warehouse tomorrow, and start training after recruiting good people."

"OK."

Dunn went to Edgar's place, got some iron ingots and came back, and immediately started to get busy.

Don't work overtime, you can't do it. After training them on how to use the distiller tomorrow, after confirming the process and technology, all the metal farm tools will be ready the day after tomorrow. When those farmers start to use the metal farm tools, they will immediately instruct Edgar and Brian to start. Manufacture of waterwheels.

The waterwheel is very important to Ellington at present. If the water in the fields cannot be replenished in time, the harvest of this year's harvest month is estimated to be disastrous, and many people may starve to death in winter. Not alarmist.

The next day, as soon as the news of Tang En's recruitment of workers was released, a bunch of people came to apply for the job.

Not to mention that the salary given by Tang En is very tempting, just working for the lord is enough to make them break their heads.

Fiona shouted sharply: "Don't squeeze! Queue! Whoever squeezes will be disqualified!"

As soon as an order was given, there was a neat line immediately below, and everyone did not want to lose the opportunity of this job.

"The lord has an order. Because the venue problem has not been resolved, only ten people will be 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 conform to the rules can leave, and wait until the future. When the candy factory is completed, the staff will be expanded again, and everyone will have a job opportunity.”

Hearing this request, some over-aged people had to leave, and those who stayed hadn't had time to get excited when Fiona said: "Lord Lord also instructed, in order to provide help to families who are struggling, so This time, the job opportunities will be given priority to those who have a larger family burden and a poorer life, and when the enrollment is expanded in the future, we will recruit them fairly, please understand."

Originally, Tang En thought that the second request would cause these people to quarrel, but what he didn't expect was that they actually understood it very well, and they took the initiative to let out those people who knew and lived very poor.

This surprised Dunn.

After two rounds of screening, there were not many people left. After counting, there were still thirteen people, and they were all women.

Plandal is very dangerous, so the mortality rate of men who often go out is very high, and it is normal that there are more women than men, and generally a man will find a way to make a living, and the rest are only these helpless women.

They are from fifteen to twenty years old. One of the most common characteristics is that they are yellow-faced and thin, very thin, and their clothes are also very worn and covered with patches.

Tang En recognized these people. They were the most active group of people who collected mint grass yesterday. They are still holding bags in their hands. It is estimated that they continued to collect mint grass because of the recruitment of workers here.

After a while, Fiona came to Dunn with an embarrassed expression and said, "Lord Lord, these girls' lives are very difficult, and they all need this job. It's hard for me to get rid of any three of them. Or...you choose?"

Tang En is speechless, this girl, you don't want to be a bad person, so let me be the one?

Don't you know that the employees are the bosses?

That is, if you don't let the boss unspoken rules and don't help to take the blame, you will lose your job properly on earth...

Tang En took a step forward, and the thirteen girls in front looked at him nervously. They all knew that a word from Tang En could decide their fate.

With this job, they will be able to eat well, dress well, and survive this winter. If they don't have this job, it is very likely that when winter comes, it will be their doom.

"you……"

Hearing Tang En speak, the thirteen people were all nervous.

Dunn said very simply: "They've all been hired."

"what?"

The unexpected words made them all stunned.

"Lord Lord..."

A skinny little girl said timidly: "Didn't you say that only ten people will be recruited... If the lord is embarrassed..."

"So," Dunn pointed to his nose, very serious, "I'm the lord, I'll do what I say, I said that the number of recruits is just a few, you, all of you have been hired - of course, if today's training is unqualified If so, don't blame me."

"Um!"

The thirteen people nodded fiercely and shed tears of excitement. If Lord Lord gave them a chance and they couldn't grasp it, then they could only wait to die.

"Let's prepare for training... That little girl, don't cover your stomach, I heard the sound."

Tang En's words made the skinny little girl very uncomfortable: "Yes, I'm sorry Lord Lord..."

Dunn was speechless: "Is it enough to say sorry?"

This frightened the little girl, and she knelt down to Tang En with a thud: "I know I'm wrong, Lord Lord, please forgive me! I need this job very much!"

"Hmph, what to forgive or not to forgive, Tina, arrange breakfast for them! How can my people be hungry!"

The little girl stayed for a while, looked at Dunn, and shed tears again.

Lord, he is really a good person...