Chapter 129 Recruiting People

Before winter, Lujiu replaced the well-known false information and revealed on the same provincial channel that the third-level protective shield can regulate the temperature.

Later I learned that some cities already knew about this, but they only mentioned it on their respective local channels.

She and Shen Jufeng came to the City Lord's Mansion again and began to list the things that needed to be done in winter, such as the accumulated snow. They had previously discussed asking residents to apply for jobs to shovel snow.

Although there are many patrolling NPCs in the city-state and they will obey any orders from the city lord, patrol missions are equally important.

Patrol NPCs also need to eat, drink, and change into warm clothes.

Spread out the current city-state floor plan on the table, Shen Jufeng pointed at the lines on it and said, "Our city-state currently has nine avenues and seventy-eight small roads. Our main task is to clear the snow from the roads. Each road will be assigned a task based on its length. Everyone will be responsible for their own area."

Their city-state is very large, and the width of the main roads is at least four meters. The small roads are better, generally one or two meters wide.

"That's good. The trail will be longer, but how will it be marked?"

After all, if you divide it into smaller areas, there are still quite a few small areas.

"This depends on the number of hours they work shoveling snow. If there are specific city hours, we can divide it into larger areas. If we really break it down, there aren't that many positions."

He had looked at the floor plan in advance. The entire city would only need more than a hundred people to shovel snow. With so many people in the city, apart from professional residents, there would be many people competing for this position.

Lu Jiu didn't know much about this. "What about the salary? Do they just pay it directly? It seems like they are not short of money."

"They are indeed not short of money, but that doesn't mean they don't need money. 90% of their salary is money and 10% is supplies. I believe many people can accept this distribution."

Lu Jiu stood up and crossed his legs. "Then the supplies would be vegetables, fruits, or firewood."

In fact, she expected that there would be a lot of people wanting vegetables and fruits. After all, in the autumn, only professional residents or ordinary residents who have professional residents at home can go to pick fruits.

It was difficult for those whose entire families were ordinary residents to go out. At that time, everyone was most worried about heating, and they were all trying their best to collect firewood.

Even during the autumn she bought a lot of firewood, probably because the residents thought she wouldn't consume it herself.

On the first day of winter, Lujiu opened a window for selling food, mainly for professional players whose food storage was not as good as that of ordinary residents.

"Your gathering team has collected a lot of vegetables. If each household limits their purchases per day, it will be enough for the entire winter. As for fruits, the same applies. However, the types of fruits are random, and they can't choose them."

It was not easy for them to obtain these supplies. Most of the fruits were picked from the fruit forest, and only a few were brought back by the collection team.

Lu Jiu nodded. "It's good to have fruit. They'll definitely understand that I can't choose for myself. There's nothing outside right now, so having this to eat is great. It could be dangerous outside the city."

The patrol NPCs had just volunteered to go out of the city on patrol because winter and spring were the seasons when beast tides were most likely to invade.

Lu Jiu agreed, as having them patrolling would also serve as a warning.

Shen Jufeng nodded, "Then it's settled. I have the authority over the warehouse. Whoever has time will go and pay the wages. Paying them every day will give them some peace of mind."

"Ah, I have to change into Ying Bairong's image again. But I'm fine with that. But you can't be so conceited. Your virtual image is not suitable for dressing too nicely."

Shen Jufeng's virtual image is a tall and tough guy, giving people the feeling that he can wear short sleeves even in winter.

Shen Jufeng ignored her and just put away the city-state map. He still had to deal with the subdivision of the areas. What he had to do now was to recruit people.

Another question is where to put the shoveled snow.

"Is the bucket for the snow ready at the forge shop?"

This was something they had custom-made from the manager of the forging shop in the fall.

"Okay, they just gave me a batch. They have a large capacity and can hold a ton of snow at a time. Then we just need to haul it out and dump it."

Fortunately, this is just snow, not real garbage, otherwise I don’t know what to do with it.

"That's perfect! The patrol NPCs can take the full buckets with them when they go out. I hope the patrol car can be made this year."

The patrol car is like a sightseeing bus. With it, the patrol NPCs' work efficiency is much higher. No matter how fast they walk, they can't compare to the car.

Lu Jiu: "Now they have to pull it out themselves. Um... give them extra wages this winter."

Now that everything is planned, it’s time for her city lord to send an email.

[Xuantian City Lord: Dear residents of Xuantian City, to maintain a good living environment within the city-state, I have decided to recruit snow shovelers. Your job is to clear the snow in your assigned area. Salary will be paid daily, with a salary structure of 90% cash + 10% living supplies. Please reply to my email and I will randomly select candidates. Please sign up.]

This piece of information made the city bustling again. Job position, this word seems quite unfamiliar nowadays.

However, people see that wages are paid daily, and 10% of it is daily necessities. Even if they don’t know the exact amount, every little bit is still meat.

At once, a lot of people replied to the email, and everyone was wondering if they might be the one chosen.

Lu Jiu saw that his email kept lighting up and knew that many people had signed up. The next step was to select some of them. As for the payment, he would still use email.

Old Man Zeng also saw the email. Although he is not young anymore, the game world seems to have formatted his body, so he is slightly weaker than when he was in his prime.

As for Tang Yi's inability to participate, he was just a child, and the city lord was not yet at the point of hiring child labor.

Li Aoting looked at the recruitment email from the city lord and had to admit how powerful the city lord was. If her city-state in Jinghe District had not been disbanded, the residents would probably still be trembling in their houses.

As for her, she didn't have the resources to hire people to shovel the snow. She would probably leave it to the patrolling NPCs.

"Tingting, it's a good thing we came here directly, otherwise we would all be scratching our heads right now."

The person who was speaking was Yao Bing'an. After Li Aoting came here, the two of them got together. They were old acquaintances, so of course they continued to be neighbors after coming here.

Both of them were once city lords and had some city resources. They soon became official residents of Xuantian City and bought houses in the residential area.

The house is very warm now, and Yao Bingan came to her house to eat hot pot.

Li Aoting breathed a sigh of relief. "Yes, if we don't disband, I'll just be worrying about the city-state's affairs. It's better to be a resident. As long as the city-state environment is good and I have sufficient personal resources, it's fine."

Just like now, she still wanted to invite Yao Bing'an to come over for hot pot. They didn't have any hot pot base over there, so they had to buy the base from the restaurant.

Yao Bing'an sighed, "Sigh, I wonder how He Ange and the others are doing. The last time I contacted him was about the Refining Fruit. I told him to remind the team members not to be too greedy."

(End of this chapter)