Chapter 400 Gao Mingcheng has two more employees

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in the county are busy with work, study and business, while people in the countryside are busy with autumn harvest, collecting and selling herbs.

The empty room in Gao Zhuang's house is already filled with various medicinal herbs.

Last year, we collected medicinal herbs from other surrounding villages. After the news spread this year, people from more distant villages sent medicinal herbs here to sell.

Gao Zhuang received instructions from Gao Mingcheng that as long as the medicinal materials were of good quality, they should be accepted.

Gao Mingcheng had given him two thousand yuan in cash before, which he used to buy medicinal materials, but it was soon used up, so he asked Gao Mingcheng for some more cash.

Everyone knows that doing business like this will definitely make money, but the cost of starting a business can stop many people.

Early in the morning on the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gao Mingcheng sent Xuanyue and Gao Shufang to the county and returned to the village.

Ever since he had another fight with his father, he decided to hire two more people to do the job and leave the village affairs to them from now on, so that he can go back to the village less often.

Before, Zhang Chengyuan was only asked to help take care of the family's livestock and vegetable fields, and when he had time, he would go back to the village to work for a few days.

But if he hired two more people now, he would be much more relaxed.

As for the wages that had to be paid out, they were nothing to him.

So Gao Mingcheng found Zhang Chengyuan’s next-door neighbor Chen Dasong.

Chen Dasong is also a person from another family. He said that he moved here decades ago, so he could not live in the old village. Instead, he lived on a small hill far away from the old village, and was neighbors with the Xu family.

However, Chen Dasong has two sons, one in his early twenties and the other fifteen years old, so his family's situation is much better than that of the Xu family who has no sons.

Gao Mingcheng asked Chen Dasong to do the job because, firstly, Chen Dasong was indeed a hard-working person, and secondly, Chen Dasong's home was close to Xiaofushan, making it convenient to take care of him.

When Gao Mingcheng came to Chen's house and told them what happened, Chen Dasong's whole family was ecstatic.

They had known before that Zhang Chengyuan could get a regular salary for working for Gao Mingcheng, and they were extremely envious.

But he is my brother-in-law, so naturally it is different.

But unexpectedly, Gao Mingcheng actually paid Chen Dasong to do the job!

"The salary is the same as that of the factories in the county. You can get the temporary worker's salary for a few months first, and then get the regular worker's salary in the spring of next year when there is more work. I will also give out gifts and red envelopes during the holidays. What do you think?" Gao Mingcheng said.

When he hired Zhang Chengyuan, he did not mention any temporary worker's salary, but directly paid him the salary of a regular worker in the factory. However, Chen Dasong was an outsider, and it was autumn and winter now, so there was not much work in Xiaofushan.

He will be applying fertilizer to the orchard in Xiaofushan in mid-October, and he will have to hire a few more people at that time.

Chen Dasong agreed without any hesitation, his face full of excitement.

Country people, who doesn’t envy workers who can get paid?

But now, such a good opportunity has fallen on his head. If he refuses it, he will definitely be a fool!

"Ming Cheng, you know how I work. I will definitely do my job honestly for you and won't cheat or slack off!" Chen Dasong said as if to assure you.

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "I know that you are efficient and efficient, so I specially came to invite you."

Chen Dasong felt particularly satisfied after hearing this.

Gao Mingcheng continued, "My work here is also simple. My brother manages the vegetable fields for me, and you mainly manage the orchard. There is not much work in the orchard now, so if my brother is too busy, you can lend a hand. Sometimes I work outside and cannot come back to the village often. If you know what vegetables to plant in the fields, you can discuss and help me plant them. I will give you extra money for the seeds later."

"Hey, okay!" Chen Dasong agreed at first, but then said with some worry: "I... have never properly managed fruit trees, so I don't know if I can do it."

Gao Mingcheng took a look at the front and back of the Chen family's house. There were several local tangerine trees planted in front of the house, and a jujube tree planted behind the house.

This kind of jujube tree is also a local variety. It is very small, but tastes good. The Chen family can earn some money from harvesting the jujubes every year.

"It's okay. If the weather is dry, water the trees appropriately. If it rains, see if there will be waterlogging. If so, dig a drainage ditch. As for other things, see if there are insects on the fruit trees. This is the first time I've planted so many fruit trees, but it doesn't matter. Let's take our time." Gao Mingcheng said calmly.

No matter what you do, there is always a cost of trial and error.

And Gao Mingcheng is willing to pay the cost of trial and error.

In just a few minutes, Chen Dasong had become his employee, so Gao Mingcheng turned his attention to Chen Dasong's son Chen Duofu.

Chen Duofu is Chen Dasong's eldest son. He is just 20 years old this year and is only a few months younger than Gao Mingcheng. They were in the same class when they were in elementary school.

However, the two have different personalities and cannot play together.

Chen Duofu is not that restless. He is a very honest person. While others are outside picking fruits in the mountains and stealing peanuts, he is working honestly at home.

"Duofu, do you want to raise bees?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

He has forty hives of bees, which also require constant care.

If bees are not managed regularly, nothing will happen in the short term. If the bee colony is strong, it is enough to deal with many risks in nature.

But over time, various things will happen, such as a newly born queen bee leading a group of bees away from home, the bees getting sick, or being attacked by wasps, causing the bee colony to become weaker, and so on.

Once the bee colony becomes weak, the honey production will decrease and not much honey will be produced in a year.

So, Gao Mingcheng decided to find someone to help him manage the beehives.

Chen Dasong is already his employee, so there is no need to look far to find someone who can do the job directly.

Chen Duofu was full of surprise. He didn't expect that there was something about him.

Before he could come to his senses, his mother was already patting his back hard, frantically signaling him to speak up and agree.

Chen Duofu thought for a moment and said, "I should be able to raise one. I'm not afraid of being stung by bees."

Gao Mingcheng nodded and said, "It's good to be brave."

A timid person cannot be good at beekeeping.

He said, "I have forty beehives in the mountains, and I need someone to help me take care of them. I will teach you how to raise bees first, and when you learn it, I will pay you a salary. What do you think?"

This time Chen Duofu did not hesitate and immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay!"

The Chen family got two jobs at once and were about to have two incomes, and they were all very happy.

Chen Dasong's youngest son Chen Duoxi looked at Gao Mingcheng eagerly, waiting for him to assign him a task, but Gao Mingcheng did not speak for a long time.

So the disappointment was beyond words.

Gao Mingcheng naturally noticed it, but Chen Duoxi was only fifteen years old this year and could not do anything big.

So he patted Chen Duoxi on the shoulder and said, "Grow up quickly, and I will ask you to do things for me in the future."

Chen Duoxi's eyes sparkled, and she asked in disbelief, "Really?"

Gao Mingcheng nodded, of course it was true.

As long as there are enough people, there are many things to do in the countryside.

For example, large-scale pig farming, large-scale chicken and duck farming, etc.

In later generations, many chicken farms feed chickens with feed and medicine so that they grow fast and do not get sick. However, if people eat them, it will be harmful to their health.

If you want to raise chickens on a large scale now, you cannot raise them too densely, otherwise they will easily get avian influenza.

But if we fence off Xiaofushan, build a chicken coop at the foot of the mountain, and raise some free-range chickens, they will be less likely to get sick.

These native chickens will also trample the grass in the mountains and eat insects, which is beneficial to the orchard.

Thinking of this, Gao Mingcheng simply decided to finalize the matter in the early spring of next year. He would first buy barbed wire and enclose Xiaofushan. This would not only prevent the chickens in the mountain from going out, but also keep out wild animals from breaking in and eating the chickens and eggs.

After building the fence, buy a hundred chicks and try raising them.

Although the decision has been made, there is no rush to implement it.

In the next few days, he took Chen Dasong and his son to familiarize themselves with the work flow, trying to get them started as soon as possible.

Friends, my family used to run a chicken farm, and during the peak period we raised 30,000 chickens at a time.

(End of this chapter)