Chapter 229: Without rules, there can be no order

You could hear a pin drop at the scene, with only the rustling of the wind.

Coptis chinensis is on the top of the mountain. It takes more than two hours to climb back and forth a day. The time available for harvesting is very short, and it is not distributed in the same area. It has to be searched everywhere. If you want to harvest more, you have to send more people.

Acorns, like chestnuts, will be infested with insects when they mature, so they must be harvested as soon as possible before they are infested.

There is also Notopterygium wilfordii, which needs to be harvested every two days.

In addition, the collected powder needs to be cleaned, dried, and ground into powder... none of these tasks can be done without people.

If you don't have people, it will affect your ability to earn money! If you don't earn money, how can you buy things?

But building a house requires people. The weather is already cold. If the house is not built, every autumn rain will bring another cold. If you get sick from the cold, you won’t have the energy to harvest even if you have a lot of medicinal herbs lying around.

Both are equally important...

After a while, Boss Lei raised his hand and said, "Everyone in the Lei family can come and help."

Lei Lao Er reacted and immediately agreed: "My eldest brother is right, we men will help build the house, and the women will collect medicinal herbs."

The other members of the Lei family nodded in unison.

Mr. Jiang sighed and said part of the story first: "I have already included the women and young men of the Lei family in the collection of medicinal herbs;

You should go hunting in the mountains. This is the best time of year for hunting, so why would you delay building a house?"

A bricklayer who builds a house earns about thirty cents a day, and the men of the Lei family earn at least more than ten taels each time they go into the mountains. Moreover, the men of the Lei family are good at hunting, but they may not be good at building houses.

Not every man in the village knows how to build a house. There are a few who used to do odd jobs in the city and learned the skill of building houses. They took them with them. In addition, in the past, houses in the village were built with the help of everyone, so it was possible for them to do it.

He continued, "What I want to say is that we have two problems right now. One is the lack of manpower. This is easy to solve. The idea is to recruit people from outside to do the work, just like we hired craftsmen to build stoves and dig wells. We can hire people to help build the house."

Hearing this, the originally tense crowd immediately breathed a sigh of relief and responded easily: "Village Chief, if you had told me earlier, I would definitely agree."

"That scared me. It's OK to hire someone. A bricklayer's wages for a day is thirty cents, right? I agree!"

The village chief was really something. Was he afraid they wouldn't agree to hire help? He deliberately said something so shocking.

If they hadn't been afraid of the news leaking out, they would have suggested hiring a bricklayer to help build the house.

That’s right, many people talk a lot!

"Village chief, bricklayers are not like craftsmen. If we hire them, we'll need at least 20 or 30 men, right? What if we get targeted when we tell others about it?"

They have a tiled house and several brick and tile houses. They have no way to hire craftsmen to build stoves and dig wells, and they don't have enough people. If they have no way to do something, they will just take the risk.

But it takes dozens of bricklayers to hire. They have so many houses, and if they hire too few, the construction period will be long. It is not very convenient and comfortable for outsiders to live in the village.

Mr. Jiang was about to say, "What we have agreed to do is to hire people from Jincheng and only select those with good financial resources.

They have the skills to build houses, they have assets and families, they will not and do not need to plot against others."

"Village chief, you have thought so carefully. Just notify us. We have no objection." Someone shouted.

Mr. Jiang's eyes turned cold, and he said calmly, "We can hire a bricklayer to build the house, but the medicinal herbs must be firmly in the hands of our villagers!"

"right!"

"Of course~"

Everyone agreed in unison.

Lei Dafu looked at Mr. Jiang Erye, knowing that after so much preparation, the main event was yet to come.

Mr. Jiang originally wanted to leave the astragalus on the mountain for the Lei family to pick and earn money, so that the people in their village could just focus on building houses.

Who would have thought that Shen Qing would go up the mountain and discover two medicinal herbs in succession. He couldn't just sit back and wait for the silver, right?

The previous plan could no longer be used and had to be changed: "When we planted Astragalus before, everyone planted all kinds of Astragalus for their own benefit, so naturally, we would give 100% of our effort.

But this time, when we were gathering herbs, acorns, and chestnuts in the mountains, all the earnings were distributed uniformly, and later we discovered that a few people were lazy and cunning;

In addition, considering the different workloads of picking coptis root on the mountaintop and notopterygium wilfordii on the mountainside, as well as picking acorns and chestnuts and washing and drying them, we have come up with a set of corresponding standards for division of labor."

After hiring a bricklayer to build a house, each household only needs to leave one man to take charge of the work, and the others can all focus on collecting medicinal herbs.

When there are too many people, it is inevitable that some bad people will take advantage of the situation. Shen Qing said that what is needed at this time is to formulate rules - without the five tones, it is difficult to correct the six laws; without rules, there can be no order.

But to set rules that everyone accepts and agrees to, we need to cooperate with each other!

"What's the standard for division of labor?"

"Who is this? We finally have a job to earn money, and we're eager to work on it every night, but there are still people who are lazy and cunning!"

"If I find out, I'll definitely tell the whole village about it and let them know if they're embarrassed or not."

"Me too! Now look what's going to happen because of these little rat shits."

"But the village chief is right. The workload is indeed different. Dividing it is fair to those who do more!"

"Village Chief, how do you say we divide it?"

Mr. Jiang took out a list, shook it open, and said, "From now on, what we plant on the land we each get and how much we plant will belong to us. We will only sell it together in the village when we sell it. This is to unify the standards for medicinal materials and prevent price suppression.

As for the medicinal herbs on the mountain, whether they are naturally grown or planted later, the whole village works together!

They arranged people to cultivate the land, sow seeds, weed, harvest, transport the crops down the mountain, and clean and dry them. These were scored based on the amount of physical labor, skills, difficulty, etc.

From today on, you will choose the corresponding tasks for yourself. The better and faster you do your work, the higher the score you will get. The higher the score, the more silver you will get.

This list is posted here. Please come and look at it yourself. If you don’t understand something, ask us. If you are not satisfied, you can also raise it.

The people present were a little confused. They heard it, but they didn't understand how it was put together.

They swarmed to the front of the list. They didn't recognize the words at the front, but they more or less recognized the numbers at the back.

Then read from Jiang Xiangzhong one by one, and you will roughly understand it after matching them.

Things like clearing the land and transporting it down the mountain are physical labor, and the number of days' work is ten;

Sowing, weeding and harvesting are not too tiring, but because they require certain skills and climbing back and forth, one day's work corresponds to eight;

Cleaning and drying are the simplest, with only six steps required - after all, everyone can and knows how to do it.

After the work is divided, those who are diligent and physically strong will do the work with higher numbers, and not everyone will rush to do the simple work of washing and drying.