Chapter 279: Rewards and Punishments
In a random test, some people are happy while others are worried.
Yue Fuli's reward and punishment methods were also simple and crude: rewards were silver, and punishments were work. What kind of work?
My family is currently reclaiming land, so the children are too young to go. But they can go to the mountains to collect firewood.
Yue Fuli not only stipulated how many days they should pick up the items, but also stipulated the daily quantity.
Those who didn't do well in the exam had to collect a basket of firewood every day. Of course, the children were too young, so Yue Fuli wouldn't let them go alone. Instead, someone would follow them secretly. As long as the children were not in danger, the person who followed them would not appear.
The reward silver is based on the ranking. The first place gets one tael of silver, the second place gets 900 wen, the third place gets 800 wen, and so on.
Yue Zhenhe and Yue Zhenjiang had no objection to the children going up the mountain to collect firewood. However, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Hu felt sorry for the children and followed them up the mountain when they went to collect firewood.
With Yue Fuli's people watching secretly, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Hu couldn't help the child cheat.
In the evening, Yue Fuli found Yue Zhenhe and Yue Zhenjiang and told them about his plan to form a caravan.
The two wanted to follow him to do business, but unfortunately their status did not allow them to do so. After all, they were exiled prisoners and could not leave Qianzhou Prefecture.
Since they couldn't go themselves, they could only invest money. They had confidence in Yue Fuli and felt that they would definitely make money by following her.
Although Yue Fuli was pleased with the two's trust, she also made it clear to them that business wouldn't always be smooth sailing, nor would it always make money. She told them they might lose money. So, she asked them to be cautious when investing and to set aside some money for emergencies.
The two of them listened to Yue Fuli's words. Therefore, they only took out a part of the money for investment and kept the rest in their hands.
However, Yue Lingxue and Yue Lingjia, brother and sister, took out all the money they had earned on the road after learning that Yue Fuli was going to form a caravan, saying they wanted to invest.
Yue Fuli did not refuse. She ate the meat herself, so she wanted someone to drink some soup, right?
So she took the money from the brother and sister and wrote a deed for them.
With the money, investors, and the caravan crew in hand, Yue Fuli went to take a look at the land he had reclaimed.
Having already cleared ten acres of wasteland, Yue Fuli felt that it was enough. So, he told Yue Yi that they didn't need to come.
When they heard that they didn’t have to come to open up the wasteland, Yueyi and his brothers were very panicked.
Not working means they can eat and drink for free, which makes them feel useless and like a waste.
Seeing that everyone had sad faces, Yue Fuli knew what they were thinking, so she smiled and said, "I have other things for you to do."
"Miss, really? Do you really have something else for us to do?"
"Yes, I plan to have you form a caravan."
"What? Let's form a caravan. No, no, we don't know how to do business. What if we lose money?"
Yueyi and his brothers waved their hands to refuse. They were all rough men, and apart from wielding swords and guns and doing some physical work, they really couldn't do anything else.
"How can we know if we don't try?" Yue Fuli understood their concerns and knew that it would be unreasonable to ask them to go on business trip rashly.
However, Yue Fuli felt that traveling merchants were not only a form of protection for them, but could also help her collect some information.
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