Luo Bi quickly bowed and shook his head: "I dare not."
Zhao Hao smiled softly: "Master Luo, don't be restrained. Just say whatever you want to say. If what you say makes sense, I will accept it."
Luo Bi's eyes rolled, and he obviously seemed to want to say something but hesitated, but still didn't say anything.
Zhao Hao stopped asking questions and said, "Master Luo, do you know why I am in such a hurry to take over the Royal Farm?"
Luo Bi shook his head and cast a questioning look at Zhao Hao.
Zhao Hao said, "Because I want to open a workshop and need a large piece of land."
Luo Bi hurriedly asked, "My Lord, do you mean to open the workshop in the Imperial Manor?"
"Then I don't know, what workshop is it?"
Zhao Hao said softly, "It's already autumn, and the busy farming season will soon begin on your farm."
"But we can still gather some labor, right?"
"I need between five hundred and one thousand men."
Luo Bi nodded and said, "My Lord, there are many laborers in the manor, so a thousand people is nothing."
Zhao Hao: "In that case, I will put the workshop in your farm and you can solve the manpower problem."
"Besides, I will hire these laborers at a higher price than the market price in the Imperial Capital."
“They will also be provided with meals.”
"In the Imperial Capital today, the average wage for hired laborers is between thirty and fifty coins a day. There are also some that earn more than fifty coins a day, but they are very rare."
"In our workshop, each person is given 80 coins per day!"
Hearing what Zhao Hao said, Luo Bi's pair of almost dying little eyes suddenly widened three times.
"What?"
"Eighty cents, and a meal?"
"Sir, are you serious?"
Zhao Hao shook his head: "Master Luo is wrong, it's not just one meal, but three meals!"
Under normal circumstances, is it necessary for Zhao Hao to do this?
Actually, no.
There is no need to do this at all.
The tenant farmers in this farm, let alone the eighty cents a day wage.
Even thirty or twenty cents a day is normal.
Because these people are his slaves.
Or let alone paying wages, even if he didn't pay anything, not even a meal, he could still use these laborers.
But of course Zhao Hao wouldn't do that.
He wanted to establish a papermaking workshop, which required formalization and process-based operation, and naturally, he had to follow a normal employment relationship.
Moreover, it was impossible for him to really treat those tenant farmers as slaves.
Eighty wen, which is twice the average price in the capital.
This money will not be wasted.
It can help him quickly win the hearts of the people.
In this way, no matter what you want to do in the future, there will be someone to use it.
Luo Bi widened his eyes in disbelief and took a deep breath.
"Sir, may I ask what kind of workshop you want to open?"
"To be honest, I'm going to open a papermaking workshop!"
"papermaking?"
"Yes, the Juan paper and bamboo paper on the market are too expensive, and ordinary families can't afford them, so I want to make paper that everyone can afford."
"hiss……"
Hearing this, Luo Bi took another deep breath.
I was extremely shocked.
Of course he had heard of Zhao Hao's reputation.
Especially in recent times.
There are even more people who listen to it.
Create thunder bombs to help the Dagan Zhenbei Army defeat the barbarians.
Opened the first floor and invented cooking.
Business is booming.
He fought against the two states of Wu and Shu in a literary battle, and single-handedly turned the tide and won the victory.
Even His Majesty praised him as the Star of Literature.
Recently, dry wine has been developed.
He had just asked a friend to buy a bottle of that dry wine at a high price the day before, and tasted it himself.
It truly lives up to its country name and can definitely be called the best wine in the world.
The intensity is simply unparalleled.
So, if anyone told him that they wanted to make paper that everyone could afford, Luo Bi would not believe it.
But since these were said by Zhao Hao, he had no choice but to believe them.
Because Zhao Hao has done many incredible things.
Luo Bi stood up excitedly and said, "If what the Lord said is accomplished, then all the tenants in our farm will be saved!"
Even though Zhao Hao said that only 500 or 1,000 people are needed, if the kind of paper Zhao Hao described can be made, the scale of the workshop will definitely expand in the future.
There are about 3,200 tenant farmers on his farm.
By then, even if a family sends one worker to the workshop, each family’s annual income will skyrocket.
There will be no more people starving to death.
Among the three imperial farms, his farm has the worst location.
The smallest area.
Not only that, the available arable area in the village is also the smallest.
Therefore, apart from the grain that was handed over every year, there was almost no difference between them and the other two tenant farmers who were severely exploited.
He did not exploit the tenant farmers, and there was no way he could exploit them.
Because if he continued to exploit the tenants after deducting what they had handed over, all the tenants would have no way to survive.
Zhao Hao smiled and said, "These tenant farmers are also my people. Naturally, I cannot help but understand their difficulties."
"Boss Luo, I will adjust the proportion of grain that the tenants have to hand over based on the specific situation."
"We will never let them go hungry, starve to death, or have to sell their children."
"You can give the tenant farmers some reassurance first."
Luo Bi said quickly: "Your Excellency is truly a kind-hearted person. Don't worry, I will do my best to complete the tasks you have assigned me."
Zhao Hao smiled and said, "Then can we prepare a thousand people before noon tomorrow?"
Luo Bi nodded and said, "Don't worry, sir, there will be no problem!"
Zhao Hao said with satisfaction: "Okay, then we will stay here today. After lunch, you can arrange the staffing. In the afternoon, we will go out for a walk and determine the specific location of the workshop."
Luo Bi said quickly, "Sir, since time is urgent, I will not accompany you for dinner. I will go and make arrangements first."
Having said that, he bowed to Zhao Hao and walked out quickly.
Looking at Luo Bi's huge figure leaving, Zhao Hao chuckled and said, "Although this man looks like a pig, he is a man of action!"
Wang Mengyu also laughed and said, "I really didn't expect that there would be such an outlier."
As the manager of the imperial estate, he is no different from a local emperor.
The existence of people like Li Yong and Kong Weiqing is normal. People like Luo Bi, who are capable and good at getting things done and are supported by the tenants, are indeed an anomaly.
Zheng Zhiqian said: "That's good. Having such a person saves us a lot of trouble."
Zhao Hao nodded and looked at Lao Zhong.
"In the afternoon, we will determine the specific location of the workshop. Then I will give you a list. You will immediately rush back to the Imperial Capital to purchase and have it shipped as soon as possible."
Lao Zhong said quickly: "Master, rest assured, I will not delay anything!"
As they were talking, the food was served. The four of them took a quick bite and just as they finished eating and were about to leave, Luo Bi came back.
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