Chapter 169 Earning Interest
Lu Songli didn't interfere in these matters. After all, the gold was there, so how to divide it and how much each person could get would be determined slowly. It's better to keep happy things going for a while.
If she were to handle this, she could come up with a distribution plan that everyone would be satisfied with in just a cup of tea. Lu Songli refused to admit that she was lazy, but felt that the speed was too fast and they couldn't enjoy much pleasure, which was not good.
Others also assumed she wasn't very good at arithmetic, since she hadn't shown it. So while the three grown men were busy checking the accounts, Lu Songli leisurely enjoyed the attention of the little ones.
Their total number at present is fifty-four.
Among them, because of Xue Xu's joining and Lu Songli's promise, the first echelon directly increased from six people to seven people.
If she were in charge, she would have directly taken 35,000 taels of silver from the first group, with each person receiving 5,000 taels. It was normal for the top leaders to take the lion's share when distributing the credit and benefits of a group.
The remaining half was divided among four echelons.
The second echelon is the deputies of each team, such as Hu Guangcong and Yang Zifa, the deputy of Yang Wei Escort Agency, as well as four runners, plus Lu Mingzhi, a total of seven people. They took away about 10,000 taels, so it is reasonable for each person to get 1,500 taels.
In this way, there are still about 25,000 taels left.
The third echelon was composed of soldiers responsible for reconnaissance, with a total of fourteen people. They contributed a lot and took away more than 10,000 taels, so it was reasonable to calculate 800 taels per person.
The fourth echelon consisted of eighteen people from Yang Wei's Escort Agency, plus Bing Mo, Liu Erxi and four others, a total of twenty-two people. Another ten thousand taels were taken away, five hundred taels per person, which was reasonable.
The fifth group, consisting of the women and children of the Qin family, plus Chen Chang'an, a total of eight people, divided the remaining 2,400 taels, with each person receiving 300 taels.
The 70,000 taels of silver had just been divided up.
In the end, Qin Heng and the other two spent less than half an hour to come up with a division method, which was the same as she expected.
After deciding on the distribution plan, the three of them simply did the rest of the work together. One person called out the names, and the other two took the gold and distributed it to each brother.
At this time, Hu Guangcong and his men returned, bringing with them over a hundred young roosters and hens that had been raised for about half a year, as well as sixty locked boxes, one for each person to store their share of the gold.
Their action was praised by everyone, "Great, brothers, you are so thoughtful."
After distributing the gold to the first four groups, Qin Zhao, who was calling out the names of the fifth group, blushed. He wanted to wrap up the remaining gold in a large bundle and take it away. He didn't call out the names anymore and just divide it among his family privately. Anyway, the remaining two thousand taels of gold, except for Chen Chang'an's share, were all given to the women and children of the Qin family.
Seeing the children's disappointed eyes at not being able to go on stage and receive their own gold, Lu Songli disagreed. Qin Zhao was making decisions for the children based on his own subjective feelings, rather than from their perspective.
Adults in this era are too modest and reserved. They like to use critical education on their children. What's wrong with praising their children in formal occasions?
Lu Songli believes that when children do something wrong, they should be criticized, their mistakes pointed out, and then they should be told what to do to correct it, so that they know how to correct it. Good work should be praised and rewarded, encouraging them to move in the right direction. This can also cultivate children's sense of collective honor.
With Lu Songli's efforts, the children went up one by one with their heads held high to receive the thirty taels of gold that belonged to them. Nie Yunniang, holding the child, and Qin's mother followed at the end, both of them feeling a little embarrassed.
The children were not at all nervous. Their eyes were bright and lively, and they puffed out their little chests and stretched out their little hands to take the thirty taels of gold that were given to them.
After about a quarter of an hour, everyone had received some gold, with some receiving thirty taels, others five hundred and some one hundred and fifty taels.
Many of the brothers present had never touched so much gold since childhood. The sensitive ones were so excited that they were incoherent.
Thirty taels of gold, weighing approximately three pounds and seven taels, was easily manageable for Qin Jia and Qin Han, two eight-year-old children. However, for Qin Yu and Qin Zhen, two or three years younger, it was a bit too heavy, and their small hands struggled to grasp it.
Qin Zhao wanted to help them, but the two little guys turned their backs to him and refused.
Then, the two little guys called their older brothers and sisters for help, "Big brother and sister, please help us get it."
Qin Zhao:......
Qin Zhao, their father, was almost amused by these two little ones. Were they angry that he hadn't let them go on stage, or did they distrust him and fear that he would embezzle their gold? Come on, he was the one who got a full 500 taels of gold, how could he be interested in their mere 30 taels?
There were only four children, no, five. Chen Changan also went over to help them. Together, the five children moved all the gold off the stage. The five children came to the sixth brother's wife and put the gold in front of her.
Qin Sheng next to him suddenly had a bad feeling.
Qin Zhao and his elder brother looked at each other and thought that they might not be able to keep these poor kids anymore!
Lu Songli raised an eyebrow and looked at the children calmly, "Kids, what are you doing?"
"Best Sixth Aunt, I'll give you the gold. Can you keep it for us?"
"Sixth Aunt, the best at making money, I'll give you the gold. When you make money in the future, take us with you, okay?"
"The most capable Sixth Aunt..."
The children were all very sweet-talkers and put compliments on their sixth aunt.
Qin Sheng: Sure enough, his premonition was right. Before he could hand over his gold, these little brats had already gotten there!
When Lu Mingzhi saw the 150 taels of gold that he had just received and was still wet in his arms, he fell into deep thought. He seemed to have seen a glittering way to make money.
The rest of the people: The Qin family’s kids are so smart, wow, actually they also want to continue being led away.
Lu Songli chuckled, and after she stopped laughing, she said worriedly, "But Sixth Aunt doesn't have any good ideas for making money at the moment." She wasn't just talking to the children.
Qin Jia quickly said, "It's okay, Sixth Aunt, we'll store the gold with you and you can use it whenever you want. You just need to pay us a little interest every month." As she said this, she stretched out her finger and made a gesture, meaning that they only needed a very small amount of interest.
Haha, Lu Songli laughed, "Who came up with this idea?" Could it be that they treated her as a money bank?
A few days ago, she used the monthly allowance they received when they were in the Qin Mansion as an example to teach her children a financial literacy lesson, aiming to cultivate their financial intelligence and the ability to plan and use money. She hadn't expected that today, the children would put what they had learned into practice right away.
The others were stunned. My god, how did the Qin family raise these children? They were so young, but they were already so dead.
The other adults in the Qin family hadn't expected the children to be so smart. At such a young age, they already knew how to make money. Although they didn't know whether their sixth aunt would let them make the money.
"It was my sister who came up with it." Qin Yu chattered, praising her sister without hesitation.
Qin Jia smiled embarrassedly.
Lu Songli gave her a thumbs up and said, "Jia Jia is really amazing. Okay, then you can talk to Aunt Six and tell her how much interest you want every month..." The children had this talent, so she didn't mind teaching them.
She discovered that the children of this era were not stupid. In fact, they were born in an environment with little pollution, and their physical conditions were better than those of children in later generations. What they lacked was the environment in which it was easy to acquire knowledge in the information explosion era of later generations. As long as they were given enough knowledge, they could also be excellent.
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