"That's fine. This time we are asking you to sign a lifelong agreement. Keeping your mouth shut and being diligent are the first requirements. Those who sign up to open up new land can also sign up to learn skills."
Butler Cao added, "This is different from the past. We must make it clear to everyone that this is not a temporary job, but a lifelong one. If anyone is careless and can't control his mouth, it's best not to join in the fun."
If a crime is committed, reporting it to the police is a small matter, and the whole family may be implicated. With the ability of our Qiao family, punishing a traitor is just a piece of cake, and no one can say anything wrong. "
"That's true. Those who are willing to sign the agreement should discuss it with their families in advance. If the family members disagree, ask questions, or spread gossip, we can't accept them.
If you violate the agreement, not only will you lose all your money and your family’s land for several lifetimes, but you will never be able to turn over a new leaf for generations.”
"this......"
When Lei Lizheng heard that the punishment was so severe, he was undecided for a moment.
But they were also afraid that Qiao Xin would not build the workshop here, and would not even use people from their village to reclaim the wasteland. Wouldn't that mean their lives would be back to square one?
Butler Cao said, "So let's be frank. If you have other intentions, it's best not to come. It's fine to just do some odd jobs."
Of course, if the village chief is in trouble and can't find the right person, it doesn't matter. We can still build a workshop here and ask the villagers to help collect mulberry bark, which is also a profitable job."
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In the next few days, Manager Cao acted decisively. He first took the yamen runners to buy more than ten acres of wasteland near the downstream of the river from Leiwo Village.
Then people were sent over to dig the foundation and build the house. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Here, Lei Li was convening the second villagers' meeting.
After an incense stick of time, everyone gathered in the courtyard of Master Jiu to discuss how to redistribute the workers.
It's not that we don't want to hold the meeting in the barley field like last time, but the barley field has been rented by the Qiao family.
There were too many things being transported in for building the house, and the new house was being built on a slope, so there wasn't enough space to store the materials. So they discussed with the head of the village about renting the barley field for half a month, and agreed on thirty cents a day.
Lei Lizheng would naturally not accept this price. They were all people who wanted to cooperate together. The people from his own village had not paid anything and were getting huge benefits. How could he ask for money when they wanted to use his wheat field? He would be embarrassed.
The wheat field is only used for a month or so a year during the harvest. The wheat is still filling up now, and it will take another 40 to 50 days for them to use it. By then, the Qiao family will definitely be able to vacate it.
Seeing that the other party really did not want to accept it, Butler Cao stopped forcing it.
The village headman, who was described by the villagers as a "take-no-prisoners" man, also had a better impression of the village headman. He promised that when the wheat harvest came, he would make room for the land and would not delay the harvest in the village.
Given the importance her old lady attached to farming, they didn't dare do anything to delay the summer harvest.
At this time, Lei Lizheng had a list from Butler Cao in his hand. This was a list that Butler Cao had left for him, fearing that he could not recognize all the words on it. However, he read it to him several times, and after he copied it in a way that he could remember, he checked it again.
It is said that anyone who can become a village chief must be quite capable. For example, for Goudan, people just draw a sloppy dog's head and two circles, and the circles represent eggs.
Even if the whole paper is filled with Da Vinci's eggs, people can still name different people.
The two circles alone can be eggs, two pancakes, a millstone, and a handlebar.
However, this list, which seemed like a divine book in the eyes of Manager Cao, was accurately called out by Lei Lizhen.
Otherwise, why do they say cats have their own way of survival, dogs have their own way of survival, and little people have their own way of survival.
"Everyone has seen that the Qiao family is going to build a paper mill in our village. The materials are actually laid out outside.
They have already started construction, and precisely because they have their eyes on the land in our village, the list has to be readjusted, and those who signed up before to reclaim land and work at the docks will still count.
But if you go to the workshop, you have to sign a lifetime contract with someone, which is equivalent to selling yourself to the Qiao family. It's a lifelong thing. Everyone, please think carefully about whether to go or not?"
"I don't know anything, will anyone want me?"
“This is because we don’t know anything, so we have to be taught step by step, which is why the signed agreement is so strict.
Otherwise, if someone learns the skills and offers you a higher salary, you will just walk away. Who will be responsible for the loss of the Qiao family? Do you think they are running a charity?"
"That can't be possible. Who do we think we are?"
"Words are not enough, words are the truth. People want to see the results, not just empty promises. That's useless and can change at any time."
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The patriarch stood outside, looking at the mountains in the distance, and was silent for a long time.
No one knows what he is thinking.
Perhaps he was thinking, such a good opportunity is right in front of him. Leiwo Village can't be so poor anymore. Why can't he, a grown man, compare to a woman's heart?
The reason why Leiwo Village is so poor is not only because it is too remote, but also because there are too many people in the village who are cunning and have their own agenda.
They all have the same surname and the same clan, but they are not united.
Over the years, he had been able to turn a blind eye to the injustices in the village because of his grudges with the previous clan leader and the village head.
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