Chapter 69 69 Incentive Plan
Chapter 69 Incentive Plan
Early the next morning, Ronin had just gotten up and put on his clothes when Elron waited outside the room and presented two successfully drawn healing spell scrolls.
Faced with such a diligent and hard-working magician, Ronin couldn't help but give him a thumbs up and invited him to have breakfast together.
Ronin didn't say much after learning that he had failed twice. After all, this is a normal thing. Didn't he fail once last night?
As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Without the experience accumulated from failure, how could Elron have the two consecutive successes later?
However, Ronin noticed that the other party had consumed all his mana early in the morning, and couldn't help but remind him.
Although making spell scrolls is one of the main financial means of the territory, both Elron and Ronin himself must reserve a certain amount of mana in case of emergency.
For example, if someone is suddenly seriously injured and needs Elron's healing spell, but the latter uses up all the spell scrolls to make the injured person and loses his life, the loss is huge.
According to Elrond's current mana state, as well as the existing amount of spell ink and beast leather, Elrond only needs to make one healing spell scroll every day.
During the meal, Ronin received the salary statistics from the butler Chahar, which clearly stated the amount of remuneration for everyone. While eating breakfast, Ronin randomly selected a few people and calculated them. After finding that there was no discrepancy, he began to prepare to pay the salary.
There are 28 days in this world, and McKen and Chahar have been with him the longest, for a total of 20 days, and then there are a group of guards, who have been with him for 25 days.
McKen's strength was at the primary level for two days, at the intermediate level for nineteen days, and at the advanced level for six days. With the daily subsidy of 20 copper coins for being a guard officer, his monthly salary reached an astonishing 2 gold, 3 silver, and 40 copper coins;
Chahar worked as a male servant for twelve days and as a housekeeper for fifteen days, for a total of 160 copper coins;
The salary of ordinary guards is easy to calculate, 58 copper coins per person, a total of 1,682 copper coins, and the 10,000 copper coins given by the Green family are still there, just enough to be paid out;
David's calculation is more difficult, six days as an ordinary guard, nineteen days as a primary knight, a total of 582 copper coins;
And Tom, the castle servant, the political officer Wilson, and the newly joined Rydar, all were paid one by one.
After a series of calculations, Ronin needs to pay a total of 9 gold and 47 copper coins today.
Although this amount of money is nothing compared to the money spent in the Horse Herding City, it is really a burden for ordinary baronies to calculate it, and it will still exceed a hundred gold coins a year.
It was naturally a drop in the bucket to pay this salary with Ronin's 120 gold coins in his savings, and he didn't feel anything at all;
But for the guards, castle servants, and even McKen who received the money, this was an extremely happy thing.
After all, what could be happier than getting paid?
Seeing his subordinates happy, Ronin was naturally happy too. As long as they did their assigned tasks well, this little money was worth spending.
After paying the wages, Ronin met with the village chiefs of four villages and sixteen team leaders in the hall of the outer castle.
When these guys learned from Wilson yesterday that the lord was going to summon them in person, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep.
Some of those with a richer family even took out their linen coats that they hadn't worn for years. Although there were patches, they were a little more formal than the rags they usually wore.
Those with poorer family backgrounds also washed their faces and combed their hair, trying to make themselves look a little energetic, so that the lord wouldn't think that someone was not good enough.
They looked serious, but some people's nervous and trembling bodies still betrayed their mentality.
Luo Ning didn't pay much attention to the way these people dressed. Shanlin Town was like this. It was already very good for everyone to wear complete linen clothes.
He treated the people below as beggars who had washed their faces. Of course, he himself was the leader of the Beggars' Gang.
"Now Shanlin Town is divided into four villages. The village chief of Fuqiang Village is Dellin, the village chief of Qianjin Village is Rad, the village chief of Qinfen Village is Hesaiba, and the village chief of Jingye Village is Han. The four of you come forward so that I can meet you."
Luo Ning was not very interested in dealing with these people, but for the village chiefs, it was also an honor to be specially pulled out by the lord to meet him.
The four people came out excitedly, saying their names and greetings to the lord.
Luo Ning nodded in greeting, and then patiently listened to the four people introduce the four team leaders of their respective villages one by one, which was also a first meeting with all the people below.
Although he could not remember these people's faces, they could remember his appearance clearly;
Although Ronin emphasized that both the village chief and the team leader only had the power of supervision but not the power of law enforcement, these people were treated specially by the lord, which in a sense elevated their status in the community of the lord.
In order to maintain such a status, they would do their best to complete the tasks assigned by the lord.
Maybe for some people, the monthly subsidy of two copper coins and two kilograms of barley is not important, and whether they can be the team leader is what some people care about most.
At this meeting, Ronin explained the two most important things for the next four villages:
The first is the autumn harvest. It is now September 6th, and the barley in the wheat field farm has entered the harvest time. Luo Ning asked the village heads to play an active leading role to ensure that the barley in each village is harvested as much as possible, and no wheat ears are left in the fields;
The second is the planting problem after the autumn harvest.
Luo Ning consulted Wilson. Shanlin Town does not plant winter wheat. Generally, after harvesting barley, farmers will be busy harvesting carrots and then planting vegetables such as cabbage and cauliflower.
After doing this, the farmers will be relatively idle. Some will sell labor to the lord in exchange for some wood to repair the house in preparation for the winter. Some will take advantage of this time to maintain their various farm tools, and some will devote more energy to the breeding and care of livestock.
After the winter snow, the farmers will be busy again to prepare for spring plowing.
In view of this, Roning planned to take advantage of this period to promote his ridge farming method, and started with the planting of cabbage and cauliflower. It happened that they could be harvested in December, and the farmers could learn this method before the spring ploughing.
So Roning asked the four village chiefs to select a piece of land for him, and he would personally direct the staff and even personally operate it.
They had never heard of nobles working in the fields, and today was the first time they saw it. Not to mention that Chahar thought it was inappropriate, even Wilson wanted to raise objections.
Roning didn't care. By doing this, he could let the people see his attention to this new farming method, so that it could be better promoted.
In addition, Roning also gave Wilson the hoes and shovels purchased from the horse herding city and distributed them in the name of the village.
Of course, these things were given priority to serfs. If free tenants wanted to use them, they still had to pay a little price, such as paying a little more grain when paying rent.
In addition, in order to motivate everyone to farm, Roning asked Wilson to count the annual output of grain, vegetables, flax and other crops in each village.
For the top three villages in terms of total output, Roning will give the village chief 1 gold coin, 5 silver coins, and 1 silver coin as rewards, and the team leader 3 silver coins, 1 silver coin, and 50 copper coins as rewards, and at the same time give certain grain rewards to the farmers who participated in the work.
Upon hearing this, the eyes of all the village chiefs and team leaders lit up. This reward is higher than the annual salary, and they all had a gleam in their eyes that they must strive for it.
However, soon, Roning said again that if the total output was the last for two consecutive years, and each crop did not have a brilliant performance, from the village chief to the team leader, he would replace them all, leaving no one behind, and let new people take over!
With rewards, there are naturally punishments. Roning does not want to keep some village chiefs and team leaders who are lazy and slacking off. Only those who can play a role can stay.
The people below looked at each other, their eyes revealing worry. They didn't want to be deprived of their unexpected identity.
However, they all had the same idea in their hearts - among the four villages, it was impossible for their village to be ranked last, right?