It is impossible to take sick leave, but you are paid, have weekends off, three meals a day are free, and there is no place for consumption on the island, so you can save all the money you earn. It was difficult to divide the whole silver among them, and the copper plates were too many and too heavy, so I hired a goldsmith to shape the pure gold and silver into round shapes of the same size based on grams.
One silver coin was one month's wages, one or two pounds.
A gold coin is one year's wages and weighs more than one tael.
Wages can be paid monthly or annually.
I have some idea of what people will spend when they have money in their pockets.
Therefore, rules were established early on, prohibiting pornography, gambling, and drug-related entertainment on Treasure Island.
Prisoners come to stay in jail, and sailors work here as service.
Although I will give the prisoners wages and allow them to take vacations, I do not ask them to come to the entertainment city for vacation.
Working is still the main theme of their lives.
Marine soldiers' wages are paid by Haixianbao. If they are willing to send it home, the military camp will send the money back to their homes on their behalf.
If you want to collect it by yourself, you can go back from Treasure Island and collect it together.
Guard Jia was a born gossip reporter. When he came, he went among the masses. He would either sit by the well washing clothes with a group of women, or go fishing with others.
He also wormed his way into the prison pile and joined the navy's bridge-building team.
I specially cooked honeysuckle fat sea water for him and asked him to take it out. It was also the first time I saw someone talking, and my voice became hoarse.
The guard Xin Lai came specifically to be our nanny. Xiaojiao originally wanted to come with her, but the business at the inn was so hot and she was so experienced that she couldn't find anyone to take her place.
She is my confidant, so the replacement must be someone I can trust.
However, everyone in the Demon Sect who I can trust is so busy that I get hit in the back of my head.
Cheng Feiguang was rushing to draw comics and had already lost his hair.
Xiaojiao handed over the responsibility of 'assistant' to Guard Xin and told him to take good care of Yunzhou and I's daily life. If we don't need it in life, then be a secretary at work.
I need someone like this by my side to help me deal with chores, such as the request for instructions handed over from below, which is a mess.
Although the heads of each department are literate and can write, there is no unified writing standard. Some people write vertically, some write horizontally, the characters are large, small, and the paper used for writing notes is even more varied. Using bark and leaves, the most talented one used a clay tablet and carved words on it.
Every time I see the request notes piled on the table, I feel like I am a primitive class teacher.
Guard Xin built a kitchen under the tree house and only cooked breakfast and dinner for me every day. We ate in the office area at noon.
During the day he was in my office, handling miscellaneous documents.
Those who hand in the note should give it directly to him. If anyone wants to see me or talk to me, make an appointment with him.
This gave me time to move around, which then led me to discover a group of prisoners enslaving other prisoners.
There are no supervisors watching, and the workload is fixed, so for some people, as long as they force others to do their work, they can rest every day.
Some pirates had done this before, and I found them and threw them into the wormhole.
The insect pit is a 'torture instrument' made by me, similar to King Zhou's pot.
It's just that if a person is thrown in, he won't be bitten to death by insects. My healing energy will protect him, but it won't stop the insects from biting him, crawling around him, and trying to get into his nose, mouth, and ears.
The people who were fished out were in a daze for several days and would wake up from nightmares at night.
Since then, no one has dared to force their work onto others.
The method they used was nothing more than force and coercion, but I had established a rule that private fights and fights were not allowed on the island, let alone one-sided beatings.
The methods used by the prisoners are different. They gamble and gamble secretly. Those who lose all their monthly money have to work for the winner.
I won't punish those who lose the bet. If they are willing to do double, triple or even quadruple the work, let them do it.
The winner is thrown into the pot of insects. The island is rich in insect resources. There are as many as you want, and you can dig a big nest.
It doesn’t matter what kind of thing it is, as long as it looks disgusting, I’ll dig it all.
The feeling of having a bug crawling on your body is completely different from being submerged in a sea of bugs.
I asked other prisoners to come and watch my execution with their own eyes.
After they were done, they were told to go back to work, but the screams of the tortured persons followed them until they finished work in the evening.
The tortured people were bitten by insects and turned into rotten corpses. They were covered in blood and could not find an inch of good flesh on their bodies.
But it just looked scary, and there was nothing wrong inside.
But it's enough that it looks scary from the outside.
The other prisoners dare not gamble anymore. They think I am scarier than the cell leader of the black prison.
"I said, I know what you do. Since you like to pursue excitement, you can just say so. There is no need to use this method to lure me to punish you." Guard Xin helped me share a lot of chores, and I finally had time to come out and play 'Yes.
In the road construction area, I watched the prisoners work for a day.
Today is a special day. For the first time, the prisoners feel what it is like to have an overseer.
It was rare for me to take a day off, so I just wandered around where they worked, looking at this and that.
I didn't say anything to anyone who was slow or wrong. It wasn't like a supervisor, but rather like I was studying and observing them.
Obviously, this makes them feel more uncomfortable than hitting them or scolding them.
I think the punishment is enough and there is no need to emphasize the issue of work attitude.
We are all adults and know what to do.
As a result, I became the sword of Damocles above their heads, and each of their nerves was extremely tense.
If I get close to someone and stare at them, the clothes on that person's back will be soaked with sweat within a short time.
I finally figured out the 'death stare of the head teacher'.
Before finishing the work, I specially called them to one place.
I stood on a big rock, holding a simple loudspeaker and asked:
"I love listening to employees' opinions. Since you miss me so much and want me to personally supervise your work, what do you think about me coming here every day from now on? Vote by a show of hands, and the minority obeys the majority. You can rest assured that I respect you. will."
"If you agree to my coming every day, raise your hand."
There was total silence. The prisoners looked left and right, or looked down at their feet, but no one raised their hands.
"It's weird. You guys have been doing trouble all day long, waiting for me to come. Why doesn't anyone raise their hands now?" I pretended to be confused, but the prisoners still pretended to be dead and refused to give a response.
"Island owner, don't worry. We know we were wrong. We will work hard in the future and never dare to be lazy or slip up and violate the island's rules." A young man suddenly spoke up.
I looked up and looked familiar, and when I thought about it, I realized it was the young man who rescued the fugitive with Ah Jing that day.
"Come out." I waved to him.
The young man was stunned for a moment. The prisoner next to him glared at him and whispered that he was too talkative and was making trouble.
The young man stepped forward bravely and stood at the front of the team.
"what's your name?"
"Lu Xiaoxia." The young man replied anxiously.
"You are a sensible boy. I need a servant to run errands. Are you willing to change your job?"
The young man was stunned again, his eyes widened and he couldn't believe what he heard.
"It's his blessing to be able to serve the island master. He is willing. Are you silly, silly boy? Nod quickly." The one who spoke was still the old man who blamed him for talking too much.
The old man had no ill intentions towards him, and all the blame was out of concern.
"Xiaoxia is willing to work hard for the island owner!" Lu Xiaoxia said without knowing where he heard the words.
As he was about to kneel down, I quickly stopped him. I have seen too many scenes of secret guards and dead soldiers kowtowing and kneeling when they see their master, and I am still not used to accepting kneeling thanks from others.
Besides, I am a modern person at heart. Even if they are low-status prisoners, I cannot get used to receiving such gifts.
Lu Xiaoxia was taken away by me, and the old man who accepted the job invitation on his behalf felt relieved.
Lu Xiaoxia was not as boring as Ah Jing. He followed me all the way back to the office area, and on the way he explained everything about his eighteenth generation ancestor.
He was just fifteen this year and was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was not because he had committed the crime himself, but because his family members had committed crimes, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
He was originally the young master of an official family, but because his mother was a concubine and his wife was powerful, he was sent to Zhuangzi to be raised since he was a child and was not allowed to receive formal education.
He learned to read and read with the old steward of the village, and lived a relatively happy life.
Who would have thought that his brother-in-law would offend Long Yan in the court and lose his head within a year of being an official.
Homes were confiscated, women were sold, and men were given orders and sent to jail.
Originally, the old steward could leave. He was a hired worker, not a domestic slave, but he couldn't worry about the young master who he had watched grow up since he was a child. He was an old man and had no worries, so he went to jail with the young master.
He was worried that the young master was young and would be bullied if thrown into a pile of prisoners.
"Island owner, I...can I take Lao Xu with me? He is a good man and has never done anything bad!" Lu Xiaoxia mustered up the courage to make a request.
"I can get no wages and less food." He promptly increased the offer, hoping that the conditions he offered would impress me.
There are no dedicated cleaners in the office area. Anyone who is free will do the cleaning. It is not impossible to arrange a full-time cleaner.
"If you don't eat enough, how can you have the strength to work? I still don't have enough money for you? I will send someone to take him out tomorrow, so he can go to the official area to do the cleaning work."
"Great! The island owner is such a good person!" The young man's eyes were instantly lit up. Although he was as thin as a stick, his eyes were full of energy.
It can be seen that he turned out to be a fair young man, but he must have suffered a lot in prison in the later days.
The skin has a good foundation, and some of the scars are new injuries that are no more than a year or two old. It is still different from people who have been exposed to wind and sun, endure hardships, and suffer from injuries.
"Don't set me up as a kind person, don't forget the insect pit." I said with a bluff to scare him.
"Then you are...a cruel and cruel person!"
"How would you describe this?"
"Hey hey hey~" Lu Xiaoxia scratched his head. The distance that used to be two meters away from me when walking was shortened to one meter now.
"Where's Brother Big Fish?" Lu Xiaoxia was happy and asked suddenly as if he remembered something.
"Who? A Whale?"
"Yes, his name is too difficult to write, but Big Fish is easier to write and remember. I always call him Big Fish."
"He is making doors and windows, and everyone praises his craftsmanship."
"That's right, if Brother Big Fish practices for a few more years, he can even practice in the emperor's palace!"
"So I appreciate people who are capable and capable. As long as they have real abilities and don't have bad intentions, I will promote them. What are your abilities?"
"Me? I know martial arts." Lu Xiaoxia said confidently.
"Oh?" If my face could smile, it would be broken by laughter now.
I didn't sense any inner strength in him.
He's so thin, he doesn't look like someone practicing martial arts.
"Watch, I'll show you a few tricks." Lu Xiaoxiagui was so open-minded that he really dared to do tricks, regardless of whether they were real or fake.
The lower body is loose, the waist is weak, the arms are flailing wildly, and the neck can be dodged by turning the head...
"Okay, okay, keep your life and work, don't show off your talents."
"Island Master, believe me. I only have a short time to practice. The most important thing about martial arts is accumulation, study hard and practice hard. I believe that one day, I, Lu Xiaoxia, will have the opportunity to be promoted from an errand boy to your bodyguard."
"My child, there is more than just martial arts in the world that can lead to success and fame. Why don't you try studying literature." Regarding martial arts, I can tell at a glance who has talent and who doesn't. This child was born with a weak body, and it was not easy to make up for it the day after tomorrow. , has been completed.
Even if I help him open up his meridians and he works hard on his own, after ten or twenty years, he will still be just a low-level warrior.
"I...I never went to school." Lu Xiaoxia said in a low voice with a slightly red face.
"Why is it so difficult to go to school? The owner of this island has a lot of money. He loves to invest in the education industry. He just wants to build more houses and hire more teachers."
"Really?" Lu Xiaoxia blushed at this time, no longer out of inferiority, but out of joy and excitement.
"One word from the owner of this island will be hard to follow."
"Then, can I go to school?"
"Unless you hate studying and just love working."
"I like reading!"
"Then read."
Lu Xiaoxia danced happily, and it seemed that if he hadn't been unfamiliar with me, he would have wanted to come up and hug me.
This young man, like Ah Jing, is a person full of positive energy.
As he just said, his mother was a concubine. Not two years after he was sent to the village to be raised, his mother became depressed and fell ill in the inner courtyard of the deep house. Two years later, she died.
His father doesn't care, his mother is gone, and his wife hates him and sees him as a thorn in his side.
Although his family was rich, he was not allowed to go to school.
The wife of the wife was not happy that he turned into a wild child and had no chance to compare with his legitimate son.
His brother-in-law, who had no affection for him, made him go to jail. He did not resent anyone, he only felt sorry for his miserable mother.
His grandfather was seriously ill and spent all the family's money on treatment.
His mother volunteered to become a concubine in the Lu Mansion, only for the two gold bars as a betrothal gift.
My mother's sacrifice only gave my grandfather two years of life.
Her sad fate made Lu Xiaoxia burst into tears when she mentioned it.
It is rare for this child to grow up in such a rugged environment and not grow crooked.
I guess it has a lot to do with Lao Xu’s teachings.
Such people are not white-eyed wolves, and I can rest assured if they use them.
Since then, Lu Xiaoxia has become my microphone. When I have new instructions, I write them down and give them to him, and they are sent to various construction sites.
And Lao Xu was picked up by me and arranged to work as a cleaning man in the office area.
Later I discovered that this was a sign of humiliation.
(End of chapter)
