Wan Ning said: "Master, how many people do you plan to recruit? How many acres of land will you cultivate?"
Ye Feng smiled and said: "Wan Ning, whatever you want, you decide."
Wan Ning frowned slightly, stared at Ye Feng, and said coquettishly: "Master, 'whatever' is the most difficult thing in the world."
Wan Ning is becoming more and more like Ying Ying, so Ye Feng smiled bitterly and said: "I reclaim the land and hire long-term workers. I don't intend to collect taxes or allocate land. I use these lands to prepare for experimental planting." Good stuff. So the kind that only pays wages."
After hearing this, Wan Ning nodded and said: "Master, you told me earlier, since it is a test field, we will recruit about twenty people first. As for wages?
"An ordinary farmer's family, with five or six people in a household, owns two or three acres of land. After paying taxes for a year, half of the food is left for food, and the rest may only be sold for about one tael of silver. At the end of the year, there is basically no balance.
"If you only pay wages, then you have to buy grain yourself. Then a family will probably spend more than one tael of silver a year. If you buy whole grains and make whole grain wild vegetable pancakes or porridge, you should be able to survive."
As she said this, Wan Ning looked at her three sisters. After all, those were just her own estimates, and she was not born into a farmer, so she asked them for their opinions.
Wan Xiu said: "It's almost the same. When I was at home, wild vegetables accounted for most of my meals. My family only spent about two taels of silver a year."
After all, Wan Ning was from a merchant family, and she had an abacus in her mind. She said: "Based on this data, there are an average of five or six people in a family. The couple plus one or two and a half-year-old children are the main ones, and they need to spend 1,500 a year." If we have about 125 Wen per month, the average monthly cost is about 125 Wen. So for the 20 people, we should try to be young and strong, so a family can only be counted as 2 people at most, then..."
Suddenly Ye Feng smiled and said: "Wan Ning, 20 people don't need to be counted according to the young and strong labor force, but according to the actual number of people in a family, men, women, old and young."
Wan Ning was stunned, this was obviously unreasonable, but since it was the request made by the master, then he should do as he said, and Wan Ning could clearly feel that there must be a greater meaning behind what the master did.
Wan Ning said: "Doubling it would be 250 Wen, so you don't need to eat it with wild vegetables."
Ye Feng said: "250 doesn't sound good, so let's go with 300."
Wan Ning said: "Well, just listen to the master. We will use 300 wages per family as the standard and recruit a few families to try."
At this time, Wanxiu suddenly said: "Ah? Master? Do you really give me so much?"
Ye Feng said: "Is it much? Is it okay?"
So Wanxiu said: "Master, is it really possible for men, women, old and young? Then can I ask my parents to come?"
"Wanxiu!" Wan Ning suddenly shouted.
In fact, it's not Wan Ning's heartlessness, but a business practice. If a merchant wants to grow bigger, the key is to employ people, and one of the biggest taboos in employing people is to be related to others, let alone the people closest to you.
Wan Xiu was so frightened that she shrank her neck and said, "I'm sorry, sir." She was about to cry.
Ye Feng said: "It's okay."
Ye Feng turned back and looked at Wan Ning with a smile. Wan Ning knew that the master was asking her for an arbitrary request.
Because Ye Feng left all the matters to Wan Ning, it would be inappropriate for him to mechanically descend on him halfway. After all, if you leave things to others to do, don't interfere. Otherwise, you will interfere in everything, and you still have the right to let ghosts go.
That's why Ye Feng asked Wan Ning for a request.
Wan Ning just nodded and said to her heart: Ye Feng, you are my master, there is no need to do this.
So Ye Feng looked at Wan Qiu, Wan Ru and Wan Xiu and said, "Not only Wan Xiu, but also Wan Qiu and Wan Ru. If your family members are willing to come over, then invite them all."
Wan Ning looked at Ye Feng and seemed to have a hint of what her master wanted to do.
Wan Qiu, Wan Ru and Wan Xiu, who were usually lively and cheerful, were now petrified and silent. After a while, they were crying and about to kneel on the ground and kowtow to Ye Feng. It's obvious that they kneel to the master for their own families.
But none of them knelt down in the end. All three of them were lifted up by an invisible powerful but gentle force. After all, their master was an "immortal", which was not surprising to them.
Ye Feng said: "I said, you are not servants to begin with, but now you are my students. Also, you have mistaken the person to whom you are thanking. I have given full authority to Wan Ning in this matter. Without her consent, I won’t say it. So what you should really thank is not me, but your eldest sister. So I hope you won’t have any grudge against Wan Ning because of what she just said. Do you understand? "
"I understand, sir."
So Wan Qiu, Wan Ru, and Wan Xiu bowed to Wan Ning and said in unison: "Thank you, eldest sister!"
Wan Ning looked at everyone and said, "Okay, everyone, let's get up."
In fact, Wan Ning had just been prepared to be complained by her sisters. It was because justice did not manage money and kindness did not control soldiers. Since the master left the matter to him, he must do it well no matter what. But she didn't expect that the master could clarify the facts for her predicament. Wan Ning was naturally very grateful.
Wan Ning looked at her master and felt that he was different, but this also confirmed that he was not from this world, but from the outside world.
Wan Ning couldn't help but wonder, are people in the outside world as special as the master? However, Wan Ning later realized that even in the outside world, Ye Feng was still a unique being.
Wan Ning suddenly asked Ye Feng seriously: "Master, can I ask you a question?"
Ye Feng said: "Are you asking?"
Wan Ning said: "Master, where did your money come from?"
When Ye Feng heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Why does Wan Ning ask that?"
Wan Ning said: "Since I took over the affairs of the academy's outer courtyard, I have learned that the Great Xia Dynasty does not have any court funding for the academy. Instead, spiritual stones are handed over to the task quota every year. So under normal circumstances, all the income of the academy comes from Regarding students, taxes in the areas under their jurisdiction, and tributes from local gentry and powerful people. However, the master of Yutao Village did not collect taxes. I still know how much money the local gentry and powerful people have. In addition, the academy does not have a sufficient number of students now. So I I believe that Yangming Academy has a source of income that even I don’t know about.”
Ye Feng smiled and said: "As expected of you, Wan Ning. If I said that I can make spiritual stones, of any quality, would you believe it?"
After Wan Ning heard this, she breathed a deep sigh of relief and said, "So that's it. It's really great that the master didn't do those sneaky things."
Ye Feng's eyelids twitched slightly. It turned out that Wan Ning was afraid that his money was ill-gotten gains.
Ye Feng smiled and said, "An Xinla?"
Wan Ning said: "Well, I feel at ease!"
Ye Feng and Wan Ning sang together on the side, while the three sisters were a little overjoyed to watch.
