Chapter 40 (1/2)
No wonder these people are shocked. Who has heard that the Lord will pay to change farm tools for the people?
The land is owned by the Lord, and the residents in the territory are basically owned by the Lord. There are so many residents, who cares about the life and death of the residents?
As long as taxes are collected regularly, the Lord won't care so much.
But Lord Donne is not normal. After taking office, he didn't search hard, but threw a lot of money out!
1232 households!
One gold coin per household!
That's 1232 gold coins! In a word, he threw it out!
Lord, you don't treat gold coins as gold coins!
Everyone was shocked, and then followed by crazy cheers!
”Long live your Lord!”
”Long live Lord Donne!”
Everyone is crazy. Although the subsidy is only for farmers, in fact, the farmers in Ellington are closely related to everyone and know each other very well. Moreover, when farmers change their tools, they will have high efficiency and good harvest. At that time, the price of grain will naturally decline and they can get practical benefits.
Fiona looked at Donne with a complicated face. Although he didn't understand financial operation and management, he was very good at how to make the residents of the territory more united. In particular, in these short days, almost all of Donne's measures were beneficial to Ellington civilians, which was almost unimaginable before.
When every Lord in other places takes office, the first thing to do is to erase the traces left by his predecessor, and then strengthen the rule, strengthen the armed forces and suppress the rebels, while Donne does the opposite, which is simply
But Fiona has to say that Donne's means are very effective.
Just today's announcement of the purchase of mint grass made everyone in Ellington smile.
As long as you are willing to work, you can get an income. Is there a more popular guarantee than this?
After more than an hour of busy work, Fiona and her colleagues completed the purchase of all the peppermint plants, but this is not the end. There are still many peppermint plants along the emerald river. I'm afraid they can't collect them in the next month.
”How many have been acquired?”
”... more than two tons of mint.”
Fiona looked through the book before she found the unit.
Donne raised his eyebrows: ”on average, everyone picked a kilogram?”
”No, there are only more than 400 people today, so everyone collected more than two kilograms. With today's news, there may be explosive growth tomorrow.”
Fiona frowned: ”the mint grass has been transferred to the warehouse, but it has been collected. I'm afraid it won't last long. When can you make these into mint candy?”
”Who says it's all mints?”
Donne raised his eyebrows: ”first extract the peppermint essential oil... You start to recruit temporary workers tomorrow, I will conduct unified training, and start working in the warehouse the day after tomorrow. Ten silver coins a day. What's the price?”
”Ten silver coins a day!”
Fiona suddenly raised her voice: ”even in arlinks, ordinary workers don't have such a high salary! Five silver coins are enough!”
”Five silver coins?”
Donne smiled: ”if it was before, I'm afraid they would be very happy, but after today...”
Fiona thought it was the same. Five silver coins are the income of five kilograms of peppermint grass. There is no need to learn to collect peppermint grass. When they don't know whether they can make money this afternoon, they all collected so much. They have to dig hard tomorrow?
”Ten silver coins, really not much, but this work is also a technical job...” Donne pondered, ”limit the recruitment of workers to adults, or young girls, and give priority to those who have a tight life and have no other means of making a living.”
”Well, how many people do you want?”
”Tentatively ten, depending on how much Mint grass you can collect tomorrow... By the way, take time to do a document on the promotion of mint grass planting and tell them that buying Mint grass is a long-term work. If you are willing to plant it, you can report to the Lord's house and divide some land for them to plant Mint grass, and the tax can be appropriately lower.”
”I see.”
”In addition, have you counted the reward amount of the guard?”
Donne still remembers that he promised the guard members to reward gold coins after the bandit suppression, but he was busy after he came back. He threw it to Fiona and didn't pay attention to it.
”It's been counted. I'm going to tell you.”
Fiona sighed: ”you spend money too hard. Casually, you spend thousands of gold coins. You will give them after the recruitment tomorrow.”
”I think it's worth it. At least they're motivated now, aren't they?”
Donne smiled and said, ”and in the future, it will take them to defend Ellington. What if they want the horse to run and don't feed the horse?”
”It's enough to have you...”