Chapter 69 Incentive Plan
Early the next morning, just as Ronin got up and put on his clothes, Elrond was already waiting outside the room, presenting him with two successfully drawn healing spell scrolls.
Faced with such a diligent and hard-working magician, Roning couldn't help but give him a thumbs up and invited him to have breakfast together.
After learning that the other party had failed twice, Luo Ning did not say much. After all, this was a normal thing. Didn't he fail once last night?
As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Without the accumulated experience from failure, how could Elron have achieved the next two consecutive successes?
However, Roning noticed that the other party had used up all his magic power early in the morning, and he couldn't help but remind him.
Although making spell scrolls is one of the territory's main financial means, both Elrond and Rhonin himself have to reserve a certain amount of mana in case of emergency.
For example, if someone is suddenly seriously injured and needs Elrond's healing magic, but the latter has used up all the magic scrolls he has used up, causing the injured person to lose his life, this would be a huge loss.
According to Elrond's current mana state and the existing amount of spell ink and Warcraft leather, Elrond only needs to make one healing spell scroll every day.
While eating, Luo Ning received a salary statistics sheet from his butler, Chahar, which listed everyone's salary in detail. While eating breakfast, Luo Ning randomly selected a few people and calculated the numbers. After finding no discrepancies, he began to prepare to pay the salaries.
There are twenty-eight days in a month in this world. Among them, McKen and Chahar followed him the longest, for a total of twenty days, and then there were the guards, who followed him for twenty-five days.
Mikan's strength was elementary for two days, intermediate for nineteen days, and advanced for six days. With the 20 copper coins per day allowance for being a guard officer, his monthly salary reached an astonishing two gold, three silver, and 40 copper coins.
Chahar worked as a manservant for twelve days and as a butler for fifteen days, earning a total of 160 copper coins;
The salary of ordinary guards was easy to calculate: 58 copper coins per person, a total of 1,682 copper coins. The 10,000 copper coins given by the Green family were still there, just enough to pay them out.
David's calculation was more difficult: six days of ordinary guards, nineteen days of junior knights, a total of 582 copper coins;
Tom, the castle servant, the political officer Wilson, and the newly joined Rydar were all given gifts.
After a series of calculations, Roning needed to distribute 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 Herder City, if you really calculate it, it will still be more than a hundred gold coins a year, which is really a burden for the average barony.
Paying this salary with Ronin's savings of 120 gold coins was naturally just a drop in the bucket, and he didn't feel anything at all;
but for the guards, castle servants, McKen, and others who received the money, it was an extremely happy thing.
After all, what could be more enjoyable than getting a paycheck?
Seeing his subordinates happy, Roning was naturally happy, too. As long as they did their tasks well, the money would be worth it.
After distributing the salaries, Roning met with the heads 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 who were better off took out linen jackets that they hadn't worn for years. Although they were patched, they were a little more formal than the tattered ones they usually wore.
Those who were not well off also washed their faces, combed their hair, and tried their best to make themselves look energetic so that the lord would not think that they were incompetent.
They looked serious, but some of them were so nervous that their trembling bodies betrayed their true feelings.
Luo Ning didn't pay much attention to the way these people were dressed. That was how it was in Shanlin Town, and it was already very good that everyone could wear completely linen clothes.
He treated the people below as beggars with washed faces, and of course, he himself was the leader of the Beggars' Sect.
"Now Shanlin Town is divided into four villages. There are the village chiefs of Fuqiang Village, Dellin, Qianjin Village, Lade, Qinfen Village, Hesaiba, and Jingye Village. The four of you come forward so I can introduce you to them."
Roning was not very interested in dealing with these people, but for the village chiefs, it was an honour to be specially invited by the lord to meet them.
The four men came out excitedly, saying their names and greetings to the lord.
Luo Ning nodded in greeting, then patiently listened to the four people introduce the four team leaders of their respective villages. This was also the first meeting for all the people below.
Although he could not remember these people's faces, these people could clearly remember his appearance;
Although Roning particularly emphasized that both the village chief and the group leader only have supervisory power but not law enforcement power, these people received special treatment from the lord, which, in a sense, elevated their status among the lord's people.
In order to maintain this status, they will 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. Whether or not they can become a team leader is what some people care about most.
At this meeting, Luo Ning 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 farm has gradually entered the harvest time. Luo Ning asked the village heads to play an active leading role in ensuring that all the barley in each village is harvested and not a single ear of wheat is left in the field;
The second is the issue of planting after the autumn harvest.
Luo Ning consulted Wilson and learned that winter wheat is not grown in Shanlin Town. Generally, after harvesting barley, farmers are busy harvesting carrots and then planting vegetables such as cabbage and cauliflower.
After doing all this, the farmers became relatively idle. Some would sell their labour to the lord in exchange for some wood to repair their houses in preparation for the winter, some would take advantage of this time to maintain their various farm tools, and some would devote more energy to the breeding and care of livestock.
After the winter snow, farmers will be busy again preparing for spring ploughing.
In view of this, Luo Ning decided to take advantage of this period of time to promote his ridge farming method. He would start the experiment by planting cabbage and cauliflower. They can be harvested in December, so farmers can learn this method before spring ploughing.
Therefore, Luo Ning asked the four village chiefs to select a piece of land for him, and he would personally command the people and even operate the land himself.
They had never heard of nobles working in the fields, and today was the first time they saw it. Not to mention, Chahar thought it was inappropriate, and even Wilson wanted to raise objections.
Roning didn't care. What he did would let his subjects see how much he valued this new farming method and help promote it better.
In addition, Roning gave Wilson the hoes and shovels he bought from the Horse Ranch 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 price, such as paying a little more grain when paying rent.
In addition, 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 volume, Roning will reward the village chief with one gold coin, five silver coins, and one silver coin, and the team leader with three silver coins, one silver coin, and 50 copper coins. At the same time, he will also give certain food rewards to the farmers who participate in the work.
Upon hearing this, the eyes of all the village heads and team leaders lit up. This reward was higher than their annual salary, and their eyes were shining with the determination to get it.
But soon, Luo Ning said again that if the total output was ranked last for two consecutive years and each crop did not perform well, he would replace everyone from the village head to the group leader without leaving a single one and let new people take over!
Where there are rewards, there are natural punishments. Luo Ning doesn't want to keep some village chiefs and team leaders who are just slacking off. Only those who can be effective can stay.
The people below looked at each other, worry revealed in their eyes. They didn't want to be deprived of the identity they had obtained unexpectedly.
But they all had the same idea in their minds - among the four villages, it was impossible for their village to be ranked last, right?
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