Sitting leisurely in front of the brazier, with a thin iron chisel inserted in a white flour steamed bun and grilled it carefully, whenever one side is roasted to golden brown, he will tear it off and stuff it into his mouth and chew it slowly, and then turn over another side and continue to roast, occasionally tearing off a piece and stuffing it into Xia He's mouth who is leaning over the desk with one hand holding a pen and flipping the account book, and the other hand splitting and pulling the plate.

After working for almost a month, he finally straightened out everything, Li Ze was also relieved, and the whole person returned to the life of a rice worm with lazy food to open his mouth and clothes to stretch his hands.

"Childe, this winter, we lost 10,000 yuan." After settling the account, Xia He's little face wrinkled into bitter gourd skin, and handed the general ledger to Li Ze with a distressed look.

Li Ze didn't take the account book, but just concentrated on roasting his steamed buns.

"Is the part that Yizhou added is counted?"

Hearing Li Ze's words, Xia He became even more angry: "Then Wang Wenshu is a stingy person, with a total of only five thousand yuan of wealth, what can he do?" ”

"Isn't that just a loss of 5,000?" Li Ze said with a smile.

"Childe, I mean that we will lose 10,000 yuan if we count these 5,000 yuan, and now that the New Year is coming, I guess Childe will definitely have to subsidize some of them so that these people can have a good year, which is another big expense." Xia He puffed up.

"I do have a plan!" I heard that I lost 10,000 yuan this time, and Li Ze also felt a little pain in his heart, but the pain is a pain in the flesh, the money that should be spent still has to be spent, either don't do it, or do it to do the best, otherwise it will be for the sake of the mountain, and the success will fall short.

Xia He dragged a small bench and sat down in front of the brazier, raised his little face and said to Li Ze: "Childe, if you don't give the New Year's things to those tenants this year, you won't give them, and forward these things to those who have just settled down." Anyway, these tenants have taken advantage of their sons over the years, and their lives are not unbearable? Without the reward of the son, they will still be able to eat meat and drink wine during the New Year. ”

Looking at Xia He's lips were pitch black, the lipstick she had carefully applied in the morning had long been invisible, and she didn't know when she put the brush in her mouth and made it look like this, but Xia He was also the cutest, Li Ze couldn't help but smile: "That's not good, years of discipline, as long as you don't reach the end of the mountain, you can't break Luo." ”

"That's a lot of money!" Xia He has a miser's face. "Second Master Tu's hard work this winter has been in vain."

"Where is it in vain, don't we still have some good horses, and so many skins and tendons?" Li Zedao. "Besides, Xia He, Shengmien, and Dou Mi Qiu, over the years, we have let these tenants taste a lot of sweetness, and they are also used to it, and suddenly cutting off these rewards will inevitably make people resentful. What's more, if we let them know that these things that they should have received have been transferred to those newcomers, it will lead them to conflict with these newcomers, and I will use them more often in the future, so that they will not be dissatisfied. If the money is gone, you can still think of ways to make money, but this people's hearts can't be gathered in a while. ”

Xia He nodded as if he didn't understand, "Childe, since you want to buy people's hearts and settle these people, why don't you just transfer the people from our side to help them?" There are hundreds of hard laborers on our side, if we had joined in, we would have done it a long time ago, and it was a little unbearable to see those old and weak women and children working in the wind and snow, all of them were frozen like something. ”

"Only then do you know how to cherish the things that you have worked so hard to get out." Li Ze smiled and said, "I can indeed make it easier for them to be settled, but in this way, it will make them feel that it is too simple to get these things, and they will have more dependence, which is not good." Nothing is taken for granted, and if they feel this way, if they are not satisfied in the future, they may come back to rebel against you again. Haven't they already reversed once? If you can make your life better if you do it once, then why don't you do it a few more times? ”

"They still want to rebel?" Xia He's eyes widened.

"Just by analogy, you're too sensitive, aren't you?" Li Ze laughed and stuffed a piece of baked steamed bun that he had just torn off in his hand into Xia He's mouth.

Slowly chewing the steamed buns, Xia He suddenly remembered another thing.

"Childe, haven't the four brothers of Chen Changping already sold themselves to Gongzi as servants? After that, they will also be paid, according to the rules and disciplines, they are new, and they can only get the lowest grade, but I estimate that these four people are a little unusual, what should I do, the son still needs to give a charter, and besides, the son, are these four people really reliable? ”

"It's not a very important thing to be reliable." Li Zedao: "Except for a very small number of people who depend on your son-in-law and me for their lives and share prosperity and disgrace, other people are attached to your son-in-law, but they are just related interests, such as those tenants, such as Yang Kai and Wang Mingyi." So, Ah Xia He, you must distinguish this point. ”

"Anyway, I share the glory and disgrace with my son." Xia He said: "But when Childe said this, Xia He was a little unhappy in his heart, they ate Childe's, drank Childe's, and Childe made them all dignitaries like dogs, why can't they have the same heart with Childe?" ”

Li Ze laughed: "Don't be too demanding of others, everyone has everyone's interests, everyone has everyone's position, if your son has the ability to always let these people's interests and demands be tied to me, then they will always be with us, if I don't have this ability, they pursue a better life and status for themselves, then we are not qualified to blame others, right?" ”

Xia He was bored for a long time before he said angrily: "Li'er is this Li'er, but I feel uncomfortable thinking about it." Hmph, Childe, why don't we test these people and see how loyal they really are? For those who are faithful, we will give more money, and for those who are not faithful, we must be cautious in the future. ”

Li Ze shook his head resolutely.

"Xia He, never test people's hearts, don't test human nature, because this can't withstand temptation. Once this is done, it will make people who have no dissent also have some other thoughts, or again, what we have to do is to try to tie the interests of all together, so that they know that the price of betrayal will be much greater than the price that loyalty will pay for me, and they will naturally be loyal to me. The salaries of Chen Changping's four brothers will be taken according to Chen Bingchu Sheng's share! ”

"Give them so high?" Xia He exclaimed.

"Chen Changping is a capable person, putting aside his own force, just because he can gather people's hearts, it is worth me to offer him such a price. There will be more places to use him in the future. Li Zedao.

"Ten years after this person, will Childe really let them go? If he is really so capable, I am afraid that he will know a lot of our secrets in the future? ”

"Ten years there?" Li Ze smiled: "Or in three or five years, the world will change greatly, and at that time, they will either fly away, or they will die for me, so you don't think so far!" Have all four of their mother-in-law dolls been placed? ”

"Of course, this is a hostage, the women are all placed in the workshop, and the dolls are placed in Moxiangju. They all sent people to watch it secretly! "Xia He Dao." Since they are useful to Childe, then they must be made to work hard for Childe. ”

"The four brothers of the Chen family, for the time being, let them be in charge of the new mess, and then take an opportunity to consciously let them get in touch with some peripheral secrets, step by step." Li Ze stuffed the last piece of steamed bun into his mouth, chewed and said: "I'm still quite optimistic about them, once the world changes, they can be regarded as a few good cards!" ”

"I see!" Xia He nodded repeatedly. "Does Childe still eat steamed buns, I'll go get another one for Childe?"