Hong Tao did what he said, and after returning to Jinhewan, he announced that Cixi, Cixi's wife, an 8-year-old son, and two young daughters had become temporary residents of Jinhewan, and their slave status was partially relieved. If the family can continue to contribute to Jinhewan for the remaining three years, then they will be completely free from slavery and become residents like the rest of the Tan family, not only will they be free, but they will also be given a house and land.

As for Cixi's elder brother, it must be his own brother, although he doesn't look very similar, but that character is simply very similar, and after only two days of familiarity in the Jinhewan camp, he made a reasonable suggestion to Hong Tao through his younger brother. He said that the labor here was so easy that it was only worth one meal, and that if you wanted to eat a second meal, you would have to double the amount of labor, or at least half of it, to be worthy of the food given by the master!

"Tell your brother that he will be the captain of the first team from now on! In the future, the amount of labor of the first team will be increased by half, and it will not be enough to give one less meal! I'll see the effect first, and if the effect is good, there will be a reward! Hong Tao was very happy, and he also gave Cixi and his brother the reward he deserved, but he was very bitter in his heart, he didn't want to see the dark side of human nature, and Tai Nima tortured people. It's a pity that he doesn't have the right to pick fat and thin now, in order to make himself stronger as soon as possible, he has to do something against his heart that he doesn't want to do and is not happy. Instead of letting others enslave themselves, it is better to enslave others themselves, and this truth is understood by fools.

"Ah Tao, wouldn't it be too ruthless to do this, they are doing all the heavy work, and they have to add half of it, can their bodies bear it?" Old man Rong had no objection to Hong Tao's decision, but he just felt that it was not very reasonable.

"You haven't been to their village with me, their house is just a few logs with a pile of grass, and the food is coconut meat except fruit and fish. They also grow rice, but unfortunately the rice and weeds grow together, and they can't harvest much from one acre of land, and they usually don't have rice to eat at all. They are more comfortable with us than in their own village, so let's do more, they are not human beings for the time being, but cattle! "Hong Tao himself can feel guilty, but in the face of others, he must be tough.

"But we don't have that much to plant, and we don't need so many people just to cut down trees." Old man Rong has succeeded Huang Hai as the first village chief of Jinhewan, but this is not an official position, just everyone's acquiescence.

"You're rich, aren't you...... It's okay, I'm not going to let them eat for nothing, let's have a meeting in the evening, I have something else to do, let's discuss what to do, how to do it, who will do it. When he heard Old Man Rong say that the slaves were actually rich, Hong Tao not only did not worry, but also became happy. He was waiting for this day to come, which meant that the camp had enough labor, and the next step could be started earlier.

Now a management body has been set up on the Jinhe Bay side, and Hong Tao said that it is called the board of directors. The members of this board of directors are not shareholders, but several elderly people who are highly respected in the Tan family, such as Old Man Rong, Chen Mingen, Huang Hai, and Wen Laoer, a total of 10 people, plus Hong Tao, the self-appointed chairman of the board of directors, exactly 11 people. Jinhewan's big and small things, all decided by this board of directors, the way is also very simple, whoever needs to discuss the board of directors, just tell Hong Tao, he decides when to convene the board of directors, and put forward the topic, after everyone discusses, a show of hands votes, more than 70% of the votes will be passed.

Hong Tao does not have the right of veto, but he has the right to issue proposals, and he is still the only one. That is to say, whoever wants to pass anything, must communicate with him first, and persuade him first, so that it is possible to produce a proposal, otherwise there is no need to wait for veto, and there will not even be a chance to discuss it in a meeting. This is also what Hong Tao did deliberately, now that his power has just started, he doesn't want to make these people turn from brothers to enemies all day long because of the things that don't raise their hands and veto, let alone let himself become the target of the public.

Mining! Gold and copper mines go together! This is the topic that Hong Tao wants to raise at the meeting. Since there is already a surplus labor force in agricultural production, it means that under the present circumstances, the food problem has become self-sufficient. The efficiency of planting too much land is too poor, it is better to find some higher value-added work to do, the reason why Jinhe Bay is called Jinhe Bay, is not because there are gold and copper mines here? Gold and brass were called gold in ancient times, but in fact, they are both gold in nature, copper money and copper money, copper is money, what is the difference between gold and gold?

Relative to the Great Song Dynasty and surrounding countries, copper was even more popular than gold. The only currency collected by merchants from Nanfan, Arabia, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese Islands who went to Guangzhou to do business was Song Dynasty copper coins. According to Luo Youde, this thing is used wherever it goes, and when it comes to foreign countries, in addition to bartering, the only currency that can have purchasing power is copper coins. It's not good for you to take out a gold ingot, because the price of gold and silver is not equal between places, and only the copper coins of the Song Dynasty are relatively fixed value. In other words, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty were equivalent to the US dollar in later generations, and the international currency was still the only one in East Asia, Southeast Asia, India, and Arabia.

"We won't open mines...... Old Man Rong only asked one question after listening to Hong Tao's feasibility analysis report.

"Wrong! You won't, I will! 50% of Hong Tao's words are bragging, 50% are bold, there is no dry goods, he will be a fart! He hadn't really seen what a copper mine was like before.

"Let's do it!" However, Hong Tao's reputation in the Tan family is relatively good, and his prestige is also high, especially in terms of making money, whether he is familiar with it or not, convinced or not, no one who knows Hong Tao's Tan family dares to stand up and say that he can make money better than Hong Tao, so Huang Hai still supports it as always.

"With copper, I can wrap copper plates around the bow of the ship!" Wen Lao Er has never forgotten the suggestion that Hong Tao put forward at the beginning, and has always felt that it was a good idea, so he also supported Hong Tao's proposal.

"Phew! Put a copper purse on the bow of the boat? That's got to be a bag, loser! Old man Rong waved his hand and gave Wen Lao Er a slap, Bo Fu had to call him uncle, in his eyes, these people were children.

“…… It was he who said it! Wen Lao Er was very aggrieved, and immediately confessed to Hong Tao.

"Tao Lingzi definitely didn't let you wrap copper coins!" Old man Rong was stunned for a moment, he couldn't and didn't want to scold Hong Tao, he was here to help Hong Tao suppress the formation, not to demolish Hong Tao, so he supported things that were conducive to raising Hong Tao's status, otherwise he opposed it.

"I came up with this idea, but I don't need to wrap pure copper plates, and I don't need to wrap so thick, a very thin layer is enough." Hong Tao didn't care about Wen Laoer's feelings at this time, since he sold himself so neatly, there was no need to protect him.

"Look, what am I talking about, you can't learn the craft yourself, and you still say that Tao Yanzi, you should fight!" Old man Rong was able to catch it now, and waved his hand to Wen Lao Er again, Wen Lao Er couldn't say it, he couldn't hide yet, so he could only lower his head and pretend to be dead and not speak.

"Copper smelting is similar to iron smelting, I can try ......" Qi Zu is one of the first blacksmiths deceived by Hong Tao from the city of Guangzhou, his family has been a blacksmith for generations, and he also followed his father to serve as a master craftsman in the Northern Song Dynasty army, his skills are very good, and he is alone, without worry, and he is also the first of those five people to accept his fate and honestly want to settle down in Jinhewan. Because he can make iron, and has begun to burn refractory bricks in the Song Dynasty, preparing to build the first iron-making kiln in Jinhewan, and has been recognized by Hong Tao, so he is also a representative of the eleven Song people living in Jinhewan, and was brought to the board of directors by Hong Tao to represent the interests of the Song people. This is also a signal to those Song people who have been deceived by themselves, so that they can live and work in Jinhewan with more peace of mind.

In fact, as long as Hong Tao and Old Man Rong agree, no one else will object, at least not openly against it, and they dare not say anything if they have opinions, otherwise they will definitely be knocked on the head by Old Man Rong with various objects, and slapping him is already the most gentle. Hong Tao has nothing to do about this situation, Old Man Rong is like an elder of an ethnic group, with a special status, as long as he is there, there will be no opposition for a while and a half, this is an ethnic culture, and no one can change it in a short time.

However, Hong Tao believes that this is not absolute, the main is that the interests involved now are not big, once the interests reach a certain level, people with a little business acumen will come up with other ideas, it may be the first time I dare not say, the second time I dare not say, but sooner or later someone will say. Hong Tao plans to wait to see who says it first, and then he will support him, as long as one person succeeds, the others will immediately follow suit, and then the board of directors will really be a board of directors. Some problems are enough for your own brain, and some problems are not enough for your own head, so you must have a real group decision-making level to help you pick up the gaps.

As for power, Hong Tao feels that he is not a person who likes power by nature, more often than not, he is the one who challenges authority, so he doesn't plan to make himself a great man, he wants to be a thinker and pioneer of this era, as long as he can move forward without carrying so many burdens and let himself spread his thoughts, it doesn't matter who has the right. With this board of directors, no one's power is great, and slowly these directors will become representatives of the interests of certain people, and then representatives of a certain class. You may see it yourself, you may not see it, so take your time.