At Yang Xi's initiative, the Yang family held a family meeting that night. Of course, this matter is also led by Yang Xi, after all, the recent events have been caused by Yang Xi, and the changes in him are also obvious to all family members.

The meeting determined the family development policy based on Yang Xi, of course, everyone else just expressed their support, especially after listening to Yang Xi and getting rid of the pavilion chief crown monkey, the two elders of the Yang family were full of shock.

The existing assets of the Yang family are: 5 acres of fertile land, 30 acres of dry land, a ploughing cow, which is already old, and 15 chickens, which are still small and cannot be eaten. As for the grain, there was also a dozen or so stones in the cellar.

The grain output of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the best fertile land yields 3 stones per mu, 1 stone is 31 kilograms now, which is 90 kilograms, and one acre of land in the Han Dynasty is only 0.228 acres now, which is about 300 kilograms per mu of land now.

Human farming, one person can make 10 acres, produce 30 stones or 2,700 kilograms, one stone of grain is 100 yuan, and you can earn 27,000 yuan a year. But you have to have 15 acres of fertile land and 2 ploughing cows.

Fertile land, that is, paddy fields that can be automatically irrigated through rivers and canals, by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, land annexation, as the most important means of production, had long been annexed with landlords.

The Yang family only has five acres and two fields, that is to say, the annual income of the field is 13,500 yuan, excluding the cost of seeds and the like, it is already good to have 10,000 handfuls.

The key is to feed so many people, and then you need the assistance of dry fields.

In general, the dry land is a little higher, and it cannot be irrigated, and in a bad year, even vegetables cannot be grown, and if you are a little lazy, it will become a wasteland again.

A good horse costs 10,000 yuan.

"My heart is so heavy, is this how I started? It seems that I am going to go to the market tomorrow, and what I urgently need now is a carpenter, I don't know if I entrusted the crown monkey to find a carpenter for me yesterday, and this thing has been done! ”

Yang Xi thought like this, ate two sweet potatoes casually, drank some vegetable soup, and then thought about whether there was anything wrong today. Three provinces of my body.

Early the next morning, Yang Xi was woken up by the sound of ding.

The sky has just dawned, and it is more than five o'clock, and the people at this time are really early.

Yang Xi went out of the yard, but saw that his parents, Yang Shao, and Yang Xi had already gotten up.

It was no one else, it was the long-crowned monkey in the pavilion, and he also brought a young man with a height about the same as Yang Xi, who was also handsome, with a narrow face and a high nose. The two girls next to them are not bad, they are both thin and long-faced, and their bodies have just begun to develop. Yang Xi knew that these were the three children of the crown monkey.

Later, there was a black-faced man with a short figure, carrying a bamboo basket, looking honest and loyal, Yang Xi looked at the axe, file, ink line cartridge in his basket, and knew that this was the carpenter brought by the crown monkey.

The crown monkey introduced a few people one by one, and Yang Xi was not polite, and was worshiped by three children, which can be regarded as an apprenticeship. However, Yang Xi obviously felt that the son of the crown monkey was a little unconvinced.

This crown monkey is also a little knowledgeable, and the name of the child can be regarded as being able to be withdrawn, the eldest son's name is Guanxi, Yang Xi is also convinced, the second daughter Guantian, twelve years old, and the third daughter's name makes Yang Xi a little dumb, called Guanshui.

These children are lucky, even the woman has her own name, but if she didn't meet Yang Xi, it is estimated that in this life, their luck will end here, after two years, after getting married, the title can only add a name to the surname of the Lang family, and then never remember what your name is.

The carpenter has no name, and the neighbors call him the second master, the second in line, the second master. After Yang Xi said a few words to him, he felt that this person was indeed more honest, but he had never seen anything special about carpenters in this era.

The Yang family had already brought the morning porridge, and everyone sat down, and began to drink the porridge while looking at Yang Xi's meaning, and everyone didn't know what Yang Xi was going to do.

"Second master! I Yang Xi, the word Chenhe, you can call me Chenhe in the future, I want to ask, the second master is now, how to calculate the general salary when he is out to make tables and buckets? ”

Yang Xi didn't beat around the bush, and generally hired people, but they all had to ask about the salary first.

"The current wage is generally a day from morning to night, six hours, and if you have a meal in the middle, thirty yuan."

Yang Xi nodded, this is normal, more than 10,000 a year, no need to plough the field, it is considered technical work, no cost, no weather, it is equivalent to a year's income of ten acres of fertile land.

"What do you think of that? I will give you fifty dollars a day, six hours a day, two meals a day, noon and afternoon. But there is a requirement, for a year, you can only do it with me, every day, 10 days off in the year, and in addition, if you miss a day, I will deduct two days' wages, what do you think? ”

"Fifty bucks? Wouldn't that be too much? The second master felt a little stunned, even the young and old of the Yang family, as well as the crown monkey, were a little dumbfounded when they heard Yang Xi's conditions.

At this time, the five-baht coin, but the hard currency, is not something that can be picked up.

"Not much! Even Guanxi, Guantian, Guanshui, Yang Shao, Yang Xi, you all have wages! It's just that no matter who you are, you need to sign a contract, no matter what, there must be rewards and punishments, as the saying goes, there are no rules. ”

When Yang Xi said this, Guanxi and the others were extremely nervous, but they didn't believe it very much, after all, there had to be a way for this salary, where did Yang Xi get so much money.

Thinking of this, a few people also relaxed, anyway, this salary is not what they expected before, it is good if there is, and it doesn't matter if there is not. Yang Xi continued: "The five of you, plus Daddy and Grandma, are all involved in my project, as for the salary, it is calculated according to thirty yuan a day, you don't believe in me Yang Xi, but please believe in Sanfeng Patriarch!" “

Speaking of this, Yang Xi looked respectful, and did his best to perform, and the listeners couldn't help but be in awe, and they already believed seven points in their hearts.

At that moment, Yang Xi borrowed a paintbrush from the second master, got some wooden boards, and signed a contract on the spot.

The carpenter's brush, made of bamboo strips, the tip of the pen is slender, with the knife surface to break many fine seams, save ink, can write, Yang Xi does not care that they do not know the words, so they sprinkled, wrote a lot, and finally pressed the ink handprint.

What Yang Xi has to do is to make a hydraulic spinning wheel first, this thing, the number of spinning wheel spindles in ancient times is generally 2 to 3, and the maximum is 5. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the development of social economy, on the basis of various hand-me-down spinning wheel machinery, a large spinning wheel with dozens of spindles was gradually produced. The large spinning wheel is different from the original spinning wheel, and its characteristics are: the number of spindles is as high as dozens of pieces, and the use of hydraulic power. These characteristics make the large spinning wheel have the prototype of modern spinning machinery, and adapt to large-scale specialized production. Taking hemp spinning as an example, the general spinning wheel spins up to 3 catties of yarn per day, while the large spinning wheel can spin more than 100 catties a day and night.

The key is that the water conservancy spinning wheels are all wooden, only between the water wheel and the spinning wheel, there is a power conveyor belt, one on both sides, this conveyor belt is made of animal skin, which is basically ready-made in this era.

The spinning wheel design drawing that Yang Xi got from the science and technology tree can hold 64 spindles, and when the time comes, it will almost exceed the work efficiency of the previous 30 spinning wheels.

No one had a spinning wheel before, basically hand-cranked, the speed was slow, and people were too tired to do it, if this water conservancy spinning wheel was made and installed in a place where the water flow was fast by the river, only three or five people were needed to operate the work of thirty people, and the speed was much faster.

Yang Xi specially found two gate boards and drew the specifications of each part on them, as for what he was doing, even the second master was confused. Yang Xi doesn't need him to understand, as long as he does it.

"Second master! You see, how long does it take to make all these shelves, wooden sticks, and holes? ”

"With the complexity of this object, especially to make wooden wheels, as well as these mortise and tenon structures, it will take at least twenty days!"

"Twenty days? It's too long, I'll send you two small workers as deputies, responsible for the finishing of wooden strips, rough production, you only need to process, can you shorten the time? ”

"With two deputies, I can shorten it to ten days!"

"Good! From tomorrow, Guanxi, Yang Shao! The two of you are the deputies of the second master, and everything is transferred by the second master! However, here I would like to arrange one of the most important things, all of you, every day at noon, when the sun is the hottest, lunch and rest are only half an hour, and after half an hour, you need to learn from me for an hour of heavenly books, thunder can't move! ”

"As for the others, Daddy and Grandma! From tomorrow, the two of you will lead Guantian, Guanshui, and Yang Xi to start harvesting, processing, and cleaning the jute, and the skin must be clean and soaked for seven days. Every day, the jute raw materials are soaked in different areas and taken according to the soaking and cleaning time. ”

After arranging everything, Yang Xi began to lead everyone to the Caishi River to survey the terrain, and his home has two days and five acres, all of which are by the river, and it is more than enough to do these things.

After arranging all this, Yang Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as the first step. The next step is to exercise your physical fitness, so first set a cultivation goal for yourself.

Yang Xi tried it, and he could do 60 push-ups, which was half a cripple.

After the crown monkey left, Yang Xi began his own exercise plan, after all, the body is the capital. However, this can only be done gradually, first of all, some basic physical training, the intensity is not very large, this small body, can not withstand too much toss. As for the attack skills, you don't need to practice too much, and occasionally playing with a big knife can be regarded as a boring physical training subject.

Inspired by the bamboo pen of the second master, Yang Xi did it himself, also made a few pens, and also asked for two boxes of ink from the second master.