Chapter 020: Initial dividends.
Wu Tianxiao also took a breath in his head, and even if he asked for a piece of paper, he wrote a note. However, Wu Tianxiao couldn't write calligraphy, and he learned simplified Chinese characters in later generations, so he asked Tang Zhixian to do it for him. The gist of it is that Wu Tianxiao himself is willing to resettle more than 1,000 victims, while the Zhoushan magistrate does not care how he resettles or where he resettles. However, if the victims of the disaster are disturbed because of poor resettlement, Wu Tianxiao will bear full responsibility, and all the consequences have nothing to do with the magistrate. After the note was established, Wu Tianxiao pressed his handprint and drew a charge.
Tang Zhixian looked at the note and said with a smile: "Oops." Wu Yingying is really a zealous bodhisattva. In this case, the hero is relieved to resettle the victims. How to place the hero to make his own decision is, this official does not ask. After getting the promise of Tang Zhixian, Wu Tianxiao chased after the team.
The victims of the disaster have been on the road since the afternoon, although the twenty-mile mountain road is not very far, but they can drag their children and daughters, and they only eat one meal a day, and there are still several miles of land when it gets dark. Wu Tianxiao caught up from behind and saw that everyone was resting under the bamboo forest. He encouraged the people, picked up bamboo leaves and hay, lit torches and worked harder, and finished the last journey. And explain to everyone that someone has already prepared food in the village and is waiting for everyone.
I heard that there is food. Men, women, and children all came to the scene, and they all gathered hay and bamboo leaves to make torches, and rushed to Luomen Village to discredit them. Fortunately, there are only a few miles left, and you can get there with extra strength.
When more than 1,000 victims rushed to Luomen Village overnight, the village chief Jia Lao had already asked the villagers to bring down the grain from the sea boat and make it ready to eat. After the victims had eaten a half-full meal, they rested in the hut where they had been watching.
Early the next morning. Wu Tianxiao began to distribute these victims, and asked Lu Ziming to register them.
Most of these victims are farmers. There are also some carpenters, blacksmiths, and a few who are literate. Wu Tianxiao recruited more than 300 young men and men, and overnumbered the entire sea ship and seamen. The rest of the victims were registered by the division of labor, carpenters, blacksmiths, literate people, but those with a little skill were assigned to the Toan skills, and those who could only farm were also registered. Women, the elderly, and children are assigned as workers, and some are cooked, handy, and so on. The young and strong ones cut down wood and bamboo, ready to build large-scale workshops. For this reason, the old village chief also chose a public vegetable field as the site at the foot of Niutou Mountain in Luomen Village.
The new match yard is planned to have large shops where displaced people live, large sheds for operation and manufacturing, warehouses for stacking materials and materials, and finished product rooms. The workshop is made of bamboo and wood, and a thick mud wall is added to the lake to prevent fire.
Because of the manpower, Wu Tianxiao only needs to be responsible for the daily food per person, and everything else is free labor. Within three or five days, a new match workshop was established. Women and children were assigned to make all kinds of running water, some sharpened wooden sticks, some dipped in gunpowder glue, some dipped in paper boxes, and some dried and packaged finished products. These jobs are very mechanical and simple jobs, and can be done by the elderly and children.
With these refugees, even if these people are taught to start making matches, the speed of making is amazing. The 100,000 boxes of matches, which were originally made in 20 days, were completed in 10 days. After the delivery could be made, Wu Tianxiao asked people to go to the county seat to tell the shopkeeper Tong that he was ready for money, and he personally led people to deliver the goods to the county seat. Later, he used the money he received to buy a large amount of grain.
The victims were properly housed under the operation of the match workshop, and the workers gradually became proficient in their work. Soon after. Chen Qianhe from Ningbo Prefecture ordered another 50,000 boxes, and the match factory continued to produce matches. And Wu Tianxiao knew that the sales of this match would be more and more, so in addition to making the goods for the order, he also had to hoard inventory.
It's just that due to the overcrowding now, sales have not yet been rolled out. In order to combine labor and servitude and take care of the interests of the villagers, Wu Tianxiao formulated a new mode of production. Villagers who used to work for the match factory were recruited as factory managers because of their skills. and two taels of silver per month. This is also a high income for an ordinary family in the Great Song Dynasty at this time. The original villagers were recruited as caretakers, and the victims became workers. The factory has enough to eat every day, and the victims are divided into three types of income according to the amount of work. The highest is 500 wen per month, the middle is 300 wen, and the minimum is 100 wen. This is mainly due to the fact that young women naturally work more and earn more. The elderly and children will naturally have less homework and less income. God rewards hard work, more work, more rewards. The next step is to set a holiday and rest day, and take one day off at the beginning of each month with a salary. This is a great gift for the homeless and dying of starvation, and everyone is happy all day long.
As for the hundreds of young men who were incorporated into the sea, they had to be trained every day. Seafarers are no better than ordinary soldiers, they need courage and physique, and many people get seasick as soon as they get on board. However, in his previous training, Wu Tianxiao also knew that this was the reason for seasickness due to poor balance of the human brain, so he made a long balance beam to train novices. As long as you train a few times and can successfully walk through the ten-step balance beam, you will generally easily adapt to the bumps of the sea boat.
Moreover, sailors not only have to operate sea vessels, but also do not fall behind in military training. Jiang Zhuang, Jia Youshi and more than a dozen other original village strongmen naturally became the leaders of these people, and even the fake Japanese Ox Dao Hui was also assigned five young men as assistants to manage the sanitation of the sea vessels.
In 1537, the sixteenth year of Jiajing, at the end of June, Wu Tianxiao came to Daming for more than a month. Although the match factory can create great profits, the daily consumption of more than 1,000 displaced people is not a small amount. And because of the floods, the price of food is rising day by day. If it weren't for the fact that a lot of silver grain was seized by exterminating the Japanese invaders, he would definitely be worried about food now. So in order not to hang himself on a tree, Wu Tianxiao didn't want to rely only on a match workshop to make a living, and obtaining arable land was the best way. Pity. The current land of Daming is all owned land, and if you want land, you have to spend money to buy it, which makes Wu Tianxiao have some plans in his heart. He sent Chen Qianhe and Tang Xianyao of the ward in advance to indicate that there was an important matter to discuss.
On this day, Wu Tianxiao took the old village chief Jia and the money to Tang Xianyao and Chen Qianhe to talk about things. Then, under the leadership of Chen Qianhe, the four of them came to the Ningbo Mansion Yuelai Hotel to discuss.
There are four people who can share dividends from the income of the match workshop. The eldest Wu Tianxiao accounted for seventy percent, and Jia Lao Village Chief, Tang Xianyao, and Chen Qianhe each accounted for one percent. At the time of the month-end dividend, Wu Tianxiao did something in the accounts. Because he did all the purchase of the raw materials, he had the final say on what was added to the raw materials, and the accounts were also recorded by him using the accounting method of later generations. The food eaten by the victims, all the materials needed to build the factory, and some of the things that were not available, were all included. Therefore, in the matter of dividends, Wu Tianxiao is not honestly distributed according to the real profits. The so-called money is afraid of being exposed, and if it is distributed according to the real profits, I am afraid that it will make Tang Zhixian and others blush. So. In order not to let people know where the real interests of this match are, Wu Tianxiao divided it according to the estimation of the other party's psychology when he paid dividends for the first time.
The match workshop made a profit in the first month, plus Tong Hua's sales, and later Chen Qianhe's 50,000 boxes, a total of 190,000 boxes, 570 taels of silver, deducting the principal of about 190 taels, and the actual profit was 380 taels.
It is said that Tang Xianyao and others can each get 38 taels. But it's only the first month, and it's a soft opening. If it is according to the actual hair, then in the near future, Chen Qianhe and Tang Xianyao will definitely be blushing, after all, getting rich to a certain point will make people jealous. Therefore, Wu Tianxiao did something in purchasing, so that the dividends were only twenty taels per person, and half of them were treasure money. Nevertheless. But Tang Xianyao and Chen Qianhe still laughed. Because this month's income is more than two months of their income, and everyone knows that this is just the beginning.
In this way, the interests of Chen Qianhe and Tang Xianyao, plus the additional two percent of the profits obtained by hiring people to sell, then they can also get dozens of taels of silver. And although Wu Tianxiao only earned one hundred and forty taels even though he accounted for seventy percent, the income of the three of them was not very different. Therefore, Wu Tianxiao's approach has a hidden benefit, that is, it will not cause jealousy.
After receiving the money, Chen Qianhe got sixty or seventy taels of matches this month, and he was also bold, even if he set up a table of wine in the hotel, several people drank together. To celebrate.