046 Power of the people
Zuo Panyu didn't know where the confidence came from, and he was sure that he could solve this problem.
"First, please order me to be fully responsible for all the work in the mine this month..."
"Second, please give me financial power..."
"Third, if I complete the task, please promise me that I will definitely snatch this water jade mine..."
Zuo Panyu's words surprised Liuhuo, and he hurriedly asked.
"I can understand the first and second points, and I can help you do it. Especially in terms of money, if the mine doesn't have enough money, I can also subsidize you..."
"But your third article is strange, how can I rob this water jade mine? In what name do I rob it? What's more, what's the use of me robbing it? What does this have to do with the output?"
Zuo Panyu had obviously guessed Liuhuo's question, shook his head and said with a smile.
"As long as the adults agree, I can complete the task, and I can't say anything else."
Liuhuo looked back at Suzaku, and the two of them looked at each other, both full of doubts. After a while, Suzaku quietly leaned into Liuhuo's ear and said.
"This is your first time on a mission, you can only succeed and not fail, and the people from the inner and outer doors are staring at you..."
"You not only represent yourself, you also represent the prestige of Liu Lao..."
"So... You should still promise him..."
Suzaku's words are to the point. When Liuhuo thought of the prestige of his master, he suddenly recalled the 'sewage' he had poured on his master before the Hundred Flowers Meeting.
This time, I can't lose face to the master.
Thinking of this, Liuhuo looked at Zuo Panyu and said, "I promise you what you said, I hope you don't let me down."
After speaking, Liuhuo stood up, looked at the big and small leaders standing in the courtyard, and said.
"From today on, all of you will obey Zuo Panyu's orders, and if anyone dares to disobey, don't blame me for playing the prestige of the inner door."
After saying that, he turned around and walked to the back hall.
The words of the flowing fire are really powerful, and everyone does not dare to go against the flowing fire. After all, Flowing Fire had shown supreme supernatural powers in front of them, and they had also seen that Lord Tian Fei, who was invincible on weekdays, didn't even dare to sit in front of Lord Flowing Fire.
Zuo Panyu walked out of the courtyard with large and small leaders, and after a while, these leaders received tasks and went down to get busy.
Liuhuo returned to the back hall and looked at Suzaku and said.
"Did you count the funds just now? How much money did Tian Fei leave for us?"
"There are more than 10,000 gold coins, it seems that Tian Fei escaped in a hurry, and he didn't take much money away..."
"It's okay, so many gold coins are enough to last for a while," Flowing Fire breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't be relieved, I can guess one or two of Zuo Panyu's plans, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money soon, so you just wait to fill it in your own pocket..."
Suzaku's reminder didn't help, because Liuhuo wasn't short of money at all.
Liu Lao restricted Liuhuo from using the magic weapon in the treasure house, but never restricted Liuhuo from using money, and when Liu Lao left, he also gave Liuhuo two keys to the vault, telling Liuhuo to go to the treasure house of half a tael of gold to withdraw money as long as he was short of money.
How much money do these two vaults have? Liuhuo didn't look at it, anyway, there must be a lot of it, and the treasure trove of half a tael of gold never makes small deals.
Just as Liuhuo and Suzaku were discussing things in the inner hall, the water jade mine was boiling again.
"Have you heard? Steward Wang took a lot of people to Wugang to make purchases, and it is said that he wants to improve the food for the big guys?"
"Improve the food? really fake? Those black-hearted and ruthless guys, just don't detain us, and expect them to improve?"
"Don't believe it, I heard that this is an order from Lord Flowing Fire himself, who dares to disobey?"
"Eh, you really have a way to say that, no wonder everyone said that dinner was a little different just now? There is more white rice in the multigrain rice than usual..."
"Yes, and it's full, the ones in charge of the spoon actually don't say enough to add food? I thought they lied to me, so I didn't dare to ask for it..."
"Haha, you're stupid enough, I didn't lie to you, did you really add rice? I added three bowls, didn't you see my stomach bulging..."
As soon as the man finished speaking, he was surrounded by several people, and they all looked at his stomach.
"Don't say it, you kid really has a round belly..."
Now everyone believed it, and those guys who didn't dare to add rice beat their chests one by one, scolding themselves for being brainless, thinking about the sweetness of white rice, and swallowing their saliva.
"Tomorrow for dinner, I will also add three bowls, and I must have a round belly..."
This sentence became the most repeated sentence in the camp, and almost everyone fantasized about three bowls of white rice before entering the dreamland.
The moon sets and the stars are scarce, and the east is white. A new day has arrived.
As the men in the camp rubbed their blurred eyes and prepared to start a new day's work, suddenly a commotion came from the camp.
The workers who had just woken up, looking at the crowded crowd not far away, wondered vigorously, carefully distinguishing the noisy sounds, but after listening to them for a long time, they heard three words.
"White rice porridge... White flour cake... Salted eggs..."
White rice porridge, white flour cakes, salted eggs, what a familiar and distant noun these terms people who hear these terms recall the last time they ate them.
"Was it a year ago? or two years ago?"
Just as the thinker was still struggling with how long it had been since he had eaten these delicacies, the person running across from him woke him up with a slap.
"Two bald people, what are you stupid about? Go get breakfast! White rice porridge and white flour cakes are enough, and two salted eggs per person..."
A word woke up the dreamer, and the second bald man swooped forward when he heard the words, and he didn't forget to take his large wooden basin before leaving.
When he held three pieces of bread in his mouth, two eggs in his arms, and a large wooden basin in both hands, which was filled with thick rice porridge.
This breakfast was really grief-stricken, and countless people choked up when they looked at the snow-white bread in front of them. There are also people who look at the oily yolk inside the salted egg and cry.
"Daughter-in-law, how good it is for you to leave two days late, you will eat white flour cakes..."
"Dad, I miss you, I can't bring you such a good thing..."
Today is destined to be a day of surprises, when everyone walked to the river beach construction site after eating breakfast with tears in their eyes, another surprise fell on everyone's heads.
The river beach was actually divided equally by the white and gray line.
Snow-white ash is sprinkled from the left bank to the right bank, evenly dividing the river into sections.
Countless overseers summoned their men to gather by the river, and talked as they walked.
"The big guys are all people who have accumulated great virtues, let us be such good adults..."
"Do you know why last night's dinner and today's breakfast are so good?
"Not only that, Lord Liuhuo also came up with this contracting system, let us lead a team to pick jade in a special area..."
"My lord said, not only is the salary not in arrears or shrinking, but the team with the highest output will be selected every day to give out special awards..."
"Look at the box of gold coins on the high platform in front of you... The team with the highest jade mining every day will give each person three gold coins..."
The people were shocked, they had seen the legendary gold coins there. The most used are copper coins that are badly worn, and anyone who has a few silver coins is already considered rich.
"Gold, what gold, is it really for us?"
"Nonsense, Lord Driftfire can trick you into a clay pole, as long as you work hard, you can get gold..."
"Damn, let's do it. If you don't rush gold, you will rush the fire and save the lives of our family, so we have to do it too..."
There was a brief silence, and suddenly there was a noise, it was not the cheers of the people, it was the sound of all the people who wanted to understand the work.
The overseer was dumbfounded, he had seen the people wielding their hammers so desperately, and the stones were smashed into stone chips, and they shattered to the ground in a few strokes.
When will the porters be able to pick up so many stones, the flat shoulders are about to break, and people will add to them.
No one was lazy or chatting with the ore sorters, and the mountain-like ore was sorted out in a short time, and no piece of water jade could escape everyone's eyes.
For the first time, the overseers' whips became ornaments.
For the first time, the foremen actually put down their bodies and helped.
From breakfast to lunch, no one asked for rest, and even the slightly injured people forgot about the pain and continued to work hard.
Lunch was delivered to the construction site, the snow-white steamed buns were stacked like a hill, and the buckets of braised pork exuded a rich meaty aroma.
It's actually meat? The people haven't smelled meat for a long time, and the crowd that had been busy all morning no longer had the strength to speak, so they took a bite of steamed buns and chewed on a mouthful of meat.
It's just that countless people's eyes are moist, and even some of them actually drip tears onto the steamed buns and onto the pieces of meat.
The tears were chewed by himself again, and swallowed in his stomach.
The afternoon work began again, with people throwing stones, picking stones, and picking up stones.
The mechanical movements are repeated side by side, and the only difference is that people forget the cold, forget the fatigue, and only have work in their eyes, working hard.
When night fell, when the overseers looked at the shiny pile of water jade around them, everyone couldn't believe their eyes.
One day actually did the output of two days on weekdays.
The promise of Flowing Fire was real, and the team with the first output was quickly selected, and those people who were blistered with blood on their hands couldn't believe their eyes, the gold coins were actually sent down, and it was personally sent by Lord Flowing Fire.
The three glittering gold coins brought tears to the eyes of the people, and they knelt on the ground and whimpered vigorously.
Dinner was already ready, a whole pot of fish and chicken stew was served, and snow-white rice was served openly. Not only that, but each man actually got a pot of wine.
"Heaven... This is heaven..."
"If you can live like this for three days, even if you die, you won't lose anything..."
"There's wine, there's meat, there's work... Am I dreaming..."
"The eyes of the heavens have really opened, Lord Flowing Fire is a god who is difficult to save people..."
That dinner, the food was really shocking, crying and laughing, and the situation of people was even higher than that of the New Year.
However, the festive things are far from over, when Zuo Panyu stood on the high platform and shouted to the people, the scene was completely boiling.