70 The strife of the people
The first ditch was dug peacefully, and no one twisted their hands or feet, and no one was hit by stones or sand, which is a celebratory thing.
After Luo Yi accepted the prize, he handed out the prize to the first trencher to finish it.
To her surprise, the worker was not the big man she had imagined, but a thin, emaciated old farmer.
Frank.
At first, Luo Yi didn't want this person to join the ranks of the trenchers, she suggested that Frank do some easy work of delivering food and water, but Frank said that he needed money, and said that if the progress was lagging behind the average person, he would rather change people than the previous wages.
Since the words have come to this point, Luo Yi will accept him.
When digging a ditch, Luo Yi also patrolled a few more times in his section, for fear that he would be too reckless in order to make money.
When Frank digs a trench, he doesn't seem to be faster than anyone else's.
So she was relieved.
But how did he manage to dig first out of forty workers?
He couldn't tell himself, he only said that he had always worked like this, he was not stronger than others, but he finished things faster than others.
Luo Yi decided to take a good look when he dug another ditch the next day.
That night, something went wrong again.
The extra liquor that was awarded to the first ten workers who had done their jobs caused trouble.
After Luo Yi heard the news of the accident, she couldn't believe it.
Of course, she didn't give them wine casually, the wine of this era was not distilled, it was all low-alcohol wine, a small barrel of wine for ten people, and it was mixed with water before giving them......
How can you get drunk?
Luo Yi won't get drunk when he drinks!
When she hurried to the construction site and inquired, she realized that the reason for the incident was like this:
Luo Yi found out, so he drove the children back who were too young, and in the name of fairness, the workers' families were not allowed to help, and instead of letting them do some chores such as cutting reeds and cleaning up the gravel and clods that fell on the transportation route, they were also paid wages as appropriate.
When the settlement was made that night, something was also settled for these people.
After the news spread, many free women and teenagers actively came to the construction site to look for work, because although Luo Yi paid them a small salary, and the remuneration for doing things for a day was only one meal, but they had no salary for working at home before, and they had to eat to get by, but now they just change places to work but have extra wages, how can they not actively participate?
The women of the freedmen, who had previously disobeyed the servants of the lords and would not mix with the serfs, now that they had mixed with the serfs, there were some minor frictions.
In particular, the students who worked as surveyors and distributed tools were all children of serf families.
When they talk to the freedfolk boys and girls in a friendly or ambiguous manner, the freedmen parents look at them with annoyance.
This anger was not unwarranted or simply class-discriminating, as in the case of the Qing Dynasty, according to Neustrian law, if a child of a freeman married a serf, he would become a serf.
Lost freedom forever.
How can this not worry parents?
Teenage boys and girls only have cute faces, friendly conversations, and hormones in their eyes, but their parents know the hardships of life!
The life of a freeman is very different from the life of a serf!
They can't let their children make such stupid mistakes!
Because the baroness went back and forth, and because the surveyors were in charge of their work, they could only scold their children and not express their frustration directly.
On the same day, some people who knew how to live with wine exchanged with others for bacon and cheese, and the wine was concentrated in the hands of a few people who were good at wine.
After the alcohol, the situation escalated with the help of alcohol.
Two students who were late to leave because they had to collect tools from the workers were beaten up by the people under the pretext of drinking.