"What's your name?"

Gil, the foreman, lay on the edge of the hearth, his body open comfortably, and he bit a piece of grass in his mouth. Beside him, the little boy was dealing with a basket full of rusks. By this time the boy had eaten his fill, but such an opportunity to eat was rare for a boy, so even if he was reluctant, the little boy was trying to shove the bread down his throat. Afraid that he would choke, Jill scooped half a bowl of water with a newly issued iron bowl and handed it over.

"I don't know your name yet," Jill continued.

"Renault," the little boy said indistinctly.

"Oh, Renault," Jill nodded, "I've heard the foreman talk about you, are you from the swamp?" ”

"My mom is, but my dad isn't, my dad is from somewhere else."

"Oh, why doesn't the foreman like you? I see a lot of children around here, but he is only annoyed when he sees you, what's going on? ”

"Because of my dad."

"Oh?"

"I don't know," Renault thumped his chest, swallowing a few mouthfuls of food stuffed in his esophagus, "My mom said my dad was a hero and could ride horses." Many years ago, my father went to my mother's village and married her. Mom said that people like Dad usually run away into the swamp when they commit crimes, because people like Dad have always eaten white bread and drank wine, but in the swamp they can only eat dried fish and drink fruit sour. ”

"Eun, didn't your mother say anything else? And how did you get here? ”

"Nothing else. I came here because the patriarch came to my house and said that an adult from outside had come to recruit workers. My dad could strike iron, and they told me to go with him, but my dad said he was going to stay in the swamp and couldn't walk. The patriarch took the money and must let him go, and then the fight started, that was more than a year ago, my dad cut a few people, I never knew my dad was so good at fighting. ”

"And then?"

"There were so many of them that my dad couldn't beat them and was driven away. My mom and I were brought here to work. ”

"Where are you from?"

"I don't know, I really don't know about this, sir, I walked a lot of roads, and I was beaten many times to get here."

"Oh, I see. You can eat something and go back, and then go and tell a few masters over there, and let them choose the whetstone and process it according to my machine. ”

"Yes, sir", Renault gulped a few sips of cold water, wiped his mouth and stood up, "Sir, can I bring back a few pieces back to my mother?" Renault gestured to the bread bars in the basket.

"Take it, take as much as you can." Jill closed his eyes, it was very hard to guide the craftsmen these days, although the foreman was responsive to Jill's requests, but it was still very laborious to explain some abstract things.

The foreman told Jill that there were seven more foremen on the site, and that the weekly allowance was paid according to the results of the work. The best foreman could get more than 900 dinars, while the worst group could only get 270. The foreman told Jill that as long as he didn't get the worst grades, he wouldn't lose money, or he would have to pay for himself. Although the price of goods in Nord is much cheaper than in Svadia, a foreman can only earn such a small amount of money, but Gil did not expect that when he was in Svadia White Pigeon Valley, the income was thousands of dinars per month.

The foreman told Jill that he was the foreman's star who paid 900 dinars a month.

Jill looked at the foreman suspiciously.

The foreman blushed a little and shouted: "Well, I can get 600 dinars a month"

Jill blinked.

The foreman, after being exposed several times in a row, finally admitted that Gil's wages were all taken from the pitiful 270 dinars.

"What's going on?" Jill asked curiously, "Why is it so miserable?" ”

"No way, our group has the least number of people, there are almost no people, and there is a shortage of craftsmen. But the adults watching the game don't care if you have such or such a disadvantage, they will see what your group can achieve. The results of the month-end settlement will give you the dinars. Therefore, people with deep pockets can make more money, while those with less money will be excluded", the foreman shook his head helplessly, "It's so cruel." I don't have a small salary, so I can't keep good craftsmen; Without a good craftsman, a beautiful job cannot be done; If you don't have a job, you don't have money, you see, it's a vicious circle."

At this time, Jill guessed that the foreman had come to him with other plans.

"What can I do?"

"I'm very impressed with your stone wheel, and if you have more of this kind of little invention, I think I might be able to turn it around, otherwise I would have to quit the construction site. But I don't reconcile, you know, when the dock is built, it's a place where business travel meets, and it's an endless opportunity and an endless dinar. I won't go until the last step."

Jill frowned, "Sir, I haven't known you for long, so there's no need for you to tell me all this." Although I am not a qualified businessman, I know that your situation is a trade secret, and if I leak the news that you have been losing money, then someone else is likely to squeeze you out of here. You don't have to tell me everything. ”

The foreman looked left and right, then closed the door, "Jill, I think it's necessary to tell you these things. I'm in the last stand, I'll tell you, it's my last fight to recruit artisans in the south, and I'm putting all my hopes on you. Now that I can see it, I'm going to put all my hope on you, and I hope you can help me. As long as I could squeeze out a foreman who was in a similar situation to me, my situation would be much better. There are too many people, there is not enough money, and it will be much better to squeeze out a few people."

Jill looked at the person in front of him, and he knew that he couldn't refuse this person, otherwise the foreman would embarrass him, and the end of being hated by his boss would generally be miserable.

"Good. I'd like to see who your men are, and show me their roster, okay? ”。

"Yes", after learning about Jill's cooperative attitude, the foreman was overjoyed.

The foreman told Jill to rest well and walked out. As he walked out of the room, two thugs who were drinking and flushed came over. The foreman was shocked, and hurriedly beckoned them out of the door, behind a deserted warehouse, "This guy has promised to help me, you help me to keep an eye on him, and let me know if he dares to have anything to do with other foremen." Also, don't hang around in front of him, it's not good for him to see you. ”

The two men glanced at each other and smiled at the foreman as they stretched out their hands to beg for money. The foreman took out his wallet a little unwillingly, pinched out a few coins and put them in the palm of the thug's hand, and suddenly grabbed them in his hand, "I don't give money in vain, you better keep an eye on it", after the explanation, the foreman finally reluctantly threw the coins out.

The two men staggered away, and the foreman looked around, and then went to find his own men.

After the foreman left, Renault sneaked into Jill's house. There, Renaud told him what he had heard the foreman say when he was just hiding in the warehouse.

Jill was skeptical: "I know you don't like him. You're not going to spread rumors because of this, are you? ”

"No, absolutely not", Renault made a gesture with his hand to cut his own neck, "if you lie, you will call me to death." He called two drunkards to keep an eye on you, and if you meet the other foremen, they will clean you up, and if you don't believe me, take a look around, and you will see them."

When Renault was about to say something, the foreman walked in and saw Renault here, and the foreman was stunned for a moment. In the past few days, the foreman has seen that this Jill likes this little boy very much. Although the little boy's father was annoyed by injuring several of the foreman's brothers, he still needed Jill at this time, so the foreman pretended to be intimate with Renault and rubbed Renault's face with his beard. Renault pushed his hand for a long time, pushed the foreman away, then winked at Jill and ran out of the room.

"Hehe, clever little ghost, I'll keep it for you to play with in the future. By the way, you asked me to find the list of craftsmen, I have found it, you can take a look", the foreman pulled out a yellowed roster from his bosom, "Oh, this is their list".

Jill took a brief look and saw that the foreman had four groups, and Jill was now the foreman of one of them. There were more than 20 to 30 people in each group, and their names were followed by descriptions of the professions of blacksmiths, carpenters, joiners, masons, and lacquerers.

Jill looked at it briefly, "Is there a variety of craftsmen in each group?" ”

"Well, each of these groups is a team in its own right. There are all craftsmen in each team, and they can handle whatever situation they encounter."

Jill offered to see how the men worked, and the foreman told Jill to go to a few workshops at any time. Jill suggested going now, fearing that the foreman would make his men rush to work with all their might because of the loss of face, resulting in false efficiency. What Jill wants to see is how these teams work in normal times.

The foreman led Jill to a carpentry room, where several carpenters were working on several sections of wood, and three work pits had been dug in the floor of the carpentry room, where several men were polishing the planks, and shiny shavings were falling everywhere. When a carpenter saw the foreman inspecting, he smiled and approached him, and the foreman asked him to talk to Jill.

When Jill asked them how fast they could process wood, the carpenter said, "A carpenter born in his profession can process six pieces a day, and others can process two or three pieces.

Jill asked something else. The carpenter was the foreman of the group, and he didn't know much about Jill's origins at this time, except that he had been the foreman a few days ago with a strange machine. This carpenter is already an old oilman, and he has no match for answering questions, and he is always thinking about going to the foreman.

Jill noticed it, so he didn't say anything more, smiled slightly, and said to the foreman that he could go somewhere else. The remaining two crews are working on iron nails and on ropes. These places are the same as the carpentry workshops, where the blacksmiths or rope workers are adept, and the amateurs can barely keep up, almost as apprentices.

Jill spent two hours looking at all of the foreman's belongings, and then said he could go back. On the way back, Jill looked left and right, and sure enough, he saw two fierce-faced guys behind a pile of bricks, these two people glanced at Jill from time to time, and after spotting Jill's gaze, they found an opportunity to slip away.

Jill bit her lip and stopped. The foreman followed from behind, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, let's keep going. I'll tell you what I think when I go back."

The foreman chatted with Jill for the night.

The next day, each group received a message from the foreman, "The foreman of the group remains unchanged, and all carpenters, joiners, and lacquerers belong to one group; Blacksmiths, armor makers, and axe makers are grouped together in one group''''''

The original four groups have now become six, and each group is no longer the one-size-fits-all team of the past, but has become a team with only one or two types of craftsmen.

This reorganization caused an uproar, and the various foremen unanimously opposed the reorganization. Such a reshuffle, once implemented, would cost the foremen a great deal of interest, and they would not sit idly by. When they heard that this plan was planned by Jill, the men threatened the foreman, "Either he will go, or we will go".

The foreman's determination was also affected at this time, "Do you want to do this, I'll ask each of them to transfer some people for you, and then you can use these people to try it first?" When the results are out, I will persuade them."

"Sir."

"Huh?"

"Do you still want to work hard every month and end up earning only 270 dinars?"

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The foremen waited for the foreman to compromise. Just as they got together and whispered and discussed how to play a grievance drama of seeking death and life, the foreman sent someone to inform the people: "The group will start immediately, if you don't want to do it, find the foreman to pay three months' wages and go home."

The craftsmen had little to do with the regrouping, except for the original foreman and a few of his cronies. The newly promoted foreman lacks prestige and has to consider an alliance with Gil.

Thanks to the absolute support of the foreman, the grouping of Gil was quickly completed.

In the midst of suspicion, the blacksmiths struck the workpiece in their hands with hammer after hammer, and no longer polished the planks as unfamiliarly as they had done before; As if by magic, the ropeman took the knot from the hand of the previous man, twisted it quickly, and then handed it to the next man to apply varnish; The carpenter's shavings are picked up before they hit the ground, and they are crushed and poured with clear gum to become the best binder.

The foreman was anxious and watched his team's results.

A month later, the team at the bottom of the 10,000-year-old team had grown on all projects, and the production of the most refined wood had almost doubled.

At the end of this month, the accountant of the construction site repeatedly checked the data, shook his head incredibly, and looked up at the foreman opposite more than once.

Eventually, the accountant realized that there was nothing wrong with the accounting, and had to hand over a wallet full of dinars.

This purse used to hold only 270 dinars, but now it has more than 600 at once.

"It's really a little too much to fit", the foreman floated away with a slightly drunk expression.