Chapter 353: Opening a Farm (2)
"Sage, the farm has been built, and the piglets, chickens, ducks, and geese have all been bought, do you want to take a look?"
Li Jing heard Ximenyang's report, calculated the time, more than a month has passed, and it is finally completed, of course he has to go to the acceptance.
Although, in theory, no one would dare to cut corners, who can guarantee that no one would dare to do so?
"Then let's go over and have a look."
Li Jing put down the official document in his hand and prepared to leave for Furong Garden.
"Sage, where are you going?"
Li Jing went out and happened to bump into him, holding a bunch of Shangguan Wan'er, Shangguan Wan'er was puzzled.
At this time, Li Jing is not working in the palace, what are you doing outside?
"I'm going to go to the Hibiscus Garden, I've built a farm there, do you want to go with me to take a look!"
Li Jing explained the situation to Shangguan Wan'er, and by the way, asked if she wanted to go together.
"Sage, what is a farm?"
Shangguan Wan'er was puzzled, it was the first time he had heard such a new word as farm, but just by listening to the word farm, he could roughly guess what the farm was for.
"It's a place to raise some poultry and livestock!"
Li Jing said with a smile.
"There are still a lot of things to deal with here, and the concubines are not interested in poultry and livestock, so they won't go with the saint to join in the fun!"
Shangguan Wan'er was not interested after hearing this, if she told her to enjoy the beautiful scenery and recite poems by the way, she was still interested in raising poultry and livestock, then forget it!
"Since you don't want to go, then I won't embarrass you, then you will have to deal with these sloppiness for me!"
Shangguan Wan'er was reluctant to go, and Li Jing was not reluctant, and after explaining a few words, she took Ximenyang and went straight to Furong Garden.
Soon, Li Jing and the others appeared on the farm, and at this time, chicken coops, duck coops, goose coops, rabbit nests and pigsties were built in the open space.
There are also several houses built next to it, which are used as living and lodging places for the employees of the farm, after all, these things need to be taken care of at all times.
Li Jing came to the farm and immediately convened a meeting of the employees of the farm, these are all employees recruited from the people, they are all from poor backgrounds, honest and responsible.
More importantly, they have raised poultry and livestock, and they have some experience in breeding.
"You are all employees recruited by me, and you know what your job is, so I won't say too much."
"You don't have to worry about coming here to work, you will work for nothing, you are not serving, all the employees of this farm can have wages and welfare subsidies."
Li Jing looked at the two dozen employees in front of him and said.
"Dare to ask the saint, what is this salary? Is it the same as the official? ”
One of them had the courage to ask, if he was really the same as an official, wouldn't that mean that he was also an official?
"No, it's just what you pay for working on the farm."
"I will choose one of you who will be the chief of the people, and the chief will be paid a fixed amount of money every month, and the others will be paid eight hundred dollars per month, and the wages will be paid at the end of each month."
"Each person has four days off per month, and you can arrange the rest time yourself, but it can't affect the farm."
"In addition, we will give you meat, rice and other daily necessities every month, which is considered a benefit for you, you work in the farm, and the food and accommodation are managed by the farm."
After Li Jing finished speaking, he looked at the two dozen people in front of him to see if there was anything unclear about them.
When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed, and they were so happy that they could not only eat and live here, but also get money, rice, meat and other goods.
"Please rest assured, the saints, we will definitely raise these animals well."
Some people took the lead in speaking, and others also said that they would work hard, otherwise they would be sorry for the wages given by the saints. 33
After listening to their words, Li Jing asked a few more times if there was anything he didn't understand, and when he saw that everyone said no, Li Jing nodded with satisfaction.
At the end of the lecture, Li Jing asked them to go to work and called Ximenyang aside.
"Go back and ask a skilled master to castrate these little piglets, only the castrated pigs can grow fast and fat."
"Whether you can eat fresh pork this year depends on these piglets, you have to pay a lot of attention to me."
Li Jing asked Ximenyang to invite a craftsman to come back, except for the breeding pigs, all the other boars were castrated!
"Sage, rest assured, the old slave will definitely invite the master with the best skills in the whole Chang'an City to castrate these piglets to ensure that these pigs are fat and strong!"
Ximenyang immediately patted his chest and said.
"These people are all workers on the farm, they work for the farm, you can't bully them like slaves, they are honest people."
Li Jing was worried that there would be palace people bullying these honest workers, so he said a few more words and reminded Ximen Yang to let him restrain the palace people and not let the palace people mess around.
"Rest assured, the old slave knows what to do, and he will never let them be wronged!"
Ximen Yang listened to his master's words, and sighed in his heart that his master was really kind-hearted, always thinking about the poor people, and it was really the luck of the people of the Tang Dynasty to have such a benevolent king.
"Just remember, man! If you have the ability or do more good deeds, you will be blessed, and they are not easy, they are honest and responsible, even if they are bullied, they will not be quiet. ”
Li Jing nodded and motioned to Ximenyang to hurry up.
Ximen Yang bowed, took a few steps back, turned to leave, and sent someone to invite all the best craftsmen in Chang'an City to come over and castrate the piglets.
Several craftsmen were soon invited to the farm, and after Ximen Yang explained the situation to them, their faces were not very good-looking, and none of them had castrated pigs.
I really don't know anything about how to castrate pigs, so let them castrate pigs, isn't it embarrassing!
But this is a royal errand, and they can't throw their sleeves away, and if they upset the saints, they will definitely suffer.
Perhaps Li Jing had already guessed that the craftsman didn't know how to castrate a pig at all, so he thoughtfully copied a method on how to castrate a pig from an encyclopedia and asked the waiter to send it.
After obtaining the castration technique, the craftsmen regarded it as a treasure, and immediately followed the method written above, studied it carefully, and began to work on the piglets.
The poor group of piglets, before they had time to grow up and feel the joy of growing up, a group of people started on their baskets.
From then on, their only thoughts were cut off.
After the matter here was over, Li Jing took Ximenyang back to Daming Palace, on the way back, Li Jing thought in his heart, what should he do next, now that someone has someone to help deal with government affairs, he has become very leisurely.
Some people died, but not completely......