When night falls, lanterns are lit on the stakes, and the whole courtyard is lit up. The villagers wore heavy padded jackets and did not need chairs, so they stood in a circle around the table and ate happily. Li Mu cleared his throat, as the protagonist of tonight, he wanted to say a few words. He said with a good word: "Folks......"

All eyes fell on him. He continued: "First of all, I would like to thank all the villagers for their help, otherwise this house would not have been completed so quickly. Secondly, I have a good thing to tell you. As we all know, I Li Mu slept for more than a year, and the first thing I did when I woke up was to sell my ancestral property. ”

"Haha!" the villagers burst into laughter.

"The eldest nephew of the Li family, who hasn't saved up two or three acres of farmland for several lifetimes? Look at you again, who would dare to say that you have ruined your ancestral property now after tossing such a big mansion out of the month?"

The villagers coaxed again, Li Mu pressed his hand, and waited for everyone to calm down before he smiled and said: "I am going to set up a 'bait processing factory', as the name suggests, it is a place to make bait." The address was chosen in the small thatched house of my family, and there were about seven or eight people in the early stage, men and women were not limited, and women were preferred. Three hundred silver dollars per person per month......"

When Li Mu said this, the courtyard immediately exploded, and the men and women in the entire courtyard noisily shot their eyes to the village chief, as if asking him about the authenticity of this matter. The village chief and Li Mu looked at each other, and he knew that Li Mu would not say these words in vain, so he stood up and shouted: "Quiet, all quiet!" ”

The scene was controlled in an instant, Li Mu secretly gave the village chief a thumbs up, this old guy usually doesn't have a good job, but it works at a critical moment.

Li Mu began to count the accounts for the villagers with his fingers: "Three hundred wen a month, three thousand six hundred wen a year, a small four taels of silver." How much can you harvest in a year with your face to the loess and your backs to the sky?"

The villagers looked at him verbosity, and a few of them urged him with loud voices: "Brother Amu, just say it quickly, do you think my mother-in-law is okay? She doesn't want 300 wen a month, just 200 wen......

"Wang Laosan, what do you mean! My mother-in-law is also a worker, and she only needs 200 yuan. ”

"I only need one hundred and eighty wen!"

"I see who is making any more noise, go home if you are arguing!" The village chief raised his eyebrows, and the villagers immediately became shorter, not daring to speak again.

Li Mu smiled: "You don't have to lower the price, let alone save money." I said that 300 wen per month will be 300 wen, and I will not give a penny less. However, there are only a few people in the bait processing plant, so I plan to divide them evenly among families. Don't worry, listen to me. In addition to the bait processing plant, I also plan to go on a long boat voyage to catch fish, which requires a lot of manpower. Those who go to sea with me will have at least 500 wen per month, which is the basic salary. Then a commission will be given according to the catch caught by the fishing boat......"

Glancing up at the villagers, seeing that they were looking at themselves in the middle of the period, obviously they didn't understand the concept of commission, he held his forehead and thought for a while, and said, "The basic salary of five hundred Wen is fixed." I will reward 50 wen for a ton of fish caught at sea, and this 50 wen should be divided equally among the people on the boat, and whoever does more will get more, and those who steal and play tricks will take less. 500 wen plus the equal share of money is your monthly income. Well done, it's easy to earn a tael of silver a month. ”

Whoever is not tempted by such conditions is a fool, but going to sea is also very dangerous!

Li Mu seemed to see through everyone's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Anyone who works for me has an accident, I will compensate his family." For example, in the event of a typhoon...... Well, Demon Wind, if he dies, I will give his family a one-time compensation of twenty taels of silver. Disabled, scrapped, I not only compensate him but also provide for his old age. In order to show my sincerity, I first took out five hundred taels of silver and pressed it on the hands of the village chief, and even if I wanted to cheat at that time, Uncle Dali would administer justice to everyone. ”

The villagers were happy now, and their original worries were swept away. The village chief frowned, and the wrinkles on his face were almost piled up. He stood up and pulled the corner of Li Mu's clothes, and said in a low voice: "Ah Mu, uncle knows that you want to help the people in the village get rid of poverty and become rich, but you will suffer too much in this way." ”

Li Mu patted the village chief on the back, signaled him to be calm, and then said to the villagers: "I also plan to choose a desert island in the open sea, build a base, and then need someone to stay on the island to work, about five days a month, and spend the rest of the time on the island." Correspondingly, the retained personnel also get the most money, with an income of one or two pieces of silver every month. ”

Wang Tianzhuang was the first to stand up and say: "Amu, I'll follow you." ”

The village chief glanced at his son and didn't speak, and Erxi also stood up and said: "Amu, count me as a brother." ”

Yang Gen's old goods are full of heart, as the so-called 'people are old and cunning, rabbits are old and eagles are difficult to take'. When he saw that Tianzhuang and Erxi, the two people who had the best relationship with Li Mu on weekdays, had gone, it must have been a good thing. He himself had a leg problem and could not work, so he helped his two sons register. One after another, the villagers expressed their willingness to follow Li Mu to the sea.

Originally, Li Mu thought that if he wanted to change their thinking, he would need to spend a lot of time, and even make some concessions, such as better benefits, but he didn't expect it to be so easy.

Li Mu told the villagers that anyone who wanted to go to sea to make money should sign a contract with the village chief, and no one could repay the debt, and he would get the fishing boat back the day after tomorrow, and then go to sea.

The villagers cheered noisily, and Wan Niang sighed faintly: The husband's stupid illness is not yet cured.

Next, the villagers who were in a good mood pushed their cups and changed their cups, and after a while, they drank several of them. What surprised Li Mu was the attitude of the villagers, they used to have a lukewarm attitude towards Li Mu, but now it is completely different. I don't know who opened the head, shouted 'Dongjia', and then those who planned to work with Li Mu called away, the owner of the family was short, and Li Mu, who was called, felt like a landlord and old wealth.

Tonight's feast was enjoyed by the guests and hosts. Early the next morning, Li Mu went to the shipyard. The shipyard was the same as the last time he came, with the workers leaning on the beach and bragging, spitting on the stars. When the owner of the shipyard saw Li Mu, he immediately ran over and told him that the boat he wanted had been built and tested the water, and there was no problem at all.

Li Mu followed the owner to see his fishing boat. This huge creature is five stories high, about ten zhang (about 35 meters) long, according to the owner, this fishing boat carries 500 stone (about 30 tons), it is the largest fishing boat in the history of the Great Xia Empire, there is no one. It takes at least five people to get it moving, and at least twenty people if it's fastest.

Coming to the bottom of the fishing boat, there was a dense crowd of gears, Li Mu's shocked expression was seen by the owner, this little old man looked very similar to Fu Shan of the Great Snow Mountain, and his thin figure seemed to be able to blow him away with a gust of wind, but his skill was really not covered.

"It's a masterpiece of heaven. Li Mu did not hesitate to praise him, he underestimated the world too much, he didn't expect that there would be gears in this world at all. He touched the hardness of the gear, it was very hard, and couldn't help but ask the owner: "What kind of material is this gear made of?"

The owner couldn't hide the pride on his face: "It's an alloy, the metal I personally researched, more durable than steel, if the fishing boat breaks down because of gear failure, you can come to me to settle accounts." ”

Li Mu patted the owner on the shoulder, and ordered four more such fishing boats, and gave him a total of six hundred and fifty taels in advance plus the final payment, and the owner couldn't see it with a smile on the silver ticket.

The owner asked for the address and sent someone to send the boat over. Li Mu came out of the shipyard and went to Liu's mansion, and when he found Liu Luo, he opened his mouth to borrow money. Liu Luo was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I said third brother, you can borrow five thousand taels for Zhang Yihui?"

Li Mu twitched the corners of his mouth, it was really a bit hurtful to talk about money with this kind of local tyrant, but fortunately, Liu Luo immediately gave him a comfort: "You said five thousand is five thousand, and the five thousand taels will be deducted from your future dividends, and you don't need to pay it back." By the way, the caravan has collected fifteen carts of cattle and five wagons of corn as you commanded, and is now on its way back. Do you know how much it cost?"

Li Mu's heart was instantly raised to his throat, and Liu Luo sighed: "Twenty cars, a total of twenty-two taels of silver was spent." Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Staying for lunch, Li Mu was ready to go home, before going out of the city, he thought twice, went to Qianzhuang again, exchanged one hundred taels of silver, and then returned to Xichao Village. By the time he returned, the fishing boat had already arrived.

When this large fishing boat appeared in front of Erxi, the old fisherman who had been fishing for half his life almost stared out his eyes, and he pointed to the fishing boat and stammered for a long time without saying anything.

Subsequently, Li Mu invited Erxi to the fishing boat and asked him to make an assessment of the fishing boat as a whole, and Erxi gave a very professional suggestion: this fishing boat needs at least fifty fishermen.

Li Mu felt that this number was a little scary at first, but then he calculated the salary, and the daily salary of fifty people was less than two taels of silver, so he was immediately relieved. He handed over the task of recruiting fishermen to Erxi, and told him to go to sea in two days, let him go to buy fishing nets and other fishing gear, and then he stuffed Erxi with a silver ticket of 500 taels and went home to sleep.

Erxi looked at the silver ticket in his hand in a daze, is there such an irresponsible captain?

Two days later, I went to sea on time, and in a blink of an eye, it was the third day......