The section of the road that Zhou Man was in charge of was going very fast. It was scheduled for ten days, but it was finished on the eighth day. It was just that it was too late, and there were still a dozen steps left before the ground was finished, so the next morning had to be done. for a while.
Wu Wulang didn't rush back to the city at all, he shared a bunk with the three foremen to sleep, and lit a fire in the field to chat with them.
"Is the rice seed sprouting now?"
"Almost, but there is less rain this year, and my land is dry. I don't know if I have planted it yet."
"This time is just right. When I go back, I can level the field and the seedlings can be planted when they grow up."
Zhou Wulang looked up at the stars all over the sky, and sighed: "The stars are too bright, and tomorrow will be another sunny day."
"It's not good on a sunny day. The road has just been repaired, so it needs to be in the sun for two days. After the sun is hard, it will not be damaged when people walk and livestock walk."
Zhou Wulang looked at them like a fool, "It's a drought in spring, do the math, how many times has it rained since Long looked up?"
"twice?"
After such a calculation, everyone was shocked.
Wu Wulang said: "Last year when Qin Tianjian said that our Central Plains and the south would have a snowstorm, our husband said that there would be a drought in the spring of next year, and it did."
Everyone is not in a good mood, after all, everyone relies on farming for food.
Wu Wulang said: "So I reckoned that if we need to use water to plant the rice seedlings, we will have to wait a bit later."
"Wait till it rains?"
"Wait a minute, even if it doesn't rain here, it will definitely rain elsewhere," he said, "When the water from the Wei River comes up, it will be easier for us to irrigate."
Everyone thinks so too.
Zhou Wulang took the opportunity to ask: "Anyway, there is still some time before the spring planting, what are you going to do next?"
Everyone was puzzled: "Go home and level the land."
"The wheat seedlings have also turned green. The wheat seedlings that survived the snowstorm last year have grown very well. If weeding carefully, even if the rice cannot be planted, there will be a lot of wheat harvest."
So there are still a lot of things to do, such as farm work, I really have work in my eyes, and I can do it twelve months a year.
There is no work in my eyes, the grass grows taller than the wheat seedlings, and people still think it is not the time for farming.
Wu Wulang touched his nose, and said directly: "Anyway, there is still time, do you want to stay for a few more days to build roads?"
Not only the three foremen, but also the people sitting beside them were startled. They looked at Wu Lang in disbelief. We regarded you as a brother and a good person, but you actually wanted to prolong our labor, oppress us, and exploit us. …
"The following section of the road should be in charge of Her Royal Highness. She gave me money to find someone to do the work. I've done the math. If you do it with me, I'll pay you fifty cents a day. Three meals a day, I can even ask someone to bring the stones for paving the floor here, we don’t have to pull them ourselves. How about it, do you want to do it?” Wu Wulang looked at them with winks.
The above shock and anger dissipated in an instant, and the foreman thought about it seriously, and asked, "Give me the money after the job is done?"
Wu Wulang nodded and promised: "All settlements will be settled on the day when it is completed. By the way, if you want to, you can return it to me. I will count you an extra twenty cents a day."
The three of them became more and more excited, and looked at the folks behind them.
They can be foremen because their family is very prestigious in Tongli, so their attitude is very important.
The three of them didn't immediately agree, but said, "We have to discuss it."
"Okay!" Wu Wulang said: "Give me a promise tomorrow. If you are willing to stay, I will definitely not treat you badly. If you don't want to stay, I don't blame it. I will go to the outer west city to find people who are missing later. .”
There are a lot of people from other places who set up a shed to beg for a living in the capital. They can work as long as they are paid.
The three foremen shuttled among their own people, and after a night of discussion, most of them stayed behind. Only a dozen or so foremen had to go back to do farm work because of the small number of families, so they chose to go home.
Wu Wulang cheered up, so that his subordinates are all familiar people, the key is that they are also familiar with road construction, and the speed will be faster.
Wu Wulang said: "You guys go home to meet your family today, and come back tomorrow morning, and I will go find some more people, and gather 300 people. If the speed is fast enough, maybe it can be completed in seven or eight days. "
When the three foremen heard this, their eyes flickered, and they pulled him aside and said, "Don't look for it yet, why don't we go back to the village to look for someone, maybe someone is willing to come?"
"That's right, they are all familiar with each other in the same village, and they are also taken care of when doing work."
The 300 people who have come so far are not from the same village, but from three villages. One of the villages only selected 70 households, and they must have relatives in other villages. This job can be done by acquaintances .
After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Wulang nodded in agreement.
So everyone smashed the rest of the road and packed up their things and dispersed.
Before leaving, the foreman asked Wu Wulang to confirm, "This is considered a ten-day service order."
Zhou Wulang nodded, "Yes, counting ten days, I will report to the county government tomorrow."
Only then did everyone leave in peace.
Sure enough, they brought people the next day, making up for those who had left, no more, no less, exactly 300 people.
Wu Wulang breathed a sigh of relief, and led them to continue to build the road they built yesterday.
Bai Erlang ran to take a look, and saw that they were divided into three groups, and three road sections were built at the same time, at an extremely fast speed.
He stood next to Zhou Wulang, and praised: "Okay, Brother Wu, it's very large."
It was also the first time for Wu Lang to take care of so many people, and he was very proud, "It's okay, it's okay."
Bai Erlang asked, "How long will it take to repair this section of the road?"
"Ten days at most, at least." Wu Wulang looked around and whispered, "I gave 20,000 yuan to the people at the quarry, and they will bring the stones to us every day."
It will be much faster that way.
Bai Erlang did the math, and asked puzzled, "How much do they spend on food for a day?"
Wu Wulang said: "It probably costs eight or nine Wen per person."
After all, there must be meat, and what you do is hard work, so you eat a lot.
Bai Erlang: "...then what money do you earn?"
He and Mingda gave him 200,000 yuan.
Wu Wulang said with a serious face: "You just wait, I will definitely make money."
Even if you don't make money, you shouldn't lose money, right
Zhou Wulang swallowed his saliva, but he was a little guilty. Did he get paid more? Or less with Bai Erlang and the others
Facts have proved that the loss is not a loss, because with the efforts of the quarry to deliver the stones, everyone has experience again, and because of the wages, everyone works harder. The road was repaired outside the new city at noon on the sixth day. It is connected with the main road outside the new city.
Wu Wulang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately picked ten people to drive the bullock carts to the workshop to bring the money over. Once the road was repaired, he confirmed that there was no problem, and asked people to move the money down.
He took out a sling of money from the basket and said: "Look at it, everyone. This sling is one thousand dollars. I will send it directly to your foreman, and your foreman will take it back and send it to you."
It was the first time for the villagers to see so much money, and they gathered around these baskets, their eyes sparkling.