The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 405: Earning Comfortable Money for a Long Time

In order to recruit workers for Shen Youyou and others, the village head Tang Guangzheng specially convened a village meeting.

You have to know that Tang Guangzheng is a man who can be the head of the village and the successor to the patriarch of their Tang family in the future. It can be said that he has a great vision and a sense of the overall situation.

So Tang Guangzheng's first words were: "Today's meeting may be of great benefit to our entire clan, and even the entire village in the future."

"What?"

The villagers were all still confused. They didn't know what was going on. They had to hold another meeting, and they didn't know why the meeting was so serious today.

Tang Guangzheng continued, "The Jiuzu Hairpin Group across the river is hiring workers. They can pay five cents for making a hairpin. They also said that a skilled worker can make at least ten hairpins a day. Can you calculate how much money you can make in a day?"

Now they all looked excited: "That means I can earn fifty cents a day."

"Yes, that's one and a half taels of silver a month. How much is that in a year?"

"Ah! Eighteen taels a year!"

Oh, it's a good thing. Eighteen taels a year is enough to cover the grain earned from farming in a year, and the money saved after deducting food and drink.

Their village is one of the most land-rich.

In many villages, a family cannot save even ten taels of silver in a year.

Now you don’t even have to go out, you can earn money right at your doorstep, that’s really great.

Tang Guangzheng pressed his hand down to ask everyone to keep quiet. There were some things he had to say first: "They are hiring young wives and older girls. Those who are skillful and clever are preferred.

Although only one hundred people are recruited this time, it is mainly because they have no place to work for everyone. They will wait until next year when they can start building houses. They will probably have to open a workshop like Mr. Meng, and then more people will have the opportunity.

I must say this in advance. The hairpins they make are all valuable. In our Tangjia Village, perhaps some people in the past were greedy for small gains.

But I also tell you, when you work for others, you can’t be greedy for cheap things, you just have to earn your wages honestly.

When people make hairpins, they use pearls, copper threads, silver threads, etc. You can’t have any thoughts about them. If anyone does that, I will ask Jiu Gong to expel her whole family from the clan and drive them out of the village.”

"Mr. Lizheng, we are not like that. Don't always bring up our clan."

"Yes, Li Zheng, how can you expel an entire family because of one person?"

Tang Guangzheng looked serious: "Why do you think I set such a strict punishment?

You should not take it lightly. To be honest, they are willing to employ us because we are lucky. Their entire village happened to be assigned to our village.

In the future, whether they are recruiting workers for the shoe sole group or the hairpin group, we will have the opportunity to earn long-term and comfortable money at home.

This money is not like farming, you can get a guaranteed profit regardless of drought or flood. Their business is so booming. You can tell the number of carriages going across the river every day by the number of carriages going there.

If any of you are dishonest and greedy for small gains, and people no longer trust you and no longer need you, then you will be the enemy of the entire village, because it is because of you greedy for small gains that everyone loses the opportunity to make money.

Don’t think that because they are from our village, they must hire people from our village. With such a low salary and a little publicity, there will be many people from the surrounding villages who want to follow suit.”

It is said that Tang Guangzheng has a broad vision and pointed out all the tricks to everyone in advance.

The meaning is very clear. You are still being petty, right? You see other people's copper threads, silver threads, and pearls, and you think so much about them. If you hide them secretly, you won't be discovered, right?

But he has already laid out the punishment early on. When you really look at other people's valuable things and feel itchy, think about whether you can bear the consequences.

You know, in rural areas, this kind of thing is not uncommon. When you see that other people's vegetables are growing well in their fields, you would pick a handful of them behind their backs, or if you are using a needle or thread, you would want to take advantage of them. There are quite a few people like that.

These people are not really bad and hopeless. As I said before, they are not well educated. What seems to be against the moral bottom line to normal people is, in their eyes, "What's that? Is it that serious?"

This is the situation.

Therefore, as the head of a clan, you have to tell them clearly: "Yes, it is that serious!"

At this point, everyone in Tangjia Village was anxious: "No, no, we are all working honestly and we definitely don't covet other people's things."

"Yes, village head, we are not stupid. We are greedy for a short time, but it is not good to earn money at home for a long time!"

But Tang Wenzheng seemed to be afraid that everyone would not fully understand what he said, so he sighed and said, "As for you, just be happy in your heart that you have encountered such a good thing.

Without any strong labor or exertion, a young wife or a girl can earn 18 taels a year. What is there to be dissatisfied about?

So I advise you, don’t do it!”

He also repeated what Old Lady Hua had said at his home, such as that his daughter had skills and could hold her head high in her husband's family.

For example, maybe in the future you won't have a boy anymore, but you can still enjoy the blessing of a daughter.

"Old Thirteen, please stop talking. You're making me angry. I feel so sad when I think about how this good thing has been ruined. Now that everyone is here, I'll leave it at that.

If anyone dares to take advantage of others, act dishonestly, and bring trouble to my family, I will not let him off even if I sacrifice my old bones."

Once there was a leader, the other older and more senior people could no longer sit still. Even some young wives who loved to take advantage were named.

In short, I have to say: "No matter who is selected now, do your best. Don't think that this opportunity is yours forever.

I tell you that is impossible. If you have dirty hands and feet and have any ulterior motives, not only will the team leaders keep an eye on you, but all the workers will also keep an eye on you."

Dou also stood up at this time and said, "I would also like to say that there may be some situations that we have overlooked in a group of 25 people.

But I will take out silver from my wages, and if anyone does something shameless and someone reports it, I will reward them with one or two taels of silver, so don’t think that it’s just one person watching you, in fact, there are more than 20 people watching you.”

This really kills all unstable factors in the bud. It can be said that both the couple are talented.

The next step is recruiting workers. Regardless of whether you are an older girl or a young wife, those who have worked with silk flowers will be given priority.

Dou and Cen also came up with a few small tests, such as dividing silk threads, making small silk flowers with scraps of cloth from their own homes, etc.

Some people even brought their previously made embroidery works to Dou and his team for testing.

It can be said that the team leaders selected by Grandma Hua are really good and have a strong sense of responsibility.

At that time, Old Lady Hua also said that your own daughter-in-law can be chosen first.

But they didn't do that. Although someone in their family was chosen, it was chosen because of her real talent and dexterity, not just because she was their daughter.

For example, Tang Xin's mother and her aunt were not selected. Instead, Tang Xin was selected. This girl was selected because of her embroidery, not because she was good at embroidery, but because Tang Xin had many ideas and the color matching was particularly pleasing to the eye.