industrial lord

Chapter 59 A Promising Person

In the village in the pine forest, the thin smoke in the morning has not yet dissipated, and calmness quickly returned after a brief boiling.

The tax officials announced the tax policy of the village, and there must be no shortage of tax types, but each tax only needs to pay a piece of firewood that is higher than one's knees, regardless of thickness.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief at the symbolic tax, and one by one they took their tools and went up the mountain to cut firewood.

When Thomas found Frederick, he found him feeding the donkey next to Khozenpoloz's house.

This Ami donkey is a female, just grown up, Hozenploz built a small donkey shed with tree branches and smeared red mud, and tied it to a tree stump outside on weekdays to let it walk around.

Frederick put some fresh carrots and dried bean vines on the ground, and poured water from the well into a nearby trough, and the donkey immediately came over and bowed his head to eat.

Unlike cattle and sheep, donkeys have only one stomach, and it is best to feed them some crisp food. If they are fed soft food with a lot of crude fiber, such as wheat straw, it will easily cause intestinal obstruction.Moreover, donkeys have small intestines and stomachs, so donkeys cannot be fed too much at one time, as it will damage the stomach, so they can only eat three meals a day. .

Tarot stood aside and watched quietly, as if the little master was feeding the pet.

When Thomas came to the front, he saw Frederick touching the donkey's ear and said, "These ears seem to be rabbits... Ah!"

The donkey bit Frederick's finger in one bite, causing real damage.

Frederick and Thomas came to the top of the highest mountain nearby, where they could have a bird's-eye view of the entire village and surrounding terrain.

Along the way, Thomas revealed his development plan in its entirety, which was basically the same as what Hozenploz said yesterday, but in more detail.

"These pine trees are precious wealth!" Thomas said standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the bare pine forest. "Principal, I have a suggestion to manage all the pine forests here."

Frederick found a tree stump and sat down, resting his right hand on his knee and holding his chin, he asked, "Tell me what you think."

He felt that Thomas wanted to say the same thing as he thought.

Pine wood is very useful and can be used in construction, joinery, furniture, wooden pillars, ore pillars, sleepers and papermaking.

Rosin and turpentine can be extracted from turpentine. Rosin is currently used in soap, paint, construction, musical instrument maintenance, and depilation of livestock after slaughter. Turpentine is used in painting, paint, medicine and other fields. The future demand will not be small.

If there were no restrictions on felling, there would not be enough trees to cut down.

Thomas cleared his throat, found a pine tree beside him and said, "This pine tree is about the same age as the principal, and its trunk is not thick enough. It needs to grow for many years, and it will be suitable when it is 20 years old."

"If we cut down all the big and small trees in the past few years, before the new pine trees grow up, there will be no pine trees to cut down."

"My idea is to divide the pine forest into 20 parts and cut one part every year, so that we don't have to worry about not having any pine trees to cut down in the future."

Frederick desperately recalled the topic of pine trees that he had heard from his relative's worker—an old employee of the forest farm—when he ate lemon duck with his relatives in the Gaofeng Forest Farm in his previous life, and he didn't answer for a while.

Thomas felt that the principal was still young and did not have enough understanding of long-term planning, so he picked up a lot of pine needles and stuck them on the ground to demonstrate.

Frederick remembered something, and he said after he finished speaking: "I once heard a wandering scholar say that there was a family in his hometown who conducted experiments."

"A pine tree on a mountain starts cutting its resin when it is 13 years old, and when it is 23 years old, it cuts down the tree and sells it."

"The pine tree on the other mountain starts cutting resin at the age of 20, and cuts the tree to sell at the age of 30."

"Which one do you think is more profitable?"

Thomas' expression became serious in an instant. There was a legend about the wandering scholar in Wessenburg University. This scholar taught the principal a lot of things. Currently, there are microscopes, steelmaking, and medicine. No one knows what else.

He pondered for a long time, and finally said: "I think the mountain where the trees were cut for 30 years will be more profitable. After 10 years, the trees can grow thicker and be sold more expensively. Thicker trees also mean more turpentine. many."

Frederick nodded with satisfaction. The pine resin harvested at the age of 20 years increased by 13% compared with the resin harvested at the age of 50. The impact on tree growth was also smaller and the economic benefits were higher.

He was even more satisfied with Thomas in his heart, so he asked, "Is your wife not interested in getting an extra salary?"

An expression of surprise and excitement flashed across Thomas's face, he stood at attention immediately, and shouted solemnly, "Thank you, principal, for your cultivation!"

Frederick stroked his hair, and then said: "You should make a plan first, go around more, see more, ask more questions, think more, and use numbers to speak more. Whether you can receive a second salary depends on your ability."

"Don't slacken your work as the village chief, and deal with you if something goes wrong."

"By the way, what did you study?"

Thomas immediately replied: "Report to the principal, I study painting."

"Because it costs money to buy paint, I plan to find a job and save some money, and then go back to school when I have enough money."

Upon hearing this, Frederick said hastily, "You don't have to worry about studying. I'm going to start a correspondence education at the university. The target is students like you and BASF who don't have time to go back to school."

"Your student status is still retained, don't worry about being expelled, wait for the specific notice."

The matter of correspondence teaching was something he only thought of at this moment. In line with the principle of not giving up on a student, especially an art student, it should be convenient for students who cannot study full-time.

Thomas immediately said happily: "That's really great. In fact, there are many people who think the same as me."

Although they could not die of hunger after escaping from Constantbul, many students had no source of income, and life became difficult for many students.

There are role models who make money in school, but not everyone can do it.

In addition to magic, there are many students studying art, literature, and law in the university. Wesson will not have so many jobs for them for a while.

Just like Thomas, he couldn't even afford paints, and he couldn't sell his paintings.

Frederick said to him: "You tell them, don't worry, your studies and career are very promising."

"Our Wesson leader will upgrade four cities next year and expand the army. By then, many positions will be vacant."

"Some positions must be promoted by the original people, and they can only be the simplest jobs. Those who are interested can start from the grassroots like you."

"My territory is definitely not only this big, you understand what I mean?"

How could Thomas not understand.

The way out for many students in the future is to work for the nobles, and political sense is a must.

The best job for a painter like Thomas is to find an aristocrat as an investor or be hired as a family painter. If you get involved in this circle, you must understand the direction of the wind, at least know when to run away with a bucket.

Everyone understands the conflict between the Wesson family and the king, and has also inquired about the situation within the royal family.

Now King William is very old, the heir Rudolf is a weak guy, and Frederick's current performance is outstanding, the most important thing is that he is too young.

As long as Frederick boiled the king to death, it was time for complaints and complaints.

Without waiting for Thomas to answer, Frederick continued: "You take notes in the past, record your ideas for each job, the problems you encounter, how to deal with them, and the results, and make a summary, which will be useful in the future. "

Thomas agreed immediately.

Then Frederick chatted with him for a while about the difficulties faced by the village, and then they chatted all over the place.

(End of this chapter)