From the gate of heaven
Chapter 68 [Standing, and making money! 】
Chapter 68 [Standing, and making money! 】
On the side, Lin Ze watched the miners eat, and listened to the miners whispering, but definitely felt from the heart, and felt a little comfortable.
The miners were satisfied with their jobs and with him as their boss.
Digging hard allows him to get more salary, and also creates more profits for his boss.
This is a win-win situation!
This is called, stand up, and earn money!
After confirming that all the miners had eaten smoothly, Lin Ze went to eat here.
In the afternoon, Lin Ze discussed the bookkeeping process with many scholars and dealt with some trivial matters, while the miners were working hard on mining.
Soon, it was time for the coal to be stored in the evening.
In front of the spacious warehouse, there are many desks scattered, and there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the desks.
One by one, the readers are already getting ready, sitting behind their desks and preparing to register the coal that is about to be put into storage.
After making preparations here, Lin Ze asked Jia Ding to beat the gong to inform the miners that the coal could be loaded and weighed.
Under Lin Ze's gaze, a miner soon came over with two large baskets of pitch-black coal.
"Everyone, don't crowd. A coal digging team will register with a gentleman, and the coal mining team will also register with the same gentleman to avoid confusion."
Lin Ze shouted loudly.
Now there are 615 miners, and there are 123 coal mining teams in groups of five, and each scholar is responsible for the registration of five or six coal mining teams.
Right now, this job is very easy, and it will be completed in a while. When there are more miners in the future, these scholars will also have to get busy.
The mine protection team also began to get busy at this time, and began to cooperate with the miners themselves to weigh the coal, and then removed the weight of the basket.
"Zhao Si of the tenth coal digging group, 130 three catties and four taels."
During this process, the bookkeeping scholars are also watching the weighing process.
After inquiring about the group, he directly wrote down the names of the miners in the entire group and the corresponding quantity in the ledger.
In addition, the scholar also wrote a receipt to the miner.
On the receipt, there are ten groups of 130 three catties and four liang and the name of the bookkeeper.
Afterwards, Zhao Si of the tenth coal digging team picked the coal into the warehouse, showed the receipt to Lin Ze, took a look at the number, and then dumped the coal.
After that, the miners went back to picking coal and putting it into storage.
Because the mining area is not far from the warehouse, a group of miners here are picking, and another group of miners are filling the empty baskets. The whole process of transportation seems to be very fast.
During the coal weighing process, there were the miner himself, the mine protection team who was favored by Lin Ze, and the scholars who were purely recording the role.
This ensures that it is difficult for the three parties to collude as much as possible.
Once the weighing numbers are wrong, it is easy to make a fuss, and Lin Ze can quickly find out the problem and solve it.
When it was finally put into the warehouse, Lin Ze glanced at the receipt, recorded the amount of coal put into the warehouse, and then checked with the account books of the scholar to further confirm that there was no problem.
Once this model is confirmed to be feasible, the coal storage will be carried out in this way in the future. Lin Ze will find other people who can count and read to take over what he is doing now, and just keep an eye on the storage quantity at the warehouse.
A mature enterprise can operate without problems without the boss.
Only in this way can the boss take his energy away from the trivial matters of management, and continue to develop more careers or enjoy life.
Of course, if you don't have the idea to expand your business and want to find something to do, it's okay to manage your own property yourself.
-
Next, the entire process of registration and warehousing is carried out in accordance with this mode.
Before dark, the entire coal storage process was finally completely completed.
The miners went to take a shower, change clothes and eat, and some mine protection teams were in charge of supervising their queuing in the cafeteria.
The level of dinner has dropped compared to noon. There is no separate meat dish, but the fried vegetables are still rich in fat and salt. These miners are not dissatisfied with what they eat.
But the follow-up will not be like today. Today is a special case when the canteen has just opened, and the meal ticket system has not yet been implemented.
In the future, we will try our best to achieve the same standard for three meals a day, so that those who eat with meal tickets can enjoy the same level at any time, instead of one good meal and one bad meal.
Here, 24 scholars took their own account books and reconciled with Lin Ze to confirm that there was no problem.
Finally, a figure was obtained. The 615 miners dug a total of 135.3 million catties of coal, and the average miner weighed almost 2200 catties.
In conversion, the output of coal mines today is 676.5 tons of coal.
It sounds okay, but compared to the large coal mines in the main world that produce tens of thousands of tons of coal a day, it's not even a fraction.
This is the difference between manpower and mechanization.
Lin Ze needs to pay 67.65 taels of silver for the coal.
This output is higher than the estimated average of [-] catties per person per day, because Lin Ze's high-standard food treatment has inspired many miners.
This is because they only accelerated their efforts for a while in the afternoon. If they dig coal with all their strength tomorrow, the output can be further increased.
After reconciling the accounts, Lin Ze came to the cafeteria and announced loudly: "The results of the big guys are very good today. A total of more than 130 jin of coal has been dug. Meal tickets are not required for today's meal, but meal tickets will be needed from tomorrow."
"So after everyone has finished eating, come to me to collect the meal tickets."
"Because the coal mine has just opened, everyone is not familiar with it, so the daily salary is temporarily implemented, but it is very troublesome to do so, so everyone should be considerate. After the coal mine is on the right track, it will start to switch to monthly salary. At that time, everyone will have a holiday."
After speaking, Lin Ze went to prepare money.
Not long after, some miners came to Lin Ze to receive their wages and meal tickets after eating.
The meal ticket was handwritten by Lin Ze mobilizing scholars in the morning, and it had the words "One meal at the coal mine cafeteria of Heishi Village with the ticket" on it, and it was also stamped with Lin Ze's seal.
It doesn't take much trouble for many scholars to do it together, and it is completed in less than a hundred pages by one person.
Lin Ze has already asked people to do the engraving, and all the meal tickets will be printed later, and all they need to do is stamp it.
"Come on, Zhao Si, the total amount of coal your team dug today is 540 catties. According to the settlement of 21 catties for one penny, the total is [-] Wen, which is [-] Wen per person. These are [-] meal tickets for your team, and you can share them equally."
"Meal tickets can be used by yourself. If you don't run out, you can use them for your family members. Of course, you can also add meals to yourself. Remember not to lose them. If you recognize the ticket, you will not recognize the person. If you lose it, you need to spend fifteen yuan to eat in the cafeteria."
"The extra [-] catties of coal have been credited to your group, and you will pay for the extra meal tickets once a month."
Lin Ze smiled and gave the first group wages and meal tickets with broken silver and copper coins.
"Thank you, Master Lin, thank you, Master Lin!"
The five miners in the tenth group received full wages and meal tickets, and suddenly felt unbelievable as if in a dream.
Lin Ze didn't deduct their wages, but actually paid them in full.
Based on this alone, in this different world where the per capita ratio is worse, it is already a representative of conscience.
This also attracted the heartfelt gratitude of the miners, who kept bowing and thanking.
"Okay, let's go home. Come to work early tomorrow. If you don't want to go home, you can ask the manager of the dormitory for the bench and find a room to sleep by yourself."
"Don't delay other people from collecting money here."
Lin Ze opened his mouth to drive people away, and continued to send money to others.
Zhao Si and the others finished thanking again and again, and then happily left with the money.
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing immediate rewards after a hard day's work.
In the next period of time, the entire coal mine was filled with an atmosphere of joy.
And when these miners went home and showed their wives and children the wages they received, they brought this happy atmosphere back home.
That night, many families near Fenglin Township were talking about how good Mr. Lin is.
People looked in the direction of the coal mine with longing and hope in their eyes, without the fear of eating human flesh and blood like looking at other mines.
-
"It's really easy to satisfy."
Wages and meal tickets were settled for the last group of coal miners.
Lin Ze muttered to himself as he looked at the men who left happily.
Happiness is contagious. Everyone is in a good mood, and Lin Ze is also in a good mood at the moment.
This can also be regarded as proof that he made a corner of the world a little bit better when he was making money.
Instruct the servants and the mine guard team to keep an eye on the warehouse, and leave some people to take turns patrolling at night.
Lin Ze ate in the cafeteria, and his physical strength recovered a lot.
So, I made up for the morning exercise that I missed this morning in the empty meeting room that no one noticed.
After practicing a set of boxing techniques, the whole body is full of energy and blood, and the inner breath has increased slightly.
After that, I took a shower and didn't go back to the city.
After taking more than ten minutes to go back to the main world to process the information, Lin Ze lit a plate of mosquito coils, installed the sensor, put the gun by his pillow, and fell asleep in the factory director's office.
The main reason is that there are four goblins who grind people's blood in the family.
One goblin's ability to charm is extremely strong, let alone four.
Lin Ze felt that he could not be overwhelmed by desire, but he was not very confident in his self-control, so he decided to live in the mine tonight.
Directly use the distance of space to block the temptation of goblins and avoid the flow of essence and blood.
A good night's sleep and nothing happened.
Early the next morning, Lin Ze woke up refreshed and went directly to the meeting room for morning exercises.
The young man's body recovered very quickly. Yesterday he still looked like he had been hollowed out, but now he has become vigorous.
After the practice was completed, Lin Ze asked his servant to call for hot water and finished washing himself.
Later, I saw many miners coming to the cafeteria to eat early in the morning.
The cooks in the cafeteria went to bed very early last night, and they got up very early to cook today, and they were ready at dawn.
The price is that a lot of coal is used for lighting.
Of course, this is allowed by Lin Ze.
Lin Ze led the mine guard team to maintain order in the cafeteria, and said loudly: "Everyone listen carefully, you need a meal ticket for today's meal, and you can get one dish with a ticket. The meal can still be continued indefinitely, but if you want to eat more vegetables and meat, you need to pay more meal tickets."
There is probably a count of how many meal tickets Lin Ze has sent out, and these cooks have to hand in the meal tickets for accounting.
If the number of meal tickets does not match the amount of ingredients consumed, it is time for Lin Ze to trouble them, so there is no need to worry about these cooks messing around.
In order to prevent someone from not understanding and not hearing, Lin Ze repeated the rules several times in a row.
Many miners listened carefully, and then said loudly: "Understood, Master Lin."
Many miners started to eat vegetables and found that today's food standard is still very high, and there is no intention of dropping.
Therefore, everyone has a higher enthusiasm for today's work.
Many miners ate and got their tools ready to go to work.
Then I found that there were new tools distributed today, such as masks, earplugs and sweat towels.
The mine guards in charge of the distribution explained the function of these things according to Lin Ze's previous instructions, and warned that they must be worn as told by Master Lin, otherwise it would be very harmful to the body in the case of long-term mining.
"Don't worry, since it's Master Lin's intention, it must be done."
Many miners agreed.
As the day passed, Lin Ze had established prestige in the hearts of these miners.
Although they were not used to wearing earplugs and masks, and didn't feel that digging a hole normally would cause any harm to their bodies, they still obediently followed suit.
That's what prestige does.
-
In the next few days, Lin Ze will occasionally find time to return to the main world to process news.
At other times, he still lives in the mine.
While supervising the normal operation of the mine, I checked and filled in some missing places.
At the same time, let the invited scholars teach the servants arithmetic and simple characters, and train their own servants to be independent.
On the second day after the coal mine began to operate, the big guys were mining efficiently all day, and the output reached a new high. The per capita output reached 2400 jin, and the total output reached 738 tons.
On the third day, everyone’s mining cooperation became more proficient, and they took the initiative to extend their working hours. The per capita output reached 2600 jin, and the total output was 799.5 tons.
However, this has temporarily reached the limit. Based on the current physical fitness of these miners, unless the working hours are greatly extended, it should be difficult to increase the per capita daily output.
For some time to come, with the continuation of mining and sufficient food supply, the bodies of these miners will become stronger and stronger.
At that time, the daily output of each miner can increase a little more, perhaps reaching or even exceeding [-] jin.
Three days later, the coal in the warehouse gradually began to pile up, with a total of more than [-] tons, and Lin Ze's money was also spent like running water.
But fortunately, the time for the shipment to return to blood has come.
The fourth day when the coal mine officially started operation was also the agreed delivery time.
In the early morning, Lin Ze had just finished his morning exercise when he heard a noise.
Walking out of the meeting room, I looked up and saw a crowd of people.
(End of this chapter)
On the side, Lin Ze watched the miners eat, and listened to the miners whispering, but definitely felt from the heart, and felt a little comfortable.
The miners were satisfied with their jobs and with him as their boss.
Digging hard allows him to get more salary, and also creates more profits for his boss.
This is a win-win situation!
This is called, stand up, and earn money!
After confirming that all the miners had eaten smoothly, Lin Ze went to eat here.
In the afternoon, Lin Ze discussed the bookkeeping process with many scholars and dealt with some trivial matters, while the miners were working hard on mining.
Soon, it was time for the coal to be stored in the evening.
In front of the spacious warehouse, there are many desks scattered, and there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the desks.
One by one, the readers are already getting ready, sitting behind their desks and preparing to register the coal that is about to be put into storage.
After making preparations here, Lin Ze asked Jia Ding to beat the gong to inform the miners that the coal could be loaded and weighed.
Under Lin Ze's gaze, a miner soon came over with two large baskets of pitch-black coal.
"Everyone, don't crowd. A coal digging team will register with a gentleman, and the coal mining team will also register with the same gentleman to avoid confusion."
Lin Ze shouted loudly.
Now there are 615 miners, and there are 123 coal mining teams in groups of five, and each scholar is responsible for the registration of five or six coal mining teams.
Right now, this job is very easy, and it will be completed in a while. When there are more miners in the future, these scholars will also have to get busy.
The mine protection team also began to get busy at this time, and began to cooperate with the miners themselves to weigh the coal, and then removed the weight of the basket.
"Zhao Si of the tenth coal digging group, 130 three catties and four taels."
During this process, the bookkeeping scholars are also watching the weighing process.
After inquiring about the group, he directly wrote down the names of the miners in the entire group and the corresponding quantity in the ledger.
In addition, the scholar also wrote a receipt to the miner.
On the receipt, there are ten groups of 130 three catties and four liang and the name of the bookkeeper.
Afterwards, Zhao Si of the tenth coal digging team picked the coal into the warehouse, showed the receipt to Lin Ze, took a look at the number, and then dumped the coal.
After that, the miners went back to picking coal and putting it into storage.
Because the mining area is not far from the warehouse, a group of miners here are picking, and another group of miners are filling the empty baskets. The whole process of transportation seems to be very fast.
During the coal weighing process, there were the miner himself, the mine protection team who was favored by Lin Ze, and the scholars who were purely recording the role.
This ensures that it is difficult for the three parties to collude as much as possible.
Once the weighing numbers are wrong, it is easy to make a fuss, and Lin Ze can quickly find out the problem and solve it.
When it was finally put into the warehouse, Lin Ze glanced at the receipt, recorded the amount of coal put into the warehouse, and then checked with the account books of the scholar to further confirm that there was no problem.
Once this model is confirmed to be feasible, the coal storage will be carried out in this way in the future. Lin Ze will find other people who can count and read to take over what he is doing now, and just keep an eye on the storage quantity at the warehouse.
A mature enterprise can operate without problems without the boss.
Only in this way can the boss take his energy away from the trivial matters of management, and continue to develop more careers or enjoy life.
Of course, if you don't have the idea to expand your business and want to find something to do, it's okay to manage your own property yourself.
-
Next, the entire process of registration and warehousing is carried out in accordance with this mode.
Before dark, the entire coal storage process was finally completely completed.
The miners went to take a shower, change clothes and eat, and some mine protection teams were in charge of supervising their queuing in the cafeteria.
The level of dinner has dropped compared to noon. There is no separate meat dish, but the fried vegetables are still rich in fat and salt. These miners are not dissatisfied with what they eat.
But the follow-up will not be like today. Today is a special case when the canteen has just opened, and the meal ticket system has not yet been implemented.
In the future, we will try our best to achieve the same standard for three meals a day, so that those who eat with meal tickets can enjoy the same level at any time, instead of one good meal and one bad meal.
Here, 24 scholars took their own account books and reconciled with Lin Ze to confirm that there was no problem.
Finally, a figure was obtained. The 615 miners dug a total of 135.3 million catties of coal, and the average miner weighed almost 2200 catties.
In conversion, the output of coal mines today is 676.5 tons of coal.
It sounds okay, but compared to the large coal mines in the main world that produce tens of thousands of tons of coal a day, it's not even a fraction.
This is the difference between manpower and mechanization.
Lin Ze needs to pay 67.65 taels of silver for the coal.
This output is higher than the estimated average of [-] catties per person per day, because Lin Ze's high-standard food treatment has inspired many miners.
This is because they only accelerated their efforts for a while in the afternoon. If they dig coal with all their strength tomorrow, the output can be further increased.
After reconciling the accounts, Lin Ze came to the cafeteria and announced loudly: "The results of the big guys are very good today. A total of more than 130 jin of coal has been dug. Meal tickets are not required for today's meal, but meal tickets will be needed from tomorrow."
"So after everyone has finished eating, come to me to collect the meal tickets."
"Because the coal mine has just opened, everyone is not familiar with it, so the daily salary is temporarily implemented, but it is very troublesome to do so, so everyone should be considerate. After the coal mine is on the right track, it will start to switch to monthly salary. At that time, everyone will have a holiday."
After speaking, Lin Ze went to prepare money.
Not long after, some miners came to Lin Ze to receive their wages and meal tickets after eating.
The meal ticket was handwritten by Lin Ze mobilizing scholars in the morning, and it had the words "One meal at the coal mine cafeteria of Heishi Village with the ticket" on it, and it was also stamped with Lin Ze's seal.
It doesn't take much trouble for many scholars to do it together, and it is completed in less than a hundred pages by one person.
Lin Ze has already asked people to do the engraving, and all the meal tickets will be printed later, and all they need to do is stamp it.
"Come on, Zhao Si, the total amount of coal your team dug today is 540 catties. According to the settlement of 21 catties for one penny, the total is [-] Wen, which is [-] Wen per person. These are [-] meal tickets for your team, and you can share them equally."
"Meal tickets can be used by yourself. If you don't run out, you can use them for your family members. Of course, you can also add meals to yourself. Remember not to lose them. If you recognize the ticket, you will not recognize the person. If you lose it, you need to spend fifteen yuan to eat in the cafeteria."
"The extra [-] catties of coal have been credited to your group, and you will pay for the extra meal tickets once a month."
Lin Ze smiled and gave the first group wages and meal tickets with broken silver and copper coins.
"Thank you, Master Lin, thank you, Master Lin!"
The five miners in the tenth group received full wages and meal tickets, and suddenly felt unbelievable as if in a dream.
Lin Ze didn't deduct their wages, but actually paid them in full.
Based on this alone, in this different world where the per capita ratio is worse, it is already a representative of conscience.
This also attracted the heartfelt gratitude of the miners, who kept bowing and thanking.
"Okay, let's go home. Come to work early tomorrow. If you don't want to go home, you can ask the manager of the dormitory for the bench and find a room to sleep by yourself."
"Don't delay other people from collecting money here."
Lin Ze opened his mouth to drive people away, and continued to send money to others.
Zhao Si and the others finished thanking again and again, and then happily left with the money.
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing immediate rewards after a hard day's work.
In the next period of time, the entire coal mine was filled with an atmosphere of joy.
And when these miners went home and showed their wives and children the wages they received, they brought this happy atmosphere back home.
That night, many families near Fenglin Township were talking about how good Mr. Lin is.
People looked in the direction of the coal mine with longing and hope in their eyes, without the fear of eating human flesh and blood like looking at other mines.
-
"It's really easy to satisfy."
Wages and meal tickets were settled for the last group of coal miners.
Lin Ze muttered to himself as he looked at the men who left happily.
Happiness is contagious. Everyone is in a good mood, and Lin Ze is also in a good mood at the moment.
This can also be regarded as proof that he made a corner of the world a little bit better when he was making money.
Instruct the servants and the mine guard team to keep an eye on the warehouse, and leave some people to take turns patrolling at night.
Lin Ze ate in the cafeteria, and his physical strength recovered a lot.
So, I made up for the morning exercise that I missed this morning in the empty meeting room that no one noticed.
After practicing a set of boxing techniques, the whole body is full of energy and blood, and the inner breath has increased slightly.
After that, I took a shower and didn't go back to the city.
After taking more than ten minutes to go back to the main world to process the information, Lin Ze lit a plate of mosquito coils, installed the sensor, put the gun by his pillow, and fell asleep in the factory director's office.
The main reason is that there are four goblins who grind people's blood in the family.
One goblin's ability to charm is extremely strong, let alone four.
Lin Ze felt that he could not be overwhelmed by desire, but he was not very confident in his self-control, so he decided to live in the mine tonight.
Directly use the distance of space to block the temptation of goblins and avoid the flow of essence and blood.
A good night's sleep and nothing happened.
Early the next morning, Lin Ze woke up refreshed and went directly to the meeting room for morning exercises.
The young man's body recovered very quickly. Yesterday he still looked like he had been hollowed out, but now he has become vigorous.
After the practice was completed, Lin Ze asked his servant to call for hot water and finished washing himself.
Later, I saw many miners coming to the cafeteria to eat early in the morning.
The cooks in the cafeteria went to bed very early last night, and they got up very early to cook today, and they were ready at dawn.
The price is that a lot of coal is used for lighting.
Of course, this is allowed by Lin Ze.
Lin Ze led the mine guard team to maintain order in the cafeteria, and said loudly: "Everyone listen carefully, you need a meal ticket for today's meal, and you can get one dish with a ticket. The meal can still be continued indefinitely, but if you want to eat more vegetables and meat, you need to pay more meal tickets."
There is probably a count of how many meal tickets Lin Ze has sent out, and these cooks have to hand in the meal tickets for accounting.
If the number of meal tickets does not match the amount of ingredients consumed, it is time for Lin Ze to trouble them, so there is no need to worry about these cooks messing around.
In order to prevent someone from not understanding and not hearing, Lin Ze repeated the rules several times in a row.
Many miners listened carefully, and then said loudly: "Understood, Master Lin."
Many miners started to eat vegetables and found that today's food standard is still very high, and there is no intention of dropping.
Therefore, everyone has a higher enthusiasm for today's work.
Many miners ate and got their tools ready to go to work.
Then I found that there were new tools distributed today, such as masks, earplugs and sweat towels.
The mine guards in charge of the distribution explained the function of these things according to Lin Ze's previous instructions, and warned that they must be worn as told by Master Lin, otherwise it would be very harmful to the body in the case of long-term mining.
"Don't worry, since it's Master Lin's intention, it must be done."
Many miners agreed.
As the day passed, Lin Ze had established prestige in the hearts of these miners.
Although they were not used to wearing earplugs and masks, and didn't feel that digging a hole normally would cause any harm to their bodies, they still obediently followed suit.
That's what prestige does.
-
In the next few days, Lin Ze will occasionally find time to return to the main world to process news.
At other times, he still lives in the mine.
While supervising the normal operation of the mine, I checked and filled in some missing places.
At the same time, let the invited scholars teach the servants arithmetic and simple characters, and train their own servants to be independent.
On the second day after the coal mine began to operate, the big guys were mining efficiently all day, and the output reached a new high. The per capita output reached 2400 jin, and the total output reached 738 tons.
On the third day, everyone’s mining cooperation became more proficient, and they took the initiative to extend their working hours. The per capita output reached 2600 jin, and the total output was 799.5 tons.
However, this has temporarily reached the limit. Based on the current physical fitness of these miners, unless the working hours are greatly extended, it should be difficult to increase the per capita daily output.
For some time to come, with the continuation of mining and sufficient food supply, the bodies of these miners will become stronger and stronger.
At that time, the daily output of each miner can increase a little more, perhaps reaching or even exceeding [-] jin.
Three days later, the coal in the warehouse gradually began to pile up, with a total of more than [-] tons, and Lin Ze's money was also spent like running water.
But fortunately, the time for the shipment to return to blood has come.
The fourth day when the coal mine officially started operation was also the agreed delivery time.
In the early morning, Lin Ze had just finished his morning exercise when he heard a noise.
Walking out of the meeting room, I looked up and saw a crowd of people.
(End of this chapter)
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