Chastity Layman

  Chapter 737 Fu Chang Conscience

  He fantasized about how she would look wearing these jewelry, and his mouth was full of smiles. He followed the path that Zhuangtou brought him last time, found Pingkangfang Duke Wei's Mansion, and walked around to the side door.

   This is just a small gate of Duke Wei's mansion.

The Duke's Mansion of the State of Wei is as big and imposing as Chang'an City. There are thousands of cattle guards sent by the emperor to guard the gate. They are tall and burly, and the armor on their bodies is even more shiny. near.

  Even this small gate is guarded by servants of the Wei Mansion. These people are young and tall, and their clothes are uniform, neat and majestic. Each of them holds an eyebrow-level stick in his hand, standing there as straight as a gun.

"I'm Liu Youren from Erdaogou Village. I came to the mansion with Liu Zhuangtou last time. I'm here to see Steward Zhao..." Facing these majestic servants, Liu Youren was a little timid, Dry mouth.

  A servant guarding the door just looked at him a few times, and then shouted at the door, and a person came out.

   "Are you here to pick up the bride?"

   "That's right, I'm Liu Youren from Erdaogou, here to pick up Mrs. Zhang's third wife. Can you tell Guanshi Zhao and call them out?"

The one who came out of the room was also a young man, wearing a neat and dignified family uniform, he said with a smile, "Marriage is a big deal, there is no such haste, hurry up and follow me into the mansion first." He said again, "Congratulations, Brother Liu!"

   "Thank you, thank you." Usually Liu Youren was quite able to speak when he was in the village, but at this time he was very restrained. Suddenly he remembered that he had brought something with him, so he frantically went to get it, grabbed a lot of food and stuffed it into the servant's arms.

  The servant took it with a smile, and then gave a hand to the other two guards.

   "Originally we had a rule that we were not allowed to accept gifts, but you are here today to marry a wife and receive a relative. This is a great event, so we will accept these to make you happy. Come with me!"

After Liu Youren stepped into the door, he didn't dare to raise his head to look casually, even though it was only a side courtyard, he lowered his head and only stared at the servant's heels in front of him, followed him step by step, turned left and right for a long time, and came to the a yard.

"Officer Zhao, Liu Youren from Erdaogou is here to pick up the bride." Gao Ding reported to the room, and then smiled and put the food that Liu Youren gave just now on the table, "This is also invited by Brother Liu, everyone together Happy."

  There was a large group of people in the room, and when they saw it, they came up and took it out. Liu Youren saw it, and hurried to take out the things in his bag.

  The chubby Zhao Guanshi I met last time grabbed a few dried dates and looked at him with a smile, "A man depends on his clothes and a horse depends on his saddle, but this time he is much more energetic."

   "Today, my father-in-law asked specifically, saying that you are here and I will take you to see him. Come with me."

  When Liu Youren heard that he was going to meet Wei Guogong, his legs trembled in shock. He was the prime minister. In his eyes, Liu Zhuangtou, Manager Zhao, and the others were already extremely high-status people.

   "Don't worry, you can just say what the father-in-law asks later. If the answer is good, there may be a reward from the father-in-law."

  Pingkangfang Weiguo Gong's mansion is also hierarchical, but the atmosphere has always been relatively relaxed, and this is also because Qin Lang is a good-talking patriarch.

  When Zhao Guanshi led Liu Youren to the front hall, he saw Qin Lang for the first time.

At this time, Qin Lang was looking through the report. The Qin family had a huge property, and Qin Lang also relied on a group of stewards to take care of it. However, in order to avoid being deceived by his subordinates, Qin Lang selected some stewards and granted them the right to report secretly, so that he did not need to follow up. Instead of reporting to his superiors, he sent the reports directly to him. These reports were not even seen by his usual assistant management team.

  The effect of this secret report is still very good.

  Of course, Qin Lang has always been generous. Although there are many managements, they all have incentive policies, and if they have positions and shares, they will be rewarded. If they are investigated for corruption, the gains outweigh the losses.

   "Sanlang, Liu Youren from Erdaogou is here."

  Qin Lang raised his head and looked at the young man in front of him. He had read the profile of this man. He was twenty-two years old, a slave who worked very hard, and has now been released. He is a hired long-term worker of the Qin family.

   They all look like thirty-five or sixteen, dark and thin, with a slightly hunched back.

  People look at honesty.

   "Pour tea for Brother Liu and sit down."

Being called Brother Liu by Duke Wei himself, Liu Youren was almost moved to his knees. A cup of tea was served in front of him. He smelled the fragrance of the tea and the beautiful tea leaves that spread out from the cup. He had never drunk it well before. Tea, such a good tea has never been seen before.

  Tea is precious, that is to say, during the busy farming season, the village will only make some tea when it is harvested, but they also use crushed tea or cheap tea bricks, but that is enough for them to enjoy the aftertaste happily.

   "Thank you, Mr. Xiang, for the reward!"

  Qin Lang smiled, "There is no need to be so polite." He beckoned, "Go and call Mrs. Zhang, and the two children called together, saying that Xiao Liu is here."

  Liu Youren didn't even dare to touch that exquisite porcelain cup, for fear of getting it dirty. Such a porcelain cup must be very expensive.

   Seeing his restrained appearance, Qin Lang asked him about his past experience, the current situation in Erdao Zhuangzi, etc. When talking about these familiar things, Liu Youren gradually became less nervous.

   It can be heard from his tone that Liu Youren is extremely grateful to the Qin family and to him. Qin Lang has always been kind and lenient. As soon as the main customer law came out, he took the initiative to register and naturalize all the half-slaves and tenants in his family as customers, and hired them to work according to their own wishes. , or let them go.

  Even if the Qin family still has a very large number of slaves, those who have slave contracts in the Qin family and who have slave registration registered with the government, Qin Lang still often emphasizes that they should be treated kindly.

Although he can't change the slavery system of Datang, he still thinks that slaves should be treated better. This is to protect their basic human rights and not abuse them at will. In fact, in essence, it is just a way to protect property. Just like being kind to the cattle and horses at home.

  Many landlord families are actually kind to slaves. After all, slaves are precious private property, which are more valuable like cattle and horses. Once they are injured or die, they will lose a lot.

  However, Qin Lang's kind treatment is still somewhat different. After all, he is not an aborigine of this era, and it is still difficult to treat him like a human being or an animal in his mind.

He advocated not to use whips and sticks to drive slaves to work, but proposed a plan to set rewards for different tasks, to formulate more reasonable tasks for slaves of different jobs in advance, and then score them according to the degree of completion. If you do well, you will be rewarded. There is a penalty.

  Depending on the situation, the rewards range from things like food to money, cumulative rewards and freedom.

  This is actually the same as future generations of bosses giving employees equity incentives. With this reward hanging, it will naturally mobilize enthusiasm.

The Qin family has a big business and a large number of slaves, and the number of slaves is increasing every year. After Qin Lang set the ultimate reward for the slaves to be free, the number of slaves released for one year is actually very small. Compared with the huge number, Less than one hundred.

   But the effect is extremely obvious.

   And what Qin Lang wanted was this kind of effect, treating slaves like pigs and dogs, Qin Lang felt that this was a backward method, and it would be better to give enough incentives and incentives, the effect would be better.

  He pays attention to efficiency. If slaves do things negatively, even if they are whipped and punished with starvation, it will only increase management costs and may cause additional losses such as the death of slaves.

Now it is changed to incentives, giving food, money, or even better treatment until freedom, etc. This is certainly an expense, but it is a reasonable management cost, and the resulting efficiency improvement will inevitably bring better benefits. This is worth it no matter what, and you can also get an extra good reputation such as benevolence, why not do it?

   For those who were too rebellious, the Qin family chose to resell them directly.

  Qin Lang is not that sage, not a purely good person, because he himself cannot change the slavery system, and he also engages in the slave trade.

   To Qin Lang, this is just a more cost-effective and more effective management method, but to Liu Youren and others, this is as benevolent as the Heavenly King Bodhisattva.

   Mrs. Zhang came in with her two children. She was a woman with gray hair, very thin, with a yellow face, she looked like she was about forty, and her hands were thick.

  After Liu Youren saw her, his eyes were satisfied.

   Mrs. Zhang is also quietly looking at Liu Youren, and seems to be equally satisfied with this husband.

  Two hard-working people form a new family.

  People in the Tang Dynasty did not have the custom of going to the hall to get married, nor the rules of entering the bridal chamber. The traditional custom is to get married at dusk, meet the uncle (in-law), have a wedding banquet, and set up a green tent in the courtyard at night, and spend the night in the courtyard first.

  Wedding clothes are also red men and dolls.

  It is very lively for the top wealthy family or the royal bride, and the dowry is even more costly, and the relatives of the same clan have to add dowry to give the marriage.

  For example, when the princesses of the Tang Dynasty got married, the most extravagant ones in history spent more than five million guan, and several of them spent a million guan. Marrying a beloved daughter can empty the treasury.

  Qin Lang saw that both parties were very satisfied, so he gave wine and food, and asked the two to worship at Duke Wei's mansion to get married. Qin Lang and Yu Xiao acted as witnesses and elders of both parties, watching the ceremony and getting married.

  At the end, each of them gave a red envelope. It was the first time for Yuxiao and Yu Xuanji to participate in such a servant's wedding. They thought it was very novel, so they generously rewarded some money, silk cloth, etc.

Qin Lang simply established a new rule. From now on, the servants and maidservants in the mansion will choose the best and release a batch every year, and introduce matching pairs for the young unmarried releases. The Qin family will hold a simple wedding for them, and give the man a thousand dollars , ask him to make a wedding ceremony, give the woman a thousand dollars, ask her to make a dowry, and give each of them a new set of clothes, etc.

  Although the money is not much, it can be regarded as a blessing to them, allowing them to start a new life.

   "Saburo is really kind-hearted."

  Qin Lang smiled, spending thousands of dollars, but in exchange for the loyalty of the two, it was actually very worthwhile.

  (end of this chapter)