Chapter 133: Appointment and Wishes
How does Watanabe know how much salary he should ask for? He has never farmed before. After all, all the fields in their village are owned by the village chief.
He grazes cattle in the village, and the village chief also sends him some food every once in a while. Sometimes the horses are sold for a good price, and a few rewards are given to them.
But since the tax increase, he can't even eat enough food, let alone have a surplus.
So after Xu Lai agreed to provide him with three meals a day, Watanabe carefully raised a finger and said, "How about giving him 1 gold coin every year?"
Watanabe knew that he was not popular here in Xu, so he did not dare to raise the price. The purchasing power of one gold coin was already quite strong. After saving for about ten years, he could probably buy a little mare.
After that, just take care of the little mare and let her give birth to a foal.
Don’t be too many, give birth to one horse a year, and after ten years of birth, he will be rich.
And Watanabe has also calculated that a few of the little bastards in the mine will definitely appear in the next two years.
Watanabe estimated that with Xu Lai's character, it would be impossible to allocate houses and land to these little bastards. When the time comes, he can hire these little bastards to help him farm.
He eats Xu Lai's food, and he doesn't consume anything anyway. He gives Xu Lai 30% of the food grown in the land, and gives the little bastard another 30%, leaving him with 40%.
In this case, his plan to buy a filly may be advanced several years.
The purchasing power of one gold coin is indeed very strong. A pack horse only costs 2 or 30 gold coins. One gold coin must be worth at least several hundred yuan.
Xu Lai has never seen someone like Watanabe with an annual salary of several hundred. Those puppet-like farmers can still pay tribute of 1 gold a month.
Xu Lai sneered, "No more than a year. I will give you one gold coin every month. You help me take good care of these horses. Every time you help me train a war horse, I will also reward you with an extra one." Gold coins.”
Watanabe swallowed and said: "Master Hero, are you serious?"
Xu Lai snorted and said: "I give you one gold coin a year, which is barely enough for you to change a few sets of clothes. Can you help me seriously with this salary?
The worst of my horses are grassland horses, and the proportion of war horses exceeds two-thirds. If you take care of any one of them, I will die. .
Anyway, remember it, I never treat my own people badly, but you have to be honest with me. If you want to be a horse thief or a bandit like before, I will send you to dig for the rest of your life. Mine."
Watanabe swore repeatedly that he had a good life and never wanted to be a horse thief again in his life.
He even said that even if it is digging in a hole, it is a bit harder, but it is also more practical than a horse thief.
Xu Lai lets him say whatever he wants, but he won’t believe a word of such nonsense anyway.
After spending a whole morning, Xu Lai finally counted all the existing household registrations in the town. Not counting Urdola and the others, there were a total of 39 households with 45 people.
Most of these people are women, and there is a natural gap between their speed and ability to grow food and that of men.
But Xu Lai still has a lot of antelope skins and horse skins in his hand, which can be taken out and handed over to these women for processing.
Of course, for this kind of thing, Xu Lai doesn't need to come forward in person. Today he just wants to get to know the people under his rule, but it doesn't mean that he will spend all his energy on such trivial matters in the future.
The two stewards Xu Lai chose were Little Aboka and Aaron, who were left by him.
However, after taking them for a walk in the morning, little Aiboka, who had several years of management experience, actually gave Xu Lai some suggestions, but Aaron remained silent from beginning to end.
Xu Lai had a strong idea in his mind. His core assets were soldiers and farmers who had no second thoughts. He could not leave these assets to outsiders to manage.
Therefore, Su Ya will not be let out. These are the deputies and managers around him.
As for Yu Lan and the others, their minds are not complete and they only understand their own professions. It would be enough to let them manage the corresponding warriors, but it may not be appropriate to use them.
At most, Yu Lan surprised Xu Lai. He planned to let Yu Lan work as his secretary to assist him and Su Ya.
In addition, Xu Lai also had a bad taste in mind that the secretary had done something wrong, but there was no need to tell Yu Lan about this idea.
As for the locals in the small town, Xu Lai still wants to give priority to the management of the locals. At least there will be no conflict between their folk customs, culture and systems.
Of course, even if it is left to local people to manage, it still needs someone who Xu Lai can completely trust. Currently, there is no one else in this position except Su Ya.
This is another big reason why Xu Lai wants to transfer Yu Lan to be his secretary. If Su Ya is given everything, she won't be able to manage it at all. Someone must help her share the burden.
The person in charge of Xu's choice was Urdola at first. However, Urdola still has her own family in a big city in the southwest, so she may not be able to stay with him with peace of mind.
In addition, Knight Tahan is the guard captain appointed by Xu Lai, so it is not like that he has been following Wei Yihong and others on business trips.
Xu Lai wanted Urdola to become the guard captain of the caravan. It just so happened that he had been in a mercenary group before, so he should be familiar with guard work.
Now after running with him a few times and establishing a certain level of trust between the two parties, Xu Lai can let him form the team.
The leaders of the caravan are naturally Wei Yihong and Da Aiboka. In the future, when the scale increases, it can be divided into two caravans. This is the only channel for Qingfeng Town to communicate with the outside world at present. Xu Lai definitely cannot let it go, and it even takes priority over town construction.
After these two people gave up, Xu Lai only had two candidates. He deliberately brought them with him this morning, and asked for advice from time to time.
Among the two people, Xu Lai liked Aaron more, but he had always been taciturn. Even if Xu Lai asked him, he would only say that he did not understand.
Little Aiboka is relatively smoother, especially his eyes, which are constantly scanning the key parts of the group of women.
These women have no assets, and the clothes they wear are all stolen from copycats. They basically don't fit well, and there will inevitably be leaks.
In addition, they were extremely grateful to Xu Lai, wishing that Xu Lai could devote themselves to him with just one look, so of course they would not take it too seriously.
In fact, not to mention little Aiboka, even Xu Lai himself has been keeping a secret eye.
It’s just that Xu Lai is capable of doing this kind of thing, and if you, Aiboka, do the same, Xu Lai will feel unhappy.
Little Aiboka said he was young just to distinguish him from his elder brother. His real age is over 30 years old, which is several years older than Xu Lai.
Although he successfully served as the captain of the caravan guard with the help of his brother, he himself is also a fourth-level trainee knight, good at spears, swords and shields.
What's more, he and his brother Big Eboka were captured and tortured by horse thieves. They lost their master's goods and had no way out. In this way, they didn't take refuge in the horse thieves. Their character is still worthy of Xu Lai's trust. .
"Xiao Ai, you also know that we are in troubled times now. I have to do my best to develop the military. I don't have much time to manage matters related to people's livelihood."
Xiao Ai. Aiboka's eyes lit up, knowing that today's highlight was about to come. This morning, he witnessed with his own eyes that his eldest brother was appointed as the deputy director of the caravan, and Urdora was appointed as the guard captain.
And Xu Lai has always taken him and Aaron with him, and obviously he should also entrust them with important responsibilities.
That's what Xu Lai calls them. They are always so nondescript as Lao Wu and Xiao Ai.
"Your Excellency, if you have anything to tell us, just tell us to do it."
Xu Lai nodded and said: "I do have two errands for you, Xiao Ai , I want you to be the assistant mayor of Qingfeng Town, responsible for coordinating and communicating with the townspeople and solving practical difficulties for them.
Normally, you only need to be responsible to the deputy mayor Su Ya and follow her arrangements. To properly plan and allocate the townspeople. "
There is no such position as an assistant mayor in the other world. An ordinary small town only has a mayor, and there may not even be a deputy mayor. At most, there will be someone sent by the lord. Just the tax collector and the sheriff.
Xu Lai is a self-appointed position and will not be recognized by the empire.
But now that the empire has collapsed and the administrative system has completely collapsed, no one will rashly take over the jurisdiction of Pingfeng Grassland, a place where the Western Empire and the Northern Empire meet.
Besides, no matter how powerful the mayor is, he cannot manage a small town with just a few people. He still needs some helpers.
It is impossible for little Aiboka to become the mayor as soon as he comes. He also knows that he must be working as a helper, and Xu Lai also gave him a title, which is relatively good. Attentive.
“Thank you for your trust. I will definitely assist Deputy Mayor Su in managing the town.”
Xu Lai asked again: "So, according to your previous position, how much is your monthly salary?"
Little Aiboka hesitated for a moment and said: "I used to be the captain of the caravan's guard. It's a dangerous job. On average, the monthly salary plus subsidy can be more than 30 gold coins.
But now there is no need to go out and there is no danger. The average mayor's monthly salary is only about 20 gold coins. , it is very reasonable for you to pay half of our mayor’s salary.”
In fact, whether it was the guard captain he worked for before or the mayor of the town, the salary only accounted for part of their income.
The mayor can do whatever he wants, and a little bit of greed can lead to a lot of gray income.
As the captain of the guard, he brought some of his personal goods with him every time he went on a business trip, and he made a lot of money by selling them several times.
However, these incomes are not on the table. In addition, Xu Lai has been a life-saving grace to their brothers, and little Aiboka is embarrassed to say this.
“Well, the town is still under construction, and money is indeed needed everywhere.
Ten gold coins are too little, let’s give it 15, each of you will take 15 gold coins. When the house is enough, each of you will be assigned a house.
Aaron, you are a sharpshooter. There is now a sentry tower in the town that you will be responsible for. In addition, you can work harder and serve as a small guard. Sheriff of the town
In the future, the population in the town will increase, and Su Ya, including them, will gradually get out of these government affairs.
When the time comes, Xiao Ai, you will take on the responsibility of the mayor, and so will you, Aaron. Later, when there are more people, you can personally recruit some helpers. You can set the salary yourself below ten gold. What do you think? ”
(End of this chapter)