The next day, Xu Jingchen got up early and couldn't wait for Li Jinglan to send someone to deliver the rules and regulations.

He led the three Taoists to the main courtyard.

They were only in the yard and did not enter the small flower hall.

Today is August 16th, and the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is over.

Lu Bozhou and Zhou Jin went to work in the imperial city before dawn. The Wang brothers went to the weaving house to get their official uniforms and patches, and then went to the Ministry of Personnel to fill out a lot of paperwork, and then received the documents for the handover of official seals and their personal seals.

Official uniforms and patches are not allowed to be purchased or produced outside. The first time you get them, you can get them for free, and the second time you get a minimum of two hundred taels of silver.

Zhou Tuanjin and the Wang sisters sat next to Li Jinglan.

Lu Guanyu was also sitting nearby, with a stern face and a serious expression.

"Next month is the Double Ninth Festival. We need to prepare the items needed for the festival and return to Xishui Village to visit the lonely, elderly and weak. Please give me a plan for these specific matters. After I approve it, ask the eldest girl to give us money and start making preparations."

After talking about the key things the family needs to do next month, Li Jinglan began to make decisions on some minor matters.

Xu Jingchen was listening carefully outside.

I heard something different.

He has seen several sisters-in-law and brothers' wives handling housework at home.

Completely different from Li Jinglan.

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law at home will assign things to someone.

Who should do what and who should not do what must be instructed in every detail.

Li Jinglan only gave instructions to the department, then made a specific request to the department and asked the head of the department whether it could be completed.

If the head of the department says that it can be accomplished, Li Jinglan only asks the head to provide a written plan, and the matter will not be discussed further.

If you promise to do something but fail to fulfill it, there is a set of monetary penalties.

Xu Jingchen listened thoughtfully.

People kept coming in and out of the small flower hall, and Xu Jingchen discovered another strange thing.

It seemed like these people were three people going in and out together.

There are never just one or two people.

Xu Jingchen called out to a male servant: "What do you do, young man?"

The male servant cupped his hands and said, "In reply to the Taoist priest, the three of us are the leaders of the kitchen and workshop purchasing team, and we are here to report to the eldest lady."

"Are you three all responsible?" Xu Jingchen felt that the Lu family's servants were a bit redundant.

"In addition to the three of us, our team has a total of 15 people who do specific work. Our team is not only responsible for purchasing for the kitchen at home, but also for purchasing and wholesale for the canning workshop."

The canning workshop needs a large amount of vegetables and fruits every day, which they not only have to purchase in the capital, but also from surrounding counties.

It can indeed be put together with the kitchen purchases at home.

Xu Jingchen thought it was very reasonable.

But when he asked another group and found out that this group was furniture maintenance and also consisted of three people, he was really confused.

“Why are all the groups composed of three people?”

In the small flower hall, servants came in and out, and finally only one group of people was left.

This group is responsible for the construction and sale of houses in Nanli County.

"How is the sale of the house?" Li Jinglan asked them.

Most of Li Jinglan's current servants were recruited from Xishui Village.

After a year of literacy training, some villagers in Xishui Village can understand the rules and regulations.

Li Jinglan will invite anyone who can read the rules and regulations smoothly and perform well in the workshop to come to her home to serve as department head.

Give them a day off every few days to allow them to go home and reunite.

Li Jinglan now has two workshops.

One is the Furong Noodle Workshop. After Xu Xianzhi withdrew his shares, Li Jinglan redistributed the shares. Now she takes the majority, Liu takes the minority, and the Nanli County Government and the Confucian Academy maintain their previous shares unchanged.

The other was a canning workshop, which was split 70% and 30% between Li Jinglan and Lu Guanyu.

These two workshops are almost equivalent to her manager training base.

Li Jinglan manages the household according to the company's structure.

She and Lu Bozhou are the chairmen, and under them are the heads of various departments.

She only reports to the department head, and doesn't care about the employees unless they report the problem to her.

When employees didn’t do their job well, she only reprimanded the department head.

The house-building team produced a sales report.

After reading it, Li Jinglan was quite satisfied: "The second batch is selling well too."

The person in charge smiled and said, "Now many people come to us to ask us to build houses. If we can keep doing this, it will be easy to make several thousand taels every year."

Magistrate Xu of Nanli County agreed with the idea of ​​purchasing the house and demolishing it to rebuild it.

The houses were renovated and rebuilt, and the streets were clean and tidy, which only brought benefits and no harm to County Magistrate Xu.

The people of the Lu family never bully others by taking advantage of their power, and they always do business through negotiation.

There was no reason for County Magistrate Xu to object.

Soon, the house-building team also went out.

When Li Jinglan was about to talk to the Wang sisters, Xu Jingchen's voice was heard outside.

"Madam, are you free now?"

Li Jinglan had a screen erected to hide the people behind. She walked in front of the screen and said, "Master, please come in."

Xu Jingchen led three Taoists in.

But he saw Li Jinglan standing in front of a screen with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum patterns.

The sunlight passed through the window lattice, most of which fell on Li Jinglan's face and body, making her look calm and elegant.

Xu Jingchen greeted Li Jinglan, then sat down sideways. "Just now I was listening to the eldest lady's instructions in the courtyard, and I didn't dare to disturb her."

Li Jinglan knew that Xu Jingchen wanted to see the rules and regulations, so she pointed to the table and said, "They are all here."

Xu Jingchen lowered his head and took a breath: "There are so many books?"

"In fact, each book only has a dozen pages. My servants are just beginning to learn to read, and small characters will hinder their reading. When I asked someone to copy it, I wrote it in large characters."

Xu Jingchen picked up the regulations book and opened it.

The font is really large, and reading is not difficult at all.

After reading the first line, Xu Jingchen's eyes narrowed slightly: "I want to ask you, Madam, why do you use three people for all positions?"

Li Jinglan smiled: "Master, have you ever heard the story of one monk carrying water to drink, two monks carrying water to drink, and three monks having no water to drink?"

Xu Jingchen retorted: "If there is no water to drink, why do you need three people?"

"Because these three people will monitor each other, be jealous of each other, and sabotage each other."

Labor is very cheap in this world, so cheap that if you only provide three meals a day and eat meat every other day, people will be willing to die for you.

There is no need for an efficient management mechanism at all.

She just needs to make sure these people understand what to do and then supervise each other.

If there is only one person in this position, this person will definitely find loopholes in the system and the money embezzled will be several times more than if three persons in charge were appointed.

Now there are three people, and this person has to find a way to deal with the other two before he can embezzle.

As for wages?

Zhao Zhengyi and his wife and Lu Sheng and his wife were housekeepers, and each couple received an annual salary of more than twenty taels of silver.

An ordinary servant could earn 100 coins a month for three meals.

Li Jinglan's workshop and real estate businesses can easily support the servants in the family.

"Every six years, these people will move to a new position. They won't stay in the same position for long."

Seeing Xu Jingchen's thoughtful expression, Li Jinglan was afraid that he would really listen to it and use it in the army, which would kill many people.

He smiled and said: "These small systems can prevent corruption at home, but they can only hinder the army. Military orders need to be enforced, not to blame each other and undermine each other."

Xu Jingchen raised his eyebrows and looked up at Li Jinglan.

Li Jinglan raised her lips slightly, her eyes sparkling, "Look at how thoughtful I am. How could the people in the army take these things of mine seriously?"

Xu Jingchen smiled and picked up the regulations book: "Goodbye."

The military can use it for logistics procurement and salary payment.

Three people work together and supervise each other.

It can prevent a lot of corruption.

The amount of corruption in the military was not just a few hundred or a thousand taels, but hundreds of thousands of taels.

A war would cost several million taels of silver, and a small portion of it would go into one's own pocket.

At this time, Aunt Zhao, accompanied by Xi Que and two maids, walked along the corridor towards the main courtyard.

Last night, Wang Zhenyan and Wang Yongqing kowtowed outside the courtyard.

They were two Jinshi (imperial scholar) and the Wang sisters respected her very much. How could she be so arrogant as to not meet them?

He left the hospital and said a few words.

Thinking that Li Jinglan should have finished her work by now, she came to find her.

I have to talk to Li Jinglan.

She doesn't want to see anyone!

Don’t let the Wang brothers visit her anymore.

After walking down the corridor, there are two rows of weeping willows planted on the roadside.

The weeping willows are luxuriant and graceful with their green silk threads.

Aunt Zhao reached out and brushed away the weeping willows that were blocking her view, but she saw four men coming out of the main courtyard.

The man walking in front was wearing a Taoist robe, and he looked dignified and had an extraordinary temperament.

The whisk in his arm swayed as he walked.

Aunt Zhao loosened the willow branch in her hand and took a step back.

Turned around and stood behind the two maids.

Xu Jingchen passed by slowly.

After walking forward for more than ten steps, Xu Jingchen suddenly turned around.

Behind me, willows are swaying in the wind, and it is quiet and deserted.

Aunt Zhao returned to Xuanrui Hall and ordered people to close the gate.

He sat on the soft couch in the yard, silent for a long time.

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*There is still one chapter to be written later. Well, I haven’t coded it yet. I’m going to write now.

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