Unlimited Food Plan

It's completely different from what Du Changqiu thought,? The meal over there is already in full swing, but the serfs here are still picking beets in the fields.

"You dirty bastards, don't eat until you're done!" Beside him was an old man with a red nose. The nose looks like a scary clown.

The moment Du Changqiu saw this person, Charlie's memory suddenly came back to life,? He just remembered,? There is a boss in this manor.

The position of Zhuangtou, you can tell from the name, this position can be regarded as a relatively high manager in the manor.

In fact, this is also the case. If it is said that George the butler manages everything about the masters, it is tantamount to implementing any will of the masters, then Zhuangtou is more like a management leader who actually supervises the work of a project team.

Seriously speaking, except for the completely different job content, the scope of management to be responsible for is similar to Du Changqiu's previous position in the scientific research institute.

Just like Du Changqiu was in charge of personnel and research progress before, Zhuangtou was supposed to be responsible for the daily work implementation of each working group in the entire manor.

For example, the collapsed wall of the manor, he should report the collapsed situation regularly, so that the owner can allocate funds for repairs on a regular basis; there is also the livestock feeding situation in the livestock house, you should check with the livestock supervisor every day; this is especially true in the field, the situation of the cultivated land And manual arrangements,? It is necessary to discuss with the agricultural officer.

These things are detailed, and they must report to the owner of the manor within a fixed time every day.

But seeing how the walls of Wilt Manor collapsed like that, and how Du Changqiu recovered from his illness, and then yesterday when he heard from the housekeeper George that some farm work was delayed due to illness, and the land was not confiscated...you can know,? Zhuangtou is so irresponsible.

Du Changqiu didn't think about it before, he just thought that he just wanted to hire people to build a sugar factory, so he hired some people to take over the land by the way.

It just so happens that it is late autumn now, so find an opportunity to let the serfs do some work, so that when the taxes are paid in two months, Du Changqiu can just find some excuses to exempt them from this year's strange taxes, and let them look nutritious Poor people so bad that Du Changqiu was always worried that they would die suddenly should eat more food.

All he thought about was these things, and he never thought that Zhuangtou would come. Seeing this person standing there yelling and cursing, Du Changqiu's mind about Charlie flashed through quickly, and he probably figured out the Zhuangtou's identity. origin.

The dealer's name is Charles Doug. Although he is sitting in the dealer's position, he has never done anything serious since he joined the company when he was young.

The reason why he is so confident is actually a bit like the old servant in the Dream of the Red Mansion, which means that Charles’ father went out to the city with the old Mr. Damon, but he encountered a group of robbers, let alone who the robbers were. The robbers were still pretending to be their neighbors not far away. In short, the old Mr. Damon was stabbed in the leg with a sword. It was Charles' father who carried him up the mountain, and then fled all the way back to the castle, only to save his life.

Later, in order to repay the life-saving grace, the old Mr. Damon not only restored the status of free citizens to the old Doug and his family, but also took the old Doug by his side and taught him hand in hand. The position of the handle was given to Old Doug.

Old Doug is a very honest and simple person, his character is as stable and loyal as a cow. After being appreciated by the old Mr. Damon, the old Doug was very cautious and won the respect of everyone with his gentle character, and soon let the time The agricultural officer and livestock inspector and all the villagers in the village trust him very much.

However, after old Doug and old Mr. Damon passed away successively, out of the benevolence and righteousness of old Mr. Damon, the succeeding Master Damon appointed old Doug's son, Charles Doug, to the post. With regard to the relationship of supervising him, Charles is nothing like the old Doug back then.

Thanks to the special care of old Mr. Damon, old Doug got a little reward at that time, which made Charles live a much better life than other children in the village since he was a child. Trying to improve is different, but Charles feels very painful in the process of entering the manor to study.

He lived a life envied by everyone in the village, and regarded himself as a very powerful person. As a result, after arriving at the manor, he began to learn from his father how to repair the house every day, go to the smelly livestock house every day, and have to go to the fields. The growth of the seedlings here...

At the same time, the young master and the young ladies are rich and hungry, and they only need to learn swordsmanship and fighting every day, which is much better than him.

So he went through the same training as Dere, and Dere was promoted, but Charles's personality became worse and worse, he began to blame others, and soon became addicted to alcohol, and often died of drunkenness in every corner of the village, completely ignoring his affairs.

Charlie's father, Mr. Damon, also turned a blind eye to Charles's matter. After all, he was the son of his father's savior back then, or a half-childhood partner who studied with him, and he was reluctant to treat him harshly. Therefore, when Charles was childless, he brought Charles' nephew Andrew to the manor and arranged for him to be a livestock supervisor. He only hoped that he could take good care of the elderly Charles in the future.

It turned out that Andrew followed suit, he didn't drink too much, but he was hanging out with women every day, taking fresh bread and meat to any widow in the village who would take his stuff.

It's no wonder that Du Changqiu didn't meet anyone when he went to the barn last night. Under the leadership of De Lie, the supervisor, the animals in the barn are still alive, which is considered good, and there are always people watching, that is dream.

After quickly figuring this out, Du Changqiu also understood why Charles came here to supervise everyone's work without anyone notifying him. Maybe he sobered up and realized that Mr. Charlie didn't grow up with them in the manor. It may be because of a sudden urge to scold someone.

No matter what, Du Changqiu didn't intend to listen to his scolding, he walked all the way to the open field beside the field with the servants carrying the food.

The serfs who worked in the fields were mainly harvesting sugar beets from the private fields of the manor owners.

The sugar beet in this field is the land where wheat was planted last year. Wheat has a relatively large demand for water and soil. Compared with the ancient Chinese people of the same age, the cultivation techniques of the people in the Middle Ages were not too sophisticated.

They discovered that the land would lose a lot of production on the basis of continuous cultivation, and the output was not enough. The Chinese solution to this was intensive cultivation, while the middle ages chose the rotation farming method, that is, planting for one year and resting for one year.

So where last year's wheat was planted, this year's crops are full of common vegetables like beets, onions and carrots, flax and garlic.

Onions, carrots, and garlic are relatively durable and should be stored in the cellar. Flax has been harvested and retting long ago, and it has probably been spun into linen thread or cloth by now.

These have been harvested long ago, and rye has to be replanted in the field where the flax was harvested, so that there will be rye to eat next year. The weather is already very cold, and it should have been finished long ago, but because Charlie was critically ill, the busyness of the entire manor stopped. So now I have to harvest it quickly.

People here are not very good at taking care of the fields and crops. Beets, a vegetable with a yield of [-] to [-] catties per mu after cultivation, are only about [-] to [-] catties here. This makes everyone think that beets are life-saving. Food, after all, except for peas, which can be harvested all the time, the yield of beets is indeed a miracle.

It only needs to plant a beet field in a corner, at least the family will not starve to death no matter how uncomfortable the winter is.

Before Charlie fell ill, there was not much unharvested land left. Both men and women of the serfs were put into the fields together by Du Changqiu, adding up to more than 200 people. Originally, what Du Changqiu thought was that these serfs were thinner and weaker than the free people. So he didn't arrange for them to do the work that needed to resist stone and wood to build a factory building, but just let them stop and finish harvesting the beets in the field.

Ignoring Charles at this moment, Du Changqiu was stunned when he saw that the serfs in the field hadn't finished confiscating the beet field.

"Master Charlie!" The moment old Charles saw Du Changqiu, he immediately walked over in front of the agricultural officer old David, and took off his tattered hat exaggeratedly to salute Du Changqiu, fanning a strong smell of wine , Then with an angry face on his face, he loudly condemned the serfs in the field, saying bitterly, "These stupid pigs move too slowly, I don't think I should give them food tonight!"

In fact, Du Changqiu could tell at a glance that these serfs were definitely being lazy. There was only so much land in total, and half of it should have been harvested in one afternoon, after all, there were so many people.

But now there is not even a third of it, and many of the land allocated to him have only made a small half. Du Changqiu is not exaggerating. If this is in the orc tribe, ten orcs can support more than 200 of them for an afternoon. workload.But Du Changqiu quite understood why they were lazy.During the slave period and feudal period in history, the development of human beings has been very slow. It is because of this huge waste of manpower that slaves may be forced to work, but their efficiency is usually very low, and even beatings cannot make them move. a little bit faster.

This is people.

For people, power may force people to submit, but only hope can make people glow with great energy.

Du Changqiu didn't blame these serfs for being lazy, it was he himself who fell into the position of serfs, and he wouldn't hold back his energy to work for the manor owner, that's something a fool would do!

Moreover, long-term malnutrition made them react very slowly. Even the horses needed to eat more forage to work, and every time the manor owner asked them to serve for work, he only gave them a little bit of thin wheat and vegetables. I can't wait for these serfs to not eat and only work. How is this possible?

Even though the Damon family claimed to be good masters and could eat thick food to satisfy their hunger every meal, for the serfs, it was still like endless hell every day.

They need a little hope, a little hope and sweetness that can be seen immediately.

Du Changqiu's face remained unchanged. He looked around, and said to Charles, who was still angry, and Old David, who was rubbing his hands nervously and trying to say something, "It's okay, let's have a rest and eat first."

The original little servant beside Charlie died of illness in the baron's mansion because of a bad stomach. Later, his father had an accident and his brother took over. Charlie refused the new servant that his brother gave him, so Du Changqiu still has no senior servant by his side.Butler George left at this moment, and Du Changqiu didn't take anyone else with him.

"Don't put the meat first." He stopped the male servant who wanted to carry the meat, and when Old John called everyone to rest, and when people began to approach here expectantly and a little nervously, Du Changqiu asked in front of everyone who gathered Old Charles: "Who did the best today and who harvested the most beets?"

Charles was stunned by the question.Although he likes to drink and is not very responsible, but today when he learned that the nephew of George's housekeeper was taken to the manor court, Charles immediately realized that this Mr. Charlie is different from the previous Mr. Damon. Do not buy his account.

Charles had studied in the manor for a period of time in his teens, and he was definitely not an idiot. In fact, he felt that his father, Old Doug, was the real idiot, who didn't understand his distress at all.In short, Charles keenly sensed that this Mr. Charlie had an opinion on him, and the opinion was looking for someone to replace him.

In the past ten years, after studying in the manor with his father and seeing the luxurious life of the ladies and young masters of the Damon family, and later became the head of the farm, Charles has been complaining why he is not the young master of the Damon family, but a farmer He has worked hard all his life, but he can't afford the white bread on the plates of the young masters and ladies.

He looked down on his identity and status, and felt that all of this was too little, which made Charles very depressed, and he kept letting himself be drunk and dream about death.

But when he realized that he was about to lose his position as the head of the village, Charles realized that he could not lose this position.

Zhuangtou can arrange the most comfortable jobs for widows, illegitimate children, and relatives of his acquaintances. He can have bread and milk, as well as the meat and wheat rewarded by Mr. Damon every year, and he can also favor his nephews, brothers and sisters, etc. people.

If he loses the position, he won't even have money to drink.

After realizing this, Charles refrained from getting drunk today, but came to supervise the work of the agricultural officer.

As a result, these idiots were slower than the oldest farm cattle. How could this make Charles not angry and wish he had to feed them?

In Charles' opinion, these lazy asses were not fit to eat!

So when Du Changqiu asked such a question, he was stunned.From his point of view, this bunch is all lazy asses, can you tell who is better?

"Over there, the sugar beet field assigned to Old John's family has almost been harvested." Fortunately, Old David was on the side. He was not very good at talking, so he was used to silence, but as a farming officer, he did have experience in farming. It is relatively rich, and it is also very clear about everyone's work habits.

When Du Changqiu asked, old David saw that Zhuangtou Charles couldn't answer, so he knew it very well, so he immediately reported it.

"Just like those who build houses, I will provide you with bread and milk when you work for me until you are full, and I will do the same every day in the future." Du Changqiu nodded to old David after listening, and first released a big bomb.He raised his chin, and the servants were instructed to immediately put several large boxes of bread on the ground. The smelling black bread made the long-term hungry serf stare.

The next moment, Du Changqiu nodded, and the servant carrying the iron bucket of meat stepped forward and opened the pot of stewed meat. A smell of meat came out instantly, and the eyes of the serfs almost turned into green. Hungry wolf!

"Who is Old John? Stand up." Du Changqiu raised his voice and said to the crowd.

"Yes, it's me." A shapeless old man stood up, covered in worn patches.

Old John came out, very uncomfortable with the environment where everyone was watching, he saluted Du Changqiu tremblingly, "Good night, Mr. Charlie."

"Where are the people who share a field with you? Let's all come out together." Du Changqiu spoke softly, but Old John hesitated for a moment, a little scared, and dared not speak, obviously afraid of something bad.

"People from John's family, why don't you come forward?!" Charles, who didn't answer just now, yelled immediately. He didn't want to see John go against Mr. Charlie's opinion. He felt that this was a slap in the face, and Charles' face darkened. down.

With this roar, seven people tremblingly stood up from the crowd. Obviously, the field was divided according to one family.

"Come forward." Du Changqiu nodded and announced, "The best performers will get a piece of meat."

The crowd erupted into a huge discussion, and everyone looked at Du Changqiu in disbelief, obviously not believing what they heard.

"Quiet! Be quiet!" In fact, Charles was also very shocked. He had no idea that in the past, he used to boil some rye and vegetables into a paste, and everyone sent these serfs with a spoonful of paste, but today, Mr. Charlie actually wanted to feed these serfs bread? !

This is bread!

And Charles looked at it for a while, and he saw very clearly that although the bread was black bread, it didn't look like it was mixed with anything, it was pure bread!No sawdust, no stones, nothing mixed in!

This is already a rare food!

You must know that in this era of food scarcity, many freedmen ate bread mixed with sawdust, or mixed with a lot of peas, chickpeas or broad beans.

In short, pure wheat bread for serfs to eat?

This is shocking enough, but Mr. Charlie actually gave meat to these serfs. Unlike the free tenant farmers, this is a serf!Serving is what they should be doing!They themselves even belonged to the Damon family's property, and they could not leave Wirth Manor for a lifetime, even their children.

Although the Damon family has always been more benevolent, the serfs seem to be treated similarly to the tenant farmers of the free people in many ways. They can also own their own houses, live with their families, and even have their own personal items and property.

But fundamentally speaking, there is still a clear difference between serfs and freemen. It's like rewarding freemen with meat, no one will say anything, but rewarding serfs with meat, everyone thinks that Master Charlie is crazy.

Charles also felt that either Master Charlie was crazy, or he himself was crazy. Old John was stunned. His family members were obviously also doubting their ears, and the serfs felt that they probably heard some incredible dreams.

"Don't you want it?" Du Changqiu looked at the stunned John's family and asked them.

Of course, Du Changqiu dared to do this because according to Charlie's memory, it is probably the rising period of society, so the status of serfs is not as low as before. In the earliest days, serfs didn't have to pay taxes, which sounded better than free people There are many, but in fact it is only because everything belonging to the serf belongs to the master, even himself, and there is no private property at all.

Now it is said that there is no such thing, but in fact, many serfs have already lived a life similar to that of free people, but they are not as rich as free people.

According to the development of society, after a while, the gap between serfs and freemen will be infinitely close, and Du Changqiu doesn't mind being a pioneer in Wilt Manor.

When he asked this question, Old John didn't reply, but the family members around him who were still stunned in shock immediately reacted, and ran to him, looking expectantly at the bucket of meat in front of the servant.

Compared with the tenant farmers of the free people, the serfs have much smaller land, and the labor is more onerous. They work hard all year round for a little food, and they have no other spare energy. a wooden bowl.

At this moment, the old John's family was holding a wooden bowl that they had passed down for countless generations, watching the servant scoop up a piece of meat the size of a fist, and then scooped up a spoonful of soup and put it in it.

"Next!" Holding this bowl of fragrant stew, Old John forced himself to restrain his trembling hands, and carefully carried the bowl to the frame and took three thick slices of bread. Unbelievably, he walked to the side step by step and kept his balance, found a piece of grass to sit down, and began to taste these delicacies.

Bite down carefully, but it was not hindered in the slightest. Instead, I tasted a strong and pure aroma of wheat.

Old John was stunned. You must know that he was getting old and had eaten rough processed food all year round, which had worn down his teeth a lot. He ate bread when he was young, but when he was old, he couldn't eat the bread without soaking it.

But now, he felt that the bread was very soft, and it didn't take much effort to eat it!

Old John was overjoyed. He ate two or three slices of black bread, and his hungry stomach felt a little bit better. At this time, he was willing to take a sip of hot broth. It seemed to have onions in it, which was very fragrant. Old John I have never eaten such delicious food in my life.

He went back to get the bread, and ate it carefully with the gravy, which he ate eagerly, rudely, and sweetly.

Living to the age of being a grandfather, Old John ate such a delicacy for the first time in the world. He ate it like a greedy beast, then bit the piece of meat fiercely, chewed it, and finally served it with bread Carefully wipe every place in the wooden bowl, and refuse to let go of any oily smell.

After this meal, Old John only had one thought in his heart——to die at this time, this life is worth it.

It feels so good to eat bread and broth. Old John wolfed it down and watched his family wipe their bowls with bread. The little granddaughter hiccupped after eating, but she was still strong enough to finish the last meal. A piece of meat, while the son continued to eat with bread and gravy...

"Okay, No. 1 who will perform the best in the future, everyone can get a piece of meat and a spoonful of gravy, No. 2 will have a piece of meat for two people, each with half a spoonful of gravy, and the rest will eat bread." Du Changqiu finished announcing, with Let the cooks leave.

Of course, before that, Du Changqiu also gave two pieces of meat and a bowl full of gravy to the old Charles, the head of the village, and the old David, the agricultural officer, so that they could continue to supervise the work well, watch out for these guys, and don’t overeat and something will happen. , and left by himself.

And behind him, not only Charles was in a complicated mood, everyone was watching John and Pompey's family eating meat crazily, eating bread dipped in broth, although it was the first time for them to eat soft, unadulterated bread. Bread, however, can only be out of balance if there is a comparison. Everyone's mood is on fire when they smell the smell of meat!

Du Changqiu didn't know that the people behind him had started to compete, while those who ate the meat kept bragging about the taste of the meat.

He just saw that it was not a good thing to fish, so he deducted a piece of stew from each person that was originally planned to be distributed equally with the free people. Then clean up the storage room of the castle.

But Du Changqiu didn't want to delay the farming work either.

The so-called not suffering from scarcity but suffering from inequality, if everyone is lazy but can get bread and meat, obviously there is no enthusiasm for them to work.When Du Changqiu saw the situation in the field, he immediately canceled his original plan and temporarily changed to a reward system—just like when Du Changqiu was leading the project team, he would occasionally get some rewarding things, such as retro touch pens, Some remnants of information may even be just a separate compliment when reporting the subject.

Don't underestimate these worthless things, sometimes they are more useful than sending money.

Because human nature is like this, what everyone has is equal to what everyone does not have, even the best things are the same.So Du Changqiu made a decisive decision and turned everyone's meat into a prize.

If it was a good performance, Du Changqiu would not mind improving everyone's food on the spot, but the temperature will drop immediately, and after the beets are harvested, they have to continue planting rye, and there is still a lot of work to do.If everyone continues to fish at this time, it will be very troublesome.

The Wilt Manor is different from those territories with good water and soil, and it can't afford to delay at all.The winter here is still relatively cold, the coldest is that it can go below zero or even snow, so for other relatively warm places, there is no need to consider pasture for livestock in winter, but for Wilt Manor, it is possible to prepare pasture before winter. Very important.

The hay of rye, wheat and other crops grown throughout the year will be dried and stored, and the pasture that grows naturally in summer will be collected every [-] days. This is the food that livestock need to guarantee all year round. Eat next year.

Next year Du Changqiu still wants to raise more pigs and sheep, and rye is also food for food, so Du Changqiu is afraid of too much delay, so he is going to stimulate these people.

He didn't continue to take care of it after giving orders, after all, there were still many things waiting for him to solve in the manor.

Unexpectedly, just by stimulating the team members, this group of tenant farmers who usually looked slow and dull unexpectedly broke out with strong fighting power.

A few days later, when Du Changqiu heard the report, he found that within a few days, these serfs had finished the work that was supposed to take half a month.

Du Changqiu deeply realized how great and terrifying the attraction of delicious food was to everyone in this Middle Ages when resources were scarce and food tasted weird.

"Dear sir, is there anything else I can do for you? Everyone is very motivated and eager to move forward for any of your wishes!" Even the most ignorant old David, who had had enough food and meat for a few days, looked pale at the moment. With a little blush, he stood in Du Changqiu's study energetically, bursting out rainbow farts one after another.

Old David is an honest man, he is not flattering, it can be seen that he is really eager to continue to do something for Mr. Charlie.

Everyone didn't want to spend these dreamlike days in such a hurry. After all, in the next few days, according to Mr. Charlie's instructions, the daily labor standard was exceeded. Gradually, although half of the people could not get meat, they could get meat. The gravy after cooking the meat, dipped in bread, is simply dreamy and delicious.

Everyone didn't want it to end so soon, and wished that Master Charlie still had five thousand acres of land, so everyone could work for a whole winter.

Du Changqiu looked at old David looking at himself, his eyes were so bright that it was almost dazzling, he didn't expect to finish it so quickly.

Glancing at old David and Charles in front of him, Du Changqiu took out his parchment from the drawer, on which he wrote that the manor needed to be improved urgently - because almost everything here needs to be improved, so Du Changqiu could only find out Write down a little bit so that you don't forget.

Looking through the long list, Du Changqiu picked an important matter.

"Just right, you asked everyone to divide into several groups, clean the livestock shed and the village, and shovel all the excrement and urine for me!" Du Changqiu made a request that confused all the subordinates present, and made up for it seriously, "Then Divide into several groups, go to the village and the mountain, and build a batch of toilets respectively!"

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