Chapter 45 - Step 1 Planning

Gawain couldn't explain his plans and those long-term plans to others-even the most trustworthy people like Rebecca and Hettie, he couldn't explain to them exactly what he thought, so he could do it. It is to split up all of your lofty plans, break them down into stages and details, and then slowly pile them up.

What we have done today can be said to be the most basic part of it, and even the construction of this territory is just the foundation.

For Rebecca and Heidi, Gawain showed them the incredible side of those commoners and serfs.

They had never seen commoners and serfs work with such enthusiasm, and do things so quickly and well that they could never do well in the past.

They thought it was Gawain's promise of "meat at night" that motivated these people, and it was.

It is still too early to build the so-called upsurge of people's self-confidence and labor glory. It is the easiest and most effective way to motivate the labor force's enthusiasm for work with a meal of meat.

Returning to the tent in the center of the camp, Gawain found a pen and paper and began to record some things, and at the same time ordered Knight Byron who followed up: "Send two people to cook the meat and prepare a portion for ten people. In addition , as long as they are involved in labor, the vegetable soup and brown bread are fully managed, and we still have food, and in the early stage of the construction of the territory, no one must fall ill due to cold and hunger.”

"Do you really want to prepare meat for ten people?" Byron asked in surprise.

Gawain answered as he should: "Of course, I have to keep my promise. Is there any problem?"

"I thought you were just going to make a pot of broth," Byron explained. "Just a few walnut-sized pieces of meat, plus vegetables, and a big pot of soup, and those people would be grateful."

"Do as I say," Gawain waved his hand, "I don't allow any discount on the promise I made. By the way, let the cook set up a cauldron in the most conspicuous place in the camp, and I want everyone to see the stew. The sight of meat, and at the same time let the soldiers maintain good order by the side, and no one is allowed to loot."

Knight Byron bowed slightly oddly, and left.

Gawain noticed the sight from the side, he turned his head and found Amber staring at him without blinking.

"What are you looking at?" He moved his neck uncomfortably. "Is there something on my face?"

"I see if you were possessed by something that affected your mind while you were in the treasury, but it doesn't look like it," Amber said seriously, "I've never heard of a noble taking the initiative to reduce own wealth..."

Gawain felt a little amused: "Do you think my actions are reducing my wealth?"

"Otherwise?" Amber spread his hands, "turning serfs into freemen means that in the future, they only need to give you part of the food they grow, and you will also pay the freemen's wages, which is even more out of your own pocket. Pay for it...the nobles can do this?"

"If I ask you to paint the walls for me, how much can you do in a day without paying me but giving orders?"

Amber thought for a while: "I'll steal a few coins from your pocket, hire a boy in the general room to do it for me, and use the rest of the money for wine!"

Gawain: "...I'm full to reason with you, the shame of all things!"

Amber: "How can I be ashamed of everything!"

At this time Hetty entered the tent and interrupted Amber's outburst, the lady still had an unbelievable expression on her face: "Ancestors, it's incredible, they've never worked so hard - especially those serfs. , they don't even need a supervisor to get things done..."

"Because they were only working for the lord before, and now their work is closely related to their food," Gawain said unsurprisingly, "This is just the first step, as you can already see, it's more than us. food and wages paid,

What we get is much more. "

"I once thought about using incentives to make them work, but I didn't do it to this extent," Hetty shook his head, "I can't imagine what the future of the territory will be if these systems are really continued. Sample."

Gao Wen laughed: "It will definitely develop in a good direction, you can trust me. And what I did today is just the first step, come and see these..."

He has been writing and drawing on a few pieces of paper since just now. Amber came over to take a look before and was bored and stopped paying attention, but now Hetty heard Gawain's order and immediately came over obediently: " what is this?"

There were some sentences she couldn't understand on the paper, and it looked more like a pile of weird terms, such as work groups, such as competition and contracting, such as assessment methods and efficiency statistics, and on the other pieces of paper were also written The words of the medium-term plan, which are general education, magic talent census, talent introduction, etc., seem even more puzzling.

"These are all things that I came up with during this period of time, but it was never the time to implement them. Now that the construction of the territory has started, some things should be included in the agenda," Gawain pointed to the top one. Paper, "I'm afraid these things are difficult for many commoners and serfs to understand, so I will tell you first, and then you will tell them to Byron Knights and the overseers, and then repeat them to everyone-- —By the way, what about Rebecca?”

"She's...helping to burn down the weeds and bushes south of the beach," Hetty said. "That's one of the ways she usually practices magic."

Gawain's mouth twitched: "Let her come too, it's the same whenever the big fireball is practiced."

Soon Rebecca was called in. The viscount's face was black and her body smelled of fireworks. It was more like she had just come out of the kitchen instead of practicing magic. No wonder there will be a big fireball now.

"I'll tell you about the work schedule in the camp next," Gawain unfolded his schedule and explained in detail, "The first is the work team - I ask all the labor force to be divided into groups of five to ten people, Assign work content and shift breaks in groups...

"All teams must report to the supervisor before starting work, and report when they finish work. The supervisor is responsible for making statistics on the work of each team. In addition, each team has a team leader, who is responsible for allocating the work within the team... …

"The team leader let them choose by themselves, and told them that the team leader is not fixed, if a team leader affects the work efficiency, or deceives the supervisor and the lord, it will be replaced immediately.

"Assess the effectiveness of work according to the group as a unit, the whole group will be rewarded, the whole group will be punished, the reward and punishment system and the competition mechanism will be discussed later...

"Regarding the scoring system I mentioned earlier, considering that most people are illiterate and literate, let Heidi record the completion of each team first. Let's discuss the specific contribution count later...

"We're also going to discuss how the various groups will record their collection and return of tools."

Gawain said a lot of things in one breath, not only Rebecca, but Heidi felt dizzy. The latter stared blankly at Gawain while he continued to write and draw on the paper. Before, those only had nouns. Soon there were some scribbled shorthand content below the entry, and she couldn't help but feel a little confused: "Ancestor, making a simple job so complicated, wouldn't it reduce... efficiency?"

"These systems just look complicated, but at the end of the system, that is, the commoners and serfs, they only need to work fast and well to get the benefits, and they will naturally abide by them after they taste the sweetness. When they start complying, you'll see even more amazing efficiencies than you would with pitching a tent today. Of course, it might be a little harder to implement at first, so you keep preaching them, and you keep explaining them. Other than that, It has to be enforced, enforced, for no reason - just tell them this is Cecil's new law."

At this time, Gawain couldn't help but be a little thankful for this backward era. The wisdom of the people was not developed. Whether it was a freedman or a slave class, obedience to orders was taken for granted. The lord's words are absolute, and the so-called "untouchables" have nothing to do with it. There is no room for resistance, in this case, many of his ideas can be implemented without much explanation...

However, this was not the situation Gawain wanted. His purpose was to break this environment, so that every "untouchable" in Cecil's territory was no longer a pariah, but a living person.

He needs people, lots of people.

Because what he wants to do is impossible to accomplish by his own strength.

That's why he asked Hetty to continue to preach them to the people while forcibly promoting them.

Heidi is not stupid, she has enough wisdom, and her insights are far ahead of the contemporary aristocratic class, so after Gawain explained and she thought about it for a while, she was already vague. Understanding the meaning of this, he nodded in agreement.

"What about me?" Seeing that Aunt Heidi already had a mission, Rebecca couldn't help but come up with great interest, "What am I doing?"

The viscount who was the lord of Cecil not long ago has completely put herself in the position of Gawain's assistant at this time.

"Take some people to investigate the soil quality tomorrow to confirm the difficulty of reclamation and the range that can be reclaimed in the early stage. Don't run too far."

As Gawain spoke, he quickly sketched a rough map on a piece of white paper next to him. It was a large area centered on the river beach, and he also marked the distance numbers of various places on it, although it was only a sketch. It's not even a contour line, but Rebecca was stunned for a while.

"You just follow this range - don't worry about the places outside the range."

Rebecca took the "map" blankly: "Oh...oh..."

Amber next to him looked at Gawain the same way he looked at a monster: "You... are the guys who did the second development back then all monsters?"

Gawain thought for a while, and felt that the other old guys from 700 years ago would not jump out of the grave to beat him, so he said nonsense: "Yeah, I closed my eyes and drew a topographic map of half the kingdom. The standard of the generation.”

amber:"……"