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"This is……"

Wen Yanzhi looked up, his voice trembling slightly.

"This is our script."

Gu Mingyue calmly picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea.

"I want you to follow the description on this paper in both Qingshui and Liuqiao counties."

"Enclose the two terraced areas along the river and plant peach trees, mulberry trees, and bamboo groves. Create this kind of scenery."

Wen Yanzhi took a deep breath, his eyes shining.

"The owner is so righteous! Is this a plan to rebuild homes from ruins?"

"Yes, that's a fair way to put it. I'll allocate ten thousand taels of silver to find reliable craftsmen to repair the market."

"Okay, boss."

Wen Yanzhi agreed earnestly and then glanced through the plan.

"But what does 'script' mean?"

Gu Mingyue leaned back and shifted to a more comfortable sitting position.

"The scenery is there, but we need people. I don't need them to sell any expensive items; I want them to 'enact life.'"

"Interpretation?"

"Yes." Gu Mingyue thought about the scene, "We'll hire people to act out the original inhabitants of Peach Blossom Spring."

"An old man plays chess under a tree, a woman washes clothes by the river, and children chase and play in the streets and alleys."

"No matter if they used to be farmers, blacksmiths, or cooks, once they put on the Peach Blossom Spring coarse linen clothes that we uniformly distribute, they don't have to worry about anything every day. They can just show their smiles on this street and live a leisurely life."

Gu Mingyue looked at him, a barely perceptible smile playing on her lips.

"Twenty cash per person per day."

Wen Yanzhi froze.

Standing behind her, Yi Wu slowly rolled his eyes, frantically extracting key information from his mind.

Hire people to act? Pay them money? And make them laugh!

Yi Wu remained expressionless, but in his heart, he was already writing furiously:

The young lady hired a bunch of commoners to help the scholar enjoy life in the idyllic Peach Blossom Spring.

It took Wen Yanzhi a long time to find his voice, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

"Master, are you joking? Twenty coins per person, even if you only hire two hundred people a day, that's four taels of silver. That's one hundred and twenty taels a month!"

"This is just the wages paid for free; it doesn't include landscaping and street repairs..."

His mind raced with calculations, and the more he did, the more alarmed he became.

"This expense is going into the works, and we're not even seeing a trace of income. It's a sure-fire way to lose money!"

Gu Mingyue tapped the table, interrupting him.

Her business philosophy at Pujitang is to always lose money and never make a profit!

Otherwise, when will her father ever finish squandering those eight hundred million?

"Two hundred people are too few, let's hire two thousand people first."

"And not only should we hire them, we should hire them in a grand and ostentatious manner."

"Go and recruit all the people from the two counties. Whether they are refugees returning or those who stayed behind, regardless of age, as long as they are willing to join the Peach Blossom Spring Business Department and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the performing arts, sign them all."

Gu Mingyue looked up at Wen Yanzhi and emphasized her point.

"Sign a collective labor contract for long-term cooperation. As long as they put their fingerprints on it, they are considered employees of my Pujitang."

She had checked the system's settlement rules.

Once an employment contract is signed, the system will directly deduct the first month's salary as "budgeted expenses" from the task balance.

With so many unemployed people in the two counties, if we recruit three to five thousand people, we could deduct several thousand taels just for the first month's advance wages.

Not to mention the work clothes, props, and construction costs for building houses and planting peach trees for these people.

This money has to be sent out "whoosh whoosh whoosh".

Gu Mingyue smiled slightly, a hint of smugness in her eyes.

Wen Yanzhi saw his employer smile and felt an indescribable shock rise in his heart.

Losing money and still happy?

He got it!

The owner is using the guise of a businessman to actually distribute wealth to help the people!

She doesn't directly distribute porridge or money because she believes that would breed laziness and hurt the self-esteem of the poor.

She came up with the idea of ​​"acting out life" to give them work clothes, monthly wages, and even formally sign contracts with them!

This gave them a livelihood, and it also gave them dignity!

This will ensure that they receive enough money to make a living while rebuilding their homes!

The fact that the landlord built a "Shangri-La" and allowed everyone to live a life of desirelessness and natural ease is actually a way of teaching people a truth.

"I see!"

Wen Yanzhi's eyes reddened slightly. He suddenly stood up, took half a step back, and bowed deeply to Gu Mingyue.

"The breadth of vision of the master is something I have never seen in my life!"

He was somewhat agitated, and his voice sounded hoarse from restraint.

"Don't worry, Master! Yanzhi will do his utmost to manage 'Peach Blossom Spring' well! He will certainly live up to your expectations!"

Gu Mingyue: "..."

Uh... there's no need to take it so seriously.

She silently looked away and casually waved her hand.

"Then go and do it. Remember not to be too strict with the hiring process; give others another chance..."

Give yourself more ways to spend money.

……

The next day.

The streets and alleys of Liuqiao and Qingshui counties were in an uproar.

Wen Yanzhi has extremely strong execution skills.

He wrote down Gu Mingyue's message in plain language in more than a dozen notices, and not only posted them himself, but also asked several managers he was on good terms with to spread the word at various disaster sites.

"Have you heard? Pujitang is hiring! No skills required, no gender or age restrictions!"

"As long as you follow Pujitang's instructions and 'live' on that newly built street, you'll receive twenty coins a day!"

The people gathered around, looking at the notice and excitedly discussing it.

"Old Li, can you even read what's written on that? What kind of work is it to make a living?"

"If Scholar Wen told me personally, how could it be false? He'll let you wear clothes issued by others and 'live' in the area around Pujitang."

"If I tell you to play chess, you play chess. If I tell you to chatter, you chatter away. At sunset, I'll give you twenty copper coins!"

"That's it? No carrying bags? No muddy work?"

"I'm not picky! Scholar Wen said the landlord wants the place to look cheerful. Even if you just sit there shelling beans, as long as you're happy, those twenty coins are yours!"

The crowd fell silent for a moment, then erupted in incredulous shouts.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch!

"Who cares? Scholar Wen never lies! I'm going back right now to bring my mother and my three kids! Sixty coins a day for the three of us! Good heavens, we haven't seen what a copper coin looks like for months!"

As a result, the road leading to the open space in front of the county government office was completely blocked by the throngs of people who came to the scene.

There were about ten long lines at the handprint area.

Those withered, cracked fingers trembled as they pressed their bright red fingerprints onto the cinnabar inkpad, landing on the work contract stamped with the large seal of "Pujitang".

The commotion was so great that even Zhou Peiyuan, the magistrate of Qingshui County, and the magistrate of Liuqiao County, who were not far away, were alarmed.

The two ran to the scene together and were immediately taken aback.

Wen Yanzhi was sitting at his desk, sweating profusely as he registered the documents.

"The Zhao family of five, keep the contract safe. Go to the south of the city to collect the wooden plaque first thing tomorrow morning. Next!"

Zhou Peiyuan immediately stepped forward and grabbed Wen Yanzhi's arm.

"Mr. Wen! Pujitang is... really hiring ordinary people for work?"

Wen Yanzhi quickly stood up and cupped his hands in greeting.

"Lord Zhou, my employer said that we'll take as many people as there are. Once the contracts are signed, they'll be part of my Pujitang Peach Blossom Spring."

Zhou Peiyuan and the magistrate of Liuqiao County exchanged a glance, their eyes instantly lighting up like those of hungry wolves.

"The people of our two counties are about to enjoy better days!"

"Peach Blossom Spring? That's a beautiful name!"

"The owner of Pujitang is a very generous person."

Magistrate Zhou slapped his thigh excitedly and turned to shout at the bailiffs, "Quick! Don't just stand there!"

"Go and summon all the clerks in the yamen who can write! Register Mr. Wen's documents!"

"Also, send out all those fast horses from the county! Go to the refugee camps in other counties and call for the people from Liuqiao and Qingshui counties who fled due to the flood to come back!"