This Side Effect is Awesome

  Chapter 40 Fire at the city gate and Chiyu

   After receiving a large number of precious medicinal materials sent by Hao Jiyong, Song Ankang was no longer so worried, and then he could continue to practice and improve with peace of mind.

  Song Ankang's strength has begun to grow rapidly again, and the processing business of medicinal materials in Chaoyun Grange is getting better and better, and the profit that can be earned every day is also increasing day by day.

  The second batch of apprentices has been apprenticed one after another, and they can process more medicinal materials, and the work of collecting medicinal materials is also going smoothly.

Because the purchase price given by Song Ankang was slightly higher than the market price, a large number of medicinal materials were quickly acquired, not only the basic medicinal materials used for processing, but also many follow-up Chaoyun Tianzhuang to be processed. of medicinal materials.

   Even with the size of Huachuntang, the number of these basic medicinal materials that can be absorbed is limited, and it should be saturated in about two months. Before that, Chaoyun Tianzhuang must open up a new way to make money.

   In addition, Song Ankang also arranged for people to contact other pharmacies, and he couldn't rely on Huachuntang for his business.

  There are so many people in Chaoyun Grange. As more and more people master the deep processing of medicinal materials, there will be more and more medicinal materials that can be processed. Sooner or later, the supply will exceed the demand.

   After all, the number of refining pharmacists in Hua Chuntang is limited, so they can't use so many basic herbs, and they have to spend a lot of time refining other pills.

  Song Ankang handed over these matters to Wang Yuliang. He is mainly responsible for teaching the apprentices in the workshop. He specializes in the art industry. Song Ankang is not good at management, so it is better to leave it to someone who is good at it.

   Of course, this does not rule out the suspicion of being lazy. Fortunately, Wang Yuliang's performance is very good, and with Hao Jiyong's assistance, the business of the processing workshop is getting better and better.

  Chaoyun Grange has more than 100 people who have joined the processing workshop, specializing in working for the processing workshop, dealing with different businesses such as medicinal material processing, medicinal material acquisition, medicinal material transportation, and market development, so that these people have an extra income.

   In order to allow all the tenants of Chaoyun Grange to tide over this year's difficulties, Song Ankang specially asked Wang Yuliang to recruit a member from each family into the workshop, so that everyone could have the opportunity.

  As the scale of the processing workshop expands, the subsequent processing workshop will also recruit more tenants into the processing workshop, and even if it reaches a certain level in the future, it may not be possible to recruit people from outside Chaoyun Grange.

   Of course, Chaoyun Grange has enough manpower at present, and there are even a large number of idle tenants who hope to enter the processing workshop. For the time being, there is no need to recruit apprentices and associates from outside.

  Song Ankang also gave generous rewards to these tenants who entered the workshop, at least in the eyes of these tenants. In fact, more than 70% of the profits went into Song Ankang's pocket.

   In order to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, Song Ankang specially asked Wang Yuliang to formulate a corresponding remuneration level, and to give more remuneration to those who perform well and work more seriously and responsibly.

Once the    system appeared, it immediately caused an uproar in Chaoyun Grange, and all the tenants who entered the processing workshop began to work harder and earn more remuneration.

   In just about half a month, almost all families in Chaoyun Grange have had a better life, and everyone has regained hope. The atmosphere in the Grange is getting better day by day.

   Even so, everyone still takes a certain amount of time to go outside to pick wild vegetables, weeds and leaves, save a little bit, and wait for the arrival of winter.

  The industrious and down-to-earth tenants of Chaoyun Grange Village hardly waste a cent of their time. In order to meet the cold winter in the next few months, everyone accumulates as many resources as possible.

   "The processing workshop of the owner is really giving too much. My boy can earn dozens of copper coins every day, which is enough for our family to use for several days, and can save a lot."

   "Yes, yes, Shili Baxiang has never seen such a grand owner. Our youngest daughter is an apprentice in a processing workshop. She can take nearly a hundred copper plates a day, and we all use it to buy food."

   "The price of food is rising sharply every day. You should reserve more food, otherwise you will spend several times more money to buy it later."

   "I think so too. These grains can still be stored. If the farm can't pay the taxes this year, we can also take out some for the farm owner. The farm owner is so kind to us, we should also help the farm owner to solve the problem."

"That's right, during this time, both the apprentices and the transport workers have damaged a lot of medicinal materials, and even some processed ones. As a result, the owner of the village did not ask them to compensate them and paid them full wages. It is the living Bodhisattva in the world."

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   Thanks to the thriving processing workshop, Song Ankang's prestige, status, and reputation in Chaoyun Grange have exploded, and he has become the savior of Chaoyun Grange.

  As life gets better and better, many tenants are more and more grateful and respectful to Song Ankang.

  Everything is developing for the better, but this is only in Chaoyun Grange, and outside Chaoyun Grange, more and more villages have fallen into unprecedented panic.

   After so many days, it still hasn't rained. This year's crops are basically not going to be harvested much. It's almost dead. Many villagers are afraid they won't even be able to pay the taxes.

   And there is news among the high-level officials of the court that not only will taxes not be reduced this year, but they may even be increased.

   At the beginning, there were still many villagers who were dissatisfied, but as the reason spread, all the villagers died.

   There is no other reason. This year, not only the human race suffered an unprecedented drought, but the angels and mermaids, the biggest enemies of the human race, suffered even more seriously, and the harvest was less than half of last year's.

   In this case, the food of the angels and the mermaids could not feed the tribes at all, and in order to survive the crisis, the angels and the mermaids would definitely launch a war against the humans and plunder the resources and wealth of the humans.

A large number of troops in the Xia Kingdom have already opened the front line of heaven and man and the front of mermaid. They may fight against angels and mermaids at any time. There are external and internal troubles. All the people must tighten their belts to live and pay more taxes. Fight on the front lines.

   Therefore, it is necessary to pay more taxes. The soldiers on the front line cannot be allowed to kill them when they are hungry. It doesn’t matter if they are hungry, and the soldiers on the front line cannot be hungry.

   It is precisely because of understanding that I am more and more apprehensive.

  Many villages outside Chaoyun Grange are desperately collecting wild vegetables, weeds and leaves, and they even venture into places where monsters and ghosts are ravaged, such as red-leaf forests.

   Even so, the harvest is still less and less, and it has also caused even greater disasters, affecting Chaoyun Grange.

   (end of this chapter)