Volume 9: Home Chapter 275: Cat Tribe Transformation (I)
Only thirty-one people from the two study groups of the Tiger Tribe were qualified to study the second-term courses (the others had not graduated from the first term and had to continue studying), and there were only thirty-one employees officially employed at the vermicelli outsourcing processing factory, but all the people in the tribe, young and old, were involved in vermicelli production... The output was naturally astonishing, and the output in one month was almost 30% of that of the Austin flour factory.
According to the principle of more work, more pay, such excellent production efficiency must be followed by the issuance of a monthly bonus based on the gross production value after the monthly output comes out. So... Entering the fourth month of winter, the 31 tiger heads who officially joined the outsourced production of vermicelli, after deducting the advance salary, each received a bonus that was five times more than their salary.
The Tiger Tribe's royal court had opened its doors for business before, and Ted had seen money before, but this first month's bonus still surprised him - they earned nineteen gold coins, three silver coins, and seventy-five copper coins in bonuses alone.
If all the money is used to buy vermicelli, it means that the whole family of more than a hundred people, young and old, can earn more than 3,000 kilograms of vermicelli in a month...
Ted took the purse from Chief Arthur. He felt the round coins in the purse with his paws and felt like crying... Feeding all the tribesmen would no longer be a problem for him!
Chief Arthur understood his excitement. The labor force of the Tiger Tribe was at the same level as that of the Snow Wolf Tribe and the Snow Elves. In addition, all members of the tribe, young and old, joined the battle, so it was not surprising that they could get the highest bonus. He smiled and said, "According to the rules of the Fire Department, although all of you have participated in the work, only the 31 second-term students including you can be counted as formal employees, so we can only help you apply for the bonus for 31 people. This time the literacy class is opening, please ask Ted Zhongzhang to persuade the tribe members to work hard and become formal employees as soon as possible, so that the basic salary and bonus can be settled more."
Ted nodded solemnly, blushed, and stood up to thank him: "Thank you, Chief ."
"You're welcome. We're all from Farm No. 1. If you Tigers can achieve good results, it will be a credit to me at the Fire Department's work meeting. I'm just trying to gain face by relying on your achievements." Chief Arthur smiled and stood up, escorting Ted Zhongzhang out of the finance office, and then shouted to the people waiting in the living room outside, "Next!"
Then Chief Arthur saw Chief Sunny, who gave her the most trouble, stand up...
Ted walked out of the finance office holding the money bag. Even from a distance he could still hear Chief Arthur's roar:
"That's what our policy stipulates. The farm output belongs to the production team. You can take it away, but the income from outsourcing belongs to the individual. Unless no one in your tribe objects and everyone agrees that you can collect the income from outsourcing on their behalf, I can't give you other people's wages and bonuses!!"
Ted said "Hey" softly in the tent, and secretly laughed in his heart...
In an environment where "cats are everywhere", the tiger tribe, as a minority, must unite closely; on the contrary, the big cats themselves may not be very united... Especially the local tribes such as Sunny Day and Amber. After a few years of stable life without worries about food and clothing, more and more people dare to challenge the chief, which makes Ted's account a lot of fun.
Back in the dormitory, under the gaze of the tribesmen, Ted Zhongzhang took out the bonus, divided half among the 31 regular employees including himself, and the other half among the rest of the tribesmen. Unconsciously, he also had the idea of imitating the farm's practice and using material incentives to encourage the tribesmen to study hard and work hard to become regular employees...
After ensuring that even the smallest tiger cubs got a few silver coins, Ted Zhongzhang waved his hand and said, "From now on, you don't have to pool everyone's money together. You can use your own money!"
A room full of timid people stared quietly at Ted's tent.
Ted Zhongzhang paused and continued, "We don't have many official employee quotas, and the money given by the Fire Department needs to be redistributed. The money distributed to everyone is their own money, and you can use it as you wish. You don't need to give it to me or anyone else."
The tiger-headed people's eyes sparkled.
Ted smiled, which was rare for him, "Remember not to spend all the money before the next payment, or others won't pay for extra dishes for you."
The tiger-headed people cheered excitedly, and many of them immediately rushed out of the dormitory...
"I want to eat pudding. I've been wanting it for a long time!"
"Who wants to chip in with me to buy the incense pot?"
"Pudding! Pudding!"
Ted looked at these guys from the middle tent, smiled and shook his head.
Well... the tiger tribe is quite intelligent. After seeing with his own eyes that the chiefs of the tribes, such as Sunny Sky and Amber, caused complaints from their own family members, Ted decided that he couldn't live such a shameful life~!
After counting the coins he was allocated and putting them into his trouser pocket, Ted stood up, walked out the door and headed straight for the Welfare Department.
The second-term trainees of the tiger tribe have become regular employees of the vermicelli outsourcing business, and many second-term trainees of the cat tribe have also become regular employees. These new cats have money in their hands, and the branch of the Welfare Department quietly appeared in Farm No. 1 three days ago to start the business of recycling coins...
Today, on "payday", the Welfare Department was particularly busy. When Ted Zhongzhang arrived, he could barely squeeze through the door... There were cats of all sizes all around him, and Ted Zhongzhang really didn't dare to put in the effort to squeeze through.
By far, the most popular item in this welfare department is… various types of pudding. Even Ted Zhongzhang, who is a typical tough guy, couldn’t resist buying a small box after buying soap, a large towel and thick cashmere socks (big cats are actually more afraid of cold feet, so socks sell quite well).
The person in charge of this welfare department branch is the Snow Wolf Man Chengfeng, who originally followed Qingcao to the Snake Department as an agricultural technician. After the agricultural production in the Snake Department was on the right track, he returned to the Fire Department. This time, Dahe arranged for a branch to come here and picked him, who has experience (Chengfeng has led the Snake production team and has done a pretty good job in organizational work), to take the lead.
While the store in front was crowded with people, in the warehouse at the back, Chengfeng was discussing something with Chief Arthur's deputy, the golden cat cub Ajiang.
Well...A Jiang was transferred back from the front line of the Grand Canal project with Xiao Hua's partner A Tian to rest. After a year of hardship in the open air, he was assigned an easy job to help Chief Arthur - and to fatten him up at the same time. As a golden cat, he was as thin as a firewood stick, and even Xiao Yun couldn't stand it.
"Isn't it too early to start arranging production teams now? According to Ayun's record, it will take at least a month for the snow to melt. In my opinion, it would be better to outsource some of the lower-tech jobs in the hilly new district." After hearing Ajiang's troubles, Chengfeng, who was definitely one of the most intelligent people in the Snow Wolf Clan, suggested.
"We have outsourced everything that can be outsourced, not just the Hilly New District. Chief Arthur has also fought for outsourcing projects for jobs like tile making, pottery making, sweater and blanket knitting in the Fire Department." A Jiang frowned and said, "We need to make a difference between the second-term students and the first-term students, but the difference can't be too big. The second-term students are doing too light work now, and the people assigned to the agricultural production teams after the spring will be unbalanced."
"This is a troublesome matter..." Chengfeng scratched his head, "But I can only provide you with thirty jobs at most. The mill, oil press, gelatin maker, warehouse keeper, tally clerk, counter, and snack workshop, thirty people are enough. If there are more, there will be no work for them to do."
"Thirty is thirty." A Jiang sighed, "Forget it, I will just start organizing production teams now, starting with making bricks and building greenhouses. The greenhouses will belong to the production team that built them, and they will grow vegetables in winter and cash crops in spring, summer and autumn. When there is a harvest in the future, they won't complain that they are suffering too much now."
Chengfeng showed sympathy and patted Ajiang's skinny shoulder: "Come on."
The snake tribe is difficult to manage, and the cat tribe is even more difficult to manage than the snake tribe. The people of the snake tribe can be arranged to go to the cat tribe farm to help open up wasteland, but if you want the cat tribe to help the snake tribe, emmmmmm...
Ah Jiang said with a painful look on his face: "Ah Yun told me to come here to relax, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like he has bad intentions."
Cheng Feng comforted him, "If you think about it this way, at least Chief Arthur has already taken care of the preliminary work, so you don't have to start with discipline..."
Ah Jiang: “…”
After seeing off A Jiang, who was worried about the big cats' jobs, Cheng Feng turned around and went to the front store to check the shelves.
"Pudding is indeed the best-selling product. We need to restock it quickly." After scanning the shelves for shipment status, Chengfeng rolled up his sleeves and entered the dim sum workshop.
For the Fire Department, which is self-sufficient in raw materials, pudding is one of the most efficient snacks for recycling coins.
For example, soy milk pudding, which has the lowest price, the largest sales volume and the lowest cost, is made by boiling a pot of relatively rich soy milk, adding one-third of fresh milk (mainly goat milk), a little gelatin (made from fish bones), a little condensed milk, a little sugar and a little cream. After mixing, filter it with gauze, pour it into a mold and freeze it in the open air for a few hours. Then, it can be sold on the shelf at five times the price of the raw materials...
The ten masters who came from Chengfeng and Huoyan departments to help with the preliminary work stayed in the dim sum workshop for the whole afternoon to prepare the goods to be sold tomorrow. That night, the golden cat cub Ajiang brought over the thirty big cats that the welfare department could feed.
Chengfeng has rich experience in organizational work. In addition, these big cats have been screened through "classroom discipline" and have a certain degree of obedience. He immediately arranged for the people to be trained by the masters and employees...
The cafeteria is the "holy place" of the Fire Department. It does not recruit employees outside the Snow Wolf Clan. Even the Snow Wolf Clan's own people find it difficult to get in. The Welfare Department, which specializes in snacks, does not have this restriction. The big cats who are lucky enough to become interns in the Welfare Department are required to work all night on the day of reporting. They don't complain at all and are very active...
While Chengfeng's welfare department was getting on the right track, Ajiang also quickly launched the "production team's self-built greenhouse" campaign.
In the early days, production teams could not contract land that could be considered a farm without 200 big cats. After the new hilly area was able to open up to supply agricultural machinery, production teams no longer needed so many people, and a hundred people could handle the work.
In the past, production teams were formed in the form of tribes, but this time, the Huoyan Department had no intention of letting these big cats form groups according to tribes. When Ajiang formed a production team, he used a rather sinister trick - he gathered together the big cats who had completed the first phase of literacy and continued the second phase of study, and after promoting the profits that agricultural production teams could obtain by contracting farms, he told these big cats that the Huoyan Department would carry out revolutionary changes in farm contracting, provide policy support and resource allocation to all qualified production teams.
"Traditional farms only have agricultural machinery, seeds and technical support, but new farms, in addition to everything that traditional farms can get, also provide pesticide support." A Jiang said with great joy to the first batch of "academic masters" big cats from different tribes who took the initiative to show their intention to get close to the Fire and Flame Department, "There are two types of pesticides, one for weeding and the other for pest control. You have eaten the vegetables grown in our farm greenhouse in the cafeteria, and you have also eaten the vegetables sent by the Fire and Flame Department, right? The vegetables grown on our farm are full of insect holes, and the leaves are gnawed into pits, but the vegetables sent by the Fire and Flame Department don't have these holes. This is the benefit of pesticides for pest control~!"
"It turns out that this precious thing can only be used on the farms and beetroot planting bases of the Fire Tribe. Neither our cat farms nor the snake tribe of the snake tribe has it. Even if we want to use pesticides, firstly, the production in the hilly new district cannot supply us, and secondly, the price is too expensive, which is not cost-effective..."
"Now, a human spellcaster has developed a more reasonable production process, and the output of pesticides in the hilly new area has increased a lot compared to before, but it is still far from enough to distribute it to all farms. Therefore, in terms of the distribution of pesticides, the result of the work meeting of the Fire Department is: production teams that have contracted more than 20,000 acres of land and whose employees have excellent performance can be given policy preference and priority in the distribution of pesticides."
After a pause, Jiang used his cub appearance to cunningly wink at the excited big cats: "We must be clear that the competition for this excellent production team is not only our No. 1 Farm resettlement area, but also the other three resettlement areas and the snake tribe, all of which are our competitors. So, in order for our No. 1 Farm to be allocated as much pesticide as possible, I thought, we might as well organize the production team in advance, organize the team before the snow melts in spring, and build our own greenhouse. In the spring, we will be one step ahead of other resettlement points and have more confidence to compete for this new farm quota~!"
"We are all advanced members who have completed the first phase of literacy and started the second phase of learning. The production team we form has a very good chance of winning!"
As soon as Jiang finished speaking, the big cats raised their hands and signed up enthusiastically...
When A Jiang organized these big cats into production teams of a hundred people, the tendency of these new cats to continue to "band together within the tribe" in the future was nipped in the bud... The premise of banding together for warmth is that everyone's life is not easy. When some people have the conditions to get ahead and can choose to unite with those who are also ahead, why would they turn around and band together with the backward elements for warmth!
Jack Ma has become the richest man in the world. Will he make friends with the richest people, or will he go back to his old classmates and colleagues to form a group? It's obvious.
This is human nature... cat nature~!
The new cats have stepped out of the stage of "internal tribe grouping together and the chief having the final say", and are living a good life based on their own abilities. The local cats, who have already started internal rebellion, cannot help being affected - there is no need to start with the local cats right from the start!
As more than a dozen cat production teams from various tribes built greenhouses for growing vegetables, spring was gradually approaching.
When the heavy snow that had frozen the ground for a whole winter began to melt, a vigorous reclamation movement began in the planned land reclamation areas around the resettlement sites...
"…Ten years!"
In the chilly spring weather, Xiao Yun took a walk around the area that the big cats were reclaiming at the resettlement site. Perhaps influenced by this scene of reclamation, Xiao Yun suddenly remembered when he first came to this world.
In the first year, he could only persuade the tribesmen to take out the beans to grow bean sprouts and add to vegetables, and to build the house with mud bricks. After the mud brick kang was built, in order to prevent the kang from being crushed, he had to catch the tribesmen one by one and warn them not to turn into wolves on the kang.
The next year, the Shanghuoer tribe borrowed seeds and tried to recruit grassroots tribesmen to work...
The third year, the fourth year...
"Ayun?" Mr. Sean turned his head to look over.
Xiao Yun smiled and turned around: "Let's go back. The river has thawed. Let's go see how fast the newly modified canal boat can run."
Mr. Sean turned around and said proudly: "These gas engines have improved combustion efficiency and optimized power output, which can increase the speed of canal boats by at least 20%."
"Haha, I'll be very satisfied if there's a 10% improvement."
"Don't you have confidence in me?"
“How could it be…”
A local cat poured coal powder from a basket into the tractor's front boiler, pulled the lid shut with pliers, stepped back and shouted to the cockpit: "It's done!"
The small cat in the driver's seat nodded, released the brake, and the bulky tractor drove straight forward. The huge triangular rotary plow mounted at the rear penetrated deeply into the soil and turned out the frozen mud.
"Follow us!" The Snow Wolf in charge of agricultural guidance waved his hand, and the new cats waiting behind the tractor followed with baskets, sickles and other things, picking up the overturned stones and chopping off the thorny roots...
There was no "traditional cat farm" at the resettlement site of the Fire Tribe, so no one would be surprised by the sight of local cats helping to plow the land with tractors. However, at Farm No. 1, when the "policy tilt" towards new farms promised by Ajiang was revealed, the local cats who contracted the farms as a tribal unit were furious...
"Why did they arrange special people to help them in reclaiming the land?!" Chief Sunny Sky, who was particularly fussy, threw away his hoe and angrily went to Chief Arthur.
"When you were opening up the new hilly area, didn't you arrange for gray dwarves to come and help?" Chief Arthur asked calmly.
“That, that is…” Chief Qingtian was stuck.
"The production teams that contract new-style farms are required to reclaim 20,000 mu of land within a year, and all team members must enter the third-term course within six months. The threshold is set. If you don't meet the standard, you will be eliminated." Chief Arthur said calmly, "If Chief Sunny Day also hopes to obtain the same policy, you can follow this requirement. As long as the farm you contract can meet the standard, I promise to apply for you to be converted into a new-style farm, and you will receive all the necessary support."
The Sunny Clan leader said nothing more, covered his face and fled...
Standing beside Chief Arthur and inspecting the land reclamation, Golden Cat A Jiang watched Chief Sunny Sky walk away and said with a curled lip, "I remember that the production team of Sunny Sky Tribe had more than 300 people, and they only reclaimed 12,000 acres of land after three years of hard work. It's not as good as the Xiu Tribe. The Xiu Tribe has only more than 200 people, young and old, and reclaimed 6,000 acres of land last year alone."
"This is the main reason why Ayun can't stand them." Chief Arthur shook his head and said, "It's not that there are no hardworking people in the Sunny Sky Tribe, but the chief takes the lead in slacking off and taking more than he deserves, which has a huge negative impact on the enthusiasm of other tribesmen. If Ayun hadn't repeatedly stated that for the long-term consideration, he couldn't interfere in other tribes' internal affairs, I would have wanted to kick him out... The Amber Tribe's style was also created by this guy."
Ah Jiang chuckled: "Ah Yun gave me three years of opportunity but I didn't make any progress. I had to wait until Ah Yun took action... Tsk tsk, now it's great. I guess it will be difficult for me to even exit with dignity."
Patriarch Arthur frowned and said, "Dignified? When did you start to like using this word?"
Ah Jiang's expression froze: "Uh..."
"Don't learn the human magicians' way of being too picky and fussy. Ah Yun can't stand that." Chief Arthur said sternly, "We cats have more bad habits than the snow wolves. Ah Yun doesn't care about small things and doesn't mind small problems that don't delay things. But we can't say that we don't know how much we can earn after just a few years of good life. We have to know how to save face when others give us face. Do you understand, Ah Jiang?"
"...I got it." Ah Jiang's ears drooped and he responded obediently.
Chief Arthur's expression softened, and he raised his hand to rub the short golden hair on Ajiang's head. "Don't blame me for being too harsh on you, Ajiang. Our tribe coming to the Fire Tribe is the wisest decision I have ever made in my life. It is the Fire Tribe and Ayun that allow us to see higher and farther skies. You are the smartest child in our tribe. I hope that when you grow up, you will be trusted and valued by Ayun like Qingyan and Qiuqiu, so I will inevitably be a little harsher on you..."
Ah Jiang raised his head, and there was surprise and emotion in his beautiful golden vertical pupils.
As the smartest golden cat in the original Arthur tribe, Ajiang suddenly understood why Ayun arranged him to assist Chief Arthur.
Chief Arthur smiled but said nothing. He pushed Ajiang on the back and said, "You don't need to watch here anymore. Go back and prepare the teaching materials for the class after the spring plowing. Ayun said that we should solve our own internal affairs. The Fire Department will not interfere in the internal affairs of other tribes and will respect our wishes in this regard. How each resettlement site educates the newly joined cats depends entirely on our methods. We can't lose to Qingyan and the others."
"Okay!" A Jiang nodded vigorously, turned around and ran with big strides.
"It turns out that in the eyes of Chief Arthur and Ayun, I can become a person who can stand on my own like Qingyan, Qiuqiu, and Xia!" The cheerful golden cat cub's mind and heart were filled with this new discovery, and he was so happy that he wanted to scream out loud.
Chief Arthur looked at him running back happily, smiled and shook his head.
The tiger tribe’s affinity for the wind element is the most cost-effective (er...) for making vermicelli, and they were not assigned to contract land or participate in land reclamation.
After the tiger tribe's vermicelli factory delivered vermicelli to the Fire Department several times, the vigorous land reclamation movement ended, the courses that had been suspended for a period of time resumed, and the tiger tribe, who had been concentrating on making vermicelli for a while, also returned to the classroom again.
There were only thirty-one tigers entering the second phase of study, and they had to compete with other second-phase cat students. Ted Zhongzhang led his tribesmen into the classroom and sat in two groups clearly separated from the big cats who were competing with them. After waiting for a while, the teacher who was going to teach them came in.
The teacher this time was a lynx from the original Arthur tribe. She was small in size and a female with a slightly protruding belly. It was obvious that she was transferred from the Fire Tribe and given the easy job of teaching after she became pregnant.
Teacher Lynx picked up the textbook that Ajiang had worked so hard to compile, smiled gently at the big cat students, and spoke clearly: "The second phase of the literacy class requires everyone to be able to recognize and flexibly apply 500 characters. Everyone should have understood this after the study before spring plowing. If you just simply recognize the characters, it will be difficult for everyone to remember what each character represents, let alone apply it flexibly. Therefore, in the next course, we will combine enlightenment stories, grassland history and other biographies to make everyone's cognition and understanding of characters more profound."
"First, let's learn the history of the various tribes on the grassland. As everyone knows, the oldest race on the grassland is the Tauren, and the second oldest race is the Centaur who migrated from the neighboring Bradrick continent during the racial war. We, the cat tribe, the tiger tribe, and the snow wolf tribe, had to flee to the grassland for refuge because of the imperial war more than 200 years ago..."
Ted, who was sitting below, said: "…"
