Although there is the help of the natives, the main force in the construction of Xin'an City is still the guards led by **.

Hou Wei and his wife now divided the three hundred and ninety-two people into four groups, just like they did on Mornington Island, and divided these people into different shifts, each shift had different duties, some went to work on various construction sites, some managed construction sites, some patrolled the wooden walls to maintain order at the city gates, and of course, there were also military training.

Hou Xianglin gave full play to his expertise in managing the construction site in the old world, so that everyone has a clear division of labor, from work to military training, from standing guard to cooking, everyone can know their specific work today in advance.

Although the work was intense, to the delight of the guards, Governor Hou announced that from April, the monthly salary of each person would be increased by 20%.

However, the next announcement was difficult for many to accept, and the Governor said that from this month onwards, everyone would be given one day off for every six days of work, saying that this was called the six-day work week.

Moreover, Hou Xianglin's schedule is arranged according to Monday to Sunday, which makes those Han people from the mainland and island countries and Japanese ronin very surprised, saying that the Governor does not count the 24 solar terms or the days according to odd and even, what is this Monday to Sunday?

Of course, despite that, the fact that the Governor is a good man and very wise and wise is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the guards also follow this schedule to work and rest.

However, there was confusion on the part of the natives, where did those people have any concept of the week? Anyway, get up early to work, go home in the dark, this life is like this, is doing a good job, suddenly one day, everyone got up early in the morning, rushed to work, but was inexplicably blocked out of the closed wooden city gate, this is really incomprehensible, many people still think that there is no work in the city? Especially the natives who worked all day and ate day by day, now they all gathered at the gate of the city to blow up their nests.

Well, the situation is stronger than people, and in the face of the fierce natives, he was afraid that this would cause misunderstandings and cause the loss of these laborers, so Hou Xianglin had to send another person to work overtime and let these natives come in to work, anyway, there was a lot of work on the construction site......

For the six-day work system, the garrison members also have some small belly slander, mainly affecting income, because the monthly salary of the garrison (and construction team) is divided into two parts, one part is fixed, one or two five dollars of silver, and the other part is floating, which is called performance salary, and there is no upper limit for more work.

Fortunately, everyone also thought about it later, after all, the Governor was very kind to give everyone a salary increase of 20%, so don't be greedy......

Usually, he will list the work of this month, and then refine and decompose it into a number of small projects, each small project should try to have data indicators or quality requirements, and then distribute these detailed work items, which is very common in the old world when engaging in engineering management, and now it is very effective for these subordinates.

In fact, the main reason is not that Hou Xianglin's management method is particularly clever, but that these subordinates have a blind worship of the governor and the captain, especially listen to orders, obey the command and actively work hard, which is very rare in the old world, because, in the concept of these people, unconditional obedience to the command of the adults is a matter of course here!

Only Duchess Margaret was very appreciative of this time of the Hou Xianglin, and at the same time she was extremely surprised, and she asked Zezilia very suspiciously, has your fiancé converted to God?

After receiving Zezilia's vague answer, the duchess shook her head and said to herself, Australians are really amazing, this kind of work from Monday to Saturday and rest on Sunday is not the same routine that the Holy See has been trying to promote to the kings of Europe for many years, but has never realized?

As a descendant of an aristocracy with Spanish Habsburg ancestry, the Duchess knew that the Holy See had long promoted this system of work and rest in Europe, because the Bible was very clear: God created the world in six days, and then rested for one day on the seventh day, so as God's chosen people, they should naturally follow this rule, work for six days and rest for one day, and on this day they should put aside all their mundane duties and pray to God sincerely......

Not to mention the duchess's doubts and feelings, but now, in reality, these two managers of Xin'an City do not have Sundays at all, even if the six-day work week is announced, it is also a subordinate welfare, Hou Wei and the two have never had time to rest, of course, they have not prayed to God, they are still busy.

Even on Sundays, they get up earlier than anyone else, are busy assigning or adjusting the day's work for each shift, and sleep later than anyone else at night, because in addition to summarizing and reporting tomorrow's work, they also have to give cultural lessons to the team members......

However, Hou Wei and the others have never managed the project and such a large group of people so freely and freely before this, facing a group of respectful subordinates on the construction site every day, and the sense of accomplishment is often full, so the feeling of the two of them can only be described in five words: "tired and comfortable"......

Back in late March 1658, at noon on the 24th, Hou Xianglin received a telegram from the Pride to the Red Mansion:

"To Sin'an Fortress and please forward the Red House immediately:

We would like to report on our ship's action plan: Pride arrived at the port of Macao on the night of March 23, and all trade work is being carried out so far.

According to an earlier agreement, the sale of 11,305 pieces of glassware and mirrors, as well as two tons of sweet potato wine, was 357,640 taels of silver.

The procurement process in Macao is being carried out in accordance with the list you have provided, which includes 100 Dutch flintlock pistols and 200 Spanish arquebuses, all of which are 14 mm standard calibers, to be supplied by the four Chinese merchants.

Eighty-one children from the Church of Charity Nautical School and the Orphanage have reached eighty-one, of whom thirty-one are over six years old, the oldest is eight years old, and the youngest has not yet been weaned.

We have reached an agreement on the procurement of the following items: Dutch flintlock pistol, Spanish arquebus, sulfur, lead, tin, saltpeter, red mercury, rosin and tung oil and other materials procurement, the agreement and implementation is expected to be completed in two days, much earlier than expected, the reason is that both sides of the transaction have been prepared, it is expected that the transaction will be basically completed by March 27, when our ship will set sail south, it is estimated that the wind direction is favorable in this season, five days later our ship will arrive in the west of Manila Bay in Luzon, into the most effective radio communication distance. ”

On the third day, March 26, the Pride sent its usual telegram of work, but at the end of the telegram there was a passage that read:

“…… Another thing to report: the substitute doctor soaked a beautiful girl, and Elosh soaked a girl and her sister, and the report was completed. ”

That night, after receiving the telegram forwarded by Xin'an City, Red Mansion immediately called back:

"Envy, jealousy, hatred. Xiao Fei. ”

Sinseong also called back:

"Congratulations, congratulations. Wei Hong. ”

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