Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 455 - 453: Joyful Celebrations

On the morning of late October, the sea breeze was quite strong, and waves crashed against the rocky cliffs one after another.

Today, Lin Wanwan rarely got up early in the Great Tang. She was usually known as lazy and fond of sleeping (sometimes truly lazy, sometimes sneaking back to modern times), but today’s early rise had its reasons.

The Lin Family’s workshop, after selling the second batch of cotton cloth, was starting its first formal division of profits!

The female workers in the workshop calculated daily work points based on labor intensity, and the function of these work points was reflected during the profit distribution.

This aspect was something everyone had experienced when the cotton planting cooperative of the Lin and Lu families sold and divided profits from cotton.

Originally, the female workers in the workshop could receive wages, but they could only choose either wages or work points.

After the first batch of cotton cloth was sold, and copper coins and ordinary silk fabrics were brought into the warehouse, everyone quickly unified their thoughts: forget about wages, we want work points only.

Wages are fixed, but work points are flexible. The higher the selling price of cotton cloth, the higher the value of their work points, only a fool would continue to want wages.

After the multiplication table was popularized among the clan with the children’s daily recitations, everyone could calculate this account.

Initially, the Clan Leader of the Lin family did not agree with Lin Wanwan’s proposal to divide profits so early; disturbing the ancestors by opening the ancestral hall just to distribute profits sounded rather materialistic.

However, he couldn’t withstand the eager eyes of everyone beneath him except himself.

People from Lu Family Manor, after selling cotton, each household gained a substantial income and began to live better lives. Meanwhile, although it seemed that Lin Family Manor was working hard with the workshop, cotton cloth, and all sorts of endeavors in full swing, there wasn’t much real money distributed to them yet!

Only with the sweet potato vermicelli wave did they replenish some funds once.

The old and young of Lin Family Manor still lived on two meals a day, tightening their belts in hardship, eagerly hoping for clan profit distribution!

So eventually, the Clan Leader of the Lin family relented. When Lin Mengbo accompanied the workshop accountant last night, making one final confirmation on whether it was time for profit distribution, he nodded.

"Go ahead, this year is a bountiful year, let everyone celebrate."

Dividing the profits at the end of the month, just in time for the large market at the beginning of the month, would make everyone happy.

However, to not disturb the peace of the ancestors, after much thought, the Clan Leader of the Lin family decided not to conduct this event in front of the ancestral hall but instead chose the workshop as the location for division.

Now, within the boundaries of Lin Family Manor, expansion was continuing, creating more open spaces.

In front of the ancestral hall lies a large flat area, the school has a playground dedicated to children, the original threshing ground was expanded and transformed into a workshop, and the once-rough mountain paths in front of the workshop were evened into a large playground by Lin Wanwan spending money.

Thus, holding the distribution event in front of the workshop’s courtyard posed no problem.

Last night, when the Clan Leader of the Lin family, Lin Wanwan, Lin Mengbo, and others together with the workshop accountant tallied the accounts, the Clan Leader was almost startled by the figures reported by the accountant!

A small cotton cloth workshop, twice selling cotton cloth and cotton quilts within a month, had astonishing total earnings of 1,156 strings of coins!

Even after subtracting the cost of collecting cotton, the remaining amount was still remarkable!

This means, if Lin Family Manor’s self-planted cotton quantity were large enough, a single Lin Family workshop could achieve a tax revenue equivalent to an Upper County in just half a year! 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

As the Village Chief, who assisted the elders in collecting taxes for the court annually, the Clan Leader had a clear understanding of the approximate tax amounts in the surrounding ten-mile area.

The surplus amount of cotton collected by the workshop was enough to keep the women busy for another three months. If the initial costs were subtracted from this distribution, the subsequent three months would be pure profit!

Too much money, and someone going from rags to riches could lead to problems.

Thus, the Clan Leader decided not to distribute all the money, keeping a portion in the workshop’s collective account. Each household would receive a small amount to make them happy and gradually become wealthy.

Lin Wanwan did not oppose this, and those who grew up listening to the Clan Leader, like Lin Mengbo, naturally had no objections. As for the workshop accountant, a person whose whole life was controlled by the Village Lady of Le’an, he dared not say a word.

Today, every household received their share based on their total work points. Families with more strong laborers could receive over a dozen strings of coins and two pieces of silk fabric, while those with less still received seven or eight strings and two pieces of silk fabric. It’s not a fortune, but it’s enrichment enough to bring joy.

For exceptional cases like the widowed and lonely Fourth Uncle’s wife, their household also received caring money of five strings and one piece of silk fabric.

Lin Wanwan further proposed, as the Village Lady, to subsidize one string each for every household with seniors over fifty in the clan.

This meant that even though Fourth Uncle’s wife due to aging and eye ailments couldn’t contribute to the clan’s collective toil, she still received six strings and one piece of silk fabric.

There was actually only one such household in the clan like Fourth Uncle’s wife, so no one voiced opposition. When there was a capacity, caring for the clan’s elderly and children was rightful, an age-old tradition.

The families who could survive the dynastic changes generally carried these traditions.

Previously, everyone was too poor, struggling to feed their own close kin, let alone care for a solitary elder like Fourth Uncle’s wife, but the scenario at Lin Family Manor had changed, with promising prospects visible ahead.

In this distribution, Lin Wanwan uniquely received a hundred strings, as she was the major shareholder of the workshop.

Others couldn’t even muster interest in finding out how much Lin Wanwan received. The gap was too vast, unnecessary to know. She was the Village Lady, different from any of them. It was her who built the workshop, invented the machines, imparted the skills, so she deserved the most.

Upon receiving her share, Lin Wanwan generously declared an evening bonfire party for the entire clan, serving roast whole lamb!

She ordered thirty lambs in town, which would be delivered via water route this afternoon, enough to satisfy the forty-two families of the clan!

The entire workshop yard burst into an atmosphere of jubilation, even drawing the attention of the children in school, leaving them unfocused.

Unaware of what excited the adults today, they couldn’t fathom why the adults cheered so loudly~

However, those teachers who knew about today’s profit sharing at Lin Family Manor were secretly pondering how much money was shared to cause such elation among these farmers.

Teachers were among the most aware of Lin Wanwan’s wealth, as she covered their monthly salary and meals, experiencing firsthand the high standard of food at the school.

"Lin Family Manor is on the rise,"

Muttered Teacher Chen, twirling his beard.

He was the first teacher Lin Wanwan hired and had watched the changes at Lin Family Manor bit by bit. Now, even his wife and children had moved over to live in the school dormitories, no longer considering returning to the cramped house in town.

Back in his own family, his elder brother’s households didn’t think much of him, seeing him as a rather unsuccessful scholar who, despite a lifetime of study, hadn’t achieved much.

Nevertheless, Teacher Chen, taking a refined pastry out of his pocket and popping it into his mouth, smiled slightly.

Those relatives and neighbors who looked down on him would surely never know how comfortable his retirement life at Lin Family Manor was.