Starry Sky of the Magic Tower

The little commotion outside the house is not in the eyes of everyone in the house. Lin also affirmed that the purpose of his trip was neither to find experimental materials, to sacrifice the entire village, nor to ask for a summon demon’s ceremony. His trip was just for the fruits of the mountains and valleys that no one cares about.

Of course, the forest is not just the output of one tree or two trees. If only this is needed, he and the two little disciples can do it by themselves. Anyway, this forest is also a masterless object, and the villagers can only stare and dare not do anything to the magician with the two-headed giant Great Demon beast.

However, Lin hopes to extract as much as possible and deal with it, so he needs manual help and a place to work. There is nothing more convenient than the people who live in this mountain and worry about winter food during the slack period of farming.

The requirement is very simple. According to Lin’s treatment process, the pulp and skin of the fruit are peeled off, leaving only the seeds inside. According to the weight of the seeds of the final product, Lin pays a corresponding remuneration.

When he shook a purse, he made a crisp sound to attract everyone’s attention. Then he arbitrarily spread the purse on the table, revealing the yellow color inside, and no one questioned Lin’s credibility anymore, just asking what he wanted to do.

Lin Xian picked out 5 Gold Coins from the purse, pushed them to the old man, and said, “This is the deposit I gave you first. It is probably the price we agreed on, XXV(25). The quantity of beans. I expect to stay for one to two months. If the output of beans is less than XXV barrels during this period, I will not ask you to pay back my remaining money. But if the output is much larger than the quantity of XXV , Of course I will pay you the reward you deserve for the agreed amount.”

Because this World does not yet have a good sack craft, so the preservation method Lin simply chose wooden barrels. In terms of ventilation, moisture-proof, fresh-keeping, mothproof, and insect-proof effects, wooden barrels are better than linen bags. The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, heavy. But does weight matter to the magician? So Lin ignored it.

A wooden barrel agreed to be filled with XXX days, which is 30kg of raw beans. For every five barrels, Lin pays I kiel (1 gold); and I kiel can buy coarse grains for a family of four for half a year. In other words, the V Kiel (5 gold) that Lin paid in advance is enough for everyone in this village to spend a month of winter and still have surplus. Cooperate with their original grain storage, and save a little bit more frugally. This winter, there is no need to worry.

It’s not wrong. For the economic scale is still in the primordial state, most people at the bottom have no consumption power, and in fact, there is no consumption demand. The purchasing power of Kiel, that is, Gold Coin, is very high. powerful.

As for the way of organizing and managing the manpower, Lin identified the old man in front of him as a window for him to communicate with the villagers. Including ordering work, and then distributing it to everyone after receiving remuneration. Of course, if you have any opinions, you can communicate with him through the elderly. Instead of personally organizing villagers who are willing to work for them.

Is it fair to do this?

I can only say, not at all.

At least in the case of Lin, the employer, who does not intervene too deeply, it is difficult to avoid behaviors such as the use of power for personal gain by the elderly, and naturally there is no fairness at all.

But this has several advantages. The most direct point is that I only have Gold Coin on my body. Without coins of lower value, it is difficult to give the corresponding compensation according to everyone’s labor. That being the case, it is a lot easier for Lin to concentrate on one person, and then let him use other methods to reasonably pay for the fruits of everyone’s labor.

The second point, Lin is completely unfamiliar with the people in this village. To manage everyone in the form of hired workers, let alone how much energy it will consume, whether or not believe the other party will let him? How motivated is everyone? Who is suitable for what? Lin is not clear about these things, so naturally there is no need to mention work efficiency.

In this case, it is better to adopt the form of contract labor. Lin is only responsible to one person, and this person coordinates other chores. And the best candidate is, of course, the first elder who dared to come into contact with him, and the only one who accepted his gift of kindness, the original Gold Coin.

For such a person, as long as Lin is not asking too much, the old man will faintly stand on Lin’s side. Because he will understand that his power comes from the money Lin gave. So if you don’t want to lose the opportunity of bully people by flaunting one’s powerful connections, you can only fawn up a little.

Furthermore, this is only the first transaction. When they can actually use their labor and get a reward, then discuss with them how to grow coffee trees in a planned way, and improve the subsequent processing procedures, and then deliver them to their own hands living in Wulian City. .

These words will be more useful after they have tasted the sweetness for the first time. If it is to make such a request now, and make a plan that I think is 100%, then it is different from drawing a big cake and putting it in front of them. The initial trust has not been established, and the subsequent plans and ideas are empty talk. He is not the lord of this place, and he has no power to order anyone.

However, none of these considerations seem to have existed in the hearts of these mountain people. They simply believe that there are advantages or disadvantages to doing so. Do what is good, and reject what is bad. Their attitude in life is that simple.

So under Lin’s orders, nearly a hundred people in the village, including the elderly and children, moved. Maybe some old and weak are not suitable for too heavy work, but there is no age limit for harvesting fruits. As long as you have hands and feet, you can go back and forth a few more times to gather the fruits in your basket.

Even if your feet are really inconvenient, you can still perform the task of selecting beans for the 2nd Step. The main purpose here is to pick out impurities, such as pebbles, and to eliminate obvious inferior beans.

At the beginning of Third Step, it is a bit heavy. The first is to dig a pool, and there is a mountain stream next to the small village, from the higher mountain, the source does not flow down Danger Land, just can lead water into the pool. The next step is to throw all the coffee berries into the water, the ripe and full fruits will sink to the bottom of the tank, and the immature or incomplete ones will float to the surface.

Fourth Step started with disagreements. Half of the fruit will be spread on the exposure field in the village and dried in the sun. Turn daily to allow the fruits to dry evenly. Cover at night to avoid moisture. Exposure time, it takes about two weeks to all around. This is the so-called solarization method in the processing of green coffee beans.

The other is of course the washing method. It needs to roughly remove the peel and pulp, and then put the coffee seeds attached to the mucous membrane into the fermentation tank. After about a day to a day and a half, the pectin mucosa will become well cleaned. At this time, use a lot of water to remove the mucous membrane and remaining pulp.

The Fifth Step of the sun exposure method is to remove the hardened outer layer and to remove the shell of the seed. In this way, it is complete.

The Fifth Step of the water washing method is to expose and dry the coffee beans for about one to three weeks. Finally, the shelling is completed, and all the steps are completed.

Between the two, the flavors are of course different. Lin hasn’t drank it before, so naturally he doesn’t know which way of coffee from Midi is suitable. As for the solarization method and the washing method, the time required is similar. The difference is that the washing method requires a lot of clean water, so it is difficult to carry out some places with insufficient water resources.

The work has been carried out quite smoothly. After all, it is something in the land, which is familiar to this group of people.

And all kinds of plans, including exposure sites, treatment plants, fermentation tanks, washing tanks, etc., are also formed one by one under the arrangement of the villagers.

Intermittently, apart from opening his mouth for guidance, Lin did not provide other assistance. In any case, he is an employer. This is not a war, you have to rely on the first soldiers to boost morale. Doing too much or doing too much may not be able to please other people, but it will only increase the pressure of others.

In terms of proficiency, I am definitely not as good as these people who have been in farming for a lifetime, so don’t make trouble.

In the whole mountain forest, coffee trees are just one of them, and they are a relatively large species. Because it is a wild plant and has not been planned and taken care of, the output of coffee fruits is definitely not as good as that of Earth’s coffee farms. However, Lin Da roughly calculated that this mountain forest could produce roughly 3,600 barrels of coffee.

But that is the inference data of Earth’s use of machine-assisted production. Taking into account that some parts of the mountain are not conducive to harvesting, the villagers here are not only purely artificial, but this is the first time to do such work, and the process may not be very smooth. So this output has to be discounted.

In the next month, during the work, only Lin knows the complete process, and only he knows what to get in the end. Although he didn’t keep an eye on the work situation of everyone at all times, he was invited by the elder to confirm whether each step was appropriate.

Many machines and equipment are not available in the magic world, so I can only think of some alternative methods. When Lin asked, he didn’t force everyone to follow the method he said. Instead, they put forward some feasible solutions to discuss with everyone. Of course, someone can come up with a better solution, and it is actually recognized after everyone uses it, and Lin doesn’t hesitate to reward it.

The reward of one Gold Coin at a time has stimulated the enthusiasm of the villagers very well. It’s not that there are whimsical opinions, but Lin didn’t provide any assistance, but the person who wanted to comment did it himself.

With the ability of ordinary people, the work that can be completed, and the recognition of everyone, this kind of craft is what he needs. If you have to deal with anything by the masters and use magic to solve it, doesn’t it mean that you have it every year, or you hire other magicians to assist you in order to complete the harvesting and processing of coffee beans? This is putting the cart before the horse.

It is in this environment that the Midi version of the pulp separator and the hulling machine came into being. Although it is very simple, it is several times more efficient than manually processing such a large number of coffee berries.