Chapter 289 - 255: Considerate of Workers_2
Madam didn’t say much, but she actually felt that he lacked experience.
He wasn’t someone to manage an estate, yet he had hired those who had previously worked as long-term workers in Ye’s Mansion. As workers, their main task was management, but he truly lacked agricultural experience.
To properly manage the estate, he rode here every day to oversee the construction of the house, resulting in him not only becoming darker but also thinner than before.
Housekeeper Meng couldn’t make sense of it all, and the rich man in the village was even more baffled.
In the last two years, seeing the fruits and rice harvested by Ye Manor, they could only feel envious, unable to gain a share of it.
They even thought about sabotaging it, but it seemed that the other houses were strictly guarded. There were no longer any riffraff in the village, and even when they hired people from outside the village to do it, they fled at the barking of the estate’s dogs before they could even reach it!
The rich men also secretly visited Ye Manor to observe that everything other people grew made money — seeing Ye out-earning them and watching their family prosper made them wish to destroy Ye’s resources.
With no other strategies available, they could only manage their fields better. They noticed that the poor in the village were becoming richer, the wages demanded by the workers were going up, and they were earning less money, which led them to harbor resentment towards the Ye family in their hearts.