Chapter 526: Why 526
"The servants will definitely remain loyal from now on." Three managers kowtowed repeatedly.
"Alright, rise all of you," Ye Jiu said.
"Please, Madam Zhu, tally up the accounts—how much are all these people together?" The people Ye Jiu referred to included the families of the three managers, though he did not specifically ask how many family members they had.
As long as the people were useful, everything else was trivial.
Ye Jiu was quite easy to speak with, and the wages he offered to those who worked for him were not low. As long as they worked diligently, supporting their families would certainly not be a problem.
Madam Zhu, overjoyed, accepted the abacus passed to her by a servant and began clicking away, "Twenty young maidens, each at twenty taels of silver, totals four hundred taels. Four old maids, each at fifteen taels, totals sixty taels. These three managers, each at fifty taels, total one hundred and fifty taels. As for their families, I won’t ask too much, just add another hundred taels of silver to take them all, totalling seven hundred and ten taels of silver."
Except for the two managers who were a bit more expensive, everyone else, in this era, a living and breathing person, was actually just worth the price of an ox.
No, perhaps even less than an ox, considering that the prices in the capital city were much higher than in their small town.