Volunteer Recruitment
At this time, Xiushui City will issue a volunteer recruitment notice, soliciting willing cultivators to assist in the construction of the railway.
Of course, this volunteer work isn't done for nothing. Xiushui City will issue volunteer certificates to these cultivators, one certificate per person. The certificates are made by the Lingxian Sect's Artifact Refining Hall and Talisman Making Room using special techniques, so there is absolutely no possibility of impersonation. This volunteer certificate can grant certain preferential treatment within Xiushui City.
For example, at some special auctions in Xiushui City, a list of items will be provided to volunteers in advance.
Although this preferential treatment is not a direct benefit like paying Spirit Stone, it is still something many cultivators are eager to obtain, so it is not difficult to recruit volunteers.
If the hundred or so people from the Lingxian Sect were to handle all these matters, it would definitely not be enough. The people in the Lingxian Sect already have a full schedule of work, and many disciples hold multiple positions. If they were to stop what they are doing to work on this new railway construction, not only Lingxian Sect, but also the progress of various transactions in the Mortal Realm and the Immortal Cultivation Realm would be significantly affected.
Therefore, the only manpower that Xiushui City can mobilize in this matter is the Lingxian Sect disciples of the trading house. After all, most matters in the trading house are now fixed, and many things can be done by simply following the rules and procedures. Unlike the departments of the sect that have production tasks, a lack of manpower will result in a significant loss of goods.
However, the trading post itself doesn't have many Lingxian Sect disciples stationed there, so the help it can provide is limited. Fortunately, Xiushui City has been steadily recruiting and training staff in recent years, so even though they were suddenly assigned such a big task, they were able to come up with a plan for the time being.
However, they immediately needed to recruit more people.
"Uncle Lin, how should we recruit people? Should we offer long-term positions or dismiss them once the work is completed?" In the city lord's mansion of Xiushui City, Xuanyuan Haoyue asked Lin Yun, who was working at his desk approving various documents.
She held a small notebook in one hand and a pen in the other, ready to take notes at any time. Although she was already in the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, she could remember these matters simply by using her brain.
Actually, it's just that I've had more contact with the people in the sect's Finance Hall, and I feel like that makes me seem more professional.
Xuanyuan Haoyue is Elder Liu Chun's disciple. Due to the chaotic generational hierarchy of the previous generation in the Lingxian Sect, the disciples of Azure Cloud Peak initially did not know how to address many of their seniors. Later, Lin Xiao simply decided that all the elders of the sect should be treated as the same generation! The disciples of Azure Cloud Peak address all the sect seniors other than their own masters as Shishu or Shibo.
As for whether someone is a senior or junior master, it's determined by their age.
In other words, according to the sect's seniority, Lin Xiao's father, Lin Dayou, and his grandfather Lin Quan, are of the same generation.
Not only the Lin Household, but also the elders of the other families.
For this, Lin Xiao was privately smacked on the forehead many times by his elders.
However, after cultivating for so long, everyone had long since stopped caring about seniority. It was just a form of address. The main reason for establishing a unified seniority was to make it easier for the new disciples to address them. Apart from teasing Lin Xiao, the elders didn't really care.
Lin Yun looked up and saw it was Xuanyuan Haoyue. He paused for a moment before pulling his mind away from his work at the desk and going over the questions the other party had asked, "Try it out first. If someone is hardworking, diligent, and willing to learn, then sign a long-term contract."
"But isn't our factory responsible for building trains? The number they need to build is always limited. What will they do after they've built the required number?" Xuanyuan Haoyue, who was in charge of this recruitment, came to ask Lin Yun this question specifically because she had this concern in mind.
"It's alright. The trains aren't finished once they're built. There will be maintenance issues later. We can have permanent staff from the factory stationed at each train maintenance point. Besides, this construction factory isn't going to be disbanded after the job is done. After all the trains are built, there will always be some that are damaged and need to be replaced. So we still need to keep people in the factory," Lin Yun said.
"I see... Thank you for your guidance, Martial Uncle!" Upon hearing Lin Yun's explanation, Xuanyuan Haoyue suddenly understood. "Then I won't disturb Martial Uncle's work any longer. I'll go and make the arrangements immediately!" After saying that, she bowed and took her leave.
Watching the person leave, Lin Yun sighed inwardly.
How come this younger brother has so many ideas? He just stabilized trade with sects and royal families in various places, and he's already starting a new project, a super big one at that, covering the entire transportation routes of the Mortal Realm.
However, once this is accomplished, all the people will benefit.
I don't know whether to call my younger brother reliable or unreliable.
Lin Yun smiled and shook his head, continuing to carefully review the documents on the desk.
These are the details discussed with various countries recently. They have already been finalized in meetings, but as long as the scope is large enough, more and more problems will arise. They still need to think about solutions to these problems one by one, and then they will need to meet again to discuss and refine them.
Who could have imagined that the farm boy who helped his family with farm work every day just a few years ago would now be the lord of a city, handling letters and documents from various royal families and sects throughout the Mortal Realm?
In fact, Lin Yun didn't have any very clear goals in life.
His family was poor, and the whole village was poor. Back then, everyone had to work their hardest just to have enough to eat. His elders were all hardworking farmers, so he followed suit and became a hardworking farmer as well.
One day, his younger brother, who had been raised by his father and himself since childhood, suddenly came home and said that he had started a cultivation sect and wanted to bring his whole family along to cultivate. It would be a lie to say that he wasn't interested.
Seeing his younger brother's amazing skills, Lin Yun, who had lived in the village for over ten years and had never seen much of the world, was naturally very tempted.
However, Lin Yun has always been a calm and composed person, and whether or not he cultivates is ultimately up to his family's arrangement.
Eight years have passed in the blink of an eye.
In just eight years, he learned to read and write, and even became a monk whom he had previously thought only existed in stories.
He transformed himself from an illiterate peasant boy into the lord of a city.
Lin Yun had no arrogance about becoming the city lord of Xiushui City. To him, it was just a position, the same one he held in the Lingxian Sect, except that the job was to manage Xiushui City.
When he first took the job, he was even a little overwhelmed by the complex and massive workload.
Just when he finally managed to get things sorted out and started making steady progress, allowing him to catch his breath, Lin Xiao would immediately have new ideas waiting to be implemented.
Although this kind of life was tiring, Lin Yun was very happy that his idea of helping Lin Xiao had come true.