Strict Rules for Reward and Punishment
"In the future, it will be very easy for everyone to have spiritual fruits to eat. You will get more pay for more work. I promise that you can get several fruits every month, and they are all excellent spiritual fruits produced by us."
Luke's opening speech immediately made all the maids unable to sit still. They were so excited that they kept asking if it was true.
"Of course it is true, but if you want to eat spiritual fruits, you need to work more, so the spiritual fruit is more of a reward... If you do not do as well as before, the punishment will range from deduction of the salary to banishment or being handed over to the lady."
The group of maids immediately restrained themselves, they did not dare to breathe and listen carefully!
The five mammies also felt the hidden dangers under this gift and reward and punishment system...
They were old mammies, but at least thousands of servants have served the Juel family so far. The old ones who could stay until now knew more about the cultivator's temper, so they also showed a focused and serious expression.
Luke was very satisfied with the atmosphere he had created, and only then did he come up with the plan he had made in his mind.
The content was very simple!
The Juel family only required the maids to apply the "Water Control Art" to the spiritual fruit trees twice a day, then they were qualified, but his own rule was that they could apply the "Water Control Art" more, once every four hours, and once more they used it, they could receive an excellent spiritual fruit, but the process must be qualified.
It was the same with the spiritual grain fields. Every time they used the "Rain Distribution Art" to accelerate the ripening of spiritual grain fields, they could get a spiritual fruit.
Later, Luke appointed Elena and Fiona as supervisors and recorders without avoiding nepotism. Whenever a maid wanted to use the "Water Control Art" for the third time, they would go to observe and record, and then rewarded the spiritual fruits themselves.
Finally!
Luke also announced a rearward plan:
If someone could stick to the "Water Control Art" and "Rain Distribution Art" for more than three consecutive days and use them more than three times a day, he would reward her an additional excellent spiritual fruit.
Not only the maids were moved, but the five old mammies could not sit still and moved to the front to ask for details, especially about whether the lady supported this.
"Within this month, the lady has given me the greatest power. I have the final say in everything in the yard. If you cooperate, the reward system will continue in the future. But if you do not cooperate, I will leave in a month and everything will be just like before."
Luke did not dare to neglect these old mammies.
They could serve the Juel family for decades. They were all excellent people. Although they have only mastered "Water Control Art" and "Rain Distribution Art" and were not real cultivators, but their power was not inferior to that of second-grade cultivators.
"That's good."
The group of old mammies were relieved, formed a circle and no one knew what they were discussing. Then they elected a mammy surnamed Murphy to negotiate.
"Butler Hans, we plan to use the "Rain Distribution Art" twice a day in the future, and then can we really get the spiritual fruit?"
"Of course."
Luke nodded, then pointed to Elena and Fiona: "But they must be present to supervise, and the intensity of the "Rain Distribution Art" cannot be inferior to before, as long as they think there is no problem, you can find me through them to take spiritual fruit..." Speaking of which, he paused, looking at the group of maids, his tone turned harsh, "But then again, if you prevaricate and deceive me with sisterly feelings, I believe you know the fierce methods and lie detection of the lady, and I don't need to elaborate on the consequences."
The five mammies quivered.
The group of maids with different plans were also woken up and broke out in a cold sweat.
That was right.
Elena and Fiona were accommodating, but the lady was in the yard, observing everything in the yard, what if...
At the thought of the picture of many maids and servants being brought down in the Juel family, some people with crooked thoughts gave up their thoughts.
As soon as the rules were announced, they came into effect.
In the evening, when the first batch of spiritual fruits were ripe, a group of maids became extremely active in their work. They picked and sealed the spiritual fruits they were responsible for and sent them to Luke.
Luke also breathed a sigh of relief.
With this batch of spiritual fruits, his rules would have the basis to establish the implementation.
But...
The quantity was more than expected.
Twenty-seven maids sent 940 spiritual fruits to him, most of the trees had 35 spiritual fruits, and five trees had 34 fruits.
Sam, oh, Sam.
No wonder the lady did not hesitate to take away your position as butler. The spiritual fruits alone could be intercepted more than 100 pieces every month, which was not a small amount.
Luke did not rush to report.
He believed that the lady had been watching his every move and must had known some things.
That night, Elena and Fiona were busy all night. They were dragged around by their little sisters. In the end, they had no chance to use the "Water Control Art". They watched the performances of other sisters and mammies and were exhausted.
"Oh, I'm exhausted."
"It's all because of Luke, making us supervisors and recorders. As a result, we worked hard all day and didn't get anything, while the sisters ate happily."
As soon as Fiona entered the door, she lay prone on the table with a bitter tone.
Elena also kept hammering her neck, and her expression was almost twisted into a vivid word "tired".
On this day, the results were remarkable, and 30 spiritual fruits were sent out in one night.
Elena said with concern, "It doesn't matter that we work hard, as long as we arrange the time, observe together, we still can take time to take care of our two spiritual trees, the problem is you, you suddenly sent out so many spiritual fruits, if the lady knows you are so prodigal, maybe she will punish you then!"
"Ha-ha, when the time comes, you will know."
Luke pulled out a jade box with a smile, took out some spiritual fruits from the inside and handed them to the two girls: "You two sisters help me with my work. I will never mistreat you. Two fruits for each of you. I hope you will forgive me for not letting you know in advance."
"Well, that's more like it."
Fiona was as happy as a mouse stealing the fruits, holding two spiritual fruits giggling.
"Spiritual fruits can not only restore some of the spiritual energy, but also have an excellent effect on relieving fatigue and sleepiness. I can't bear to see you so tired."
"I'll spare you this time. Mm-hmm, it tastes good!"
Fiona ate the spiritual fruits, was satisfied with a face of happiness holding her small mouth in both hands, and did not want to let go of any juice.
"Elena, eat."
"Okay, okay, I'll eat."
Elena was still worried about Luke's squandering of the spiritual fruits and ate carefully.
Luke reminded with a smile:
"When you arrange the time well in the future, the daily reward will be a spiritual fruit, which will not conflict with your own reward for using the 'Water Control Art'."
"Really?"
When Fiona heard that she would have an extra fruit to eat every day, her eyes immediately smiled like a crescent moon and she was extremely happy.
Of course, it was real.
Luke smiled. Although he has not been in the wild world for a long time, he knew that there was a gap between mortals and cultivators. The cultivation of spiritual objects by mortals and that by cultivators were two completely different concepts, and the benefits were far from each other.
Ordinary cultivators dared not let cultivators to take care of spiritual objects, let alone train a group of cultivators to take care of spiritual objects...
The Juel family did not have the confidence either.
In order to maximize the benefits and achieve stable results at the same time, there were maids and old mammies who could only use "Water Control Art" and "Rain Distribution Art". Only in this way could these people be completely controlled.
Luke calculated the account!
As long as the reward and punishment system set up by him was carried out, the maximum number of spiritual fruits paid per day would be 30 or so, but the income of various spiritual objects could be increased by 50%.
To improve the efficiency by 50%, on later generations, the CEOs would not hesitate to let the people under their leadership carry it out.
However, in the wild world, cultivators looked down on mortals and always felt that mortals eating spiritual fruits was occupying their resources and was a waste. Therefore, the cultivation families in the Violet Cloud Town did not think about it at all...
Luke precisely intended to take this as a starting point to increase the income of the third yard, instead of entering the whirlpool of family business that he was completely unclear about.
After the two girls left, Luke made a special report to the lady.
Flora's response was bland.
As an ambitious female cultivator who wanted to take over the top chair of the Violet Cloud Town as soon as possible, she was not very concerned about the slight instability that this regulation may cause in the third yard.
She was more concerned about the 50% increase in efficiency mentioned by Luke.
That were 250 pieces of inferior spiritual stones per month, which meant that her monthly income exceeds Cheney Juel's and her cultivation speed would be greatly improved.
"Just do it, I only need the results."
Luke nodded and left.
A day passed.
The maids and old mammies of the third courtyard of the Juel family all went crazy.
The simple-minded ones were for a mouthful of celestial delicacy - after all, only cultivators were qualified to taste excellent spiritual fruits.
Most of the maids and the five mammies were, however, ambitious.
Between mortals and cultivators, those with clear minds would not hesitate to choose to become cultivators, even if there was only a slight chance!
Mortals usually did not have access to cultivation resources.
However, Luke's new rules gave the five mammies and the thoughtful maids a glimmer of opportunity.
Although the number of spiritual fruits was scarce and they could only get one a day at their current level, in the long run, there would be 30 in a month. With the help of the spiritual energy in spiritual fruits, it would be easy to become a first-grade cultivator after a long period of accumulation.
The mammies might even break through to the pseudo-second cultivators.
Luke also began to harvest the fruits after paying 30 spiritual fruits.
After three times of cultivation on the first day, Elena delivered the second batch of 940 fruits early the next morning.
Seeing the joyful steps of Elena, Luke laughed, "Now you should be relieved, right?"
"Yes!"
Elena nodded hard.
Originally, fruit trees ripened once every two days, now they ripened every four hours a day. Even if the maids were dull, they knew that the lady would not blame but would reward them. Luke's position as the butler was completely steadfast.
"With a 50% increase in the output of the spiritual fruits and Sam's understatement of the number of the spiritual fruits, the monthly profit is close to 60,000 spiritual coins, an increase of 24,000 spiritual coins or nearly two-thirds over the previous 36,000 spiritual coins per month. This item alone will earn 120 inferior spiritual stones. Now it depends on spiritual grain fields."
The implementation of the reward and punishment system was quite smooth. Luke finally had the confidence to take out a fruit and put it into his mouth, and continued his pressurizing cultivation with the damaged spiritual fruit tree.