勅修百丈清規 4.43

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His office oversees all labor projects. Whenever halls or dormitory rooms are damaged or leaking, he constantly repairs them. For utensils in active use, he constantly verifies their count. For hired manual laborers, he checks their progress and dismisses those who are idle and lazy, not tolerating idle eaters who waste wealth and harm the common good. Fields, gardens, manors, gristmills, and pestle sheds; horses and livestock, boats and carts; fire lamps and thieves—he patrols, guards, and protects against them. In assigning tasks, giving orders, rewarding, and punishing, he must be entirely fair; he should always be impartial and diligent, and labor and leisure must be balanced. If there is major construction, additional people are added to oversee it jointly.