Since Kuroko swallowed the leather yard, he moved to the leather yard to live, anyway, there is nothing to worry about at home, one person, one dog, one bag, it's over.

It's just that Xueya, the girl, cried her nose, was reluctant for a long time, and then smiled. The girl found that Brother Kuroko lived at home, and she could only stay with him for two days a week, but she could see him five or six times a week in the town, and she would come to the leather yard to cook for Brother Kuroko every afternoon after school.

The leather yard is not far from the school, just east of the town.

The field is not big, and there are several mechanical equipment such as cutting machines, meat removal machines, and polishing machines, which are far from many, and most of the processes still rely on the end of work, which is actually very backward in detail. However, the people of Da Heishan have been dealing with leather since ancient times, and they are good at working hard, so this leather is quite good. Over the years, the leather yard has not completely stopped, but there is no fixed number of stops, and naturally there is no profit to talk about, but a lot of money has been posted into it. Of course, the real loss is not much, and most of them were eaten by the Liu family, such as the 30% of the shares of the town government, which is said to have posted no less than 300,000 funds into it.

The bad debts were cut away, and Heizi was considered to be light, and began to send Zhang Mazi everywhere to collect skins and prepare to start work. There are many wild animals in summer, and ordinary hunters in the mountains often go into the mountains in the countryside, and the skins during this time will not be less, at least to cope with the supply of a small leather yard, which is absolutely enough.

But the villagers have a problem, that is, they like to keep the skin themselves, maybe they make a leather hat that day, make a leather collar for the puppy or something, and they don't want to sell it to Zhang Mazi cheaply, and the leather yard has not confiscated any leather over the years, and the price is lower than Zhang Mazi. These skins are all handled by the farmers themselves, rough and simple, strictly speaking, they ruin a good skin, and this kind of skin is of little significance, and it is better to harvest fresh.

So, Zhang Mazi visited the township and announced that the leather yard had started, and he was responsible for collecting the skin, and the price was slightly higher than before, which was higher than when the leather yard first started ten years ago. Everyone also has enthusiasm, and people from several villages have expressed that they want to sell skins to leather farms, among which, of course, Zhao Village is the most active.

Strictly speaking, the leather yard should be called a tannery, and the purpose of production is only to tann leather.

In his spare time, Zhang Mazi did not forget to give the "boss" Heizi a make-up lesson, so that he could understand more about the process of tanning, this guy dared to swallow the leather yard without knowing anything about tanning, which made Zhang Mazi always feel cold chrysanthemums. Zhang Mazi used to collect skins that were sold to tanneries in the city, so he had never eaten pork but had seen a lot of big fat pigs running naked, and his theoretical knowledge was quite rich.

There are also two kinds of tanning, light leather and heavy leather.

The leather generally used for shoe uppers, clothing, gloves, etc., is called light leather, which is measured by area; The leather used for the inner and outer soles of leather shoes and industrial accessories is called heavy leather and is measured by weight. Of course, the leather yard of sunspots is tanning light leather, the process of light leather tanning is actually cumbersome, after the bare leather is tanned by the most common chrome tanning technology, it is necessary to neutralize, dye and emulsion oil, and most varieties also need to be retanned, polished, printed, pressed and pleated after neutralization.

After a rigorous process, it can become qualified leather, or in other words, such leather can be sold at a good price, which is also the reason why Heizi and Zhang Mazi can't accept the shoddy leather made by the farmers themselves.

Furthermore, the day when Heizi sold the bear skin to Zhang Mazi was also fresh, that's the reason.

Of course, there are more than a dozen skilled craftsmen in the leather factory, all of whom are veterans of tanning in several nearby villages, who are familiar with the tanning process and can start working when they get the skins. Zhang Mazi said these things to Heizi, mainly because he was not at ease with a boss who didn't know anything about football.

Kuroko was very serious when he listened, and after listening, he said: "Try to use less machines, use more handwork, the craftsmanship is more exquisite, let's make handmade leather!" ”

"Be your sister...... Zhang Mazi almost vomited blood, and immediately retorted, "If manual work can solve the problem of efficiency, what is the machine used for?" ”

Kuroko said, "Is instant noodles delicious or is it better to call a day of ramen?" ”

"Of course the ramen is delicious." Zhang Mazi said.

"That's it." Kuroko explained his thoughts, "Our leather yard is semi-manual and semi-mechanical production, and the people of Daheishan are familiar with leather tanning, so let the skilled craftsmen bring a belt, practice makes perfect, we are not short of people, but the machine is lacking." You say efficiency, of course, can't catch up with machinery, but even if we have the money to buy machinery, do you think that Da Heishan can find so many people who can operate machinery? ”

"You can find it from the outside, dig the corners from the tannery in the city, but we are in the middle of nowhere, and it is estimated that it will cost more money."

"That's the reason, so we can't compete with the tanneries in the city. But our strength lies in the handicraft - the original! Babbling a little more and forming your own characteristics, instead of a bad thing. In recent years, mechanical manufacturing has been less popular than handmade. ”

Zhang Mazi has nothing to say, it's not that he doesn't want to insist on mechanization, it's just that he has no money, no one and no technology, which is really difficult. Now that I think about it, this is also the reason why the leather yard has gradually declined in recent years, not that the Liu family deliberately does not operate well, but that it is difficult to compete with large enterprises in the city. Zhang Mazi said: "It's a pity to discard the tasteless food, it's just chicken ribs." ”

Kuroko smiled: "What we do is feelings!" ”

After determining the road of hand-making, Heizi and Zhang Mazi no longer worry about buying machinery, there are machines for cutting and removing meat, and other processes are manual, just recruit people to teach skilled craftsmen, and practice with inferior leather first.

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Huo Zisong's loan to Heizila was in place, and in just a few days, the number of people in the leather yard doubled, reaching more than 40 people. The leather yard began to operate, the sunspot was easy, Zhang Mazi was tired of becoming a dog, he ran the supply of goods, supervised the processing, and went to the provincial capital to contact the buyer. Don't blame Zhang Mazi's cheap life, it was Heizi who drew another big cake for him, let Zhang Mazi get a commission, the more he sells, the more he raises, this product is calculated, and he earns several times more than before, and he doesn't want his life.

Luo Ximeng was pulled in as a financial manager and completely stood on the sunspot boat. The sunspot is more relaxed, like a landlord and old wealth, he takes the big white dog to patrol twice a day, and then returns to the cylinder building behind the leather yard.

These days, Kuroko has not been idle, although it seems so. In fact, Kuroko has been reading books and reading "The Wealth of Nations" in the hut every day.

Not to mention, let him really see a little way, if you compare the villages and towns around Daheishan to a country, there are too many idle people in this country, so many of them have time to go into the mountains to hunt, and go out of the mountains to take other people's daughters-in-law to drill haystacks. There is a large idle population, which causes a problem, poor, poor and poor, and poverty leads to extremely low labor costs.

While watching, Kuroko also thought at the same time, in this kind of place, the leather yard is mechanized, that is looking for death, there is no money, why bother? There are really a lot of people, recruiting dozens of hundreds, and it doesn't cost a few dollars, counting up, the same production effect is handmade but a lot cheaper, but the thatched houses in the field have to be expanded several times. Huo Zisong's brick factory and Wang Fengliang's coal mine are mainly manual, supplemented by machinery.

This is one of the reasons why Kuroko chooses to hand-tann leather, and the other reason is a little weird.

I don't know why, since that day after spoofing the corpse from the door panel, Kuroko always felt that there were a lot of things in his head, and he couldn't see it really, and occasionally a scale and half a claw appeared, which would surprise him for a long time. For example, this time, a complete piece of information about leather tanning to sales made him ponder for a long time. This line of thought is not his, but it is his. Roughly like this, the labor here is cheap, so it is handmade, and then start all kinds of speculation, from the semi-primitive customs of the Great Black Mountain to the craftsmanship of the craftsmen to tann the leather, everything is covered, and even the history of the Great Black Mountain leather making can be fictionalized for hundreds of thousands of years, take it out and publicize it, and the price of leather can be doubled.

"Okay, I haven't peeled apples for the past few days, and I've tampered with history?" Kuroko smiled self-deprecatingly, but he also felt that this was a good way, and the only way to compete with the technologically advanced tanneries in the city.