"Okay." Chen Jiye shook his spirits, asked how the salt was refined, how many people knew the secret recipe, how to keep it secret, and probably asked the cost, and the father and son were locked in the hall and pondered for more than an hour before they were satisfied.

Chen Jiye stroked his beard, squinted his eyes, looked at his son, and suddenly felt that this nerd in the past was much more pleasing to the eye.

Well......

He had a satisfied smile on his face.

Sure enough, it's my own.

Not only is he as handsome as himself, but he also knows how to refine salt, oh, how did he make it?

Although he had doubts in his heart, it didn't matter, he took a sip of tea, and said: "The matter of refining salt has to be handed over to our Chen family to rest assured, Chen Jiyong of the fourth room is also your uncle, he is different from others, others walk birds, he loves to squat on the ground and play with stones, and he plays all day, you can tell me about such a person...... Tsk......"

"But...... He was a little stuffy, but he was a calm and cautious man. Our recipe for refining salt cannot be passed on for the time being, so it is best to leave it to your fourth uncle. ”

Chen Zhengtai thought to himself, the Chen family is really a genius, what kind of nerves...... No, there are all kinds of talents.

He nodded hurriedly: "My son has written it down."

Chen Jiye sighed: "Tomorrow, I will play for my father."

"Upper?"

"Of course, it's to cry out for grievances." Chen Jiye squinted, with a particularly capable expression: "If you don't shout grievances, who in this world will know how difficult it is to be a father and this Chang'an salt and iron envoy now, Li Erlang, no, Your Majesty will hand over this hot potato to your father, if you don't complain, you can't get rid of your guilt if you do a bad job, and you don't have any credit for doing a good job, wouldn't you have suffered a loss from him Li Erlang for your father."

Chen Zhengtai looked at Chen Jiye with a surprised expression: "Adults are not stupid."

Chen Jiye looked stunned, looked at Chen Zhengtai in disbelief, and also looked shocked: "Aren't you stupid?"

Father and son stared wide-eyed, each projecting a pair of contempt at the other, both with some unspeakable disgust in their eyes.

......

There is a big family, and things are done quickly.

At least this fourth uncle, Chen Jiyong, looks very reliable.

His face was dull, his eyes were wooden, and he looked like a chicken, listening to Chen Zhengtai's hard statement, as well as his outlook for the future, he just smiled implicitly and honestly, and then said neatly: "Cheng."

The essence of communication lies in conciseness and effectiveness.

To put it mildly, don't be blind.

And Chen Zhengtai doesn't know this, his fourth uncle, whether he understands what he means, but it doesn't matter, as long as it is reliable. As for the manpower needed to refine salt, they are all selected from the clan.

The big clan is good at this, everyone knows the roots, when you fart, everyone knows who you are, not to mention that the family is relatives, in this era, one person commits a crime, the whole family suffers, the same reason, one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven, so the same clan is blended and does not distinguish between each other.

There is also a saying: they are all of the same clan, everyone knows you, if you dare to spoil everyone's affairs, the monk will not be able to run away from the temple, so the cost of betrayal and being bought by others is extremely high.

Somewhere outside Chang'an City, a simple small settlement began to be built, and then everyone was divided into several processes, some specialized in salt quarrying, and some specialized in salt refining.

After half a month, the Chen family's shop is still full of people.

A few days ago, I was paid, and seven or eight guys inside and out, but they couldn't help but be depressed.

Because Chen Gongzi set a new rule, wages are calculated according to performance. can be counted carefully, where is the performance of these groceries sold by Chen Ji. The location here is not the best, just barely close to the West Market, but there is some distance. There are many grocery stores like this.

As a result, wages have plummeted.

Some people began to come to the shopkeeper Li Xiao to wail, it was nothing more than that someone in the family was sick and had no money to get medicine. Or maybe you can't open the pot at home.

In just two days, he quit two guys.

Li Xiao frowned, in fact, he was not just a man, his salary was also seventy or eighty percent less, and the mother-in-law at home was already scolding.

Fortunately, Li Xiao still has some reputation in the shops along the street, after all, he has taken care of the Chen family's shop for more than 20 years, everyone knows that he is a person who keeps his duty, and never greedily withholds the goods and money of the owner.

Li Xiao was silent and politely rejected the kindness of others.

"Don't lose your temper. I, Li Xiao, have followed the Chen family for most of my life, and now that the Chen family is in trouble, how can I leave. ”

These are his words to those who came.

The other party smiled, and there was no reluctance.

But the shop was obviously hard to maintain, because the guys started to make a lot of noise.

Early in the morning, the shop opened, and Liu San, the guy in the store, had a sad face.

"Why, your mother's illness hasn't healed yet?" Li Xiao said softly.

Liu San's chicken pecked the rice: "Yes, shopkeeper Li, I have paid for the medicine on credit for three days, and if I don't pay for the medicine next time, the pharmacy will definitely not give the medicine."

Ay...... Li Xiao sighed, he was very considerate of these guys, thought about it, took out a dozen coins from his sleeve, this was his private money, counted five pieces out, and was about to stuff it to Liu San, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth, and simply stuffed a dozen coins into Liu San's hand, and said, "This disease can't be delayed."

Liu San looked ashamed: "The shopkeeper has already helped a lot, how can I ask for money." His face was swollen and red, and he wanted to refuse, but he was worried about his mother's condition, but he didn't refuse, he really couldn't go.

"Not really." Li Xiao sighed: "It's really not possible, you can find another job."

Liu San looked at Li Xiao in surprise: "Shopkeeper Li also wants me to go?"

"Trees die, people live." Li Xiao twisted his beard and gave him a serious analysis: "If you don't go, what should you do with your mother, do you have a family drinking the northwest wind?" The shop is no longer complete, I know this. Merely...... I can't go, I'm going to hang myself on the tree of the Chen family, the Chen family is kind to me. But you're different, you're young. ”

Liu San looked ashamed: "In the past few days, it is not that there is no business, but there are so many grocery stores along the street, and people's goods are still newer than ours...... I can't do it, I ...... I ......"

As he spoke, his face instantly turned red.

Li Xiao just sighed, he was very considerate of Liu San, what can be done?

At this point, the trees are falling and scattered, and the men are so much less paid, do they keep them working hungry?

After all, the son of the Chen family doesn't know the difficulties of the people below, he is still young, he doesn't understand anything, I heard that he loves to read, but he reads too much, and it is inevitable that he doesn't know how to be flexible.

He is planning to go all the way to the dark, and he will admit it to starvation, but these guys are all taken care of by himself, he is not unaware of the problem of the shop, the root cause is not that these guys do not work hard.

Liu San opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

But of course Li Xiao knew that Liu San wanted to say something that Chen Gongzi did not understand the world and did not sympathize with the suffering of his subordinates.

It's just that although Li Xiao also agrees, he will never speak ill of his master in front of others, so Li Xiao deliberately bowed his head, looked at the account books that had already been turned over, and turned a deaf ear.

It's noon.

Suddenly, someone brought in a truckload of goods.

Someone raised his leg into the shop and shouted, "Childe is here, Childe is here."

It was Chen Fu who spoke, and Chen Fu may have eaten too much salt recently, and his voice was a little hoarse.

When Li Xiao and the others heard this, they were busy cheering up.

Immediately, I saw Chen Zhengtai shouting at a few people: "Come on, come on, hang up the new plaque."

It turned out that he also brought a plaque, Li Xiao looked at the Chen family's son with clear eyebrows, and was suddenly dumbfounded, what kind of fame is this.

Ay......

It's endless.

Someone went to get the ladder, removed the original plaque, and hung up a new hot stamping plaque.

Li Xiao fixed his eyes and saw that the plaque reads - Chen Ji Salt Industry.

Chen Zhengtai looked up at the gilded characters, the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, and he was very satisfied, I, Chen Zhengtai, have a foothold in this world, just today.

All of a sudden, I suddenly felt that life was full of meaning.

"What? Childe, are we selling salt?" Li Xiao felt like he was going crazy, he didn't say hello, he turned his head, and changed careers?

Chen Zhengtai beckoned people to unload the goods, and one said: "Yes, sell salt, hurry up, don't delay." Come on, go and boil water for me, let's apply salt water, and then hang out the samples, everyone goes out to solicit customers, and tells everyone that Chen Ji Salt Shop will supply salt water to everyone for free today. ”

It's hard to explain this kind of thing to them. Therefore, Chen Zhengtai decided to be simple and rude: "Hurry up, otherwise the salary will be deducted!"

The guys in the store listened, and their faces were numb.

Also buckled?

If you deduct it again, you will have to paste it upside down to work for your Chen family.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, this stupid boy, he really doesn't know the world at all, how can he be blindly strict with his subordinates.

Besides, how can this business be like child's play?

He coughed: "Childe, the old man said a word about relying on the old man and selling the old, don't mind the old man, the old man is old, and the salt he eats is ...... than that of the child."

As soon as he said about eating salt, Chen Fu on the side stared at the big eyes and said, "Can you eat more salt than me?" I eat half a pound a day! ”

Li Xiao: "......"

Get! A poor man's tale cannot be heard. What's more, stopping Childe in person seems to have damaged Childe's face again.

Li Xiao was silent, so he had to tell the guys to get busy.