On the third day, the sales of Xishan Coal Industry were even more popular.

The long queue stretched from Chongnanfang in the east of the corridor to the west of the corridor, and thousands of people braved the bitter cold, waving copper coins in their hands to buy coal stoves and honeycomb coal.

Here in Xishan Coal Store, Qian Youcai has increased the manpower again, a full 50 guys, more than a dozen in the front store, specifically responsible for sales, more than a dozen guys in the middle are responsible for the pick-up and drop-off of intermediate goods, and there are nearly 20 guys in the back warehouse here to handle goods.

"Coal stove, coal stove, coal stove is sold out, move it out quickly~"

"Honeycomb coal, honeycomb coal, do things neatly, and there are still many people lining up in the cold behind."

"Out of stock again?"

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and go to Xishan to inform Liu Gongzi of the delivery."

Inside the store, all the guys were busy sweating profusely, out of breath, and the same was true for Qian Youcai, his voice was about to shout, he was too busy.

The goods have been placed outside the store to sell, as soon as the customer comes, he says that he needs it, and as soon as the money is paid, he immediately goes to the side to pick up the goods, as for how to use this honeycomb coal and coal stove, sorry, I really don't have time to teach you now, go back and ask the neighbors.

Qian Youcai drank tea, moistened his throat, and did a lifetime of business, which has never been so popular as now, in his memory, such a scene was only in the years of famine, when the imperial court opened a warehouse for disaster relief, countless people lined up in a long line with bowls one by one to drink porridge and eat steamed buns.

But now, these people are holding the copper coin in their hands one by one, and they are eager to quickly send the copper coin to their pockets.

It's nice to feel like everyone is lining up to give you money!

Looking at the guy who collected the money, several baskets were already full, and in the warehouse of the back warehouse, there was also a basket full of copper coins.

This copper coin is the most real, seeing this basket of copper coins, Qian Youcai feels that the whole person is full of joy of harvest.

Qian Youcai is busy here, and he receives cramps in his hands when he receives money.

In Xishan Village, west of Beijing, Liu Jin is also very busy, and the entire Xishan Village has now become a lively workshop, and the labor force of every household in Xishan Village is employed by Xishan Coal Industry.

On the coal mountain of Xishan, dozens of Xishan villagers wielded a mine hoe to continuously mine the black coal, and there were porters who specialized in picking coal, almost reluctant to take a breath, picking up the empty baskets here, and immediately carrying the baskets full of coal down the mountain.

As for the miners digging coal, they were all facing a pile full of coal, and as soon as they saw someone carrying an empty basket up, they immediately rushed to fill the basket with coal for each other.

In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, Liu Jin's system is the simplest and most effective system in later generations, that is, the piecework system.

This coal digger not only has to dig coal, but also to fill people with coal, how many baskets of coal are filled with a few pennies, as long as it is enough, at the end of the day, it is not a problem to easily earn dozens of pennies.

As for picking coal, all the baskets are of standard weight, and picking a load of coal can earn a few cents, although tired at the end of the day, but also make money, run diligently, and earn hundreds of cents is not a problem.

Coal picked up to Xishan Village, the first thing to enter is the rolling and crushing operation area, some villagers drive mules and horses to crush the coal, after crushing the coal will enter the coal washing area, coal washing.

From coal mining, transportation, crushing, coal washing, mixing, mixing, pressing and molding, drying and many other steps, Liu Jin has adopted a flowing working method and a simple and effective piecework system.

The same is true for the manufacture of honeycomb coal furnaces, one by one pottery kilns are built, the soil is mined for mixing and cooking, and then shaping, drying, firing, skinning, etc., which is divided into a lot of steps, and it is also the working mode of the assembly line, which greatly improves the efficiency of the work.

The whole Xishan Village has become extremely busy, thousands of laborers, all of them are busy sweating profusely, sweating profusely, and some young men even get shirtless in the winter, working very hard.

There are so few opportunities to make money like this.

In the past, in winter, everyone would be idle and have nothing to do, this is not like Liu Jin's hometown of Xiahetun, even in winter, you can still boil salt, this winter in Xishan Village, almost everyone is at home and has nothing to do.

In the past winter, the head of the family was the most temperamental, and the mother-in-law who was responsible for cooking was also the most budget-conscious.

But this winter is different.

Since Xishan Village was incorporated into Xishan Coal Industry, everyone originally thought that the future might be miserable, but they didn't expect that Liu Gongzi, the head of Xishan Coal Industry, was a very good person, and he worked for everyone, the key was that he gave a lot of money, and even included a lunch.

Where to find such a good thing, the people in the village squeezed their heads one by one to want to work in Xishan Coal Industry, at the beginning, Xishan Coal Industry did not employ many people, but since the honeycomb coal was sold, the whole village was hired, very busy.

"This coal washing must be cleaned, it must be washed twice repeatedly, and it must be supervised, if the sulfur in the coal is not washed off, there will be an accident."

Liu Jin took Zhao Erhu to inspect the various workshop areas of Xishan Coal Industry very leisurely, and encountered some places that needed to be paid attention to, and he also repeatedly told the person in charge.

"It's still too slow to transport coal from the mountains, just rely on people to pick it, and at most pick a few dozen catties at a time, it seems that we still have to find a way to see if we can see a cable to speed up the transportation of coal."

"And this transportation of honeycomb coal to the city is too slow, in the future to design a four-wheeled freight carriage, but this bearing is not easy to do, if this four-wheeled carriage can be made, it is not a problem to pull thousands of catties of goods at a time."

"This iron is too expensive, and I don't know if I can fool Emperor Hongzhi to let Xishan Coal Industry make iron by itself, so that the cost can be greatly reduced, but this salt and iron franchise is not easy to get."

While inspecting, Liu Jin was also thinking about how to improve efficiency and expand production capacity, among which Liu Jin was most troubled by the transportation capacity of this era, which was too weak.

Basically, they are carried by shoulders, and the better ones have wheelbarrows to push, or ox carts and horse-drawn carts to transport, but cattle and horses are expensive things, expensive, and ordinary people can't afford to use them at all.