At the foot of Baishi Mountain in Lao Zhutian, Zhao Yuan was entertaining Wan Yunjun, Zhang Xucong, Ran Yanbo, and Wang Pinxuan, who came over early. After Miao Shijie arranged for Shi Hai's team to follow Tao Pu to see the land and buy land, he continued to chat with a few people.

"Brother Atom, I took a look, it doesn't seem that the money our cement workshop made last year was not much?" Zhang Xucong looked at the general ledger of the cement workshop and said jokingly.

"Yes, although our investment is not very large, but the cement sells so well, why do we only make so much money, of course, I don't mean that you have inked our money." Wang Pinxuan said in a loud voice, in his opinion, the scale of the cement workshop does not match the money earned.

In fact, the cement workshop is still in the stage of a large amount of investment, and in just half a year, starting from scratch, it is now able to make more than 18,000 profits on the account, which is a very happy thing in Zhao Yuan's view.

But compared with the beautiful money-making data of the soap workshop, Zhang Xucong, who had been in the soap business for a while, was not satisfied with the fact that the cement workshop only had such a little money in its account. Although he knew that Zhao Yuan would not be greedy for the money of the ink cement workshop, after all, several of them were sent to have people in the workshop, and they were all in important positions, but the reality was still a lot far from their expectations.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Wang, Brother Ran, and Second Brother, when we built this cement workshop, we said that this is a business with a large investment in the early stage, to be honest, we are still making money in our accounts, or because most of the manpower we use is free labor." Zhao Yuan said reasonably.

"Yes, Liushao, most of the last year the atom was busy working for the cement workshop, you look at the current cement workshop, don't you think this is a miracle?" Wan Yunjun said in admiration.

In Wan Yunjun's opinion, everything on the side of the cement workshop is very fresh, the neatly arranged residential bungalows, the people who go to work in an orderly manner, and the big chimneys of the cement workshop that are constantly emitting white smoke day and night.

The cart pushing raw materials in and out was busy and orderly, and the spirit of the people made Wan Yunjun and the others feel shaken in their hearts, this is a place that is completely different from other places.

"Moreover, the cement workshop will continue to invest, last year's money, I have no intention of dividing, this year will expand the scale of the cement workshop, this point I want to talk to a few people, if you have an opinion, you can also say, our business is business, friendship is friendship." Zhao Yuan said seriously.

"I don't have a problem with the expansion of the cement workshop, but now there is not enough money in the account, do you still want us to pay?" Wang Pinxuan said with some dissatisfaction.

Among them, he is the poorest, although he earns a lot of money, but the habit of spending money lavishly makes him full of disappointment when he thought he could get a sum from the cement workshop.

"It's not necessary to take out the money, at most, the expansion of the cement workshop is a little slower, but in the past two years, it is better not to think about taking money from the cement workshop." Zhao Yuan appeased Wang Pinxuan and said with a smile.

"That's not good news!" Ran Yanbo shook his head and said.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Wang, Brother Ran, we have to take a long-term view, what is money, it is something that can be earned at any time, no matter how much there is, it will not improve the status of the three of you in the family much. No matter how much money you have, if you don't have a pocket, it's something that can be taken away at any time. ”

Zhang Xucong nodded, recognized Zhao Yuan's words, and said, "Brother Atom, can this cement workshop bring us a boost in status?" ”

"Impossible, how much money does the cement workshop make?" Wang Pinxuan said in disbelief.

"Later, I will know, several people know the role of cement, not only can be used to repair houses and roads, but also can be used to strengthen city walls, build hydraulic facilities, it is very versatile, once this is recognized, plus we have steady development, then no one will be able to take it from us, so I need the support of the three." Zhao Yuan said solemnly.

Zhang Xucong, Wang Pinxuan, and Ran Yanbo, although they are on the edge of the powerful families in places like (Cheng) Chendufu, but below, the names of the three major families, a small county like Danling, have a huge influence. There are not many people below who dare not to give face to the Zhang family, the Wang family and the Ran family.

What Zhao Yuan needs most now is such an opportunity to develop under the tree, especially after taking the step of opening a cement workshop, the situation forces him to keep moving forward.

Zhang Xucong and the three of them said to Zhao Yuan that although it is not a big tree, it can also block a lot of wind and rain.

"If there were a lot of cement walls to build on, then such a city would be impregnable, but there is not that much cement to use at the moment."

"So, our main goal this year is to expand the scale of the cement workshop, and now we have all the familiar hands, everything in the cement workshop has been formed, and it is not difficult to do this, and now there are only a lot more refugees outside than when we created the cement workshop last year." Zhao Yuan said.

"I have no opinion, but it is best not to build the cement workshop beyond the two counties of Danling Tongyi, otherwise this cement workshop will only become another soap workshop." Zhang Xucong said in agreement.

"In addition, in terms of employing people, I am ready to give the workers of the workshop a few years to start working with money, and then let them work for free, there is no problem in a short time, but after a long time, there will definitely be chaos."

"Most of these people in the cement workshop are either refugees who came here at the beginning, or bandits and bandits captured by the workshop army, give them food, do they still have to pay for work?" Wang Pinxuan frowned and said, part of the money earned by the cement workshop belongs to him.

"We have to pay for the work, and we need to discuss that we can take out some of our share and distribute it to some stewards and skilled workers in the workshop." Zhao Yuan continued.

"What, you want our minus to take them out and give them to these mud legs!" Wang Pinxuan stood up suddenly, very incomprehensible.

"Yes, this is also the most important point I want to say, if our cement workshop wants to become bigger and stronger, we must rely on this." Zhao Yuan confirmed.

"I don't have an opinion, atom, you just have to make a charter." Wan Yunjun was the first to express his support.

"Wan Ershao, of course you have no opinion, after all, the soap workshop, you can share a lot of money every month, but the three of us can't, because of the cement workshop, this time we went back and said that we don't want the family's monthly money every month, and we don't interfere in the family's business, and now tell us that we don't have any money for the past two years, you say, how do we live, we are another big family to support." Wang Pinxuan said excitedly.

"Wang Laosan, don't be so excited." Zhang Xucong reminded.

"Okay, Brother Atom will figure it out for us." Wang Pinxuan looked directly at Zhao Yuan.