Listening to Li Ying's words, Qin Bai was speechless for a while. After the alliance of small families occupied the private mines, they used those mine blacks to death. In just a few days, there are many sick and disabled. Moreover, when they were evacuated, they brought in a lot of their own sick and disabled mining slaves, all of which were thrown to Qin Bai, which could be regarded as getting rid of the burden.

But those were all living people, could Qin Bai watch them die without saving them?

Suddenly, Qin Bai felt a little strange, and looked up and asked Li Kang: "Dare!" How could so many people be left? Is that much money for them? ”

If there were a dozen or dozens left, Qin Bai would be able to understand that those few people were disgusting themselves. But leaving hundreds of people at once, even if they are mine slaves, it will cost money to buy! No matter how big a family is, it can't be such a waste, right?

Unexpectedly, Li Dang knew about this: "Second brother, Shouguang and Anqiu had a disaster, and they didn't run to Yidu (Qingzhou Prefecture), but came to Laizhou." These days, there are a lot of people who have dragged their families, and there is a lot of chaos in and out of the city, so the monk wants to take advantage of the chaos. Now you don't have to buy it at all, it's not easy to cheat a few mine sunspots? ”

Qin Bai understood in seconds, it was time for the overflow of homeless people again, there were people everywhere looking for work to survive, and human life was as cheap as a dog, and he would not cherish it at all. After understanding, Qin Bai smiled and said: "Suffering is a blessing, then save people!" ”

To be honest, most of these people are actually short of medical treatment and malnutrition, and they can basically be cured. Anyway, after opening the mountain gate, hundreds or thousands of people are not afraid, and now there are more than hundreds of people who eat, what will they be afraid of?

Thinking of this, Li Kang asked about opening the mountain gate: "Second brother, when are you going to open the mountain gate?" ”

"The eighth day of the first month. Let's have a good year for everyone! ”

“……”

Qin Bai had already taken off his shirt, and Ding Yao was standing behind him lightly, applying medicine to him. Miao Ya on the side poked her little head curiously. And Qin Gaole broke in, and when he saw Ding Yao, his eyes lit up: "Sister Yao'er, I want to eat jujube mud cake." ”

Qin Bai glared at Qin Gao, in the past few days, his stupid younger brother has been bought by Ding Yao's various small snacks, looking at this appearance, he is eating jujube pills!

Ding Yao chuckled: "It's not there today, I'll do it for you tomorrow." ”

"Thank you, Sister Yao'er." Qin Gao happily sat down next to Qin Bai, "Sister Yao'er, let me tell you, last time, the second brother said that he wanted to marry the princess." You're going to have to do a few more tomorrow. ”

"Huh?" Qin Bai felt the little hand on his back tremble. He was almost half angry, and he wanted to beat up this stupid brother.

Li Kang and Li Ying suddenly burst out laughing, and even Ding Yao behind him couldn't stop laughing. Only Miao Ya looked at her with admiration: "Master! You have a princess, will you live in the palace after that? Can you bring the slave and maid with you? ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Ding Yao smiled and stopped, "This is taboo." You can't talk nonsense out there. ”

The wound had already been scarred, Ding Yao's small hands were gentle, and Qin Bai felt numb and itchy on his back. He instructed Li Ying: "In the future, you will be in charge of the general ledger and the account book of matches, and the account of the private mine will be handed over to Xiao Dong." There's nothing to lose over there, and I'm not afraid of being known by outsiders. ”

"Oh." Li Ying's performance is becoming more and more like those female white-collar workers now, and she smiled, "I will do a good job in the money of the public account." But should the money from your private account be given to you, or to Sister Yao'er? ”

Ding Yao's heart suddenly "thumped" and couldn't stop. She bowed her head and remained silent, as if waiting for the verdict. This is basically a declaration of sovereignty, and one of the main manifestations of the heroine is to be able to manage the family's accounts.

With modern thinking, Qin Bai doesn't have this kind of common sense at all, in his eyes, who cares or not? Anyway, the people and the money are all in their own homes, and they won't run away with long legs: "Just leave it to Yao'er!" You can take it easy, too. ”

Ding Yao was relieved, and then smiled like a flower......

……

Perhaps because of such a big chaos for a long time, Jingjiazhuang has returned to normal in a few days. Only the charred ruins were what had happened on the day they were told.

Selling matches at odds didn't go well either. In the first few days, after running some volumes, the next few days were three or five boxes. After all, the market in Jingjiazhuang is too small, and there are too many poor families, even if you buy a few boxes, it is a few families who together borrow fire. And many people are still hesitant to buy it, and have a natural resistance to this new thing.

On the contrary, the sales volume of Laizhou City became larger and larger, and then two batches of 50 boxes each were delivered. The situation of the merchants is also not very good, only two are interested, one has 10 boxes, and the other is 20 boxes, all of which are buying some ready to try.

On the contrary, the production of match workshops is getting bigger and bigger, and slowly it has exceeded 60 boxes per day. In particular, after the matchsticks and matchboxes were subcontracted to various households, the raw materials for matches had already piled up under the stimulus of money. As a result, the match workshop had to reduce its production time, producing only one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. But even so, the number of matches piled up in Dongerfang has become more and more, and in just a few days, it has now exceeded 500 boxes.

Although the reduction in production time has allowed the people in the village to have enough time to train. But seeing that Qin Bai was spending money like flowing water, many people came to persuade him.

However, Qin Bai still did not change his mind, and categorically rejected those ideas to save money. He would rather reduce the production time and output than the amount of subcontracting, in order to give the poor families basic subsistence. He is also not willing to give up on those who are sick and disabled, as long as it can be cured by spending money, it will never be a problem. Fortunately, Ding Yao's arrival and the fact that he took a lot of medicinal materials from her clinic allowed Qin Bai to save a lot and barely maintain. In addition, the salaries and dietary benefits of his subordinates are also not reduced.

As a result, the people close to Qin Bai became more and more worried, and the other people in Jingjiazhuang also began to laugh at Qin Bai for being a fool.

In fact, not only the people around him, but even Qin Bai himself was slowly a little lacking in confidence. Could it be that matches really didn't have such a big market in the Ming Dynasty? Or is your own pricing too high?

Thinking about changes desperately, Qin Bai found a few original Jianghu guests under his command and asked them to set up a relationship with the rivers and lakes. He also asked the pillar to lead the team, arranged more than 20 people, with a hundred boxes of matches, and set off for the nearby Pingdu Prefecture.

In fact, Qin Bai once thought about it, so he simply asked for the salt gang of the opposite door. They have a well-established network of private salt sales, and they can reach all the villages in the two provinces through the merchants. However, Qin Bai really couldn't take out so much money to distribute the goods, after all, it was a new thing, and he could only seek consignment sales at the beginning; Second, I rejected Huang Jun last time, for fear that after helping, I would not be able to repay this big favor in the future.

Therefore, going to Pingdu Prefecture this time was also Qin Bai's last effort. If it still doesn't work, you can only think of another way......