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"Young master, I just said, that person is a liar, you see right, it's been a few days, and I haven't seen that person coming!"

Again, Xiao Lian thought that the young master had been coaxed ten taels of silver "again", and it was a heartache.

"It's just a few taels of silver......

Holding a folding fan in his hand, Shi Yiwen, who looked no different from the scholars of this era, smiled as he walked.

But only ten taels of silver.

And if you want to boil the eagle, you must be patient first.

In Shi Yiwen's view, that person will never give up this opportunity at hand. He must have been waiting.

At this time, just wait.

"Just have some fun, sell a few more bars of soap."

The young master's words made Xiao Lian suddenly become dumb, and there was a lot of money in the family, so naturally it was not bad for that bit of silver.

If you say that in the sixth year of Wanli, what is the most fashionable commodity in Nanjing?

I'm afraid it's still soap. Although the soap was just in vogue, it was immediately sought after by women.

From laundry, to bathing and shampooing, the development of many new uses has led to the growing popularity of soap, which is limited compared to the high demand.

Not only is the supply in short supply, but even to the point where there is no market!

Not only are ordinary shops not in supply, but even the Song family's own business has to be sold in limited quantities. Each person is limited to two yuan, and even if it is like some, it may not be available every day.

"The owner, the shopkeeper Zhao sent someone to urge again, asking when the next batch of goods will be delivered."

As soon as he entered the factory, Li Mingdong, the director of the soap factory, greeted Shi Yiwen and said.

"There is another batch in this warehouse that has been in storage for 13 days, and I think the condition is almost there, otherwise it ......"

"No way!"

Shi Yiwen vetoed without hesitation.

"The time for maturation is not enough, we must not leave the factory, we can't smash our own signboard!"

Soap needs to be saponified for a period of time, and only when it is fully soaped will it be more delicate, if you can't wait, if you use soap in a short time, it will soon become a ball of sticky material like rice porridge.

Maturation is a necessary process, otherwise you will definitely smash your signboard.

"What the owner said is very true, I was so anxious that I almost made a big mistake."

Li Mingdong hurriedly said.

"Well, the timing of maturation is not the key, the key is to increase the yield and expand the production."

Entering the production workshop, watching the workers standing on top of the iron pot and stirring the soap liquid, now the iron pot has been replaced by Shi Yiwen with an iron bucket, and the capacity of the pot of the same caliber size has been doubled, but even so, the output is still very limited.

"The key is to increase the number of pots, now there are sixteen pots, and to increase the number of pots, it will be necessary to increase the number of workers......"

Staring at the workers who stand in front of the stove and use the suspended push rod to stir the grease, this is the improvement of the workers themselves, at first it was just the workers who took the bamboo pole to stir up, which was time-consuming and laborious, and later a worker borrowed the push rod and stone mill for grinding soybean milk, turned the grinding disc into a stirring rod, and then pushed the push rod to complete the circumferential stirring, so as to save most of the manpower, but even so, this is still manpower.

"What if it's water?"

Thinking about the Qinhuai River on the side, Shi Yiwen's eyes lit up, and he immediately commanded Li Mingdong.

"Master Li, do we have a craftsman who can build a waterwheel?"

Waterwheels are very common in the south, easy to find craftsmen, but it only took a day of effort, a waterwheel was made under the production of several carpenters, the real complexity is not the wooden waterwheel, but the entire transmission system, although it can be replaced by wood, but Shi Yiwen still deliberately got a complete set of bearings from the space, in fact, it is just the bearings of several public bicycles, and designed a set of transmission system.

The components of the traditional system were not fully completed until the evening of the next day, by which time the waterwheel had already been installed by the river, and under the direction of Edwin Schween, the seemingly complicated but in fact extremely simple transmission was quickly installed.

"Shi Dongjia, your steel shaft is really a good thing!"

Again, Zhao Laosi looked at the steel bearings on the waterwheel and exclaimed.

"When I tested it yesterday, the waterwheel turned as if it was flying, and I don't know if it was the craftsmanship of that shop."

When he asked this question, Zhao Laosi's seemingly honest eyes flashed with a sly gaze, the bearing that turned like a flying speed in his hand really surprised him, as a craftsman, he could see at a glance that the use of that thing was extremely wide, so he wanted to find out where it was made.

"Ordinary people definitely can't make it."

Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"And it's expensive, but there are other simpler bearings, or I'll draw the drawings later, and you can build them according to the drawings when the time comes."

"Shi Gongzi, this ...... Is this really? ”

Zhao Laosi looked at Shi Yiwen in surprise.

"I'm afraid this isn't appropriate."

"What's wrong with this, if it is made, maybe it can benefit the people of the world, right?"

As for whether it can be made, it's hard to say.

"This, this...... If that's the case, then I really have to thank Shi Gongzi. ”

When Zhao Laosi thanked him, the sluice gate of the diversion was opened, after the river water flowed into the sluice, it immediately drove the water wheel to rotate, the speed of the waterwheel rotated very fast, the river water impact car blades only splashed with a piece of flying flowers and broken jade, with the rotation of the waterwheel, under the drive of the transmission shaft, the sky axis in the production workshop drove the stirring rod to rotate, and the workers in the production workshop were all dumbfounded to look at the stirring rod.

Looking at the self-rotating stirring rod, most of their expressions looked a little complicated. Zhang Yu muttered to himself.

"Xu, Brother Xu, let's not have no work to do!"

Zhang Yu's words made the workers in the workshop all stunned, for these workers who just relied on their strength to earn two taels of silver a month, the salary may not be much, but it is also a livelihood.

Why is it that all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all this strength is useless?

"Zhao Ming, you go to the owner and ask, ask what are we going to do now?"

"Yes, Brother Zhao, when you came up with that stirring rod, the owner rewarded you with ten taels of silver, you went over and asked the owner, this uses a water wheel, do you want us in the factory?"

The stirring rod used in the factory before was invented by Zhao Ming, and he also got a bonus of ten taels for it, which is also the reason why the big guys will look for him.

At this time, looking at the production workshop of "water conservancy", although Shi Yiwen's expression seemed calm, he was extremely excited in his heart.

Because to a certain extent, the difference between a factory and a workshop is often the driving force of production. If before that, the factory was just a slightly larger workshop, now it has evolved into a veritable factory.

Factory, industry, then ...... What's next?

Just when the mood became a little erratic, a worker came.

Faced with the persuasion of the workers, Zhao Ming had to walk in front of the owner and express the worries of the workers.

“…… The owner, yes, if the factory doesn't want us anymore, also, please ask the owner to say, I'll go out and find a job, right? ”

Looking at Zhao Ming, who was sincerely frightened, Shi Yiwen, who came back to his senses, said. It is true that he had not taken into account the thoughts of the workers before, and it is no wonder that they would fear that they would lose their jobs, after all, with the waterwheel, a lot of manpower would be replaced, as if in another time and space in history. The movement of workers to destroy machines in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Is it also out of fear of losing your job?

"It was my mistake to get the big guys to come over, I have something to say to the big guys."

Let the apprentices of the workers stand in a row, Shi Yiwen said to stand in front.

Fifty-eight workers, of various ages, but most of them were sixteen or seventeen years old, and although their complexions were ruddy and they did not show the slightest malnutrition, they often wore patches on their clothes, and it was evident that their lives were not easy.

In front of everyone, Shi Yiwen was not stage frightened, and said loudly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Brother Zhao just came over and expressed the worry of the big guy, worried that this is using a water wheel, will it fire you, how can this be? Now the market is in short supply of soap, so the production of our soap factory will be expanded, and more workers are needed, you are skilled workers, not only will not be fired, but the wages will be increased, from next month, the monthly money plus half a penny, I don't know if you are satisfied with my answer! ”

The workers, who were still worried that they would lose their jobs because of the waterwheel, replied one after another:

"Satisfied! The owner is kind! ”

"The ...... of Benevolence and Righteousness of the Owner"

For a while, everyone praised his kindness and benevolence.

Listening to everyone's compliments, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"As long as everyone works hard, the soap factory will expand again in the future, and new people will be recruited, and everyone can be the foreman at that time, and the monthly money will be more at that time!" Everyone remembers that as long as the efficiency of the factory is good, everyone's wages will naturally be high, and the life of the big guys will only get better and better......"

In the gratitude of the workers, Shi Yiwen naturally thought of what Wu Cai had said to him that day.

But if these workers are grateful, will they still sell themselves?

When this thought came to his mind, Shi Yiwen suddenly laughed, and then laughed at himself,

"It's not high-tech that you made this thing, so how long can you keep it secret if you want to? Maybe someone has made it now, but not necessarily. ”