Chapter 102 The Salt Factory Becomes Complete
The Chinese people are the most hard-working people in the world, especially the Chinese people who have ideals and are inspired by great enthusiasm, and the energy that can burst out can exceed people's imagination.
It took only nine days from the first day when people gathered here to complete the construction of the entire salt plant.
In the space of nine days, a canal more than three miles long and almost four meters wide appeared here, and the water of Qinglingling River extended all the way to the salt field along the canal.
A large compound covering an area of 20 acres appeared out of thin air, and at the same time, 76 large and small houses were built in it.
The house is all made of mud and the roof is tiled.
The floor in the room was also tamped by everyone, and all the houses were lit with firewood and baked.
In this way, the moisture in the house can be removed as soon as possible and put into use as soon as possible.
After these were completed, these industrious people also renovated the road from Qingque Village to Qingque Salt Farm, which had been preliminarily repaired by the people of Qingque Village, to make it more spacious and flat, so that it was convenient to transport the salt produced in the future.
Even after doing all this, they all spontaneously went to Qingque Village to help those craftsmen build the houses of Han Cheng's family.
They do these things willingly.
Putting aside the precious method of sacrifice made by the salted fish boy of Qingque Village, the treatment he received during his labor here alone was enough to make them do it spontaneously.
In addition to the two meals a day, there will be additional meals at noon, which is equivalent to three meals a day!
And that's not all, the extra meal at noon is still dry rice!
In the morning and evening, I eat thick porridge with chopsticks that does not fall!
Not only are there some pickles and sauces to eat, but you can also eat some delicious salted fish that has been steamed every once in a while.
This kind of food, even when the family is busy with farming, they are reluctant, but now, they eat it here.
This makes them how not to be positive.
Many of them may not know much about it, but they know that if others are good to them, they cannot owe them anything to others.
Now that this Han family Xiaolang treats himself and others like this, then he and others naturally can't do too badly......
Han Cheng looked at the courtyard that rose from the ground and the houses built in the courtyard, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
These walls and houses, although made of rammed earth, are very strong, especially the foundations, which are not very strong.
This is mainly because you can't dig too deep, and you will encounter a layer of stones, and these large quantities of stones buried in the ground are also salt ores.
The abundant reserves of salt ore made Han Cheng, Li Jing and Wei Cheng pay more attention to this salt field.
At the same time, it is also because of the large amount of salt ore buried in this underground area, so that the excavated canal has been pushed nearly 100 meters to the south compared with the previous expectation.
After inspecting these things, Han Cheng and Wei Chengcheng took advantage of the fact that everyone gathered here had not yet left, and told everyone that the salt farm was going to recruit people to make salt.
At the same time, the public was also informed about what kind of treatment they could get by boiling salt here.
There is no doubt that after such news came out, it immediately triggered a new round of boiling.
On the one hand, this is because these wages that seemed extremely low in Han Cheng, who seemed to be in later generations, were already very generous in the eyes of people in this era, after all, people in this era rarely had other ways to obtain wealth except for farming, spinning and weaving.
On the other hand, with the increasing burden of labor, these people have long been accustomed to the mode of doing things for the government without pay.
Now this Qingque Salt Farm has given such treatment, not only to eat and live, but also to pay wages, in the face of such a situation, it is difficult for them not to be excited.
Many people have the idea of working in the Qingque Salt Factory.
And first tell these people about the recruitment of people in the salt farm, and recruit from these people who came to recruit them, which can be regarded as a reward for Han Cheng to be able to come over and participate in the construction of the salt plant.
According to Han Cheng's discussion with Li Jing and Wei Cheng, the salt farm is going to recruit two to five hundred people this time, and with the people of Qingque Village, it can reach more than three hundred.
If everyone is skilled, now that all kinds of infrastructure are built, the salt that these more than 300 people can produce in a day, even if it does not reach 10,000 catties, there are still 7,800 catties.
After such a large amount of salt came out, the salt shortage in Mayi could be quickly contained.
Although everyone wanted to become a worker in the Qingque Salt Factory, many people reluctantly gave up after weighing it again.
Because many of them are the breadwinners of the family, and the work in the fields alone is enough for them to be busy, and they can't spare them to do these things.
One of the hard conditions for recruiting people in Qingque Salt Farm is that they need to work here for a long time.
For most people in this era, the field at home is the foundation, and the work can only be used as a foil.
Therefore, this condition brushed down the majority of people, only those whose family labor is relatively wealthy, or those who have less land at home and cannot take care of their livelihood by relying on the field, will choose to join the Qingque Salt Farm and become a glorious salt worker.
Because of this, there was hardly a single person present who was not moved by the preferential treatment of the Qingque Salt Farm, and after some recruitment, only one hundred and eighty-three people were recruited, which was still a lot of shortfall from the expected two hundred and fifty salt people.
However, Han Cheng was not worried about this, after all, the treatment of the Qingque Salt Farm was here.
When these people go back and spread the news of the Qingque Salt Farm, then the remaining vacancies will easily be filled.
For example, Kong Laohan thought of the second son Kong Youde, who was beaten into a pig's head by the soles of his shoes twice when he came.
The family's fields are inseparable from him and his eldest son Kong Youcai, but the second son Kong Youde is basically a waste at home.
In the past, Kong Laohan didn't think that there was anything wrong with his second son like this, but recently, with the strong rise of Han Cheng, who was considered far inferior to his son in the past, Kong Laohan's idea has been completely changed.
Even the more I looked at it, the more I felt that this guy was unpleasant.
Now that the salt farm is recruiting people here, and there are still vacant places, he moved the idea of getting his second son, who is not successful, so that this son, who has been raised for more than ten years, can earn some money for the family.