Of course, Li Zhi knew that Gyeonggi at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a dangerous place, and every few years later, Jin would break through the barrier and plunder Gyeonggi. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoTianjin is located near Jingshi, and it will definitely not be able to escape the attack of the Jurchens in a few years.

However, the Jurchens have always broken through the pass of the Great Wall in the west, and it takes a certain amount of time to kill Tianjin. Once there was a policeman, Li Zhi had plenty of time to evacuate the loom into the city.

As for the factory, it is not worth much, and it is better to let the tartars burn it down when the time comes. The Tartars are gone, and Li Zhi can be rebuilt. Compared to buying a luxury house in the city, this cost is still much lower.

After making up his mind, Li Zhi found Liu Shigui and bought 20 acres of cheap yellow clay land through his intermediary. The yellow mud land is located in the east of the city, 45 zhang long and 20 zhang wide, only half an hour's walk away from Li Zhi's house, and Li Zhi is convenient to manage.

After buying the land and getting the title deed, Li Zhi went to Barracks Street to find 15 carpenters and 10 masons, and asked them to buy wood and lime, and start building factories on the yellow mud land outside the city. Li Zhi planned the orientation and size of the house himself, and the plan was to build 10 rooms in a large room of 120 square meters, surrounded by a two-meter-high fence.

The leader of the carpenters told Li Zhi that he would be able to build the factory in a month. Counting the cost of materials and labor, it will cost about a hundred taels of silver.

One hundred taels of silver is not a large amount for Li Zhi now. Li Zhi paid thirty taels in advance, and gave each of those craftsmen a reward of one penny, which made those craftsmen smile with joy and work very hard.

The craftsmen selected the site of the house on the yellow mud ground, compacted the land, and then placed the cypress wood in the compacted foundation soil as a pile foundation. On the basis of these piles, the carpenters built the beams, and the masons were able to lay the ground, build the walls of the houses, and lay the tiled roofs.

Timber and bricks were brought in batches, piled up like hills on the yellow mud floor.

After finishing the layout of the factory, Li Zhi contacted the blacksmith and the carpenter who made the machine and furniture, and began to build 400 shuttle looms. Li Zhi is in a hurry to ask for machines, and there are more people to hire. On the blacksmith side, it is good to say that it only takes four blacksmiths to build 400 sets of shuttles for more than ten days. There was a need for many carpenters, and Li Zhi hired more than 80 carpenters in Tianjin, all of whom produced frames for new looms, hoping to build 400 in a month.

However, Li Zhi is busy in the weaving factory here, but the soap workshop has something to do. On this day, Li Xing found Li Zhi at night and said something that alerted him.

"Big brother, there are a few people outside the soap workshop these days, standing in the alley early in the morning to count the raw materials we entered, and once climbed the wall of the house next door, as if they wanted to peek into our workshop."

"What?"

When Li Zhi heard this, he became alert. Although Li Zhi claims that the key production link of soap is not his own, some cunning businessmen may not believe it, and even see through Li Zhi's complete production in a soap workshop. If these people were tempted to seize Li Zhi's soap formula, they would obviously send someone to the workshop to spy on the information.

These sneaky people may be commercial spies sent by these greedy people.

Fortunately, Li Zhi has always paid attention to secrecy, keeping all the steps of soap in the room, and letting the workers only operate a single step that has been divided, so these spies can't find any information.

Although the amount of various raw materials that Li Zhi bought to make soap can be found, if you don't know the specific production method and only take those raw materials and cook them together, you can't produce soap. For example, if calcium carbonate is removed without precipitation filtration, it is not soap but stone paste that is produced. In addition, the two steps of salting out and alkali precipitation are also indispensable, without these two steps, the production is only a paste-like mixture mixed with a large number of impurities, which cannot be used at all.

Only by carefully understanding every step of Li Zhi's soap production can we truly master the formula of soap and produce qualified soap.

However, although there is no risk of stealing the formula in front of him, Li Zhi thinks further - since some people want to steal the soap formula by peeping now, will these people use more drastic means after the peeping fails? In the face of the greedy's more drastic methods, what did Li Zhi resist?

Li Zhi needs to build a force that can protect his industry.

Li Zhi thought about it for a night and decided to let Fa Xiao Zhongfeng take the lead and build a security team. Or as it is called in this era, it is called recruiting a group of family members.

Zhong Feng grew up with Li Zhi since he was a child, and also helped Li Zhi teach Xiao Guangwei a lesson, and he is a reliable person. And he likes to dance knives and guns on weekdays, worship force, and it is more suitable to be the captain of the house.

With its own armament, when it comes to dealing with those who covet soap formulas, it has a little more strength.

The next day, Li Zhi found Zhong Feng, who was busy operating the saponification reaction in the soap workshop.

"Zhong Feng, are you happy doing this job?"

Zhong Feng saw Li Zhi asking himself, and while stirring the solution in the deep-bottomed furnace with a stick, he said: "Brother Zhi'er, to tell you the truth, stirring this iron furnace all day long, doing the same thing every day, I am about to fade out of a bird." The thought of having to stir at this stove for the rest of my life makes me very depressed. Sighing, Zhong Feng said again: "But Brother Zhi'er, don't worry, in order to be worthy of your salary, I will do it with my heart no matter how much I don't like it, and I won't make trouble for you." ”

Li Zhi smiled and teased him: "This is for you to marry a daughter-in-law, how can you make money and start a family if you don't work hard?" ”

Zhong Feng nodded vigorously and said, "Yes!" I get it too! As long as I persist, I will be able to save more than 20 taels of silver to marry my daughter-in-law next year! When the time comes to give birth to a baby, we will also live the days of hot kang heads for wives and children? ”

After saying this, Zhong Feng laughed heartily, as if he was looking forward to his future life, and the action of stirring the stove in his hand was a little harder.

Li Zhi looked at Zhong Feng with a smile and said slowly, "What if I let you get rid of this furnace and become a martial artist who uses a sword?" ”

"What?" Looking at Li Zhi in surprise, Zhong Feng stopped the stick in his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Zhi'er, you can laugh." If I were to become a warrior, would you still pay me for it? ”

"I'll pay! It's still two taels a month, and there is meat for three meals! ”

Hearing this, Zhong Feng was stunned, and it took a long time to react. "Brother Zhi'er, what is this good thing you are talking about? Are you going to make me your housekeeper? ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "By the way, I just let you be my family, but I am the captain of the family." In the future, you will lead a team of men to obey my orders and deal with those enemies with evil intentions. ”

When Zhong Feng heard this, he put the stirring stick in his hand on the stove and said loudly: "I'll do it, Brother Zhi'er, I'll do this!" I will definitely be a good captain and bring you a team of good family members. No matter what kind of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods he comes, I will bring people up and beat him! ”