Chapter 20 Expansion of Production
The team moved forward little by little, and it was Huan'er's turn, but she had an extra heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After Info bought two bars of soap, she hid the soap in her arms while the two sellers were not paying attention, and she went to the back of the long line to line up again. It's not easy to come once in this cold day, and Huan'er has to queue up many times to buy a few more yuan.
Otherwise, I'll have to come back tomorrow!
However, what surprised Huan'er was that he stood at the back of the line and counted, and there were more than sixty people in front of the team, spreading zigzag on Dongcheng Heng Street. Such a purchasing team may have never been seen in the Ming Dynasty.
However, this is not the first day, except for a few passers-by who are still a little surprised, the shops on both sides are not surprised.
Huan'er slowly moved forward with the team, and finally it was his turn again, and Li Dao, who collected the money, suddenly said to Huan'er: "Why do I see you so familiar?" ”
Huan'er's heart tightened, a few drops of fine sweat broke out on her head, and she hurriedly said: "I also came to buy it yesterday, of course you look familiar with me!" ”
Li Dao said, and then he received Huan'er's money.
Two more bars of soap were bought, and Huan'er breathed a sigh of relief. The master, the lady, the eldest son, and the second son can each have at least one piece, which can be regarded as an explanation. Looking at the queue that had become longer again, Huan'er was not ready to queue up again. What if it's your turn, then the uncle recognizes him? That's not in vain.
Maybe if you get to yourself, the soap has already been sold out.
With four pieces of loot in his hand, Huan'er left Hengdajie stupidly and walked towards the pottery workshop Chen's house.
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After confirming the list, Li Zhi's second grandfather sent people to greet each house, and asked Li Zhi's newly recruited relatives to go to Li Zhi's house once that day, which was regarded as a visit to the pier. After Li Zhi met these people, he made an appointment with them to come to work early the next morning.
After the start of construction, Zheng was responsible for the food for more than a dozen people, and in the afternoon of the same day, Zheng went to buy the ingredients needed for the next day.
Early the next morning, the courtyard of Li Zhi's house was crowded, and thirteen newly recruited helpers came. Zheng added a large table in the courtyard and prepared breakfast for a dozen people: an omelet per person, a full porridge and sauerkraut.
The new relatives are also bitter, and there are many people who can't eat enough on weekdays, let alone eat meat. At this time, as soon as Li Zhi's family came, he ate eggs, and all of them danced with their eyebrows, feeling that a better day was coming. Several of the most bitter relatives, when eating eggs, were so excited that they shed tears.
After breakfast, Li Zhi asked his relatives to stand in a row, and he and his younger brother Li Xing stood in front to lecture.
Thirteen poor relatives, standing together in tattered clothes, even more show the hardships of everyone's lives.
As a human being in two lives, Li Zhi was not stage frightened at all in front of everyone, and said loudly: "Relatives, I am very happy that you have come to my house to help." I provide two taels of monthly money plus three meals a day, every day from the right time to the right time, this treatment are not satisfactory to you! ”
Every meal has meat, and three meals a day cost at least one or two or five dollars of silver in a month. In addition to the salary, Li Zhi actually gave three taels and five dollars of silver every month. Where else can we say that such good conditions are going? The relatives standing below replied:
"Satisfied! Every meal has meat, it's a great day! ”
"I have never seen such a good salary, we are sincerely satisfied!"
"Brother Zhi is kind!"
Hearing the answers of his relatives, Li Zhi nodded and said, "If you do things honestly, in the future, the workshop will be expanded, and new people will be recruited, and you can be the leader, and the monthly money will be more at that time!" ”
The current treatment is enough for these relatives to live a decent life, marry wives and have children. Be a boss and get a higher monthly salary? What kind of good days was that? Hearing Li Zhi say this, the relatives standing below were full of joy and excitement, and they looked forward to the future for a while.
After drawing the pie of the future, Li Zhi is about to talk about the current discipline.
Li Zhi said again: "However, I have to say ugly things in front of me!" Among you are my elders, whom I should respect. But today is different, when you come to my house to work, you are my family's helper, and you have to listen to my rules in the future! After a pause, Li Zhi said loudly: "In my house, the first thing is to keep it secret!" ”
"My soap recipe is a secret. When you wait for the work, you are each responsible for a step. For the sake of recipe secrecy, each person should not reveal to anyone else how he was responsible for the procedure. ”
Glancing at the audience, Li Zhi said domineeringly: "If someone else privately discusses the steps he is responsible for and divulges secrets, don't blame me for sweeping him away!" ”
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the relatives had a pang on their faces and said:
"Brother Zhi has a point!"
"We know, we won't talk about our own steps!"
After emphasizing the discipline of confidentiality, Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Now I will assign the position, everyone will enter their own rooms, and everyone will start production!" ”
Yesterday afternoon, Li Zhi had simply transformed his family's seven houses into an assembly line workshop: the first wing room was equipped with a person specializing in the production of hydrated lime; The second chamber is equipped with a person who specializes in the production of caustic soda; The third and fourth south rooms are equipped with six stoves, with six people mixing caustic soda and grease together to heat and stir; The fifth south room is equipped with one person for salting; The sixth south room is equipped with a person with alkaline soap; The seventh south room is equipped with three people who specialize in fishing out soap, dry soap and split soap.
After separating the posts, each person only operated the steps for which he was responsible, and did not understand the entire soap production process, so as to achieve confidentiality. At the same time, after this division of labor, each person is only responsible for one step, which is simple and easy to learn, and also reduces the cost of learning.
Li Zhi and Li Xing spent an hour teaching these relatives, and the new helpers learned how to operate in their own hands. By the afternoon, the whole workshop was running at full capacity.
On the first day, the workshop produced 1,800 bars of soap. The next day the workers became more skilled, producing 2,500 pieces. By the third day, the output of the workshop had stabilized at 2,800 yuan.
Of the 2,800 pieces of soap, Li Zhi supplies his store with 1,000 a day. The other 1,800 yuan was supplied to Cui Wending for him to sell to Jingshi.
The doubling of the store's sales in Tianjin Acropolis has greatly alleviated the current severe shortage of supply, so that many women who have been waiting for it can finally buy soap.
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The Gu family's daughter-in-law, Liu, has been a little depressed these days.
Ever since she got a bar of soap last time she got it, she's known the benefits of soap: it's easy to get rid of dirt when washing clothes, and there's no need to tap the laundry stick to worn. If you take into account the cost of the clothes being damaged and damaged, the soap of 20 wen can save the family a lot of money to buy clothes. For Liu, soap is undoubtedly an excellent thing, and on the first day of trying soap, she recommended soap to Sister-in-law Zhang, Sister-in-law Liu, and Sister-in-law Xue.
But Liu soon discovered a problem: such a good soap could not be bought at all!
For this soap, Liu has walked to Dongcheng Hengjie twice. The first time she went was in the afternoon, and a middle-aged woman sat in the store and said that the day's goods had been sold out, and she asked to come back the next day.
But the next day, Liu went back in the morning, and the store he arrived at was still told that it was sold out.
Liu's house is also two quarters of an hour away from the soap shop, and according to this posture, wouldn't it be necessary to go before dawn to buy it? Although Liu Shi felt distressed that he broke his clothes when he didn't have soap to wash his clothes, this soap was too difficult to buy! I have to take care of my husband and young son every morning, cook for breakfast, and can't leave home to buy soap. With this posture, won't I never need this soap?