When Zhang Shun heard Xiao Zheng ask like this, he immediately plucked his chest and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao, you really asked, Xiao Lao'er didn't dare to say anything else in these villages, and I haven't served anyone in the craft of burning bricks."

After listening to this, Xiao Zheng asked curiously: "Old man, why do you burn bricks?" ”。

Lao Zhang Shun restrained his smile, looked at the two of them and sighed and said: "This matter is hard to explain, when the villain went to serve with the local villagers to repair the canal, and when he arrived in Luoyang, the villain was assigned to a team of burning bricks, at first the court was not bad for us as laborers, at least we can eat enough, the little old man is all day with mud, billet and brick burning, and then came to a river governor called Ma Shumou, this is a man-eating demon king, after he came, we suffered, every day can only be wrapped in bran vegetables, He couldn't do a good job and was often beaten by his men. The villain alone saw that several people had been beaten to death by his dogs and filled in the bottom of the river. Later, this Ma Shumou actually took Zhan to eat children for food, so that people on both sides of the canal were panicked, I don't know how Ma Shumou was denounced, the government and the opposition were shocked, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty sent the general to protect the child to arrest him, and beheaded him on the charge of cannibalism, accepting money, and hacking the river, which coincided with the time when the vast sea attacked the Great Sui Army, and the villain and a few villagers took advantage of the chaos to escape, and only after arriving home did they know that we went to a county to more than 300 people and came back to 50 people, alas, miserable.

After listening to Zhang Shun's words, Xiao Zheng and the others were also gloomy, patted the old man's shoulder and said: "Old man, it is not easy for you to survive in this troubled world, and it is also a blessing for you to come to this Zhuangzi this time." Originally, I was worried that I couldn't find someone to burn bricks, this time, God sent you to send you to us, this is a gold ingot falling from the sky, in a few days we choose a good place, let's start to build a kiln to burn bricks, your people's houses are built with adobe for a while, and then the days are better, let's build a house with green bricks, and you will be the head of this brick kiln in the future."

After listening to this, Zhang Shun said gratefully: "The villain thanks Mr. Xiao for his trust, but you don't know, this brick burning requires a lot of firewood, and once we burn bricks with our hands, we can't take care of farming, you have to think about it, we don't need to waste the land to build a house."

Xiao Zheng said to the old man: "Old man, we burn bricks to prepare to use charcoal, this firewood we are too wasteful, I don't think we need to burn a large number of fire, as long as everyone has a good life, and when everyone has money, first build a good house for our two Zhuangzi, this thing has to be done slowly, the important thing is that you always have to pick up this brick-burning craft, and everyone will point to you on a good day."

After Xiao Zheng finished speaking, he turned his head to Xiao Hai and said: "Brother Xiao, it seems that our plan is going to be changed, Zhang Shun and these people will use the adobe house first, build the pharmaceutical workshop first, and when we make money, we will immediately burn the green bricks and build the tile house."

Take Xiao Hai back to the ironmaking workshop, sit in the shed and see more than a dozen people busy, Xiao Zheng found that Xiao Hai and the wives of several other people in Ershun are busy inside, several women are polishing the small copper box with gold oil, and it seems that the skilled technique has been done for a while, Xiao Hai smiled and said to Xiao Zheng that now the farm tool business is Ershunzi and a few men do it again, although after the agricultural time, the sales volume has decreased a little compared with before, but it is still in short supply, and now it is a serious shortage of manpower.

Seeing this, Xiao Zheng and Xiao Hai said that they could recruit more people from the two Zhuangzi, and there would definitely not be enough people in medicine and brick making in the future, Xiao Hai also expressed his worries after hearing this, "Brother Xiao, in fact, we have always wanted to add more people in this iron field, but brother, I have always been worried, what if we have to recruit some villains with bad intentions, and when he has learned these methods almost, he can't help but be tempted to run away to other places to support his own household."

Xiao Zheng thought for a while and said: "Brother Xiao, this is easy to do, if you want to recruit people first, you will recruit the people from our two Zhuangzi, I think the people on these two Zhuangzi are honest farmers, and everyone will find some work for them to do when they are not working." But you can arrange it this way, the ingredients for ironmaking are still in our own hands, but like the accessories of the cocoon and the plow, you break it up, and the people who are recruited are divided into groups, you are from the army, how to group them than me, each group will let them do one or two kinds of agricultural pieces, for example, this wooden piece, you find a few people, make handrails, just make handrails, and make buckets. This makes iron parts, makes blade feet just make blade feet, these parts have hundreds, with these folks do not know a big word, it is impossible for you to let them remember these things, and divide into groups to do one or two things for a long time, this hand is also familiar, the work is good, and the work is fast can also improve efficiency, how, this is called the assembly line. You are more at ease in this pharmacy, I will make these things in front of your eyes, and you may not know, just like the last time the two of us fished out the master's treasure from the water, don't say these things are you, even if you add me, we can't make it even if we are full of Datang."

After listening to this, Xiao Hai patted his thigh and sighed: "Brother, where did these ideas come from, brother, I have convinced you, I just adjusted it, this method of increasing production and protecting secrets is really a double win, brother, I will do it tomorrow."

Xiao Zheng said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry first, there is a disadvantage in doing this, all the sizes of your parts must be accurate, otherwise it will be troublesome if you can't install it when you put it together."

"What then?" Xiao Hai asked.

After inviting Xiao Hai's father, Xiao Zheng said to the old man: "Old man, you are well-informed and experienced, boy, there are two things for your old man to do personally." As he spoke, he took out a stack of drawings from his sleeve, and the old man opened it and looked at it for a long time before saying, your first one seems to be a ruler, and the second one is a big trap and a small circle, and there are small cylinders in the two circles, and the old man can't figure it out after looking at it for a long time.

Xiao Zheng said to Xiao Hai's father: "Old man, you have a high opinion, this first one is indeed a ruler, the prototype of this ruler was in the Han Dynasty, the kid found it when he was reading ancient books, and now the kid has copied this out and added some uses, your old man must remember that the better this ruler, the more beneficial it will be for you to make tools in the future." This second thing is more difficult to make, but this thing is not in a hurry, you do the first thing first, and the second object can be made more accurately by pointing to the first ruler, as for what this thing is for, let the boy buy it first", the old man lowered his head and thought for a while and said: "Okay, just take advantage of the surprise that your Mr. Xiao gave us these times, and your old man took these two things."

The next day, Xiao Hai and a few people in the two villages of Lizhuang and Shenhewan let out a message, now the iron-making workshop needs to use people, please come over to help the villagers in their spare time, everyone only needs to work hard for 500 wen a month, and if they do a good job, they will add money, and they will have a meal at noon.

The eyes of the villagers are bright, and many people see that Xiao Hai Ershunzi and these people have turned from a few poor blacksmiths to rich men in less than a year, not only buying cattle, but also horses, or it is strange that they are not red-eyed. Now I have to find someone to work, and I see that the salary offered is quite a lot, and I will take care of a meal at noon, so I don't want to be stupid.

Xiao Hai found Zhang Shun again and told him to recruit some people for Zhang Shun in a few days. also told Zhang Shun that the three or four babies he brought over were always running around here and playing without a problem, and he would be sent to Shenhe Bay in a few days, so that Mr. Xiao would take them to study with the other babies.

After listening to this, Lao Zhang Shun was excited to swing, and called the father and mother of those babies, and several families were crazy with joy, and one of them said that he knew that there were so many good things in Li Zhuang, and it was better to let the Tang family beat Zhuangzi early, so angry that Zhang Shun kicked him several times.