Hearing Uncle Liu say this, Li Feibai is not in a hurry, Jin Damin is already in a hurry. He heard that Li Feibai wanted to build a brick factory, and promised to make him the factory director, and after receiving a salary of 16 taels a month, he has been gearing up to do a lot of work. "It's not difficult for a brick cellar to make money. As long as the number of people is controlled to about 20, you can make a profit in the first year. ”

Uncle Liu looked at Li Feibai, although he didn't speak, but the meaning was very clear. Didn't you say let's send our relatives and friends to the brick cellar factory? Now that those who know how to make bricks have spoken, and the brick factory only needs twenty people, what else do you have to say?

Li Feibai smiled at Uncle Liu, his eyes just swept over Jin Damin's face, completely ignoring Jin Damin's eyes.

Jin Damin understood what he meant, so he built a brick factory in a small way first, and then expanded the scale later. But he didn't plan to do this, but not to arrange relatives and friends made up by Liu Bo and others, but to have a bigger plan to change Daming's lifestyle.

Eat, there is already corn. I wear it, and I don't have to think about it for the time being. The rest is to live and travel. Okay, everything is without rubber, at most think about it on the steam engine train, but the steam engine train doesn't have enough money to invest is also, and the only thing you can do now is live.

He was very dissatisfied with the current structure of the house with bluestone and thick soil on the top, and at most two floors. The upstairs floor is made of wood, and it creaks when you step on it. The windows are made of paper paste, and the room is dark without opening the windows in broad daylight. It's hot in summer and cold in winter, and the urinal and toilet are even more fishy and rotten, how to live and feel awkward.

Therefore, he wanted to build some antique but modern houses to change people's living at this time. Antique is similar to the style of the house at this time, and modern is more than five hundred years later.

Nowadays, with coal and iron, heat cannot be changed in summer, cooling can be changed in winter, and even tap water is not a difficult task. Naf's glassworks were soon able to produce glass, and the history of papier-mâché windows was coming to an end. Everything is ready only to the east wind, just burn out the bricks and cement, you can use prefabricated panels, not only to solve the squeak of wood, but also to build a house with five or six floors is not a dream.

People go to higher places, and who doesn't want to live higher? As long as he built a six-story building, and then used glass, heating, and running water to the house, I believe that everyone in the county will think of high-rise buildings. Soon, people in the province will also build high-rise buildings, what is the most lacking at that time? Bricks and cement for building a house! Why not take precautions now, wait until a large number of people want to build tall buildings, and then build brick cellars? The daylilies are cold.

Therefore, he didn't want to make a small fuss, and he would do it if he wanted to, so he ignored Kim Damin's kind reminders several times. His goal is not the small brick factory that Jin Damin said will use one or two cellars to dry first, nor the brick factory with ten cellars as Liu Bo guessed. He is Han Xin's soldiers, the more the merrier.

Li Feibai snorted and said: "Whether you are close to your hometown or not, Uncle Liu is really worthy of being my elder, and he thinks about his little nephew in everything, but I am afraid that my little nephew will do a loss-making business." Here, the little nephew is grateful. But if the little nephew has a way to make the brick factory profitable within a year, will Uncle Liu agree to take his uncles and uncles to the stone carving factory to become masters? ”

Uncle Liu understood the meaning of Li Fei's vernacular, this was to solve the impasse with himself by betting with him. He thought about it, the matter has come to this, there must be a solution, so let's gamble. "We're talking about five hundred people, not the twenty people he just said." ”

Li Feibai said: "So, there are more than 200 relatives and friends who are going to come to help?" Then he looked around, and saw that all the people nodded their heads, and then said:

"The brickyard had two hundred and fifty men, not five hundred. Uncles and uncles, don't you forget that I want to build two factories, one brick and tile factory and one cement factory, and squeeze all the people into the brick and tile factory, so won't my cement factory have no workers available? ”

Uncle Liu was silent, and repeated what Jin Damin said just now, adding and subtracting time, and feeling that only one cellar of bricks could be produced in the first year, and at most two cellars could be produced. How much can be sold for two cellars of bricks, it is nothing more than 4,000 taels, and there are 250 people in the brick and tile factory, and the minimum is 500 taels of silver a month, and 6,000 taels of silver a year, which is ironclad and unprofitable. This is still the result of 500 people building 10 large cellars or 50 small cellars, and if the number of people is reduced by half, the cellars will inevitably be reduced by half, and it is impossible to make a profit.

But he was still not at ease, and said: "Damin, you can't lie to me, according to your experience, from the construction of the cellar to the production of bricks, how many cellars can be produced in each cellar in a year?" ”

Jin Damin said: "A cellar! After a pause, he said, "If everything goes well, there may be two cellars." ”

Uncle Liu was relieved. Since Li Feibai was bound to lose, why didn't he dare to gamble with Li Feibai, and said, "Then tell me how to make the brick factory profitable in a year." ”

Li Feibai said: "So, Uncle Liu agrees that I can make the brick factory profitable for a year and go to the stone carving factory to be a master?" ”

Liu Bodao: "Agreed!" Immediately said: "It's not enough to burn bricks, you have to sell bricks!" "He is very shrewd in his heart, after the bricks are burned, it is not that they can be sold, a small Jiyuan City, no one has nothing to build a house every day, a cellar of bricks is only enough to sell for a year, who to sell so many bricks to! In this way, his odds of winning are reversed.

Li Feibai smiled: "That's nature! After a pause, he said: "You may not know, someone has bought the famous Tianxianglou in the county and several nearby houses, and is ready to demolish and make room for high-rise buildings to build a big deal. I have told him that all the bricks he uses to build high-rise buildings are our bricks, so Uncle Liu does not have to worry about whether my bricks will not sell. ”

Uncle Liu was stunned. Although he hadn't eaten in Tianxianglou, he still knew about his fame. Such a good deal, someone buys it, and it must cost a lot. Bought it instead of continuing to operate Tianxianglou but demolished and rebuilt, which shows that the person who bought it is not short of silver.

Tianxianglou originally occupied a wide area, and now it has bought a few houses, all of which have been demolished and rebuilt, and the number of bricks and tiles required must be a lot. His face changed suddenly, he thought that selling bricks was a big problem, but he didn't expect Li Feibai to solve it, so he was speechless for a long time. After a while, Fang Bu asked relentlessly: "Eldest nephew, if people want to demolish and rebuild to do business, they must be in a hurry, and they can wait for you to produce bricks in a year!" ”

Li Feibai didn't say that it was himself who bought Tianxianglou, he just didn't want to have another incident, and seeing that Uncle Liu didn't ask who bought it, he immediately said: "Don't wait!" ”

Uncle Liu's expression was relieved, and he said: "Then you said that all the bricks used by people to build buildings use your bricks, isn't that a lie and deceive people?" ”

Li Feibai said: "Therefore, we have to speed up, it is best to produce bricks within a month, not more than two months at most!" ”

Uncle Liu smiled. What Jin Damin said just now couldn't be clearer, it takes more than half a year to dry mud, about two months to dry bricks, and more than a month to burn bricks. He turned his head to look at Jin Damin and said, "Can you produce bricks in a month or two?" ”