What Uncle Liu said is also a way, Li Feibai once considered doing this, isn't this contracting? But after careful consideration, he felt that this kind of home-based practice was really inefficient, so he gave up.

Imagine that the whole family mobilizes to go to the mountains to mine stones, and then haul them back to the village, and then carve them roughly, which is really inefficient. How can there be a factory, each person is only responsible for a part of the work, efficient and fast.

He said with a smile: "The shopkeeper of Mr. Tang is a big deal, and he is generous, and the number of stone lions we want in a year is ten times the number of stone lions we have carved in the past few years." This is the first year, and there are more in the future. Not to mention that relatives and friends are all in battle, even if all the seven aunts and eight aunts are found, the number of stone lions carved is not enough! ”

Everyone smacked their tongues in unison, but they didn't expect that the number of stone lions that Daxing wanted was so large, and it was indeed as Li Feibai said, it was impossible to carve so many stone lions by calling all his relatives and friends. However, they also saw the benefits from it, and the large number of stone lions they wanted meant that they earned a lot, and they began to fight Xiao Jiujiu one by one.

Li Feibai then smiled: "That's why I opened a stone carving factory, and asked my uncle and uncle to bring ten or eight apprentices each, and when we have more stone carvers, there will naturally be more stone lions carved." Moreover, uncles and uncles do not suffer losses, you used to go into battle together with the whole family, and the carved stone lions only earned twenty or thirty taels in three months. The price I offer is not a lot, you only need to go to the factory, you can earn eight taels a month, and you can earn twenty-four taels in three months. ”

He paused and said: "This is just you, plus your children and nephews, who also go to the stone carving factory to do big and small jobs, it is not difficult for a family to earn forty or fifty taels in three months." ”

The people were not moved by these forty or fifty taels, according to their calculations, if they could make all the stone lions, they would earn not forty or fifty taels, but two or three hundred taels in three months. They all gave Uncle Liu a look, Uncle Liu cleared his throat and said:

"Big nephew, do you think this will work, we will hire the big and small workers in your factory, and let them work in our house, how about it?"

Li Feibai didn't feel angry, he was so good at talking, he didn't move this group of people, but talked about them digging up his own corner. His face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "Let you hire it, and you can make ten times the stone lion?" ”

Everyone wants to say yes, but think about the carving work, but the guy who eats, must not spread it out. Not to mention these outsiders, even their relatives and friends can't pass it on, and if they want to pass it on, they can only pass it on to their sons. But if you want to make ten times the number of stone lions made in the previous years, you can't carve them by yourself and your two or three sons!

Li Feibai had expected this to be the case, and then said: "Think about it, I found this business, you treat me like this, and I don't accept your stone lions in a fit of anger, aren't you all lost?" As for how to solve the stone lions, I also have an idea, the big deal is to let my father directly lead more than a hundred apprentices, the beginning may be slower, but it will not take long, at most three or five months, these apprentices are familiar with the hands, and the number of carved stone lions will increase. ”

Everyone saw that Li Feibai was already angry, and they also heard the threat in Li Feibai's words. But they knew that since Li Feibai had signed a contract with the Daxing, he had to pay the full number of stone lions within the specified time, otherwise he would lose his fortune. Therefore, they were confident that if Li Feibai did not buy the stone lion from them, they would not be able to give an explanation to the Daxing, and they would lose all their fortunes, but they were not very afraid of Li Feibai's threat.

As for what Li Feibai said about letting Li Daning lead more than a hundred apprentices, they didn't believe it at all. Where the craft of stone carving, they teach one by one, three or five months may not be able to learn, this has to be the finishing touch of the live skills are all by them, otherwise the carved stone lions are all waste. As for one person teaching more than a hundred, it's just a matter of thinking, and it's impossible to achieve it at all.

They didn't dare to go directly to Li Feibai, they weren't afraid of 10,000, they were afraid that if Li Feibai's bullish temper came up and gave everyone a shot and a breakup, and didn't accept the stone lions they carved, what should they do?

Everyone was silent for a while, and Liu Bo said: "Let's go to the stone carving factory, it's not impossible." However, we have told our relatives and friends to come and help. When we went to the stone carving factory, we didn't need anyone's help, wouldn't we become a trustless villain at that time? People don't stand without faith, and they hope that their eldest nephew will be cold. ”

Everyone said, "Yes, yes! ”

Li Feibai knew this was an excuse. Just imagine, he had just revealed the number of stone lions, and everyone had just said that they wanted relatives and friends to come and help. People are still sitting here, how to inform relatives and friends? He didn't expose Uncle Liu's lies, but said: "If you come, you'll come, anyway, I plan to build two more factories in our village, and it's when there is a shortage of manpower." When they come, let them go to work in a brick and tile factory or a cement factory. ”

Everyone was stunned, Li Feibai's hand was too big, and the matter of the stone carving factory had not been straightened out, so two more transactions were opened. Is the person in front of them still the Li Feibai they know?

Li Feibai continued: "I also told our new lieutenant Liu Yangming, that he will lead someone to build a road out of the mountain for us in two or three days." As for the money for road construction, I don't need to pay a penny, I've got it all! ”

Everyone was stunned again, how much did it cost to build a road for Xiapan Village? They didn't even dare to think about this kind of thing before, but now Li Feibai has to pay out of his own pocket to build roads?

Because of the rugged roads, many people in the mountains can't leave the village several times in their lives, and they stay in the recesses all day long, and they are almost stupid. It would be great if there was a road leading directly to the royal house, not to mention how convenient it would be to buy some daily necessities and farm tools!

They couldn't believe their ears and asked, "What you said is true?" ”

Li Feibai said: "What am I lying to you for? I plan to build three factories in our village, there is no road, how to send the things I make? ”

Everyone is right to think about it. Although they don't know what the cement factory is, they know the brick factory. Factory is a new term, they heard it from Hou Yanmin's mouth, at first they didn't know what it meant, but slowly they understood, isn't it the kind of cellar of coal cellars, the kind of place of iron smelting. As the name suggests, the brick and tile factory is a brick cellar and a tile cellar.

The stone lions are sold expensively, and it is worth hiring mules and horses to transport them out of the mountains. Although the bricks and tiles are not cheap, they can be compared with the stone lions, which is like a big thing, and it is not worth mentioning at all. In addition, the bricks are small and scattered, and a mule and horse can't bring much, so the gains outweigh the losses. Only by using a big car, pulling thousands of yuan in a car, may be able to make a profit.

Li Feibai continued: "As long as the three factories are completed and the road is opened again, I believe that our Xiapan Village will soon be the richest village in Jiyuan!" No, the richest village in the entire Ming Dynasty. For the sake of future generations, I am here to ask all uncles and uncles to help and go to the stone carving factory to meet everyone. ”

The faces of the crowd couldn't help but dim again. Building a brick and tile factory is the best thing, you can stuff relatives and friends into it to make money. Building roads is a good thing, and it will be easy to go out of the village and even the city in the future. But the price of these good things being achieved is that they hand over the craft of eating, and it becomes not so good.

The apprentices of the church starved their masters to death, and such things happened all the time. They hesitated again and went to see Uncle Liu.