Zhang San listened to Li Si's words and also fell into thought. Whether to use or not to use this is indeed a problem, this is not that Zhang San has any discrimination against them, as the saying goes, heroes start from the end, for example, Li Si and Qian Jin, two small people who were originally at the bottom of Tokyo, are now managing tens of thousands of people, and they are also at ease.

So Zhang San doesn't doubt their ability, even if they don't have the ability, they can be cultivated slowly, but Zhang San is still worried that there will be accidents when they are reused, there is a behavior called relying on the old and selling the old, after all, these people are the first batch to follow him.

It's good if you know that you can put yourself in a correct position, but if you feel that you are an old man next to Zhang San, bullying newcomers, and even treating Zhang San's workshop as your own workshop, cronyism, bullying and deceiving superiors and subordinates, and betraying Zhang San's interests for their own selfish interests, these people are much more convenient to do this kind of thing than others.

These people tend to think of Zhang San's brother as their own person, so that others don't dare to mention it even if they have opinions, because as the saying goes, they can't be close to each other. Zhang San told Li Si about his thoughts euphemistically.

Li Si thought about it for a while and said: "Third brother, in fact, I think that most of the brothers are still good, and they are still willing to help the third brother, such as Yan Laoqi, although he is honest, but you see that he supervises the food workshop, and he is serious and careful, and his wife's younger brother should be driven away by him if the supply should be unqualified, and he also beat his wife." ”

Zhang San was a little speechless when he heard this: "This heart is good." Just beat your wife. ”

Li Si nodded and said: "Well, and that Liu Zhu, you see that he has run Yixing Hutchison in the south of the city more than three times higher than the income in the east of the city, he is really a good talent, and now the third brother, you are not only a big business, but also an official of the imperial court, and the brothers are much better than before after your last constraint." ”

Li Si saw that Zhang San had no opinion and continued: "Besides, the brothers now have the help of the third brother, and the income is good, as the saying goes, the son of a daughter can't sit down, and these brothers are all worth tens of thousands of yuan, these are all given by the third brother, without the third brother, they are nothing, so the brothers will definitely listen to the words of the third brother." ”

Zhang San thought about it for a while, and finally sighed and said: "That's it, I will tell Qian Jin that I will treat some brothers equally, as long as I have the ability, I will take on greater responsibilities, and the next step is to open a branch in Yixing Hutchison in the whole Song Capital, if they have the ability, they can manage one or several stores." ”

Li Si said happily: "In this way, I can also give an explanation to the brothers, and they may not manage other businesses well, and everyone is managing this Yixing Hutchison business well." In the future, it will be good for one person to manage a large area. ”

After chatting about this, Li Si went on to talk about coal making, now with the popularity of briquette furnaces, there are more and more people making coal, and now Zhang San's coal making workshop can't make a few dollars, but occupies a lot of manpower and material resources, is it possible to reduce the scale a little.

Zhang San thought about it, the reason why he doesn't make money by playing briquettes now is mainly because Zhang San has distributed the money to the workers and sales points, after half a year of sales, the sales of the furnace have been stable, although a large number of scholars have come to Beijing, but the competition with the Jia family has already pushed the profits down to the limit.

At the beginning, Zhang San was still thinking about how to drink the Jia family's competition, but after half a year passed, Zhang San found that his previous ideas were a little naïve, and now that he looks at it, this Jia family is not worthy of being Zhang San's opponent at all.

Since the new emperor ascended the throne, according to the usual practice, Enke will be opened, and Jia Cong has been studying behind closed doors since the end of the year because he has to prepare for the exam, and he hardly asks about foreign objects except for some important poetry exchange meetings. The Jia family didn't make much money from making coal and stoves, and then the blacksmith shops also learned how to make coal hammers.

The intensification of competition also led to a further decline in profits, so after Jia Cong didn't care about it, he immediately adjusted his strategy and no longer paid attention to Zhang San's affairs, and Zhang San was too lazy to continue to worry about such people.

Now since there is no money to be made from coal, there is no need for Zhang San to die, and the business of selling briquettes is really not conducive to the image of the stalls.

Zhang San thought for a while and said: "So, you ask among the workers, if there is anyone who is willing to work alone, give him a coal maker, give them the recipe for briquettes, lend them two pieces of money, and give them some coal on credit." They figure out how to sell the stalls themselves, and they are no longer responsible for sales. If you don't want to go it alone, you can arrange other workshops to receive it, how many people are there to dig coal, and is there any difficulty in other workshops to receive it? ”

Li Si said with a smile: "There are hundreds of workers in coal making. There is a shortage of manpower to build houses, build roads, and repair docks on the dock, and there is no problem at all, let alone a few hundred, one or two thousand people are not enough. ”

Zhang San listened to it and asked strangely, "Why are there so many people missing?" ”

Li Si smiled: "It's not like we're going to harvest wheat soon." Some of those who are far away have taken leave to go back to collect wheat, and I am afraid that they will go more in a few days. Do you think we want to limit the limit? ”

Zhang San thought about it and shook his head and said: "The people take food as the sky, and they must not delay the farming work because of the schedule, so let's do it, this half month requires each workshop to work overtime to produce a batch of goods, and then after half a month, take half a month of wheat and grain leave, and continue to leave the work for half a month to pay a month's wages." ”

Li Si thought about it and frowned and asked: "In this way, I am afraid that the construction period will be delayed, in fact, our wages are very high, they can work on our side, and then part of the money they earn will be used to hire someone to work at home, and our salary is enough for them to hire two people in the village." ”

Zhang San shook his head with a smile and said: "Do as I say, they have their own ideas, we can't delay the farming because of our own affairs, otherwise we will fall behind." This money is nothing, and it will be done in the autumn harvest in the future, and many people in the capital do not live on the fields, so there should not be many people who leave. ”

This truth is not understood by everyone, in the later generations, two round-trip train tickets plus delayed work and time are enough for many people to earn several times the money to find someone to do, but there are still many people who travel thousands of miles home to harvest crops, and the Chinese people have special feelings for the return of grain to the warehouse. There is a way, there is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart.

Li Si nodded: "Oh, I know." ”

The two chatted about the problems of various workshops along the way, and when they arrived at the paper mill, they could smell the pungent smell far away, Zhang San shook his head, even if this papermaking industry is a heavy polluting industry in later generations.

Zhang San asked Li Si how much is the salary of the paper mill now? The smell of the workshop here is too bad, it is necessary to increase the wages of the workers appropriately, and the proper supply of lunch is better, and those with lung disease must not be allowed to work here, and the workers here must be transferred to other workshops after three years.