Chapter 168: The Year Has Come
After the workers received the money, they stood in the open space and chatted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć After receiving all the money, Wu Decai stepped forward again and said: "Okay, the money has been received, so you must do a good job for me before the New Year." ā
The workers nodded to each other in understanding, and then Wu Decai said: "On the banks of the Wuzhang River in Tokyo, there is a volunteer school run by your new owner, and anyone who works in the owner's workshop can send their children to study in the school after the new year, and all fees are free." ā
Some of the workers were excited to see each other, but some didn't feel anything, after all, this kind of thing is still too far away from them, some people will hope that their children and grandchildren will have the opportunity to get ahead, and some people feel that An An has rented a few acres of land, and their ancestors have been like this for generations and have no interest in changing.
Wu Decai looked at everyone and said: "In the Dongjia Yixue, you can not only learn poetry, books and etiquette, but also learn martial arts, arithmetic and various other techniques, and those who are interested can let their children learn, limited to under the age of 12, over the age of six, both men and women." ā
A middle-aged man asked, "How can I go so far from Tokyo, what do my baby eat?" ā
Wu Decai smiled: "Don't worry about this, there are canteens, dormitories, and children are taken care of by special people, and these are all free." You can take two days off every 10 days, and you can pick up your children at the end of the month. ā
In this way, those who are not interested have also begun to be interested, originally only thought that they were free to teach, and now they still care about food and housing, such a good thing, who doesn't want to, the child is also running blindly in the Zhuangzi, it is better to learn something.
This is also Wu Decai does not understand the thoughts of these people, he thought that he said that all expenses are free, and they will naturally think that the accommodation is also free, but people don't know that you also provide room and board.
Seeing that the atmosphere was mobilized, Wu Decai said: "The owner just said that in the future, all labor money will rise by one percent, and as long as you work hard in the future, the output in the workshop will increase, and the wages will rise, and the more you increase the output, the more your wages will rise." ā
Everyone was even happier to hear this real benefit, and all the enthusiasm for work was mobilized by you, Wu Decai said with satisfaction: "Okay, don't say more, let's start work!" ā
Zhang San has been watching from the side, this Wu Decai is not bad, although it seems to be a bit of a plagiarism of his past ways, but slowly exercising is still possible, seeing that the workers are busy at their workstations, Zhang San began to turn a few times.
After the turn, I first called the paper-making master over and told them the hardness, elasticity, wear-resistance, and wrinkle-resistant poker paper I needed. After listening to this, the masters discussed it for a while and felt that they should be able to do it.
Zhang San nodded and nodded at them, this kind of paper just needs to add a kind of elastic rattan or bark fiber, and the thickness of the thickened paper can be done, as for the wear resistance and wrinkle resistance, it is necessary to add an extrusion process before the paper is released.
The masters were ordered to be busy, Zhang San called Wu Decai over and said: "You are doing well, I will leave it to you to watch first, during this period of time, I left Yuanba and Yanqing brothers here, you can discuss things together, after the New Year, you will be watching by yourself, you must take advantage of this time to explore it." ā
Wu Decai touched his head and said, "Third brother, I'm afraid I won't be able to do well." ā
Zhang San shook his head and said: "If you can't do it well, you can study hard, if you don't understand, you can ask Uncle Le and the account room, and if you don't understand the production process, you can ask the masters and workers in the workshop." If you can't make up your mind about a big event, you can also come to me in Zhuangzi. ā
Wu Decai nodded: "Oh, third brother, I know." ā
Zhang San thought about it and said: "If you meet an honest and willing to work hard, you will be rewarded for being smart, and anyone who proposes to improve the production process and try to be effective should also be rewarded." There is also the need to pay attention to the suffering of these workers' families, and find ways to help those families who are in difficulty. If you encounter a person who cheats and cheats, you will be punished, and you will get out of the way if you don't change it! ā
Zhang San thought about it and said: "Watch more, learn more, listen more, and talk less." Got it? ā
Wu Decai nodded and said, "Understood, third brother." ā
Zhang San looked at the sky and said: "You guys will start work until the twentieth day of the lunar month, and then find a few honest people to watch the field, and you can take a holiday for the New Year, and after the New Year, the eighteenth day of the first month will start." ā
Zhang San said to Zhang Yuanba and Yan Qing again: "I'm afraid that Decai is inexperienced, Xiaoyi, you have to help him watch more and teach him more, and come back with Decai on the 20th, okay?" ā
Zhang Yuanba touched his nose and said: "The third brother stinks here, it's uncomfortable to stay, it's better to let Liu Yun come, I want to follow you." ā
Zhang San smiled and said: "Leaving you here is to deter those Xiaoxiao, after all, we are outsiders, we are afraid that there will be local tyrants who will bully you, you don't have to stay in the field every day, just practice with Xiao Yi on the embankment of the upwind outlet if you have nothing to do." That way, you don't have to smell the stench. ā
Zhang Yuanba nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to the third brother." ā
Zhang San also arranged for Wu Decai to mainly produce this kind of poker paper and white paper for printing books recently, after this arrangement, Zhang San began to rush back, on the way Zhang San was thinking about the first year of the Great Song Dynasty did not know how to spend it.
Recently, the sixteen incense workshop is also working overtime to produce, striving for a little more goods so that workers can take a holiday early, the business of briquettes is now quite stable, Zhang San's side occupies the geographical advantage after all, and it is a small profit operation, not much money, but the amount of victory is large.
The stove has been a bit unsalable recently, and Zhang San has no good way, but fortunately, Zhang San's comprehensive operation is cheap, and Zhang San's side has also reduced some of the prices. After the winter passed, the business of this stove entered the off-season.
At that time, it is estimated that all their character molds will be engraved, and then they will be able to do the business of printing books, this lead movable type Zhang Sanzheng arranged for those people to carve, but this thing is a fine work, now a worker is fast to engrave more than 20 a day, slow only more than 10. There are only more than 200 words on this day, and it is expected that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will be enough to get enough fonts for the first batch of printing.
It was already afternoon when I returned to the village, and I had a simple meal. When he returned to Yixue and saw that it was Shi Wengong and Lin Chong who came today, Zhang San stepped forward and said a few words, and began to practice the halberd method again.
Li Si ran over and asked, do you need to prepare New Year's goods for each family? Zhang San then remembered that the New Year was approaching, and it was the season of gift-giving, in addition to the filial piety that the officials of Kaifeng Mansion and the prefect should have, some of his relatives and friends could not be forgotten.
There is also Li Si's marriage, it seems that some of them have been busy during this time ago. Zhang San said goodbye, everyone went back to the house and began to think, these officials don't have to worry about it, they can send some money in the past, and people are happy.
Thinking about the tax exemption of Kaifeng Mansion, Zhang San felt that he must give a big gift to the prefect to thank him.