Chapter 30: It's Not What It Used To Be
After a while, the five people selected by She Dongcheng had already inserted five bamboo canes in the corresponding positions.
After the arrangement was ready, Ye Yu turned the wheel to face everyone, and said loudly: "Everyone, today Ye Mou is giving everyone benefits in this toad pond!" ”
Sending benefits? When everyone heard Ye Yu's words, they were already confused, but now they don't know what to do.
Ye Yu watched everyone talk about it, and then continued: "Everyone also saw that Ye sent someone to set up five bamboo canes in this pond!" As long as anyone can hit the copper coin on it with a stone, the reward is consistent! If you hit the copper coin in the center, you will be rewarded with ten dollars! ”
Wow!
As soon as Ye Yu's words landed, the onlookers suddenly had a commotion, and said in their hearts, is there such a good thing in this world?
Several of them were skeptical of Ye Yu's words, but Ye Yu smiled slightly and said solemnly: "Not only that, as long as everyone participates, they can provide a free bun for hunger!" ”
At this moment, the people, who were already ready to move, could no longer bear the rush at this time. As soon as Ye Yu's words were finished, everyone had already picked up the stones and threw them into the pond.
All of a sudden, everyone rushed up, and the scene was spectacular. At this time, the masters who made the steamed buns also began to steam the steamed buns on the firewood.
Ye Yu watched everyone's enthusiasm under the willow tree, nodded secretly, and was very satisfied. He then summoned She Dongcheng and asked his brothers to spread the news through the streets and alleys as quickly as possible.
She Dongcheng immediately handed over the matter to the fat man and rhubarb, and personally supervised it in the toad pond to prevent chaos.
"Big brother, your trick is really clever, with the people of the whole city coming to throw stones, I believe it won't take long to fill up this toad pond! In this way, it saves us a lot of labor! ”
She Dongcheng looked at the people who were gathering more and more, and admired Ye Yu's method in his heart.
At this time, Su Quanzhong stroked his beard lightly, and laughed with satisfaction: "Virtuous nephew, your trick of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, is really amazing!" ”
"Daddy, according to what you said, didn't Brother Yu become a Buddha?"
Su Yueyun glanced at Ye Yu with sparkling eyes, and then smiled and continued: "But although Brother Yu's move is for himself, there are many beggars in the county, and this move can be regarded as relief for them!" ”
Su Yueyun's words made Ye Yu stunned, and her heart said that this little bit of her mind was also guessed by this girl. At this time, the stones by the toad pond gradually decreased.
Immediately, Ye Yu summoned She Dongcheng: "Dong Cheng, you tell the brothers, transport stones in the past three days, remember that the stones should not be too big, just throw them!" ”
"Big brother, what will happen after those three days? In the opinion of the younger brother, in the face of this reward, the people here will only gather more and more......"
Regarding She Dongcheng's concerns, Ye Yu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Dong Cheng, although your concerns are reasonable, some things are not static!"
Well, you'll understand later! Remember my command, stop transporting stones after three days, and continue to supply buns! All you and your brothers have to do is keep order here! ”
"Yes, Dong Cheng listens to the eldest brother's orders!"
Although She Dongcheng still didn't understand Ye Yu's intentions, he didn't want to figure it out too much. He was convinced that it would be right to follow Ye Yu's instructions!
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After Ye Yu's ingenious methods, the originally unsolvable knot instantly turned into nothingness. In the following days, with the vigorous propaganda of rhubarb and fat man, a large number of people gathered by the toad pond every day.
The so-called money is not poor in front of it, there is a free opportunity to make money in front of him, and who is willing to give up this great opportunity?
Besides, even if you can't hit the copper coin, you can still eat hot buns afterwards, who wants to refuse such a benefit?
With the passage of time, a large number of people gathered on the shore of the toad pond from morning to night every day. At first, there were prepared stones on the shore, and the people threw them casually, but after three days, She Dongcheng ordered that no more stones be provided.
She Dongcheng thought that the enthusiasm of the people would be reduced, but what he didn't expect was that the madness of this group of people was beyond his imagination.
Both women and children carried bamboo baskets loaded with stones, just to be able to hit the copper plate in the pond. Such a crazy move made She Dong Cheng overjoyed, and at the same time, he couldn't say anything about Ye Yu's foresight.
After all, there are very few rich and noble people in Qingliu County, so once Ye Yu's benefit was launched, it had attracted most of the people in Qingliu County in just five days.
The so-called large number of people has great strength, and in just five days, the toad pond has been half buried by large and small stones! This made Pan Chengfeng, who had always wanted to see Ye Yu make a fool of himself, and he had been uncomfortable in his heart.
Looking at the toad pond that was gradually filling in, Pan Chengfeng was depressed but helpless, after all, the toad pond was not his.
The so-called law does not blame the public, and now the people of the entire Qingliu County are involved in the landfill matter, even if he Pan Chengfeng wants to talk about feng shui now, he feels bored.
The matter of Toad Pond finally came to an end after a month. In this month, the toad pond was finally filled with stones from a ditch, although it took a little longer, but it saved labor and expenses, which is an indisputable fact.
The most important thing is to be able to block Pan Chengfeng's mouth, which is the ultimate goal of Ye Yu's use of this method.
At first, there were still many people who wanted to watch the excitement, ready to see how Ye Yu made a fool of himself.
I never thought that Ye Yu was a drunkard and didn't mean to drink, so filling the pit was much cheaper than hiring someone to pick up soil and fill the pit, and avoided Pan Chengfeng's feng shui theory! The idea of killing two birds with one stone is breathtaking.
Many years later, when someone wrote a book to explain the story of Ye Yu's entrepreneurship, he commented that Ye Yu's move had begun to take shape, and this bamboo cane and copper coin was not a fish, nor was it a Tubao gold toad.
Instead, a bamboo cane lightly fished tens of thousands of people in the entire Qingliu County!
After this incident, the process of building the dyeing workshop was carried out as scheduled, and this time the facilities in the dyeing workshop Ye Yu underwent a major reform.
Although he couldn't build the kind of machine that he dyed in later generations, he was still able to solve it lightly by replacing manual tools with a basic spiral runner.
The previous dye vat was also abandoned, and several large dyeing pools were directly built! In this way, it can better cooperate with the runner to dye the cloth.
Since then, the days of using wooden sticks to stir the pigment to dye the cloth have passed, and the cloth is directly dyed with a wheel dipped in dye. This dyeing workshop with the style of the dyeing workshop of later generations, under the careful layout of Ye Yu, is finally about to be put into operation.
At the same time, Ye Yu also put the sketch of the spinning machine he sketched before into reality. However, he was in the experimental stage, and he did not rush to achieve it, but only built five spinning looms.
As a result, the land of Toad Pond not only has advanced dyeing equipment, but also an assembly line integrating weaving, which has gradually become a prototype.
This is a good guarantee for the cloth industry and the supply of grey cloth.
Ye Yu knew that if he was always a seedling in terms of foundation, if the Pan family cut off the supply of grey cloth, then even if he had an advanced dyeing workshop, how could he dye it without grey cloth?
So in order to prevent this from happening, he had to integrate weaving and dyeing. Since the supply of grey cloth could not compete with the Pan family, he retreated to the next best thing and purchased a large number of silk and yarn cotton.
As long as you have an advanced weaving and spinning machine, you can spin this raw material into grey cloth, which can also be used as an emergency for dyeing workshops.
It is precisely because this qiē has been arranged that Ye Yu's cloth business is in full swing for most of the next half year.
Although there are three dyeing workshops in the Pan family in Qingliu County and only two in Ye Yu, the output of the newly built dyeing workshops can be fully equivalent to the three dyeing workshops of the Pan family.
Such a huge supply has completely overshadowed the Pan family. Coupled with the benefits of Chinese brand fabrics, it has become the best-selling fabric in Chuzhou for a while.
Since then, the Chinese brand fabric, under the government's advertising, and the color is extremely affordable, the brand of "China" has initially opened up the situation in Chuzhou.
The so-called elimination of one and the other, since the reputation of the Chinese brand fabric, plus the girls of Zuichun Building have received a lot of benefits from Ye Yu.
Therefore, under the vigorous publicity, all the shopkeepers who came to the Pan family to buy goods turned against each other, and finally became Ye Yu's guests.
Today's Ye Yu is no longer what it used to be, if you talk about financial resources, although it is not as rich as the Pan family, but it is also a person with thousands of pockets; If you talk about power, there are uncles and nephews of the Liu family in the officialdom, and there are She Dongcheng and a gang of market thugs in private.
It has been a year and a half since the rebirth of Song Land, and now that he has a foothold, Ye Yu can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Due to Qingliu County and even neighboring counties, the supply and marketing of cloth is no longer the sole power of the Pan family. Therefore, Ye Yu did not forget the promise of the day, and under the control of the cloth price, he forcibly lowered the cloth price to 33 Wen.
Although the original price of cloth has only been reduced by two cents, it is also a good start.
After all, his current strength is still very small, and now he has only started the dyeing industry for a year, and the so-called everything is difficult at the beginning! Ye Yu believes that since this situation has been opened, the road will be much smoother in the future......
During this period, Ye Yu thought of the things used for bathing and washing on weekdays, which was really unacceptable to him.
The idea of making zuò soap shower gel was born, but then I was extremely disappointed because caustic soda was needed to make soap, and the process of caustic soda was not introduced to China until after the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Therefore, if you want to make the first soap of the Song Dynasty, it is not easy to make it in other novels, so I am afraid that it will take some effort to make zuò.
Although Ye Yu knows how to produce caustic soda by electrolysis, in this environment without electricity, this method obviously does not work.
Therefore, the so-called electrolytic salt method, and later Hou's alkali method, did not work at this time. However, Ye Yu also knows an extremely primitive method, that is, the alkali production method using salt and carboniferous.
With this method, it is much easier to make zuò soap.
After repeated experiments, Ye Yu finally researched the first piece of soap.
But what Ye Yu didn't expect was that the first piece of soap came out because of him, and he would also be the first to 'pick up soap' in the future......