Speaking of this, Lao Jia Tou was a little eager to say something, hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "Speaking of this person...... is still a relative of our Xie family, and he is not a small family with no name or surname, no one thought that he would be so unparticular about doing things! But we are subordinates, and it is not good to be more serious with others, so we are afraid that things will make a big fuss, and he will be fine, but we will have to eat and hang. ”

Seeing that he had always mysteriously refused to say the person's name, and said that he was a relative, Xie Mulin became a little impatient: "Who is it?" If you want to say it, say it quickly, don't sell it here! ”

Lao Jia Tou said honestly: "This person's surname is Yang, and he is actually from the aunt's wife's family over there in the second room, and he is still very close to the eldest aunt's bloodline, so he has to call the eldest aunt a brother, whether he is a cousin from the same grandfather, or a grandson." However, he is the youngest son, he has not inherited much family business, and he lives on his brother and sister-in-law on weekdays. But the eldest man of the Yang family is an official outside, and the family has always wanted to be face-saving, so he must protect him for three points in everything. ”

When this Yang Siye first came to the door, he wanted to ask the people from the cement workshop to rebuild the granary on the small grange in the suburbs for him, and prepare the autumn grain for easy storage, saying that the original granary was dilapidated, and there were always rats, and the granary on the cement floor was not only clean, but also not easy to have snakes, insects, rats and ants.

This is also the type of business that cement workshops most often receive today, so the people in the workshop didn't feel anything wrong at first, and because the Yang family was the in-laws of the Xie family's second room, they gave him priority, and even gave him an eighty-five discount on the price, and finally wiped the odds.

With such a discount, and the work is done quickly and well, of course, the craftsmen of the cement workshop will not find this problem in this matter. Later, it was Yang Siye's housekeeper who always persuaded them not to rush too much, and it didn't matter if they did it slowly, that they began to feel strange. Although the project is progressing quickly, they have already done it, and the work is not rough, and even in the second room, they are extra meticulous. Isn't it unconscionable for employers to tell them to slow down? In his small grange, the granary was not built in the first place, and they had to be asked to lay a few more layers of cement on the land, and the materials were much more expensive than those of other families.

After all, although the wages are fixed, the food is one more day for the craftsmen, and the employer has to pack one more day, and the material money must be calculated separately.

At that time, the foreman of the craftsmen who went to work at Yang Siye's house paid attention, and soon found that every time he needed to pull cement from the workshop to the construction site, the Yang family must send a few people to follow the boat to the workshop to see what materials were piled up around the kiln where the cement was burned, and how they were burned. Because outsiders are not allowed to enter the cement workshop, his family specially asked the craftsmen to slow down and consume more cement, so that they could have the opportunity to go to the workshop a few more times.

Lao Jia Tou said to Xie Mulin: "It is also the carelessness of those craftsmen in the workshop, who feel that the cement and materials are all cheap things, and they are piled up on the spot at will, and they don't care about stopping people when they are busy, so they let those people see the details." I inquired with the steward, and that Fourth Master Yang not only sent someone from his own family, but also asked his brother to borrow someone. When the work of his small granary was finished, he immediately dug a hole and built a kiln on the edge of his small grange, and got some materials back from nowhere, and he was going to burn cement! ”

Xie Mulin was a little amused when he heard it: "Didn't you say that the eldest master of the Yang family is an official outside, so the people of his family are extra respectable in their hometown?" The people in their family don't mind that Yang Siye opened a cement workshop? "Even in the Xie family, only the thirteen rooms will run this kind of business. As for the third room, it was in the name of assisting the thirteenth house, and did not come forward to say that the cement workshop was its own industry.

Lao Jia Tou told Xie Mulin: "Then Fourth Master Yang doesn't have much to do at home, and his brother and sister-in-law are also annoyed by him when they hear about it, but it's not good not to support him, so the elders of the Yang family's eldest branch say that they don't love brothers." If Fourth Master Yang can really use cement to set up a family business, I am afraid that his brother and sister-in-law will still be eager to do it, and it is not them who will suffer the loss. If cement could make money, they might want a piece of the pie. This was inquired about by the workshop manager, and it was what Yang Siye and his sister-in-law said to their mother's family! ”

Xie Mulin was a little speechless when he heard this, so he asked, "Then Fourth Master Yang has burned out the cement?" ”

Lao Jia Tou is a little uncertain about this, Yang Siye must have let people burn cement, but because his people only found the raw materials of cement, but did not figure out the proportion, so the burning is not very successful, and it is still in the trial production, and the cement produced by the trial is at most paved on the ground, which is not as easy to use as the cement from the Xie family.

However, the firing of cement is not complicated, and the ratio of various materials is also very simple. Then Yang Siye asked people to try a lot, and sooner or later he would try to figure out the correct ratio.

Of course, even if Yang Siye really succeeded in trial-producing cement, Lao Jiatou was sure that they would not be able to steal the business of the Xie family's workshop. Because when cement is used, you also need to add other things, such as when it is used to lay bricks, you can't just put sand and water, but also add some lime gypsum or something. These two are both materials for burning cement, and it is estimated that Yang Siye would not have thought that they could have other uses......

However, Yang Siye's elder brother seems to be secretly poaching the craftsmen of the cement workshop. If he succeeds in digging one or two people, the secret of cement will no longer be a secret.

Lao Jiatou asked Xie Mulin to think of ideas, and begged the second old lady Song to hand over a message to the Yang family, telling the Yang family to be more restrained and stare at the in-laws' industry, which is too tasteless, this is also what the official eunuch family should do?

Xie Mulin thought for a while and said, "If you really make trouble with the second grandmother, the Yang family will lose face, and it is a bit like killing chickens with a knife." The second grandmother naturally won't lose the thirteenth room, but we don't need to let her old man worry about this trivial matter. You and the workshop manager give a message to the people around Uncle Yang, and see if Uncle Yang can deal with this matter quietly, without alarming Auntie. Even if someone has to play blackface, they can't let my aunt, who is a daughter-in-law, come forward. ”

This is to let Yang Yiquan and Aunt Yang play this black face?

Lao Jia Tou originally wanted to ask, what if Aunt Yang favored the Yang family? But then I thought that Yang Yiquan was rumored to be not in harmony with his aunt and cousins, and he was just not the son-in-law of the Xie family's second room, and he suddenly had a number in his heart.

So what if Yang Siye refuses to listen to persuasion, and insists on continuing to poach the craftsmen of the Xie family's workshop, and establish his own cement workshop to compete with the Xie family for business?

Xie Mulin said: "The workers in the workshop are not all slaves of our Xie family, people want to change owners, we can't shout and kill, force others to stay, right?" It's not worth it for just one cement. If someone is poached, you don't have to stop it. This kind of thing is not a secret that only our family knows, but if a craftsman from the garrison of a border town communicates with this side, our cement formula is worthless at all.

"Look at some of them, and think more about the good things. If there are more people who produce and use cement, it will be more beneficial to us, and it will also be conducive to the innovation of new technologies and processes. If we had stuck to the cement formula and refused to share it with the contracted craftsmen, where would so many new technologies appear? It can be seen that there is no point in keeping it secret. If it weren't for the fact that it was easy to make taboos, I would love to promote it on a large scale and let everyone in the world know about this formula! ”

Lao Jia Tou suddenly respected his second girl, and he couldn't speak for a long time.