Chapter 102: The Salt Farm Begins to Begin
In fact, Qian Yu's words about fifty literary wages a day, these villagers heard it clearly, but they didn't understand the mess behind it, and now after the rooster said it, they knew that it was all nonsense, so they looked at each other with joy on their faces, and trotted all the way to work.
You must know that now you can have 50 yuan a day, if you burn bricks yourself, you will indeed earn more, but you also have to worry about the firing, transportation, sales and other messy chores of red bricks.
The most important thing is that there is food here every day, and it is eaten casually, which is the most important thing for them, who have always eaten a large amount of food.
Qian Yu and Cheng Si both ignored one thing, for the villagers of Yunxi, it doesn't matter how many bricks are burned a day or how much money they sell, what they care about most is that they have food, Cheng Si's national mobilization is indeed effective, and these people are also very excited, so yesterday they visited their spiritual pillar overnight - the old village chief!
The old village chief only said one sentence: I don't care what you want to do, but say it first, if you are hungry again, don't come to me.
The villagers were silent, yes, what Ren Chengsi said was so good, can he guarantee that he will not go hungry?
Many people can't help but think of the past, watching the salt produced in Yanjing decrease day by day, they went to the old village chief, and the old village chief arranged for them to go out to work, although they did not necessarily make money, at least they did not starve to death.
When they couldn't get along outside, they came back to the old village chief, and the old village chief relied on Brother Qian with a face, so they had a full meal for the first time.
And now...... Nonsense, the words of the village elders must be heard!
Looking at the scattered villagers, Qian Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, his company's establishment pledge meeting had just begun, and there was still a speech of 100,000 words below that he hadn't read!
In particular, "Employee Promotion and Training Plan", "One Hundred and Thirty-Eight Rules for Employees' Daily Work", "How to Be a Thoughtful, Cultured, and Retaliated Brick Burner", "On the Eight Relationships between Solubility and Coarse Salt Refining", "Cement Master--I Made It This Way!" "The Role of Gunpowder in the Development of Human Society" and other research topics, he is also ready to organize everyone to study together!
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"What? They all went to the salt well? Didn't I make it very clear that as long as we join forces, we will only have a small income of 100 wen a day? Cheng Si's face was gloomy, unbelievable.
Cheng Qi is Cheng Si's cousin: "I heard that Qian Yu gave them fifty literary wages a day, and most of the people we finally got together wanted to go back." ”
Cheng Si was furious: "Go back? Are they stupid in their brains? Fifty and one hundred, aren't they clear? Even if Qian Yu is in charge of cooking, how much can he eat? You can't run out of ten cents, right? ”
Cheng Qi said depressedly: "They just went to be able to eat, but in fact, they didn't know that they still had fifty yuan to get before they went." Brother, do you think these people are stupid in Yunxi? Can't understand the accounts? ”
Cheng Si shook his head: "We may have ignored their attachment to food, because I didn't think it through." In this way, we will also take care of the food, and the salary will not change, I believe that after a long time, they will come back. ”
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Qian Yu's speech only had the beginning, and no one seemed to regret it except him.
After his reforms, the effect of Yunxi Village quickly became apparent. In just five days, the villagers found that their work efficiency had immediately improved, and the number of red bricks burned had increased by nearly 50% compared with before.
Without him, just because Qian Yu borrowed the operation method of the assembly line, and the mud is only mud, the billet is only the billet, and the fire is only fire. In fact, we used to have a similar division of labor, but it was far from being so fine, and between process transitions, a little carelessness caused a waste of efficiency.
The villagers naturally couldn't understand the reason, but this did not affect their enthusiasm, because in addition to the daily salary of 50 Wen, they also received an additional bonus of 120 Wen, which is 120 Wen!
For five days, an average of twenty-four wen per day. They know very well that this is just the beginning, and when they are completely familiar with this way of working, they will definitely get more points.
Compared to the brick kiln people, who have a lot of bonuses to take, the salt well is much more deserted.
In order to ensure the normal operation of the salt well, Qian Yu specially transferred a large number of people, their main task is to coat the salt field with cement, everyone doesn't understand why they do this, those gray things, how can there be lime as white as snow to look good?
But this is the order of the stone, they can question Qian Yu, and they will never question the stone. They all know that Shi's father died next to the salt well because of testing salt, and in their hearts, the father and son are heroes!
Shi Shi stared at the villagers cheering for the bonus in the distance, and then looked at the dejected looks of the people around him, and said lightly: "What's the hurry, there is no bonus to get now, but we haven't started yet."
I'm not afraid to tell you, when the salt farm is built, you just lie down and sleep, and the snow-white refined salt can also come out in pieces. ”
Although the villagers next to them did not refute, they looked at the stone with a look of disbelief.
Qian Yu stood aside, and he didn't have time to help defend the stone, because the fourth generation of Zuo had already done the first well pressing, and the style of this pressure well was similar to that of later generations, but the specifications were much larger, and people who didn't have a little strength would definitely not be able to control it.
The bottom of the well is connected to the water with a hollowed-out willow wood in the middle, which can cost Qian Yu a lot of effort, in fact, his earliest idea is to use bamboo, but most of the bamboo in the north is very slender and not suitable.
In the end, the old village chief thought of this method, he first made the willow wood into the required model, then soaked it in tung oil, and then put it on the fire to bake......
In short, the process is unimaginably complicated, and the purpose is only to prevent air leakage, and Qian Yu now misses the plastic pipes of later generations.
After the two are connected and fixed, the fourth generation on the left grabs the long handle of the well and stirs it up and down, and after a while, the salt brine comes out and splashes on the ground, like beautiful music.
The other villagers stopped their work to watch, Qian Yu connected the drainage tube, and the salt brine flowed into the exposure pond quickly.
Because the salt pan is a bit large, when applying cement on the surface, Qian Yu divided them into several small grids three meters square. Although the salt works are not fully completed, the small grids made at the earliest time are already usable.
Watching Xiaoge slowly fill up the salt brine, I believe that in less than two days, the water will evaporate, and the salt at the bottom will slowly precipitate, and unlike sea salt, these salt brine have no other impurities, and the precipitated salt can be eaten directly.
Until now, the matter of salt wells has come to an end, and the next thing is to make as many kill wells as possible and extract salt step by step. These jobs can be done by one person.
Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, Qian Yu felt that the past few days had been the most tiring days for him to grow so big. He only slept for one hour a day in the three places of brick kiln, cement and salt well, personnel arrangement, material arrangement, sales channel establishment, villager salary and bonus payment, etc.
Although Buyi, Hesui, and roosters are all very powerful, they are not familiar with the company management system of later generations after all, and they are extremely untargeted in doing things. Qian Yu's mouth was foaming at what he said, so he reluctantly let them establish a sense of teamwork.
So he fell asleep as soon as he lay down in bed, and woke up a few times in between, all to solve physiological problems. If it weren't for the stone dragging him out of bed, he didn't know how long he would have slept long.
Shi looked at Qian Yu with an excited face: "Salt, a lot of salt, and it's all refined salt." It's done, we've made it! ”
Seeing this man who had always been silent with a happy smile, Qian Yu was very pleased, he knew some psychology, and he understood the psychological changes of stones even more thoroughly than himself.
Shi's father died next to the salt well, and although the villagers thanked him for his kindness and cared for him, it was not enough to soothe his heart.
No matter how close others are, they can't always kiss their own father and mother, because of his father's death, he has been living in the shadows, becoming taciturn, withdrawn and willful.
He likes Hesui, but this liking is more manifested in his heart, just a kind of unrequited love, and he doesn't even know that love needs to be communicated.
In fact, not only in this aspect, but all his behaviors are similar. For most of the villagers, the stone father and son are the heroes of the village, but they are not their friends.
The root of all this was the poisonous salt in the salt well, especially when he saw the person who ate the poisonous salt he provided and was poisoned, his heart collapsed directly.
It was only today, when he saw the piles of fine salt in the salt pan that the knots in his heart disappeared, and he himself became cheerful.
Qian Yu was only relieved by the change in stone, so he let the other party drag him and staggered to the salt well. Despite his expectations, Qian Yu once again sighed at the miracle of the Creator.
After a busy few days, the entire salt plant has been completely completed. Most of the small grids were filled with water, and after being exposed to the sun, the first three or four small grids had bottomed out, and the white salt layers were precipitated to form pieces of crystal snowflakes.