It's just that the fragrance that constantly fills the end of his nose all shows this matter, Jiang Laoqi's stomach growls even more hungrily, and he doesn't care about these things, but simply bites the steamed bun hard, and then carefully drinks the broth.

The delicacy that rushed into the taste buds made Jiang Laoqi breathe a sigh of satisfaction, this is a delicacy that he can only eat once a year for him, he didn't expect to come here to work and eat it, Jiang Laoqi eats quickly, or rather, everyone eats quickly.

Three times five divided by two, Jiang Laoqi has already stuffed two steamed buns and a bowl of broth into his stomach.

After licking the bowl clean, Jiang Laoqi felt the urge to cry for the first time, is this what it feels like to have a full stomach? He really seldom ate completely, but this time he was full for the first time.

But they didn't know that they were in the back room at the moment, silently watching through the open window.

"Chief, are we losing too much in this case? Because if you calculate the consumption of food in this way, it is much more than the money they can usually earn by selling manual labor. Mingyue paused and said.

Because the meat they ate just now is not to mention, after all, it is broth, and there is not much meat that so many people really consume.

But those two steamed buns, but the two sturdy steamed buns, there is no fermentation technology in this era, at least they didn't consider this when steaming steamed buns, so this steamed bun is very porcelain, and the two steamed buns almost use nearly a pound of flour.

It's really half a pound of steamed buns, and that's because of this, so these strong laborers who do physical work can eat two steamed buns and a bowl of soup.

"Loss? No loss. The smile on Huo Gang's face was a little strange, indeed, they ate a lot of food, especially the rice, but this did not mean that Huo Gang was at a loss.

Because they are fed, these people will be more grateful, they are not afraid of not knowing the goods, they are afraid of comparing goods, Huo Gang's treatment here, coupled with his prestige, will make these jobs extremely hard.

This is only the preliminary Huo Gang has not yet calculated the cost of coal, and after he calculates, it will be changed to piecework, and then these people will be more motivated, and this kind of work efficiency is completely incomparable with the work efficiency of the conscription.

This is true even when there are overseers with whips during the conscription.

Human initiative is always the most terrible.

"Divide them into three groups, one for coal cutting, one for transporting, and one for assembly and unloading, which rotates once a day." Huo Gang instructed, these people still work in the traditional way of working, that is, in groups of two, take the frame down to gouge the coal, and then carry the basket and pour it on the coal pile outside, which is relatively slow.

The primary assembly line can improve the efficiency a little bit and improve the efficiency a little bit.

"Yes!"

"But, chief, if we go on like this, will our food be able to hold up?" Mingyue hesitated and asked.

"Of course it holds." Huo Gang said with a smile.

If this continues, of course, there is a lot of food needed, but the people in Huo Gang's territory, that is, Huo Gang's more than 1,000 people, were short of food at the beginning, such as the Turks, Loulan, and Yiwu City, most of them were barely self-sufficient.

This part of the grain is in the private sector, and now Huo Gang employs workers on a large scale, although he will use a lot of grain, but there is no shortage of food as a whole.

The so-called wealth is hidden from the people, in fact, as long as the food is in the people, it is no different from in Huo Gang's hands, the simplest example, an ordinary family, when they can't eat enough, they naturally give priority to buying food.

But when the whole family is full and has a surplus, then they will consider buying something else.

And these things, which will be useful to them in the future, will inevitably be Huo Gang's official products, in this way, it can be said that the wealth will be recovered from another angle, and after it is recovered, it will be given to them through work, and the money will be completely circulated, and the better ordinary people live, Huo Gang's territory will become more and more prosperous.

To tell the truth, that is, in this era, it can work like this, because the materials needed by ordinary people in this era are very few, Huo Gang can make the entire territory completely prosperous in this way, and most of the ordinary people in this era need nothing more than food, salt, cloth, and a small part of pottery and ironware. The latter two are actually bought once and can be used for a long time.

If the society is more developed, there are more ordinary needs, and Huo Gang's methods cannot be said to be ineffective, but they are not so effective.

The three most important things, cloth, salt, and grain, are definitely under Huo Gang's hands at present.

As long as Huo Gang is not short of food, the construction speed of the entire territory will exceed everyone's imagination!

Will Huo Gang be short of food?

From those thousand craftsmen, Huo Gang understood a lot, even if he was a descendant, he still underestimated the power of the family gate valve in this era!

It is no exaggeration to say that in the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, because of Li Shimin's national policy of light taxation, the tax grain included in the entire Tang Dynasty in a year may only be four or five million stones, and during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, this amount can reach about 30 million stone of grain taxes.

However, the population and tax ratio of the two sides are not at the same level at all, so it is already very good for Li Shimin to receive four or five million stones in this era. Huo Gang even doubted that it was a question of whether there was such a number.

But in this era, don't say that the five surnames and seven wangs add up, do you believe that in the entire five surnames and seven wangs, the grain that can be taken out by any two wealthy families may exceed the tax payment of the entire Tang Dynasty in a year?

Of course, this includes the old grain saved by these wealthy families and so on.

But even then, it's terrifying.

And the 1,000 craftsmen have already shown that these family lords attach great importance to books, as long as they pay enough attention to books, they will come up with more grain, and these grains, it can be said that the grain stored by the Li family in Longxi alone can feed the food needed for a year's work in Huo Gang's territory.

Therefore, Huo Gang is not short of food.

As long as he has what these family valves need, he will not be short of food, and Huo Gang will not take too long, after the summer of this year, there will be a famine in Datang, and it is estimated that the food will not reach Huo Gang at that time, but Huo Gang at that time is no longer short of food.

It can be said that after this year, Huo Gang's trade status with Datang will be completely reversed, and now almost everything Huo Gang needs needs to be bought from Datang, but after this year, the real strategic materials are what Datang wants to buy from Huo Gang!

Now, the caravans of the Silk Road are still coming and going back from the Western Regions and Datang to each other, and after this year, Huo Gang will tell them that the Silk Road is no longer needed, very simple, if a caravan in Datang transports a silk silk to Dashi, the profit is assumed to be 10 times, then Huo Gang will buy the materials of these Datang caravans with 8 times the profit.

For Datang's caravan, is it better to get 8 times the profit steadily or pursue 10 times? 8 times more of course! Because they consume less time, cost less, and travel less risky! This means that 8x is more than they used to make 10x.

Then Huo Gang bought these materials with 8 times the profit, and he would sell them to the caravan of Da Shi at 9 times the price! They bought it 9 times, and they could go back directly, and the same big food merchant originally sent the goods of big food to Datang If it was 5 times the profit, then Huo Gang would buy it with 3 times the profit, and then sell it to the Datang merchant 4 times.

To put it bluntly, don't run back and forth between you, I'm a huge trading mall here, you exchange supplies with me, but I want a part of the net profit! Of course, in order to "serve" these merchants more, Huo Gang would even trade with Datang and Dashi on both sides of the border of his territory.

For example, after Huo Gang took Gaochang, then the caravan from Dashi could buy it directly from Gaochang City, and the merchants of Datang could sell it directly to Yumen Pass, as for the transportation between these two cities, of course, Huo Gang himself came.

In this way, although Huo Gang's own official income has become lower, because it costs to transport these materials, Huo Gang's territory has become rich! Because of the transportation of these materials, Huo Gang had to hire people from the territory, so that this part of the profits naturally flowed to the ordinary people of the territory.

When the people are rich, Huo Gang's territorial rule will be more stable!

In fact, money is the same as the law of conservation of mass, money will not disappear, but it will continue to flow into different places, and the faster the money flows, the richer the whole country will become.

Like some wealthy families, burying copper coins is the root cause of a country's ruin.

In fact, these ancient dynasties, sometimes they don't understand, it's just that they can't find a better solution, so when the contradictions pile up to a certain point, the best solution comes, that is, to change the dynasty.

These are far away, these are just Huo Gang's long-term plans, it can be said that at present, whether it is Mingyue, Shi Wannian, or other people in the territory, they can't see this step, because Huo Gang is not alone, he is standing on the shoulders of a thousand years, so he sees farther!

When Huo Gang was chatting with Mingyue, Jiang Laoqi had already worked again, and this time it was different from the morning, Jiang Laoqi felt that he was full of strength!

It's not just Jiang Laoqi, everyone can't help but sell a little more strength when they are working! Because I'm full! The leader is indeed the most merciful heavenly immortal, and he would actually give these grass people such good things to eat!

The leader is so good to them, they don't have any other ability, only this one has the strength, so to work for the leader, you must do a good job! Of course, Jiang Laoqi couldn't help but lick his lips, the broth at noon was really delicious!

The time of the day passed quickly, and the coal dug out was directly weighed, which was required by Huo Gang, which seemed to be a bit redundant, because the coal was used by Huo Gang himself, but in fact, it was not the case, because knowing the weight of the coal was conducive to later cost accounting.