Chapter 227: Levees

Although Zhang Jun already pays great attention to product quality, in his expectation, at least one out of a hundred pieces of soap will be defective.

Without him, the quality of this soap is not easy to control.

Handmade soap will inevitably have certain defects.

There are also good and bad skills of each master.

Although Zhang Jun can guarantee that most of the time, there will be no problems with the craftsmanship of these masters, he still cannot guarantee that the soaps will not be 100% problematic.

Some situations such as alkaline water concentration is not in place, and small insects fly into the mold still occur from time to time.

If Zhang Jun had paid sixty taels of silver for every bad soap like Hu Changan, Zhang Jun would have to pay no more than his underwear.

Hu Changan, on the other hand, has never worried about this problem.

There is no other reason than that Hu Changan's soap workshop has introduced a mature quality control process.

For every process, there will be strict standards to follow.

There are strict regulations on how to concentrate the lye to be qualified, and what is the ratio of plant ash to water.

According to this rule, there is no way to go wrong.

Of course, these rules are not written into a manual for everyone to see.

These regulations are only in the mouths of front-line employees, and they are passed on by word of mouth.

Those front-line employees are all long-term workers of the Hu family.

Their fate has been tightly tied to the Hu family.

So no matter what, they don't divulge secrets.

Besides, even if you leak the secret, it's useless.

After all, the process of making soap is very cumbersome.

Each worker is only responsible for a small part of the matter.

Therefore, only by mastering the standards of the whole process can we produce high-quality soap as efficiently as Hu's.

It's simply an impossible task.

Moreover, Hu Changan has also set up a mechanism for reference.

Every time a piece of soap is made, Hu Changan has to send someone to check it.

If substandard soap is found, it must be destroyed immediately on site.

Not only that, Hu Changan will also be responsible.

Once in a while, you can make a mistake, but you will have to deduct the bonus.

Frequent mistakes? I'm sorry, then I'll be transferred directly.

In this regard, Hu Changan will never show mercy to his subordinates.

After all, if bad soap flows into the market, it will damage the reputation of the Hu family!

Hu Changan must ensure that every soap produced by Hu is of good quality.

Therefore, Hu Changan dared to shout this condition to the outside world.

Under Hu Changan's strict quality control, the sixty taels of silver have not been taken away so far.

Zhang Jun listened to the words of these two customers, and he was also depressed.

Now, he knows the gap with the Hu family.

But how can we close the gap?

In terms of influence, the current Zhang family has declined.

No matter how much they catch up, the Zhang family is afraid that they will not be able to catch up with the Hu family.

In terms of quality control, Zhang's can't do it like Hu Changan.

Zhang Jun dragged his tired pace and returned to Zhang's pancreatic workshop.

This time, he lost, and he lost completely.

Wang Chuan, who was on the side, saw that Zhang Jun was back, and hurriedly greeted him with a flattering face: "Dongjia, I don't know where it ......."

Before Wang Chuan finished speaking, he was overturned to the ground by Zhang Jun.

Pointing at Wang Chuan, Zhang Jun scolded: "It's all your good idea!" ”

"This time, I was miserable by you!"

"Not only did the soap not sell, but I also lost a lot of money this time!"

"Come on, throw this beggar out of here!"

As soon as Zhang Jun's words fell, two powerful little men stepped forward and dragged Wang Chuan's arms and threw Wang Chuan out.

Before Wang Chuan could understand what was happening, the door closed in front of his eyes again.

Looking at the tightly closed door, Wang Chuan almost wanted to cry without tears.

Hey, if he knew this, he didn't play tricks and honestly worked in the Hu family's workshop.

It's good now, it's really a loss for my wife and a soldier.

But Wang Chuan has no room for regret.

At present, Wang Chuan could only drag his heavy steps and join the beggars by the city gate......

Of course, Hu Changan was not bothered by this trivial matter.

What awaits Hu Changan is an even more serious task.

Due to the once-in-a-century flood in Shandong, more and more displaced people came to Yingtiancheng.

Although Hu Chang'an's workshop can absorb some of the displaced people, it cannot absorb all the displaced people.

There are many more homeless people who are starving in Yingtian City.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang has ordered relief for these victims, a little bit of rice grain is still a drop in the bucket.

And to make matters worse, the current floods are not the end.

According to local sources, there are even bigger flood peaks gathering.

If we don't take precautions, I am afraid that the disaster will expand more and more.

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang held a small court meeting, focusing on discussing the matter of the flood.

The matter of floods should be under the management of the Ministry of Industry.

Therefore, in this small court meeting, Xue Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Hu Changan, the waiter of the Ministry of Industry, were impressively listed.

Looking at the ministers under the steps, Zhu Yuanzhang was very worried: "Everyone, I don't know if you have any good recipe to deal with the flood?" ”

Xue Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, took the lead in speaking and said: "Weichen thinks that people should be ordered to build embankments to prevent greater floods in the future. ”

Although Xue Xiang's proposal is not a good prescription to surprise everyone, it can be regarded as a relatively modest speech.

After all, in ancient times, the only way to prevent floods was to build dikes.

In a short period of time, it will certainly be impossible to dig a canal.

So the only way to do it now is to build a dam to fight the flood.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also nodded slightly.

At this time, Fan Min, the secretary of the household department, got up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the budget for this year's household department has been made. ”

"At present, the treasury can only spend a maximum of 100,000 taels of silver."

"This is not a small project to build a dam!"

"If all the money is spent on building the dams, what if the rest of the country needs to use the silver?"

"And now it's the spring planting season, farmers should hurry up and plow the land."

"It takes a lot of labor to build the dam."

"If these farmers build the dikes, they won't have time to farm."

"There is not enough food in the treasury in the first place, and if there is a sudden forced labor, what will happen to the people?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was also silent.

Yes, it is indeed a good thing to build dikes to fight floods.

But this also has to take into account the actual situation of the imperial court!

At present, the imperial court is short of money and people, and it is really not a good time to engage in big projects.

But if we don't build the dams, more people will die from the floods.

For a while, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but fall into a tangle.