"Throwing sand and gravel into the porridge? Liang Xiao, if you don't want to give porridge, forget it, why bother to give them hope! ”

The audience arranged by Duanmu's family at the scene jumped out to accuse Liang Xiao for the first time, and the surroundings were quickly drowned out by accusations.

Because of the location, the group of displaced people didn't see Liang Xiao's people in the southeast of Liang Xiao throwing sand and stones into the porridge, and they were still begging Liang Xiao to hurry up and give porridge.

"What is he doing?" Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunsleeve were also taken aback.

Liang Xiao ignored this group of accusers, but let his subordinates continue to make porridge.

"Here, why is there sand and stones in this porridge?"

The homeless people looked at the porridge in their bowls and were taken aback.

"It's good to have something to eat, what else do you care! Do you want to eat tree bark? ”

An old man criticized his children fiercely, picked up the bowl and ate slowly.

"It's so unpalatable!"

There were a lot of complaints from the crowd, but most of them still drank the porridge while it was hot.

Duan Yunsleeve and Mu Qinxue looked at it in their eyes, a little unbearable, and looked at Liang Xiao with a calm face in the distance, as if they had discovered something.

In the past, he was very decisive in giving porridge and dry food to the homeless, but this time he suddenly ......

Only then did Liang Xiao instruct Gu Pingxiu: "Take these homeless people who are desperately drinking porridge aside, and those who can't drink it will be put aside first, observe slowly, and then distribute dry food to everyone." ”

Gu Pingxiu suddenly realized and immediately arranged.

Soon, more than 1,400 people among the displaced people were concentrated on the other side, leaving less than 100 people, still holding unfinished porridge in their hands, stunned in place.

"Boss Liang has an order, send dry food!"

As soon as the words fell, the audience looked at truckloads of dry food and water bladders, and didn't know why: "Wouldn't it be nice to do this earlier, what a moth!" ”

Only Duanmu Yuncheng and the others looked at the small group of people who were separated from afar, trembling with anger.

Those are their people!

"I see!"

Duan Yunsleeve and Mu Qinxue exclaimed in unison.

"He put sand and gravel in the porridge, just to see the reaction of these homeless people, it is really a homeless person, he hasn't eaten anything in the past few days, he is hungry, he definitely doesn't care about any sand and stones, even if it is bran vegetables, he will gobble it up!"

And after he made a clear distinction between the real homeless and the fake homeless, he gave everyone dry food, and also blocked the mouths of the people, so that others could not blame, even if the real homeless people were wronged by themselves, at least they had a bite to eat. Next, he must be preparing to recruit most of the displaced people! As for those suspicious homeless, especially those who did not drag their families with them, he could slowly send people to observe. ”

The two girls looked at their sweethearts with joy and smiled.

Sure enough, after this group of homeless people finished eating dry food, Liang Xiao announced the recruitment information.

"One tael of silver per month, including food and lodging? This, this boss is a living bodhisattva! I'm willing to do it! ”

Most of the displaced people who were recruited were all grateful and bowed down.

Liang Xiao immediately negotiated with the officials responsible for pacifying the displaced people at the scene, and the officials knew that Liang Xiao was a first-class imperial businessman, and they did not object, and registered and approved on the spot.

The eighty or ninety people who stayed behind looked bitter, looking at the dry food in their hands and the sand and stones in their bowls, extremely depressed.

They also tried to fish in troubled waters, but they really couldn't eat it, and the porridge itself was too unpalatable even if there was no sand and stones!

A few homeless people quietly walked to the shade of the tree, came to Duanmu Yuncheng, and said with a bitter face: "Young master......"

"Rubbish!"

Duanmu Yuncheng was annoyed, gave them a slap, and left angrily.

Liang Xiao minimized the infiltration of spies into his workshop, and brought a new batch of displaced people into his workshop.

These homeless people have suffered from thousands of miles of exile, and now they have a boss who gives them a job, and promises that the whole family of up to five people will have food and shelter......

There is no doubt that these homeless people signed Liang Xiao's confidentiality contract without exception, and swore that they were willing to follow Liang Xiao as the boss for the rest of their lives.

Liang Xiao's recruitment of workers expanded to more than 1,000, including more than 30 literate workers, and an additional five cents of silver were paid every month.

These literate workers were originally scholars from poor backgrounds, but because of the war, they became homeless and had nowhere to live, and no one even wanted to do hard labor.

Now, Liang Xiao also gave them a few literacy books, so that they could recognize more words, including rare characters, and they immediately immersed themselves in hard reading, just hoping to be able to work as soon as possible and earn some wages.

Liang Xiao promised them that as long as they did a good job, they could be promoted in the future, have the opportunity to be the shopkeeper, or get the support of the Liang Mansion to gain fame.

But in the eyes of these literate workers, the prospect of fame is slim, and it is not as good as a stable and well-paid job, which can be considered later.

Duan Yunsleeve ran back to the palace in high spirits and told his sister about Liang Xiao's "feat" of throwing sand and stones into the porridge.

"Although this move has damaged a little, it is also a capable official! What does the prime minister think? ”

In the imperial study, the empress praised and looked at Zhuge Hui, who was presenting the folds.

Zhuge Hui praised: "Yichen is foolish, maybe he was forced to make this decision. But he was able to make this move in order to avoid the opponent sending people into the interior, which is also a sign of calm and leakage, and the future is promising. ”

"He should have more than 1,000 workers, I am just curious, does the capital really need so many sugar workers? His goal should not only be sugar, but also movable type printing, right? The Empress sighed.

Duan Yun's beautiful eyes lit up, and his face was full of anticipation.

She also wants to see what is the situation of Liang Xiao's newspaper and movable type printing, which is really as practical as he said, and can slowly seize the power of public opinion in the hands of the family?

Five hundred workers, under Liang Xiao's arrangement, first settled in the courtyard of Liang Xiao's newly bought mansion, and the next day they could follow to learn sugar making.

Some of them are not good at learning, so they are responsible for cleaning, selling, or publicizing.

In a few years, the price of white sugar will be greatly reduced, and at that time, Liang Xiao's profits will be greatly reduced, so he is indeed starting to prepare.

Sugar production is just one of them.

The Bai family has already sent someone to cooperate and negotiate with the buyer.

Liang Xiao finally fully understood the purchase channel.

A quarter of the sugar cane farmers outside the city were tenant farmers employed by the Gongsun family, and the rest were small individual landlords.

The windfall profits of sugarcane come from the resale of the Bai family and the Dingguo Marquis Mansion after purchase, and the cost of growing sugarcane itself is not low, so those families are fortunate to see this meager income at all.

After the Dingguo Marquis Mansion received Liang Xiao's promise to provide sugar steadily, it also transferred this part of its suppliers to Liang Xiao.

Liang Xiao personally negotiated with these retail investors, signed a contract with them, and successfully impressed these retail investors with the usual purchase price that was one percent higher than Baihe's, and a more stable purchase volume.

These retail investors themselves are small landlords, and after negotiating with Liang Xiao, they can also feel that this boss is much kinder than the Dingguo Marquis Mansion.

The remaining quarter belongs to the Gongsun family, and Liang Xiao needs to talk about it.

On this day, Mu Qinxue's father Mu Ping finally returned to Beijing.

"What? How much does sugar cane cost a penny? You're crazy! ”