Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Shuttle Loom
Zhong Feng saw the situation in the courtyard, shook his arm and said, "Li Zhi's posture is really enough, he is now a big dealer!" How many men does he have? ”
Aunt Lan glared at her son and said, "Now there are fifty people under him, to say the least. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info You see that Li Zhi is more promising, do you look at your own appearance? You played with him, why didn't you get some fairy energy? ”
Zhong Feng sneered: "That immortal qi is not something that ordinary people can touch. ”
Aunt Lan glared at her son again, and asked, "You grew up playing with him since childhood, will he use you?" ”
"When Xiao Guangwei was a child, he bullied Brother Zhi'er, and I also helped him beat Xiao Guangwei. Although Brother Zhi was stupid before, he was a nostalgic person and will definitely remember me. ”
"What a stupid stupidity, you are still talking nonsense! Brother Zhi is very shrewd now, much more clever than you. You call him stupid, and you let him hear and blow us out! After a pause, Aunt Lan scolded again: "Look at you, you are nineteen years old and haven't found a place to do things, and you know how to dance and play with guns and sticks when you curl up at home all day." What's the use of being able to fight? Can you beat a Tartar? You live in our shop, you can't even earn money for food, how can you start a family in the future? I heard that Li Zhi gave the helper two taels of silver a month, and he also gave three meals a day, and he also had meat! It's the best employer. With such an errand, I don't have to worry about getting married and having children. If you can be used by Li Zhi, you will have a better life in the future. ”
"That's what my mother said... Zhong Feng said perfunctory to his mother, suddenly patted his head, and said: "But mother, you see, the Li family has so many relatives, if Brother Zhi'er recruits people, I'm afraid I won't want me." ”
Aunt Lan's face was a little nervous when she heard this, she glared at Zhong Feng, and pulled him into the courtyard of the Li family. He knew the rules of queuing invented by Li Zhi, and knew that he had to pay attention to the first come, first served, so he took Zhong Feng to stand behind Li Zhi's relatives. The two waited for a full hour and a half, and waited for Li Zhi to ask all his relatives before standing in front of Li Zhi.
Li Zhi had already seen Aunt Lan behind the crowd, and greeted with a smile: "Aunt Lan, you are here with Zhong Feng!" ”
Aunt Lan saw Li Zhi take the initiative to greet her, and happily replied, "Li Zhi, I heard that your family is recruiting people!" My Zhong Feng has never been able to find something to do, he grew up playing with you since he was a child, you can use him. ”
Zhong Feng smiled and followed his mother, and made a long gesture at Li Zhichang: "Brother Zhi'er is good!" ”
Li Zhi looked at Zhong Feng, searched for memories about him in his mind, and knew that he had been good with him since he was a child, and he had also taught Xiao Guangwei a lesson, so he smiled and said, "Zhong Feng, are you willing to come to my workshop to work?" ”
Zhong Feng raised his head and said, "A hundred are willing." ”
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Then come!" Count you in! ”
When Zhong Feng heard this, he was overjoyed and put a smile on his face. He touched the ground again and said loudly: "Thank you Brother Zhi'er, I will do things honestly and be worthy of Brother Zhi'er's monthly money." ”
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Three days later, you will come to my house at midnight, and I will take you to the workshop!" ”
Zhong Feng nodded and said, "Okay!" ”
Seeing that Li Zhi was no longer talking, Aunt Lan hurriedly pulled Zhong Feng away: "Brother Zhi'er, if you continue to recruit people, we won't disturb you." ”
"Walk slowly!"
On the way back, Aunt Lan and Zhong Feng were overjoyed, as if they had won a show.
"Now it's okay, you have food to eat at Brother Zhi'er's house, and you can save two taels of silver every month. In a year or two, you'll have money to get married! As she spoke, Aunt Lan shed tears: "Your father died early, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to make money and goods for you to start a family in this life, but I didn't expect our family to rely on Li Zhi to turn over!" Fortunately, you were able to play with Li Zhi when you were a child, and the chicken dog ascended to heaven, otherwise when would this poor day be a head? ”
"Mother, why are you crying, on the road, this is a happy thing."
Aunt Lan walked in front and said with tears in her eyes: "Zhong Feng! My mother has worked so hard to pull you up, and now that you have such a good errand, you can earn two taels of silver a month, do you want to be filial to your mother? ”
Zhong Feng smiled: "Mother! I'll honor you with one or two a month! ”
When Aunt Lan heard her son's words, she burst into tears and laughed, and said, "One or two is too much, one dollar is enough, my mother buys a few catties of meat to eat, and also tastes the taste of meat." ”
After Li Zhi finished recruiting manpower, he began to organize the workers to start work. As before, he divided the entire soap production into six processes, each of which was operated by a certain number of people and operated in a closed room. This distribution allows individual workers to be unaware of the entire production process, ensuring the secrecy of the soap formula and eliminating the possibility of formula leakage.
At the same time, Li Zhi also strictly forbade the helpers and others to discuss the processes they were responsible for.
Li Zhi also promoted his relatives who performed well this month to be supervisors, responsible for managing a certain process. For example, Li Laosi, Li Zhi promoted him to be the supervisor who managed the process of dividing soap, and the monthly salary rose to three taels per month. Another example is Li Zhi's uncle Zheng Yuan, Li Zhi promoted him to be the supervisor of managing the saponification reaction, with a monthly salary of four taels.
As the head of the entire factory, Li Zhi's younger brother Li Xing has eight taels of silver pocket money every month. Although Li Zhi and Li Xing did not separate, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhi did not have to give Li Xing money. But Li Zhi is a modern person after all, and he is not used to the concept of common property of the big families of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zhi thought that giving Li Xing a salary would improve his motivation, so he finally gave him a salary.
Li Xing is doing the work of managing the factory, he has a very high status in the family, and now he has eight taels of silver pocket money a month, he is very excited, and he is very careful to do the work of supervision and management.
Not to mention Li Xing's eight taels of silver, just talk about the supervisor's remuneration: three or four taels of monthly money, which is also a high salary in this year, enough to feed the family, not to mention that Li Zhi also provides a sumptuous three meals a day. Not to mention the rejoicing of the relatives who were promoted, the relatives who were not promoted also held back their strength, and secretly said that they should perform well and strive to become the supervisor when Li Zhi expands his career next time.
After the arrangements were made, Li Zhi's expanded soap factory was in full swing.
The soap factory was on the right track, and Li Zhi did not need to spend too much energy on management, and Li Zhi began to manufacture textile machinery that was not available in this era.
It is now the seventh year of Chongzhen, and it will not be long before Emperor Chongzhen hangs himself on a crooked neck tree, and the Jurchens will go south to establish the Qing Dynasty. Li Zhi didn't want to lose the Han people's country and shave his hair as a slave. Li Zhi wants to use science and technology to change this era, change the history of this era, so that the Han people will no longer endure the humiliating Manchurian rule.
Everything should be planned, be fast.
Li Zhi planned to invent a series of textile machinery and establish a textile factory to expand his business. The first step is to make a shuttle loom. The shuttle loom has a simple structure, but it can improve the weaving efficiency several times, which is of course Li Zhi's first choice for the development of the textile industry.