The seedlings in the field are green, and more than a dozen horses gallop along the trail. While walking, Hua Yunfei introduced to Ye Xiaotian: "This Yuji is now not only the largest brick and tile shop in Tongren Mansion, but also the only brick and tile shop. A few years ago, there were two peers, but unfortunately they were not as good as Yu Kee Club, and they closed down one after another. ”

Yu Kee brick and tile factory is located at the foot of the Loess Ridge, the open land in front of the ridge is tied out of a huge courtyard with a fence, the yard is a row of neatly stacked bricks and tiles, at the back of the courtyard is a row of houses, behind the house is the hillside, the hillside is dug out of a huge gap, like being bitten by a giant beast.

Ye Xiaotian led the horse into the Yu Kee Brick and Tile Factory, and stopped in front of a mud pit that was a few feet shorter than the ground with great interest. There were a few old men in the mud pit, each holding a cow in their hands, and they were slowly turning around in the mud pit, and they were refining with each other.

Harmony refining is a key step in burning bricks, the loess dug from the mountain is added with water, trampled by people and animals, repeated many times, until the loess is stepped into a sticky thick mud can be used to make zuò brick embryos and tile embryos. Several old men in the mud pit have become mud monkeys, still holding on to the reins of the ox and trampling on it again and again.

In the main room of Yu Kee Brick Factory, the shopkeeper of Ding Da is respectfully inviting Yu Junting to sit down. Yu Junting heard that the Changfeng Dao of Liulong Mountain and Qixuanguan is powerful, so he specially rushed to visit today, and on the way back, he went around to Yu Ji Brick and Tile Shop, which is an industry under her name.

The shopkeeper Ding welcomed the owner in, and he was very frightened. In the industry under her command, the brick and tile factory is really not a major source of income, and in the past, he only went to the Jianzhou Mansion to meet the owner when he reported the accounts at the end of the year, but he didn't know why the owner came here today.

Shopkeeper Ding cautiously reported to Yu Junting about the recent business situation: "Now that the repair of the city and the expansion of the granary by the government office all require a large number of bricks and tiles, the business is not worried, but it is time to be busy with farming, and the price of hired workers has to rise in order to retain people." The government still wants to suppress our price. ”

Yu Junting said unhappily: "I have already given him a lot of benefits for Zhang Fatzi, does he still want to make an inch?" Don't pay attention to him, if anyone in the government comes to oppress you, you just have to come to me. ”

With the support of the proprietor, the shopkeeper Ding is determined. Yu Junting said: "I didn't come to check the accounts today, today I went to Liulong Mountain, and visited the Changfeng real person of the Seven Xuanguan, this real person is very Taoist, he intends to build a Taoist temple in Tongren City to promote Taoism, I have promised the real person." I am responsible for all the bricks and tiles needed to build the Taoist temple. The Taoist temple must be under construction in the near future, and you must take this matter to heart and not slack off. ”

Shopkeeper Ding secretly sighed, the owner seems to be using a large amount of money recently, and all the properties have been ordered to hand over the surplus funds, but when it is the turn of the monk, the owner not only does not take a penny, but also is afraid of neglect. I thought to myself, of course, I couldn't wait to agree.

At this time, someone came in and reported: "Shopkeeper." An adult who claims to be the official of the government wants to see you. ”

Yu Junting couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, Ye Xiaotian? What did he do in the brick factory? Yu Junting's mind turned around, and then he said to the shopkeeper Ding: "You go to welcome him in, and I will stay behind." Listen to what he came from. ”

Shopkeeper Ding obeyed the order and went out, welcomed Ye Xiaotian into the main guest hall, asked someone to bring tea up, and asked cautiously: "The old man has always been law-abiding. There is no illegal act, but I don't know why the official is here today? ”

Ye Xiaotian said with a smile: "I'm a pusher." Does it have to be a lawsuit? Hehe, you are a businessman, Ye is here to talk about business with you today. Shopkeeper Ding, is your Yu Kee Brick Factory your own property or is there another proprietor? ”

Shopkeeper Ding was stunned for a moment and replied: "The business of this brick and tile factory is the master of the old decay, and the adults can say whatever they want." ”

Ye Xiaotian took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Recently, it has rained heavily, and the city has become flooded, and the prefect is determined to dredge the river for the benefit of the people." Because the project is huge and involves the whole city, I am afraid that the engineering department will not be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility, so I entrusted this mission to this official. ”

Behind the main seat in this living room is a large wooden screen, there is a small space behind the screen, and there are seat furnishings like the front, Yu Junting is sitting there, the voice in front of him can be heard clearly, and when he hears Ye Xiaotian putting gold on his face without shame, Yu Junting can't help but laugh.

Ye Xiaotian said: "To clean up the river, the most troublesome thing is how to deal with the sludge that is cleared, to remove the sludge, you need to hire vehicles, mules and horses, which is time-consuming and laborious, and the cost is too great, now the official has thought of some methods, some silt can be used to fill the pond, some silt mobilizes the villagers to transport the fertile fields, but there is still a large amount of silt that cannot be disposed of, the official thought, why not use this river mud to burn bricks and tiles?" ”

Shopkeeper Ding said tentatively: "What does the official mean, let us Yu Ji brick and tile shop set up a kiln in the city and burn bricks and tiles with sludge on the spot?" ”

Ye Xiaotian clapped his hands and said: "Exactly, in this way, turning waste into treasure, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?" ”

Shopkeeper Ding smiled, shook his head and said, "Master Tuiguan is really too whimsical...... Ahem, Mr. Tuiguan, although the silt in the river can be used to burn bricks and tiles, but there are too many defective bricks and tiles made of sludge, generally speaking, only seventy percent can be used. ”

Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said, "Shopkeeper Ding's account is not right. You can't just look at the finished product, the official has already inquired when he came, you must choose cohesive soil when you burn bricks and take soil, and after digging it out, it must be exposed, crushed, and sifted, and after leaving pure soil, you must add water and refining, trample it with cattle and horses, at least five or six times, to make it a thick mud, so that it can be used to make embryos. ”

So, do you need to go up the mountain to get soil with manpower and animal power? Does it take human and animal power to expose, crush and sieve it? Do you need to add water and refine without human and animal power? Doesn't it cost any of this? But the silt dug out of the river directly saves you the first three processes, and helps you save not only money, but also a lot of time!

In addition, the bricks and tiles you made, because of their thin profits and heavy things, it is difficult to sell them outside Tongren, and now they are fired on the spot in Tongren City, eliminating the need to transport them from the suburbs to the city, how much manpower and material resources do you have to save during this period?

In this way, if you set up a kiln in the city, even if there is a 30% defect, plus the cost of building the kiln, you will still make a lot of money. Even if it is the defective product you fired, it cannot be said that it is useless at all, and the official can buy it for some money and beat it into slag to tamp the bottom of the river. ”

Shopkeeper Ding thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but be excited, the dredging of the whole city is protracted, and it will take a year and a half at the earliest. If he can use the silt in the city to burn bricks and tiles and sell them on the spot for a year and a half, there will indeed be a lot of profit to be made.

Ding is a businessman, and the only measure of whether a thing is worth doing is whether it is profitable. Now that I heard Ye Xiaotian say this, this deal can be done.

The shopkeeper Ding closed his eyes and calculated, his fingers habitually flicked lightly on the table, as if he was fiddling with the abacus beads, after a while, he opened his eyes and said to Ye Xiaotian: "The old man has to go into the city to see it in person, if this method is really feasible, the old man will volunteer to share the worries of the adults!" ”

Ye Xiaotian said happily: "No wonder the three brick and tile shops in Tongren are now the only ones left in Yuji, and the courage of the shopkeeper Ding." In this case, the official will not say anything, please ask the shopkeeper Ding to go to the field to see, if you are interested, you will go to the torture hall to find me. ”

Ding's shopkeeper was clean and neat, Ye Xiaotian was even more fast-talking, both showed his attitude, Ye Xiaotian immediately said goodbye and left, this kind of vigorous and resolute style of doing things left a deep impression on Ding's shopkeeper, and he felt that this official seemed to be really different from those officials in Tongren Mansion.

Yu Junting sat behind the wooden screen, listening to Ye Xiaotian at first, there was still a hint of a playful smile on the corner of her lips, but as she listened, her expression gradually became solemn.

When she planted the matter of dredging the canal on Ye Xiaotian's head, she originally intended to tease and humiliate. Looking at Ye Xiaotian's attitude at that time, it was clear that he was unwilling to accept it, but since he couldn't shirk it, he could put aside his prejudices and go all out to complete it, which was commendable.

The prefect only allocated a pitiful two hundred taels of silver, and he did everything possible to find a way, without prevarication and perfunctory, without prevarication and slackness, he actually condescended to ask a businessman for help as a seven-rank official, this man is very serious, if such a person can be used by me......

Suddenly, Yu Tusi moved his pity. (To be continued......)