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Fortunately, it didn't last long, and it cost a large part of the money to buy wine. Fortunately, the current income of the lime kiln is not bad, and it can cover the expenses of Yuanjia Manor, but it is only temporary. After all, this business is still the main supply It was from the imperial court, and the price was still [-]% off the market price. If it wasn't for Yuanshan's lime kiln's huge output, it wouldn't really make that much money.

However, no matter how big the order for this batch of lime is, it still has a supply quantity, and it is impossible to sell endlessly. In a few days, all the goods will be transported there, and then you need to do market sales yourself.

"Hi'er! Tian Dani is triumphant, don't stop me, I want to practice swords, hehe, Tian Da, when did you learn the technique of splitting body, belch!" Yan Bei was playing drunkenly in the small parking yard of the stables in the west courtyard Originally, after a hard day, I wanted to have two drinks with Tian Da, and I asked Yuan Shan to ask for a pot of wine, but the two of them didn't finish the pot, so Tian Da poured it under the table first.

Then Yanbei started to play with his broken knife in the yard, and kept talking about the free and easy deeds when he was a ranger. In fact, he was bragging, but he uttered the truth after drinking, because he couldn't see the bully bullying the couple. Orphaned and widowed, the young and energetic Yan Bei fought with the bully with a knife, and was beaten terribly, but he didn't expect that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the bully fell to his death just like that up.

After Yanbei experienced that experience, he had a shadow in his heart, but he never really killed anyone. It was also because of this incident that he became a ranger. He was killed by others, but by coincidence, he met Yuan Shan's father and rescued him, and then joined the Yuan family in order to repay his kindness.

No one knows what happened in the Chariot and Horse Yard. Yuan Shan is currently drawing pictures in the study. Now that the construction area of ​​the Yuan Family Manor is expanding again, he wants to draw these completed parts as a rendering of the plan. They built the Yuanjia Manor very quickly, mainly because there were not many physical buildings. The horse farms only needed to level and compact the land, and then use wood to surround some horse pens and build a large number of horse pengs.

That is, there are slightly more buildings in the breeding area, but the main ones are chicken coops and pig coops, all of which are made of masonry and wood. It is the actual construction effect of Yuanjia Manor now, at least the pens and greenhouses in the breeding area have been constructed.

While building the road, the householders helped to build a left yard on the left side of the Yuan family's new house, which was specially prepared for the maids. It happened that the left yard was relatively close to the medicinal restaurant, but they were always there to take care of them. .

The courtyard on the left is simply a "mouth"-shaped building. There are five houses on each side, a total of twenty houses, one of which is an extraordinary entrance hall, which is connected to the inner courtyard. Each house They are all designed as staff dormitories with upper and lower bunk beds. Yuanshan’s arrangement is very simple. Both the elderly and the young live in the lower bunks. Each room is divided into an inner room and an outer room, and each has its own bathroom. , the inner room is a very spacious bedroom, and the outer room is a small hall with a round table and a few stools.

A house can accommodate eight people, and the house in the north is reserved for the high-ranking maids of the Yuan family. Each room has a room for four people, which is larger than a room for six people. In addition to providing accommodation, the south also needs to store Some daily necessities and goods are mostly used by women.

Now Yuan Shan has drawn the staff dormitory in the study, and now he has only built a prototype, and it may take a while to complete it.

Yuan Shan flipped through the recent ledger that Dugu Ruolan brought over just now, and saw that it was full of various expenditure accounts, especially the bricks and rubble used to consume the most money during the construction of the Yuan Family Manor, almost accounting for all consumption. Eighty percent, and Yuanshan still has his own ledger, which is the lime kiln income ledger. What he has to do now is to fill the ledger with the money earned from the lime kiln.

Because when Dugu Ruolan came over just now, she said that she was about to run out of money, and now the entire Yuan family employs more than 500 people, and the farmers are the sum of two villages, some of which are helping to build the left courtyard, and a large Some of them were building roads, and Yuanshan himself made a lot of messy things every day when he had nothing to do, so the cost of buying iron ore was a lot.

And I bought a lot of wine a few days ago. The 100 taels of gold that Qin Qiong brought has long been spent, and now it is maintained by the income of the lime kiln. The work of the home workshop stopped.

Chapter 42 Employee Benefits

"Before I knew it, I bought so much iron. Now the workshop is still in a state of cost investment. If it goes on like this, it will cost a lot of money. It seems that the income of the lime kiln is not enough to fill it up." Yuan Shan took the two ledgers and began to count.

Calculating the accounts is very fast, just subtract the expenses from the money you have, and found that now the family only has 35 taels of gold deposits, and the income is simply too little, if it is used according to his own expenses. It takes less than a month to spend all the money, but fortunately, iron ore is still enough.

And now we need to build a dormitory for female employees. This is just a prototype, and it will be enough when the construction is completed. The money still needs to be spent, but each room can accommodate ten people. After the construction of the Zuoyuan is completed , will temporarily suspend the construction of the Yuan family's new house, but the Yuan family's old house will build a warehouse for shipments, otherwise it will be inconvenient to always ship directly from the back mountain.

Yuan Shanxin said that this is another sum of money, and there is food in Yuanjia Manor every day. This part may be almost the same as the wages paid. If you don't eat meat, your conscience will not let you go. It's really troublesome.

If you are not in charge, you don’t know how expensive rice is, and now Yuanshan knows it. He may need to invest hundreds of thousands of copper coins for an idea, and the return may be very insignificant. This is the disadvantage of not doing a good job in sales. Now this kind of The state is all about unlimited spending, and the income is very irregular.

Yuan Shan stayed in the study for one night, and fell asleep in the study in the second half of the night. In the morning, the maids of the Yuan family started to go for a run in the wasteland of Yuan's village. They needed to exercise every morning before they could eat and work. , this has become a habit.

Meanwhile, Yuan Shan's personal maids have to practice slingshots every day. Now Lan Lan has the best score. Seven out of ten times she can hit accurately, which is pretty good.

In the morning, Yanbei is setting up the oxcart. The goods will be distributed in the morning, and they will be delivered at noon. This batch of orders will be completed soon, and the final payment will be received by then, so now It is enough to say that the construction of the courtyard on the left is completed.

Yuan Shan originally wanted to go to the back mountain to see the production situation. It happened that Yan Bei had to drive there in the morning, but when he saw Yan Bei's face full of bruises, he felt something was wrong, so he asked directly: "Yanbei, what's the matter with your face, who did you fight with?"

Yan Bei was a little embarrassed, but when Yuan Shan asked him, he hesitated and opened his mouth, but Tian Da said directly: "Young master, he hit the pillar of the stable when he was drinking and drinking madly last night. .”

Seeing that Tian Da was still laughing after finishing speaking, Yuan Shan also remembered that Yan Bei had asked him for a pot of high-quality wine yesterday, and seeing the bruise on Yan Bei's face really seemed to be bumped, he looked at it and suddenly He opened his mouth and said, "Where is your knife in Yanbei? This is the first time that Lord Ben Hou saw you without a knife."

"Master, I drank too much yesterday, and the knife accidentally fell on the stone pier at the mouth of the well and broke it. It's useless to carry it, so I didn't bring it." Yan Bei replied with some embarrassment.

"So that's how it is. As a guard, how can I defend myself without weapons? However, it is very safe to use martial arts to break the law. It is still very safe in this three-acre land in Chang'an City. I will go to He Ye later and ask her to take the corner of the outer hall of my study. I will bring you the wooden baseball bat in the pocket, so you can use it for self-defense in case of danger," Yuan Shan said.

He knew that Yanbei's broken knife was actually not very meaningful for self-defense. It might be mainly a kind of feeling when he was a ranger. If it was a fight, it might not be as good as his baseball bat.

"Yes, master." Yan Bei had seen that baseball bat before, but he didn't know what that stick was used for, what kind of ball it was used for, and it was very suitable both in shape and quality. I don't know where my young master got these strange things, but this is not what he thinks about. Anyway, there are too many strange things, and this one is not bad.

When Yuanshan arrived at Houshan, the Houshan at this time was completely different from the previous visit. A simple house was built here, and the current output is not much hoarded goods. Stacks of sacks are piled up Lao Gao, and on one side, someone is using sacks of lime, and one bag after another is stacked on the other side.

These workers are all servants of the Yuan family, and they are all disheveled, even the housekeeper Zhou. Yuan Shan came over and saw that Zhouwei was gesturing on the drawings, and there were several servants listening and explaining the matter. After finishing, he stood up just in time to see his Master Hou coming.

"Master, there is too much dust here, please take it behind a house." Zhou Dao said immediately.

"It doesn't matter, isn't there a mask here? What are you doing?" Yuan Shan asked.

"Young master, the brick kiln is ready to use now. According to the recipe provided by the young master, it is currently being produced. Maybe it will be able to burn bricks in the afternoon." Zhou Zhou said.

"Bricks can be fired so soon, good, good, when it succeeds, Master Ben will give each of you a bonus, and give you two days off to go out and play and relax." Yuan Shan said directly.

"Master Xie." Zhou Tao immediately replied, no matter whether it will be successful or not, it will be agreed first. The lime kiln has been successful, so the brick kiln must be fine.

On the other side, the oxcart brought by Yanbei has already started loading. Dozens of people moved it quickly. The top ten carts were all loaded in a short time. There is too much dust here. Yanbei went back.

Yuan Shan thought a lot about this journey, especially thanks to the fact that he first made and used a mask for protection, otherwise he would definitely not be able to bear this for a long time. The production is really busy for a while, and the servants are really busy. When the kiln is fired, they will I went to the mountains to cut firewood, build stone houses and level roads, but I couldn’t take it easy. I didn’t think about family welfare, such as the shift system. It’s definitely not possible to keep working like this. I have to make a holiday schedule for them.

"Master, I'm home, I'm going to deliver the goods." Yan Bei was in a daze again when he saw Yuan Shan, but he was going to deliver the goods, so he had no choice but to try to call him.

"Oh, good, Master Ben will go down now, be careful on the road." Yuan Shan said immediately after getting off the bullock cart.

The bearings of these bullock carts have been improved again, and the rollers and beads inside are all bought directly from the mall, so the performance of the bearings is much better than those made by blacksmith Lu. Yuanshan still needs to do something about these little hands and feet. .

Summer is about to enter soon, and now the cold storage of the Yuan family mainly uses saltpeter to make ice to keep cold. When it is hot, it is impossible to stay in the cold storage, so he has to make some preparations for this summer.

Short-sleeved shirts, sandals, and fans are all essential things. After studying in the study for a long time, it was almost time for dinner. Butler Zhou hurried in and said, "Master, Brick Kiln The kiln has been sealed."

"The burning started so soon. It's great. We don't need to go out to buy bricks and stones after the burning is completed. It can save a lot of money. Ben Hou said that there will be bonuses, and each servant will be given a regular amount. Steward Zhou, you have worked so hard during this time to pay ten guan, and the kiln factory will work in two shifts in the future, and you can see the details in the rules and regulations I just wrote." Yuan Shan took it and wrote it. The rules and regulations were handed over to Butler Zhou.

Chapter 43

Five days later, Zhou Zhou stormed into Yuan Shan's study with two bricks in hand.

"Butler Zhou, speak up if you have something to say, impulsiveness is the devil!" Yuan Shan stood up and pushed to the back of the boss's desk and shouted.

"Master, the brick is out." Zhou Zhou said with a trembling voice while holding the brick.

"Uh, good good good good good good good good good good! Let Master Ben have a look at the quality of this brick." Yuan Shan immediately took a piece and came over to feel it.

"Very good, but these solid bricks are a bit wavy. Make them bigger and hollow. This will save a lot of raw materials and make them easier to use. By the way, what is the output of this kiln?" Yuan Shan carefully asked. talking.

"Master, one kiln is 10 yuan." Zhou Butler said.

Yuan Shan heard the output and calculated it to build a large three-story house. With cement, not to mention the house, even the fortifications are not a problem. Isn’t the lime purchased by the court now just for drying? Well, with these bricks, it’s still not profitable.

Xin said that it is more reliable to ask someone who is more familiar with the price of Datang for the price of this kind of product. After all, it is different from other commodities. It is related to people's livelihood.

So he asked Butler Zhou: "Butler Zhou, what price do you think is the right price for us to sell this brick?"

"This brick is hard, and the price of five yuan per penny is more appropriate." Zhou Butler replied after thinking for a while.

"Five bricks for a penny seems quite expensive." Yuan Shan said.

"Young master, you don't know. The bricks and tiles are relatively expensive in Tang Dynasty. Ordinary people can't afford them. Otherwise, they wouldn't all live in thatched houses. If the young master's price is too low, it will definitely If you are squeezed out by other brick kiln workshops, then the business will be difficult." Zhou Steward said directly.

"Oh, it seems that competition in the industry is not so simple, well, let's sell it for five bricks for one penny." Yuan Shan said.

"Master, our bricks have a large output and high quality. I think it's better to contact the imperial court. If we put it into the market now, selling in large quantities will definitely cause fluctuations in the price of bricks and tiles. There will be many competitors at that time. To be honest, it is not easy to simply rely on the status of Marquis."