Traveling through ancient times.

Tao Da is in his forties, with a dark and red face. Compared with Tao Er, he is more dull and introverted, but he is very down-to-earth in his work.

The last time Jiang Yizhou bought carbon stone, he asked them to try adding the carbon stone into the kiln, which might increase the temperature of the kiln.

For ordinary small workshops, trial and error requires costs, and it is a burden they cannot bear.

But Jiang Yizhou does not rely on the pottery workshop to make money now. What she wants is technological innovation.

It would be best not to rely on her exchange system, and let everyone study and figure it out on their own, so that these people can become the real backbone.

As for how much money is spent, she will bear it.

Most of these workers have worked in pottery workshops for many years, but have never been successful.

Now seeing that the people in the cement workshop can actually make such powerful things, they are valued by the owner and their salary is more than twice as much as theirs.

There is also someone in Zhuangzi, who was not as good as me back then, but now he has become the manager...

As a result, everyone's fighting spirit was aroused.

Since the owner said that this carbon stone can increase the temperature, and all material costs and labor time are not taken into account, let them go ahead and do it.

So why are you still hesitating? Roll up your sleeves and get to work.

After countless experiments, they finally figured out the method of firing porcelain.

Jiang Yizhou looked at the porcelain firing process in the system, one thousand merits, which means that the pottery workshop really helped her save one thousand merits.

As for the previous trial and error costs...anything that can be measured in money is not a big deal!

Jiang Yizhou immediately changed the original pottery workshop into a ceramic workshop.

Two more kilns were built, one specifically for firing bricks and tiles, and the other specifically for firing ceramics.

Jiang Yizhou asked someone to call Brother Tao and gave him several drawings of ceramic bottles.

"Can you see if this kind of bottle can be made?"

Tao Dana looked at it carefully in his hand and said in a muffled voice, "The master wants to make a vase?"

Jiang Yizhou: "You can make a batch now and paint some flowers and rocks on them, such as plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which would be even better."

Tao Da thought for a moment and said, "I'll give it a try." Then he took the blueprint and left.

On the other hand, Jiang Yizhou took Qiu Ju out separately and set up a wine-making workshop to specialize in wine-making.

Like the cement workshop, it not only has an independent courtyard, but also has a wall around it and people patrolling around the clock.

Even in her original world, alcohol is the second most violent industry after tobacco, and it must be controlled in her own hands.

Therefore, Jiang Yizhou exchanged a soul-pulling thread from the system without hesitation and inserted it into Qiuju's eyebrows.

In this way, she exchanged a total of two soul-pulling threads from the system, one for Tao Er to control the production of cement.

The other is Qiu Ju, who is in charge of winemaking...

As for the sales of this liquor, Jiang Yizhou doesn't have to worry at all.

Of course, the group she wants to target is not ordinary people, but directly the wealthy and privileged.

In this case, the packaging of this liquor must be high-end.

...After Jiang Yizhou made these arrangements, he began to take inventory of the year's income, expenditure and inventory.

It seemed that the fields produced a lot this year and the business was very busy, but in fact, the income and expenditure were barely balanced.

The first pot of gold from the wheat harvest was quickly invested in the next round of production: a large number of manpower was hired every day for infrastructure construction, and daily food, drink, defecation and urination were a considerable expense.

The harvested corn was directly converted into the territory of the farm, and the recently harvested cassava, radish and cabbage totaled more than five thousand taels of silver.

But after deducting the cost expenses, various construction investments, purchasing poultry and livestock, and hiring more personnel, including the later resettlement of a large number of people who signed land lease agreements with the farm.

So in the end, he only had less than one thousand taels in his pocket.

And now, Jiang Yizhou has nearly eight thousand taels of silver notes and more than one thousand taels of cash stored in his warehouse!

The extra eight thousand taels were contributed by the cement workshop.

It has been expanded to four grinding rooms, producing about 3,000 jin per day. Calculated at 20 wen per jin, that is 60 taels, 1,800 taels per month. It has been exactly five months. Lord He is still very trustworthy and pays for the purchase of cement every month.

Jiang Yizhou felt that the output of the cement workshop could be further improved. The real bottleneck was still in the grinding process. Eight hydraulic stone mills were grinding non-stop every day, but the speed was still too slow, and the wear and tear on the grinding discs was extremely great. The discs had to be repaired almost every ten days.

So we have to forge a real grinder.

The schematic diagram of the grinder is not expensive and can be exchanged for only a few hundred merits.

The difficulty lies in manufacturing steel materials that meet the process requirements of the grinder... There is no such blacksmith in Fusong Town. Liao Qi said that there seems to be a blacksmith in Jiang'an County who makes very hard and durable knives.

She planned to wait until things on the farm went smoothly, then go out for a walk and find some craftsmen.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year, Jiang Yizhou took out one thousand taels of silver and five thousand kilograms of grain to give out as rewards to the people in the village.

This year, everyone in Yunshan Farm had enough food and clothing.

Especially those tenant farmers who broke away from other landlords and gentry and joined the farms, they finally felt at ease and were glad that they had made the right choice.

They spread the news about the benefits of Yunshan Farm, causing more tenant farmers to waver.

As a result, the landlords who were used to exploitation and oppression began to panic - if all these farmhands ran to Yunshan Farm, who would farm their land?

So many people had fled there before, and they felt that they would definitely not be able to keep Yunshan Farm, and those peasants would have to come back by then.

The result now is that Yunshan Farm not only took in all those people, but also gave them money, food, and housing...

This was the first time they lived an uneasy life.

When they thought it over and had to compromise with the farmhands who came to negotiate terms, these farmhands actually demanded that their rent must be the same as Yunshan Farm - 30%.

When the landlords heard this, they were shocked. Thirty percent? There has never been such a low rent!

Besides, they collected 30% of the rent and had to pay 10% of the grain tax to the court, which meant they only had 20% of the income. How could this work?

In fact, the grain yield in Yunshan is high, but because it has not been officially expanded to other areas, the grain tax is still divided into different grades according to the previous harvest.

But the landlords who always took the lion's share were obviously not satisfied with this and insisted on 60% of the rent, with a minimum of 50%. In this way, they also lowered the rent a lot compared to before. In addition, these high-yield crops have made it much cheaper for the peasants.

Just after the New Year, more tenant farmers and farmhands came to Yunshan Farm.

At this moment, Jiang Yizhou was listening to the news that Wei Ke brought back from the old house—Ning Jianren was about to return from Zezhou.

Combined with the information secretly sent by Qi Hao, she planned to go back tomorrow and completely resolve the matter of the old house.