Fearing that his son was going too far, Song Yu scolded him.

Qin Yao waved her hand to indicate that it was okay. Little Lai Fu was very well-behaved, unlike the other four kids at home who would ask why or why it was like this when asked, which was really noisy.

So Song Yu also listened quietly to Qin Yao's answer.

After all, Song Zhang's ancestral home is in the richest Jiangdu Prefecture. Before this, the most remote place the family of three had ever been to was the county seat of Kaiyang County.

Things like climbing trees to pick tea fruits and going to the fields to plant rice seedlings were all first time to me!

The father and son came to the stationery factory curiously.

"Master!" Yin Le squatted beside the water tank and waved the vegetable leaves he was about to wash.

Qin Yao glanced over and said, "Call me Steward Qin."

Yin Le instantly wilted, "Oh, Chief Steward Qin"

I wanted to say a few more words to the master, but he was gone.

Yin Le let out a sigh of relief. She had asked Liu Qi, the manager who taught the literacy class, this morning. He told her that if she learned five characters a day, it would take at least two hundred days for her to learn a thousand characters.

This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Yin Le.

But there must be more than one solution, Yin Le thought, then I will learn ten or twenty words a day!

This way the time can be shortened by two or four times.

However, she soon encountered a new problem. She asked Manager Liu Qi if he could teach her a few more words every day.

Then, Manager Liu Qi showed an embarrassed look. He said, "I understand that there are less than a thousand characters that I know. I'm afraid I can't teach you."

However, he did give her an idea, which was to ask her to go to the county town to find a teacher to learn from.

Yin Le's face fell. The county academy did not accept female students. Where could she learn a thousand words?

She was not stupid and she quickly realized that the master was deliberately blocking her, thinking that she could not learn a thousand words and could not become his disciple.

So, he had been waiting for Qin Yao at the cafeteria door early in the morning, wondering if the threshold of one thousand words could be lowered a bit.

I never expected that the person would disappear as soon as I opened my mouth.

"Alas~" It is not easy to learn to read, Yin Le sighed.

On the other side, Qin Yao took Song Yu and his son to familiarize themselves with the situation in the factory, and called all the managers and supervisors in the factory to come and recognize people.

Qin Yao had previously expressed her intention to find a shopkeeper to replace her. Now she suddenly called everyone to a short meeting and announced Song Yu's arrival. Everyone in the factory was surprised, but then accepted it.

Now the stationery factory has become Qin Yao's own private property. She has the final say, and Song Yu has shown off his skills and demonstrated his ability in business management, so everyone has to accept it.

Except for Qian Wang, the rest of them just took up the job under duress. They learned a few characters and read a few sentences of books, but they are still far from being able to write and calculate.

After the short meeting, Song Yu stayed in the factory.

He ordered Qian Wang and planned to start with the factory accounts. He would use the whole day to get a grasp of the expenditures of several branches in the factory so that he could start work tomorrow.

According to Song Yu's idea, he was just a tool for the master to make money. The master would definitely not be satisfied if he just maintained the existing income.

Moreover, there is a one-month probation period pressing on him, so Song Yu dare not relax at all.

After this, Song Yu discovered that, in the old model, except for the concept of assembly line production, other aspects were not perfect, and the utilization rate of workers was less than 70%.

Moreover, the stationery factory has a single output. For such a large wood processing factory, it only has two products: stationery gift boxes and magical book boxes.

Moreover, these are all the initial versions. There has been no innovation at all in more than a year!

Song Yu found it incredible that this could make money and that orders would continue until the middle of this year.

But this is only what he saw now that he came.

At noon, Song Yu had lunch with the workers and managers in the cafeteria. From what everyone said, he discovered that the conditions in the stationery factory were not as good as they are now in the beginning.

The main road leading into the village was only completed at the end of last year, and the purchasing network only gradually matured and improved at the beginning of this year, stabilizing the purchasing costs.

Another thing is that Qin Yao has set a strict red line for her personal profits, which must not exceed 30%.

She gave more benefits to the workers - the occasional rice, flour, oil, grain benefits, charcoal fire in winter, and cold soup in summer.

Not only that, but they also have to pay a portion of the land rent and the cost of felling rocks and trees to the tribe every year.

The roads built in the village were all paid for from the factory's profits.

Just after lunch, Song Yu re-examined what his wife wanted.

More profits no longer seemed to be a necessary condition for him to pass the assessment.

Perhaps, what the lady wants is to be able to maintain the current business model for a long time.

Song Yu held his forehead with his hand, the latter goal was more difficult to achieve than the former one.

Just by increasing profits, he could quickly increase the amount of silver in Madam Da's hands by 30%.

The solution is simple. It is nothing more than squeezing the workers' labor to the limit and reducing various unnecessary expenses, which can save a lot of money.

Unfortunately, after lunch, he realized that if he really did this, his wife would pack up and send them back within less than a month or even less than half a month.

When Song Yu was in trouble, Qin Yao had already led Li and Xiao Laifu to find a temporary house in the village.

It’s at Old Man Liu’s house.

A few new houses were built a few years ago, and the three brothers Liu Bo, Liu Zhong and Liu Fei each had a room.

Jinhua and Jinbao have now been allocated their own rooms, leaving only one of Liu Fei's old rooms vacant.

Originally, Zhang was thinking about quickly getting a daughter-in-law home, but who would have thought that Liu Fei would go straight to the county town, under the pretext of studying. What else could she do!

Knowing that these daughters-in-law have their own families and are not willing to live together with their uncles, aunts, and sisters-in-law, stoves are installed in the newly built houses.

According to Old Man Liu's idea, as long as they still live in the same courtyard, it will be convenient for him to take care of his grandchildren, and it is harmless for each family to have their own small kitchen.

Being able to cook a good meal at home occasionally, both He and Qiu are now extremely satisfied with their lives.

The selfish desire was satisfied and the big family became much more harmonious.

It’s a pity that Liu Fei’s room is empty, and Zhang gets angry every time she sees it.

Qin Yao brought Li in to rent a house. Zhang pointed at Liu Fei's vacant new house and said, "You've come just in time. Let's rent it out and see where he'll sleep when he comes back!"

This was just an angry remark, Qin Yao did not take it seriously and only took Li to see Liu Fei's old house.

Because it was built later, its location is relatively remote, in the corner on the east side of the old house. The back door is just a few steps away, and the main road is just behind a small vegetable plot. There is a river across the road, making it very convenient to use water for daily washing, sweeping and sprinkling.

The only downside is that you have to live in someone else's house, which is never very comfortable.

Qin Yao said: "This is only temporary. When the busy farming season is over, the house will be renovated. Then I will build another house at the martial arts arena in the back mountain, and you can move in." (End of this chapter)