Immediately, the three old men looked at Chi Yu with loving expressions, saying things like "good child."

Upon seeing this, Chi Qiao took out the silver note from her sleeve and handed it to Chi Yu.

"Little Fish, the silver notes for building the workshop are all here."

Chi Yu took it and glanced at it, then looked at her sister, opened her mouth and silently asked, "Two hundred taels?"

A soap-making workshop only needs a few empty rooms; it doesn't require that much money at all.

Chi Qiao nodded: "Mm!"

She had thought that the Qiao family was short of money and that giving them a few dozen taels would be quite generous, but she never expected that they would actually give her two hundred taels.

Holding the silver note in his hand, Chi Yu didn't immediately hand it over, but said:

"Uncle Chief, please wait for me a moment."

After saying that, she said to her sister, "Sister-in-law, could you go and call A-Ye and A-Kang over here for me?"

Since she's going to build a workshop, she needs to choose someone of her own caliber to manage it at this stage.

As the future clan leader, A-Kang is coming over, and she thinks that A-Ye is capable of taking on the management role.

He will be in charge then, and a few elders from the clan will assist him.

Most importantly, Ah Ye has to manage the money.

If this business grows bigger in the future and the economy of Jianzhou Prefecture recovers, Aye can also select the more clever young men in the clan to work outside.

Chi Qiao knew her younger sister well, and after hearing what she said, she knew what had happened.

As a mother, she was naturally happy that Xiaoyu was giving her son a chance.

It feels like I'm taking care of the original owner's children and grandchildren.

Therefore, she quickly nodded and left.

After Chi Yu saw her sister leave, she asked Chi Dongyi, "Uncle Clan Chief, how much silver will it cost to build a workshop in our village, the size of my house?"

Also, how much do you think is appropriate for everyone's wages?

Furthermore, apart from a few boys in the village who have some talent for studying, A-Ye is considered to be quite good among the others.

I plan to let him manage this workshop, mainly in charge of the finances.

Then you guys help keep an eye on things.

Another point is that if I'm hiring, I'll start by hiring the female members of each household.

I'm thinking of having my sister-in-law Lan help manage everyone. What do you all think?

The older people present all knew what kind of person Zhou Xiaolan was.

The couple in Chidong were quite satisfied with their daughter-in-law.

He glanced at the other two old men, and seeing that they had no objections, he said:

“If the workshop is to be as big as your house, but it's just a wooden house, it won't cost much money at all.”

There's wood on the mountain. As for carpentry, as long as it's not something you pick up from the ground, everyone in the village knows how to do it now.

In truth, it didn't cost much money at all.

But building a stone house might cost some money.

We can't get to the other side of the rocky mountain right now, and it's not good to quarry stones there either.

If you get the small fish, take the money and buy it from the villagers.

Although everyone's stone houses collapsed, some of them were still usable.

With so many families in the village, building a workshop the size of yours is no problem at all.

I estimate that thirty taels of silver will suffice.

This is on the premise that you don't need to spend money to buy glutinous rice to make the paste.

Chi Yu nodded: "Yes, I made wood ash cement, so we can use that instead."

To make it even more durable, you can add glutinous rice paste. This way, unless there's a major earthquake, it can be preserved for a hundred or two hundred years without any problem.