Chapter 264: No Thanks
Ye Caiping took the money and asked: "How much will you take tomorrow?"
Hu Xiaosi said: "We'll take 150."
"Okay, but Xiao San and your brother-in-law have to go to work tomorrow, how are you going to go alone?"
Hu Xiaosan and Ye Yong were stunned.
Hu Xiaosi asked, "Aunt Ping, can my third brother leave the Hu La Tang workshop?"
When these words were spoken, Hu Xiaosan and Ye Yong were both shocked.
Ye Cai raised an eyebrow.
Hu Xiaosan said anxiously: "No, absolutely not. I get 35 wen a day!"
This job is stable. As long as you work hard, you can get a considerable salary every month.
Although selling small furniture seemed profitable, he felt it was too risky.
Ye Caiping admired Hu Xiaosi very much. He was so brave at such a young age! If you want to stand out, you must have courage!
Ye Caiping said, "Of course. But I have to make it clear that once you leave the workshop, you can't come back in. You two should discuss it and see if you really want to leave."
Although she really wanted to help the two children, there was no order without rules, and people could not come and go as they pleased in the workshop.
"Okay, thank you Aunt Ping."
After Hu Xiaosi finished speaking, he looked at Hu Xiaosan and said, "Brother San, trust me, it will definitely work."
Hu Xiaosan was not very willing.
Doing business is like the weather. You may make money today, but tomorrow is uncertain.
If the business fails, everyone will go hungry.
But apart from his elder sister, Xiao Si is the smartest and most opinionated one in the family.
Since Xiao Si has made this decision, it must be correct.
Hu Xiaosan hesitated for a while, then nodded: "Then... I'll quit my job. Aunt Ping, thank you for choosing me. I've failed you."
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "What's the point of disappointing me? It's decided. Xiao Si, starting tomorrow, you go directly to the furniture workshop to find Wang Neng, who is in charge of the incoming and outgoing goods and the accounting of the workshop."
"Give him the money you receive every day. Yong'er, go back and tell Wang Neng."
"good."
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After the Hu Xiaosi brothers left, they drove the ox cart to the village head's house.
It was noon this time and everyone in the workshop had gone home.
Ye Li was just at home, and when he heard that they had made money, he smiled and said, "That's great."
"Grandpa, the village head, this is the rent for the cow." Hu Xiaosi took out 20 cents.
Ye Lizheng was surprised: "No need."
"Yes, we need to rent it tomorrow, otherwise we won't dare to use it."
"Okay, but you don't need to give so much. Ten cents is enough. It only took half a day to pull it back to the county."
Hu Xiaosi knew that 10 wen was a reasonable price, so he gave 10 wen.
Ye Lizheng was very happy. When he went to work in the afternoon, he called Ye Caiping and Ye Ershu to the workshop for a meeting.
Wang Shuantou and his son and Uncle Ye were delighted when they learned that the batch of practice items were actually sold.
When the novices were originally asked to practice, they regarded this batch of goods as a waste. Even if they had a store in the future, they were afraid that it would be difficult to sell them.
Unexpectedly, the property was sold before the store even opened.
This is the first income for the furniture workshop! It is worth being happy and joyful, which boosted the morale of Ye Lizheng and others. This is a good sign.
Wang Shuantou said, "I originally wanted to shorten the practice period, but now that I can sell them, I will practice more, until I can practice 3,000."
Ye Lizheng smiled and said, "After deducting all costs, you can earn 10 coins per person, right? Then today, these 50 people earned 500 coins."
Ye Caiping said, "Well. After all, it's just a practice item. It's a low-end, cheap product. It's just a small thing. When the big stuff comes out in the future, that will be the highlight."
Wang Shuantou nodded with a smile. Having been making furniture for so many years, he certainly knew that the more expensive the items, the more money one could make.
In the afternoon, Hu Xiaosan completed his resignation procedures.
Ye Caiping asked Zhao Fan to find a new employee, who will start work tomorrow.
At this time, Ye Caiping also calculated the cost of the glass workshop.
The glass workshop is larger than the furniture workshop and the Hu La Tang workshop.
Ye Caiping went to find Shen Zhiyan.
Shen's house, in the study——
Shen Zhiyan looked at the picture of Qinghe Village drawn by Ye Caiping:
"Where should you build your workshop? Don't build it next to the furniture workshop or the spicy soup workshop. When your furniture workshop is built, there will be too many people and it will be noisy enough."
“If you add the glass workshop, it will be too noisy and affect your family’s daily routine.”
Ye Caiping said, "I think so. Then we can build it farther away. We can buy a few acres of land between Qinghe Village and Wangjia Village."
"Okay, let's build it there. How much money do we need to invest now?"
Ye Caiping said, "I've calculated it. Let's start with 6,000 taels. But... I don't understand something here."
As she spoke, Ye Caiping opened the account book of materials and labor prices that he had given her.
"If you want to collect large quantities of glaze sand, alkali, and calcite, you can only buy them in Ningzhou. The unit price is fine, but why is there no shipping fee? It's shipped by water, right?"
Shen Zhiyan: "My family has a merchant ship, just let them transport it over."
Ye Caiping was surprised. There were actually merchant ships. No wonder they were not short of money.
Shen Zhiyan said, "From now on, the workshop will be managed by you, and I won't be in charge. You still have to provide the recipe. So you will suffer a little loss. Then I will be in charge of the transportation of the materials, so that we will be even."
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Okay."
As she spoke, she took out three thousand taels of silver notes and said, "I'll keep the money here with you. You need a lot of money to buy materials. A few hundred taels will be enough for me to build a workshop and customize molds."
Shen Zhiyan nodded: "If you want to buy something at ordinary times, go to Duanwu to get money."
Ye Caiping said, "There is also the matter of registering the workshop. Who should we contact?"
Magistrate Lu was sent to jail, and the entire Yue'an County was leaderless.
Shen Zhiyan said, "Lu Baiwen's verdict has already been handed down. Both father and son were dismissed from office, their property was confiscated and they were exiled. It was too big of a thing for them to take credit for others' achievements and seek official positions."
"The newly appointed county magistrate is on his way to take up his post and will arrive in about half a month."
"Also, the officials who are inspecting the yellow-heart cassava are on their way. You will be rewarded when they arrive. The two groups should arrive at about the same time."
Ye Caiping was delighted, that was really great news!
Ye Caiping said: "Thank you so much."
Shen Zhiyan smiled: "Didn't you thank me?", referring to her glass workshop.
Ye Caiping scratched her face with her fingers, as if she had thanked him, but also as if she had not.
Although she provided the recipe for the glass workshop, Shen Zhiyan also contributed a lot. Find materials, transportation, and be her big supporter.
The two of them cooperated fairly, on a mutually beneficial basis, with neither taking advantage of the other.
If she came up with the prescription and handled all the affairs by herself, and Shen Zhiyan didn't contribute anything but got half of the shares, and Shen Zhiyan got the advantage, then it would be called thanking him.
But the result was not what happened.
Ye Caiping thought for a moment and said, "I feel... as if I haven't thanked you enough. How about you think about it and see if there is anything you want, and I'll do it for you?"
Shen Zhiyan lowered his eyes and said nonchalantly: "It's not a big deal. But if you really want to thank me... it's not impossible."
"Just tell me!" She doesn't like owing anyone anything.
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