"Don't be so polite with me. I appreciate your kind words. If demand exceeds supply, I'll just hire more people to expand production. Look, I've only hired less than fifty people in Shanshui Village. After deducting the elderly who can't work and the young who don't know how to do it, there are still at least one or two hundred people I can use. There's absolutely no need to worry about not being able to keep up with production."
Work like polishing can be done by children as young as ten. According to this division of labor, out of the 400 people in Shanshui Village, after deducting the men who have already been recruited and those who go out to deliver goods, there are at least 200 more people available!
Twenty coins a day, including lunch and two sets of clothes, was an incredibly good deal for the villagers, so there was no need to worry about finding workers.
Bai Manshan knew this was the case. When buying goods from others, he wanted to keep lowering the price, but no matter how much he lowered the price, no one would give him fifty coins when others bought goods for eighty or ninety coins!
The gap is too big.
"Alright, alright, Brother Bai, let's not stand on ceremony. With your large business, if you work hard to earn more money, you might become a royal merchant someday. From now on, I'll focus on supplying you with goods!"
"Sell my goods all over the country, even to the mansions of princes and nobles!" Shui Qing joked.
Her family was poor, and she started late. In addition, Fan Jin would later pursue an official career, so she could forget about becoming a royal merchant. She should just focus on producing goods honestly.
Bai Manshan smiled bitterly. A royal merchant, that's what he dreamed of!
But I never even dreamed of becoming a royal merchant, so how could I dare to even think about it in reality? It's simply impossible.
"Little sister, please don't tease your older brother."
"Mother, Mother! Come quickly, see who has returned!"
"Mother, come quickly!"
Bai Manshan's words were interrupted as Fan Jiang's excited shouts came from afar outside the workshop.
"Could it be that the herbal medicine seller has returned?"
"They left on the 12th of last month, and it's only the beginning of March now. They're back in less than a month?"
"No way?"
"Why not? We've never been to Yuhang before. Maybe horses and donkeys can run faster."
"That's true!"
......
The women and girls in the workshop kept working while chatting happily.
Shui Qing wondered in confusion, "Could it be that horses and donkeys really run fast? Is it really Wen Hua and the others who have returned?"
“Impossible. Even with horses and donkeys, it would take at least forty days to travel from Shanshui Village to Yuhang and back.” Bai Manshan said with certainty.
Shui Qing knew that it wasn't Wen Hua and the others who had returned.
On second thought, if it really is Wenhua and the others who came back, could it be that something happened on the way and they came back early?
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