Contacting the brigade cadres would be an official act and would have nothing to do with Wan Feng.
"You'll have to contact the brigade cadres about this matter when the time comes. I won't get involved."
"What gift should we give you?"
"Take them to the Gushan Commune Restaurant for a meal, and then when the team kills the pig for the New Year, each person can send three pounds of good meat over. That's it. I estimate that more than twenty yuan will be enough."
A meal in a restaurant costs only more than ten yuan, and that's a good meal with good wine and meat. If all the dishes are vegetarian, it will cost only five yuan.
Of course, serving only vegetarian dishes during a dinner party would be a slap in the face and an insult.
Pork was seventy cents a pound, and even spare ribs were only eighty cents. There were only four or five people in the brigade, including the female team leader. Three pounds of meat per person, only fourteen or fifteen pounds in total, a little over ten yuan, plus twenty yuan for a meal at the restaurant, and it was enough.
Wan Feng spent twenty yuan to clean up Yawan and kowtow a hundred times in the Fox Fairy Cave. Isn't this a free gift?
Wan Feng saw the expanded brick kiln, but he had not yet gone into the expanded cement tile workshop to take a look.
The cement tile workshop was expanded to an area of 30 meters in length, which not only solved the production problem of 1,200 sets of molds, but also had the potential to add another 300 sets.
The workshop is now operating at full capacity.
Coincidentally, as soon as Wan Feng walked into the workshop, all the machines in the workshop stopped and the people inside walked out with a clatter.
It turned out that he went out after get off work to listen to Zhang Hailu's storytelling.
After everyone left, Wan Feng walked into the workshop.
There are fifteen workbenches, each one and a half meters square, in the workshop. Each of these fifteen workbenches is responsible for producing eighty tiles. Almost all the workers responsible for making tiles on the workbenches are women.
The female worker's job is to compact the mixed cement in the mold and then press the mold lid on.
This procedure does not require much strength, but it does require a lot of experience.
Whether a tile can become a qualified product depends entirely on the operator's proficiency and experience.
After several months of training, most of these female workers have become skilled workers, as evidenced by the sharp decline in the number of defective cement tiles.
The strong men are responsible for mixing the cement and transporting the mixed cement to the workbench, as well as sending the finished molds with cement tile bases to the drying shed outside for drying in the shade.
The mold with the cement tile base needs to solidify for more than 20 hours in the drying shed before it can be separated from the mold. The mold is put into recycling use, and the cement tile base continues to dry in the shade for curing.
This is the entire process of cement tile production. Among these processes, mixing cement is the most physically demanding and time-consuming task.
Can you make a blender now?
That kind of drum-type mixer captured Wan Feng's mind.
Decades later, when large-scale construction began, this kind of thing was everywhere. Wan Feng had moved bricks and delivered cement at a construction site in his previous life, so he was very familiar with this thing.
An electric motor, a round mixing drum, several steel ropes, a fixed frame with wheels underneath and several power switches.
These are all the components of a mixer. It doesn't require much technical expertise. Probably the most difficult part is the manufacturing of the mixing barrel. I wonder if Hongya County can manufacture the mixing barrel with its current industrial strength?
After imprinting this idea in his mind, Wan Feng went to the drying shed to check out the cement tiles that were undergoing curing, as well as a few finished tiles that had passed their curing period and were ready for takeaway.
Now there are two large trucks in Wahou delivering tiles to the county town, and each truck delivers up to a thousand tiles.
According to the contract, the price of one thousand tiles is ninety yuan, and after deducting various costs, there can still be a profit of more than thirty yuan. Just for cement tiles, the Wahou team can make a profit of nearly one thousand yuan a month.
In a good year, the Wahou team would have a surplus of three to two thousand yuan a year. How could the Wahou people not be motivated?
The members scattered and started to go home, but Zhu Yan and Jiang Xue did not leave but called Wan Feng.
"Luan Feng asked us to come down and do the cutting. Is this better for you or operating the sewing machine?" Zhu Yan asked, while Jiang Xue listened from the side.
"Can you take down the clothes and pants you make now?"
"Yes, but I'll just have to make the clothes slowly."
"Just learned it?"
Zhu Yan and Jiang Xue nodded at the same time.
"What about tailoring?"
"We just started learning, and Luan Feng has just begun to teach us. We already have to start with piecework for sewing, and now we have to learn cutting. It will take another ten and a half months, and we only get two cents a night."
"Why don't we start making clothes now, and ignore the buttonhole ironing at the later stage and just focus on shaping them. In three hours a night, we can make more than one piece of clothing, and earn nearly seventy cents in two hours." Jiang Xue supplemented Zhu Yan's words.
Typical agricultural consciousness.
"You've been at Luan Feng's house for over half a month now, so you should understand the ins and outs of it. Haven't you noticed that cutting is much faster than sewing? What's the current price for clothing processing set by Luan Feng?"
"Pants, including cutting and making, are three mao, and a dress is four mao. The pants are cut for one mao and made for two mao, and the dress is cut for one mao and three mao and made for two and a half mao. A high-end set seems to be one yuan."
Ah, the processing fee has gone up? This spendthrift woman! She makes all the decisions on her own? She thinks I'm invisible! This girl needs to be punished. If I don't give her a beating, she'll go crazy.
According to the way this spendthrift woman played, the cost of this piece of clothing was a full dime more!
With their current shipment volume, they just lost more than one dollar out of thin air, which is enough to buy a pound and a half of pork.
How can this be done by a qualified capitalist?
Wan Feng sighed.
"If you're skilled, it takes about ten minutes to cut a pair of pants and costs ten cents, while if you're skilled, it takes more than twenty minutes to sew a pair of pants and costs two cents. Is there no difference between them?"
There is really no difference between the two, Zhu Yan and Jiang Xue nodded.
"The difference lies in the clothes. Cutting a piece of clothing takes about half an hour, or one and a half cents. And how long does it take to sew a piece of clothing? That's not even including the later steps of undoing the buttonholes, sewing the buttons, and ironing, just shaping the fabric."
"It takes two to two and a half hours. If it's more complicated, it will take three hours."
"So, just considering the money, it takes you an average of two and a half hours to make a piece of clothing. Assuming you're all skilled and quick, you can make one in two hours and earn 27 cents. And tailoring a piece of clothing only takes half an hour and earns 13 cents. Which one of you makes more money?"
Zhu Yan and Jiang Xue began to calculate. Two hours of cutting could produce four pieces, one four equals four, three four equals twelve, and that's 5.52 cents! They could earn a little over 50 cents in the time it takes to make one piece of clothing.
Zhu Yan and Jiang Xue looked at each other. At this time, Wan Feng had already walked more than ten meters away.
Now that Jiang Min is taking over the production of high-end clothing, Luan Feng can no longer handle the tailoring herself, otherwise such a suitable project would naturally not be released.
Fortunately, they are all relatives, so the benefits don’t flow into other people’s fields.
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