The villagers actively cooperated. Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao went home to discuss for a few days and planned all the major and minor matters related to setting up their own factory.
Combining Pei Shaorong's modern thinking and Mo Xiaobao's ancient experience, the two were quite satisfied with the final plan and factory operations.
Actually, although it is called setting up a factory, Pei Shaorong feels that his current plan can only be regarded as a small workshop at best.
Pei Shaorong directly used his own old house as the site of this small workshop. Now that he has moved to a new home, the old house has been empty, so it is just right for use.
When building the new house, Pei Shaorong replaced the earthen wall and fence of his old house with a blue brick protective wall, so the confidentiality is still good now.
Moreover, Pei Shaorong also plans to adopt modern workshop assembly lines for the production process, which is not only efficient but also can protect the craft from being passed on to others as much as possible.
Even if everyone really learns it by then, don't worry too much. There are not many people in the village who have the capital and courage to do as much as you do. To put it bluntly, if you want to make a lot of money, capital is also very important!
After the village chief pacified and convinced the villagers, Pei Shaorong got the money for tomato and watermelon seeds and immediately posted the recruitment regulations for his own factory.
The village chief had informed the villagers about this matter in advance. Everyone was willing to do something that could make money, and they all ran to Pei's house to sign up actively and enthusiastically.
"Pei family, count me as one, I want to work for you..."
"Me too, Pei family, don't worry, I have the strength!"
This time, Pei Shaorong offered eight cents per person per day as a wage for the work. It didn't seem high, but it was definitely a temptation for the villagers because Pei Shaorong did not limit the wages to men or women.
Eight cents a day, that's more than two hundred cents a month. What a concept! Even the restaurant in the town may not have such a good job, not to mention that the women and boys at home can do it.
This salary was given because there were many people hired, and Pei Shaorong did not dare to ask for too high a salary.
He has money now, but the purpose of doing business is to make money. He cannot lose money at his own expense. Doing business by himself also requires costs. He is not a philanthropist. Businessmen are all about profit.
If I still lose money in the end, why bother setting up a factory? Isn't that just asking for trouble...
Pei Shaorong had considered this calculation based on the number of days carefully. His factory workshop had just started up, and there was not work to do all year round. He would only be busy for a few months. Of course, he could only hire people according to the short-term work plan!
In addition, Pei Shaorong also asked his father-in-law, Old Man Mo, to be the supervisor.
The decision to invite Old Man Mo to be the supervisor was naturally something he had carefully considered. This was not only to prevent Old Man Mo from having ideas about his factory, but more importantly, Pei Shaorong felt that Old Man Mo was a talent.
Yes, Old Man Mo is a stingy person, and he is particularly calculative, but it is such a person who is a good supervisor!
What is the role of an overseer?
Isn't that to monitor the workers while they are working? With Old Man Mo's stingy personality, if the workers want to be lazy, they will definitely not escape his eyes when he is the supervisor.
There are no 100% waste materials and useless people in the world. As long as they are used in the right place, waste can also be talents!
Mo Xiaobao gave a hundred thumbs up to Pei Shaorong's decision.
Compared to having to deal with the annoying Old Man Mo who comes to his house every now and then to ask for money and take advantage of him, having this stingy man be the supervisor is definitely a permanent solution.
"Okay, I'll be your supervisor. Don't worry, I'll catch anyone who wants to slack off. But I want two taels of silver a month as wages..."
Sure enough, Father Mo would never refuse anything that could earn him money. He also knew that Pei Shaorong, his son-in-law, was not easy to deal with, and he had not gained much advantage from him for so long.
Apart from the usual filial respect, he didn't get any benefit at all from his brother-in-law named Pei.
This guy was really good at hiding his secrets. In just over half a year, he bought land and built a house, which cost him a lot of money.
Thinking about it now, Father Mo felt that Pei Shaorong was just pretending to be poor when he came to propose marriage!
He didn't believe that he could earn so much money by going to Yueyang City twice. He also didn't see other people in the village getting rich in Yueyang City. How come Pei Shaorong was the only one who got rich?
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Pei Shaorong must be a rich man. He was able to come here from a distant foreign land. How could he travel such a long distance without some money!
When he thought of Pei Shaorong's poor appearance when he came to propose marriage, Old Man Mo couldn't help but complain in his heart. His stingy nature began to flare up, and he regretted not extorting a good amount of betrothal money when he proposed marriage...
Old Man Mo has a big appetite. There are not many jobs in the town that pay two taels of silver a month, but he can come up with one.
It's not that my family can't take out the silver, but I can't spend money indiscriminately. If Old Man Mo succeeds in blackmailing me this time and determines that my family has silver, it will be a big trouble in the future. I really can't be too generous to him.
To put it bluntly, this supervisor was simply invited Old Man Mo to come here to have some free time. He doesn't have to do any work. He just sits there, eats and drinks, and watches everyone work. That's it. It's so relaxing!
After haggling with Old Man Mo for a long time, Pei Shaorong finally couldn't bear it anymore and Old Man Mo agreed to change people. In this matter, he was giving the benefits himself, not really asking anyone for help, so there was no reason for him to suffer injustice.
After the specific rules were finalized, Pei Shaorong bought up all the sweet potatoes in the village and started running the workshop.
Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are the villagers' first choice for farming. The average sweet potato yield of each household in Linjiang Village is several thousand kilograms.
Even if there are only three cents per pound of sweet potatoes, it is still not a small amount. Even if you can buy them all, you can't do it.
Taking out several thousand taels of silver in the village was simply ostentatious, it was like sticking the words "Come and rob me" on his forehead!
Finally, Pei Shaorong thought about it and decided to buy 1,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes from each household. There were a total of 180 households in the village, which meant more than 100,000 kilograms. At two cents per kilogram, it cost Pei Shaorong more than two hundred taels of silver just to buy the sweet potatoes!
Pei Shaorong was able to give more than two hundred taels of silver now, but in order to prevent the villagers from guessing his savings, he talked it over with the village chief and decided to try the modern installment method.
The village chief also knew that this was no small sum of money. After listening to his explanation, he hesitated for a moment and agreed to the matter. He told the villagers to give part of the money first and then pay the rest after the Pei family recovered.
In fact, most villagers can understand this approach. Even if everyone now guesses that the Pei family is rich, it is difficult to guess and accept that his family has a deposit of more than a thousand taels of silver.
The fact that Pei Shaorong could come up with several hundred taels of silver at once had greatly shocked the villagers. Now, when they heard that his family was not as rich as everyone imagined, they inexplicably felt relieved.
To put it bluntly, people are not so jealous. After all, think about it from another perspective. It is really hard to accept that someone who was originally at the same level as you, or even worse than you, suddenly becomes a multimillionaire while you are still struggling to make ends meet.
When the workers had all the sweet potatoes ready, Pei Shaorong immediately organized everyone to start work. The workers were divided into groups and operated according to the standard modern factory assembly line.
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Even the dumbest person can become an expert if he does the same job every day for a long time, and his efficiency will naturally be different.
And with the presence of the sharp-eyed miser Old Man Mo, those who want to be lazy and take advantage of the situation have become much more self-conscious.
There was no way, since Pei Shaorong had promised Old Man Mo privately that he would reward anyone who was lazy with ten cents.
This highly efficient reward system immediately stimulated the potential of Father Mo. He kept an eye on the workers every day like a radar, indirectly speeding up the workers' work speed...
With Old Man Mo as the supervisor, the work efficiency of the small workshop has been greatly improved. In less than a month, all the fresh sweet potatoes have become finished products. One can't help but sigh that human potential is infinite and terrifying.
In the end, more than 50,000 kilograms of vermicelli and more than 30,000 kilograms of sweet potato flour were produced. The quality and taste of both vermicelli and sweet potato flour were much better than vermicelli made from other materials.
Once the products were made, Pei Shaorong was not in a hurry to sell them. He wanted to advertise and increase the popularity and price of sweet potato flour and sweet potato vermicelli in order to make more money!
There was no television in ancient times, so the most direct way to advertise was to let everyone experience that sweet potato vermicelli and sweet potato flour tasted good and were affordable, which was what everyone cared about most.
While Pei Shaorong was busy making money from his sweet potato products, another piece of gossip broke out in Linjiang Village. To be more precise, it was about Liu from the Qin family...
I have to say that Liu from the Qin family has taken the saying "You're responsible for the consequences" to the extreme!
To be honest, if Liu could change her saintly temper like a woman with advanced cancer, it would actually be quite nice for her to live with Zhao Dashu in Xinghua Town.
But Liu is such a bad guy, he loves doing good deeds too much and he loves to meddle in other people's affairs too much!
Liu and Zhao Dashu lived a very happy life in the first two days after their marriage. They were both in their sixties, and they both felt that they had found the second spring of happiness in their lives.
Zhao Dashu had lived with his mentally retarded son for most of his life. He was an old man who lacked love and care. After Liu got married, she was a saintly woman so she naturally cared more about Zhao Dashu.
After the two got married, Liu not only took good care of Zhao Dashu's demented son, but her daily concern also made Zhao Dashu feel very comfortable. He felt that he had married a gentle, kind and virtuous wife at the end of his life.
Whenever Zhao Dashu heard Liu talk about doing good deeds and helping those in need, he would agree with her.
Most of the women in this village are petty and hot-tempered. When they see someone like Liu, it is like a white lotus mixed in with a bunch of red roses!
But it wasn't long before Zhao Dashu's idea was overturned, and he completely felt the helplessness of the Qin family at that time.
There is nothing wrong with Liu doing good deeds, but the bad thing is that she squandered other people's money without considering other people's feelings or whether she could actually help others.
But she seems to be blind all the time, and she only saves people who shouldn't be saved. She is happy to listen to people calling her a living Buddha and is satisfied with it. It really makes people want to vomit blood...
In the first few days after she got married to Zhao Dashu's family, Liu always liked to help the neighbors with work for free. Zhao Dashu even thought that Liu was kind. You see, the relationship between the family and the neighbors has become much more harmonious recently.
But within two days, Zhao Dashu began to have some opinions. He liked Liu's kindness, but his biggest purpose in marrying Liu was to have a considerate wife to take care of his son at home.
At first, Liu took good care of Zhao Dashu's demented son, but within two days, Liu's old habit started to reappear. She gradually neglected to take care of Zhao Dashu's son and began to embark on her "kind" road of helping the villagers again...
I have said it before, it would be fine if someone like Liu was born in a wealthy family, but she was born in a poor family, which is simply a disaster!
The conditions in Xinghua Village where Zhao Dashu lived were not as good as those in Linjiang Village. It could be said that the village was very poor. After becoming familiar with the people in Xinghua Village, Liu discovered that there were many people here who needed her help. She felt that she had come to the right place.
In addition, Zhao Dashu did not oppose her doing good deeds like the Qin family did in the past. Instead, he listened to her advice to be kind. Liu felt that Zhao Dashu's family and Xinghua Village were simply her paradise, and she loved to help others for free on weekdays.
The villagers saw that she was soft-hearted and easy to bully, so they kept ordering her to help with the work. Liu not only had no complaints, but was very happy to do it.
Zhao Dashu began to feel resentful for neglecting his demented son due to these trivial matters. He reminded and advised Liu more than once that no matter how kind she was, she should first take care of her own family.
Just like in the Qin family, Liu agreed in person, but turned around and forgot what Zhao Dashu said, and continued her great career as usual.
Later on, Liu was no longer satisfied with just working for irrelevant people, and completely returned to his nature of squandering money and ruining the family.
Not only did they give away the grain of Zhao Dashu's family, but the quality of life of Zhao Dashu's family, which had been able to barely make ends meet, began to decline rapidly. After they had cultivated the land, they began to use Zhao Dashu's family's money.
Zhao Dashu was not a rich man to begin with, and the money he saved was for his coffin and for his son to marry.
Although his son is a fool, he is the only descendant of his family. Zhao Dashu has saved money for so many years just so that when he dies one day, he can buy a daughter-in-law to take care of his son for the rest of his life.
Who knew that Liu was so bold that she actually stole the silver that could have saved Zhao Dashu's life and gave it to the beggars and homeless people in the town. In the end, she even brought back a large group of unwanted dogs and stray cats for Zhao Dashu to adopt.
Adopting small animals is not a casual thing. If you want to adopt these animals that have been wandering outside for a long time, you must take good cleaning measures before taking them home, otherwise it is easy for them to bring the virus home.
But how many of these backward ancient people knew that Liu was a man who never considered the consequences when he indulged himself?
In the end, not only did he squander the money that Zhao Dashu had given to his son to buy a wife, but the stray dogs and cats he brought back were also unclean, causing the three members of the family to all contract acute skin infections.
The skin disease that Zhao Dashu's family suffered from was not a serious terminal illness, but after seeing the doctor and taking the medicine, all of Zhao Dashu's savings over the years were squandered.
Zhao Dashu was so angry about this matter that he was about to explode, but Liu Shi was still nagging at him, saying that good people will be rewarded, and that it was all thanks to her that she did good things and everyone's serious illness could be cured!
These words completely ignited Zhao Dashu's anger. He had a bad temper to begin with, and he lost his temper and punched Liu on the spot.
If Liu hadn't been working for other families all day and neglected to take care of his own son, how could his already demented son have become even weaker?
If it weren't for Liu's incurable maternal illness, how could Zhao Dashu's family have fallen directly from the poverty line to the life before liberation where they could not even afford food and drink?
If it weren't for that crazy Liu who was so bold as to steal the family savings and bring home a bunch of sick things, would he have spent even the last bit of money for his coffin on the money for medicine?
The more Zhao Dashu thought about it, the angrier he became. Kindness is kindness, and good intentions are good intentions, but how could someone be like Liu, who was reckless and had no regard for other people's feelings, and who just spent other people's hard-earned money on other people's things.
Zhao Dashu found it hard to accept that his life savings, which he had worked so hard for, were gone in just a few moves by Liu.
I thought I had married a kind and gentle wife, but I didn't expect to marry such an unlucky living Buddha.
In a rage, Zhao Dashu punched Liu even harder, and finally beat Liu almost to death.
After being beaten by Old Zhao, Liu did not lose her life, but her leg was lame. Aunt Qin and Uncle Qin rushed over after hearing the news and were shocked to see her half-dead.
In fact, according to the doctor, if she could pay fifty taels of silver, Liu's leg could still be cured.
But these fifty taels are not fifty cents. If you want to come up with so much silver, you have to force people to sell everything they have, even their houses and lands, to get the money together!
If the injured person was Uncle Qin or Qin Musheng, Aunt Qin would definitely risk her life to save him, but when it came to Liu, Aunt Qin simply remained silent, and it was even more impossible for Zhao Dashu to take out money to treat Liu's leg.
Liu's leg cannot be cured, and it cannot be cured. Even if someone stabs her in the back, it is better than spending all the family wealth to cure Liu and let her continue to harm others. Liu is just such a stubborn person that he can't change his nature. There is no hope for him.
Besides, Liu wasn't really bedridden. She just had a lame leg and could still move around with a cane, but that limited her freedom to go out alone.
In the end, Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin helped Lao Zhao clean up the house. Lao Zhao did not drive Liu away. It was such a shame for him to divorce his wife whom he had married at such a high price.
Now Liu has a lame leg and cannot go out to do charity work, but she is still very healthy in other aspects of her body. She has absolutely no problem cooking, washing clothes and taking care of her son at home.
Old Zhao is so old and his family is poor. Without Liu, where can he find a woman to take care of his son?
However, even though Liu was kept, Old Zhao still felt resentful towards her and he either beat or scolded Liu all day long.
With such an end, Liu became depressed and unhappy all day long, and couldn't understand why she ended up like this.
Didn’t Zhao Dashu agree to do good deeds with her? I just helped a few beggars and picked up a few cats and dogs to take home, how did it turn out like this?
Money can be earned again if lost, and doing good deeds will be recorded in the book of merit and will accumulate blessings for generations to come. Why do these people only have money in their eyes?
Lying in bed every day, Liu would think about these questions over and over in her mind, but she never thought that she had done anything wrong. She was worried that no one could understand her kindness.
She never reflected on the fact that what she thought were good things were just overestimating her own abilities and harming others.
What bullshit kindness is this? It’s nothing but selfishness in the name of goodness for one’s own reputation and unfounded blessings in the afterlife!
So Liu, who didn't understand all this, has not been awake since she became lame. Instead, she is still worried that she will not be able to do good deeds, and keeps nagging and persuading Old Zhao in his ear all day long.
But Old Zhao is not Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin, and he doesn't care about moral seniority. He has a bad temper and when he got tired of it, he didn't waste time talking to Liu and just used his fists.
How could Liu, a frail old woman, be his opponent? She was so scared after being beaten that she dared not say anything. With her lame leg, she could not run away by herself. She could only stay at home and take care of Lao Zhao's son. In her spare time, she had to make silk flowers to supplement the family income and live a tiring life.
Every night after that, Liu couldn't help but shed tears silently, and couldn't understand why she couldn't enjoy herself in her old age and had to work hard every day.
But compared to the hard work of life, the pain of no longer being able to do the good deeds she loved most was what made her suffer. She spent the rest of her life in depression and torment...
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