Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 68, Pipelining and Piecework
On the third day, the sales of Xishan Coal Industry became even hotter.

The long line has been lined up from Chongnanfang in Langdong to Langxi. Thousands of people braved the severe cold and waved their copper coins to buy coal stoves and briquettes.

Here at the Xishan Coal Store, Qian Youcai has increased its manpower again. There are a total of 50 clerks. There are more than a dozen in the front store, which are responsible for sales. Guys specialize in moving goods.

"Coal stove, coal stove, the coal stove is sold out, move out quickly~"

"Honeycomb coal, honeycomb coal, do things quickly, there are still many people queuing up in the cold."

"It's almost out of stock again?"

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up to Xishan and notify Mr. Liu to deliver the goods."

Inside the store, all the clerks were sweating profusely and out of breath, and so was Qian Youcai, his voice was almost hoarse, he was so busy.

The goods have already been placed outside the store for sale. As soon as the customer comes, talk about their needs, and once the money is paid, they will immediately go to the side to pick up the goods. As for how to use this briquette and coal stove, sorry, I really don’t have time to teach you now. You, go back and ask your neighbors.

Qian Youcai sipped tea, moistened his throat, and had been in business for a lifetime. It had never been as popular as it is now. In his memory, such scenes only happened in the famine era, when the imperial court opened warehouses for disaster relief. Countless People with bowls lined up in a long line waiting to drink porridge and eat steamed buns.

But now, these people are holding the copper coins in their hands one by one, eager to send the copper coins to their pockets quickly.

This feeling of everyone queuing up to give money to themselves is so good!

Looking at the guy who collected the money, several baskets had already been filled to the brim, and in the back room of the warehouse, there were also baskets full of copper coins.

These copper coins are the most real. Seeing these baskets of copper coins, Qian Youcai felt that his whole body was filled with joy of a good harvest.

Qian Youcai was extremely busy here, and his hand cramped when he received the money.

Here in Xishan Village to the west of Beijing, Liu Jin is also very busy. The entire Xishan Village has now become a bustling workshop, and the labor force of every household in Xishan Village is employed by Xishan Coal Industry.

On the coal mountain of Xishan, dozens of Xishan villagers are wielding mining hoes to continuously mine black coal. There are porters who specialize in picking coal, and they are almost reluctant to take a break. Here they pick up empty baskets , and immediately went down the mountain with baskets full of coal.

As for the coal miners, each of them faced a pile of coal full of coal, and when they saw someone coming up with an empty basket, they immediately filled the basket with coal for the other party.

In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, Liu Jin implemented the simplest and most effective system in later generations, that is, the piecework system.

This coal digger not only has to dig coal, but also fills people with coal. Every basket filled with coal will cost a few pennies. As long as you work hard enough, you can easily earn dozens of pennies in a day.

As for those who pick coal, all the baskets are of standard weight, and they can earn a few pennies for picking a load of coal. Although they are tired after a day, they still make money.

When the coal is brought to Xishan Village, the first thing to enter is the crushing and crushing operation area. Some villagers drive mules and horses to crush the coal. After crushing, the coal enters the coal washing area for coal washing.

From coal mining, transportation, crushing, coal washing, mixing, stirring, pressing and molding, drying and many other steps, Liu Jin has adopted a flow-through working method and a simple and effective piece work system.

The same is true for the manufacture of briquette furnaces. The pottery kilns are built one by one, the soil is mined, mixed and cooked, and then shaped, dried, fired, skinned, etc., which are divided into many steps, which are also the working method of the assembly line. , greatly improving work efficiency.

The entire Xishan Village has become extremely busy. Thousands of laborers are all sweating profusely. Some young men even bare their arms in the winter and work very hard.

There are very few opportunities to make money like this.

In the past, in winter, everyone would be idle and have nothing to do. This place is not like Xiahetun in Liu Jin’s hometown. Even in winter, salt can still be boiled. In the winter here in Xishan Village, almost everyone stays at home and has nothing to do. Do.

The old and the young in this family have to eat and drink every day, only whether to go in or not. In the past winters, the head of the family had the worst temper, and the mother-in-law who was in charge of cooking was also the most budget-conscious time.

But this winter is different.

Since Xishan Village was incorporated into Xishan Coal Industry, everyone thought that the future might be miserable, but they did not expect that Mr. Liu, the head of Xishan Coal Industry, is a very good person. , Even pack a lunch.

Where can such a good thing be found? Everyone in the village is desperate to work in the Xishan Coal Industry. At the beginning, the Xishan Coal Industry did not employ many people. People are hired and very busy.

"This coal washing must be cleaned, and it must be washed twice more. It must be supervised. If the sulfur in the coal is not washed away, something will happen."

Liu Jin took Zhao Erhu to patrol the various workshop areas of Xishan Coal Industry in a very leisurely manner. When he encountered some places that needed to be focused on, he also repeatedly urged the person in charge.

"It's still too slow to transport coal from the mountain. It can only be picked by people, and it can only pick dozens of kilograms at a time. It seems that we still have to find a way to see if we can see a cable to speed up the transportation of coal."

"Also, it is too slow to transport briquettes to the city. In the future, we will design a four-wheeled freight carriage, but this bearing is not easy to make. If this four-wheeled carriage can be made, it will be impossible to pull a few thousand kilograms of goods at a time. Not a problem."

"This iron is too expensive, and I don't know if we can fool Emperor Hongzhi to let Xishan Coal Industry make iron by ourselves. In this way, the cost can be greatly reduced. It's just that this salt and iron franchise is not easy to do."

While patrolling, Liu Jin was also thinking about how to improve efficiency and expand production capacity. Among them, what troubled Liu Jin the most was the transportation capacity of this era, which was too weak.

Basically, they are carried on the shoulders, and the better ones are pushed by a wheelbarrow, or transported by ox carts or horse-drawn carts, but cattle and horses are precious things, and they are expensive, and ordinary people can't afford them at all.

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