Father-in-law Zhu Di, I am so happy to marry the disfigured princess

Chapter 38 Gao Xu, are you sure you don't want it?
"I've eaten and drank enough, it's time to take a look at the saltworks."

Li Xiao finished his lunch, put down his things, and then went out.

Arrived outside the house.

The servants have already prepared the horses.

"Master Xiao, your horse."

"Thanks."

Li Xiao nodded in satisfaction, then jumped on the horse and left in the dust.

Although there is no system proficiency blessing, Li Xiao has become proficient in riding a horse.

The main reason is that the attributes of strength, agility, and intelligence are superior to ordinary people, and they are quick to learn.

An hour and a half later.

Li Xiao came to the salt mine, and the salt field at the foot of the mountain had begun to take shape.

I arranged for Zhu Gaoxu to build several brick and tile workshops, and craftsmen have already started construction, and half of them have been completed.

As for the purchased salt-making tools, they were all placed neatly.

Zhu Gaoxu was busy, directing these people in an orderly manner.

It has to be said that Zhu Gaoxu's organizational skills are quite strong, he is worthy of being a person who has been on the battlefield, and he is tall and majestic, and his face is majestic, others will feel timid at a glance.

"Gao Xu, you have worked hard these few days, and you did a good job."

Li Xiao went over and patted Zhu Gaoxu's shoulder.

"Brother-in-law, you are here."

Zhu Gaoxu was pleasantly surprised: "This little matter is nothing to worry about. I have told the craftsmen to hurry up and finish the work tomorrow, and we can start work the day after tomorrow."

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxu asked strangely, "Brother-in-law, you seem to be taller."

After Li Xiao's attribute was improved, he also found that he seemed to have developed a second time, and he was a little taller. Now he is almost 1.8 meters tall, the same height as Zhu Gaoxu.

"Is it tall? You remember it wrong, haha."

Li Xiao quickly changed the subject: "How much money did you spend together?"

Do you remember correctly? Zhu Gaoxu scratched his head and said, "It's not much silver taels. These tools, materials and craftsmen's fees add up to less than 50 taels."

"Calculate 50 taels, plus the 50 taels from the previous purchase of the salt mine, a total of 100 taels."

Li Xiao said: "Gao Xu, you have helped me a lot, 100 taels counts as your shareholding, and you will share [-]% of the profits of this saltworks."

Zhu Gaoxu laughed and said, "Brother-in-law, you're out of touch now. What's the 100 taels? If you talk about money, you're out of luck. All the profits from the saltworks belong to you. I don't want my brother. I have the right to help you."

100 taels is nothing to Zhu Gaoxu.

These days Zhu Di rewarded more than that.

Moreover, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the matter of making salt was pending.
My brother-in-law is just a farmer, so he probably doesn't understand these things, and he might fail.

Besides, how much is [-]% profit?

But it doesn't matter, the favor is helping.

"No? Gao Xu? Are you sure you don't want a [-]% profit?" Li Xiao asked with a smile.

"I really don't want a brother-in-law. Isn't it my brother's duty to do this little favor?" Zhu Gaoxu laughed.

"That's fine. Whenever you go back on your word, you can say it at any time."

Li Xiao is a man of friendship, so he cannot ask Zhu Gaoxu to help him.

"Okay, listen to brother-in-law."

Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently.

for the rest of the time.

Li Xiao inspected around the saltworks, and it didn't differ from what he thought.

The salt field is not far from the salt mine, just a few big brick houses.

Each room is a step in which salt is made.

Just like the assembly line in a factory.

The salt mine is transported down from the mountain, enters the first factory building, and is crushed
Then it will be transported to the second plant, where it will be boiled and impurities will be separated.

After entering the third plant for sedimentation and filtration.

Followed by boiled salt crystals
With a clear division of labor and high efficiency, it is already considered a crude factory.

Of course, Li Xiao doesn't have to worry about the production method spreading.

Because the most important part of the stewed recipe is in his hands.

"There's nothing wrong with that."

"The next step is to recruit people."

"It's relatively close to Dadong Village, so I simply go to Dadong Village to recruit people."

Li Xiao suggested.

Now it is the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, and the land of the Yuan Dynasty has been baptized.

Basically every household has farmland.

After the farmers are busy in the spring, those with a large family will go out to find some work to increase the family's income. Basically, no one will starve to death.

During the Yuan Dynasty, land was basically owned by landlords.

Most of them found out that they were tenants, and when they saw the landlord, they had to behave like master and servant.

But now it is the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang once issued an imperial edict stipulating: "When the tenant sees the landlord, regardless of the order of the teeth, it is the same as the ceremony of the young and the long."

Therefore, even if you accidentally become a tenant, it is only a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Therefore, Li Xiao felt that it was not bad to travel to the Ming Dynasty, and the identity of the peasants was not so humble.

The two came to Dadongzhuang all the way.

After some inquiries, I found the chief here.

When the imperial institutions of the Ming Dynasty reached the county, they stopped, and the management organization at the lower level was called the Lijia system.

简单来说就是：由110户人家编为1里，1里之中挑选丁粮（税粮）最多的10人为里长，10名里长以10年为一个周期轮流应役。

The remaining 100 households are organized into 10 Jia, and 1 Jia consists of 10 households.

The chief of the first armor also takes turns to serve in cycles.

The head of the village is equivalent to the future village secretary, and the head of the village is the village director.

It's just servitude, and it's voluntary labor.

In the fabricated fish scale book, it is fabricated according to the first system here, just like fish scales.

From the perspective of modern people, Li Xiao feels that there are many disadvantages in this.

But it's none of your business, you just need to live your life well.

Soon, the two found the head of the village, a simple middle-aged man.

"Are you the chief of this area?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

When the other party saw Zhu Gaoxu's clothes and appearance, he didn't dare to offend him, so he quickly bowed and said, "Yes, yes. I don't know what the two adults are doing?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked directly: "You go to someone else's house to help with work, how much money do you earn for a day's work?"

The man smiled naively: "The folks in the village, when there are happy events, building houses, etc., they don't charge for helping each other, just take care of the meals."

"." Zhu Gaoxu was speechless for a while.

Li Xiao smiled and said: "That's it. What I want to ask is, if you go to help a big family in the city, what is the salary for a day's work?"

"Oh, you're asking this." The man smiled and said, "Usually it's 50 yuan, but it's the slack season, and now it's 70 yuan."

Li Xiao made some calculations in his mind.

1 taels of silver converted into copper coins is 1000 coins.

In other words, 2 taels of silver can recruit one person to work for a month.

I estimate that I will need 50 people.The monthly cost is 100 taels.

The main reason is the labor cost. The mine has already been bought, and the loss of tools is negligible.

And I secretly calculated last night that the current scale can produce 50000 catties of salt a month.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt was under the control of the state, and the imperial court set a price, which was clearly marked at 2 renminbi a catty.

Illegal salt is much cheaper at 1 coin a catty, but it is easy to lose your head.
Follow this algorithm.

The quality of my Snowflake White Salt sells for 1 tael per catty, isn't it expensive?

According to the selling price of one tael
The output of 50000 catties of salt a month is 5 taels of silver!
What was it like to earn 5 taels of silver a month in the Ming Dynasty?
"Fuck, if I can sell the salt directly, I will make a lot of money."

Li Xiao complained in his heart.

(End of this chapter)