The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 128

The plan to trial-produce a popcorn machine was carried out in secret.

The location was not in Yeduju, but in an empty house of Fang Xiucai's home in Liujiazhuang.Jia Min sent Liu Cheng to quietly build a blacksmith shop there.

This blacksmith's shop is similar to the blacksmith's shop of Ye Duju in other places.The main difference lies in the addition of an iron furnace.This is used to melt molten iron.

With the molten iron, another carpenter from the iron furnace can be found to make a wooden model, and then the shell of the popcorn machine can be cast.

Although the ironmaking technology in this era is not high enough, and there are many impurities in the iron, the requirements for the outer shell are not high, so both in terms of adaptability and safety, it is passable.

Here, the most important link is the issue of sealing.Only when the sealing problem is solved and the air in the furnace is heated and expanded will it not leak, and finally achieve the purpose of expanding the corn and rice grains.

Fortunately, Liu Cheng still worked hard and finally solved this problem.Now that the popcorn is brought, it proves that this machine has succeeded.

"How many units can be made in a day?"

"If you add another person to me, I can make ten units a day."

Liu Cheng seemed very confident.

"Just one more person will be added to you, and the salary will be determined by you. If you do a good job, you can reward him appropriately. Just keep the accounts clear."

"Don't fourth master send an accountant?"

"Your business is not much and it's not complicated, so you don't need to send it out. You can keep it by yourself first. You can finish the account with a cup of tea a day. When you have more business in the future, you can think about the account. .”

"In addition, these few days, you have to do a few things. One is to continue the experiment to see how long it takes to produce a pot, how much coal is burned in a pot, and how many pots are produced in an hour. When the time comes, calculate the output and cost. "

The backwardness of this era is not only reflected in the level of technology, but also in the management of agriculture, handicrafts and commerce.

In many cases, production activities are basically based on experience and some ancestral models.Lack of data support.As for those who can conduct more scientific data analysis, there are even fewer.

Asking Liu Cheng to collect and organize these data is to summarize a set of business models in the future.At that time, as long as this set of models is handed over to the operator, he can get started in the shortest time.

At the same time, based on these figures, it is also possible to infer a person's daily output and profitability, and provide data support for future cost calculations and profit divisions, making this model more operable.

Knowing the situation clearly, Jia Min started to write the letter, and handed it to Liu Cheng when he finished.

"Take my letter and go to Fang Xiucai. If you need money in the future, you can go to him for it. You can discuss other things with him. During this time, you don't want to go back to the wild. Popcorn The matter of the machine is still kept secret at present. The main task now is to produce at full capacity. After one month, you have to prepare 200 units for me. "

Popcorn belongs to typical public food, regardless of men, women and children, can be eaten.

Although the Dade Dynasty was not a land of abundant clothing and food, the world has been at peace for a long time, and the lives of the people are generally stable.

If you have enough money, you can buy popcorn directly.If you don’t have enough money, you still have food at home. It’s okay to take the food and pay a processing fee, or replace the processing fee with food.

As soon as this business comes out, it will be popular in the streets and alleys of urban and rural areas.No wonder Liu Cheng was so excited.

At noon, I went back to the farming school for dinner, but I didn't see Ping'er and Qingwen either, probably because Jia Min spoke ill of Jia Min behind their backs, so Jia Min would bump into them, and they didn't dare to face each other, so they ran away and hid.

In the afternoon, Feng Sanniang and Nan'er took back the order from the dental shop and the colored thread they purchased.At noon, Mrs. Wang sent Jin Chuaner to tell Jia Min that the ancestor had already agreed to the fight, and if he was ready, he would hurry up and do it.

Seeing what it meant, the ancestor was very concerned about this matter, and seemed to be a little more anxious than Jia Min.

In fact, the reason why the ancestors readily agreed to this plan was that they didn't care about how much money they could earn.In her opinion, even if such a gadget makes money, it won't make much money.

What she liked was the tragic part of Jia Min's plan.

Through this matter, where should the information be passed on to the emperor, even if the emperor does not cancel the errand of the bus and carriage in the future, the punishment will be lighter in the future, in order to win the sympathy of the emperor.In the future, it is better to open the net.

It is not enough just to have a money-making plan and prospects. There is still a lot of meticulous work to be done for people to accept it.

Because it is a new thing, no one has done it before, so it is hard to say whether it will make money in the future.

Therefore, in the design of the project program, you have to work hard.

Therefore, what Jia Min adopts is the strategy of first less and then more, first easy and then difficult.

The patterns distributed on the first day were the simplest ones, and most of the maids could weave them within two hours as long as they brought back the colored threads.

The reason for this is that they can come to deliver the goods tomorrow and get back the processing fee.

The processing fee was cashed here, and those who watched saw it, and came up one after another.

Sure enough, there were not many people who came on the first day, only seven or eight maids, and they were all rough servants.Among the servants in the mansion, they also belong to the lower level, which is equivalent to cleaning and the like.

Jia Min knew that it was useless to rely on administrative orders for such a matter from the beginning.The most effective way is the temptation of money interests.

Sure enough, after the next day's delivery and the processing fee was cashed, more people came to inquire, including the first batch of maids yesterday.

Jia Min planned to let Ping'er handle the matter planned by the lock.However, judging from the situation in the past few days and the behavior of inspecting the market, Ping'er is actually not suitable for this job, but Feng Sanniang has shown talent and ability in this area.Therefore, Jia Min appointed Feng Sanniang to take charge of this project.

It's not that Ping'er is incompetent, it's just that she is not suitable for market acumen and pioneering.Ping'er's specialty lies in housekeeping.She is a good player if she is placed in the administration department, but if she is placed in the marketing department, she may be in trouble.

Use a person in the right place, he is a talent.If it is in the wrong place again, it is not a talent.

In the past two days, Jia Min did nothing else, mainly focusing on the procedures of distribution, registration, collection, acceptance, accounting, and technical requirements of the locks. The entire process was established and operated according to this set of procedures. This business model is established.Follow this procedure in the future, and basically it will work normally.

It is relatively simple to operate such a processing project with incoming raw materials and the market.

Qingwen didn't run away this time either, Jia Min assigned her to the technical guidance and acceptance process.

Qingwen was naturally reluctant at first, but Jia Min spoke up, said bad things about Jia Min behind his back that day, and was caught by Jia Min again, so she had no choice but to come.

On the first day, I had a bitter face, and I was a little bit beaten.Things changed the next day.On the third day, I fell in love with this errand.

How did it change so quickly?It still has something to do with Qingwen's character.

Technical guidance is a good role as a teacher.Quality inspection is an errand that can pick on other people's faults at any time, but others dare not say anything.

This just gave full play to Qingwen's advantages of being sharp-tongued, mean-spirited, and fond of gaining the upper hand. Moreover, she did so in a dignified manner, and no one else could say anything about her.It made her feel full of presence.

Jia Min also fooled her with a few words from time to time, to encourage her.So Qingwen finally found her seat.He began to call him fourth master over and over again, and even praised Jia Min a few words in front of Ping'er, which made Ping'er mutter inwardly, wondering why Qingwen changed so quickly.

The other parties related to the bus carriage have naturally been paying attention to Jia Min's movements these days.

Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang, Jia Amnesty, and even Jia Zheng, who had always been unwilling to be a director, all sent people to Jia Min to inquire about the bus carriage. As usual, Jia Min said that you don't need to worry about it.

The annoyed Jia's mother beat on her walking stick and yelled at her, but at the same time strengthened her mind to take Jia Min as a scapegoat.

The Admiral of the Nine Gates and the Yin of the Shuntian Mansion were also paying attention, and even sent their masters to Jia's Mansion to inquire. Jia Min also said the same thing, saying that the operation would naturally resume at that time.

Naturally, they would not believe Jia Min's words easily.According to what they knew, Jia Min hadn't done anything about the bus and carriage these days.

So he began to think about the future, and prepared to draft a memorial. When the time comes, he will go to the memorial as soon as possible to punish Jia Min for the crime of deceiving the emperor, so that he can get rid of the relationship.

Another related party is Niu Jizong.Niu Jizong, Chen Ruiwen and Ma Shangde lost their composure and studied with Liu Fang many times.They even sent people out to visit carpentry shops and car dealerships outside the city to find out if Jia Min had secretly ordered vehicles, but none of them received Jia Min's order.

This information not only made them breathe a sigh of relief, but also caused them to fall into more suspicion.

What kind of tricks is this Jia Lao Si playing?Did he really admit defeat and let the emperor deal with it?
No matter how you think about it, Jia Min is not such a person.Therefore, Jia Min must be bluffing, waiting for the last moment to bargain with them.

Therefore, they still had to wait, so they fought with Jia Min to the end.

In fact, they had no choice but to wait.

The emperor's decree came down on the fifth day of August. According to the decree, the buses and carriages should resume operation on the [-]th day of August.

Today is August [-]th, and tomorrow is August [-]th, which is a very important Mid-Autumn Festival in a year.

At this time of previous years, it was already the busiest time for the mansion to start preparing for the festival. Although it is also preparing for this year, it does not have the relaxed and lively atmosphere of previous years.On the contrary, because of the bus and carriage incident, there was a pessimistic and depressing atmosphere.

At this time, Jia Min sent Ping'er to inform the ancestors, saying that the ancestors don't have to worry. Tomorrow, August [-]th, the bus and horse-drawn carriage business will officially open, and the emperor's order will be completed five days in advance. The mansion should celebrate the festival and be happy.

Mother Jia was naturally happy when she got the news.

However, after a short while of being happy, I was depressed again.

Brother Ming didn't have anything in his hand, and he didn't see him doing anything. How could he resume operations, five days ahead of schedule, and overfulfill the task?
Naturally, Ping'er didn't know, and only said that Fourth Master Min had said that he had his own ideas, so no one else would care.

Mother Jia was about to curse again, but she finally held back, hit the cane, and said loudly:

"It's time to celebrate the festival, it's time to have fun, let's treat it as our last festival!"

The old lady also played the game of dying of addiction.

(End of this chapter)