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Finally, Zhang Zhun said cautiously: "The workers we recruit are mainly relatives of the backbone of the guard team. Each of the eight companies including Yang Zhiyuan, Hao Linyong, Li Jiaxi hires one first. You can do the other things yourself. Be honest and diligent. In terms of wages, it is tentatively 30 cents a day. You can set up a reward system. If you do well, you can add some rewards."

Bundling of interests is always the most effective. He wants to tie most of the people in Yangjiatun to the chain of interest in the production and sales of salt. Ideological education is a powerful tool and can play a huge role, but the basic interests cannot be ignored. Only by taking two-pronged approach can the best results be achieved and others can devote themselves to your life.

Yang Ruifeng naturally said there was no problem, and thought about it and said, "Will there be too few?"

He is also a good person and thinks that the difference he earns is too big, so he wants to give more money to his fellow villagers.

Zhang Zhun said slowly: "It's almost done, I'll add it slowly in the future."

Thirty-month daily is equivalent to one tael of silver per month, which is good for the poor military households. They cannot be given too much at once, otherwise the desire will be unsatisfactory. If the starting point is too high, it will be difficult to proceed step by step in the future. Salted salt can now be sold for 155 cents per catty, with extremely high profits, but as the shipment volume increases, the price will definitely drop.

A few people discussed and decided that Yang Kaide would come forward and ask a few villagers to help, mainly responsible for purchasing firewood, transporting private salt, etc. Each person's daily wage is also thirty cents, which is equivalent to three kilograms of grain per day. In addition, he also manages two meals a day, which can save one person's food. With such a good thing, the villagers naturally flocked to him and soon gathered more than a dozen people, and the core relatives of the guard team were among them.

Yang Ruifeng made a simple division of labor for the workers and sent them to Maojiatun to buy firewood. Among the nine villages in Fushan District, Maojiatun is closest to Laoshan, so it is most convenient to collect firewood. Whether it is dry firewood or charcoal, the stock is very large. Every 100 kilograms of firewood is only a dozen cents, which is extremely cheap. More than a dozen villagers picked up two turns back and forth, and a total of thousands of kilograms of firewood were brought back.

On March 18, the Yang family's coarse salt purification officially began a large-scale operation.

Zhang Zhun chose a relatively independent open space, first piled up fifteen large stoves with mud bricks, and then set up fifteen large iron pots. The fifteen large pots started working at the same time, and the heat was boiling, and the workers were busy. Each large pot could purify about ten kilograms of fine salt each day. After a whole day, Yang Ruifeng purified about one hundred and fifty kilograms of fine salt and put it in a basket.

In the evening, the four nephews of Huang's mother's family also arrived. The joining of these four new forces is mainly responsible for the purification of the evening and working all night. The profit of fine salt is too great, and no one is willing to stop, even if it has to work all night. In the evening, the fire of the big stove has not been extinguished. By the next morning, three hundred kilograms of fine salt were freshly released.

If these fine salts are to be sent to Jimo County, Zhang Zhun's guards are naturally indispensable. Zhang Zhun immediately sent Yang Zhiyuan, Yang Qianqiang and Hao Linyong to lead 30 team members to escort these 300 kilograms of fine salt on the road. Thirty people escorted it, which was almost the same. As for the fifty people who stayed in Yangjiatun, it would be enough to protect the safety of Yangjiatun under Zhang Zhu's command.

Carrying three loads of salt to Jimo County, the speed will naturally not be fast. Until the evening of the next day, Yang Ruifeng and others came back from Jimo County. This time, they did have a great harvest. Last time, the salt merchant happily collected all the fine salt, and the price was still 155 cents per catty. Three hundred kilograms of fine salt sold for 46 taels of silver.

Originally, the other party wanted to give the silver, but Yang Ruifeng felt that the copper coins were heavy and felt more sensible, and at the same time it was easy to distribute, so he asked for half of the silver and half of the copper coins. More than 20,000 copper coins were packed in huge sacks, heavy, at least 160,700 kilograms, which were not allowed to lift up by ordinary people.

"Yulin, please give it to me."

Yang Ruifeng handed the money to Zhang Zhun.

The Yang family has never seen so much money, and they don’t know how to spend it for a while. In their subconscious, the money is mainly due to Zhang Zhun’s credit, so it is naturally the most appropriate to hand it over to him to distribute. Besides, Zhang Zhun is not an outsider.

Zhang Zhun made the assignment without hesitation.

The labor is first to pay, each person costs 30 cents a day, and it will never be deducted. The food expenses must be paid, and only when you are full can you have the energy to work. The cost of firewood must be paid. The remaining money must be used to buy iron pots and expand production. Every household in Yangjiatun has a large pot of boiling sea salt. Yang Ruifeng just bought it, and there is no need to go to Jimo County to buy it.

According to Zhang Zhun's design, fifty iron pots are the most basic production scale. In the future, as the purchase of private salt increases, more iron pots will be added. Fifty iron pots work all night long and can purify about 1,000 kilograms of fine salt every day. After selling them, the money obtained is about 155 taels of silver. After deducting various expenses such as coarse salt, firewood, and labor, the daily net profit is about 120 taels of silver.

In a month, the profit is 3,600 taels of silver. In a year, it is more than 40,000 taels of silver. If more refined salt is purified, the profit will continue to increase. If the entire Yangjiatun mobilizes and 150 large pots are started at the same time, it is not impossible. Of course, from the current situation, it is very difficult. The fundamental reason is that there is not so much sea salt. The sea salt produced in the entire Fushan Institute is only about 2,000 kilograms. This output is difficult to increase. The original salt cooking method is too low.

"Is this true every month... three thousand six hundred taels of silver...?"

Yang Yinghan murmured to himself.

Except for Zhang Zhun, everyone in the Yang family could not believe this number.

They used to be busy, only earning more than ten cents a day, but only three or four hundred cents a month. But now, they can earn more than three thousand taels of silver every month. This is silver, white silver, every two taels of silver is equivalent to one thousand copper coins! For a moment, everyone thought this was dreaming.

More than three thousand taels of silver!

What is that concept?

A mu of the best paddy fields is just a ten tael of silver!

A healthy boy and girl sell themselves as slaves, and the price is only twenty or thirty taels of silver!

Seeing the expression of the Yang family, Zhang Zhun couldn't help but smile and said, "We are afraid of being poor and have never seen money. Let me tell you, there are many rich people in the world! Some wealthy businessmen, especially some rich businessmen in Jiangnan, have an annual income of millions of taels of silver. What is more than three thousand taels of silver? There are many places that require money."

Yang Ruifeng swallowed hard.

Millions of taels of silver!

The Yang family had never seen so much silver, and finally decided unanimously that all the money would be left to Zhang Zhun to control. Listening to Zhang Zhun's tone, it seemed that he didn't take more than 3,000 taels of silver seriously. The Yang family really didn't have such a courage. Yang Ruifeng's first reaction after getting the silver was to dig a deep cellar and bury the silver.

Zhang Zhun was both angry and funny, and had no choice but to take this important task.

Money is for spending, not for release. With money, you must make full use of it and give full play to the role of every tael of silver.

However, he has more important things to do and does not have much time to manage every penny of money. For financial management, he can only provide a general idea and control it in major aspects. In terms of details, someone else still needs to manage it. He reads the accounts every day and has a basic understanding.

Well, Yang Yinghan is the first choice for the account holder. During her interactions with her, Zhang Zhun discovered that she actually knew some words. This was rare among the poor women of the Ming Dynasty. After asking, it turned out that she learned from Huang. Moreover, she also knew basic arithmetic, which was also taught by Huang.

Zhang Zhun had to look at Huang with admiration. It turned out that the most inconspicuous person in the family was the highest level of education. In a military family, it was really rare to have a woman who could recognize words and know how to do arithmetic.

Yang Kaide smiled happily and said, "Xiao Ya's mother went to school. At that time, her family was in good condition. Later, she had no money and stopped going."

Huang seemed very embarrassed, but full of hope. She used to do hard work, and she didn't need to read words or count. She thought her life would be over, but she didn't expect that she would have the opportunity to turn her destiny and become the "boss' mother".

Zhang Zhun then handed over all the money to Yang Yinghan for custody.

At the same time, in order to facilitate Yang Yinghan to keep accounts, Zhang Zhun promoted the application of Arabic numerals and taught her four mixed operations. The simple ten numbers were much simpler than the plan, and Yang Yinghan quickly mastered them. Huang was older and had not had that strong ability to understand, so he used abacus to keep accounts. The mother and daughter could just check each other and found the error.

The profit from the sales of fine salt is of course used to expand production.

When he was originally planning a site to build a large stove, Zhang Zhun retained enough space for future expansion of production. Now, Zhang Zhun decided to do it in one step. Everyone worked hard to build 35 large stoves and added 35 iron pots, increasing the yield of fine salt to 1,000 kilograms per day.

With such production efficiency, the 6,000 kilograms of private salt in the backlog will be purified soon. Zhang Zhun was prepared for this. He had asked Yang Ruifeng to arrange capable personnel to go to various villages of Fushan Institute to buy all the accumulated private salt. Based on the principle of interest binding, Zhang Zhun offered a price of twenty cents per kilogram of coarse salt, which was four times that of the previous one, and immediately absorbed all of the coarse salt.

No one bought the private salt produced in other villages of Fushan District. The private salt from each household was in a large amount of money and was very worried. When they heard that Yangjiatun was willing to offer a price of 20 cents per catty, they were overjoyed and hurriedly picked up the coarse salt to Yangjiatun. Yangjiatun was happy, and he handed over the salt and the money in the other, and never defaulted. For a moment, the entire Fushan District's eyes were concentrated on Yangjiatun.

No outsiders know what happened in Yangjiatun.
Chapter completed!