Jiang Yang was stunned, looked at Chen Zhiyong, and patted his head.
Good guy, I forgot about it.
Illiterates were everywhere in this era. Even the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, Cheng Yaojin, was not very literate.
Needless to say, the people under his command, Li You, who can buy county magistrates are naturally literate.
The Ma brothers were born as carpenters. Although they didn't know much about literacy, they could still make ends meet.
Wen Guan, a boy, had a wealthy family when he was young, so he knew how to read. The other brothers... Although the Wang brothers did not know much, they were enough, while Chen Zhiyong was completely illiterate.
Literacy campaigns seem to be imperative.
After patting himself on the head, Jiang Yang said speechlessly: "You should recruit people first. When recruiting people, the first thing you should look at is their character, and the second thing you should look at is their physique."
"After recruiting good people, you should review them first and kick out all the unfilial and unjust people. Then you can tear down the river embankment and build your own training ground. I will tell you how to train them later."
"Okay." Chen Zhiyong nodded.
Jiang Yang was still very relieved about Chen Zhiyong's work. In the afternoon, he took a look at the injuries of Li You and Ma Yan.
Not bad, at least there was blood on both of their faces. After chatting for a while, they reassured them that he would take care of the matter in the county and arranged for someone to buy them some supplements.
After leaving, Jiang Yang was also thinking about the county city.
After all, it is unreasonable to let someone lose food worth 200,000 taels of silver after taking one hundred thousand taels.
Not only is it morally untenable, but the most important thing is that I will have to deal with them in my future business, so it is best to have a good relationship with them.
Jiang Yang planned to ask Wen Guan to make a trip to explain the situation and place an IOU of 100,000 taels of silver in the name of the county government, promising to pay it back within a month.
As for the follow-up, we definitely still need food, but now is not the time.
A few days passed quietly, and the wine business was doing very well these days.
Tang Yingcai had already learned the pre-sale method under Jiang Yang's guidance.
On the third day, the income from the wine business was more than 20,000 taels, and the same was true on the fourth day. On the fifth day, when the wine merchants and wine dealers from other places arrived and smelled the wine, they were naturally shocked and amazed.
He was even willing to pay a higher price, but Tang Yingcai knew that the business could not do this, so he still insisted on the price of one hundred taels per jar, but he could pay a deposit first and give priority to delivery after production.
Naturally, these wine sellers agreed. They only paid a deposit of ten taels for a jar of wine a day! They collected ten thousand taels.
Oh, although it is said that a thousand jars must be produced, this is not a big problem. It is nothing more than increasing productivity.
Over a hundred stills have been produced in the past few days, and one still can produce a jar of wine in less than an hour.
Now there are more than 100, so there is no pressure in production. If the production efficiency is full in a day, it will not be a problem to produce a thousand jars.
However, Jiang Yang also knows that the sales volume in the next few days may not meet the standard. Xiami County can eat a hundred jars a day, which is already good.
As for the rest, we will have to wait until this batch of wine is sold before we can continue, but the pressure on production will be greater next time.
In the afternoon, Jiang Yang went to the backyard of the county government to take a look. Now the backyard of the county government has been reduced to a base for producing liquor.
Liu Shun was directing everyone there, but the still didn't see it.
Jiang Yang turned around, and his evaluation of Liu Shun improved a lot in his heart.
This guy specially arranged for ten people to make the distiller, and the processes were separated, which played a very strict role in keeping confidentiality.
Moreover, the place where the distillers process liquor is in a room. Jiang Yang went in and looked at it. It was arranged neatly and he saw that the area could accommodate a thousand distillers.
This is the work that needs to be done well such as fire prevention.
Jiang Yang called Liu Shun aside and asked him to surround the fire under each still with iron sheets to prevent sparks from flying.
Still not perfect enough, Jiang Yang simply asked them to start replacing them one by one. Without affecting production, he asked them to seal the two jars under the still and the fire with cement and make a pass.
Smoke pipe.
Craftsmen? Cement? We have plenty of this stuff. What do we want? Safety in production!
In addition to Liu Shun's entry and exit, the entrance and exit arrangements are also very reasonable. The north side of the house is the road where ordinary liquor is sent in, and the south side is where the produced liquor is sent out.
Things like the wine jars were also transported properly and in an orderly manner, but this guy was pretty good.
"Sir, we can produce more than 500 jars every day now. If we don't stop for 24 hours, we can produce more than 1,000 jars." Liu Shun said.
Jiang Yang glanced at him, he was a good guy. He could understand the introductory secrets of assembly line production by listening to a few sentences at random. He was a malleable talent, but this guy didn't have this ambition. Otherwise, he would be a good person if he was trained to be a factory director.
As expected, the guy rubbed his hands and asked Jiang Yang the next moment: "Um... sir, when can you tell me what the principle is? Once this small device is processed, why can this ordinary liquor be processed?"
Does it taste so good?"
Jiang Yang smiled and said: "This principle is very simple."
"Let me tell you a truth. What will happen if you sprinkle a ladle of water on the ground during the dog days of summer?" Jiang Yang asked.
This Liu Shun frowned and splashed water in his hand, as if he was recalling this thing.
The next moment, he spoke with some uncertainty: "Will it turn into anger? Run away?"
"Yes, do you know why it turns into gas? Water turns into gas because the temperature is too high. At what degree can it turn into gas? It's one hundred degrees! And we call this degree the boiling point of water." Jiang Yang
Open your mouth and say.
"Boiling point?" Liu Shun absorbed the knowledge and asked directly: "Is it true that all water, whether it is wine or tea, can turn into gas when it reaches a certain temperature, and the temperature that makes them turn into gas
It’s called the boiling point.”
"Yes, yes! You are very smart." Jiang Yang was overjoyed. He is a talent, maybe an all-round talent.
"That's because the boiling point of white wine is lower than that of water. After heating, the white wine will turn into gas and then into water, thus turning into high-concentration white wine?" Liu Shun asked uncertainly.
"Yes, it's like this." After Jiang Yang finished speaking, he pointed at a distiller and explained the principle clearly.
Some things are very simple once they are said, but very difficult to understand. Although it is so simple to distill the liquor to make it mellow, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancient working people.
"But what does this one hundred degrees mean? How many degrees does this liquor have to be before it becomes angry?" Liu Shun continued to ask.
Jiang Yang said with a smile: "We will analyze this problem next time."?.