From Chief to Ball

"You want to make a fortune. This is the first time I have seen such a good glass."

"Lend your auspicious words."

Chen Jian pulled Huang De to an empty place to sit down, and asked again: "Master Huang, you have also seen it now, my glass workshop looks pretty good, and I will inevitably continue to expand in the future."

"That's for sure. If I were a member of those glass workshops in Mincheng, I'm afraid I'd have trouble eating and sleeping right now."

"In the future, my workshop will definitely continue to expand, and I may do other things along the way, which may be related to wood."

When Huang De heard this, he was almost choked, and Chen Jian hurriedly said: "I'm not talking about doing the kind of wood business you want, but doing something else. Even if you don't do it, the workshop will expand in the future, it must be necessary A lot of wood. To put it bluntly, Master Huang, your workshop is still small, but it is so slow to produce these two thousand sets of wooden frames..."

Huang De laughed and said: "Small business, just eat enough, how dare you expect more? But I also thank Brother Chen for taking care of me. I am really grateful."

"Then there's no need. I'll pay for it, and you'll do the work. That's the way it should be. I was just thinking, Master Huang, do you want to expand your workshop?"

Huang De shook his head and said: "It's hard to say. If there is a business like Chen's every year, of course I want to expand. But if there is no such business, I will recruit more apprentices or colleagues, and there will be more Have more mouths to eat. I am timid, I am afraid they will eat me in the future."

Chen Jian pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "If I invest part of the money to build a hydraulic sawmill, Master Huang can use it at will, and I won't charge any fees. The only thing is, if I have any needs, I just ask Master Huang to give priority to it." my business."

"What does it mean?"

"I may need to use a lot of wood and wood utensils in the future, but I don't know carpentry skills. Since I have cooperated with Master Huang once, of course we will take care of each other in the future. In addition to the hydraulic sawmill, I can also provide part of the money to buy some pedals. It is your business to make money. However, if I need any wooden utensils, they must be completed by me first. The price is between us. Both can be negotiated, at least slightly more favorable. You also know that I am not short of money."

Huang De was overwhelmed by the sudden happiness. He took a closer look at Chen Jian and seemed to want to see something from Chen Jian's face, but no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to be full of sincerity.

It takes a lot of money to build a hydraulic sawmill, at least for Huang De.As for those fine things such as pedals and beds, Huang De only heard that some large carpentry workshops had them. He was a joiner, but his craftsmanship was passed down in his family, so he had never seen those things.

He couldn't help but be moved by Chen Jian's proposal, as long as the other party didn't harbor evil intentions, no matter how you looked at it, it would be beneficial to him.If there is a large demand in the future, that would be a good thing. Huang De felt that if he had money, tools, and craftsmanship, he would just recruit a few more people to work on Chen Jian's side, and it would not delay his making money.

And once you have so many new things, you can try to do a lot of things that you thought about but didn't dare to do before, and even become such a workshop owner: you don't need to work, you just need to hire people to do it.It's a completely different life than it is now.

It's just such a good thing, why did it happen to me?

Chen Jian explained: "It is basically impossible for me to be the main business of these wooden wares, but sometimes I need a lot of wooden wares. Now there is no decent wood workshop in Nan'an County, and the things I want can never go to Mincheng Make it and then ship it over. But I opened a carpentry workshop by myself. First, I have no craftsmanship. Second, I can’t manage it. Third, those workshops such as cutting beds are thrown there for waste. No, the fourth is that it costs money to support people, and some carpentry work is not like other workshops that can be done by just one person. After thinking about it, Master Huang and I are familiar with each other, so naturally we can help each other .In the future, when you have money, you can buy those workshop utensils back, and the money will return to my pocket, and my business will not be delayed. Isn't that good for everyone?"

After hearing this, Huang De thought about it for a while, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't do him any harm, and finally nodded in agreement, thanking Chen Jian very much.

What Chen Jian said is not completely false, but it is obvious that Chen Jian means that he has the means of production and tools. In addition to employing people, a large woodworking workshop also needs a lot of equipment. According to Chen Jian's intention, he will pay for them .

Once the workshop expands, it will no longer be a small handicraft workshop with individual units. It needs to recruit a lot of people, and it will no longer be a routine of picking up jobs and completing them, but will become production in advance and then sell.

If they are both good at that time, then of course Chen Jian will not say anything, anyway, he really needs a slightly larger woodworker.

But if at that time, with the expansion of the woodworking workshop, Huang De has a different idea and has his own way.

The bigger the better, relying on his own money, if he has power in the future, he would have to go through normal legal procedures to take back all the large sawmills and tools, and a huge woodworking workshop would collapse in an instant.At that time, Chen Jian threw the money out, and the skilled workers in Huangde's carpentry workshop turned around and left. It was nothing more than the lack of one Huang De, but a lot of carpenter workers.

Where did Huang De think of this, he only thought that he had met a good person, Chen Jian said again: "I still have a trading company in Mincheng, when Master Huang's woodworking workshop expands, maybe we can produce some tables, chairs and cabinets. There is also glass, as you can see, this glass can be regarded as the best in the world, the glass is combined with the cabinet, is it possible that you are afraid that no one will buy it?"

"At that time, if you can't sell it in the county, you can let the people from the trading company transport it to Mincheng for sale. Master Huang doesn't have to worry about the sales, as long as my trading company helps to sell it. But you need to spend money to buy my glass Yes, haha..."

Huang De didn't know how capable Chen Jian was, he just saw that he was young, very friendly and had such a fortune, he only thought that he was an ancestor who blessed him when he met a nobleman.He said in his heart that luckily his workmanship was not bad, and he had finished those wooden frames ahead of time, otherwise he would have missed such an opportunity and would regret it in his next life.

After agreeing on the details and getting Huang De's written commitment to produce the required timber for Chen Jian first, Chen Jian then talked about the wooden rails.

He didn't say what it was used for, only that it needed hardwood, wear-resistant and so on.After giving the pattern, Huang De took a look and found it very simple. It just needs to prepare some hardwoods that have been dried in the sun. It is not a big problem to process such weird things.

Besides, it will take time to build a hydraulic sawmill and go to Mincheng to buy and customize some appliances. This time can just help Chen Jian make these wooden rails.

After asking about the quantity, Chen Jian didn't want much this time. He only wanted [-] roots. He said that he would try it first.

It was only then that Huang De realized that those sawmills and the like were prepared for this, but since the other party gave money, there was nothing to say.If there were no utensils promised by the other party, it would be impossible to produce these thousands of sticks, and I couldn't eat them at all. Although I made some profits and made less money, if I didn't accept the less, I wouldn't even earn less.

The two talked again, had a meal with everyone, and gave Huang De two large pieces of glass, and finally agreed that the future woodwork factory would be called Nan'an County Private Woodwork Factory.

It was not dark, and the slightly drunk Huang De asked his apprentices to carefully lift the two pieces of glass, humming a ditty, only to feel that the stars are infinitely bright tonight, wishing to fly home in an instant and imagine the beautiful life in the future with his wife and daughter.

Chen Jian sent Huang De away, and walked around the factory area, thinking about trying out these simple tracks in his own workshop in the future to solve various problems that may arise.

Tracks predated trains, that's obvious, otherwise the steam engine would have gone the way of the steam car in road transport, which would be interesting but certainly not economical.

The advantages of horse-drawn rail cars over ordinary ground are self-evident, and can be explained by inertia and friction.A rail car loaded with a load of coal can be pushed by one person as long as it is moving, but it is almost impossible to pull it on a gravel-strewn road.

Capital railways will only appear in profitable places. Chen Jian has inspected the coal mines here, and the transportation cost is greater than the mining cost.

After a little calculation, the most convenient way is to build a horse-drawn coal car track of about five kilometers, connect a small river with the Min River to form a canal, and connect the Min River with those coal mining areas.

In this way, the large coal and iron mine owners must be very welcome, but now they are still scattered and powerless, and they have not thought of this method, let alone intuitively see the benefits.

So Chen Jian thought about using the tracks and simple canals as the basis in the future, either to create a coal and iron merchants association, or to bind with one family to annex the remaining coal and iron mine owners.

Simple tracks and canals can greatly reduce the cost of coal transportation, even by a third.

Whoever owns the right to use the canals and tracks can monopolize the supply of coal and iron in Min County, and exaggerate the prices of other companies as long as they are cheaper than those shipped by sea.

Building roads and digging rivers seems to be extremely costly, but in fact it is extremely profitable.

Chen Jian still has a simple chemical workshop in his hand, and the raw materials are also abundant, so it is not a problem to spare people's lives for explosives.

Back then, the martyrs squatted in the ravines and used pottery and urine cans as containers, and used cold river water as emergency coolants. More than 20 people sacrificed, and the annual output of glycerin explosives was about eight tons.

Glycerin explosives are indeed dangerous, but they are not bound to explode. When the Yellow River was flooded, glycerin explosives were used to break the ice. However, the conditions were difficult and it was too cold to condense, so a female party member who studied chemistry personally roasted the glycerin explosives in a hot bath. , and without sacrificing...

Although there are no doctrines and ideals nowadays, there are laws and money. It should be no problem to build a few kilometers of roads and canals with ten tons of explosives saved by human blood.

It not only consumes explosives, accumulates technology, arouses the interest of the country or capital in this explosive, but also creates a federation or a monster that monopolizes the coal and iron industry. If a simple hydraulic pump blower is produced, the cost of iron will be reduced If you want to drop wildly, it is possible to replace wooden rails with cast iron rails.

As for the manpower used for construction, that is simpler.

Find an industry with not too many people and extremely poor people, get a simple manual machine that can replace ten with one, and make this group of people bankrupt and unemployed with nothing to do—you must find the poorest group, If you don't work for ten days, you will starve to death, and you can't find industries with spare money-such as the group of seed cotton pickers.

At that time, there will be a little chaos, and they will secretly encourage them to riot. Before the shock, I will come forward to pay for road construction to absorb these people. The county will inevitably be famous and praised by everyone. They will even forget who made them unemployed, and they will only be grateful.Human blood steamed buns taste extra delicious. Who said there are no corpses when repairing bridges and roads?

Chapter 51 Workshop ([-])

In the future, it must not be bloody, but now it is not clean, but the black hand hanging the overlord's whip is too dirty, and Chen Jian usually leaves it to Zhao Si and others to do it.

There are two signs hanging on his workshop. Obviously, besides the glass factory, there is also a chemical factory, which is impossible to clean.So Chen Jian went there for a few days to install those pots and pans, but now he tries not to go.

The death and injury in it are slow, which looks much more elegant than direct killing.

The pollution there is too serious, and various acid gases are constantly exposed. Even if the eyes are not blind within three to five years, weeping in the wind, sore throat, and coughing are inevitable.Moreover, these acidic gases are easy to corrode teeth, and the teeth will be destroyed in a few years. It is not a good thing that the sulfuric apatite fertilizer plant that I planned is realized between the lips and teeth first.

Relying on the large glazed pottery vat, Chen Jian connected a set of simple small vat towers for sulfuric acid production. The output is not high. For the time being, he will accumulate experience and prepare the sulfuric acid used for acid absorption in subsequent large-scale production.

If the glass workshop is regarded as continuous production, has stepped out of the handicraft industry and has a prototype of a factory; then today's sulfuric acid production is still an authentic handicraft industry.

Continuous production is not possible, the output is not high, and it is still in an initial state.