Xu Changyuan said: "Don't use that stuff. We use salt, soy sauce and vinegar at best when making kimchi. Why use preservatives? No need. This chili oil is still technically difficult. Dried chili, crushed peanuts and rapeseed oil are all quite expensive. The glass bottle is well designed. After eating the chili sauce, you can use the bottle to drink water. But this chili oil and kimchi belong to two different systems, and the preservation principles are different. This one is sealed with oil."

"Let's make a small sample first, and try it ourselves. We'll start mass production next year after we've planted the raw materials."

Xu Changyuan nodded: "No problem, half a month, we will produce samples in half a month to see how we do."

The kimchi factory is now developing very well, with production and sales booming. It has 300 permanent workers and 300 seasonal temporary workers.

This period is considered an off-season, with beans and cucumbers at the end of their season. Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Chinese mustard greens, and green radishes are not yet harvested. If it weren’t for the vacuum corn, the temporary workers would have left.

Now the daily production is very easy. Workers arrive at the factory at 7 o'clock in the morning. At this time, the breakfast is ready and they can choose whatever they like. At 8 o'clock, after breakfast, they wash their hands and faces, change into work clothes and enter the workshop. Each of them performs their duties and is responsible for a process. They just need to do it according to the requirements.

We get off work at noon sharp, and have an hour and a half to eat breakfast and take a lunch break. We go back to work at 1:30 p.m. and work until 5:30 p.m. The factory provides dinner, and if you want to eat, you can eat and leave work. If you don't want to eat, you can just leave.

Liu Xialian walked around the workshop, and a worker asked, "Director, when do we start working overtime?"

"Don't worry, I'm going to start working overtime soon. I'll go check on the fields later. Some of the Chinese mustard greens that were planted early this year should be ready for harvest."

"Oh, that's great."

Workers who want to work overtime consider overtime pay. Life is not easy and money is needed everywhere. The salary is 45 yuan, and the bonus is generally more than 10 yuan. If you don't work overtime, you can get 55 to 60 yuan a month. If you work overtime for three hours a day, it's a little tiring, but you can get a salary of about 90 yuan, which is simply great. The salary of a teacher in a county middle school is only 50 yuan. A salary of 90 yuan a month can maintain an above-average income and provide food and clothing for the whole family.

Some workers don't want to work overtime and want to go home at the appointed time. The factory also makes flexible arrangements for voluntary overtime work, which is determined according to one's actual situation. Overtime pay is calculated separately, and it is okay not to work overtime, because it is very easy to recruit workers now, and various temporary workers are very easy to recruit.

In the afternoon, Liu Xialian drove to the cart shop. Of course, the mules and horses in the cart shop worked the hardest, and they had to walk more than 80 miles every day.

Now Li Erlu is in charge of the transportation of coal for the county power plant, and the drivers earn about 300 yuan a month. As the person in charge, Li Erlu can earn about 500 yuan. As for Liu Xialian, she doesn't make much money. She earns 1.5 yuan per carload, which is more than 1,000 yuan a month. The risk of getting the money back is all on Liu Xialian. That is to say, at the end of the month, no matter whether the power plant pays Liu Xialian or not, Liu Xialian has to pay the drivers. There is no easy money in the world.

Liu Xia Lian parked the car at the door. Uncle Zhao was still selling tea there. It was five cents for a drink. Actually, there weren't many people passing by every day, so the price was only fifty or one yuan.

"Uncle Zhao, these are the cakes I bought for you from the provincial capital. Here are some cloth shoes for autumn. Do you want to try them on and see if they fit?"

Old Zhao put down his palm-leaf fan and stood up quickly: "Xia Lian, it's enough that you have this intention. There's no need to spend money on me. I'm over seventy years old. It doesn't matter if I wear better or worse clothes."

"Uncle Zhao, don't say that in the future. You have to wear something that is comfortable and looks good. You also have to make the old ladies in the village look at you more."

"Hahaha, girl, okay, I'll try it on."

Lao Zhao put on new sneakers, which were much more comfortable and fit his feet perfectly.

Old Zhao still likes to eat pastries very much. Nowadays, people don’t eat much oil and there is no such thing as high blood sugar.

"Have Erlu and the others returned?"

"Just got back, probably feeding the animals."

"Okay, Uncle Zhao, you go ahead and I'll go in and take a look."

As expected, when Liu Xia Lian came in, the drivers were all feeding their own animals. They used kneaded corn stalks mixed with bean cakes and corn kernels, which was the feed for mules and horses.

When I chose this yard, it seemed very large, but now with more than 60 animals, it seems a bit small.

"Come over after feeding the animals. Each of you will have a pair of shoes. They are selected according to the numbers you reported. Don't worry if they don't fit. We will exchange them for you later."

The drivers were all acquaintances from Mang Village, Lijiatun and Zhangjiatun, and everyone came over to get their own numbers.

Li Erlu washed his face, scratched his head with a comb, and came over to ask, "Xia Lian, can you keep things stable in the provincial capital? Opening three new stores at once will definitely attract other people's attention."

"It's nothing serious. There are definitely some minor problems, but they've all been solved. I asked Xu Shiba to find two assistants. It won't be a big problem. They're just big brothers in society who want to take advantage of others. Don't worry. I got eight new Arabian horses these days. I need to find two horse trainers. You can contact them."

Before Li Erlu could say anything, a driver next to him said, "Boss, you found the right person. Captain Erlu will do. He can talk to the animals."

Erlu scratched his head and said, "It will be no problem for me to train him. There is nothing serious here and I don't need to watch him every day. I will find an assistant. He will be basically trained in about a month. When I come back, I will let him take charge for a long time."

"Okay, that's settled. You can keep the money here, and I'll pay you 300 a month. How much do you think is appropriate for the other person you're looking for?"

"No one else, my third son, Li Sanlu, has been raising horses since he was a teenager, so he has a lot of experience. He doesn't like running around, so he just wants to have a fixed job. His skills are impeccable, how about 120 yuan a month?"

"Okay, then it's settled. Go there the day after tomorrow. These horses are like dragons. They are too difficult to serve."

Li Erlu asked: "What did you just say, eight horses of what kind?"

"Ferghana horses, four old horses, six or seven years old, and four ponies, two or three years old. They are all top quality, but they are not very obedient because they have not been trained."

Li Erlu scratched his ear and said, "A Ferghana horse? Oh my god, you are kidding me. How much does a Ferghana horse cost? I heard it's about 600,000 or 700,000 yuan. Eight horses cost 4 to 5 million yuan. This is too much. It would be better to find a family member to look after it."

"I plan to get married in November. Zhao Hua will be in charge of the stables at that time. However, there will definitely be a need for daily horse trainers. Zhao Hua knows a little, but it's limited. He is good at training Mongolian horses, but Ferghana horses are completely different."

Li Erlu shook his head and said, "This kind of horse is good, but it's hard to take care of. It has to stay in the room during the winter, otherwise it will freeze to death."

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