In the years of ancient traders

After waiting for a few days after confirming the list, Yan Zhuo and Song Shu discussed many times, revised several drafts, and basically finalized the design of the new workshop.After the official construction, it may need to be modified again, so Yan Zhuo has to go with him. Song Shu can't go, so he can only ask Song He to discuss with him.Fortunately, the newly built workshops are all existing in Xianghe Village, Song He is also experienced, and he knows what functions it should have.

Hengzhou is far away. In order to arrive before nightfall, Song He led the team away before dawn.Song Shu and Anan sent them to the entrance of the village, watching the group of people drift away.

When the workshop is built, these things from Xianghe Village can be smoothly brought to Hengzhou City, which has a large population and extends in all directions. I don't know what changes it will bring to the world.Song Shu still has a bigger blueprint in mind, but before he can implement it, he needs to walk the road step by step.

After going back to the house and sleeping for a while, Song Shu called Sanniang to visit several workshops in Xianghe Village.

The steamed bun shop is as usual. Song Shu consciously gave some techniques of mixing stuffing and kneading dough to the villagers. Now most of them can do it at home, but it is not realistic to do it every day, so the business of the steamed bun shop has been very good.Now the shop also sells deep-fried dough sticks, scallion pancakes, etc. Compared with the steamed bun wholesale market at the beginning, the current steamed bun shop is more like a breakfast shop.

To be able to spend money to eat breakfast, to a certain extent, Xianghe Village is far richer than ordinary villages.

The steamed bun workshop originally shared the same yard with the soybean oil workshop, but now that the soybean oil workshop has moved to a new place, two rooms have been vacated in the yard.After Song Shu opened the hot pot restaurant, he was often not in the village, and Sanniang and Song He also ran away. Song Anan was left to manage so many workshops, and the business of the steamed bun workshop was gradually handed over to Cui Wuniang.

Although Cui Wuniang didn't have a name in charge yet, she did things well. She put tables, chairs and benches in one of the rooms for the guests who came to have breakfast.She also suggested to Song Shu that since the food in the workshop is so good, it is better to bring it to the steamed bun workshop for takeaway at noon and evening. Anyway, it is ready-made, and it can add some income to the workshop.

Song Shu thought it was good, so she let her do it.

The other vacant room was used as a warehouse. The flour and other ingredients from Mantoufang were here. Song Shu went in and took a look, and they were neatly arranged by category.

The silk quilt workshop is the closest to the mantou workshop. When Song Shu arrived there, a bed of silk quilts happened to be delivered. A small vendor happily waited in the yard. When Grandma Liu gave him the wrapped quilt, she took back a bamboo stick.

"What is this?" Song Shu asked, he hadn't been to the silk quilt workshop for a long time.

Granny Liu hurriedly explained to him.It turned out that the supply of silk quilts was always in short supply, and those peddlers were clamoring for their own goods. The silk quilts were not bound to be available after waiting for an hour or two like steamed buns, so she bought them by herself. The master made some bamboo sticks with patterns carved on them, cut off the bamboo sticks, and distributed half of them to the vendors who were waiting for the goods.

"Grandma Liu is really ingenious," Song Shu praised.

The soybean oil factory moved to the newly built workshop above the cellar, and the place became much larger. Originally, there was only one wedge-type wooden press but now there were five, and there were many more workers.The brewery next to it was also operating well. Sanniang told him that more and more people came to buy beer recently. Song Shu went around and asked the carpenter workshop to rush to make two more barrels for brewing.

The paper workshop is the largest workshop in this area. It is divided into two parts. One part is for processing raw materials. The moso bamboo cut from the mountain is directly transported here. The wok is steamed for five days and nights. After the wok is out, it is immersed in a clear water pond. After soaking for five to fifteen days, it is taken out, turned over and rinsed, and bundled and sent to the other side to be made into paper.

"... Raw materials are the ones that require the most skill. The people there are picked by Anan himself, and one of them named Lu Qing is very careful, and he does things quickly and well." Sanniang and Song Shu walked in In the paper workshop, due to the many steps of making paper, some are in the courtyard and some are outside the courtyard. Lu Qing, who is in charge of peeling green bamboo, sits next to a pile of broken bamboo, puts the green bamboo tube about two meters long on the shelf, and peels off the top of it skillfully. green skin.

After the opening of the paper shop, Song Shu didn't take care of it for a few days. Sanniang and Anan were more familiar with the situation here. It was obviously impossible for Song Anan to tell him everything, so Sanniang explained to him in detail.As they talked, they walked into the wok room where bamboo was steamed and boiled. In one corner of the room, firewood of different lengths was piled up scatteredly, and a raging fire was burning in the big stove.Song Shu frowned slightly. The fire seemed to be a little too big. Although there would be no problem, the firewood would be consumed faster, and it would be a waste in the long run.You know, the firewood in the workshop is paid for by someone to cut it.

"Hey, my boss is here, please sit down." Liang Lao San, who was in charge of the fire today, immediately saw Song Shu and San Niang walking in, and hurriedly dragged his pony over to give Song Shu a seat.

Song Shu waved his hand.

"Liang Laosan, is the fire in your stove too hot? Didn't I tell you last time that the firewood needs to be added slowly? No matter how hot the fire is, the bamboo material will have to be steamed for five days and five nights." , I wasted so much for nothing." Sanniang said, as if she had said this many times, without even a pause.

"Yes, yes, I am just going to have a urinate, so I just added a few firewood, don't worry about these firewood." Liang Laosan said, and turned to Song Shu again, "Morning I have only seen my master from a distance before, but today I look closely, your face is really different from others, it is the face of wealth and honor, and you will have a bright future ahead."

"Hehe, I ask you for a good word. This step of burning the wok is very important. If you don't turn back, don't forget to add more firewood." Song Shu said, and he turned back to Sanniang and said, "Sister, are you hungry? Let's go to the cafeteria and have a look."

After coming out of the paper shop, I arrived at the cafeteria within two steps.

This canteen is shared by all the workshops of the Song family, and provides three meals a day, as long as the employees of the Song family workshops, including some part-time workers, can come here to eat.

After seeing the situation of several workshops in the morning, Song Shu basically had an idea, and communicated with Sanniang in a low voice.

"...It's good that Cui Wuniang is put in charge of the steamed bun shop, and Brother Guo is still in charge of the soybean oil shop. What do you think of the beer shop sister?"

"Zhuo Silang is not bad, and..." Sanniang said a few more names, those Song Shu had met just now, and thought they were good.

"I don't plan to build paper mills in Hengzhou again. This thing is not about eating and living. The paper mills here are big enough, so they can be transported directly." Song Shu said again, "The people you told me just now That's right, but I can't see who has the potential to be a steward, the steward must not only be able to do the work, but also be able to make up his mind about all the big and small things in the workshop."

"That's right, why don't you observe for a few more days?" Sanniang also couldn't make up her mind.Except for the youngest Liang, everyone else in Zhifang is young and they do a good job, but if they want to make up their minds, they don't know how to perform.

Originally, Song Shu wanted to go to Hengzhou by himself, and at most he would bring Song Anan with him, while the other family members stayed in the village.

But Liu Niang was the first to disagree, and she also wanted to go to Hengzhou.If he took her there, Qilang would definitely follow her if he was so attached to her.Sanniang also said that it was hard for the family to be together, and it was very sad that they had to separate after a few reunion dinners.

Finally, after talking, it was decided that everyone should go together.

Fortunately, the house Song Shu bought was big enough. He originally planned for them to go to Hengzhou to play and live there. Now that they want to go together, they can live there.

It's just that, without the Song family in the village, it is still quite troublesome to manage those workshops.Even if he and Songhe Anan can travel between the two places frequently, every workshop in Xianghe Village must have someone who can make decisions, otherwise if they are in Hengzhou, if there is any trouble here in Xianghe Village, they will be rescued from afar Not near the fire.

So finding a steward was quite urgent. The other workshops, Song Shu, had their own ideas, and the paper workshop was the only thing left.

Song Shu was thinking about it, when suddenly someone ran over and told Sanniang a lot in a hurry.

"...The youngest Liang is hiding, the water in the wok is empty, and the bamboo material has not entered the clear water pond. I knew I should go and see, what should I do now?" That person is Zhifang, Song Shu I remember that he was in charge of turning over the stall next to the wok burning room.

Water and lime are added to the bamboo materials when they are steamed in a wok. After they are cooked, they should be taken out and placed in a clear water pond immediately, so as to prevent the limestone from drying and sticking to the bamboo materials, making it unusable.

This is also the first time for Sanniang to encounter this matter, but she has been managing the workshop in the past few months, and she has dealt with various situations, and she is much calmer than the boy who turned over the stall.She gave some instructions and asked Song Shu to go and have a look together.

The cauldron is connected to the pond, and it stands to reason that once the bamboo material is boiled, it can be soaked in the pond immediately, and it is impossible for it to dry out and stick together with the limestone.Song Shu couldn't figure it out for a long time, but when he got there, he realized that the problem was caused by Liang Laosan adding firewood.

It takes five days and five nights to burn the bamboo wok, during which Liang Laosan and another person watch the fire in shifts.The fire should not be too hot, otherwise the water will be boiled dry in advance, and it should not be too small, otherwise the bamboo will not be cooked well, so firewood has to be added slowly.But in this way, adding firewood is more frequent, and people have to watch it all the time.

Liang Laosan thought it was troublesome, so he added a big handful every time and let it burn until the fire was almost gone before adding new ones.Both Sanniang and Anan had mentioned him several times, and after he had been working hard for a long time, he repeated the same old tune.There has never been any major disaster before, but today it has caused a lot of trouble.

Song Shu and Sanniang hadn't entered the wok-burning room when they saw Liang Laosan running out with a sad face, bending over and clasping his hands, saying that he was sorry for his boss, and almost burst into tears.

Song Shu ignored him and went straight into the wok-burning room.

There was a burning smell inside, and several bundles of burnt bamboo materials were spread out on the ground, with lime stuck to them, making them unusable.

There was a person at Qingshuitang. Before Song Shu asked, Sanniang said first, "Lu Qing, why are you here?"

The man turned around and wiped his clothes with his hands: "Sanjie, I happened to be going to eat, and I came in after smelling burnt. These bamboo materials are still usable. Missed the next effort."

Song Shu went over and saw that there were indeed several bundles of white bamboo materials soaked in the clear water pond, all of which had been boiled.After looking at the pond, he couldn't help but glance at Lu Qing more. Lu Qing went to call two people from the workshop next door to help, and was asking Sanniang how to deal with the unusable bamboo materials on the ground.

Song Shu didn't make a sound, and Lu Qing led people to take care of everything.Listening to his words, it seems that he also knows a thing or two about other processes in the paper workshop.

Back home at night, Song Shu asked Sanniang carefully again.

"I didn't know it at first, but I just heard from the person who turned the stall that Lu Qing would go to other workshops to ask for advice when he was free. He was very modest. At first I was worried that he was someone else who came to steal our bamboo paper crafts, but later He gave me several suggestions and improved a few small details, all of which are beneficial to the workshop, so I feel relieved. I should have told you about this earlier." Sanniang said, feeling a little scared in her heart, in case Lu Halal came to steal the craftsmanship, and she forgot to remind Song Shu, otherwise it would be troublesome.

However, Song Shu remembered the scene in the wok-burning room today. Although Lu Qing was young, he was very safe and focused in handling things. Why don't you hand over the paper workshop to him for a try.As for the youngest Liang, Song Shu had already ordered him to leave before he came back. The man lingered for a long time when he left, and finally Song Anan came to let him go obediently.

It seems that if this workshop is to continue to operate, in addition to the work and management, personnel and security are also indispensable, as well as finances. Accountant Li is in charge of so many workshop accounts. Even if Wu Niang often goes to help, it is not a long-term solution. Time to find some helpers for him.

Song Shu originally thought that he could rest at home for a few days before going to Hengzhou. It seems that he had a good idea, and he was really a hard worker.

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