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Chapter 23 Recruiting troops

All the men, women, young and old in the village rushed to the Zhangjiayuan.

The gray-bearded father of the village, Masako, personally led a ram and asked his wife to carry two chickens. The other villagers were similar, one carrying a basket filled with twenty eggs, one carrying a goose, one carrying a piece of bacon and one carrying a few dried fish, but in short, there were no empty hands.

Everyone already knows that Lao Tiegan's son has an exclusive secret recipe that can prevent the steamed cake from being sour and it is very fluffy. The steamed cakes made are both beautiful and delicious. I heard that the high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an City are rushing to make reservations.

Now the Zhang family wants to hire someone to work, at least two liters of millet a day, and they can also pay three meals a day. Which one doesn’t want to do such good conditions? It’s also idle in winter, and can only eat their own food at home. Now, when you come to the Zhang family to help, not only save food, but also earn two liters. Who doesn’t want to come?

Such good conditions are even much more cost-effective than farming.

However, Muramasa is the most generous, and he actually takes a sheep and two chickens when he takes action. It can be seen that Muramasa has come to know that it is a gift from his son Ke Wu to worship Zhang Chao as his teacher, and there is no other meaning.

Zhang Chao was not polite when his father wanted to refuse. He took all the gifts sent by each family by himself, which was all the wishes of the villagers. Besides, everyone wanted to come to work, and he was able to satisfy him.

In the yard, a long high-legged table was temporarily set up, and a few benches were placed behind him. Zhang Chao asked his father and the village to sit there first, while he sat next to him.

For a moment, Zhang Chao felt that he also felt a bit like a famous figure in the village.

"Sanlang, we can't get so many people even if we make buns. You have accepted everyone's gifts. How do you arrange this now?" The father asked Zhang Chao in a low voice.

"Don't worry, I have all arranged."

There are less than fifty families in Zhangjiagou, but there are more than five hundred people. These days, they have lived in several generations without easy destruction. There are more than thirty soldiers in the village, and now there are ten soldiers at home, and more than twenty are on duty in the bans and cheqi mansions. The remaining young and strong men are still around 100, while the rest are old men, women, children and teenagers.

Now the iron gun brand yellow steamed bun is a hit. In the future, it is definitely not a problem to sell 10,000 or 20,000 buns every day. Even as long as the output can keep up, it can be sold 30,000 or 50,000 yuan.

Zhang Chao planned to turn yellow buns into one brand, one industry, and one industry that drives the economy of the whole village. Therefore, from the very beginning, he planned to take the path of industrialization and make plans in advance.

But Zhang Chao did not plan to make this yellow bun business into a factory type, but planned to make it a family joint handicraft workshop so that everyone can participate.

"Dear fellow villagers, uncles and aunts, let me tell you a good news. The yellow buns we made are sold well outside. Many people booked them, and today there are tens of thousands of buns. However, I can't make so many buns just by my family. Therefore, I would like to ask the villagers in the village to help make them together. Don't worry, we will give you grain for everyone who comes to help, at least two liters of grain a day, and also make three meals."

When Zhang Chao personally said the promise of two liters of grain a day and three meals, the crowd in the hospital started to talk excitedly, and some people cheered Zhang Chao.

"Where are the specific division of labor, please follow my arrangements."

Zhang Chao plans to turn the production of the entire yellow bun into an assembly line form, and divide the labor of each process.

"Dad, you are responsible for buying grain, millet, wheat, red beans, and dates from the villagers. The prices we collect are higher than the market price outside. We cannot let the villagers suffer losses, and we must let everyone gain some benefits."

My father is responsible for the first step in the yellow bun business, collecting grain.

Dad nodded and agreed.

Then Zhang Chao announced the next few processes, which were to roughly process the purchased grain, that is, to crush the grain and remove the shells, grind the rice into noodles, and to remove impurities and stones by sieve.

These three processes are actually very simple. There are large stone mills and stone mills in the village. They are all public property in the village and are shared by the whole village. If you want to use them normally, just put a small broom in advance and use them with no one’s use of the mills and mills, it means you will use them next.

Zhang Chao planned to hand over these three processes to older women in the village, and also hire mules from the village. The women could still easily complete them with mules.

There are three women in each process, including rice milling, flour milling, and sieve. In addition, rice milling and flour milling each employ two mules from villagers. The mules are also calculated manually, which means that these three processes are ten manual labors. Each process is calculated as two liters of millet a day and three meals are collected.

Then there are the two processes of kneading and boiling beans and steaming dates, which are also undertaken by three women.

After the noodles are fermented for one hour for the first time, Zhang Chao will match the fermented head and alkaline noodles, and then hand it over to another group of women to re-knead the noodles, and then perform a secondary fermentation for four hours.

After fermenting, the two processes are made and steamed.

There are tens of thousands of buns a day, and Zhang Chao's family will definitely not be able to steam them. Therefore, his arrangement is to put the buns in other families in the village to steam them, using the steamers and stoves of the villagers, and even their firewood.

The prepared steamed buns are put on each stove and steamer to steam them. They will also give some money to use their stoves and steamers, and the firewood they use is also considered money.

Zhang Chao arranged these processes for the women in the village, and arranged a total of twenty women, and together, there were thirty laborers.

"In the end, we will also set up a sales group and a delivery group."

Seeing that many men in the village were a little anxious, they waited for a long time and were all about the old women, they couldn't help but get anxious.

"We will recruit ten more talkative uncles and brothers. Your task is to bring our yellow bun samples to Chang'an and the surrounding counties and townships, and to sell our yellow buns to restaurants, tea shops, steamed cake shops, stations, and homes of landlords, and to win their orders."

"After you get the order, the delivery team is responsible for delivering the steamed buns."

Zhang Chao did not say that everyone would become sales, but divided it into two groups: sales and delivery. It was also considered that many villagers in this era had never seen the world, let alone how to do business. Therefore, he chose the village to be more flexible, those who had seen the world were doing sales, and then others were only responsible for delivery.

This division of labor and cooperation will give full play to everyone's abilities.

In order to make those sellers more attentive, Zhang Chao also specially proposed a reward system for performance commissions. Salesmen have guaranteed wages, but as long as the monthly sales exceed the guaranteed quantity, they can get commissions for every 100 yuan. If you sell more, you can get more commissions.

"Ten sales and twenty delivery."

"Five grain collection groups."

In this way, Zhang Chao hired a total of twenty-six women, thirty-four male villagers, four mules that pull mills and push mills, and also had to hire twenty mules and donkeys from the villagers to serve as the foot strength of the delivery staff. The final calculation was to eliminate Zhang Chao and his son, which was equivalent to hiring eighty-four laborers.

The basic wage for a day of 84 labor is 168 liters, and a stone of six dou and eight liters of millet noodles is 100% off.

The father frowned, "Are you invited too many people?"

"It's a bit surplus now, but we will definitely sell more and more in the future. Only by routing the entire production line as soon as possible will it be more efficient." Zhang Chao felt that the total amount of labor was not much.

However, although there are more than fifty people and more than twenty mules and donkeys, they are still only a small number of people in the village. There are only three hundred adult men and women in the village.

No matter when, you are not worried about lack of weight but unevenness.

Among the three hundred people, fifty people should be hired. Who should be invited or not? If anyone does not invite, there will be complaints.

Therefore, Zhang Chao also set a standard, such as a woman only invites married village wives, and is between 20 and 40 years old. In principle, only one family can invite one. However, if a woman is invited, a man will not be invited.

In this way, fifty people can guarantee that they come from fifty families, basically one by one. Now the villagers are more acceptable.

At least no one feels that they are being underestimated.

The villagers still pay great attention to face, which is not only about Ersheng Mizumi.

Both Dad and Muramasa were amazed by Zhang Chao's method, but they didn't expect that Zhang Chao was young and very smart.

Zhang Chao struck while the iron was hot and announced that the Zhang family team had also begun to recruit people.

Zhang Chao's kang and new stove have now been tested. After carefully visiting the newly built stove, the villagers were very satisfied and wanted to set up a kang for their homes to change the stove. Therefore, Zhang Chao planned to strike while the iron was hot now and immediately start to set up his own Zhang family class in the spare time in winter and start to take care of the work.

Zhang Chao served as the head of the Zhang family class and was also the head of the kang stove in the class. Ke Shan and Ke Wu were his apprentice and deputy. The kang stove was actually not a very difficult technical job, so Zhang Chao only needed to recruit a few more bricklayers, and the rest were all good for men in the village.

Zhang Chao first recruited fifty villagers, including old men in their fifties and sixties, and teenagers in their thirteen or fourteen years old. They basically recruited one in each. Then they were divided into five groups. Zhang Chao planned to recruit five more plasterers, each group was equipped with one, so that five engineering teams could be formed at the same time and four to recruit workers.

The men in the village who were still unable to join the Huangfu team to work were immediately excited again. Because Zhang Chao also assured them that the Zhang family's class would also have a second liter of rice noodles every day, make three meals, and even do well, and there would be bonuses.

"Sanlang, you can get so many jobs by just forming five teams at once?"

Zhang Chao smiled and said, it doesn’t matter if he can’t take it. Anyway, the five construction teams of the Zhang family don’t have to guarantee a guaranteed salary. They only pay one day for work. If you can get a job, everyone will make money, but if you can’t get a job, you won’t have money, and he doesn’t have to pay more.

"Dad, it's okay. I think our new cave can also be repaired. If my kang stove team can't take the job, I will ask them to come to our new kiln to help with the work. Anyway, it's not uncommon, and it's too crowded, so you can finish it early." Zhang Chao is the best deal, and no matter how you do it, you won't lose money.

My father was a little worried that he would not be able to take on the job, but the villagers were very happy for a while. Zhang Chao's yellow buns, Zhang family, and Zhang family repaired new cellars allowed almost every family in the village to have something to do. One person had two liters of millet a day, and those three people could earn six liters a day, and they could also save the food for three people.

In addition, using the stove at home to steam buns for the Zhang family, there is also monthly rent and the firewood used can be used to distribute money. Families with mules, even mules and donkeys can earn personal labor.

"Sanlang is a good example."

"It's so nice to have a baby. Why don't you marry my woman as your wife!"
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