On the third day, Xishan Coal's sales became even more popular.
A long queue stretched from Chongnanfang in the east of the corridor to the west of the corridor. Thousands of people braved the severe cold and waved their copper coins to buy coal stoves and briquettes.
Here at Xishan Coal Store, Qian Youcai has once again increased its manpower, with a total of 50 clerks. There are more than a dozen clerks in the front store who are responsible for sales, a dozen clerks in the middle who are responsible for picking up and delivering goods in the middle, and there are nearly twenty clerks in the warehouse behind.
Guys specialize in moving goods.
"Coal stove, coal stove, coal stove is sold out, move out quickly~"
"Block briquette, briquette briquette, please do things quickly, there are still many people queuing up in the cold weather."
"Nearly out of stock again?"
"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up to Xishan and notify Mr. Liu to deliver the goods."
In the store, all the waiters were sweating profusely and out of breath. The same was true for Qian Youcai. His voice was almost hoarse because he was so busy.
The goods have been placed outside the store for sale. As soon as the customer comes over, mentions his needs, and pays the money, he immediately goes to the side to pick up the goods. As for how to use the briquettes and coal stoves, I'm sorry, I really don't have time to teach you now.
You, go back and ask your neighbors.
Qian Youcai drank tea and moistened his throat. He had been doing business all his life. It had never been as popular as it is now. In his memory, such a scene only happened during the famine years when the court opened warehouses for disaster relief. Countless
People were waiting in a long line with bowls to drink porridge and steamed buns.
But now, these people are holding the copper coins in their hands, eager to put the coins into their pockets.
It feels so good to have people queuing up to give themselves money!
Looking at the cashier, I saw that several baskets were already full. In the warehouse at the back, there were also baskets full of copper coins.
This copper coin is the most real thing. Seeing these baskets of copper coins, Qian Youcai felt that his whole body was filled with the joy of a good harvest.
Qian Youcai was very busy here, and his hands cramped when collecting money.
In Xishan Village to the west of Beijing, Liu Jin is also very busy. The entire Xishan Village has now become a bustling workshop, and all the labor force of every household in Xishan Village is employed by Xishan Coal Industry.
On top of the coal mountain in Xishan, dozens of Xishan villagers wielded mining hoes to continuously mine out the black coal. There were porters who specialized in picking coal. They almost didn't even want to take a breather, and they picked up the empty baskets.
, and immediately went down the mountain carrying a basket full of coal.
As for the coal miners, each one is surrounded by a pile of coal. When they see someone coming up with an empty basket, they immediately fill the other person's basket with coal.
In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, Liu Jin implemented the simplest and most effective system in later generations, which was the piece-rate system.
The coal miners not only have to dig coal, but also have to fill it for people. Every basketful of coal they fill is worth a few pennies. As long as you work hard enough, you can easily earn dozens of pennies in a day.
As for those who carry coal, all the baskets are of standard weight. You can earn a few cents by carrying a load of coal. Although you are tired at the end of the day, you are still making money. If you run more diligently, you can earn hundreds of cents.
When the coal is picked up in Xishan Village, the first thing it enters is the crushing and crushing operation area. Villagers drive mules and horses to crush the coal. After crushing, the coal enters the coal washing area for coal washing.
From coal mining, transportation, crushing, coal washing, mixing, stirring, pressing, drying and many other steps, Liu Jin adopts a streamlined work method and adopts a simple and effective piece-work system.
The same is true for the manufacturing of honeycomb briquette stoves. Pottery kilns are built one by one, the soil is mined, mixed and trampled, then shaped, dried, fired, skinned, etc. It is divided into many steps, which is also the way of working in an assembly line.
, greatly improving work efficiency.
The entire Xishan Village has become extremely busy. Thousands of laborers are all sweating profusely. Some young men even go shirtless in the middle of winter and work very hard.
There are so few opportunities to make money like this.
In the past, in winter, everyone would be idle and have nothing to do. Unlike Liu Jin’s hometown of Xiahetun, where people can still cook salt even in winter, in Xishan Village, almost everyone stays at home in the winter with nothing to do.
Do.
The young and old in this family need to eat and drink every day, and they have no way to go in or out. In the past winter, the head of the family was always the worst-tempered, and the woman in charge of cooking was also the most economical.
But this winter is different.
Since Xishan Village was included in Xishan Coal Industry, everyone originally thought that the future life might be miserable, but they did not expect that Mr. Liu, the head of Xishan Coal Industry, is a very good man. He works for everyone. The key is that the money is sufficient.
, and even included a lunch.
Where can such a good thing be found? Everyone in the village is trying to get a job in Xishan Coal Industry. At first, Xishan Coal Industry did not employ many people, but since the sale of honeycomb briquettes, the number of people in the whole village has increased.
Everyone is employed and very busy.
"This coal washing must be done thoroughly. It must be washed twice more. It must be supervised. If the sulfur in the coal is not washed away, something will happen."
Liu Jin took Zhao Erhu to patrol various workshop areas of Xishan Coal Industry very leisurely. When they encountered some places that needed special attention, they also gave repeated instructions to the person in charge.
"It's still too slow to transport coal down the mountain. Just relying on people to pick it up can only carry a few dozen kilograms at a time. It seems that we still need to find a way to see if we can find a cable to speed up the transportation of coal."
"Also, it is too slow to transport briquettes into the city. In the future, we need to design a four-wheeled freight carriage, but the bearings are not easy to make. If this four-wheeled carriage can be built, it will be able to haul several kilograms of cargo at a time.
Not a problem.”
"This iron is too expensive. I don't know if we can fool Emperor Hongzhi into letting Xishan Coal make its own iron. In this case, the cost can be greatly reduced. But this salt and iron franchise is not easy to do."
While patrolling, Liu Jin was also thinking about how to improve efficiency and expand production capacity. What troubled Liu Jin the most was that the transportation capacity in this era was really too weak.
Basically, they are carried on the shoulder and carried by hand. The better ones are pushed by wheelbarrows, or transported by ox carts or horse-drawn carriages. However, oxen and horses are precious and expensive things, and ordinary people cannot afford them at all.