The team moved forward little by little, and when it was Huan'er's turn, she was extra cautious. After buying two bars of soap, she took advantage of the two sellers not paying attention, hid the soap she bought in her arms, and got in there again.
There was another queue at the end of the long queue. It was not easy to do it once in this cold weather. Huan'er had to queue several times to buy a few more pieces.
Otherwise, I will have to come again tomorrow!
However, what shocked Huan'er was that he stood at the end of the queue and counted, there were actually more than sixty people in the front of the queue, spread out on Dongcheng Heng Street. Such a shopping queue was probably the most common in Daming.
North Korea has never happened before.
But this is not the first day either. Except for some passers-by who are a little surprised, the shops on both sides are not surprised.
Huan'er slowly moved forward with the team, and finally it was his turn again. Li Dao, who was collecting the money, suddenly said to Huan'er: "Why do you look so familiar to me?"
Huan'er's heart tightened, a few drops of sweat broke out on his head, and he quickly said: "I came to buy it yesterday, of course you look familiar to me!"
Li said, "Oh," and then took Huan'er's money.
After buying two more bars of soap, Huan'er breathed a sigh of relief. The master, madam, eldest son and second son could all have at least one piece each, which was considered an explanation. Looking at the queue that had grown longer again, Huan'er was not prepared.
Go queue up again. What if the uncle recognizes you when it's your turn? Your hard work will not be in vain.
Maybe you are in line and the soap has been sold out.
With four pieces of loot in his pocket, Huan'er left Heng Street angrily and walked to Chen's house, a pottery shop.
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After confirming the list, Li Zhi's second grandfather sent people to each house to say hello and asked all the newly recruited relatives of Li Zhi to go to Li Zhi's house that day to pay their respects to the dock. After Li Zhi met these people, he made an appointment with them early the next morning
Just come to work.
After work started, Zheng was responsible for the food for a dozen people. In the afternoon, Zheng went to buy the ingredients needed for the next day.
Early the next morning, the yard of Li Zhi's house was crowded, and thirteen newly recruited helpers came. Zheng added a large table in the yard and prepared breakfast for more than a dozen people: an omelette for each person, and plenty of porridge.
and sauerkraut.
The new relatives are also miserable. There are many people who don't have enough to eat on weekdays, let alone eat meat. Now when they came to Li Zhi's house, they ate eggs, and everyone was very happy, feeling that good days are coming.
Some of the relatives who were suffering the most were so excited that they shed tears while eating eggs.
After breakfast, Li Zhi asked his relatives to stand in a row, and he and his younger brother Li Xing stood in front to lecture.
Thirteen poor relatives stood together in tattered clothes, which made everyone's life even more difficult.
As a man of two generations, Li Zhi did not show any stage fright in front of everyone, and said loudly: "Dear relatives, I am very happy that you come to my house to help. I provide two taels of monthly money plus three meals a day, every day from Zhengmao time to Zhengxu time.
Are you satisfied with the treatment?"
Every meal is meaty, and three meals a day will cost at least one to two five cents of silver in a month. Including wages, Li Zhi actually gives three to two to five cents of silver every month. How can such good conditions be said?
Going? The relatives standing below replied one after another:
"Satisfied! Every meal is delicious, this is a great day!"
"I have never seen such good wages. We are sincerely satisfied!"
"Brother Zhi is kind!"
Hearing the answers from his relatives, Li Zhi nodded and said: "If you all work honestly, if the workshop expands and recruits new people, you can be the leader, and then the monthly salary will be more!"
The current treatment is enough for these relatives to live a decent life, marry and have children. Being a leader and getting a higher monthly salary? What kind of good life is that? Hearing what Li Zhi said, the relatives standing below were full of joy.
I was so excited that I suddenly looked forward to the future even more.
After drawing the future pie, Li Zhi will talk about the current discipline.
Li Zhi added: "However, I will say the ugly things first! Some of you are my elders, and I should respect them. But today is different. When you work at my house, you are my family's helper. You must obey my rules from now on!" After a pause!
, Li Zhi said loudly: "In my family, the first thing is to keep it secret!"
"My soap formula is a secret. When you are working on it later, each of you will be responsible for a step. In order to keep the formula confidential, each person cannot reveal the method of the step he is responsible for to others."
Scanning the audience, Li Zhi said domineeringly: "If someone privately discusses the steps he is responsible for with others and leaks secrets, don't blame me for kicking him out!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the relatives' faces froze and they all said:
"Brother Zhi makes sense!"
"We understand and we won't discuss our respective steps!"
After emphasizing the confidentiality discipline, Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Now I will assign positions. Everyone enters their own room and starts production on their own!"
Yesterday afternoon, Li Zhi had simply transformed the seven houses in his family into an assembly line workshop: the first wing room was assigned a person to specialize in the production of hydrated lime; the second wing room was assigned to a person to specialize in the production of caustic soda; the third and fourth south rooms
There are six stoves in the house, and six people are equipped to mix caustic soda and grease to heat and stir; the fifth south room is equipped with one person to make salt; the sixth south room is equipped with one person to make alkali to make soap; the seventh south room is equipped with three people
Specialized in fish out soap, dry soap and divided soap.
After dividing the positions, each person only operates the steps he is responsible for and does not understand the entire soap production process, thus maintaining confidentiality. At the same time, after this division of labor, each person is only responsible for one step, making the operation simple and easy to learn, and reducing the cost of learning.
Li Zhi and Li Xing spent an hour teaching these relatives, so that the new helpers learned the operations they were responsible for. By the afternoon, the entire workshop was running at full capacity.
On the first day, the workshop produced 1,800 pieces of soap. On the second day, the workers became more skilled and produced 2,500 pieces of soap. By the third day, the workshop's output had stabilized at 2,800 pieces.
Of the two thousand eight hundred pieces of soap, Li Zhi provided one thousand pieces to his own store every day. The other one thousand eight hundred pieces were given to Cui Wending for him to sell to the capital.
The sales volume of the store in Tianjin Aicheng has doubled, which has greatly alleviated the current severe shortage of supply and demand, and many women who have been waiting eagerly can finally buy soap.
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Mrs. Liu, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family, has been a little depressed these days.
Since she got a piece of soap as a gift last time, she has learned about the benefits of soap: washing clothes can easily remove dirt, and there is no need to hit the clothes hard with a washing stick to make the clothes old. If the cost of the clothes being worn and damaged is included,
Twenty cents of soap can save the family a lot of money in buying clothes. For Ms. Liu, soap is undoubtedly an excellent thing. On the first day of trying soap, she recommended it to Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Liu.
, Sister-in-law Xue.
But Liu soon discovered a problem: such good soap was impossible to buy!
Ms. Liu has gone to Dongcheng Heng Street twice for this soap. The first time she went there was in the afternoon, and a middle-aged woman was sitting in the store and said that the goods for the day had been sold out, so please come back the next day.
But when Ms. Liu went back in the morning the next day, she was still told that the store she had arrived at was sold out.
Mrs. Liu's house is also two-quarters of an hour away from the soap shop. With this situation, doesn't it mean that she has to go there before dawn to buy it? Although Ms. Liu felt sorry for her clothes that were damaged when she washed her clothes without soap, this soap was too much.
It’s a bit difficult to buy! I have to take care of my husband and young son every morning, cook breakfast, and can’t leave home to buy soap. With this situation, won’t I never need this soap?
