The seedlings in the fields were green, and more than ten horses rode by the ground trail. While walking, Hua Yunfei introduced to Ye Xiaotian: "This Yuji is not only the largest brick and tile business in Tongren Mansion, but also the only brick and tile business. There were two other colleagues in the past few years, but unfortunately they were not as good as Yuji Club, and they closed their doors one after another."

Yuji Brick Factory is located at the Yellow Tu Ridge. A huge courtyard was built with fences on the empty land in front of the ridge. In the courtyard are rows of neatly arranged bricks and tiles. Behind the courtyard is a row of houses, and behind the house is a hillside. A huge gap was dug out of the hillside, like a bite by a giant beast in the wilderness.

Ye Xiaotian led his horse into Yuji brick and tile factory, and stopped in front of a mud pit about a foot shorter than the ground with interest. There were several old men in the mud pit, holding a cow in their hands, and slowly circling in the mud pit. They were refining.

Refining is a key step in burning bricks. Adding water to the loess dug from the mountain is trampled by humans and animals, and it is repeated many times until the loess is stepped into a sticky thick mud. Several old men in the mud pit have become mud monkeys, and they are still trampling repeatedly with the reins of the cow.

In the main room of Yuji Brick Factory, the shopkeeper Ding respectfully invited Yu Junting to sit down. Yu Junting heard that the Changfeng Taoist in Qixuan Temple in Liulong Mountain was very powerful, so he rushed to visit him today. On his way back, he went around Yuji Brick and Tile Tour, which was an industry under her name.

Shopkeeper Ding welcomed the boss in, %,w≮ww. He was very frightened. This female chieftain family has a great business. In her industry, brick and tile factories are not the main source of income. In the past, he only went to Jianzhou Prefecture to pay a visit to the boss when he reported the year-end, but he didn't know why the boss came here today.

Manager Ding carefully reported to Yu Junting about the recent business situation: "Now that repairing the city and expanding the granary of the government office requires a large amount of bricks and tiles. There is no need to worry about business. But when it is about to be busy farming, the price of hired workers has to rise to keep people. But the government office still wants to reduce our price."

Yu Junting said unhappily: "I have given him Fatty Zhang a great benefit. Does he still want to be more arrogant? Don't you pay attention to him. If someone in the government office comes to suppress you, just come to me."

With the support of the boss, Shop Ding was very calm. Yu Junting said, "I am not here to check the accounts today. Today I went to Liulong Mountain and visited the Changfeng Zhenren of Qixuan Temple. This real person is very knowledgeable. He intends to build a Taoist temple in Tongren City to promote Taoist Dharma. I have promised the real person. I will bear all the bricks and tiles required to build a Taoist temple. I believe that the Taoist temple should start construction in the near future. You must take this matter to heart and not neglect it."

Manager Ding secretly sighed that the boss seemed to have to use a lot of money recently, and all industries were ordered to hand over the surplus funds, but it was the monk's turn that the boss not only did not withdraw the money, but also was afraid of neglecting it. He thought to himself, of course he hurriedly agreed.

At this time, someone came in to report: "The shopkeeper, a man who claims to be the governor of the government office, wants to see you."

Yu Junting was stunned when he heard this, Ye Xiaotian? What did he run to the brick factory to do? Yu Junting turned his mind and said to Shopkeeper Ding: "You go and welcome him in, I will avoid him behind. Listen to his purpose."

Manager Ding obeyed the order and welcomed Ye Xiaotian into the main hall. He asked someone to serve tea and asked carefully: "I have always been law-abiding by the public. I have not done anything illegal, but I don't know what the Promoter is here today?"

Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "I am here to come to the door. Do you have to come to sue? Haha, you are a businessman, Ye is here to discuss business with you today. Manager Ding, is your Yuji brick factory your own industry or has another owner?"

Manager Ding was stunned for a moment and replied: "I can do my business in this brick and tile factory. I can only say anything if I have something to say."

Ye Xiaotian took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Recently heavy rain, flooding in the city has caused disasters. The prefect decided to dredge the river channel to benefit the people. Because the project is huge and involves the whole city, it is afraid that the engineering department will not be able to bear the heavy responsibility, so he entrusted the mission to our officer."

Behind the main seat in the living room is a large wooden screen. There is a small space behind the screen. Like the front, there is also a seat furnishing. Yu Junting sat there, and the voice in front could be heard clearly. When he heard Ye Xiaotian sticking gold on his face without shame, Yu Junting couldn't help laughing.

Ye Xiaotian said: "The most troublesome thing about cleaning the river is how to deal with the silt that is cleared. To clear the silt, it requires hiring vehicles, mules and horses, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the expense is too high. Now I have thought of some silt to fill the pond, and some silt mobilizes villagers to transport fat fields, but there is still a lot of silt that cannot be disposed of. I thought, why not use this river mud to burn bricks and tiles?"

Shopkeeper Ding said tentatively: "What the Promoter means is, let us set up kilns in the city and use sludge to make bricks and tiles on the spot?"

Ye Xiaotian clapped his high-high and said, "That's right, if you turn waste into treasure, wouldn't it be a killing two birds with one stone?"

Shopkeeper Ding smiled and shook his head and said, "The Promoter is really too whimsical... Cough, Master Promoter, although the silt in the river can be used to burn bricks and tiles, but there are too many defective bricks and tiles made from the sludge. Generally speaking, only 70% are available. I am a businessman, which is a bit unworthy for me."

Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said, "Shopkeeper Ding's account is not settled correctly. You can't just look at the finished products. I have already inquired when I came. When you burn bricks and get soil, you must choose sticky soil. After digging it out, it must be exposed to the sun, crushed, sieved, and left with pure soil. After leaving it, water and refining, trampled with cattle and horses, at least five or six times, so that it can be made into thick mud. "

So, do you need human and animal power to get soil up the mountain? Do you need human and animal power to expose it, crush it, or sieve it? Do you need human and animal power to add water and refining it? Do you need human and animal power to spend money? But the silt dug out of the river directly saves you these first three processes, and you will save more than just money, but also a lot of time!

Furthermore, the bricks and tiles you made are difficult to sell to places outside Tongren because of their thin profits and heavy things. Now they are fired on site in Tongren City, saving the links from the countryside to the city. How much manpower and material resources do you have to save during this period?

If you calculate this, even if you set up a kiln in the city, even if there are 30% of the residuals, plus the expenses of building kilns, you will still make a lot of money. Even the defective products you burn cannot be said to be of no use. I can spend some money to buy them and make them into pieces to solidify the bottom of the river."

Shopkeeper Ding thought about it carefully and couldn't help but feel moved. The whole city was silted for a long time, and the fastest would take one and a half years. If he could use the silt in the city to make bricks and tiles and sell them on the spot in this year and a half, there would be a lot of profits to make.

Manager Ding is a businessman. The only measure of whether one thing is worth doing is whether it is profitable. Now, after hearing what Ye Xiaotian said, this transaction is very good.

Manager Ding closed his eyes and thought, his fingers flicked his fingers on the table habitually, as if fiddling with the abacus beads. After a while, he opened his eyes and said to Ye Xiaotian: "I have to go to the city to see it myself. If this method is really feasible, I will voluntarily share the worries of the adults!"

Ye Xiaotian said happily: "No wonder the three brick and tiles of Tongren families are the only one left. You Yuji is the only one left. Shopkeeper Ding is the courageous. Since that's the case, I won't say anything about it. Shopkeeper Ding will go and see it on the spot. If you are interested, you will look for me in the forcibol department."

Shopkeeper Ding was clean and neat, and Ye Xiaotian was even more quick-witted. Both of them showed his attitude, and Ye Xiaotian immediately said goodbye and left with pleasure. This decisive and decisive style left a deep impression on Shopkeeper Ding, thinking that this official seemed to be different from those in Tongren Mansion.

Yu Junting sat behind the wooden screen. At first, listening to Ye Xiaotian's words, there was a slight joking smile on the corner of her lips, but as she listened, her expression gradually became solemn.

She had a teasing and humiliating thing to Ye Xiaotian when she first made the case. Judging from Ye Xiaotian's attitude at that time, she obviously didn't want to accept it, but since he couldn't refuse, he could put down his prejudices and do his best to complete it. This was valuable.

The prefect only allocated a pitiful 200 taels of silver, and he tried every means to find a way without evasion or slacking off. He even condescended to a merchant as a seventh-rank official, and asked for help from a merchant. This man was very serious. If such a person could be used by me...

Suddenly, Yu Tusi wanted to be pity for talent.
Chapter completed!