On the second floor of Wuweizhai, in the private room, Dou Jiande, who was blushing on his face, invited the staff to the banquet to savor Wuweizhai's new signature dish - spicy mutton pot.

This is the mutton produced by "smelling" with chili and sesame oil as seasoning. Just smelling the fragrance is enough to make people drool. It is delicious when eaten while it is hot. It is fragrant and spicy. It can make people inhale and then sweat all over, which is extremely refreshing.

The room was turned on with "air conditioning", so it didn't matter even if you were sweating all over. However, the employees who came to a high-end restaurant like Wuweizhai for the first time were all timid.

Everyone is a technical backbone in the factory, but they have no knowledge. When they come to Wuweizhai, they are always afraid that they will accidentally smash something that they can't afford, so they can't sit upright, for fear of making mistakes.

Seeing that everyone couldn't let go, Dou Jiande smiled and said, "What's wrong? Such a complicated lathe is so well-behaved in everyone's hands. You can't understand the mutton pot?"

An employee smiled bitterly: "Owner, this dish is so spicy that it's so spicy that we dare not eat..."

Dou Jiande waved his hand: "Spicy? What are you afraid of! After eating, there will be tea to reduce fire, don't worry about getting angry." Dou Jiande said with a smile, "This is just a dish, there will be delicious later. Don't be polite. You'll be polite. I'll order a few more spicy dishes!"

When everyone saw the owner's warm hospitality, they were attracted by the spicy mutton. After moving the chopsticks, they couldn't stop eating and breathing, drinking tea, and clumsyly picked up a tissue to wipe the sweat, looking quite embarrassed.

When Dou Jiande saw that everyone was having a happy meal, he was also very happy and signaled the guy to deliver the order of good food as soon as possible.

Today's banquet is not cheap, but Dou Jiande doesn't care because he has money. If the technical backbones are at ease to do things for him in the factory, they have to be willing to spend money.

Wuweizhai is the first restaurant in Yecheng that uses chili peppers to cook delicious dishes. Dou Jiande remembers the embarrassing scene when he first ate chili peppers, so he didn't think anything was wrong with several employees eating while wiping sweat while breathing.

In order to encourage several technical backbones in his factory, he specially treated them to Wuweizhai today, allowing everyone to open meat and taste the famous "spicy lamb pot". At the same time, he also lets everyone know that he, the owner, has always taken capable employees to heart.

Let everyone know that as long as the factory is good, everyone will follow the waters and the ships will rise.

Dou Jiande now runs a machining farm. He is very confident in the development prospects of this industry and his "money prospects". He also knows that if you want to make this factory with high technical content bigger and stronger, you must have a stable technical team.

Therefore, he tried his best to improve the treatment of technical backbones. When the peak production season was approaching, it was natural to invite technical backbones to have a meal and personally encourage everyone.

After all, relying on technology to make a living is not as easy as selling fur goods.

Seven years ago, Dou Jiande's fellow villager Liu Heita went to Australia to make a fortune and quickly became famous. He brought a large hunting team, which could hunt a large number of Australian crocodiles and kangaroos every year, and then transport freight freight back to the Central Plains by sea.

It was shipped to its hometown in Hebei and sold by Dou Jiande.

This transaction is very profitable. The Australian fur shop run by Dou Jiande quickly became a sign and the business was in full swing.

But Dou Jiande realized one problem, that is, Liu Heita has relatives and younger brothers. Even if he has a good relationship with Liu Heita, as a foreigner, he should not regard this transaction as his own property.

So, Dou Jiande and the Liu brothers agreed to let the Liu family take over the operation of the fur shop and slowly withdraw from the management themselves, but retained their identity as a major shareholder, and then used their years of savings to open an inn.

The commerce and trade along the Yongji Canal coastal areas are developing rapidly, and the passenger flow is increasing day by day, so Dou Jiande's inn opened in the Wharf Port Area has a good business. In addition, he has made a lot of friends in the world before, so he has no worries about the source of customers.

For example, when Taiping is in peace today, the imperial court's control over the local area is getting stronger and stronger, and local governments have to "suppress bandits" from time to time. Therefore, Dou Jiande's friends in the martial arts world have started serious business and traveled along Yongji Canal.

Since I was busy in the Yongji Canal, I was inevitably stuck in Dou Jiande's inn often. These friends in the martial arts world kept recommending to their business partners, making Dou Jiande's inn business more and more prosperous.

Dou Jiande, who lives a wealthy life, dared not "become a little rich". Because the threshold for opening an inn is low, the competition is very fierce. He feels that relying on an inn alone to support his family is not stable, and he feels that even if he is doing business, he should have some pursuits, so he plans to do business.

Based on his experience and insight over the years, he discovered a business opportunity: with the popularity of steam machinery, the maintenance demand for various mechanical devices in various industries has increased significantly.

Maintenance of mechanical devices includes replacement of spare parts.

Whether it is steamship shipping, or the maintenance of factories, workshops, and a large number of machinery, it requires replacement of spare parts, which requires the machining field to provide a large number of cheap (relatively) quality spare parts.

All kinds of mechanical parts basically have corresponding "standard specifications". As long as you use a precision lathe to process metal parts according to standard drawings, you can process parts that meet the requirements.

Also, some workshops will make a complete set of machines and sell them as goods. In order to save costs, these workshops do not want to produce every part of the machine themselves. As long as there is a processing site that can process qualified parts for them as required, they are willing to spend money to buy them.

This is where the profits of the machining industry lie. With more and more workshops, the machining industry is indeed becoming more and more promising.

However, such processing is easier said than done. It requires high-precision lathes, skilled technicians, and recognized by relevant guilds, so the threshold is very high and it is not so easy to enter the industry.

It is precisely because of this that the competition in the machinery processing industry is not as big as that inns and contains huge business opportunities. When Dou Jiande runs the inn, he often hears people complain that a certain part of the steamer ship is broken and the maintenance worker lacks replacement parts, which delays the trip.

Dou Jiande didn't understand mechanical processing technology at all, but after careful research, he felt that mechanical processing was indeed promising, because in the future, machines would definitely be everywhere. As long as his factory had the ability to process qualified parts and had excellent skills, he would not have to worry about not having any business coming.

He was not afraid of difficulties. After making up his mind, he borrowed from Rixingchang Guifang and obtained technical support with his links. He purchased several precision lathes and steam engines as power, recruited personnel to set up a machining farm in Yecheng, and started a new round of "entrepreneurship".

After years of ups and downs, Dou Jiande's machining farm started from a young age, gradually made his reputation, opened up the situation, and took advantage of the spring breeze of the prosperous industrial boom in Yecheng, Xiangzhou, and the transactions were booming.

Yecheng's industry is developing rapidly, so it has driven the development of a number of "downstream factories". Large factories eat meat, small factories chew bones and drink soup. Everyone can gain benefits from the prosperous development of industry and commerce, and Dou Jiande's factory is one of them.

This industry has high requirements for technology. Just in case, Dou Jiande, as the owner, learned from the technicians he invited. After years of training, he has mastered the technology of mechanical processing and has become a well-known "expert" in the industry.

He and his machining farms became more and more famous in the industry, so that when the emperor was stationed in Yecheng and inspected the industrial zone, Dou Jiande was also summoned by the emperor as one of the "famous factory owners".

I was lucky enough to have a few encouragement from the emperor. Although it was just a few scenes, Dou Jiande felt that his efforts were not in vain: the family business was created.

He has a son and will have many sons in the future. Therefore, the eldest son inherits the family business. If other sons can study, they don’t have to do anything else. They concentrate on studying, prepare for the imperial examination, and strive to get fame and enter the officialdom.

My son, who is unable to read books but is active, learn to do business, or go to major cities and commercial ports to make a name for himself, and is another "protagonist".

Those who are brave will join the army. Whether they can achieve fame and fortune immediately depends on their fate.

Dou Jiande figured it out: the times have changed greatly. If the concept cannot be changed and adapted, he can only become an old antique, forgotten in the corner, and silently accumulate dust.
Chapter completed!