Zhao Fuxiang listened to his father's conversation with the villagers and quickly took out his mobile phone to calculate. Five kilograms of grain per person requires two meals of dry rice. Even if they eat two kilograms of rice a day, each person will consume eight kilograms of rice every day. Thirty people

The workers need 240 kilograms of rice every day. What they buy is only 100,800 kilograms of rice. At this rate, this rice can only feed thirty people for a month.

A bracelet can change the lives of thirty people for a month. What will happen in the future? The number of people will definitely increase in the future, three hundred or three thousand people? If this goes on, won't you be exhausted in a few days?

Zhao Fuxiang knew that his parents were both high-level intellectuals. People who were born in that fervent era thought that they were the masters of the country, so they naturally wanted to provide perfect living conditions for the workers and peasants. Of course, as society develops in the future, Zhao Fuxiang also hopes to provide better living conditions for the workers.

Good living conditions, after all, improved workers' quality of life can improve their work enthusiasm, but this cannot be done now that they are poor and have nothing to do.

Zhao Fuxiang did not remind his father. He knew that even if he reminded his father, he would not lower the standards according to his father's temper. It seemed that he could only find a way on his own.

What Zhao Fuxiang buys is polished rice, which can be replaced with brown rice, which will be much cheaper. If some sweet potatoes and potatoes are added as substitute foods, the cost will be even lower.

History books say that potatoes entered China during the Chongzhen period. At this time, it was estimated that there was no large-scale cultivation in southern China. Sweet potatoes entered China during the Wanli period. It has been fifty or sixty years since the Wanli period. Sweet potatoes should have appeared on Hainan Island.

This kind of crop.

Zhao Fuxiang remembers singing in the song, sweet potato rice, pumpkin soup, and digging wild vegetables as food. Back then, the Red Army ate these and could climb snow-capped mountains and cross grasslands. Now you mud-legged people are just doing some hard work, so naturally you can eat these things.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fuxiang made up his mind to ask the shopkeeper tomorrow if there are any sweet potatoes. If so, he would purchase them in large quantities.

With food and vegetables, the meal that night was extremely satisfying. No one could bear to eat instant noodles for several consecutive meals. However, the newly adopted Zhao Jing has a soft spot for junk food and would take the discarded packaging from time to time.

Smell the smell inside.

After dinner, everyone went about their own business. Zhao Heng and his grandfather Zhao Zhikuan gathered together to study the construction site of the brick kiln. Ma Guilan opened a piece of land in the yard, cut the potatoes she brought and planted them, and is now tending them carefully.

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Sun Jing and Zhao Jing were cleaning up the dishes, and after that, they were going to teach Sun Jing. He probably wanted to train his adopted daughter to be a nurse. As for Zhao Fuxiang himself, he was sitting on the side looking at the sky in a daze.

Unlike his family members, who are all engaged in technical work, Zhao Fuxiang is an absolute "three-no" person. He has no skills, no ideals, and no ability. He is similar to many civil servants in later generations who live their lives as idlers. Zhao Fuxiang's biggest ideal in this life is to rely on retirement and then receive a salary.

Pensioners can dance in squares, and of course hooking up with mature women in their forties or fifties every once in a while would also be a good idea.

Originally, when Zhao Fuxiang just graduated, he had the impulse of a young man, hoping to make a career at the grassroots level. However, as he grew older, he saw more of the harsh world and saw how it was difficult for no one in the government to be promoted, so Zhao Fuxiang completely died.

In order to make progress, he dawdles in the workplace every day. With this ideal, Zhao Fuxiang has been dawdling in the workplace for half his life. Basically, he only has a newspaper and a cup of tea every day, and then has lunch in the cafeteria at noon, then goes home to sleep and play games.

In the past, the Internet and games were the main sources of Zhao Fuxiang's life. Now there is no Internet or electricity, and his life is absolutely pastoral and resting at sunset. But Zhao Fuxiang is an absolute layman. How can he survive such a life?

Zhao Fuxiang took out his mobile phone from his pocket and flipped through the apps in boredom. Although they all showed that there was no network connection, looking at the shining screen was better than being bored.

Zhao Fuxiang was flipping through the pages and suddenly found the cache file of a certain live broadcast software he had downloaded. There was actually a video of the anchor posing in it. Zhao Fuxiang was shocked and quickly sat up and watched it carefully.

Zhao Fuxiang used to reward this anchor a lot, and basically contributed all his monthly pocket money. Now that he saw the swan meat right in front of him but couldn't eat it, he felt really angry.

Zhao Fuxiang looked at his parents and sons who were busy with their own affairs. His wife Sun Jing was taking his goddaughter to study. Zhao Fuxiang put down his mobile phone and came to Sun Jing. He asked without saying anything: "What are you doing, wife?"

Sun Jing glared at Zhao Fuxiang and said, "Didn't you see that I'm training Zhao Jing? I'm just a pediatrician, and surgery can't be done without help. Zhao Jing is smart and clever, so I'm training her to be a nurse!"

Zhao Fuxiang's mind was not here, so he didn't hear what his wife said. He agreed twice and sat next to Sun Jing, and his hands and feet began to become dishonest.

Sun Jing and his old husband and wife, how could they not know what this guy was thinking? Sun Jing was so angry that he cursed: "Zhao Fuxiang, what are you thinking about? Everyone is so busy now, you still have this thought? You are the only one

Can the man who is the master of the family think about how to solve the difficulties of this family?"

Zhao Fuxiang lost interest after being scolded by Sun Jing, but he did not dare to say anything to Sun Jing, so he could only stand up with a murmur and go to see if his parents and son could help him.

Zhao Fuxiang has a good mind, but he is a technical secondary school student. Although he graduated from a local agricultural school, he studied accounting computerization. Ma Guilan and Zhao Zhikuan are both professionals. How can his two brushes help? No.

Zhao Fuxiang walked around in a circle and had to hide in the car. After looking at the cache files on his phone for a while, he had no choice but to go to sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhao Fuxiang was awakened by the noise around him. He got out of the car and found that the old man was leading a group of strong men to chop down trees.

Zhao Fuxiang got up and put on his clothes. He saw his father Zhao Zhikuan standing nearby supervising the work. Zhao Fuxiang walked over and asked, "Dad, brick-making is a technical job. Can we do it?"

"I thought about it all day yesterday. No matter what we develop, we must first cultivate skilled workers. In the future, steel, shipbuilding, etc. will be inseparable from skilled workers. Although there are already some craftsmen in this era, such small handicraft workshops cannot compete with future generations.

Compared to those factories. Even the simplest small brick kiln in the book can produce tens of thousands of red bricks every day. How can it be compared to the small brick kilns of this era?"

"So I decided to focus on training workers first. As for this brick kiln, the main reason is that bricks and tiles are currently needed. Your mother has rheumatism and cannot live in a tent all the time. Building a windproof brick house is the main task at the moment!"

Zhao Fuxiang was amused when he heard this. It seemed that the old couple had reconciled.

"Dad, you decide what to develop first, but this brick kiln is not easy to build. I think it requires clay and coal. Just buy the coal directly. But is there a large amount of clay on Haidian Island?"

"Those are blue bricks fired using the ancient method. Of course, a lot of clay is needed, but we use the advanced method of later generations. Red bricks can be made by crushing the rocks and adding coal ash. There is no other kind of diatomite on this island.

Some of them are the best materials for making red bricks!"

Seeing that his father was full of confidence, Zhao Fuxiang said nothing more. He turned around and was about to leave when Zhao Zhikuan stopped him again: "You went to Fucheng today to buy several thousand bricks. Yesterday I asked the delivery man,

There are no brick kilns here in Haikou, and they can only be sold in Fucheng. Since we have bricks, we don’t need to cover the earthen kiln. We can directly start the kiln and purchase some coal ash, which are all necessary materials for making bricks."

Zhao Fuxiang promised and wrote down all the required materials, and then went to Sun Jing to get a pearl bracelet. This thing was so valuable, Zhao Fuxiang also told Sun Jing to keep it. These dozen bracelets plus the three black ones

The pearl necklace is the capital of their family's rise.

While picking up the bracelet, Zhao Fuxiang took advantage of Zhao Heng's carelessness to break off a reversing mirror. Mirrors in the Ming Dynasty were very valuable, and this thing would definitely fetch a good price.

After everything was cleaned up, Zhao Fuxiang went to the West Market first and had a soup meal as usual at the street corner, and then came to Furui No.

When the shopkeeper saw Zhao Fuxiang coming, he quickly stepped forward to greet him with a smile, and then asked: "Master Zhao, have you brought the bracelet?"

After Zhao Fuxiang handed the bracelet to him, the shopkeeper sighed and praised: "Master Zhao is really a trustworthy person. Please sit down for a moment, Master Zhao, and I will ask the clerk to prepare the money!"

I couldn't take away yesterday's three hundred taels, and I couldn't take away today's five hundred taels. Zhao Fuxiang stopped the shopkeeper and asked: "Brother, don't be in a hurry for the money. Yesterday you said that your store has everything. In that case."

It just so happens that these things were purchased at your house!"

The shopkeeper was very happy to hear that Zhao Fuxiang was going to make a big purchase at his house again. He quickly let Zhao Fuxiang into a private room at the back, and at the same time ordered the waiter to serve tea. Then he sat down and said: "Master Zhao must never call me a villain. My surname is Li Zhengdao."

, is the shopkeeper of Furui Hao’s branch in Qiongzhou. If you need anything, you can tell me directly. If we don’t have the branch, I can contact the Guangfu head office to purchase it for Mr. Zhao as soon as possible!”

It turns out that this guy is the manager of Furuihao Qiongzhou Branch. No wonder he looks like a dog. Zhao Fuxiang smiled and said: "It turns out to be Brother Li. You know that my family just came back from Nanyang and settled down. We need a lot of things. Since you said so, little brother.

Then you’re welcome!”

After saying that, Zhao Fuxiang took out the list that he had agreed with his family last night. Li Zhengdao didn't know simplified Chinese characters. He couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he saw the wrong fonts. These guys were probably far away from their parents' country in the Central Plains and had forgotten Chinese characters.

Why did you write it? These words are either missing the strokes or not conveying the meaning. Although the words are difficult to recognize, Li Zhengdao is a shopkeeper who has studied in school after all, so he still read this list very closely, and there are some unknown words.

Just ask Zhao Fuxiang and you will know.

After figuring out the required quantities on the list, Li Zhengdao took a breath of cold air. This is a family coming back to settle down. This is a village coming back to settle down.

I saw what was written above: Ten thousand red bricks, one stone of sugar, five thousand kilograms of coal, three thousand kilograms of lime, five thousand kilograms of yellow mud, ten large pottery jars, thirty feet of iron pipes, three mules and horses, brown rice
Chapter completed!