The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 48 The water mill can make money, and the water saw can make money!

"Uncle, Dad, you can ask Xiaohu if you want to come to me. The salary is not high during the apprenticeship period. It is only [-] yuan a month for the first two months. After two months, if you still want to work with me, the wages will gradually rise. After one year, you can earn [-]-[-] yuan a month."It is also time to consider the issue of reserve manpower.

"As an apprentice, you can still receive wages? Kuiwa, you can't break the rules. I'll send Xiaohu here, and you can teach your skills, but you can't get paid." Apprentices are not helpers, and masters have the responsibility to teach crafts seriously. Generally speaking, masters will not pay apprentices for two or three years to learn crafts such as carpentry.It was different from when Song Yingkui followed Ding Degui to Liu's house as a helper.

"The situation on my side is different from other carpenters. I run a shop here. No matter how big or small the job is, I have to do it every day anyway. You can't keep ordering people around, right? Just as I said, let's see if Xiaohu can learn my craft." Song Yingkui's situation is indeed different from ordinary carpenters. Most carpenters don't open a shop.

"How about it! I'll send Huzi to you when I go back. Don't tell me, I saw that the shop you opened is doing well. After a while, several businesses have come. If my Huzi can learn the craft like you, we will open a shop like this in the official camp." Jiang Kaizheng accepted Song Yingkui's explanation, mainly because he looked at Song Yingkui's shop.

The business of the shop seems to be doing well now, but Song Yingkui is full of worries.Until now, the business in the shop is mainly supported by the business of custom-made rack cars.The two main products, the newly-made step plow and the noodle press, received relatively flat market response.Not only did no one come to buy from the shop, even the samples placed in the second grandpa's shop were basically no one cared about.Obviously, the user market has not yet completed education, and these two new products are not accepted by consumer groups.

It is understandable to say that the sales of noodle presses are not opening smoothly.Why is there no one to buy the new type of step plow?This thing plows the ground, it is indeed much easier to use than the old-fashioned plow!

The shelf car business is booming now, but I heard that carpenters in other places have already started to learn how to do it.Song Yingkui estimated that in a few months, his business would be greatly affected.New products cannot open up the market, and old products will soon face the impact of a large number of imitations. The business of the shop will face a lot of challenges in the future.

However, fortunately, after a while, there will be a permanent pillar industry in the shop, otherwise it really can't support so many people.

"Mother, please send a message to my two uncles, and see who can spare them. I need a helper in my shop, and I will pay 350 yuan a month for the time being. The rest is the same as Ding Huanyi's salary. Let's see if the two uncles have any ideas." Back home at night, Song Yingkui hurried to his mother, Ji, and told her about the idea of ​​hiring a helper in the shop.Everyone from the foreigners' family wants them, so it's not appropriate not to take care of them here.

"Do you still need to hire people in your shop? Has the business been booming recently?" When Ji heard the good news, there was a smile in the corner of his eyes, and he began to care about his son's business situation.

"The market hasn't risen yet, but in another half a month, there will be many businesses. It's best to call my uncle to learn how to do it in advance." Once the hydraulic saw is ready, a special person will be needed to watch it work, and Song Yingkui is going to leave it to his uncle.

No matter how poor the sales of new products are, the use of hydraulic saws will not be affected.After the hydraulic saw is built, it's not just about changing wood for my own shop.In a radius of tens of miles, anyone who wants to build a house or make furniture can come here to first change the big logs into planks, and then hire carpenters to do this kind of hard work to save money.This thing is just like the water mill, it is a long-term business.

"What kind of business are you going to do again? Are you planning to hand it over to your uncle?" Mrs. Ji asked curiously, not knowing what her son was doing recently.

"I'm working on a water saw, which is similar to the water mill. It is driven by a water wheel to saw wood. After it is finished, I want my uncle to watch it saw wood for people. In the future, people in our neighborhood who want to do woodwork can go to our water saw to first change the large boards, and then go home to do fine work."

"It's really like a water mill. You don't need to use a saw to saw the wood? Isn't it the carpenter who saws wood? Someone will come to our water saw to saw wood?" Ji couldn't figure out why water could be used to saw wood, and she was a little uncertain about the market of this business.

"The grinder at home can grind flour. Why do Jia's water mills still see people queuing up to grind flour? With water saws, carpenters don't like to work hard to saw logs. Sawing logs is laborious and slows down efficiency. Not many carpenters are really willing to do this job. It was unavoidable in the past. With our water saws, the situation is very different."

"Okay, I'll go to your grandfather's house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to discuss this matter with your two uncles. Our Kuiwa is a brain for big things. If you think about a good business, you can do it."

After discussing the matter with his mother, Song Yingkui went to his grandfather's house again and told him about building a water sawing workshop.The main reason is to allow grandpa to hire some people from the village to quickly dig the river and install the hydraulic saw before the flood season.Of course, I have to ask my grandfather to get some funds. It is still not enough to build a hydraulic sawmill with the money I saved recently in the shop.

As soon as Song Tianshun heard that his grandson wanted to pay nearly ten taels of silver from his family, and also hired two No. 30 people to dig the river, he immediately exploded.With such a large investment and movement, is the water saw business that Sun Tzu has built reliable?What if there is no return!
"Grandpa, what's not to like about this matter? Look at the water mills of Guo's and Jia's families who can make money every day, and our water saw can be just like them after repairing, and we can make money in the sky." Facing his grandfather with shallow eye sockets, Song Yingkui can only draw big cakes to lure him.

"Which water saw you mentioned can really make money like a water mill?" Song Tianshun couldn't help being moved when he heard that the business of the water saw would be the same as that of a water mill.The people in Kaishui Mill are all wealthy households from all over the world. If the Song family has a long-term running water business like the Water Mill, they will become rich in a few years.

"How can it be different? Every family knows how to grind flour. Doesn't every family build a house to saw wood? Grandpa, you have also seen the work of sawing logs, which is more tiring than pushing a mill. There is an easy way, why don't you try to save it? The carpenter saws for several days, and the water saw can finish it in one day at most. After calculation, this stuff not only saves labor but also saves money. Another thing, although there are few round water mills, there are still a few pairs. One place!"

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