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After arranging the building of the newspaper office, Xie Jingan called Cui Tong who was waiting outside the study to ask about the recruitment situation of the kang.

Cui Tong has been doing it himself since he got the errand from Xie Jingan, so he is very clear about the job recruitment, Xie Jingan immediately said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the recruitment of young and healthy people with a hundred net worth and good health has been completed, and all of them have been registered as workers roster." As he spoke, he handed over the roster with both hands.

Xie Jingan took it over and looked at it casually, put it together and handed it back to him, and praised: "You have done a great job on this matter, since the recruitment has been completed, then from tomorrow onwards, you will go to the artisans of the palace to learn how to cook kangs. After mastering the skills, they will be divided into [-] teams and start to work for the wealthy households of various aristocratic families. If there is not enough manpower in the future, you can just look at the recruitment."

Cui Tong received Xie Jingan's compliment, his face flushed with excitement, he responded cheerfully, and then asked the question he had thought about earlier: "Subordinates will go down and make arrangements, it's just the salary... I don’t know what number should be determined.”

Xie Jing'an pondered for a while, and said: "This heated kang is a new thing, and it has such wonderful functions, so it should be more expensive. In this way, if the kang craftsmen bring their own materials, it will be priced at five liang. If you need it, the price is two taels, what do you think?"

Xie Jing'an originally thought that the price he set was considered a sky-high price. After all, since the Great Zhou Dynasty had Song Liang guarding the border, there had been no wars for more than ten years. Although his fiefdom was very barren, the people in Guanzhong were still quite rich, let alone hoarding. A rich family with a large number of fields and countless shops and caravans under his name.

When he first crossed over, he learned about the current prices of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although it is not as good as the Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power is not bad. One tael of silver can buy about fifteen shi of rice. According to the price of rice in later generations, it is equivalent to one tael of RMB. 3100 yuan, not counting the cost of materials, would be 6200 yuan according to later generations. This is not the price of the materials brought by the craftsmen.

If the craftsmen bring their own materials, it would be [-] yuan for a kang, and what materials are used for the kang, it is nothing more than yellow mud. A thing with no technical content can be exchanged for a lot of money.

Xie Jingan also set it so expensive because this heated kang is mainly for wealthy families who do not lack money. The price is too low. After all, Mozhou is extremely cold in winter, and wealthy households from aristocratic families spend more than these taels of silver every year just to burn firewood and charcoal. Moreover, even if they burn the charcoal basin, they still have to suffer from the cold and smoke, unlike the heated kang of His Highness. , both warm and tidy, according to Weichen, even if there are no materials, the price of ten taels is not too much."

After listening to Cui Tong's words, Xie Jingan didn't know what to say for a while. It seems that he still underestimated the property and resources in the hands of these rich families. Since Cui Tong from aristocratic families thinks that twelve taels of kang is not expensive, Xie Jingan No reason to think about them.

Therefore, Xie Jing'an didn't bother anymore, and directly adopted Cui Tong's suggestion, and said: "Then set the price according to what you said. The craftsmen will bring their own materials for 15 taels, and the rich families will bring their own needs for [-] taels."

Cui Tong did not raise any different opinions this time, but instead asked: "Then how much should the craftsman's wages be set? After removing the craftsman's wages, should the rest of the silver be directly included in the royal treasury?"

Cui Tongneng asked these two questions, it can be seen that he really took this job seriously, and he was thinking of Xie Jingan directly from Xie Jingan's position.

After all, putting it into the treasury has a different meaning than directly giving it to Xie Jingan. If Shun Wang Bacheng in the past had recorded these silver taels directly in his own name, it is impossible for Xie Jingan to do so now. Thirty coins for the heated kang, and the rest of the silver was directly put into the treasury, and then Qin Guanshi was asked to buy a large number of houses in Mozhou and several nearby counties in the name of Shun Wangfu. Everything in the built houses must be simple, as long as they are strong and livable, and even these houses must be built with heated kangs.”

Hearing Xie Jingan's series of instructions, Cui Tong didn't understand why, he hesitated again and again, and asked, "I don't know why His Highness bought or built so many houses? Could it be because of the snow disaster that Wei Changshi said?"

Hearing Cui Tong's direct point, Xie Jing'an was quite surprised, he looked at Cui Tonggao more and more, nodded and said: "You are right, the reason why this king wants to buy or build many houses is indeed for the snow disaster. As Wei Changshi said that there will be snowstorms this year, then these houses can temporarily house the victims of the collapsed houses. The heated kang can save them from freezing, and food can be used for relief by work. In this way, it can be avoided. this catastrophe."

"This..." Cui Tong hesitated: "According to your Highness's assumption, this disaster can indeed be avoided, but the house and the kang are easy to talk about, but where do we get the food? I heard from Wei Changshi that this year is not In this bumper harvest year, apart from the taxes paid and the food and grass that went to the frontiers, the nearby prefectures didn’t have much food left. No matter how much money they had, they might not be able to buy much rice. If they were on weekdays, they could still buy food from Guanzhong, but now the mountains are covered by heavy snow. , the official road is difficult, even if it is transported to Cangzhou by merchant ships, it may not be possible to transport rice grains from Cangzhou."

Xie Jing'an, who Cui Tong was worried about, naturally thought about it, and it was precisely because he couldn't buy rice grains with silver taels that he tried every means to research MSG and other things that were lacking in this era, so as to exchange grains from rich families from aristocratic families.

Don't look at what he is doing now as if there is no way to do it. In fact, everything he does is to minimize the loss of the upcoming snow disaster, and at the same time build the basic industry and commerce of his fiefdom.

Of course, he had a plan in mind, but it was impossible to explain everything clearly to Cui Tong, so he just briefly talked about the banquet of the rich family ten days later to reassure him, and then sent him away.

Not long after Cui Tongcai left, Jiang Zheng, who had already packed his bags, entered the study again.

Jiang Zheng was the commander of Xie Jingan's guard, and the two of them were already very familiar with each other when they went north together, so Xie Jingan didn't show any courtesy to him, and directly handed him the simple map of the coal mine that he had drawn before, and said with a serious face: "This is my king. The errand entrusted to you this time, this king knows that the official way is difficult, this errand is very hard, but this matter is of great importance, this king has no choice but to let you go right now, do you have any complaints?"