"But have you ever thought about what county we are? Fengcheng! Fengcheng County is the top county in Jiangxi Province. Whether it is the money and grain paid or the local public security, it is the best in the province. Think about it, if we are in the middle and lower reaches of the province when it comes to digging wells, where is the face of the magistrate?"

Su Hao waved his arms and began a passionate speech. He was trapped in all the officials, including Dai Qi, and he was immersed in his expression and did not dare to speak out.

"If the magistrate loses his face, who do you think he will send this tone? Is this matter related to the official room?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"Is it related to household housing?"

Everyone continued to shake their heads.

"Is there any ritual room, military room, and torture room?"

Everyone still shook their heads.

“Is it related to the workshop?”

Everyone subconsciously shook their heads again, shook them twice before they felt something was wrong, and they turned to nodded one after another. With this shaking, everyone's heads were a little dizzy, and they couldn't figure out if there was any flaw in Su Hao's words.

"By the way, it's good for everyone to have this sense of crisis!" Su Hao promptly affirmed everyone's correct reaction. This is a basic skill to fool people. "Think about it, will it be difficult for the magistrate to cause trouble for us? Daiqi, when you organized the project, you falsely reported your expenses and filled your private bags. Do you think the magistrate didn't know?"

"I don't!" Daichi subconsciously defended.

Su Hao was too lazy to bother with him. He actually had no evidence of Dai Qi's corruption. He just started from Fang Mengjin's previous suggestions and his own experience and determined that Dai Qi would never be so clean. He was bluffing and scaring people, so he had to use a sword to seal the throat and never finish the knife. He did not look at Dai Qi's red face, but turned to the yamen runners and said, "When you buy materials, do you think the county magistrate has not received any reports?"

"I don't dare..." The yamen runners were also panicked. Who had never done such a thing? Besides, this kickback was not what they wanted. The merchants had to fortify themselves, and it would seem that they were not friendly enough if they didn't charge them.

"As the saying goes, there will be no fish when the water is clear. The magistrate has known these things that everyone has done, but he is considerate of everyone's difficulties in life and has not investigated it. This is the care of everyone and is also to encourage everyone to work hard. But!" Su Hao made another magical turning point, "If everyone gets benefits and cannot share the worries of the magistrate, it will make the magistrate shame in front of his colleagues. Do you think the county jail is just for the people to live in?"

"Please save my life." Wu Da's knees were the softest. When Su Hao was scared like this, he knelt down with a puff, "Master, the villain is fascinated by porridge. Please forgive me."

The collapse of a small group always starts with the most fragile link. But as long as one person starts, the others can't stand it. Seeing Wu Da kneeling for Su Hao, the other yamen runners knelt down one by one. Dai Qi saw that he became a lonely man, sighed in his heart and knelt down behind the yamen runners.

"Get up, everyone." Su Hao sat steadily on the main seat and raised his hand to everyone. At this time, you must hold the air. If you proudly go to help everyone get up, the majesty that you just pretended will disappear. As soon as everyone wakes up, they may come back to the smell and know that Su Hao is scaring people.

"It's not easy for you to get a job in the county government. The whole family is pointing to their salary. If the job is not bad and the whole family has to drink, isn't that true?" Su Hao said earnestly.

"The master is right." Everyone replied.

"But you have never done anything like digging wells in the past, so you have the will but lack the ability. You want to do it well but can't find any tricks, so everyone is anxious. Is that true?"

"That's right, Master said it."

"So! The magistrate entrusted me to come to the workshop to guide the work to help everyone and improve the success rate of drilling wells. Have you ever heard of it? I have guided 5 wells in Zhegui Township, and each well has drilled a good well."

"Scholar Dai, is that true?" The yamen runners didn't know about this and asked Dai Qi to confirm it.

In the face of facts, Dai Qi naturally could not deny it. He nodded slightly and said that Su Hao was telling the truth. In this way, the yamen runners' eyes looked at Su Hao completely differently. Each of the five wells could get out of water, which was simply a matter of heaven. These yamen runners in the workshop went downstairs to direct the drilling of wells, and knew the difficulty of finding a well position. If Su Hao had such ability, then it seemed reasonable to be a master in charge of the workshop.

Facing the admiring eyes of everyone, Su Hao smiled slightly and said, "This is all a trick of being a scammer, and it's not worth mentioning. Since I have become this workshop master, everyone is my colleague. I will naturally help you achieve results and get everyone praise from the magistrate. Digging wells is the biggest thing in front of you. I hope that everyone will work together to do this job together in these days. As for the future, when I have free time, I will also find some more money to make for our workshop. I promise that the money you earn will be 10 times more than the money you get from stealing in the past."

"10 times!" Everyone was shocked by Su Hao's big talk. The workshop was a place with good fortune. Even an ordinary yamen runner could get more than ten taels of extra money in a year. If, as Su Hao said, he could earn 10 times more income and not violate the law, it would be a wonderful thing.

However, everyone was more suspicious. Su Hao had already done the well digging, and everyone had nothing to say. But it would be a bit too much to say that a scholar could actually find some money-making business, allowing everyone to earn 10 times the amount of money. The entire workshop had more than a dozen people, and it would be a bit too much to get thousands of taels of money in almost a year. If Su Hao really had this ability, would he have come to work in a patched shirt to work in the county government?

Su Hao saw everyone's suspicion and asked, "Who has ever been a mason in our workshop?"

The workshop is equivalent to the county's industrial bureau and urban and rural construction bureau. In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many industries dominated by the government, but there were many construction projects, so several officials and servants in the workshop were from bricklayers, stonemasons, and carpenters. When they heard Su Hao's question, two yamen runners raised their hands and said, "The villain used to be a bricklayer."

When Su Hao saw that one of the people who raised his hand was the one who knelt down to him just now, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Little Man Wu Da." Wu Da replied.

"Oh, Wu Da, can you cook a stove?"

"When I went back to Master, I used to be Dr. Sauce. In this county, I have the best craftsmanship to count my craftsmanship."

It was really easy to get it. Su Hao was secretly happy. He continued to ask, "Okay, Wu Da, I'll ask you, how much firewood should you use for a family of four in a year?"

This question is difficult for Wu Da, who replied: "If it is to burn straw, a family of four will use about 3,000 kilograms a year."

"3,000 kilograms of straw are 30 dan, which is about 9 cents of silver, right?"

"It's almost the same. Sometimes the price of firewood is even more expensive."

"If a stove can save half of the firewood a year and only burn 1,500 kilograms of straw, how much do you think this stove is worth?"

"This is impossible!" Wu Da said decisively, "A family of four, 1,500 kilograms of straw is not enough, and no stove can do this."

"My family is in Longkou Village, Zhegui Township. I made a few stoves in the village two days ago. Each stove can save more than half of the firewood than in the past. A family of four, 1,500 kilograms of straw is enough."

"Sir, do you think this is serious?" Wu Da's eyes shining. He was not competent enough to be a yamen runner, but as a former doctor of stove, he had a fanatical interest in technology.

"When I have time, I will give you a look at the stove with my own hands, and you will believe it." Su Hao said, "Wu Da, I ask you, if we promote this stove in the whole county in the name of a workshop, and charge 2 cents of silver for one tiny, do you think the people are willing to accept it?"

"If the effect of saving firewood is as the master said, I think the people will accept it." Wu Da said.

In the past, Su Hao once calculated this account with his mother Yang Gendi. The conclusion was that saving firewood stoves can save more than 3 yuan in a year for farmers. The most important thing is that a firewood stove can be used for at least ten or twenty years, so the value of the firewood saved in this way is very considerable. Spending 2 yuan in silver to make a stove that can save money continuously is definitely a cost-effective thing for smart families. Those short-sighted families will follow the example under the demonstration of other families.

Su Hao helped people to cook stoves in the village, but he could only repay favors and did not dare to collect money from everyone. But if he brought this technology to the workshop and promoted provincial firewood stoves in the name of the government, and charged 2 yuan for one stove, the people would probably think it was a project that benefited the people.

"What the master means is that you are willing to teach this craft to villains?" Wu Da asked half-believingly.

Su Hao smiled and said, "If you have money, you can make money together. I have read a lot of books and countless crafts like this. I will use a few to help everyone get rich together. What's wrong with it? Besides, I have a scholarly reputation and am still young now. Will I be able to spend my whole life in this Fengcheng County government office?"

"Of course not. A talent like the master must be someone who can pass the Jinshi. How can he stay in our small temple?" Everyone praised.

Su Hao stood up, walked to Daiqi, patted his shoulder, and said, "Old Dai, if I wanted to steal the position of you as a clerk, I would have snatched it away long ago. Don't worry, I just came to gilt. This workshop will always be your world. Can I help you overcome this hurdle in front of you, are you still not even a rival or a friend?"

After being fumigated by Su Hao's turtle spirit, Dai Qi couldn't hold it anymore. He stood up and knelt down at the young scholar in front of him, saying, "Dai Qi is a clumsy person, thanks to his master for his large number of people, and does not care about villains. Dai Qi is willing to serve his master as a master."
Chapter completed!