As business kept growing.
By now, the number of employees at Jiang's Food Factory had gone from just "a couple of cats" at the start to over twenty people.
And these twenty-plus people were all relatives from Old Jiang Family back in Jiang Family Manor, brought in by Jiang Wen at Jiang Tao's request.
They got room and board covered, plus full social insurance and housing fund in Beijing, and after deductions they still took home about five thousand.
For ordinary workers in a big city like Beijing, the pay at Jiang's Food Factory wasn't anything special.
But for the villagers coming from Jiang Family Manor, it was a very hard‑to‑come‑by good job.
Most of the folks from the village were Jiang Tao's uncles, aunts, and other relatives who were related to their family in one way or another.
Among that whole bunch, they couldn't even scrape together a single high school graduate.
