Chapter 684: The Transmigrated Control Group (24)
Half a year passed quietly, and after the busy summer harvest, the hundreds of acres of cotton that Anne tried to plant also ushered in a bumper harvest.
On the branches, there are small snow-white flowers, white and soft, and it makes people feel warm when they look.
Just like when farming, Anne also hired a large number of labor when picking.
However, the hired workers this time are different from last time, and they are basically all men.
It’s not that Annie doesn’t want to hire a female worker, but that most of the women in a radius of dozens of miles have become workers in wool textile workshops.
They are busy working every day, and they have a lot of wages, so they can't spare time to do odd jobs for Qingquanguan.
However, even for male workers recruited, Annie made regulations: priority is given to the families of female workers in wool textile workshops, as well as the families of students in Daoyuan class.
Anne wants to gradually give those men a feeling that she hired them not because they are capable, but because they are lucky to have a good wife and a good daughter!
Anne also wants to make the women who have been suppressed by men and the world for many years realize that they are no worse than men, they are excellent enough that even the men in the family will benefit from them!
In fact, Anne's move worked very well.
Before we knew it, the status of women around Qingquan Temple and even the entire capital has been improved, and men are no longer so arrogant and look down on women.
On the contrary, many men secretly thanked that they had a good wife (a good daughter), which not only made money for their family, but also helped them find a good job.
Picking cotton is very hard, but Qingquanguan is generous enough. He gave him ten copper coins every day and made a lunch.
The free meals are not clear soup, poorly watered rice porridge or wild vegetable steamed buns, but real white steamed buns, with meat and fish in each meal.
Either it was a piece of fat pork belly or a fragrant fish. The dish was so good that they ate during the holidays.
Many people think that even if Qingquanguan doesn’t pay wages and just make this food, they are willing to work for Qingquanguan!
After half a month of busyness, hundreds of acres of cotton have been picked.
Anne wrote to the Wannian Princess in advance and asked her to help find several local old farmers who were good at handling cotton.
The Wannian Princess was very concerned about Anne's affairs. Before the cotton could mature, she sent someone in advance.
Anne asked the old farmers to lead a group of hired workers to deal with cotton.
After the cotton was processed, Annie set up another cotton textile workshop.
Cotton textile workshops also recruit employees from outside and the treatment is the same as that of wool textile workshops.
This time, even women from several county towns in the suburbs of the capital heard the wind and came to sign up one after another.
Annie ordered people to be screened and 200 were selected in the first batch.
These female workers have high salaries and stable jobs, so they moved their homes directly.
Because Annie returned the call, she said that there are several farms under Qingquanguan's name, and the farm needs someone to take care of.
Employees are given priority to hiring the families of female workers in the workshop.
It is better to work for the generous Mingjingguan as a tenant farmer.
When I gain a foothold in Qingquan Temple, I will have children in the future and I can also study in the school run by Qingquan Temple.
The family has an income and the children have a future. Even if they leave their hometowns, those poor families who are afraid of being poor are willing!
The Wuming Mountain where Qingquan Temple is located has attracted hundreds or thousands of families due to the new construction of two workshops and the Daoyuan Class.
These families gathered together and gradually formed an emerging town.
The town exists because of Qingquan Temple, so many people directly call it "Qingquan Town".
The merchants were moved when they heard the news and set up stalls and opened shops in Qingquan Town.
For a time, the once secluded mountain area became extremely lively and prosperous.
Every day, ox carts are shuttled across the town, and deep ruts are pressed on the yellow mud.
On the neat and clean streets, the shouts of merchants, the playful sounds of children, and the bargaining sounds of the elderly, making people feel like they are in the east and west markets.
At least An Zheng, who came to visit Amei, was surprised when he saw the scene outside: "Is this the unknown mountain?"
The so-called nameless mountain means no name.
Why don't there be a name?
Isn’t it because it’s too remote, too small, has no specialties, and has no iconic landscapes?
So much so that there is no name.
But An Zheng has shown that this unknown mountain, which has no record in the county annals, has now become the most prosperous town in more than a hundred miles!
"Yes, when I came last month, there were not so many shops here. It was so lively in just one month."
The old servant who was following the car said with emotion when he heard An Zheng's words, "These are all the credits of our second wife. It has only been more than a year since she came to Qingquan Temple. She has made a nameless little Taoist temple known to the world, and the entire nameless mountain has become so prosperous."
An Zheng nodded slowly, "Ah Mei is indeed doing a good job."
An Zheng has been studying in the academy in recent years. The academy has been extremely strict and almost never had a holiday except for three festivals a year.
What’s more coincidental is that An Zheng went out for study with his husband two years ago and did not come back until half a month ago.
While he was out, Wang wrote to him a letter and reported good news but not bad news.
Therefore, An Zheng did not know what was happening at home.
I just vaguely knew that the eldest sister and the third prince had become kinship, but the younger sister became more naughty.
As for Anne's career as a monk and a woman's crown, An Zheng didn't even know anything about it.
I took him back to the capital with my husband. Before I could get home, I heard people around me discussing Qingquan Temple and Mingjing Women's Crown.
At that time, An Zheng was still a little puzzled, what was going on with this Qingquan Temple and Mingjing?
Why are people all over the capital discussing?
Could it be that this mirror is another "talented woman"? The kind who has countless guests entering the curtain?
You can't blame An Zheng for thinking in a wrong way. It's really not that the reputation of the female champion is really not very good these days.
There was a lewd and unrestrained princesses in front of them, and there were talented women from prostitutes, so that when people heard the word "female crown", they would not help wearing tinted glasses.
An Zheng followed his husband around the world and saw many strange people and events, which also gave him a deeper understanding of the world.
So, he will think wrongly, not surprisingly.
But An Zheng never expected that the bright mirrored girl whom he mistakenly thought was the "talented woman" was actually his own sister.
Moreover, the reason why Mingjing is discussed is not because of the romantic scandal, but because she is a real expert.
He is both skilled in medicine, profound in Taoism, and compassionate... After listening to his parents' stories, An Zheng couldn't help but think: Is this still his rushing, spoiled and willful little girl?
Originally, the day after An Zheng came back, he wanted to visit his sister from Wumingshan.
Unfortunately, Anne took her students to the mountains to collect herbs and did not come back until two days ago.
Chapter completed!