After entering the house to drink, Lin Wanwan stayed in Xiaoxi Town for several more days, and several cousins from her maternal home also stayed in the house.
Lin Wanwan welcomed Xiao Xianghua's arrival very much. She and Xiao Xianghua corresponded frequently and were considered Tang Dynasty's pen pals. Xiao Xianghua liked her in every aspect.
People are very strange. Some people can only be familiar strangers after knowing each other for a lifetime, while some people can become close friends after getting along for a short time.
When Xiao Xianghua came this time, he gave Lin Wanwan a double-sided embroidered screen.
She must have been embroidering such exquisite embroidery for several months and it took a lot of effort. Lin Wanwan reciprocated the favor and took her, Xiao Ronghua, Xiao Yixun and others to enjoy the beauty spa at Hongyanxiao shop every day.
In addition to doing beauty and health care, Lin Wanwan also took Xiao Xianghua to visit her embroidery workshop.
Lin Wanwan asked craftsmen to build a separate wall for this embroidery workshop located in the northwest corner of the Lin Mansion. The courtyard door was open during the day and locked from the outside at night. People inside could not enter the Lin Mansion from the embroidery workshop.
The privacy of the owner is guaranteed.
On weekdays, the embroiderers do not go through the main gate of Lin Mansion, but enter and exit the courtyard through the side door opened on the wall of the embroidery workshop.
The old nanny sent by Xiao Chong is still in charge of the embroidery room. Her children and grandchildren are all working in her home in Linjiazhuang. Xiao Chong has transferred their family's marriage contract to Lin Wanwan, and Lin Wanwan is not afraid of the old nanny.
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The Tang Dynasty was not a modern era, and there was no such thing as equality. If a slave betrayed his master, the price he had to pay was not the possessions, but his life and property. Not many people would be that stupid.
There are now forty-nine embroiderers in the embroidery workshop, most of whom are the wives of craftsmen in Xiaoxi Town, and there are only a few commoners.
Because craftsmen have no land, and the wages paid by the government are not very high, except for a few outstanding ones, most craftsmen live barely enough to survive, and they belong to the poor class in cities and towns.
Most of the people in the Tang Dynasty had a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, with underdeveloped commerce and few employment opportunities.
Men in the city either sold themselves to be slaves to nobles, or worked as doctors in restaurants and guesthouses (this doctor is not that doctor, equivalent to a waiter), or worked hard as a laborer.
As for women, apart from weaving at home and supporting their husbands and raising children, they had basically no other employment possibilities.
An embroidery workshop like Lin Wanwan's, which is similar to a modern company, is unique in the city. Most merchants prefer to buy slaves directly and then teach them to embroider in order to exploit them for a lifetime.
Therefore, now in Xiaoxi Town, it is an enviable job to be able to work in the embroidery workshop of Jun's Mansion in Le'an Township.
This group of embroiderers were paid by piece, and the silk and copper coins they received every month were higher than their own husbands. Money is status, and with income, their family status also improved.
The people of the Tang Dynasty had an extremely superior mentality and were generally poor. Once they had a little surplus, they would naturally become even more miserable.
The embroiderers in these embroidery workshops now walk with wind and are full of energy every day!
The embroidery shop that included a lunch made them all glow.
If I hadn't seen the ladies entering Le'an Xiangjun's embroidery workshop every day, I would have thought they were doing something, why are they so radiant?
Not only are the economic conditions of this group of female workers improving, but their appearance is also becoming more beautiful day by day, and their family relationships are naturally becoming more and more harmonious...
In the absence of contraceptive measures, one problem is that the number of pregnant female workers has skyrocketed.
Fortunately, ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty worked hard every day, and there was no problem in taking care of children. Otherwise, the embroidery workshop would have to recruit people again.
These embroiderers are afraid that their good work will be compromised by others, because they are pregnant. What's the big deal? They must not delay their work.
Especially after hearing the maternity leave order issued by Lin Wanwan, they were even more motivated!
From now on, if you deduct twenty money every month, you can take a hundred days off after giving birth. What is called maternity leave? The most important thing is that during the maternity leave, you can still get the same amount of money every month as they earn through hard work now.
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As soon as this news came out, the enthusiasm for labor in the embroidery workshop was soaring, and they wanted to make the embroidery workshop their home.
It was at this time that the clothing stores in the town joined in.
Lin Wanwan also took great pains to buy a ready-to-wear shop. After all, most of the shops are behind the shadows of aristocratic squires.
Lin Wanwan had to choose a clean and beautiful soft persimmon if she wanted to acquire it, so she spent a lot of effort and relied on Sun Chueyao's group of low-level thugs to find out.
Pure businessmen in the Tang Dynasty were just fat sheep to be slaughtered, and the clothing store Lin Wanwan purchased was just such a fat sheep.
However, she was quite conscientious and did not take advantage of others by taking advantage of others. She gave her the normal market price.
The businessman's original shop business was squeezed out by his peers because he had no backing. When Lin Wanwan came to buy it, he immediately agreed.
Even the shop owner himself became Lin Wanwan's big shopkeeper, changing from a boss to a worker. Of course, this was his surrender on his own initiative, and Lin Wanwan did not use his power to overwhelm others.
So now some of the embroidery produced in embroidery workshops will be used to make ready-made clothes. This is the real Hanfu of the Tang Dynasty, with various styles, not just the skirts that appear on modern TV.
Lin Wanwan took Xiao Xianghua to visit the embroidery in the embroidery workshop. There were several embroiderers with very profound embroidery skills, and Xiao Xianghua was full of praise.
"Cousin Wanwan, although these embroiderers were not born to study painting, they are very sensitive to beauty. Their embroidery works are very picturesque and poetic. They are really amazing. You have found a treasure. Why not use some means to buy them?
What?" Xiao Xianghua couldn't help but say this after the visit.
Lin Wanwan smiled and replied: "I think this kind of employment system is good, why do you have to accept everyone as slaves?"
"It's okay now, but I'm afraid someone will get jealous and poach you in the future."
If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries. What Xiao Xianghua said is right.
"Don't worry, cousin, I will take care of this kind of thing before it happens."
Lin Wanwan still has this bit of confidence. If she can't retain senior embroidery workers, it means that she doesn't give enough. If she gives enough, she won't be afraid of people leaving.
In the entire Tang Dynasty, she was confident that she would not find any aristocrat who respected talents more than she did.
As long as the treatment is right, she believes no one will betray her.
As for whether someone might be doing something secretly, that is, forcing all of them to become slaves and become domestic slaves, there is still the same risk.
Lin Wanwan is now a fifth-grade country lady. If someone really wants to do this, she is not afraid of confronting them.
After taking the finest embroidery from the embroidery shop, and waiting for a batch of ready-made Hanfu to arrive from the clothing store, Lin Wanwan checked it out and planned to take it back to modern times.
Because the second floor is being renovated, Lin Wanwan now lives in a simple guest room on the first floor. There are more people coming and going at home, and Lin Wanwan has not moved large quantities of goods to the modern house for a long time.
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