With one more skill, if one day they no longer serve the princess and are not married, they will be able to make more money after they go out. At least their lives will be easier.
The princess walked around every yard and had a good idea of their daily output. She couldn't help but wonder, "Are all these clothes going to be sold to the long-term workers?"
Yue Xiu Niang said hurriedly: "It's almost the same. Because the county magistrate requires that long-term workers have to take a bath at least once every three days, so each long-term worker will prepare an extra set of clothes."
"In addition, there are also soldiers serving in the army. Nowadays, some families in the countryside occasionally buy our ready-made clothes because they are not very expensive."
Mingda asked: "Isn't this taking away business from Clothing Store Clothing Store?"
"Then there is nothing we can do, but we have also inquired. Except for the clothes made by our embroiderers, other clothes are not as good as the ready-made clothes in the cloth shop, and their prices are also higher than ours.
Most of the people who come to us to buy clothes have never bought them at their home."
So it doesn't count as stealing business.
Mingda then nodded and looked at the maids beside him, "Do you remember?"
The maids were stunned for a moment, then they immediately bowed their knees happily and said "yes".
Mingda nodded, held the palace maid's hand and went out, "So, the weaving shop is still losing money?"
Yue Xiu Niang and Jiang Zhi Niang said sheepishly: "The cloth, linen and thread bought by the county government are not a loss. Occasionally, when business is good, you can earn some money back, that is..."
The two looked at each other and reported in a low voice: "There is still a loss on the books now, mainly because in addition to wages, there is also daily food, which is also a lot of expenses."
Zhou Man didn't care much about this, and she comforted Mingda, "Don't worry, you can always make money."
Ming Da is different from Chang Yu. She said: "I don't want the government to compete with the people for profit." So she wants the weaving workshop to make money and continue to maintain it, but she doesn't want it to be too big to compete with the people for profit.
But Zhou Man felt that she was thinking too much. She said: "There is no way to have both worlds. If we have to feed them, then in the future the weaving shops will inevitably compete for interests with the private cloth shops and garment shops. This is inevitable."
She said: "What we can do is to transfer more benefits to ordinary people. Are these female workers not ordinary people?"
Mingda asked: "We are still losing money now. When all the long-term workers buy two sets of clothes, they will have three sets on hand. With their level of savings, I am afraid they will not buy any more clothes in three or four years. Then these clothes will
What to do?”
She really can't see the future, that is, the weaving workshop is now regarded as a semi-public welfare, basically losing money to benefit the long-term workers.
And this is better than asking the long-term workers to go out to buy clothes. Both the long-term workers and the county government save money, so no one objects.
Zhou Mandao said: "When they are all here, these weavers and embroiderers will have mastered their craftsmanship, and then they can sell the clothes they have made outside the county."
She pointed at Yue Xiu Niang and said, "Don't you just keep the clothes you made?"
Yue Xiu Niang's eyes lit up and she immediately said: "It's like this. According to the order of the county magistrate, as long as the quality of the clothes is not inferior to that of the garment shops outside, they will be kept separately. They will be used in the future."
Zhou Man nodded and said: "That's it, and to be honest, it will be cold in the near future, and even the hard work that the long-term workers do will have to add clothes. Don't worry, in a short time, all the clothes in our weaving workshop will be
It won’t be unsaleable.”
But the more Mingda heard it, the more unreliable it became. He couldn't keep trying to catch the long-term workers, right?
Yue Xiu Niang and others could not think of this. As long as they knew that the clothes in the weaving workshop could be sold, it would be fine for the two workshops to continue to operate.
When Zhou Man saw Sijing and the others, he couldn't help but call them over and ask, "Are you still used to being here?"
"I'm very used to it." Sijing and the others bowed deeply, looked at Zhou Man with reverence and said, "Thank you, sir, for interceding for us to be settled as female households and to send our families away, otherwise we wouldn't be able to stay in the weaving workshop.
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As more and more long-term workers were recruited in Beihai County, Sijing and her family also heard some rumors.
Although they were originally angry that these dozen girls had run away from home, they felt that they were unfamiliar wolves. After all, they were not raised by the family since they were young. They followed the former noble master and his wife to enjoy the hot and spicy food. Now they look down on the family.
It's not a hard life, but I don't know where the person has gone, and it costs money to find someone.
So they only searched in several nearby villages. When they found that no one could be found, they cursed and pretended that they had never given birth to these daughters.
But I didn't expect that they went to Beihai County.
I heard people say that it is now profitable to work in Beihai County. Both male and female workers can make money, so the family whose daughter ran away couldn't help but make an appointment to come to Beihai County to find someone.
Unfortunately, they are very scattered. Although they are in the same county, they are in different villages, and some are even in different villages. Therefore, we found seven families, and one person from each seven families came to Beihai County.
They thought it would be quite easy for a group of grown men to capture a few young ladies. In fact, it was not difficult to find them. What was difficult was that they really couldn't take them away.
The female workers who came to Beihai County either went to the village to grow vegetables, raise chickens or cook rice, or they worked as weavers and embroiderers in the weaving workshops.
Without thinking, they went to the weaving shop to inquire about it. Their daughter (sister) was a maid from a small shop and had learned some skills as a knitting girl. She should be in the weaving shop.
Then as soon as the door opened, they found the person, but as soon as they reached out to arrest the person, the women used big sticks to crush them out and reported them to the police.
Then Beihai County, on the grounds that they were provoking quarrels and causing trouble, threw them into Zhuangzi and worked for half a month before releasing them.
Every three days they watched the people who worked with them go and get paid, and they got nothing.
When the fifteen days were up, Bai Shan took advantage of his busy schedule to meet them again in the county government hall and said to them: "These people were registered refugees when they came to Beihai County, so the county doesn't care whether you are them or not."
Since they have registered their female household in Beihai County, they are people of Beihai County. You should not harass them again, let alone forcibly take the people of this county away from Beihai County."
Bai Shan said with a majestic look: "And do you have evidence to prove that they are your daughters or sisters?"
Except for a few individuals, most people really didn't, because at that time the county government released them and directly returned the deeds of sale to the girls. However, after they returned home, except for a few families, no other family took their household registration to register.
Households, that is to say, they only canceled their slave registration, but did not have the naturalization certificate.
When they ran away, they took the canceled deed of sale with them, so except for a few families, no one could produce evidence to prove that their daughter was their daughter and their sister was their sister.
Of course, there are other ways besides writing books, such as neighbors and Li Zheng coming to testify, but Beihai County is not far from their home, and if they invite people to testify, they are not allowed to give them food, food, and accommodation.
Just thinking about it, they didn't want to fight this lawsuit, let alone robbing a county magistrate.
So they thought about it, and three of them planned to go home, while the other four chose to stay, planning to do some work in the village and earn some money before going home.
Bai Shan welcomed him endlessly, turned around and handed the person over to Zhao Ming, registered again and sent him to Zhuangzi.