Li Zhi planned to move all his nearly two thousand workers to Fanjiazhuang.
The first thing to move is the textile factory, and then the soap workshop.
The various processes in the textile factory are not closely connected. As long as some inventory of various semi-finished products is kept, production will not be affected, and moving a certain process to other places will not affect it. The soap workshop is different. Each process in the soap workshop is an assembly line operation, and any process can be moved to other places.
The entire local production could not be organized. So Li Zhi decided to move part of the textile factory first, and then move the soap workshop after the people who moved first made Fanjiazhuang lively.
Single workers are easy to handle. Just move them to Fanjiazhuang and rent a small villa. But it is more troublesome for those with families. If the worker's spouse has other errands to do in the Acropolis, the workers are not willing to let the spouse quit the job.
I moved to Fanjiazhuang. Although the monthly salary for errands outside is lower, after all, it is also a part of the family's income.
Li Zhi asked Zheng Yuan to count the spouses of workers in the textile factory and report them to Li Zhi.
At the last count, Li Zhi found that among the 1,770 workers in the textile factory, there were about 400 people in the first category who were single and unmarried, more than 900 people in the second category who had spouses but their spouses did not work, and only about 300 people in the second category.
They belong to the third category, that is, those whose spouses have errands outside. After all, in this era, more women were spinning and weaving at home and doing housework, and fewer went out to work, so there were more people in the second category.
As long as Li Zhi finds new jobs for the spouses of the third category of more than 300 people, he can move all the industrial workers to Fanjiazhuang.
Li Zhi felt that this was not a difficult task. As Fanjiazhuang became more prosperous in the future, all walks of life would be short of people, and the spouses of more than 300 workers would be able to find new jobs in Fanjiazhuang.
Li Zhi decided to move a total of more than 1,300 households in the first and second categories to Fanjiazhuang first to boost the popularity of Fanjiazhuang.
After making up his mind, Li Zhi asked the masons to build the new factory building of the textile factory in Fanjiazhuang. After the new factory building was repaired on December 24, Zheng Yuan notified the workers to move. Li Zhi organized people to move the textile machinery and strived to move it in three days.
Transported 1,300 pieces of machinery to the new factory within a day, and then continued production.
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On New Year's Eve, the textile factory got off work early at noon. After getting off work, Gu Laoer wandered around the North Gate Market of Fanjiazhuang for a while and bought a couplet, a firecracker, five kilograms of bacon, ten kilograms of fresh meat, and twenty
A pound of flour and ten pounds of various vegetables.
He has moved to Fanjiazhuang with his employer and now rents two rooms in a small villa on Dexin Street.
After 1,300 households of textile workers settled in Fanjiazhuang, the traders in Tianjin Acropolis immediately sensed business opportunities - these textile workers are consumer groups with stable monthly income and considerable spending power. Many traders left Acropolis.
, established business in Fanjiazhuang, and as expected, everyone’s business was booming.
Li Zhi set up four markets in the four directions of Fanjiazhuang New City. By the last day of the seventh year of Chongzhen, there were already quite a few vendors in these four markets. Those selling rice, noodles, and meat.
There are sellers of oil, vegetables, chickens, ducks, and groceries. The vendors know that the workers of the Li family have strong spending power, so they prepare enough goods on New Year's Eve.
Gu Laoer carried the New Year's goods and returned to the door of his villa happily.
In front of the villa, Gu Laoer's old mother was walking around on the street with a cane. Now that Gu Laoer works in a textile factory, the old mother has had enough food and is in much better spirits. After moving to the small villa in Fanjiazhuang, she
Likes hanging around the neighborhood.
Gu Laoer called his mother and said, "Mom! I bought meat and went home to make dumplings!"
But Gu Laoer's mother said: "You and your wife can make it, and I'll wait to eat it!" Seeing that Gu Laoer was stunned after hearing what she said, his mother said again: "When you were a child, I raised you, and it was a hard work.
Ah...now I ask you to make a dumpling for me to eat, what would you dislike?"
Gu Laoer glanced at his mother, a little speechless, opened the door and walked into the villa. After entering the door and going up to the second floor, he saw his wife weaving in the house.
After Gu Laoer joined the Li family to work, he had two or two months of money every month. After saving money for a few months, Gu Laoer bought a traditional loom for his wife to weave at home. Although this loom is far away
It is not as good as the flying shuttle loom in the textile factory, but women can still earn some hard-earned money by weaving at home. A diligent woman can earn more than one or two silver dollars a month.
With Gu's second brother's monthly income plus the money earned by his wife's weaving, the Gu family has finally escaped poverty and is no longer a family without food.
Gu Lao Er rented half a villa from Dong's family in Fanjiazhuang and shared it with another family. The monthly rent was 140 Wen, which is nothing to the Gu family today. Gu Lao Er and his wife lived upstairs.
In one room, Gu Laoer's mother has bad legs and feet, so she lives in the room downstairs.
Seeing Gu Lao Er carrying firecracker couplets into the door, the Gu family's wife ran out of the house happily and said with a smile: "Master, you have bought so many years' goods!"
Ever since Gu Lao'er got his monthly salary from working in a textile factory, Gu Lao'er's wife no longer calls him by his first name, but instead calls him the head of the family.
Gu Laoer said with a smile: "We will move to a new home this year and we will have a good year."
The Gu family's daughter-in-law looked at the New Year's goods on Mr. Gu's hand, with tears in her eyes, and said, "This year our family is all eating bacon! At this time last year, there were only ten kilograms of flour left in the family, which was not even enough to survive the New Year.
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Gu Laoer smiled and hugged his wife with his shoulders, and said with a smile: "It's all over now, what are you still talking about? Let's go! Let's go to the kitchen to make dumplings!"
The Gu family's daughter-in-law wiped her tears with her hands and said, "The He family is using the kitchen, we will go there later!"
The He family is another working-class family that shares this villa with the Gu family. The husband also works in the Li family factory and the wife spins yarn at home. There is an old mother and a boy at home.
Gu Laoer said: "This is the disadvantage of sharing a house, you still have to share the kitchen!"
Gu's daughter-in-law said: "What's wrong! Great! This is my first time living in such a nice house! Look at how strong and flat the cement walls are, and how decent the furniture is. It's better than the one we rented in Haojiayuan, Tianjin."
This house is ten times better! If you want me to live in that room in the Hao family yard again and squeeze in with my mother every day, I won’t go there anyway!"
After thinking about it, the Gu family's wife added, "And the rent for these two rooms is about the same as the rent for one room in Wei City! The Li family treats us so well!"
Gu Laoer said: "This place is naturally much better than that in Hao's courtyard. But I mean, when we have children in a while, we will rent a small villa by ourselves instead of sharing it with others. For a month
That’s two cents and seven cents of silver.”
The Gu family's daughter-in-law complained: "When you have a little money, you start spending it randomly!"
Gu Laoer asked: "Daughter-in-law, we have money to raise a child now, has there been any movement in your stomach in the past few months?"
The Gu family's daughter-in-law complained: "When we were in the Hao family yard a few days ago, your mother sat in the room as soon as she saw you come back. We haven't shared a room a few times in half a year. How could she be pregnant?"
Gu Laoer nodded and said, "Mom has a weird temper, and my wife has suffered!"
Gu's wife said: "It's better now. We have two rooms. We don't have to stay in the same room with your mother every day!"
Gu Laoer said: "How about we go into the house and try now, maybe we will get pregnant!"
The Gu family's wife nodded, turned around and walked into the house. After Gu Lao Er also entered the house, the Gu family's daughter-in-law looked at the door and made sure that Gu Lao Er's mother had not entered the villa, then carefully closed the door.
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