When Kou Ji and his entourage got off the carriage, the cold wind picked up a few snow stars and hit their faces, making them feel slightly cold.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others took the refugees who were shivering in the cold wind and saluted Kou Ji and others.
Bi Sheng led the officials and craftsmen from the Ministry of Works, wrapped in thick fur coats, and saluted Kou Ji and others.
After they saluted, Kou Ji tightly held the cloak on his body and said, "Let the people go back to their houses to rest first. In this weather, it is not easy to treat people who are frozen."
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this and did not say much. They turned around and told the refugees to go back to their houses to rest.
Inside each house, there is a clay stove, which is placed next to the wall. A hole is cut out in the wall, and a chimney is molded, leading all the way to the roof.
Once the stove is burning, the house will be warm and there is no need to worry about smoke and fire.
The refugees don't have much clothing to keep out the cold, so they stay in their houses to avoid freezing.
After hearing Kou Ji's instructions, the refugees did not stay any longer and returned to their houses in groups.
After the refugees were resettled outside the city, Kou Ji would hang out in the resettlement place from time to time. Most of the refugees knew him and knew that he was a person who told the truth.
They also knew that once Kou Ji opened his mouth, there wouldn't be much room for maneuver.
After sending the refugees back to their houses to rest, Kou Ji asked Chen Jing to lead them to the newly built textile workshop.
The one-foot-high bluestone wall is very dazzling in the refugee settlement.
The roof made of wood and bricks is in a herringbone shape, pressed against the stone wall, and looks very solid and solid.
It is about twelve feet long and looks like a solid city wall, more than two workshops.
The gaps between the stones were scraped clean with iron rings, and the muddy water dripping on the walls when the roof was built was also cleaned completely.
If it weren't for the pale white gap that reminded everyone that it was a wall, everyone would have regarded the stone wall as a wall.
The refugees who came from farmers' backgrounds work as steadily and meticulously as ever.
Liu Heng looked at the stone wall and kept smacking his lips, wishing he could drag the refugees from outside the city into Bianjing City and tear down the Liu Mansion and rebuild it.
Cao Yan stared at the stone wall and sighed: "Fourth brother, you are building a workshop, you are clearly building a fortress."
Kou Ji glanced at him and said angrily: "Nonsense... After the textile workshop is built, it will take decades, even hundreds of years. If it is built with earth and wood, it will collapse in less than ten years. The situation will not have to continue to be created at that time.
Instead of building it again and again, it’s better to do it in one step.”
Liu Heng nodded in agreement and said: "Fourth brother is right. After this textile workshop is built, it will take a long time. Although our brothers are the owners of the textile workshop, we don't have that much free time to help the textile workshop." Created again and again.”
Among the crowd, only the three people who admired Chong had more complicated expressions.
The stones used to build the textile workshop were produced by them.
Kou Ji and the other three were happy, but they spent a lot of money inside.
"Go in and take a look..."
Seeing that Kou Ji and others were very satisfied with the workshop they had built, Chen Jing invited them with a bright smile on his face.
Kou Ji nodded and led everyone along the path paved with bluestones, crossing two circular waterways and arriving in front of the workshop.
The workshop is divided into two parts, one is the spinning workshop and the other is the weaving workshop.
The first thing Kou Ji and his party arrived at was the spinning workshop.
There are a group of women in the workshop.
Outside the door stood an old man, a young man, and two craftsmen, one carrying a ladder and the other carrying vermilion lacquer.
Kou Ji looked at the two craftsmen, an old one and a young one, and was slightly startled and said, "What are you doing?"
Wang Tiansheng stepped forward and said with a smile: "If our workshop is going to start work, we have to find a way to get some luck, right? The student was thinking if he could use the finishing touch of the legend to give the workshop a little bit of glory, and wish our workshop a prosperous future after it starts working.
It’s booming.”
As he spoke, Wang Tiansheng pointed to the top of the workshop door.
Kou Ji and others followed his hand and saw two words engraved on a piece of bluestone on top of the workshop door.
A, line...
A is sorting.
The ancients ranked them in terms of A, B, C, D, etc.
Thread is what the workshop is for.
Used to distinguish from spinning workshops and weaving workshops.
Kou Ji looked at the two engraved characters and knew what the purpose of the red paint was on the ladders held by the two men at the door, the old man and the young man.
Before Kou Ji could speak, Meng Weizhong frowned and said, "In a textile workshop, the most taboo thing is the sight of red."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
The smile on Wang Tiansheng's face froze.
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "There are no taboos... What's more, if red is really tabooed in textile workshops, wouldn't your silk weaving workshops be unable to produce red silk?"
Meng Weizhong was stunned and said quickly: "I made a mistake..."
Kou Ji smiled and said no more.
A group of people entered the spinning workshop.
The women in the workshop all saluted.
Headed by several older women, they were much better dressed than the other women and seemed very close to the three of them.
Obviously, these women are all textile experts transferred from Sichuan and Sichuan by Mu Chong and others.
Kou Ji and others entered the workshop, and an elderly woman led them to visit the workshop.
The workshop is filled with three pedal spinning wheels, arranged like a classroom.
Seven or eight of the three-spindle pedal spinning wheels have their backs facing west and the east, and the remaining three spindles have their backs facing east and west.
Some flax, wool and other items have been placed beside the spinning wheel.
Seeing that some of the spinning wheels have already been put on threads, they must have been taught how to spin threads.
Kou Ji and others wandered around the workshop and ordered the women to start spinning so that everyone could watch.
The few textile masters invited from Sichuan and Sichuan immediately got into the seven or eight spinning wheels with their backs to the west and east.
The other women shyly sat in other spinning wheels and began to spin.
The sound of tapping feet sounded.
The women began to operate the three-spindle pedal spinning wheel to spin thread.
After a while, the sound of spinning threads became one, and the sound was pleasant to the ears.
Chen Jing and others smiled brightly as they listened to the increasing sound of spinning.
Mu Chong, Qian Le, Meng Weizhong, Liu Heng, Cao Yi and others were slightly shocked when they heard the sweet sound of spinning.
They had never seen or heard of such large-scale and neat spinning.
Although the fabric produced may be very single, the output will increase linearly.
Kou Ji's eyes stayed on the women for a long time, and he smiled and said to Chen Jing and others: "I will send the stewards from the house over later and select a few of them who are energetic to serve as stewards.
In the spring of next year, we will start calculating wages for them."
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this and nodded with smiles.
After hearing this, the women were so excited that they became even more diligent in their work.
Kou Ji took everyone to visit the weaving workshop again.
The situation in the weaving workshop is very similar to that in the spinning workshop.
What surprised Kou Ji was that the weaving women seemed to have started weaving with the textile masters from Sichuan before the workshop was completed. Therefore, when Kou Ji inspected the weaving workshop, he saw many
Already spun hemp, wool, and pieces of fabric hung on the loom.
Fabrics woven from wool and linen are more than a little inferior to fabrics woven from silk.
But it does not affect their sales.
Compared with silk, linen and woolen fabrics, the demand is greater.
When Chen Jing took Kou Ji to inspect the weaving workshop, he told Kou Ji that the first batch of fabrics would be out in a few days.
"As long as we have enough wool and linen, we can spin a lot of fabrics before the Chinese New Year. If we can sell them during the Chinese New Year, you guys can make a lot of money."
Chen Jing said with some joy.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "There is no need to worry about the issue of wool and linen. However, the fabrics from the first few batches cannot be sold. They must be kept to make clothes for the people here.
I hope that before our fabrics are sold, everyone here can have a complete set of clothes to keep out the cold."
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this and bowed deeply to Kou Ji.
Liu Heng, Cao Yi, Mu Chong and others did not have much objection to Kou Ji's decision.
Where there is input, there is output.
If the refugees don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear, it's impossible to work for them with all their heart.
After inspecting the textile workshop.
Everyone arrived outside the workshop.
Following Kou Ji's order, a cart of firecrackers brought by Liu Heng and Cao Yi were placed on poles and lit together.
The sound of crackling firecrackers resounded throughout the world.
The refugees poked their heads out of their houses and stretched their necks to watch.
The sound of firecrackers seemed to have magic power, dispelling the gloom that had shrouded their hearts for many days and the harm caused by the flood.
Some of them had bright smiles on their faces.
Some old people caressed the children who were huddled in their arms and murmured in a low voice, "Baby, we have a family..."
Firecrackers were lit.
The craftsmen standing guard in front of the two large workshops went up on ladders and painted the two words on the top of the workshop doors in red.
Kou Ji ordered on the spot to kill pigs and sheep, which made the people in the camp enjoy themselves.
There were not many pigs and sheep, and very few people could eat the meat, but it was still very easy for everyone to get a bowl of soup with shredded pork.
The common people held the hot broth, sipping it carefully while smiling happily.
Kou Ji and others formed a circle, each holding a bowl of soup filled with meat. Looking at the bright smiles of the people, they felt warm in their hearts.
Mu Chong stared at the meat in the bowl and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Normally, I wouldn't touch such things when they are placed in front of me. I don't know why, but today I think they are particularly sweet."
Liu Heng chewed the greasy mutton with only a small amount of salt and nodded seriously.
Koji smiled and nodded, calling for a little guy not far from them, who was staring at the meat in their bowl and drooling.
The little guy was not afraid of strangers. When he saw Kou Ji waving his hand to call him, he walked up to Kou Ji in a daze. His nose was bleeding, his face was red and cold, he was drooling, and he stared at Kou Ji's bowl.
of meat.
He didn't know how high an official Kou Ji was or how noble the status of these people here was.
He only knew that the meat in Kou Ji's bowl was really fragrant.
He wanted to take a bite.
Just one bite...
Kou Ji picked out a piece of lean meat from the bowl and handed it to the little guy.
The little guy didn't take the chopsticks in Kou Ji's hand, but quickly took off the pieces of meat from Kou Ji's chopsticks and quickly stuffed them into his mouth.
"Eat slowly..."
"Eat slowly..."
Kou Ji reminded in a low voice.
The little guy didn't seem to hear it and gnawed the meat in his hand.
After he gnawed clean the meat in his hands, he raised his face again and looked at the meat bowl in Kou Ji's hand.
Although the little guy is greedy, he is very disciplined.
Kou Ji didn't give it to him, and he didn't have any attitude to snatch it.
Kou Ji did not give the little guy any more meat, but laughed in a low voice: "You haven't seen oil and water for a long time, so you don't dare to eat more. If you eat too much, your intestines will slip..."
The little guy tilted his head and stared at Kou Ji. He thought for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what slippery intestine was.
But he analyzed Kou Ji's words and concluded that they generally meant something bad for the body.
The little guy pondered for a moment, stared at Kou Ji, and said, "Can you give me another piece? I want to give it to my daughter..."
As if he was afraid that Kou Ji wouldn't give it, he put on a stern face and said seriously: "When I grow up and raise a sheep, I will give you a whole one."
Kou Ji was stunned.
Mu Chong and others laughed loudly.
Qian Le even laughed loudly and said: "This business is not a loss..."
Kou Ji directly stuffed the meat bowl in his hand to the little guy and said with a smile: "Okay... I will wait for you to grow up and give me a whole sheep."
The little guy held the meat bowl and nodded seriously.
Then he turned around, hugged the meat bowl and ran away.
With Kou Ji taking the lead, Liu Heng, Mu Chong and others also successively called in the little guys not far away from them and handed them the meat bowls.
After Kou Ji scattered all the meat in the bowl.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others stared at Kou Ji and others and said, "You guys are really different from the officials and merchants we met before."
Kou Ji and others looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads.
Kou Ji said to Wang Tiansheng: "After the snow stops, we will continue to build a workshop, and we must build a workshop large enough for women to work. While building the workshop, we also assigned a group of people to build several large stoves. This kind of
The stove is different from other stoves, and the craftsmen in our house are responsible for the details.
In addition, a few of you can find some craftsmen among the common people to build some houses together.
Gather all the children here and teach them how to read and write.
I remember that there were many scholars among the common people.
The gentleman who teaches the children how to read can be chosen from among them."
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others were stunned when they heard this. Wang Tiansheng said in astonishment: "Ministry of Industry, do you want to build a private school? Let all the children here study?"
Kou Ji asked: "Isn't it possible?"
Wang Tiansheng hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It's not impossible...it's just that there are forty or fifty thousand children here. Excluding those female babies, there are also twenty to thirty thousand male babies.
A child worth twenty to thirty thousand cannot be accommodated in a private school."