In the Labor City, there are more than a dozen big tents that are particularly eye-catching. They recruit a lot of people and pay high wages. There are long queues in front of each big tent. Two big flags are planted in front of one big tent.
One pole says "Mei Shou Jiu" and the other pole says "Zhang Ji". This is the recruitment tent of the Guo Ping family and the Zhang Lei family.
As the two largest chaebols in Chang'an, they also recruit more labor, hundreds of people. They mainly recruit winemakers, clerks, and bartenders. In addition, Guo Ping and Li Wenyu's joint quilt workshop also needs to recruit 500 sewing workers.
female worker.
The wages offered by the two companies are not low. You can earn four guan in a month. Especially the female quilt workers. If you are quick, you can even earn five or six guan in a month. Therefore, there are many people queuing up to apply.
In the big tent, Guo Pingzheng and Li Wenyu were chatting. They attached great importance to recruiting new people and came to take charge of it in person. The two had a good relationship and became in-laws. Zhang Yuer got married last year and became Guo Ping's daughter-in-law. She now has a daughter-in-law.
She is pregnant, so the topic of their chat is inseparable from their unborn child.
Guo Ping took a sip of tea and asked with a smile: "You are about to become a grandfather, are you still unwilling to accept it?"
Guo Ping is referring to Zhang Lei. He took Yang Xuanwu to Yangzhou at the beginning of spring and prepared to sail to Japan. Of course, he exchanged goods for placer gold and crude silver. This was something Guo Song entrusted him to do. Oshu, Japan, is rich in
Placer gold and crude silver, but lack of pig iron. Pig iron is extremely expensive in Japan, the price is ten times that of Yangzhou, while placer gold is cheap, and silver mines are easier to mine in shallow depths, but cannot be refined, so they are all crude silver.
Li Wenyu sighed and said worriedly: "It is very risky to go to the sea of Japan. I heard that there are more storms, and there are also Xuanwu. If anything goes wrong, how can I be worthy of his junior brother?"
"Then you still let him go?"
"Of course I don't want him to go, but if he insists on going, I can't help it. However, they go to Silla first, stop the ship in Silla and rest before going to Japan. This route is much safer, so I can only let him
went."
While the two were talking, Guo Ping's female manager Xin Yunniang walked in and said to Guo Ping: "Auntie, we can't recruit female workers here, not even one. I heard that women don't know that they are recruiting female workers here."
Guo Ping frowned, "Isn't the recruitment notice in the newspaper very clear?"
Li Wenyu said with a smile: "Few of them are literate, and they have just arrived in Chang'an, so I'm afraid they don't know there is a newspaper."
Guo Ping thought for a while and said: "Then go directly to Anjufang to recruit, bring a dozen female workers, and give them live demonstrations. You can make more money in a month than men. I don't believe they won't be tempted?"
Li Wenyu added: "If there are many applicants, you can recruit more people. It's your decision!"
"I understand!" Xin Yunniang hurried away.
After the recruitment in the morning, the crowds in the Labor City became even more intense in the afternoon, and many residents of Chang'an also came to apply.
The wages of the famous large stores in Chang'an are higher than those of the small stores, and the treatment is better, which is very desirable. Every time they recruit bartenders and waiters, the applicants rush to be the first and break their heads.
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Zhang's Commercial Bank recruits 30 small accountants, and they are paid 5 guan per month and a 2 guan rent subsidy. Calculated, they can earn 7 guan per month, but the conditions are relatively high, and they are required to be able to write and calculate.
The calligraphy is beautiful and must pass the exam.
Although the requirements are very high, there are still hundreds of scholars queuing up to apply. Scholars are still relatively popular. Useless scholars have become a thing of the past. If you want to be a shopkeeper, how can you do it if you don't know how to keep accounts or do calculations?
In Chang'an, people who have read generally have higher incomes than those who do not. Many families require their daughters to have read when they marry. As long as they are scholars, they can basically find a good job and live a decent life.
The same goes for daughters, literate girls are easier to marry. Generally, middle-class families will require the woman to be proficient in writing, mainly because young children need education and enlightenment from their mothers.
The common people were very realistic. They could make more money by studying and their daughters would marry well. Therefore, the number of schools in Chang'an increased one after another, and there were as many as fifteen girls' schools.
In the middle of Labor City, there is a large literary examination tent, covering an area of two acres. There are 300 sets of tables and chairs neatly arranged inside. Hundreds of scribes are taking the examination of Zhang's Trading Company. Many of them even came to the capital to take the imperial examination.
Taxi.
After all, the hope of passing the imperial examination is very slim, and earning seven guans a month is a great temptation for children from poor families. In Chang'an, the salary is high, and the monthly salary of an eighth-rank official is only five guans.
What's more, in other prefectures and counties, the average income can only be two guan per month, so many scholars who knew that they would not pass the imperial examination put down their dignity and came to apply.
There were more than 100 people in the big tent, and basically half of them were young scholars. However, the exam did not test "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius", nor did it test poetry and policy theory, but only tested practical business ability.
For example: a cloth merchant went to Suzhou to purchase goods. On the first day, he purchased 100 pieces of materials for two guan per piece. On the next day, he purchased another 300 pieces of materials for 3 guan for each piece. On the third day, he purchased another 500 pieces.
After loading the materials, the price of each horse was 3 guan and 500 guan. I asked: What is the average cost of a merchant? He also asked, the selling price in Yangzhou is 3 guan per horse and the selling price in Changan is 5 guan per horse. How to maximize profits?
This kind of question makes the scholars stare, but people with a little experience can handle it easily. There should be several answers considering the freight and time.
Another test is the abacus. The abacus appeared in the mid-Tang Dynasty and gradually matured in the Song Dynasty. There is an abacus in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". When the imperial court promoted Tianzhu numerals, the use of abacus became more and more widespread. Almost all
They are used in shops, doing accounting, and being a shopkeeper. Abacus is a basic skill.
If some scholars are lucky enough to be able to answer the first few questions correctly, they will be completely dumbfounded when it comes to the abacus test. Zhang's Trading Company is not a philanthropist. If they want to make seven thousand dollars, they have to show their real skills and only know how to read.
Skills are also useless.
Thirty accountants were quickly recruited, followed by a two-month trial period. During this period, moral character was usually tested, such as whether someone had stolen property and was fired by the original employer. This kind of thing was an open secret in the industry. As long as it was a little while
You can find out by doing some research.
In the afternoon, in Anju Square in the west of the city, Xin Yunniang and more than 20 people set up a small tent here to recruit female seamstresses. As long as they could make clothes, they could earn five guan per month. The news spread throughout Anju in the west of the city.
Thousands of Luoyang people and women flocked to inquire about the news.
Xin Yunniang is the third-ranked steward under Guo Ping, second only to Steward Liu of Meishou Wine Shop and Steward Li of Three Mingzi Restaurants. She is in charge of the quilt factory. Xin Yunniang is about fifty years old and a native of Yong County.
She is also a widow and has been Guo Ping's friend for many years. When Guo Ping was selling tofu in Yong County, Xin Yuniang also dragged her two young children to wash clothes and mend clothes for a living. Both of them were hard-working women.
So soon after Guo Ping became rich, she invited Xin Yunniang to work for her and was responsible for matching wine for various wine shops. Later, Guo Ping and Li Wen opened a quilt factory in partnership, and Xin Yunniang became the chief manager of the quilt factory. Xin Yunniang
She is extremely capable and manages the quilt factory of 3,000 people in an orderly manner. All the subordinates she promoted can stand alone. Guo Ping and Li Wenyu each gave her a small share to relieve her of worries. Xin Yunniang worked even more conscientiously.
Xin Yunniang stood on the big wooden box and shouted loudly to thousands of women: "I know everyone wants to earn some money to support their families. We are making quilts, mainly sleeping bags and military uniforms for the army. Currently, there are three thousand people.
They are all women, including our proprietor, who is also a woman. I am the big manager, Xin Yunniang. We have two factories, one is outside the south city, and the other is two miles outside the west city. It is close to the official road and only takes a quarter of an hour to walk there.
,Very convenient."
Looking at a pair of expectant and eager eyes, Xin Yunniang took a deep breath and continued: "Last month, the lowest wage in our two factories was two dollars, and it was a group of people, because they were newcomers and not yet skilled.
, but this month they can get three pieces of money. If you sew a piece of clothing with good quality, you can earn 50 pieces of money. If you are more skilled, you can sew at least three pieces of clothing a day. The same goes for cutting cloth and making cotton batting.
, you get money based on the number of pieces. If you want to take care of your family, do less. If you want to make more money, just take it home and do it at night..."
After Xin Yunniang finished speaking, a murmur immediately arose. Making clothes is a basic skill for women. Everyone can make clothes. If you are clumsy, you can make one set of clothes in one day. If your hands and feet are a little more agile, you can make two sets in one day without any problem.
I could earn three guans of money in a month, but it was still old money, which was much more valuable than new money. Everyone became eager.
"Can I sign up now?" an impatient woman shouted.
Xin Yunniang was a little embarrassed. She only hired 500 people today, but she attracted thousands of people. She thought about it and thought that the owner would open a shoemaking factory and recruit at least several thousand people. Now it is difficult to find workers.
If they don't take the opportunity to recruit people and wait for other textile workshops to come and snatch people, they will have no chance.
Thinking of this, she immediately shouted: "It's decided today. If you are interested, please line up and sign up one by one. No charge will be made. Don't worry, everyone, it doesn't matter even if you don't want to come!"
The last sentence was a reassurance. Many women decided to sign up first despite hesitation. Anyway, there was no loss if they didn’t go. Thousands of women quickly lined up in several queues and started to register.