Travel through space and help the prince’s husband in construction

Several surrounding countries are very enthusiastic about Beichuan's various products, and the best-selling products are of course silk and porcelain. There are also various food categories.

Xiao Yunyan's maternal family, the Yun family, established a huge empire in the silk weaving industry.

If she wants to sell products such as silk, she must first purchase them from the Yun family. However, the distance is long, and the time cost and actual cost of transportation are too great.

She sent letters through flying birds and discussed with her uncle to establish the Yun Family Embroidery Workshop in her fiefdom.

Although there is no silk available in the six northwest prefectures, it is difficult for the brocade industry to develop here. However, brocade gauze clothing embroidery can be processed here. The tailoring and embroidery industry can really make a difference here.

Facing several surrounding countries. Even more than a dozen countries further afield can combine the tailoring and embroidery techniques of silk fabrics with the cultures of various countries. Make some national costumes for each country.

Of course, you can’t risk making a large batch at once. All they had to do was make some patterns first, and the caravans of the Yun and Xiao families would show the nobles from various countries these new costumes made by combining Beichuan's silk weaving and embroidery techniques with their own nation's clothing culture.

If they like it, let them place an order and pay the advance payment. The Yun family's tailors and embroiderers can perform processing in the workshops on the northwest border. They are geographically close to each other, which shortens the transportation distance and time. It not only saves costs, but also improves delivery speed, so business is bound to be booming.

Uncle Yun Luochuan saw his niece's idea and thought it was very feasible. The Yun family could open a factory anywhere.

The old tailor masters and old embroiderer masters of the Yun family who are responsible for teaching skills can recruit apprentices there and train a large number of tailors and embroiderers. Just ship the finished tapestry there, process it and ship it directly to each country for delivery.

With Xiao Yunyan helping to provide a superior production and operation environment, the Yun family's weaving and embroidery industry will inevitably develop rapidly there.

The uncle and nephew hit it off immediately and decided to go bigger together and open two factories together. Originally, Yun Luochuan wanted to cooperate with Li Mohan and Xiao Yunyan, splitting the money 50-50. Xiao Yunyan and Li Mohan insisted that they would not participate in the Yun family's business. As long as it is convenient to purchase goods. Yun Luochuan could only listen to their decision.

The government office responsible for construction immediately arranged for workers to build factories in the northern and western frontiers.

The factory is located near the military camp. Because it is safer there and closer to the border, the woven goods can be delivered directly through the port immediately, and there are soldiers protecting the entire transportation process. There is no need to worry about robberies and other accidents during transportation, or the other party detaining the goods. , no final payment will be given.

The problem that needs to be solved now is to recruit enough tailors and embroiderers. And take a long-term view.

There are many girls in the families of farmers who migrated in large numbers. They themselves know some female craftsmanship, and some girls even have very good embroidery skills.

Xiao Yunyan posted a recruitment notice. Girls between the ages of eight and sixteen should be selected. Female workers with basic skills are required. In the factory, they all start as apprentices. The best embroiderers from the Yun family teach them embroidery skills, and the master tailors teach them cutting and sewing techniques.

However, they have to sign a ten-year work contract with the Yun family. The Yun family's tailoring skills and embroidery skills are not spread to outsiders. The reason why we can teach them for free is because we are sure that they can work for the Yun family for a long time.

Even if these girls get married, they must continue to work in the Yunjia Embroidery Workshop.

Because the Yun family embroiderers' wages are very high, they are particularly famous all over the country. As soon as the recruitment notice was posted, a large number of parents sent their daughters over.

But not everyone is recruited. The embroidery masters and tailors provided simple training to the girls who signed up to test their understanding and talent in tailoring techniques and embroidery skills.

Some children may have studied for many years, but without talent in this area, they cannot be taught.

There are also some children who are very young or whose families are very poor and have not received systematic technical training. However, those who are indeed talented and have high understanding can quickly accept what is taught and have the ability to draw inferences from one example.

That is to say, tailors and embroiderers must choose girls who are naturally skillful and savvy.

The first batch of 20 girls were selected to be the apprentices of the embroidery master. They are all approximately between eight and 13 years old.

The embroiderer master likes to cultivate this kind of little showgirl. High receptiveness, flexible fingers, and sensitive eyes.

Twenty girls between the ages of two and sixteen were also selected to be tailors. The tailor has to hold scissors, but he is too young and has no strength in his hands. Exerting force too early can easily cause the child's hands to deform. Therefore, tailor masters like to find girls who have strong hands and can hold scissors firmly as their apprentices.

If the factory wants to start work right away, it is not enough to just recruit young embroiderers and apprentice tailors. It also needs to recruit some mature workers.

Therefore, another notice was posted to recruit some skilled tailors and embroiderers as tailors and embroiderers. It is required that after short-term training, you can start working directly.

Families who migrated here came from all over. They are all women from poor families, and they rely on them for all the sewing and sewing work at home. I have to do some handmade embroidery when I have time to earn some new money to support my family. Among them, there are really many good craftsmen.

However, when they first came here, they only wanted to open up wasteland for farming. I didn't expect that there would be a place to recruit female workers to do embroidery work here. My hands have become rough doing farm work recently.

Brocade tailoring and embroidery is a delicate job, and women's hands must be carefully maintained. Do not do housework that hurts your hands.

Soak your hands in warm water every day, dry them with a fine cotton cloth, and then apply hand cream to ensure that the skin on your hands is soft and delicate without any rough spots.

Otherwise, if such a high-grade brocade is touched lightly with rough hands, a few threads will be picked up. How to wear sequined brocade?

Therefore, many women came, and they were all skilled in tailoring and embroidery, but few of their hands were qualified.

It’s not just land reclamation, it’s also the process of migration. It’s also impossible to take careful care of your hands. Rough cracks are common.

When Xiao Yunyan heard this problem, she immediately proposed a solution. Let the embroiderer masters of the Yun family select some women with very good skills as embroiderers, and the tailor masters select women with experience, steady hands and soul as seamstresses.

After signing the contract, they were allowed to live and eat in the dormitory canteen of Yunjia Factory. You can go home two days a month.

After moving in, do some hand care for half a month. During this period, practice cutting on cotton and learn new embroidery stitches on cotton embroidery pieces.

After the hand maintenance is qualified. Then use ordinary brocade and learn tailoring and embroidery techniques.

The requirements for embroiderers are more stringent, and the master embroiderers of the Yun family teach them new stitches to practice their proficiency and finesse. Then conduct strict assessment.

The levels of Yunjia embroiderers from low to high are: chrysanthemum, plum blossom, orchid, peony, and lotus. Only when you reach the lowest level of the Yun family, the chrysanthemum-level embroiderer, can you do small embroidery work.

Girls in Beichuan will not have to worry about getting married as long as they become embroiderers or tailors of the Yun family. Because the wages of these girls are very high. Every day, food and clothing are provided by the embroidery shop, and they are all very fine. Ordinary people can't marry the embroiderers and tailors of the Yun family.