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Jiang Chun shook the freshly washed clothes vigorously, and hung them on the clothes rail.

She is in a particularly good mood today, because Inspector Tong has issued a notice that his new cotton factory will be recruiting workers.Among them, the most paid ones are the weavers, who earn six taels of silver a month and double salary at the end of the year. Although there is no ten-day vacation, I heard that one loom recruits two workers and they can take turns.In addition, room and board are included.

Her husband is a worker in the Jinhejian mine, and she lives with him in the miners' residential area, so she doesn't have to worry about housing, but it's also good to have food, which can save a lot of expenses.

When it comes to weaving, she is an expert. When she was in her natal family, she was famous in the village for this, and there was an endless stream of people who came to propose marriage.

The recruitment day was set for three days later, Jiang Chun hummed a ditty, and couldn't wait.

Tong Ran's notice was not only seen by Jiang Chun, but it had already been circulated in the miners' residential area.Since inspector Tong took office, their mining area has been booming, and the workers' treatment has also increased, but the money is not too much. If the women in the family can also go to the cotton factory to weave, they will have two wages, and this life will be even better. Beautiful.

For this reason, many women restarted their looms and practiced skills that they have been unfamiliar with for a long time.Those who did not have a loom borrowed it from their neighbors, and some men even closed all the doors and windows and practiced secretly at home.

Three days passed quickly, and from the next morning, strange faces came to Jin Hejian one after another.

After asking, I found out that they were all here to apply for the recruitment.

When Tong Ran arranged the recruitment, he sent a message to Jiudaodu and asked the local merchants who cooperated with him to post the notices. Because of the distance, the notices from other places were posted earlier than the local ones from Jinhejian, so the applicants also had to Arrived early.

Jinhejian is a mining area, and there is almost no business. Those who apply for jobs settle in the miners' residential area.

Tan Xian also arrived one day earlier. She came from Wanghai Road and inquired about the situation of Jinhe Supervisor along the way. Once she arrived there, she went straight to the miners' residential area to find someone to stay.

As soon as she arrived at the miner's residential area, she was dumbfounded.

There are all neat stone houses here, and there is a small yard in front of the house. The roof is covered with tiles, and it looks very new, which is completely different from the cotton workshop she worked in before.

She used to work in a cotton workshop on Wanghai Road, specializing in making some cotton fabrics for ladies and wives.

Because the work of peeling cotton is very cumbersome, many cotton peelers were employed in their workshop, and there were also weavers and thread spinners, all of whom lived in the same place.The houses there are very casual. They are all earthen houses with thatched roofs, which can barely accommodate people.

Recently, the workshop was not doing well, and a group of people were resigned. Tan Xian could have stayed, but after seeing Jin Hejian's notice, she voluntarily resigned.

"Little sister, do you want to stay?" Someone shouted.

Tan Xian walked over quickly: "I can live here, sister-in-law, how much do you pay for a night here?"

"Thirty Wen a night to live in the attic, ten Wen a night to live in the kitchen." Jiang Chun said.She had already heard that this notice was posted throughout Dacheng, so there must be a lot of people coming, so she cleaned out the places where people could live in the house early, and took the initiative to attract guests when she saw strange faces.

Tan Xian hesitated for a while. She didn't have much money in her pocket, so she said, "It's good to live in the kitchen."

Jiang Chun arranged her in the kitchen.Not long after, someone else lodged and asked for the attic.

Other people's homes have moved in one after another, and more and more people are coming from other places. The local people in Jinhejian are half happy and half not happy.I am happy because I can provide food and accommodation for foreigners to make money, and I am not happy because the more people come, the more difficult it is to get the job.

They want to earn money for board and lodging, but they also want to work in cotton factories to earn that wages.

But even if they don't provide board and lodging, these outsiders will always come, first make money now, and then think about the future.More and more people cleaned out the place to rent out, and cooked meals to sell to foreigners. The residential area was bustling like never before because of these foreigners.

Tong Ran didn't know this at all, he was lazy at home playing with cats and tigers for several days.

Gu Lan took most of the errands that belonged to him, complaining endlessly.Tong Ran ignored him, he had worked hard all these days, from iron making to steam engines to cotton factory equipment, and it was time for him to take a break.Just when Gu Lan came back, he was quite capable, so I'll leave it all to him.

Gu Lan wished that she was not so capable.

"Wow——" the little tiger flicked its tail, and drove away the kitten that was approaching, but the kitten took the opportunity to hug its tail.

The kitten I picked up before was bigger and more courageous. Since it found out that the tiger it picked up was roaring fiercely but would not really hit it, it has dared to snatch food from its mouth and ate a lot. Little Tiger's special dried meat.

"Wow!" The little tiger flicked his tail, ran up to Tong Ran, and scratched the corner of his robe.

Tong Ran picked up the little tiger, and the kitten wanted to follow him, and Tong Ran also wanted to hug him, but he gave up after glancing at his domineering tiger.He patted the tiger's head and said: "Look at your potential, Xiaohu just wants to play with you, why run away?"

"Wow!" the little tiger roared fiercely to Tong Ran.

It has a lot of work to do every day and night at work, how can it have time to play with kittens?

And what kind of name did Tong Ran come up with? What a cat, it's called Xiaohu.

"Wow!" said the kitten.It was still meowing when it first came, but after a few days, it started to growl like a tiger.

Tong Ran has a headache, this little kitten is not like his cub, he is fierce, picky, and extremely domineering.

Having a headache, Ke Yang entered the courtyard, saluted Tong Ran, and said, "My lord, regarding tomorrow's interview, I feel that there are some adjustments that need to be made."

"Tell me." Tong Ran said.He handed over the interview work of Cotton Factory to Ke Yang, and only planned to go around during the official interview, so he didn't care about this matter at all these days.

Ke Yang said: "A lot of foreigners have come here in the past few days. Roughly, there are more than a thousand people. It is estimated that there will be a large number of arrivals from tonight to tomorrow morning. The number of people who come to participate in the recruitment is far more than our expectation. estimated."

"So many?" Tong Ran was taken aback, he was still worried that he would not be satisfied with the recruitment.

The little tiger lay on Tong Ran's lap, its tail hung down and swung, and the little cat jumped up and grabbed its tail to play happily.

The little cat jumped up again, and the little tiger raised its tail, and it caught nothing again.

The little tiger rested his head on his front paws in boredom.Those merchants who had bought blueprints from Tong Ran were all rushing to curry favor with him, but Tong Ran refused to accept it, so he finally asked them to post a notice, which must be posted all over the street.The government-run workshop recruits people, and it is Jin Hejian, who is now famous, so it is strange that there are fewer people.

The little tiger shook its tail, and the little cat jumped up to catch it again, but also let the tail run away at the last moment, and pounced again.

There are so many people that it is difficult to arrange, Tong Ran made a total calculation, and called all the clerks who were still free in the government office, and organized three rounds of interviews.Gu Lan was already very busy, but now that she has no helper, she wailes even more.

"Then you're going to be an interviewer?" Tong Ran said.

Gu Lan shook his head like a rattle: "Your Majesty will guard the government office for your lord." He didn't join in the fun of the large-scale recruitment of more than 1000 people, he could feel sick just by looking at the heads.

In the morning of the next day, Tong Ran first sent two teams of soldiers and two civil servants to issue numbers to all participants, and sorted out a list by the way.A total of 530 four people participated in the recruitment, and he wanted to recruit 240 six people. The probability of one in six is ​​not high.

It took only one morning to register and issue numbers, and the first round of sea surface was in the afternoon.In groups of ten, report your name, age, place of origin, and whether or not you have signed.Those who are too young or too old are eliminated, those who cannot speak clearly are eliminated, and those who can read are basically retained.

The second and third rounds will begin to learn more about personal circumstances, professional skills, and expected positions and salaries.Ke Yang had already arranged the regulations before, and Tong Ran made amendments for the large number of people.

Tong Ran personally participated in the final round of the third round, and those who entered the final round met his expectations.

The interview lasted for three days. Every day from the dawn of the day to the sunset of the sun, groups of people left wearily, while others stayed with anticipation.Jiang Chun originally wanted to be a weaver, but there were too many skilled weavers among the applicants, so she was eliminated in the third round of interviews.However, because of his good cooking and reputation in the mining area, he made an exception and became a cook in the large kitchen dedicated to the cotton factory.

The cook's treatment is also very good, Jiang Chun is very satisfied, and the family members are also very excited that she can find a job.

Tan Xian's luck is also good, she has many years of experience in the weaving workshop, Tong Ran immediately fell in love with her craftsmanship, not only kept her, but also became a small foreman.Tan Xian wrote a letter to her family that she will settle in Jinhe Prison from now on.

After the three-day interview, Tong Ran became a fool from exhaustion, and so did the other civil servants who participated. Tong Ran rewarded each of them with two taels of silver and gave them half a day off.When Gu Lan found out, she also came to grind Tong Ran to approve his leave. Tong Ran said with a sullen face, "It will be a ten-day holiday in nine days. You can take a day off."

Gu Lan: ...

It was already night when Halofa arrived at Jinhejian.He couldn't tell the difference between south, east and north, and finally wandered to a residential area.

He knocked on a door at random, and it was Jiang Chun who opened the door. Jiang Chun will go to work tomorrow, and went to bed early today. He was a little upset when he was woken up, and he yawned angrily, "Who are you looking for?" ?”

"Grandmother, can I borrow a night?" Halofa said in an unprofessional official language.

"What kind of mother, my mother is not yet thirty!" Jiang Chun was furious.

Shocked, Halofa changed his mind and said, "Sister, is there any place I can borrow?"

Jiang Chun looked him up and down.In the past few days, people from all over Dacheng have come to Jinhe Prison. She has heard a lot of accents, but she has never heard anything like this one.This person's clothes are also very strange, the color is hard to distinguish when it is dark, but the style can be seen to be very different from her man's.

"No." Jiang Chun said, this man was too suspicious, she dared not keep him at home.

"Big sister, do me a favor." Halofa took out a silver coin, "Just give me a place to sleep."

He came all the way from the Peacock Kingdom, crossed the Gobi Desert, and finally reached the border of Dacheng.The Fan family who had a lot of business dealings with their family wrote a letter saying that someone wanted to buy cotton, and his family happened to sell cotton, so they agreed to meet at Jinhejian.

Originally it was said that it would be five days later, but it took more than half a month for him to arrive.It's not that he dawdles on purpose, it's just that there are too many delicacies in Dacheng, and he ate all the way, unknowingly, he wasted a lot of time.

Jiang Chun took the silver, put it in his mouth and took a bite, it was a real guy.Only then did she open the door a little more suspiciously, but she didn't let Harofa enter the house, and arranged him beside the bed in the kitchen before it was too late to put it away, and said, "You can make a living here for the night."

Tan Xian, who lived here before, had already lived in the dormitory of the cotton factory because she was a weaver. She hadn't had time to tidy up the simple bed, but she didn't expect to earn another coin for her. She was lucky.

Jiang Chun made arrangements for Halofa and happily went back to sleep.

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