The feudal lord is on Taobao every day

It was a busy day, and Xie Jingan couldn't sleep well at night. In his dream, he failed to suppress the bandits for a while, Lin Yan was seriously injured and dying, and then the bandits aggressively cut off the heads of the city guards who patrolled the city and threw them on the ground. In front of the gate of his palace, he woke up abruptly angrily.

After finally getting sleepy, he fell asleep again, and dreamed that there was heavy snow like goose feathers mixed with howling north wind for three days and three nights. The houses in his fiefdom collapsed, and the people died and nine were injured. , actually woke him up again.

It was still dark outside when he woke up this time, obviously it was not the time for him to get up on weekdays, but Xie Jingan did not feel sleepy at all, even if he lay back on the kang covered with soft quilts again, his whole body was so soft from the heat. He also only felt that his brain was very clear, and the scenes from the dream just now kept rolling in his mind. Xie Jingan only felt his heart getting heavier and heavier, and there was something pressing on his shoulders which were obviously empty, making him almost breathless. Come.

Just lying there with eyes open for a while, Xie Jingan was forced to lie down by the scene that couldn't be erased from his mind, so he simply turned over and called out. A night watchman walked up to his bed in full dress, saluted and asked in a respectful voice, "Your Highness, do you want some water? I'll pour it for you, my little one."

As he said that, he was about to retreat to pour tea, but Xie Jingan said: "Light the lamps, I want to get up, then send two people to wake up Cui Tong and Shen Wei, I have to leave the mansion after breakfast."

Shen Wei was Jiang Zheng's deputy commander after he left the mansion to search for mines. He was not a few years younger than Jiang Zheng, and his martial arts skills were not bad, but he was more lively than Jiang Zheng.

Xie Jingan ordered, and the guards at night naturally didn't dare to object, their expressions didn't change a single bit in the darkness, they just responded and lit the lamps, then stepped back and started to report to the steward, soon the small palace became busy.

After Xie Jingan finished his breakfast, the sky was still pitch black, and Cui Tong followed Xie Jingan to the study to get the sketches he had drawn last night. He looked up to the sky three times in a row, and finally couldn't help but persuade him: "The hour is now It's still early, and the sky is so dark, His Highness should leave the house later, the weather is getting colder every day, even if he is wearing a thick cloak, the cold wind blows through his bones. "

Xie Jing'an also wanted to continue to stay in the warm palace. If Lin Yan had reported the information to him in the future, he would probably still be immersed in the joy of earning so much money.

He spends all day in his study planning which workshops he will build next, and what new things he should buy so that he can continue to make money, but after hearing what Lin Yan said last night, and having such a frightening nightmare all night, what about Xie Jingan? He could continue to stay in the palace with peace of mind, and now he just wished that time would pass more slowly, so that he could prepare more, so that the scene in his nightmare would not come true.

Thinking of the nightmare, Xie Jing'an only felt his scalp tighten. How could he listen to Cui Tong's persuasion, and he walked faster and faster into the study, saying: "Why are you afraid of the cold, not to mention that it's just winter now. Even if it has been three or nine days, don’t the sergeants who should be patrolling the city every day and the people who should be working still have to go out? Could it be that the weather is cold and the soldiers guarding the city will not go out to meet the enemy? This king is only going out of the mansion It's just the equipment department, if you say it like this, it seems that the king is weak and sick, and even going out of the mansion, he is afraid of catching a cold."

Xie Jingan said these words not to blame Cui Tong, but to motivate himself. After all, he is really afraid of the cold, and the heat preservation measures in this era are not like those of later generations. There are no down jackets or scarves and gloves, but cloaks and Mrs. Tang. It's just that these two things can't keep warm in the weather of a few degrees or even more than ten degrees below zero.

Xie Jing'an vaguely remembered where he had seen the primary version of gloves in ancient times before traveling, but he had never seen them for so long after traveling, and he had never heard of them from his subordinates or subordinates. In the Zhou Dynasty, it may not have been widely spread.

But regardless of whether there is one or not, Xie Jingan was thinking about finding someone to make it. Down jackets might be a bit difficult. After all, the breeding industry in this era is not developed, so it's okay to make a small amount, but if you make too much, the raw materials can't keep up.

Cotton clothes and gloves can be tried. Although the production of cotton is still scarce, and many of them are even planted by wealthy families as ornamental flowers, but after searching the entire Mozhou and nearby counties, there are still dozens of catties. of.

He first asked people to make the finished product, and after wearing the upper body, he really felt the use, and then asked people to think of ways to expand the scale, which not only benefited the people, but also gave the people an extra job and made a living. It's the best of both worlds.

Xie Jingan also secretly hated himself for thinking about planting cotton on a large scale to make cotton clothes and gloves before the work of the workshop started. However, although he scolded himself for this problem in his heart, he couldn't stop thinking about it. plan up.

Now the Mozhou Hot Kang Team and the briquette-making workshop are in full swing, followed by the establishment of a large number of workshops for perfume, soap, and liquor. Not young and strong.

But Mozhou has only a small population, even if it recruits workers from nearby states and counties, there is only enough, there is no surplus, and there will be spring plowing in the coming spring, so the fields will not be abandoned just because of these workshops.

Therefore, Xie Jingan decided to hand over this matter to Lin Yan's younger sister, Lin Wan, almost as soon as he thought about it.

As early as when he was in Tanzhou, he had thought about using a step-by-step method to bring thousands of women in his fief into the construction tide of his fief, let them show their abilities, and then gradually raise their status. Status, even if it cannot achieve true equality between men and women, it can at least loosen the shackles around their necks and make them live more freely.

Now is the time for him to realize his original idea. Now he just let them use their strengths to make cotton clothes and gloves, but one day he will have female officers, even female soldiers, and female generals under his command.

With various thoughts swirling in his mind, Xie Jingan quickly took out from his study room the sketches he had spent hours searching through Taobao last night, and took Cui Tong, Shen Wei and other retinue guards with him, and went out of the house and got into the carriage. Ben Equipment Division.

When he arrived at the equipment department, it was just slightly bright, and it was not time to go to work, but the equipment department was full of people, and Xie Jingan was standing outside the door, and the loud noise made his ear hurt before he went in. Cui Tong was the first The next time I came to the equipment department, I was even more surprised and widened my eyes slightly, and said in disbelief: "Your Highness, this subordinate thought that the heated kang team hosted by this subordinate would be busy enough, but I didn't expect that this equipment department was a bit busier than the heated kang team. I don't know how many craftsmen are working in this equipment department, but the noise was heard when people were still outside the door, maybe all the craftsmen in Mozhou were recruited."

It's not just a craftsman from Mozhou, Xie Jing'an smiled slightly, he didn't feel the harshness of the noisy voice, he felt a little proud in his heart out of thin air, and was about to answer Cui Tong's question when he saw the rather old and vigorous Xu who was in charge of the equipment department He hurried over, first saluted Xie Jingan respectfully, then straightened up and said, "His Royal Highness, there are now 110 or six craftsmen in the Equipment Department, except for 42 of them recruited from Mozhou, the rest are all I found it from nearby counties. The reason why the equipment department is so noisy is not because of the craftsmen. It is because the recruits are young and strong. They don’t know anything about the things made in the workshop. It’s just that the craftsmen teach them the craft. .”

Although Xu He was speaking to Xie Jingan, he was actually speaking to Cui Tong. Not only did he answer his question, but he also reported it to Xie Jingan.

Xie Jing'an has devoted himself to the bidding meeting these days. Although he would ask questions every few days, he never paid much attention to it. Now that the bidding meeting has finally come to a successful conclusion, he will focus on the equipment department next.

Thinking about the purpose of coming today, Xie Jingan entered the hall where the equipment department worked, and he didn't intend to talk to Xu He, but just asked a few words about the current scale of the workshop, the production progress, and whether there were any problems, so he planned to transfer to Xu He The patrol guards forged new weapons.

Who would have thought that just as he was about to change his voice, he listened to Xu He said: "Your Highness is really clever, I have a problem and I want to report to His Highness, I don't want my Highness to come before I go."

Hearing this, Xie Jingan was taken aback for a moment, he really didn't know what to say, he was just asking casually, how could Xu He really have a problem.

It's just that since Xu He said so, Xie Jingan couldn't help it, he stopped pulling out the drawing from his robe sleeve, sat upright, put on a majestic expression and nodded: "Tell me."

Xu He got Xie Jingan's approval, and he stopped talking flattery, and said directly: "One is that the raw materials for making soap, perfume and distilling liquor in the workshop are not enough. We sent people to check the warehouse yesterday, and it can last for about two days. After the recruitment notices were posted in nearby states and counties, there was an endless stream of young and strong people who came to recruit workers. Among them, there were many underage children. According to His Highness, underage children cannot be recruited to the workshop, but only a part of those children They came with their father and uncle, but some of them were orphans who had no father, no mother, and no relatives or friends to rely on. They suffered a lot along the way and almost froze their hands and feet before they arrived in Demozhou. I am living in a foreign land and have no means of living, so what should I do? Thirdly, the wages written in the recruitment notice that His Highness made at the beginning were calculated on a daily basis. Now it has been nearly ten days since His Highness allocated the money last time, and the silver taels have already been paid. There is not much left, at most we can only pay wages for two more days, and after two days, the wages for raw materials will be unsustainable, so please teach me how to maintain the workshop."

Xie Jingan saw Xu He's embarrassed face at first, and thought that there was something wrong with him in the process of making these things, so he sat upright and listened carefully, but he didn't expect him to talk at length, it sounded like there was a serious problem, but when he cut through these messy things, Vocabulary, in fact, is just one word, money!