[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Chapter 72 The 5th Year of Hongzhi

There are many looms in the big house, and the female workers are wearing blue clothes and weaving silk there. In this way, there are more than [-] big houses in a row where the female workers weave cloth.Across an open space about [-] meters wide, there are dozens of houses in a row, but these are all male workers.Beyond it is a small port, where several large ships are parked, and strong workers are unloading raw silk on their shoulders.Connecting to the port are several very spacious houses, which are warehouses.

The dormitory is a house with mud walls and black tiles. Although it looks a bit dilapidated, it is also neatly arranged in rows. There is a small vegetable garden in front of each house, which grows shallots, green vegetables and other things.The canal that was blocked before has been dug through again, and now the water is gurgling, and it seems to be okay.

After visiting these places, Du Ruo returned to the accountant's place.After walking around for a while, Du Ruo was also hungry, so Xing Wu wanted to invite Du Ruo to eat.When Du Ruo heard that there was a cafeteria here, he refused, and only said that eating in the cafeteria would be fine.Xing Wu persuaded him a few times and saw that Du Ruo persisted, so that's all.

Xu Beiniang persuaded Du Ruo that the food here is simple and light food, fearing that the little father-in-law's status is noble and he might not be used to it.Du Ruo smiled and didn't speak, but insisted, Xu Beiniang was the only one.If Du Ruo came here in low clothes, no one under the textile factory knew that this industry was under the name of the Duke's Mansion, so everyone thought it was some young master who came here for inspection, which was also common.Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to Du Ruo, and Du Ruo was very satisfied with this state.

At noon, someone rings the bell to leave work and start dinner. Everyone takes money to buy a portion of the meal, and the vegetable soup next to it is Tim Tou.Du Ruo looked at it, and the food was pretty good in this era, white rice, stir-fried vegetables with vegetables, minced meat and tofu, all of which cost only ten cents a piece.For men, plus five Wen, you can ask for an extra big bun.There is also a shop selling stir-fry over there, selling some meat and vegetables and other things.

Canteens are for single men.The food and vegetables are regularly distributed every month in the farm, and it is much cheaper to cook at home. Most of the people in the family make their own vegetables.As for those who do not receive these things, men receive a monthly subsidy of [-] copper coins, and women receive a monthly subsidy of [-] copper coins.There are three meals a day in the factory, which is different from outside.Breakfast, dinner, and some porridge don't cost that much, and it's enough to save money.

Du Ruo wouldn't lose her eyes either, and went to eat the meals of other workers.For a modern person, this kind of level is really too far away, but for today's people, such a boss is already very kind.At least there is still some oil and water every day. You must know that you can't even eat enough to be an apprentice.

At a shop that sells stir-fry, Du Ruo ordered a piece of fragrant dry fried pork and a bowl of green vegetable noodles. Although the taste was really not that good, it was enough for a meal.

After lunch, there is a half-hour break at noon.Du Ruo didn't rest, and went to check the accounts.The account books of the weaving farm were taught by Du Ruo, who borrowed some content from the modern debit-credit balance bookkeeping method and improved the current bookkeeping method.In fact, Du Ruo is not an accountant, but in modern times, you have to know everything about starting a business yourself, otherwise you will be deceived by others and you will be grateful to others.

Although the debit and credit bookkeeping method can't curb the little tricks of the accountant, it can still be seen that the amount is particularly large.Du Ruo flipped through it roughly, and found that the accounts were normal.It's just that the number of raw material purchases and silk sales have dropped significantly in the past few months.

Xu Shilang is now the No. [-] person in the factory, and this time Xu Siniang confessed to him that this Duke is another big boss in the factory.The members of Du Ruo and Xu Beiniang are six or four points, which means that Du Ruo is actually the one who has the real decision-making power.

Seeing that Du Ruo frowned, Xu Shilang explained: "The Zhizao Mansion is now close to the Yao family. Everyone is doing things according to the wind, and there are a few silk merchants who are unwilling to give us silk. There are only a few who cooperate closely. The boss even provided us with the weaving mansion."

"Then the same is true for silk and satin?" Du Ruo asked after seeing that the sales of silk and satin had also dropped sharply in the account books.

"Isn't that right, what we do is not domestic sales of silk and satin. Our designs and colors are sold to those barbarian countries, and are not affected by the weaving government. This is making things difficult for the weaving government. My sister is afraid that there will be insufficient goods at that time. It was prepared by a few barbarian merchants who will come here next month."

This is also helpless, if there is not enough raw silk, there will not be enough silk and satin produced at that time.These are big businessmen who come with the southeast monsoon and leave with the cold wind from Siberia every year.Every year is a big deal, this one was paid for last year, so of course Xu Beiniang wants them to come.

Du Ruo didn't understand these things either, so he let go of what they said made sense.I worked in the account room again, looked at the daily expenses of the workers, and heard the bell ringing outside, wondering: "It's already half an hour?"

"Where, this is the first bell, and there is still a quarter of an hour before the official start of work." Du Ruo nodded in understanding.

Apart from the legendary Weaving Mansion, Du Ruo was very satisfied with the things in the factory. Seeing that it was getting late, he was worried about Zhu Houzhao who was driven back by that young man, so he bid farewell to Xing Wu and Xu Beiniang and wanted to go back.

Xing Wu also knew what happened this morning. Seeing that Du Ruo had only brought four people with him, he was afraid that there would be accidents on the road and that there were not enough people.He hurriedly called for a carriage, asked for a few members of the inspection team, and gave them instructions for a while before letting them go on the road.

When he came back, Zhu Houzhao was sitting lazily eating watermelon with a spoon.The two adults were still taking a nap there.Seeing Du Ruo came back, Zhu Houzhao quickly handed him the remaining half of the watermelon.The watermelon is frozen from the deep well, and it is only now taken out, and it is cold to the touch. It is the right time to eat it in this summer.

"I'll go and change clothes and come back." Du Ruo was covered in dust, covered with sweat and dust. It was really not good, so she was going to take a bath.Zhu Houzhao hurriedly stopped him. "You just came back and it's very hot. It's not good for your health to take a bath right away. Eat a watermelon to cool off before you go."

Du Ruo just sat down to eat slowly, and Zhu Houzhao asked him what was going on in the field.After Du Ruo said one by one, Zhu Houzhao stopped his hand that kept pulling watermelon pulp and sighed: "After all, you still know how to do things, but I can't do anything." Du Ruo opened the largest private printing office in the capital, pushing fresh crops to farmers, With the largest textile factory in the south of the Yangtze River, the shipyard is in preparation.But looking at myself, to put it nicely is a long-term plan, to put it badly is to accomplish nothing.

Sure enough, today's incident mainly stimulated Zhu Houzhao, Du Ruo thought to himself. "You have done a good job, at least the Ming Dynasty won a big victory over the Tatars, didn't you? Your father is not superstitious about the technique of burning and dipping."

It has been more than ten years since I came to this world. In fact, Zhu Houzhao has done a lot of things. For example, Zhu Youtang will not be the only child who survived. What he did was far better than what Long Qingshi did. For example, he planted a seed called industry in the minds of Ming Dynasty scholars who had despised craftsmen.

"It's not enough, it's far from enough." A small magistrate is so powerful.A Hangzhou weaving mansion can cause such a disturbance, and the dream of political clarity is more like a joke in the face of these realities.

"Take it easy." Du Ruo took Zhu Houzhao's hand and comforted him. "everything will get better."

In fact, Zhu Houzhao just had a feeling in his heart for a while, but now he feels embarrassed seeing Du Ruo's seriousness. "Well, that's all I'm saying. Don't worry too much."

Even though Zhu Houzhao said so, Du Ruo couldn't let go of his heart.Zhu Houzhao is not a casual person. He must have had such an idea in his heart when he said this, and it has not been a day or two, so he simply put down the things in his hand, took Zhu Houzhao's hand and said seriously: "Azhao , you are different from me. It is very easy for me to do things this way, because I have the status and experience here, and I have a natural advantage. Maybe you can do it better than me."

"As a prince, the affairs of the court are no more than that of the shopping malls. One hair affects the whole body, and a small action can cost many lives. You have done a good job, and you still have decades to do more Well, where are these ideas."

Zhu Houzhao naturally knew this truth, but he couldn't figure it out. He let go of the tight string after hearing what Du Ruo said.He patted Du Ruo's hand to indicate that he had figured it out, and then sent the watermelon to Du Ruo's hand.

The two ate watermelon, Du Ruo went to take a bath, and Zhu Houzhao took a book and read casually there.After a while Du Ruo took a bath and Zhu Houzhao was still reading there, someone said that Master Gong was back and invited the two young masters to discuss matters.

The two came to the hall.Gong Da and the others were sitting there one by one waiting for the two people, Zhu Houzhao still sat on the top, Du Ruo wanted to sit down, but was held back by Zhu Houzhao, and sat next to Zhu Houzhao, Chen Han immediately frowned.Zhu Houzhao didn't think highly of him, so he pretended not to see him.

Seeing that they were all seated, Gong Da said, "The situation is not optimistic. Today I pretended to be a businessman and took my name card to a yamen of the Ministry of Households here. It’s out of shape. In front of His Royal Highness, I don’t care about my own face, and the officials of the household department here also avoid the edge of Eunuch He, advising me not to come to Hangzhou to work at this time.”

The teacup that Zhu Houzhao picked up stopped in front of his chest.Before Zhu Houzhao could move, Chen Han dropped the teacup first. "A nest of snakes and rats!" Surprised a few people.Chen Han felt uncomfortable seeing several people staring at him, and insisted, "These people are just a pot of rat shit that ruined a pot of soup, so they should be dealt with severely."

He thought that the whole group should be dominated by himself, but Zhu Houzhao didn't care about him at all, and said directly: "My lord, do you know what happened today? I'll bother you to go tomorrow. It's always known in the yamen There are more things."

Although Gong Da cared about Chen Han's feelings, since Chen Han did something wrong, he could only take care of the prince first.Chen Han sat and stood there by himself, his face flushed, and he felt embarrassed.

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