Yang Huairen pretended to be unclear and asked, "Is there anything else to do?" ”

Lao Dai picked up the jar of wine and walked out of the door, "The little official is not related to the old man, and you don't owe me anything, I don't dare to accept your ten yuan and one jar of wine." ”

Yang Huairen smiled and pointed to the children, "When I go down to Guizhuang, in short, it's a nuisance, give the children some snacks and give the old man a jar of wine, which should be regarded as a gift to the next door." ”

The old Dai Tou's stubbornness was committed again, "What is rude?" I'll give you a drink of water, let you eat outside my house, and you're going to give such a valuable gift? It doesn't make sense, you might as well take it back. ”

Lao Daitou handed the wine jar forward, but he closed his eyes and didn't dare to look at it, as if he couldn't bear to give away the wine in his hand again.

Yang Huairen held back a smile in his heart, and also made an angry and stubborn look, "You old man is really troublesome, where is the reason to take back the things sent out by this big official?"

If you don't accept this wine, you are willing to throw it into the sea, or if you smash it, just give it back to me if it's not good, and go! ”

Lao Dai Tou saw that he really shook his hand and left, so he hurried a few steps and shouted after him, "Little official, stay first." ”

Yang Huairen seemed a little annoyed, "My husband shouted that I still have something?" ”

Lao Dai pouted and smiled, "Little official, you came to Li & Fung Shipyard, I'm afraid it's not to hang out, right?" It's better for you to say it bluntly, if I can help the old man, I will definitely consider it.

But if you let the old man go to your shipyard to be the leader, then forget it, the old man will not hide it from you, and the old man will never leave here in his life. ”

Lao Dai Tou can say this, it seems that he is sincere, he really wants to taste the taste of Suiyuan Spring wine, and he doesn't want to lose his dignity by taking Yang Huairen's wine for nothing, so he told the truth.

Yang Huairen wanted to succeed in his plan to capture the old man, and then used the method of agitation.

"Uncle, I'll tell you the truth, when I came to visit the shipyard today, I really wanted to find someone to help build the ship, but I was half right, my family didn't run a shipyard.

The ship I need can't be built by other shipyards, or they dare not build it, only here can I build it. ”

Lao Daitou thought that he was quite smart at the beginning, and he had already seen through Yang Huairen's tricks, but when he heard it, his mouth grew in surprise, and his lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

"Can't make it? Don't dare to build it? What a ship ......"

Halfway through the words, Lao Dai Tou seemed to understand what kind of ship Yang Huairen was talking about.

I saw him slowly put down the wine jar first, and then knelt down to Yang Huairen, and said in his mouth, "Please forgive the villain's disrespectful sin." ”

Yang Huairen was a little annoyed in his heart, just such a simple sentence, but his identity was still exposed.

He hurriedly stepped forward to help Lao Dai up, "The old man has tormented the boy." ”

Lao Dai did not refuse Yang Huairen's humility, but looked at Yang Huairen's face and looked at it again, "The villain took the liberty to ask, is the adult's surname Yang?" ”

Yang Huairen was stunned for a moment, "Huh? How did my husband know? ”

Lao Daitou wanted to kneel again, but Yang Huairen grabbed him and didn't let him kneel, and Cen Xiaonian also hurriedly came up to help support Lao Daitou.

Lao Dai didn't know whether he was excited or nervous, and his voice became a little hoarse, "The prince is here, the villain is offended, and I hope the prince will forgive me." ”

Yang Huairen was speechless, the gap between the high and low identities in these years is really something that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not that the gap between people can be eliminated immediately without being polite.

Yang Huairen comforted a few more words, and then returned to the small courtyard of his house with Lao Daitou, and Mrs. Dai, who was arrogant and domineering just now, was also so frightened that she hid in the door and didn't dare to come forward.

Finally, Lao Daitou's mood calmed down, and then he tentatively asked, "Is the prince going to build a warship?" ”

Yang Huairen saw that Lao Daitou refused to sit down and talk to him face-to-face no matter what, so he stood with him, "Yes, I want a large number of warships." ”

Lao Daitou felt that it was inappropriate to let Yang Huairen stand, and also thought that it was not easy for the prince to sit down because he regarded himself as a junior, so he asked Yang Huairen to sit down, and he sat down on the opposite side of the small square table in a proper manner.

"If the prince wants to build a warship, it can be regarded as the right place within the Jiangnan area, but it is not appropriate to say so."

Lao Dai smacked his head for a while, and then continued, "Originally, the Li & Fung Shipyard was able to build large warships, but in fact, the shipyard has been open for decades, and it has built a number of warships in the first ten years.

After that, they all received orders from outside, built merchant ships and cargo ships, since the imperial court abolished the sea ban in the second year of Yuanfeng and fully opened up the maritime trade, Li Fung Shipyard has become more and more depressed.

Wealthy merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River also set up many shipyards, although the scale was not as large as that of Li Fengjian, but the remuneration given by the people was much more than the money and grain given by the imperial court to the craftsmen.

So many craftsmen have been poached by those private shipyards, don't take the craftsman family to belong to the imperial court, the officials of Li & Fung Prison are all open-minded to money, in their eyes, the craftsman can also sell for money.

Gradually, the artisans of the government-run shipyard were secretly poached, and only some of the old, weak, sick and disabled were left to guard the shipyard.

Don't blame the craftsmen for seeing the money, the old man's four sons were all poached by others when they were adults, the old man himself refused to leave, but he was reluctant to let his sons stay here to suffer, but if there is a way out, let them go to their own future. ”

Yang Huairen thought for a while, "Like the shopkeeper Peng just now, what kind of remuneration do you give to the shipbuilders?" ”

Lao Daitou replied, "The money and grain issued by the imperial court to the rivers and lakes are customized, five buckets of rice per month, six hundred yuan, twenty feet of hemp every year, ten feet of silk, and ice money in summer.

It is said that this kind of treatment is better for the craftsmen than for the ordinary ones who go out to work, but the interception of some of the officials above is not so much in the hands of our craftsmen.

However, even so, there is no problem for the craftsmen to support their families, and when they were busy in the past, the shipowners would pay an extra fee, and the shipbuilders also had spare money in their hands, and their lives were good.

As far as the old man knows, the shipyards outside pay 800 yuan a month for handymen, and the craftsmen pay 1,500 yuan to two yuan, and the head is directly paid three times.

Not only that, there is also a lot of rice and silk cloth on the welfare, and there is also a reward for the New Year's holiday, which is basically three times that of the Li & Fung Shipyard.

At that time, the big merchants who poached people were willing to spend money to transfer them to the households, why were they still willing to stay here as artisans?

Although the artisan household does not have to pay taxes, it does not have the right to buy a house, and it is a person of the imperial court from birth to death, but the private household is different, and the tax payment is not much, but it can buy a house and settle down, and the children can study in the future, which is better than anything else. ”