Chapter 31 Papermaking Workshop
"Effective prevention is not the same as a slogan written in short words that has the purpose of propaganda and agitation, nor is it a deliberate propaganda that is programmatic and agitatorial for oral shouting! In the face of interests, a person who does not stretch out his hand in personal interests must be a hero when defending an idea, even if I am afraid that I personally cannot do it. ”
Li Zhi was not in a hurry to listen to Chang Yubo's determined confession, but deliberately raised his vigilance.
"Chang Yubo, I didn't mean to be difficult for you, I will mobilize available forces to resist the covetousness of all forces, but if you can stay in the workshop in the future and continue to be my workshop owner, you must ensure that the internal core craftsmanship will not be lost, and you can have confidence in simply managing the craftsmen in the workshop?"
Chang Yubo's expression was relaxed, "Little Marquis, most of my workers are poor villagers in Liujian Village, and more are tenants and slaves of the Li family. Of course, it is not excluded that there will be people who are lost due to the temptation of money, but please rest assured, with my decades of papermaking experience, the key process will be limited to three or two people in contact, I have enough confidence to affect those people, as long as others do not detain the souls of a few of us, it is impossible to get any useful information from it! ”
In the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic class raised more slaves, and their own slaves were insufficient, so they recruited tenants to cultivate the fields and collect their taxes for squandering, and these tenants were actually workers for the landlords, with the nature of semi-slaves.
Such tenant peasants were a product of feudal society, a group of people who had dedicated their lives to the ruling class of the upper landlords, who were trapped on the land and went around in the same circle for generations.
Whether they were obedient or resistant, the mark of the dividing line between the landlord and the peasant, which was deeply inserted into the landlord, did not show a moment of weakness and vulnerability, so the peasant turned into a peasant for thousands of years, and the landlord turned into a landlord for thousands of years.
It can be seen from this that the tenant slave in Chang Yubo's words was recited in the era of the time. Under the scene, what kind of inherent lowly thinking has a deep sense of thinking?
"The reason why I found you shows that I have enough trust in you personally, as long as you can ensure that the core process of the future will not be leaked, of course I am happy to put such a heavy burden in your hands! But is there one suggestion that you see if it is feasible? That is, the three or two people who have confidential contact with the craft except you, is there any more shrinkage? And it's best to use your own offspring, of course, for you I will pay a very high salary, enough to change the living environment of your family! ”
"The so-called core of the process is the preparation of the secret recipe, the complete secret recipe belongs to the Li family where the little marquis is located, and these things will not be touched by others! I mean, the core secrets that only three or two people can access will not be complete, the previous workshop has been trying to control the cost, once the scale is expanded, three or two people are also extremely nervous, I think there is no possibility of shrinking! ”
"Then do it your way."
"Also, those people are originally my own family, but even my biological parents, it is impossible to get the secret recipe for preparation, please trust the little marquis enough!"
"If I don't trust you, I'll choose someone else! But you have to remember that once our workshop is launched, it will be a transcendent existence that is so large that it cannot be replaced! Just a steady stream of domestic demand from the government will also make the output of this workshop unsustainable, and opening in a different place has become a must! I want you to choose the descendants of your family because you need someone you can trust to bear the same burden in a foreign land in the future! In this life, the most important thing in real life is to know when to seize the opportunity, and then know how to give up the external temptation and interests, as long as your family can be loyal to their duties, I will let your whole family turn over and be your own master! ”
I think Chang Yubo was in an excited mood, causing his heart to beat non-stop, and at this time, the noon sun shone on his face, and it looked like a kind of hot and a little burned red.
"It's a corner of the local rich power, but after all, it is nothing more than the status of the people, and it is nothing compared to the government and nobles. I think that in the future, our workshop will be strictly guarded by officers and soldiers, and under the protection of such a semi-official business similar to a military land, our family will only get better and better, which is much more affordable than how much money you get! Please rest assured, as long as we are not imbued by the smell of copper, our whole family will not be so ignorant. ”
Part of the trust in this person comes from old memories, and the other part comes from his uprightness, Li Zhicai doesn't care about the occasional blunt words in his tone.
He continued, "Then it's decided! In the future, your family will move to the Li family compound, and I will arrange a separate courtyard for your whole family to live in, and when the workshop really develops, I will buy you your own fields and houses! As for the specific salary payment, we will talk about it in detail later, but from this moment on, all the relevant process formulas, you have to keep it for me, and I don't think I need to talk about it anymore, right? ”
"Don't worry, little marquis, if you don't know how to be polite, in the future, the king of Linhuai County himself will ask, I would rather lose my own safety, and I dare not leak it a little!"
"Old man, I understand what you mean, but things are far less terrifying! And I will leak a little bit to you in private, the Qingqi County Lord of the Linhuai County Mansion will be your most direct superior, and it will also be the future wife of my Li family! External resistance and oppression naturally have her to take care of it, and you can be regarded as half of the people in the palace of Linhuai County from now on, just take care of the production! ”
Sure enough, Li Zhi's words are even more shocking, it is self-evident what kind of existence the Linhuai County Mansion is, what kind of rank nature this so-called little marquis is, it is also known to everyone, to be able to break the rank and level and climb to the Qingqi County Lord, in that era when the hierarchy is quite strict, to dare to say it without shying away, of course, there will be other blessings.
"After the little marquis said, I thought of the origin of the words Zhengqing Wenqitang! Here, congratulations to the little marquis! Chang Yubo's tone was full of surprise, but he didn't see much suspicion.
"It's too early to congratulate, but you are not a member of the Li family, at most you are a member of the Li family, and you are a free person who does not need to sign any deed, and you will not be slightly fettered about how your family will belong in the future!"
"I have received the little marquis's wishes, but the Tang hierarchy cannot be surpassed! My family's surname is Fan, but the specific name is equivalent to forgetting, and the three words Chang Yubo have become a unified title for the old and young, women and children. I am nothing personally, but the impact on future generations is very great, it is better for the little marquis to consult the meaning of the Linhuai County Palace, and give our family the surname Li, and have an official name to the outside world! ”
Li Zhi knew in his heart that Chang Yubo did not mean to deliberately cling to the Li family, but to express their loyalty, but it was not a good way, but his words still needed to be tactful.
"Is this necessary? You have the surname Li, but it means that you will belong to the Li family for the rest of your life, and it will be extremely difficult to become a relative of the Li family for a while! ”
The surname of the Li family is originally a reward from the emperor, and they are not qualified to develop their own relatives, and only the surname Li is allowed to be inherited.
Chang Yubo smiled and there was no lack of sincerity: "Originally, I was doing things for the Li family, and the guardianship of this top-secret formula can only be recognized by the direct descendants of the Li family in the future if the surname Li exists, please forgive me for being so direct, this is also the most realistic personal view, I never dare to hope for the thoughts of my relatives, and please don't mention it again in the future!" ”
Thinking about it, it is also possible to be recognized by his later generations, and only the old ministers who belong to the Li family can have it, so that Chang Yubo's family will not be deprived of their rights for no reason.
"In that case, let's wait until we've been busy for a while in the future to discuss, and you can also go home and do some communication!"
The conversation between the two came to an end for the time being, because Chang Yubo brought more professionals, so their addition immediately accelerated the peeling progress of the sandalwood skin a lot.
There was another group of people who went to collect the straw, so Li Zhi called Chang Yubo and rushed to the small workshop in Liujian Village, which was deeper at the foot of the mountain.
It is obvious that the paper workshop is mostly a temporary building, full of hastily built houses and simple greenhouses, and the ancient large bluestone board paper troughs are lined up, which can be regarded as the only existence that can be called a scale.
On the hillside in the distance, a large area of dark brown, yellow, light yellow, gray, and gray seems to form a large painting, from which it is clear that the workshop is in good business.
There are more than a dozen people in the workshop or pushing the stone mortar, or stepping on the paper material, the paper shed came from the sound of scooping paper, and the clean lake water is stored in a special pool for the use of pulp troughs.
The workers were very ordinary peasants, and judging by the wrinkles on their faces and their kind eyes, the pain of poverty in the past and in reality once bent their waists.