Chapter 16 Commencement
All parties rejoiced. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Lord Fu sent a message to the Aoya (Li language "old man" meaning, before the liberation of the general Li people used this name Li people to call the upper class of the Li people) to drink, at the banquet took out two arrows, he first asked people to read the agreement aloud, and then cut nine arrows at the arrow, and then gave another arrow to Xia Nan.
"You can cut nine knives too." Zhang Cheng told him that this was a ritual of cutting arrows, and that the two sides should abide by each other's rules, and if they violated the agreement, they would be fined ninety cows and ninety taels of silver.
After cutting the arrow, I drank a few more bowls of rice wine. Xia Nan took the opportunity to propose that he hoped to provide cotton from the mountains regularly every month in the future, and also pay for it with salt or iron, and this request was readily agreed.
After the agreement was reached, the owner of Fu Yu wanted the deal to go smoothly more than Xia Nan. He stayed with Xia Nan and his entourage for one night, and on the second day he selected 120 women, sent people to pick 500 catties of cotton, and sent 50 native soldiers to be responsible for transporting them.
The negotiations went very smoothly, but there were minor difficulties in implementation. One hundred and twenty Li women were taken by the soldiers to gather in the open space in the middle of the village, and they all showed a sense of panic - they had never been out of the village since they had lived in the village, let alone traveled long distances to work in the Han people's place, and they could not help but be afraid.
Ancient women were still very obedient and obedient, which was the same for both the Han and the Li people, although it could be seen that they were somewhat reluctant to work for the Han people, but no one dared not listen to the words of the lord.
Xia Nan looked at the group of women's soldiers, thinking about how to appease them and bring them back to Lingao smoothly. After thinking about it again, I felt that it was only simple and direct, and it was beneficial to move it. Anyway, there is an order from the lord of the mountain, and I am not afraid that they will be disobedient, what I have to do is to reduce their fear of the unknown fate.
Thinking of this, Xia Nan asked Zhang Cheng to translate his words into Qiongzhou dialect for them to listen to - the Li people can understand the Qiongzhou local dialect, and the Mandarin local Han people similar to the official dialect of Liaodong may be able to understand it, but the Li people definitely don't understand it.
"You don't have to be afraid, go to Lingao to work, you can exchange it for salt and iron, so that your family can have snow-white salt to eat every day, so that your men have sharp knives to hunt, and hard hoes and plows to plow the fields, as for your own ......" Xia Nan deliberately paused and observed the reaction of the women's army, which was not bad, and listened very seriously, "I guarantee that there are three meals a day, all of which are white rice." ā
After Zhang Cheng translated into Qiongzhou dialect, the crowd was in a commotion, three meals of white rice a day, there is such a good thing?
A bold young woman asked, "Is there salt in the daily meal?" ā
Xia Nan was amused: "Girl, what's your name?" ā
This bold girl had big watery eyes, a round face, and very white teeth. The characteristics of the Li women are tattooed and chewing betel nut, the old lady next to the onlookers has a dense black tattoo on her face, but a mouth is black (the result of chewing betel nut every day), it is really terrifying, no wonder it is said that Hainan is eighteen strange, and the old lady is like a monster.
Fortunately, many young women are not like the old ladies of their own tribe who chew betel nut and have black teeth, there are no tattoos, and this woman's skin is not as dark as other compatriots, and she is considered a beauty among the women of the Li nationality in this time and space. She said generously: "My name is Fu Nanying. ā
"Hehe, Nanying girl, you don't have to worry about this, my family runs a salt farm."
This guarantee stabilized the women's army, but the onlookers next to them handed a message to the familiar people in the women's army, telling them that if they were really so good over there, remember to bring the letter back, and they also begged the lord to let their women work.
The ideological work was done very quickly. Xia Nan returned to Hujiazhuang with the women's army and five hundred catties of cotton, and Lin Weiye, who came to greet him, was dumbfounded.
Next, 80 women were mobilized from Ma Yuan Village, which was tentatively paid three cents of silver per month, and 200 people were gathered, and the large-scale production movement was vigorously launched.
The simple structure of the factory and dormitory has been built, after the women's army has been settled, all the carpenters near Lingao have been invited to come over to make Jenny machines and looms, there are still not enough manpower, Tan Shan has no choice but to go to the next town to pay a high price for carpenters.
Every time a Jenny machine and loom are manufactured, Comrade Lin Weiye, the technical director, trains a group of workers to be familiar with the machine on the spot. In the process of training, Hanli female workers embody different characteristics.
Eighty female workers in Mayuan Village have been working in the salt works all day long to make a living, and they have no money left to buy clothes, so they have not touched the spinning wheel and loom for a long time. The female workers of the Li nationality have been exposed to spinning and weaving since childhood, especially the ability to weave complex patterns with a simple jacquard machine, which is called "Li Jin" in later generations.
Fu Nanying is the best weaver among the Li female workers, and not only that, but no one in the whole of Tinan Mountain dares to claim to be better at weaving than her. She was surprised to find that the spinning wheels and looms of the Han people looked strange, but the speed of spinning and weaving was much faster. She is already the fastest spinning and best weaving woman in the village, but the stupidest woman in the village can use this spinning wheel and loom to be much faster than herself.
She was curious about Lin Weiye, who taught female workers to use spinning wheels and looms, and did Han Chinese men also know how to weave? Was this amazing spinning wheel and loom invented by this man? She asked Lin Weiye about her two questions in Qiongzhou dialect, which she was not very familiar with.
In the face of this curious baby, Lin Weiye didn't know how to answer, could it be that he was from the future? The poor otaku, who had been single for a long time in the old time and space, smelled the natural body fragrance of Nanying girl, mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and her crisp and pleasant voice in his ears, he was in a trance for a while, his heart swayed for a while, he forgot to answer, and looked at Fu Nanying blankly, and after a while, he found that it was impolite, coughed and hurriedly looked at another place.
The Li nationality is different from the Han nationality, the Han nationality pays attention to the right and wrong, and men and women do not kiss, and the Li girl regards this "rudeness" as an affirmation of her appearance, so the Nanying girl is not only not angry, but very happy, this man is really an honest and responsible brother!
Miss Nam Ying smiled. She laughed with two shallow dimples, showing snow-white teeth, and a pair of eyes like the moon that bent them. Seeing Nanying's smile like a flower, Lin Weiye's little heart beat very fast.
Xia Nan was immersed in the beautiful vision of the Ming capitalists, and did not notice Lin Weiye's distraction. According to the management style of later generations, he divided the Hanli female workers into spinning classes and weaving classes according to their respective skills, and realized the most primitive division of labor in order to improve production efficiency. Once the equipment is in place, the mill is officially up and running.
Production implements three shifts, starting from 5 o'clock in the morning, starting at 9 o'clock in the evening, 200 people according to the division of labor in spinning and weaving, taking turns to work and rest.
In the summer, Nan was determined to be a capitalist with a conscience in the industry, and ordered Tan Shan to invite a few mothers-in-law to cook full-time, ensuring that he had three full meals a day, and the dormitory also designed a public bathroom for female workers to bathe, and there was a special mother-in-law to boil water. The rice that is cooked every day is moved from the granary of Hujiazhuang, and anyway, the more than 100 acres of land of the Hu family will soon be rented.
Lin Weiye proposed to hold an opening ceremony and invite people with heads and faces in the county, such as Master Qian or something, to cut the ribbon or something. Xia Nan thought about it again and again or denied it, this time and space is heavy on agriculture and light on business, the government looks down on businessmen and others, and wants to squeeze and loot, businessmen have no social status, let's make a fortune for the time being, and when the career is on the stage, the armed forces are enough to protect themselves, and it is not too late to play these virtual things.
The female workers of the Li nationality, who did not have enough to eat all day long in the mountains, came to the territory of the Han people, but found that this place was simply a paradise compared to Li Village: they could eat enough rice every day, and it was all white rice, and they could eat salt at every meal - you must know that many female workers rarely have white rice to eat, and it is rare to eat salt food for a month, not to mention that it is bland and tasteless, and there is no strength if they do not eat salt.
Although the workload is large, the female workers have always been accustomed to hardship, and they can eat enough when they are done, and then they can take a shower and sleep comfortably, and the place where they live is clean. In such an environment, the female workers quickly adapted to and liked the place, and burst out with great enthusiasm for production - an average of about 200 pieces of cloth per day, of which the Li women workers contributed the most, they could weave 130 or 40 pieces of cloth a day.
In order to commend them, Xia Nannan appointed Fu Nanying as the head of the Li female workers, and Tan Er's sister-in-law as the head of the Han female workers, responsible for managing the work and schedule of the female workers.
The daily output of 200 horses made Nanle close his mouth in the summer, so that it was 6,000 horses in January, which exceeded his original estimate. So he immediately found Zhang Mingli's entourage and asked him to try to contact Zhang Mingli and immediately ship the goods to Guangzhou to sell.
Zhang Mingli hasn't come yet, Liu Quan has come. He recently ran all the tenants of Hujiazhuang, and it was quite fruitful. He reported: "Master, I revealed a little news, these tenants have no reaction, anyway, if you don't increase the rent, whoever collects the rent is the same."
Xia Nan nodded to indicate that he knew, and then said, "You have worked hard, you haven't seen the newly opened textile factory, come with me to take a look." ā