Panpan drank water from the house, because she was tired, she no longer had the interest to hug her sister, and ran to the canal to play alone. Xu Ping, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, had no choice but to hand over his second daughter to Xiuxiu on the side.

Sitting down on the chair, Xu Ping said to Xiuxiu: "Look at the weather, it's getting hot, the season can't wait, I should go out to inspect in a few days." This time I went for a long time, and I was afraid that it would take a few months to come back. ”

Xiuxiu complained when she heard this: "Why did you wait until this time to go out?" The next few months will not only be hot, but also rainy, muddy roads, how to walk? It's time to leave when the weather is good. ”

"I want to too, but the affairs in Luoyang City are chaotic, and my parents and Su Niang have not yet arrived, where can I move? You don't have to worry, back then in Yongzhou, the road was much more difficult to walk than Jingxi Road all year round, and I didn't patrol every year. ”

"Can that be the same? Yongzhou is a state in the end, how can it be compared to such a big place as Jingxi Road! ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Why can't it be compared? You haven't walked around, those counties in Yongzhou, walking down in a circle, the distance is not closer than the states I am going out to walk now. And at that time, there were still many tigers and leopards on the road, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, and it was even more difficult to walk. ”

Xiuxiu frowned, and said after a while: "I don't understand these either, anyway, you should be careful all the way." ”

"What can happen to the peaceful world? You can rest assured. If you are alone in the capital, you have to live cautiously. ”

"I know, it's a big deal that you don't go out after you leave, I don't have any relatives in Luoyang City."

Xu Ping just casually said, what can happen in Luoyang City? This is also one of the capitals, although the public security is a little chaotic, but it is not enough to make trouble in Xu Ping's house.

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"Hey, isn't that the honor guard of the Ducao officials? With so many people following, I'm afraid I'm going to go far away, right? ”

In the garment shop on the street of Jianchunmen Avenue, Third Sister You, who was tailoring, looked at the team led by Xu Ping on the road, and said strangely to Sister Tang on the side.

Jianchun Gate out of the city is to the east, which is the road to Bianliang, Tokyo, and there are a lot of officials who usually welcome it. But with Xu Ping's status, since he arrived in Luoyang, he has not yet let him go out of the city gate, and it is rare to see him go out of the city from here.

Sister Tang looked up for a while, and said to Third Sister You: "It's not a Ducao official. I met the little lady two days ago, and I heard her say that the Ducao officials are going out to inspect, and they are afraid that they will only come back in a few months. ”

The people in the capital are well-informed and know that the transfer envoy has to inspect his rule every year, and it is not surprising that Third Sister You heard this.

It wasn't until she watched Xu Ping's guard of honor go out of the city gate that Third Sister You turned around and said to Sister Tang: "Ducao official is the biggest official on Jingxi Road, this honor guard is really shabby, and it doesn't seem to bring a few people." ”

Sister Tang couldn't help but sigh when she heard this: "This is still shabby? Third sister, look, there are nearly 100 people before and after! There are officials and soldiers in the entourage, regardless of the officials and the people, they have to give way when they see it, how majestic it is! ”

"Hey, too, this is Xijing, not Bianliang City. I think when I was in Bianliang, I often saw officials traveling in the city every day, and the honor guards of those bachelors and imperial history were all called majestic, and the comparison of Du Cao officials was shabby. ”

Sister Tang used to go out of the door of the house before, and she had never seen the minister's guard of honor. For example, the former prefect of Henan, whether it was Wang Zeng or Wang Shu, went out with much more pomp than Xu Ping, but unfortunately I haven't seen it, and I will be suspicious of You Sanjie's words.

The transfer envoy is a supervision official sent by the imperial court, equivalent to the embroidered messenger in the Han Dynasty, and theoretically even the yamen is only a temporary station, and there are not many people under him. In addition, the imperial court has many restrictions on the honor guard of travel, one is to reduce the burden of local reception, and the other does not want to let the transfer expand the power, and the scale of travel is inconspicuous.

Xu Ping went out to inspect this time, and in addition to the guards and soldiers under Tan Hu, there were less than ten public officials. The honor guard that looked shabby in the eyes of Third Sister You, when she got out of the city and reached the border of Henan Mansion, most of them had to come back. There are only thirty or fifty people who have really followed Xu Ping through the journey, and this includes a few of his own family members brought by Liu Xiaoyi. Speaking of the scale of travel now, it is not as good as going out to inspect the counties under his rule as a general sentence when he was in Yongzhou. At that time, it was to inspect the territory under his rule, unlike now, when there is no military power at all, and only one supervisory power.

After talking a few words about Xu Ping's idle days on patrol, Third Sister You sighed: "Ducao officials are blessed, and with such a good person as the little lady by their side, they will be able to prosper in official fortune and be blessed with good fortune." ”

Sister Tang said: "Isn't it, our company can be opened thanks to the little lady." There is such a person, even the official face has to be polite to us, and dare not come to find trouble. ”

Xiuxiu is quite boring to live alone in Luoyang City, it is rare to talk to Sister Tang, and she is often asked to be a guest. Xu Ping's identity is there, and there are many things Xiuxiu can say casually, which is more effective than how many people Sister Tang begged. Although Sister Tang is not a person who tends to be inflammatory, she is also happy to have such a friendship.

Speaking of Xiuxiu, the little lady of the Ducao official, Sister Tang was full of gratitude, and said to Third Sister You: "I heard that the little lady is also from a poor family, and she never treats us as outsiders, unlike some official eunuchs, when she sees the people, her nostrils can't wait to pierce the sky!" Only the officials of Du Cao are worthy of such a good person! ”

Third Sister You nodded again and again, ordinary people, being able to encounter such an opportunity is a blessing from the previous life. If there is no Xiuxiu to take care of it, three women will start a company, let alone this era, it will not be easy at any time.

After sighing for a while, Sister Tang sighed: "I have received so many favors from the little lady, but I have nothing to repay, and I am also uneasy to think about it." If you have the opportunity, you should always thank the little lady for her kindness. ”

"Now that the weather is hot, why don't we make a few summer clothes for the little lady and the Ducao officials and send them to the door? The so-called thousands of miles to send goose feathers, the courtesy is light and affectionate, although it is not worth much, it is always a little bit of our heart. ”

Sister Tang just smiled bitterly when she heard Third Sister You's words: "I thought about it too, but it just didn't work." I used to bring a few new clothes to the little lady, and they all ended up paying for me. The little lady repeatedly explained that the Ducao officials are now in charge of Jingxi Road, and it is not easy to accept gifts from us people. Otherwise, being caught by others will be unfavorable to the career of the officials in the capital. ”

Third Sister You pursed her lips: "This sounds novel, there are still fewer officials in Luoyang City?" Why haven't you heard other families say that it is not good to receive gifts from the people? Don't talk about a few new clothes, you don't take it right when you send Jinshan Yinshan to those people's homes! ”

"Third sister, that's different, Ducao officials are people who do big things, so naturally they won't fall into the hands of others. Besides, since the Ducao official took office, he has done many things for the people, and I have not heard of him being greedy for any money. ”

No matter what time it is, there are always those who are greedy for money and those who are honest, but the times are different and the mainstream is different. In this era, the mainstream of officialdom is still good, although there are many people who are greedy for money, but there are even more who are honest and honest for officials. The knowledge of the people in the capital is not comparable to that of a small place, and the Qing officials have seen so few, and Xu Ping is not a maverick.

Sister Tang spread out the cloth on the table, made a comparison, and said: "I went to see the little lady two days ago, and she said that the Ducao officials also opened a clothing shop at home, but they were busy with official business, and this business was finally abandoned. According to the Ducao officials, what we are doing now is just to make hard money, not to open a company. ”

Third Sister You said with a smile: "Ducao is a man, a scholar and a scholar, and he only reads sage books, how can he still know this!" ”

"No, I think the little lady has a point." Sister Tang shook her head. "Of course, what the little lady said was also taught by the Ducao officials. According to the meaning of the Ducao officials, we should set a few styles for clothing, and then according to the tall, short, fat and thin, there are several different sizes. When people who buy clothes come, they just buy ready-to-wear clothes, and they don't need to measure and cut them. ”

Third Sister You thought for a while and nodded: "I've been sewing clothes for so many years, it's not impossible to do this." In the past, in the embroidery institute, I often had to make official uniforms for the royal people, where could everyone measure? Some of them are made first, and then they will be tried. If it is skillfully cooked, there is no need to modify it, and it is mostly just right to wear it. However, what good is it for us to open a shop? ”

"Third sister, the benefits are great! If the pattern is set, we don't have to be able to sew clothes. As long as someone cuts the cloth according to the size, someone sews up the place that should be sewn, where it should be dense, where it can be thin, it is not necessary for these people to be able to make clothes, as long as they can use scissors and take needles and threads. Come to think of it, aren't such people everywhere? ”

Sewing clothes is a handicraft work, not only to endure hardships and be capable, but also to be ingenious. The vast majority of women in this era are illiterate, have limited knowledge, and are really not very ingenious. Garment shops recruit female workers, even if they are paid a lot, but it is still difficult to recruit the right people. A few months have passed, and there are only a dozen or so people working in this garment company of the three, and they still can't do it every day when they get up early and stay dark. People with slightly better family backgrounds will not let women come out to do things, and it is extremely difficult to recruit people.

This is the different angle of considering the problem, Xu Ping's mind is the practice of industrialization in the previous life, to make a thing, the first thing that comes to mind is to decompose the process, arrange it reasonably, and a group of people use the simplest method to make it as quickly as possible. People in this era still think that this is all a craft, and they must learn all of them and figure out every step before they can be regarded as suitable talents.

First, there are tens of thousands of people in government-run workshops, and they will inevitably demand separate cooperation. But most of the supplies in those places were royal princes and high-ranking officials, or the army, which had strict requirements for quality but very low requirements for efficiency. This kind of division of labor and cooperation is still different from the assembly line operation of efficiency. Another is a rich and noble family, which is so rich that there is no edge, and the affairs of the family are also divided and cooperated. As recorded in the notes of the Song Dynasty, the cook who made steamed buns at Cai Jing's family turned out to be just able to peel shredded green onions, and this division of labor and cooperation was just extravagance. These methods of doing things have the prototype of assembly line operations, but they are still far from real industrial production.

What Xu Ping is talking about is the core of real industrial production. Division of labor and cooperation, reasonable arrangement, does not need to be engaged in the work of the person is a skilled craftsman, the product is not necessarily a rare boutique. However, the efficiency is high, the cost is also low, and it can be supplied in large quantities, replacing the delicacy of handicrafts with the high efficiency of industrial products.