Chapter 503: Smoke Painting Embroidery Workshop
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When Duoduo was busy recruiting the leaders of the various Mongolian tribes in Bozhou, hoping to stabilize the precarious situation, he did not collect at night or was idle, and he had already been acting.
Will Daqin hang himself from a tree in the Sunit Ministry?
Of course not.
Then it depends on how each moves, whether the Qing Dynasty stabilizes Mongolia, or the Great Qin consumes the alliance between Manchu and Mongolia, each with his own ability.
For Daqin, this is a question of whether he can make a thousand pounds in four or two; For the Manchus, it was a question of survival or perdition.
When the two sides were busy wrestling, a "smoke painting and embroidery workshop" in Jinling City opened.
The four virtues of women are women's appearance, women's words, women's virtues, and women's work. Among them, embroidery is included in the item of women's labor.
In this era, a woman who does not know how to embroider is to be despised. When the matchmaker comes to the door, the first thing to ask may be how the girl's female celebrity is doing, don't get me wrong, it's not Luohong, it's the female red, that is, needlework.
If your female celebrity does not do well, it is likely to be disliked by the man.
Therefore, from the daughter to the peasant girl, almost every woman has to learn female red from an early age, from the floral decorations on clothes to the sachets as small accessories, all of which are embroidered by ingenious women with stitches and threads.
Embroidery plays an important role in women's daily lives.
However, in the past, embroidery was mostly the self-behavior of women at home, and many of them even used it to kill time. Few people operate embroidery as an intensive enterprise production.
Therefore, the emergence of the smoke painting and embroidery workshop is destined to become an epoch-making event.
The embroidery workshop is located near the Wenqing Bridge, behind which is the rippling Qinhuai River, the embroidery workshop can be divided into two departments, one department focuses on low-end embroidery.
The spacious embroidery room was full of bandages for embroidery, and a woman named Lin Hui was teaching the first batch of 200 embroidery girls: "All embroidery patterns and needles. We will help you prepare, all you have to do is to embroider the pattern according to our requirements;
I would like to emphasize that your wages are not calculated on a daily basis, but in the form of a basic salary plus commission. Specifically, every month, you have a basic salary of five dollars of silver, and if you want to get more, it depends on how many qualified embroideries you can embroider in this month.
According to the difficulty of each embroidery, the remuneration will be predetermined. For example, if you embroider this piece of embroidery, the prescribed remuneration is 200 yuan, and you embroider 20 pieces in a month, then your piecework income this month is four taels of silver, plus your basic salary of five dollars of silver, and your total income this month is four taels of silver, in short. The more you embroider, the more you get paid; Less embroidery, less wages, understand? ”
"Understood." The embroiderers replied happily. Everyone was full of enthusiasm and couldn't wait to start embroidering right away.
This is the power of capital, which can make people forget to sleep and eat, and devote themselves to it day and night.
These embroidered women may not know what to do. In the future, most of their time will be spent in this factory, in order to earn a little more wages, and forget about the cold and summer. Being "exploited" day in and day out, and still enjoying it.
This may seem cruel to say, but this is the law of capital operation.
In the past, the employment of workers between the markets was generally measured in days, and this pricing method has been used for thousands of years, which is based on the Confucian "benevolence, righteousness and morality".
I hire you for a day, I will give you a day's money, you use your morality to restrain yourself, and work for me according to your conscience, but in fact, once morality meets money, it often does not work. The low-class people are busy for their livelihood all day long, and not everyone's moral integrity can be satisfied.
Piecework is just a small change, and in fact it has caused damage to the original social morality to a large extent.
But there is no doubt that this is the appropriate mode of capital operation, and only in this way can the productivity of the whole society be stimulated.
In addition, there is another department of the Hanyan Painting and Embroidery Workshop, which is mainly engaged in high-end painting and embroidery.
The recruits in this department are all educated women, among whom Xu Ruoshi is not depreciated, of course, her brother Xu Yongshun is the investor of the smoke painting and embroidery workshop, and has 51% of the shares, she is the sister of the big boss.
Originally, the department was only going to recruit fifty people, but several hundred people came at once, and many of them preferred not to be paid and rushed in. In the end, the embroidery workshop selected a hundred women who were good at Danqing calligraphy and were good at female red.
This department cares about quality, not quantity, and a painting may be embroidered for a year, or even several years. But it is important, and the resulting boutique will represent the brand of the embroidery workshop.
But what kind of brand effect, the shy Gu Hanyan couldn't say a word in public, she stood on top, facing hundreds of women, and her face turned red before she could speak;
This water-like woman is full of Jiangnan's unique graceful and feminine state, she simply omitted the words that Qin Mu taught her, and directly picked up the needle and thread to demonstrate to everyone the stitching method of painting and embroidery.
"My Gu family's painting and embroidery, a total of needles, needles, seeds, needles, nails, a single set of needles, carved scales, vertical, chaotic, coiled, don't stalk, virtual and real, needles and other more than 10 kinds of stitches, all kinds of stitches to the needs of the picture, and the brushwork of the painting as a whole. Now I'm going to show you the various stitching techniques."
Gu Hanyan said while demonstrating live with needle and thread, she is skillful, using different arrangements of silk threads to present different light effects, so that the light and color of the picture change with the change, unpredictable, than the original work more fully express the ethereal and elegant scenery of the Jiangnan landscape.
Xu Ruoshi and the other women were fascinated, and in the Xuan Hall, where hundreds of people gathered, only Gu Hanyan's soft Wu Nong's soft words were echoing.
Now Gu Hanyan's painting and embroidery has swept the world, for the dignitaries, literati and scholars to collect, it is said that when the exhibition was touring in Suzhou, the "green landscape map", someone has already paid a sky-high price of 30,000 taels. Even so, it is still impossible to buy.
It can be seen that this kind of elegant painting and embroidery, although the output will not be very large, but the value it brings is absolutely amazing, a hundred women, even if a person only produces one work a year, even if the average is only five hundred taels, that has an output value of 50,000 taels.
Excluding labor, the cost of creating the 50,000 taels of needlework is estimated to be no more than 20 taels of silver.
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On this day, Qin Mu also took the time to go to the newly established Military Medical College to take a look, the college was newly established, it was still very simple, located on the shore of Mochou Lake in the west of the city, and the first dean was the white-haired Qin Liangyu;
Although she doesn't know anything about medicine, because of her high morality, she presides over the military medical college, which can avoid a lot of rumors, at least the people will not misunderstand that this is recruiting prostitutes.
When Qin Mu arrived, Qin Liangyu was holding a dragon head cane, and was helped out to greet him by Li Zixuan, who was wearing a Taiyi uniform, and Wu Youxing, the head of the Tai Hospital, was also there.
A total of 300 women were recruited in the hospital, of which 200 will be nurses in the future, and the requirements are relatively low.
Another 100 girls between the ages of eight and twelve are more demanding. These 100 people are orphans selected by local governments from refugees, but literacy, in the late Ming Dynasty, the literacy rate of rich women is still very high, due to war and famine, so that their families are ruined, lonely and miserable.
Qin Mu was very satisfied with it, and said to Wu Youxing and Li Zixuan: "Teaching them with heart and making them excellent doctors is not only for the development of Daqin's medical industry, but also for you, it is also a merit." ”
"Yes, King Qin."
Qin Liangyu said with emotion: "The old body has been killing all his life, thanks to the blessing of King Qin, and he can finally do a meritorious deed when he is old." ”
This is really a meritorious thing, these women are helpless, if they are not recruited into the medical school, they will either become slaves or fall into the green building. After entering the military medical college, the fate of their lives will be rewritten.
Qin Mu said with a smile: "The eldest sister has worked hard all her life, and now that she is old, I really don't want to let you do it, but except for the eldest sister, I really can't find a suitable person to preside over this matter." ”
Qin Liangyu also smiled: "To be honest, when King Qin first talked about this, the old man was reluctant, but now, you don't let the old body go!" ”
"Ha Lu Ha"
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PS: The last few books are closer, there are still twenty-eight hours, this is often the time for other forces, two or three hundred votes a day is normal, I am still worried in my heart, brothers, let the monthly pass come more fiercely, hold on to these twenty-eight hours is victory!
Desperate for a monthly pass!
Desperate for a monthly pass!
Desperate for a monthly pass!.
(To be continued......)