(please recommend monthly tickets for further reading)

Author: nonsense and gossip

(please recommend monthly tickets for further reading)

The contents of the heavenly clan meeting on the first day of the first lunar month were quickly spread.

Not only were everyone in the Huang family happy, but the tenants in the Huang family village were even more happy. Although their children needed to study hard to get into school, this gave them more hope.

After the clan meeting, Huang Yueying went to inspect the expanded workshop. The workshop for each process was as she had imagined before. Even if it could not meet the standards of future generations, it was still the best in this era.

For the final drying, a sandwich wall is also used. Firewood can be burned inside to heat up the walls painted with lime powder on both sides. Therefore, even on rainy days, the output will not be affected.

In the original history, bamboo paper was improved in the Jin dynasty after Cao Wei, and then slowly replaced bamboo slips.

There was a Jin dynasty, followed by Wu Huan Hua. Huang Yueying squinted her eyes and her thoughts wandered away.

There is a saying that among the Three Kingdoms, no matter whether it is Cao Cao or Liu Bei who takes over the world in the end, they will not allow foreigners to go south and cause chaos.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's descendants are not capable, nor are the heirs of the Sima family... and it is difficult for her to intervene in Cao Wei's affairs, so she has never considered Cao Wei's side.

As for Liu Bei's descendants, they are even less capable, but she still has a chance to intervene!

Let’s talk about Soochow, it’s only the fourth year of Jian’an (AD 199), Sun Quan is still a little kid about the same age as her, and Sun Ce, known as the little overlord, is still killing people. He is not far away from being assassinated and Cao Yuan Guandu The war will take more than a year.

There are many things she can do.

Whether or not to remind the bully is also a question.

If she was reminded, Soochow might be much stronger than in history, and it would also cause more trouble for Cao Cao. Of course, it would also cause more trouble for Liu Biao; if she was not reminded, she felt that Sun Ce's death was a pity. Compared to his elder brother, Sun Quan was much weaker.

Who is the agent in Yangzhou area...

…

The second day of the first lunar month.

"Uncle Song, I asked you to keep an eye on the carpenter last year. Do you have any news?"

Early in the morning, Huang Yueying arrived at Song Bo's house wearing the clothes that Aunt Li had improved, with a high ponytail, holding about twenty kilograms of corn in her left hand, and two pieces of bacon in her right hand.

"Oh, little lady, please take the things back quickly!" Song Bo said quickly, looking at the things in Huang Yueying's hands.

Now his family's situation is much better than last year, and he has saved a lot of food.

Before the new year, the master's family also gave them a piece of coarse cloth. During this period, he had been eating in the workshop, which not only saved his own food rations, but also made him stronger.

Seeing Song Bo's nervous expression, Huang Yueying waved her hand, put the things in the yard, and smiled, "Uncle Song, my father asked me to bring this. Our tenants have them. Uncle Zhou went to deliver the others." , please don’t be polite.”

"No, no, my wife gave us each a piece of coarse cloth before the new year!" Song Bo still refused.

It is their blessing if their master treats them well, but they must be self-aware.

"Uncle Song, you don't have to accept it, just give it back to my mother. It's useless to tell me, I'm just an errand boy."

Song Bo:...What else can he do?

"Okay, Uncle Song, so how's the carpenter's search going?" Huang Yueying said that she just wanted to get to the point as soon as possible. She had told Song Bo before going to Xiangyang.

"Six of the helpers recruited when expanding the workshop were carpenters. After the workshop was completed, I asked the people who stayed to recommend carpenters they knew, so I found seven more people, eight of whom were good at carving.

There is only one person who carved the seal."

After hearing these numbers, Huang Yueying nodded, "Gather them together tomorrow, I have something to ask them to do."

"No." Song Bo nodded in agreement. He had no problem, and neither did those people.

"In addition, Uncle Song, since the workshop has been expanded, every process in the new workshop needs more attention from you and a few others. You will be appointed as the manager and you will be paid. These are the details of the restructuring."

Huang Yueying took out a folded square piece of paper and handed it to Song Bo.

Song Bo took it and opened it. Inside were the rules of the workshop, and that his wife actually wanted to pay wages to these people!

Not only are they provided with food, but they are also given money. An ordinary helper earns five cents a day, which is a lot of money a year!

And a few of them...their daily wages are ten yuan!

"Little lady, is this treatment... too generous?"

"Five coins can only buy two kilograms of corn..." Huang Yueying's eyes widened. One kilogram in the Han Dynasty was only half a kilogram in later generations!

One day's wages were only enough to buy so much food, and she already felt like she was no longer a human being!

Based on their family's original 500 acres of land, the current yield per mu is only three shi, and the annual output is only 1,500 shi. At this time, one shi of corn only costs about 200 yuan.

In other words, if calculated purely in terms of grain, her family could collect about 1,500 shi of grain a year, but they had to pay taxes and give half of it to the tenants, so they could not let the family starve to death.

If converted into money, excluding taxes and grain from tenants, the income would be about 120,000 to 30,000 yuan a year.

As for the tenant farmers, they cultivate dozens of acres of land every year, and each family can only get more than 10,000 jin of grain. If calculated in future generations, that is equivalent to more than 5,000 jin. When converted into money, it is one pound.

It's about 15,000 yuan, and this is the family's annual income.

Of course, this is because Huangjiazhuangzi charges less rent, which is why he has such an income.

"But our family eats for free! Even I have become much stronger in the past month or so!" Song Bo also stared at Huang Yueying.

He felt that this was really rich!

"But once they come to work, their livelihood in the fields is put aside."

"Little lady, not everyone has land! The helpers we hired are still willing to stay, but most of them don't have their own land. Those who have their own land will definitely have to ask for leave when the spring plowing comes!"

"This is what it should be. No matter what kind of work you do, farming is the top priority."

When Song Bo heard this, he thought, okay, that's right, but he quickly said, "Lao Zhang, Lao Li, and I, ten dollars a day is really too much!"

"Uncle Song, you are the group of people who know best how to make paper. You are the most familiar with the entire papermaking process. In a while, I will have to send you to several other places to build more workshops. By then,

Your family is missing a strong laborer!"

Huang Yueying said that he was about to reuse them and would also let them miss the spring plowing and autumn harvest.

"This..." Song Bo felt that he could not refuse.

"So, I still need you, Uncle Song, to do ideological work for several other people."

"Ideological work?"

"Well, for example, if Uncle Zhang and the others are unwilling to leave Zhuangzi to work, then I need Uncle Song to help me persuade them."

"Oh." Song Bo finally understood, and then he could only agree.

When he encounters such a master, he can only work hard to repay him.

…

On the third day of the first lunar month, because the workshop had officially started work yesterday, Huangjiazhuangzi became busy again.

New pieces of Chu paper are constantly being put into the built warehouse, just waiting for agents to come and take them away.

Huang Yueying looked at the thirteen carpenters in front of her. The oldest had gray hair and the youngest was in his twenties, but none of them were strong.

"This is the new paper my boss's wife taught us to make." Song Bo stood behind Huang Yueying and introduced the dozen or so carpenters.

"I've seen the little lady."

"I've met my boss!"

Huang Yueying nodded slightly, "I've met you all."

"This little lady comes to you this time because she has something extremely confidential to ask you to do. Therefore, you must first sign a confidentiality agreement. If anyone tells anyone, you will be taken to the county government directly according to the agreement." Song Bo explained again.

Ichiban took out a deed and said, "Of course, this confidential deed only requires you not to tell anyone what happened today, and it will have no impact on your lives."

A group of people looked at me and I looked at you. Most of them were illiterate.

As a result, the youngest carpenter was the first to put his fingerprints on the deed, followed by the others.

Seeing this, Huang Yueying asked the young carpenter, "What is your name? How long have you been doing carpentry work?"

"My dear wife, my surname is Li Mingmu. My father is a carpenter and I have been doing it since I was a child. However, when I was fleeing, my father died of illness. Now I am alone, but I have been working for more than a year." Li Mu answered respectfully.

"Are you here when the workshop is expanded?"

"Here I am."

"Can you build the hydraulic mortar designed by my father?"

Li Mu nodded, "If there are enough materials and all the drawings, it will take me five days to complete it."

"That's right. By the way, which one of you can engrave a seal?"

"The old man will meet." At this time, the gray-haired carpenter nodded slightly.

"Who are the ones who can carve?"

Several more people took a step forward, including Li Mu.

Huang Yueying was a little surprised, but it was not a surprise. After all, Li Mu had been exposed to it since he was a child, so it was not surprising.

"What do you call the old gentleman?"

"I don't deserve the title of Mr. Sun Sui. I am thirty-three this year." Sun Sui introduced himself, "I have been doing carpentry work for thirty years, and engraving seals for fifteen years. I can also do the work of a stonemason."
To be continued...