The Bai family took the opportunity to tell Chen Yuanheng about the monthly example for the housekeepers.

Chen Yuanheng pondered and said, "Madame said yes. They have suffered a lot with us over the years. He was inferior in the house, but he was still loyal to help us. Now they are out and trying to help us make money and maintain this family, and we can't treat them badly. Besides, there will be brave men under the great reward. The clear rewards and punishments are more conducive to their efforts and wisdom and strive to improve themselves. ”

As soon as the Bai family saw that Chen Yuanheng agreed, he called Chen Cai and Chen Cai's family and explained everything. At the same time, he also told him about raising the housekeeper's monthly routine.

Chen Cai hurriedly kowtowed on the ground and said, "The lord and the lady have just come to this Ancheng for less than two years, and they are starting a business from scratch, and they are officially ready to use the money, how can they still give the minions a monthly example." I eat in the house and use the house, why do I want so much money. ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "It's decided." I know your faithfulness. Actually, for so many years, although you are only the steward of my third room, but you have done more than the housekeeper, there was no way before, but now that we are out, we can make our own decisions, and the business is good during this time, it is time to mention it to you. This is something you should have taken a long time ago. Chen Cai and Chen Cai's family were all moved, and they only knew how to kowtow on the ground to thank them.

In the evening, Brother Chen Wenjun came back from school and was very happy when he heard about it.

Chen Wenjun said to Bai's: "Mother, tomorrow is another day off set by Mr., the children have nothing to do, I want to follow Steward Chen to see and see, buy a yard, and see what is going on with the shop." Luckily? ”

Before Bai could speak, Chen Yuanheng said: "Read 10,000 books and travel thousands of miles." You can't just die studying, you can think that learning these chores is to grow. Go for it. ”

Bai was still a little worried. Chen Yuanheng waved his hand and said: "They are not too small, they can't stay in the inner courtyard all day, they should have gone out to see it a long time ago, and they went out with Chen Cai, with the little guys, what are you afraid of." ”

Bai had no choice but to give up, but he still called Chen Cai in again and gave him a detailed explanation.

The next day, the two brothers of the Chen family and Chen Cai sat in the car together, and took the agent who had been contacted the day before to see the house together. Chen Wenjun was silent and watched Chen Cai negotiate with the broker seriously. Chen Wenlin is extremely happy as long as he can go out. His attention was not on the house, but on the stalls on the street.

After a day of traveling, I took a fancy to two houses. In the evening, Chen Cai and Brother Chen went to the upper room to talk back. Chen Cai said: "I saw a lot of yards today, and there are two suitable places, especially back and forth. One is in the west of the city, two into five rooms before and after, there are wings on both sides, two courtyards before and after, and flower beds, the price is a little more expensive, the price is one hundred and eighty taels of silver, and there are seats and beds in the house, which can be given to us. One is two courtyards connected together, the larger one on the left has five houses and three wings, and the smaller one on the right has three houses and three wings. In the middle of the yard is a wall, if you buy it, you can open a door in the middle to make a female wall, it is also very suitable, that is, the house is very old, do not bring household goods, after buying it, you have to repair the house and buy household goods. But it's cheaper, only ninety taels in total. ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "I think I want those two courtyards." The two-entry looks good, but it is suitable for making a house, not for a workshop. The two yards are just right, so that the tailor and the embroiderer can be separated, which is easy to manage. The price is cheap and just right. What do you see, ma'am? Bai said, "Well, what the master said is." Chen Yuanheng said again: "Then let's set the two courtyards." What did Jun'er and Lin'er gain when they went out today? The latter sentence is said to the Chen brothers.

Chen Wenjun said: "Back to my father, my sons went out today and gained a lot. Many houses are not dilapidated, the owner of the house has declined, and there are still some dilapidated places, but the owner has come out and moved to a good house, so the prince will have a kind of Xiangning. God rewards hard work, these words, I deeply understand today. ”

Chen Yuanheng was very happy to hear this, and said to the Bai family: "Madam, look, what I said is good. It is to let them go out of the inner house to see the suffering of the people, so that they can take on great responsibilities in the future. Bai was also happy: "People often say that people are good from books." In my opinion, it should be a good person. ”

Chen Wenlin listened and said, "I also have gains. It turns out that the people of Anseong have such a big gap between the rich and the poor. The rich have high mansions, but the poor people have no food. If only I could help them more. ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "It's good that Lin'er can have a good heart. Chen Wenhui found that her parents always praised their children more. What enlightened parents. The family was talking.

Chen Cai's family came in from outside and replied, "Master, madam, there is no need to look for the shop." I talked to that Qiao Niang today. Plate her shop four hundred and fifty taels. Including her and her twelve embroiderers. And her two-piece shop. Her lease for that shop hasn't reached yet, so she can continue to rent it. There are also embroidery racks and seats in her shop. This is the list I counted, and I would like to ask my wife to look at it. ”

Bai Shi took the bill, looked at it carefully, and said, "That's good, half of the things are available, and now they can be opened." Chen Cai, you are not as fast as yours. You quickly put the yard down, and quickly find someone to repair the house, and try to start early. Chen Cai's family, you are neat, and you will be rewarded with three things. Don't be idle, go and take advantage of the time to repair the house, recruit a few daughters-in-law, and take care of a few tailors. Strive to do it as soon as possible. Chen Cai's family thanked him for his busyness.

There was nothing to say for a night, and as soon as it was dawn, Chen Cai went to find a broker and went to put the yard down. Then he went to the mason to repair the house, which was done with the help of his subordinate Chen Fu.

Chen Fu was very neat, and after a while, he found a mason to watch the repairs to the house. Chen Cai asked him to find a carpenter again to discuss making tools and household goods.

On the other side, Chen Cai's family also got up early in the morning to comb their hair and dress up. She wears two red gold plum hairpins on her head, a palace flower pinned to her left sideburns, red gold lantern pendants on her ears, and a royal blue flower jacket and a dark green cocoon silk skirt.

She took a car to the West Market, found a pedestrian leader, posted a trick, and recruited a daughter-in-law who knew how to needlework. People come and go in the West Market, and they are all looking for a job. But most of the work is done for men, and very few are for mothers-in-law. Everyone saw that it was the big housekeeper of the county order family who came out to recruit people, and it was a daughter-in-law who was recruited, and they all crowded to see. At first glance, I was looking for a needle and thread, and I had a monthly money of 500 yuan, and I was in charge of two sets of clothes a year, one thick and one thin. There are three days off per month, two days at the beginning of the month, and one day in the middle of the month. Take care of three meals while doing the work.

With such a good treatment, these people are tempted. This year's year is not good, and now it is a green and yellow year, and it is the time to come out to find a job, but there are many people and few jobs, and now it is a job that women can do, and they are busy going home to ask their mother-in-law and aunt to come out and try. You know, people in this era made their own clothes, so every woman could get a needle. After a while, a dozen or so came. Chen Cai's family had already prepared, took out some rags of fabric, and asked the daughter-in-law who came to the interview to do needlework on the spot.

As the morning passed, Chen Cai's family sat in the market of the West Market, carefully watching the daughters-in-law who came to apply for the job doing needlework. Now more and more people are applying, and the number of applicants has grown from about 10 at the beginning to more than 50 now.

Chen Cai's family, after observation, first selected the needle and thread, the stitches are fine, such a person followed her to the next room, and carefully inquired about the other party's age and family situation.

If he is selected, he will immediately ask the broker in the market to prepare a deed and sign an employment contract. If you are not selected, let the mother-in-law next to you give the other party ten cents for the fare. In this way, although the applicants are happy, and those who are not recruited have no complaints, they all praise the county commander's family for being generous.

Ten people were selected in such a morning, all of whom were innocent, over eighteen years old, and under twenty-five years old, clean and neat, and good needlework. After signing the contract with these people, I agreed with them to go to the government the next day, and receive training first, and the wages will be paid during the training. It's time for lunch. Chen Cai's family took the car back to the house and had a meal, and they didn't care about resting, and they continued to recruit people in the afternoon. In this way, after two days, a total of thirty people were recruited, and they were all carefully selected.

The next day, these thirty people all came to the mansion, and Bai specially asked people to choose three houses in the cross-courtyard on the west side, one for Yinhong to train cooks, and two for Feiguang to train needlework.

The cross-courtyard on the west side was originally for the concubines of the previous county commanders. Because Chen Yuanheng didn't even have a connecting room, it was always empty. Now it's a useful place. For a while, the western courtyard was full of people. Fortunately, they are all women. Originally, Chen Cai wanted to recruit a few male chefs for Yin Hong, because Yin Hong disagreed, they were all chefs, all over 20 and under 30. That's six in total. Now it's okay, there are thirty or forty women in a courtyard, all young daughters-in-law, and they are suddenly lively.

Here, Chen Cai bought the yard on the first day, and after arranging the craftsmen, he left it to Chen Fu, you must know that there are still many things waiting for him in the mansion and the yamen.

Chen Fu had to arrange for craftsmen to repair the yard of the house, and he had to ask the carpenters to do household belongings and make tools for embroidery. His mother is Chen Wenhui's nurse Zheng's mother, so she has long known that it is Chen Wenhui's big girl Feiguang who manages this embroidery workshop, so she often comes to the house to ask Feiguang how to make furniture and what kind of embroidery tools to make.

In order to better plan, Feiguang also went out of the house twice, went to the yard to see, and told Chen Fu, where is the place to cook, where is the place to embroider, where is the place where the tailor is tailored.

I also brought Chen Wenhui in between. Chen Wenhui proposed assembly line operation. And explain it in detail. Feiguang and Chen Fu were very impressed when they heard this, and according to the method of assembly line operation, they divided the sewing of clothes into more than a dozen steps, drew the pattern of the workbench, and asked the carpenters to make zuò.

During the training, Feiguang understood, selected, and selected six people with embroidery skills to teach them the secret skills of embroidery. During this period, the twelve embroiderers of the exquisite workshop were also called together to learn advanced embroidery skills. The remaining twenty-four needlework were divided into groups, and they were first trained in the summer clothes of the servants in the house, so as to cultivate their cooperation in assembly line operations.