Chapter 10: Azusa people

At normal times, the villagers basically wipe their faces and start working after getting up, as for brushing their teeth and eating breakfast......

There are two meals a day, one at noon and one at night.

The simplest toothbrushes have appeared, but they are basically the stuff used by princes and nobles.

As for the common people, the more particular ones may chew open the willow branches and dip them in salt and poke them in their mouths, and the vast majority of people hardly know about brushing their teeth......

Therefore, almost all the people on the street are full of yellow teeth, and they can smoke cows to death when they open their mouths!

Today, many people in Tao Village are not busy working after getting up, because many people who are on rotation have to send their families to serve as craftsmen, so they have to pack up their packages and prepare some food......

Lu Yuehua was also helping to clean up, crushing the one or two pieces of silver that Wei Ming had specially given, and sewing them into the sandwich of a piece of clothing.

While Wei Youfu was cooking breakfast, he taught Wei Ming some rules when he was a craftsman, which can be described as a sincere teaching.

As for Wei Ming himself, he didn't take all this seriously, pinching the willow branch and dipping it in salt and poking it in his mouth......

It's just a strange smell of salt purification, and you have to be careful to beware of Lu Yuehua's eyes that she thinks she is wasting salt, in short, for the first time in his life, Wei Ming found that brushing his teeth was so hard.

"Take these breads with you, and eat them when you're hungry!"

After breakfast, Lu Yuehua stuffed the leftover cakes into the package, and then accompanied Wei Youfu to send Wei Ming to the courtyard in the village.

There are more than ten people in the village who are on rotation, and they are all concentrated in the courtyard at this moment.

Except for the big tiger, almost all of the rest are young and strong.

Perhaps because of this, after seeing that the Wei family actually let Wei Ming go to serve as a craftsman, all the villagers looked unhappy, and Wei Dasong and Huang Ying and the two even spoke directly Wei Youfu and said: "It's just a tiger boy, after all, they usually do heavy work, but Brother Ming is recovering from a serious illness, don't drag us down when the time comesβ€”or your family should consider it and go to another person?" ”

Hearing this, before Wei Youfu and Lu Yuehua began to retreat, Wei Ming's face sank, and he looked at Wei Dasong and Huang Yingyi: "Although it is said that they are going to serve as craftsmen together, they have to be regrouped when they arrive at the craftsman prison, and we may not be separated together, so why drag it down?" ”

"Brother Ming, let's say this, that's a good heart, don't be kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs!"

Wei Dasong Huang Yingyi, who was choked, snorted coldly and said: "If you really want to go, we won't stop you, but if you really get together with me, you don't have to ask me for help!" ”

"Whoever asks for help, it's impossible to say!"

Wei Ming sneered in his heart, turned around and whispered to Wei Youfu Lu Yuehua that after asking for the secret of porcelain burning again, he followed the team on the road.

"Brother Ming, don't be afraid!"

Dahu came up and said, "When we get to the ground, I'll go and beg the potter to let him divide the two of us together as much as possible, and then I can help you more!" ”

"You guys have a heart!"

Wei Ming smiled, rubbed Dahu's head and said, "You didn't eat in the morning, did you?" Hungry or not? ”

"Although there is no salary for serving as a craftsman, you can take care of the food!"

The big tiger said with a treacherous face: "When you get to the ground, you can let go of your belly and eat!" ”

"When dinner starts over there, I don't know when it will be!"

Wei Ming shook his head amusedly, took out a piece of cake and handed it to Dahu, and asked him to put it on the mat first.

"White flour cake ......"

As soon as the big tiger who wanted to be polite saw that it was a white-flour cake, he suddenly even drooled down, and began to gobble it up when he took it.

"Eat slowly, don't choke!"

Seeing that this guy ate everything as if he had been released from the starvation prison, Wei Ming couldn't help but want to laugh, and looked into the distance while greeting, full of confidence that he wanted to start soaring through this craftsman's service......

The reason is very simple, that is, although the system of three provinces and six ministries has begun to be implemented, and the threshold for ordinary people to be officials has begun, but because of the enlightened aftermath of the Tang Dynasty, it has not completely blocked the upward channel except for the door shade and the imperial examination!

It can also be recommended, and it can also be variegated into the stream!

Thinking of this, Wei Ming secretly rejoiced, glad that the time for him to wear it was not too late, if he came more than a hundred years late, it would be miserable!

After all, at that time, all kinds of rules and regulations will be a hundred times stricter than today, just because he was born in a craftsman family, he can't leave his nationality if he is a craftsman for life, and he has to be a craftsman for a lifetime, which is enough to make him cry to death.

Among the three provinces and six ministries, the Ministry of Industry is in charge of handicrafts and so on.

In the Ministry of Works, there are also young government supervisors and craftsmen as supervisors.

The Shaofu Supervisor was in charge of dyeing and weaving, blacksmithing, and palm smelting, while the Craftsman Supervisor was in charge of carpentry and pottery.

The scale of this craftsman supervision conscription is not small, as many as thousands.

However, the vast majority of them were carpenters who were recruited to build palaces and gardens, and the number of potters was much smaller, no more than seven or eight hundred.

Although there were a lot of people, the scene was not chaotic.

At the time of admission, all the servants were divided into several batches according to their place of residence, so that by the time each group entered, there were only a hundred or dozens of people left.

"Give me all peace!"

After a short queue, after a loud shout, a middle-aged official wearing a felt hat came to the stage and said: "A certain craftsman is the secretary of Pei Mi, in the next three months, you and others need to be assigned by a certain person to complete a pottery work, I hope that you and others will cooperate closely, and do not steal and play tricks, otherwise the light one will be punished, and the heavy one will be sent to the law department to be strictly dealt with - you understand?" ”

"Somehow understood!"

Everyone responded in unison.

"Good!"

Pei Mi nodded and sat down, and then several eunuchs stepped forward to make a register, and at the same time, according to the custom, let everyone nominate Ziren.

The so-called Ziren is the title of the Tang Dynasty for those with exquisite craftsmanship from all walks of life.

Although the status of the Azusa people may not be very noble, the treatment is not low at all......

For example, in any workshop, not only do they not have to work by themselves, but their wages can often reach more than three times that of ordinary craftsmen, and even if they are the owner, they often have to pay three points of courtesy.

In addition to helping to supervise the quality of the pottery, the potters also need to share some management tasks.

After all, although each potter may be responsible for only thirty or forty people in the end, there are as many as 10,000 pieces of utensils fired in three months!

These utensils will be engraved with the name of the pottery, and eventually sent to the court or elsewhere for living and sacrificing and so on.

But if there is a mistake, all the supervisors and the like will be held accountable.

Relying on the recorder himself, he was afraid that he would not be able to guarantee the quality of all the finished products, so he had to ask Ziren for help.

Correspondingly, if you become a Azusa person, then you will be considered a big and small person.

Although the responsibility is not small, it is easier in the end, so there is no one present who does not want to be elected to become a Ziren.

But obviously, although they all want to become Azusa people, not everyone's craftsmanship can convince the public, and they can't recommend themselves......

Therefore, after a small controversy, several Azusa people were finally elected.

The Ziren elected by Taocun is precisely Wei Dasong!