Kou Ji and his entourage got out of the carriage, and the cold wind swept a little snow star, hitting their faces, a little cold.

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others took those shivering homeless people who were freezing in the cold wind and saluted Kou Ji and the others together.

Bi Sheng led the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, wrapped in thick leather jackets, and saluted Kou Ji and others.

After they gave their salutes, Kou Ji tightly dragged the big on his body and said, "Let the people go back to the house to rest first, in this weather, it is not easy to heal if it is frozen." ”

When Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this, they didn't say much, turned around and told the displaced people to go back to the house to rest first.

In each house, there is a clay stove that is next to the wall, and a hole is cut out of the wall, and the chimney is molded, and it leads to the roof.

Once the stove is burning, the house is warm, and there is no need to worry about smoke and fire.

The homeless people did not have much clothing to protect themselves from the cold, so they stayed in their houses so that they would not be frozen.

The homeless people heard Koji's order and did not stay long, and returned to their houses in groups of three or five.

After Kou Ji was resettled outside the city, he wandered around the place where the displaced people were resettled from time to time, and most of the displaced people knew him and knew him as a man of all kinds.

They also knew that when Kou Ji opened his mouth, there was not much room for maneuver.

After sending the homeless people back to the house to rest, Kou Ji asked Chen Jing to take them to the newly built textile workshop.

The one-zhang high bluestone wall is very dazzling in the resettlement of displaced people.

The roof made of wood and bricks, in the shape of a herringbone, is pressed against the stone wall, and it looks very solid and solid.

It is about 12 zhang long, and it looks like a solid city wall more than two workshops.

The gaps between the stones were scraped clean with iron rings, and the muddy water that dripped on the walls when the roof was built was also cleaned.

If it weren't for the pale white gap reminding everyone that it was a wall, everyone would have thought that the stone wall was a wall.

The homeless people from the village are as practical and delicate as ever.

Liu Heng looked at the stone wall, and he couldn't wait to pull these homeless people outside the city into Bianjing City and tear down Liu's mansion to rebuild.

Cao Tong stared at the stone wall and sighed: "Fourth brother, you are a construction workshop, and you have clearly built a fortress. ”

Kou Ji glanced at him and said angrily: "Nonsense...... After the textile workshop is built, it will take decades, or even hundreds of years. If it is built by civil engineering, it will collapse in less than ten years, and it will not be necessary to continue to build at that time.

Instead of building again and again, it is better to do it in one step. ”

Liu Heng nodded approvingly: "The fourth brother is right, after this textile workshop is built, it will take a long time." Although our brother is the owner of the textile workshop, we don't have so much spare time to help build the textile workshop again and again. ”

Among the crowd, only Mu Chong's expressions were more complicated.

They made the stone for the weaving workshop.

The three of them were happy, but the three of them threw a lot of money in it.

"Go in and see ......"

Chen Jing saw that Kou Ji and the others were very satisfied with the workshop they had built, and invited with a bright smile on his face.

Kou Ji nodded, and led everyone to step on the bluestone paved path, all the way across the double circular waterway, to the front of the workshop.

The workshop is divided into two parts, one is a spinning workshop and the other is a weaving workshop.

Kou Ji and his party arrived first at the spinning workshop.

There were a group of women in the workshop.

Outside the door stood an old man and a young man, two craftsmen, one carrying a ladder and the other holding a vermilion lacquer.

Kou Ji looked at the two craftsmen, one old and one young, and was slightly stunned, and said, "What is this?" ”

Wang Tiansheng stepped forward and said with a smile: "Our workshop is going to start, we have to find a way to get a lottery, right?" The students thought about whether they could borrow the legend of the finishing touch to give the workshop a red spot, and wished us a prosperous future after the workshop started. ”

As he spoke, Wang Tiansheng pointed to the top of the workshop door.

Kou Ji and the others looked at his fingers, and saw that on the top of the workshop door, there was a piece of bluestone with two words engraved on it.

A, line ......

A is sorted.

The ancients sorted it by A, B, C, D, etc.

The thread is the purpose of the workshop.

It is used to distinguish it from spinning workshops and weaving workshops.

Kou Ji looked at the two engraved words, and knew what the ladder and vermilion lacquer in the hands of the old man and the young man at the door were for.

Before Kou Ji could speak, Meng Weizhong frowned and said, "In the textile workshop, it is most taboo to see red. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

The smile on Wang Tiansheng's face froze.

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "There are no taboos...... What's more, if the textile workshop is really jealous of red, then your silk weaving workshop can't produce red silk? ”

Meng Weizhong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "It's a gaffe......

Kou Ji smiled and didn't say anything more.

The group entered the spinning workshop.

The women in the workshop saluted in unison.

At the head were several older women, who were far better dressed than the others, and seemed very close to Mu Chong and the others.

Obviously, the women of them are all textile masters transferred from Sichuan and Shu by Mu Chong and others.

Kou Ji and the others entered the workshop, and an elderly woman led them to visit the workshop.

The workshop is filled with three-spindle pedal spinning wheels, which are placed like a classroom.

Seven or eight three-spindle pedal spinning wheels, with their backs west and east, and the rest of the three-spindle pedal spinning wheels, with their backs east and west.

Some hemp, wool and other materials have been shelved on the edge of the spinning wheel.

Seeing that some spinning wheels have already been put on thread, they must have been taught spinning.

Kou Ji and the others circled around the workshop and instructed the women to start spinning threads for everyone to watch.

The textile masters invited from Sichuan and Shu immediately sat in the seven or eight spinning wheels with their backs to the west and east.

The rest of the women sat down in the other spinning wheels and began to spin.

The sound of footsteps sounded.

The women began to spin the thread on the three-spindle pedal spinning wheel.

After a while, the sound of spinning threads became one piece, and the sound was pleasant.

Chen Jing and the others listened to the sound of spinning and smiled.

Mu Chong, Qian Le, Meng Weizhong, Liu Heng, Cao Tong and others listened to the pleasant spinning sound and were slightly shocked.

They had never seen or heard of such a large-scale, such neatly spun thread.

Although the cloth produced may be simple, the output will increase linearly.

Kou Ji's gaze stayed on those women for a long time, and he smiled and said to Chen Jing and the others: "Later, I will send the steward of the mansion to come over and select a few spirits from among them to serve as stewards."

At the beginning of the spring of next year, they will begin to calculate their wages. ”

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others nodded with a smile when they heard this.

When the women heard this, they were so excited that they were a little more diligent in their hands.

Kou Ji took the group to the weaving workshop to inspect it.

The situation in the weaving workshop is much the same as in the spinning workshop.

To Kou Ji's surprise, the women who weave seemed to have begun to weave with the textile masters from Sichuan and Shu before the workshop was completed, so when Kou Ji inspected the weaving workshop, he saw a lot of twine, wool, and sections of cloth hanging on the loom.

The fabrics of wool and linen weaving are more than a little worse than the fabrics of silk weaving.

But it doesn't affect their sales.

Compared with silk, hemp and wool fabrics are in greater demand.

When Chen Jing took Kou Ji to inspect the weaving workshop, he told Kou Ji that in a few days, the first batch of fabrics would come out.

"As long as there is enough wool and linen, we can weave a lot of fabrics before the New Year. If you can sell it during the New Year, you can make a lot of money. ”

Chen Jing said with some joy.

Kou Ji smiled: "There is no need to worry about the problem of hair and hemp. However, the fabrics that came out in the first few batches could not be sold. They have to be kept to make clothes for the people here.

I hope that before our fabrics are sold, everyone here will have a complete set of clothes to protect them from the cold. ”

When Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this, they bowed deeply to Kou Ji.

Liu Heng, Cao Yan, Mu Chong and others did not have many objections to Kou Ji's decision.

There is input, there is output.

If the homeless people do not have enough food and clothing, it is impossible for them to work hard.

After inspecting the textile workshop.

The people went outside the workshop.

With Kou Ji's order, a cart of firecrackers brought by Liu Heng and Cao Tong was picked on the pole and lit together.

The sound of crackling firecrackers resounded throughout this world.

The homeless people poked their heads out of their houses and craned their necks to watch.

The sound of firecrackers, as if it had mana, dispelled the shadow that had shrouded their hearts for many days, as well as the damage caused by the flood.

Some of them had bright smiles on their faces.

Some old people, caressing the children who were obediently curled up in their arms, whispered, "Cubs, we have a home......

Firecrackers were lit.

The craftsmen who were guarding in front of the two large workshops went up with ladders and painted the two words on the top of the workshop door in red.

Kou Ji ordered on the spot to kill pigs and sheep, so that the people in the camp followed suit.

There are not many pigs and sheep, and there are very few people who can eat meat, but it is still easy for each person to share a bowl of soup with shredded meat.

The people held the hot broth in their hands, sucking it carefully, and laughing happily.

Kou Ji and the others gathered in a circle, each holding a bowl of soup full of meat, looking at the bright smiles of those people from the heart, and felt warm in their hearts.

Mu Chong stared at the meat in the bowl, and said with a smile: "On weekdays, such things are placed in front of me, I can't touch them, I don't know why, today I think they are very sweet." ”

Liu Heng chewed on the greasy mutton with only a small amount of salt, and nodded seriously.

Kou Ji smiled and nodded, summoning a little guy who was not far from them, staring at the meat in their bowl and drooling.

The little guy is not afraid of life, and when he saw Kou Ji waving his hand to call him, he walked up to Kou Ji in a daze, with two lines of clear noses, a frozen red face on his back, drooling, and staring at the meat in Kou Ji's bowl.

He didn't know how big an official Kou Ji was, and how noble the identities of these people here were.

All he knew was that the meat in Kou Ji's bowl was really fragrant.

He was tempted to take a bite.

Just one bite......

Kou Ji picked out a lean lump from the bowl and handed it to the little one.

The little guy didn't take the chopsticks in Kou Ji's hand, but quickly took off the meat from Kou Ji's chopsticks and quickly stuffed it into his mouth.

"Eat ...... slowly"

"Eat ...... slowly"

Kou Ji reminded in a whisper.

The little guy didn't seem to hear it, and munched on the meat in his hand.

Until he gnawed the meat in his hand clean, he raised his face again and looked at the meat bowl in Kou Ji's hand.

The little guy is greedy, but he is very well-behaved.

Kou Ji didn't give it to him, and he didn't have the posture to snatch at all.

Kou Ji didn't give the little guy any more meat to eat, but laughed in a low voice: "You haven't seen oil and water for a long time, you don't dare to eat more, you can easily slip your intestines if you eat too much......"

The little guy tilted his head and stared at Kou Ji, thinking for a long time, but he didn't figure out what a slippery intestine was.

But he analyzed through Kou Ji's words that it roughly meant that it was not good for his health.

The little guy groaned for a while, stared at Kou Ji, and said, "Can you give me another piece, I want to give it to Nan Nan to eat......

As if he was afraid that Kou Ji would not give it, he put on a snotty little face, and said seriously: "When I grow up and raise sheep, I will give you a whole one." ”

Kou Ji was stunned.

Mu Chong and the others laughed loudly.

Qian Le laughed even more and said: "This deal is not a loss......"

Kou Ji directly stuffed the meat bowl in his hand to the little guy, and said with a smile: "Okay...... I'll wait for you to grow up, and give me a whole sheep. ”

The little guy held the meat bowl and nodded thoughtfully.

Then he turned around and ran away with the meat bowl in his arms.

With Kou Ji taking the lead, Liu Heng, Mu Chong and others also successively summoned the little guys who were not far from them and handed them the meat bowl.

Kou Ji scattered the meat in the bowl with a loud sound.

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and the others stared at Kou Ji and the others: "You are really different from the officials and businessmen we saw before. ”

Kou Ji and the others glanced at each other, smiled and shook their heads.

Kou Ji said to Wang Tiansheng: "After the snow stops, the workshop will continue to build a workshop, and it is necessary to build a workshop that is enough for women to work. At the same time as building the workshop, a group of people were also assigned to build several large stoves, which were different from other stoves, and the craftsmen in my house were responsible for the specifics.

In addition, a few of you will find some craftsmen among the people and build some houses together.

Gather all the children here and teach them to read and write.

I remember that there were quite a few people among the people who were literate.

The gentleman who teaches the children to read can be chosen from among them. ”

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others were stunned when they heard this, and Wang Tiansheng said in astonishment: "Kou Gong Department, you want to build a private school?" Let the children here all read? ”

Kou Ji asked, "Can't you?" ”

Wang Tiansheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not that it can't be done...... It's just that there are 40,000 or 50,000 children here. In addition to those female dolls, there are also twenty or thirty thousand male dolls.

Twenty or thirty thousand dolls are not something that can be placed in a private school. ”