Yang Shiqi was stopped on the way home. The young man who stopped him was dressed in a flying fish suit, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight nose and thin lips.

"Mr. Zhang, the old man has often heard of your name recently, but it's really thunderous." The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing Yang Shiqi's smiling face. He was not unhappy because of Zhang Ning's abruptness.

Zhang Ning bowed and said, "Disturb the old man." There are so many people in the disaster, I don't know how the elder plans to resettle them? ”

Yang Shiqi is worried about this, and there are a lot of victims who have poured into the capital, whether they are sent back or stay in the capital, it is not a small trouble. Not to mention how to settle these people after being repatriated, just eating and chewing along the way will cost a lot of food. These people are allowed to stay in the capital, and what do they do for a living? How many of them will sell themselves into slavery, and how many will starve to death because they have no food, or will take risks?

No one will give soup indefinitely.

The most sensational event in the capital in the past two days was the special horse-drawn carriage carrying strangely shaped machines. After Yang Shiqi learned about it, he sent someone to check it and found that it was a new loom, and he couldn't help but be amazed and felt that Zhang Ning was very strange.

Hearing Zhang Ning say this, Yang Shiqi's heart moved, his eyes showed a strange light, and said, "Zhang Gongzi has a way to settle them?" ”

It is common sense that looms require human hands to weave cloth.

"Exactly. The boy wanted a young woman to weave. Zhang Ning said bluntly.

Weaving can only be a woman, in the context of the era when men and women are more defensive than the sky, in order not to attract gossip, the person who steps on the foot can only be a woman, but it must be a strong woman, otherwise it will not be able to step on the foot for a long time.

And so it was. Yang Shiqi said: "The old man writes a handbook, how many people are needed, you can choose." ”

"Thank you, Elder." Zhang Ning saluted and thanked him.

Yang Shiqi immediately wrote a note, handed it to Zhang Ning, and said, "You can solve the problem of food and clothing for these women, it's too late for the old man to thank you." ”

Giving a job to a young woman may give a family hope of staying in the capital and reduce the unrest.

Zhang Ning took the note and went to Shuntianfu, and Shuntianfu Yin personally accompanied him to Yonganmen, where the victims were resettled. It's much cleaner, and there are no more ubiquitous Yoneda Kyo, and the victims are ruddy, but most of them are dazed, and a few are staring at someone coming.

"Master Zhang, you can just pick it." Shuntianfu Yin Wu Zhengguo's face, full of energy, as soon as he opened his mouth, it spread for ten miles.

"Thank you." Zhang Ning responded with a smile and motioned for Qing'er to pick someone. How to pick people, he has already explained to Qing'er.

When they heard that they were going to work, many men rushed over and scrambled to say, "I have the strength." ”

Qing'er stood on the wheel and shouted hoarsely, "Be quiet, listen to me." After shouting three times, the crowd gradually quieted down, and countless pairs of eyes looked at this delicate and lovely little girl, hoping that she could change her fate.

Qing'er was not afraid, and said loudly: "As long as a woman between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five is qualified, come here." He said and pointed to the open space on the right.

Wu Zheng discussed with Zhang Ning in a low voice: "Master Zhang, as long as you are young and strong, what should you do if you are old and weak?" "Aren't you a good person, you should pick the old and the weak.

Zhang Ning said: "Lord Wu doesn't know that textile factories need female workers, and the old and weak can't weave cloth or set foot on machines. "I'm here to recruit workers, not to do good deeds.

"What about the old and weak? What about men? Wu Zheng had a headache.

"There are two ways, one is that Lord Wu will set aside a piece of land and let these people build a straw hut to live; The first is to let them go back, and the selected female workers, I will arrange and live in a unified manner. ”

Including food, housing, and salary, this treatment is good enough, right?

Wu Zheng frowned tightly and said, "It's not appropriate." Neither approach is appropriate. ”

Zhang Ning said: "Weaving a piece of cloth for 100 copper plates, you can weave about 5 pieces of cloth a day, that is to say, you can earn 500 copper plates a day." Lord Wu, can such an income support a family? ”

"What?" Wu Zheng was surprised: "Can you weave five pieces of cloth a day? How can it be! ”

There were very few people who could weave a piece of cloth in three days on an old-fashioned loom, and most women could weave day and night, and could not weave a piece of cloth in five days.

"I've tried it, and it's true." If electricity is turned on, it is more than five pieces of cloth a day. Zhang Ning was speechless and said, "Now, do you allow the female workers and their families to stay in the capital?" ”

How can a family with an income of fifteen taels of silver a month not stay in the capital? Such a high income is enough to hire a few maidservants, have meat for three meals, and even buy fertile land, but the income of the landlord's old wealth is not so high.

"Yes, of course." Wu Zheng said in a loud voice: "Xiaguan thanked Master Zhang here. ”

Yin Sanpin of Shuntian Mansion, Zhang Ning is only the general banner of the seventh grade, and the official position is more than a little bit worse, but Zhang Ning is a brocade guard, and there is a codex written by Yang Shiqi, and Wu Zhengcai personally accompanied him. I didn't think about it, Zhang Ning is helping him solve big trouble.

"Don't dare." Zhang Ning returned the salute with a smile.

Solving the problem of employment is the first step, and there are many surprises ahead.

"Lord Zhang, please." Wu Zheng was very polite and invited Zhang Ning to the clean shed next to him for tea.

This shed was used by the gentry for soup kitchen, and when the Shuntian Mansion Yin came, the servant asked the gentry's housekeeper to hurry up and clean it up, change it into clean tables and chairs, and serve fragrant tea for the parents and officials to rest.

The two sat down, and Wu Zheng asked about the loom.

Zhang Ning picked up what he could say, and Wu Zheng was fascinated when he heard it, and said: "If this is the case, it is a blessing for the people." ”

"Please make it convenient for you." Zhang Ning took the opportunity to make a request, after all, the cloth is to be sold after weaving, although the first customer has been decided, but if there is a surplus, don't you have to sell it to the outside?

Wu Zhengdao: "That's nature. ”

After the two of them finished drinking tea, Qing'er hadn't picked a good person yet, and a total of 1,200 female workers were needed. In three shifts, there are 600 female textile workers and 600 female pedaling workers.

Wu Zheng saw that the hour was not early, and said, "The official still has something to do, so go first." ”

If he hadn't been here, Zhang Ning would have gone back a long time ago, and the recruitment would have been handed over to Qing'er.

Seeing off Wu Zheng, Zhang Ning also got in the car and went home. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the house, he was invited by someone sent by Zhang Fu, and when Zhang Fu saw him, he said: "You kid is amazing, you want to pick people among the victims." ”

"Questions?" Zhang Ning was puzzled.

"It's a big problem. Who in the provinces did not have a man who ate idle? How good it would be for these people to weave cloth, and it would be better for you to make it convenient for the victims. ”

Word spread so fast? You know that female workers earn fifteen taels of silver a month, so you want the maidservants of various provinces to work and generate income, right? Zhang Ning slandered and said: "Grandpa Guo doesn't know, it's very tiring to do this job, those eldest sisters in various provinces are pampered, where can they do it?" ”

"What's so tiring about?"

"They can't stop when the machine moves, except for eating and going to the toilet."

"That's right." Zhang Fu twisted his eyebrows and thought about it, and said, "Then we have to let them go." ”