The next day, Zhang Yue just came to the county office.

Someone came to see him with a post.

When he opened it, Zhang Yue smiled: "Hurry up, please ......"

Not long after, a middle-aged man with a big belly was brought to Zhang Yue.

"Villain Yuan An, I would like to ask Jun An......" This person bowed to Zhang Yue and bowed respectfully: "May Jun be blessed for a long time......"

The person who came was Zhang Yue's cheap disciple Yuan Chang's confidant and retainer, Yuan An, who was appointed by Yuan Guangguo as the head of the Xinfeng Workshop.

During the time when Zhang Yue returned to Beijing, the Yuan family took the lead in increasing the investment of millions of dollars in Xinfeng Workshop Park, doubling the scale of the industry.

Under his leadership, other wealthy businessmen have increased their investment quota in Xinfeng.

Zhang Yue has learned about these situations through Sang Jun's quality day.

At present, the number of workshops in Xinfeng Workshop Park has reached dozens.

Among them, there are more than 30 large-scale handicraft workshops with more than 100 employees!

All of a sudden, a large-scale handicraft base with thousands of workers was formed in Xinfeng County.

Limited by Zhang Yue's promise to reduce commercial and other miscellaneous taxes, these workshops may not be able to benefit Xinfeng financially for the time being.

But......

The benefits are already apparent.

The most direct impact is - employment!

Although, most of these workshops were moved from other places, along with craftsmen and overseers.

However......

After all, you have to recruit people.

As long as people are recruited, they will be given priority to recruit from Xinfeng locally.

As a result, the problem of sons-in-law and rangers that had caused headaches for the county commanders of Xinfeng for countless years was solved.

A large number of surplus sons and bankrupt peasants entered the workshops and engaged in handicrafts.

Even the rangers who often wandered in the pavilion now have a stable livelihood.

Although these people are accustomed to being lazy and lazy.

It is no longer possible to become a qualified handicraft worker.

But to show the door to the workshop owners, to be a dog's leg, and even to be a guard, is qualified.

As a result, Xinfeng's social order and public order became better all of a sudden.

Now Xinfeng, although Zhang Yue does not have the predecessors of the Legalists, what kind of harsh punishment is used, and he is often connected.

However, there were also cases of unrelenting roads and nights that had appeared under the rule of other Legalist predecessors.

This makes many people feel a little inexplicable and unclear.

But in Zhang Yue's view, this is very well understood.

Employment is a good medicine for all social problems.

The fundamental reason for the chaos in public order is that the employment rate is not high, and the people have no way to make a living, so they can only cry chickens, steal dogs, and even kill people and sell goods.

If you have a stable job, you can live a stable life with your hands.

Who would do something like being poked in the back or even losing their head?

For the Zhuxia nation, the hot pit head of wives and children is an eternal pursuit.

Mencius had already said many years ago - those who have constant birth have perseverance!

And this matter also made Zhang Yue and the whole Xinfeng taste the sweetness.

Even the students have changed their attitude towards the Workshop from their former contempt and contempt to their current neutrality and even friendliness.

Yuan An, a representative of a big businessman, has also improved a lot in Xinfeng's social status.

At the very least, he can now enter and exit the government office openly.

It also makes him very useful.

But in front of Zhang Yue, Yuan An was still as deferential as a house slave, he lowered his head and said: "The day before yesterday, Jun asked the young master of my family to contact the 'powerful people' in the southwest Yizhong on his behalf......"

"Now, my lord has contacted a reliable 'powerful' Nanyi figure, I wonder if you want to see it?"

When Zhang Yue heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Please also introduce ......."

Xinfeng's workshop garden has now begun to take shape, and it can even be said that it has the momentum of taking off.

But there is another problem that Zhang Yue needs to solve - cheap labor!

Although, now the labor force of the Han family is already very cheap.

Newly recruited workers in the workshop are all signed with so-called 'apprenticeship contracts'.

The general contract has a three-year 'apprenticeship'.

During the apprenticeship, the workshop owner only needs to meet the apprentice's two meals a day, distribute clothes for the four seasons, and then pay the apprentice a symbolic monthly salary of 100 yuan.

And for these apprentices, the workshop owners can do almost everything they can to suppress them.

Let them be cattle and horses, and they can still make these people grateful, and even think that they are great good people!

After all, for the rest of the children, it is simply natural to have someone to take care of their two meals a day, give them a place to stay, and let them learn skills and even wages!

But there will always be a time when the apprenticeship period will expire.

The handicraft industry of the Han family attaches great importance to technology.

The salary of a skilled expert is not low!

Even if he is just an ordinary craftsman, his salary is more than 1,000 per month, and he has to arrange a house for him, and even a sister for him!

During the New Year's holidays, you have to wrap a big red envelope.

Otherwise, people can vote with their feet.

Skilled people can have food wherever they go!

As a result, this brings a question - how to minimize the production cost?

If it is in other places, it is easy to solve, slave storage!

Leave all the heavy, boring, and unskilled work to the slaves.

Anyway, slaves and maids have no human rights.

But in Xinfeng, especially in the workshop garden, Zhang Yue explicitly forbade the use of slaves and maids.

Once someone is found to be using slave labor, the slave will be confiscated directly!

Secondly, in the future Xinfeng or the future Xinfeng Economic Circle, there may be a lot of murderous projects.

For example, the calcination of cement, the stove of iron smelting, and so on.

In the case of the former, in this era, there are not enough tools for labor protection, especially masks.

Zhang Yue estimates that a cement calcination worker only has about three years of working life.

Three years later, pneumoconiosis could kill him directly!

And the iron-smelting blast furnace of the iron-smelting industry is even worse!

It's a deadly maniac!

If one is not careful, he will turn into molten iron like Mo Ye.

Even if you are very careful, there may be all kinds of accidents that can lead to various disabilities.

Not to mention, the disability rate of the salt-boiling craftsmen who work in the Lantian Salt Pond Factory, not far from Xinfeng, is alarmingly high!

Therefore, Zhang Yue had no choice but to ask for help.

In fact, the best way is still the Qiang people in Tianshui, Wuwei and other border counties.

As long as you take the path of the local Huangshui Hu riders, you will not worry about the source of cheap labor.

But now, Zhang Yue does not have the conditions to talk to the Huangshui Hu Riders, at least until next year, when Fan Mingyou brings back the descendants of Ji Gugu.

Perhaps there is an opportunity to open up this path.

But it doesn't matter, except for the Qiang people in the Lingju, Tianshui, and Wuwei regions.

Zhang Yue can also turn to the southwest region for help.

Today's southwest mountains can be called a hundred flowers blooming, and the demons are dancing.

Locally, there are countries like Yelang and Dian that have begun to sinicize.

There are also people like the Servant Kingdom who rely on the slave trade to become human traffickers.

The high-quality slaves trained by the Yu Kingdom are even as famous as the Silla maids of the Tang Dynasty today.

Zhang Yue also had no choice but to do this.

Otherwise......

Who will fill in the number of sacrifices made in the development of this technology?

With the lives of the people under his rule?

No kidding!

And in this world, there is no such thing as a product that can increase productivity and technological power without sacrificing.

To develop comes sacrifice.

Moreover, the number of sacrifices is not single-digit, tens, hundreds, thousands. Rather, in the thousands!

The scenes that Marx and Engels had seen have always echoed in Zhang Yue's mind.

The voices of child and female workers wailing for tragic deaths in the factories before and after the Industrial Revolution in Britain have been haunting his heart like a nightmare.

The success of the Western Industrial Revolution was built with millions of human lives after absorbing the wealth and resources of the world.

Among the victims were people who had been taken captive and enslaved by their ships and cannons.

And their own people, their compatriots, their neighbors and friends!

Not to mention, Zhang Yue has calculated that even now, even if it is today's Xinfeng Workshop Park, it wants to develop and grow, and realize the scale of handmade textile industry and iron smelting and cement calcination.

At least 10,000 people have to die!

And so many people die every year!

Can the Chinese agree? Can you do it?

Funny!

As long as this kind of thing happens, Xinfeng will immediately turn from the land of hope to a demon cave.

Then, all day long will come to criticize and write.

No king today or any king in the future will be able to spare him, the initiator, and will surely have his body torn to pieces!

There will be no place for him in the whole world!

Want to play sheep and eat people in China like the British?

Zhang Yueke has not forgotten that on the eve of the fall of the Xia Dynasty, those people who shouted 'time is lost, and you are all dead', have not forgotten the roar of Daze Township a hundred years ago, and dare not forget the war song of the farmers of the Yellow Turban Army in the late Eastern Han Dynasty - the head is like a chicken, the hair is like a leek, cut and reborn, the officials do not have to be fearful, and the small people are never light!

Therefore, Zhang Yue could only ask for help from other places.

Anyway, other people's children can't die!

Moreover, he has already thought of a full set of plans, a way that can perfectly clear himself from the responsibilities of Xinfeng and even the Han family.

Yuan An chuckled and said respectfully, "Do you want to see you now?" ”

"The villain will immediately go and inform Chang Gong to come......"

"Chang Gong?" Zhang Yue asked suspiciously.

"Ran......" Yuan An replied with a chuckle: "This duke is a side branch of the Yunnan royal family, and he is a great family in the southwest. ”

"Moreover, this Chang Gong is still the guest of the young secretary of the young mansion, this time the squatting owl and the head of the Guanzhong, he is the first southwest businessman to be transported to Guanzhong, so he was rewarded by the Son of Heaven......"

Zhang Yue listened and nodded.

The royal family of Dian is indeed a common surname, speaking of which the Dian Kingdom and several small countries near the Dian Kingdom actually belong to the side branches of Zhuxia.

In the middle of the Warring States period, the Chu people occupied Bashu and launched the first exploration of the southwest region in Chinese history.

It's a pity that their luck was too bad, they had just conquered the southwest, and Laowo was copied by the Qin people.

I had no choice but to put down roots in the local area.

Therefore, when the Han envoy arrived in Dian for the first time, the king of Dian asked the Han envoy: "Which is the big Han and Yunnan?" "It's completely maliciously selling cuteness!