Seeing Marin giggling with the drinking cup he made out of his father's oil, Hans, the person in charge of the sauerkraut fish canning workshop, was so frightened that his legs were weak and he almost urinated.

The conscience of heaven and earth...... No, God can testify that he hasn't done anything corrupt. Not only is the stopper defective, but even the glass bottle is out of shape. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to use it as a water cup.

However, the cork can be handed over to other units to be processed and made into smaller cork. After all, the cork in the cannery is large, while the cork in the perfume factory is small. The defective cork he intercepted was sent to the perfume factory, and several perfume stoppers could be processed......

Therefore, Hans was now trembling with nervousness, for fear of being punished by Marin.

But in the end, Marin did not punish Hans. Instead, he was given a handful of gold coins as a bounty. Because, he helped himself solve a big problem. Of course, Marin still gave a verbal warning to him for his greed for defective cork stoppers that can be reprocessed - not as an example......

In addition to glass bottles, Marlin also "designed" wooden boxes for canned fruit and bottled fruit juices. After all, glass bottles are cumbersome to transport and can easily break. Therefore, it is necessary to put the glass bottle in a wooden box and fix it in public. In this way, the glass bottles do not collide with each other and cause breakage.

This design is relatively simple, that is, a fixed space is designed according to the size of the glass bottle. Of course, when packing, some soft thatch will be stuffed into the wooden box as a cushion to avoid collision between the glass bottle and the wooden box and cause breakage. As for sponge foam or something, when cushioning? It doesn't exist, industrial sponges and foam marlin don't have, and I don't know how to make them. And the natural sponge, that thing is too expensive, it's too luxurious to use to pad the bottle, or thatch is cheaper......

As for the cost of the wooden box? Marlin acts in the endless forests of the North American continent, where wood is not an issue......

However, the craftsmen who make the wooden boxes are a big problem......

The status of craftsmen in Beihai Country is very high, even if they are novice craftsmen, their daily salary is 3 pfennig, which is 1.5 times that of ordinary people. And skilled craftsmen have a minimum daily wage of four or five pfennigs, which is more than twice that of ordinary people. A good craftsman can even earn as much as 1 shilling a day a day. Of course, people have been doing it for decades.

If these craftsmen were to be used to make wooden boxes, the cost would be really not small. But Ma Lin suddenly remembered that he seemed to be able to go to Daming to get a craftsman......

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were very hard-working, not only did their political status be extremely low, but their income was not guaranteed. In particular, the craftsmen who were included in the craftsman register had to work voluntarily for the imperial court every year, and were often pulled by officials to do private work. The most infuriating thing is that there is no money for private work for officials......

That's it, usually those officials who manage the craftsmen are still greedy for the wages of the craftsmen......

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, craftsmen serving the imperial court belonged to hard labor, so the salary given was very low, and it was good to be able to give 20 taels of silver a year.

Well, according to the European exchange rate, it is equivalent to 3 pfennig per day. Looks like a pretty good thing, doesn't it?

But this is only a façade, because there are many civil servants above the craftsmen of the craftsman's book......

If you don't deduct the wages of craftsmen, is that still my civil official in the Ming Dynasty? Counting on the salary of an official of a few dozen taels of silver a year, how can he be chic in this day?

So, the craftsmen were out of luck. It is clearly said that there is an annual salary of 20 taels or even more, but after a few hands of civil officials, the craftsmen can get 10 taels of silver, even if the officials have a conscience......

If you get a group of craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty, the salary expenses can be greatly reduced!

Moreover, according to the feedback from the New York shipyard, the shipbuilders from Daming are extremely satisfied with their current lives......

Can you not be satisfied? Marin gave them a modest salary, only 3 pfennig per day, which belonged to the lowest artisan salary in the North Sea Country.

However, this is also much more than what I got in Daming before......

In addition, the most important thing is that their daily life treatment is much better than in the Ming Dynasty!

For example, Marin stipulates that all craftsmen in the shipyard can eat in the factory canteen, and their wives and children can also eat.

This alone can save the artisan family a lot of money every year. Because, in the Ming Dynasty, food expenses accounted for most of the poor families.

Not only that, but the food in the shipyard was much better than that of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. First of all, because there is a lot of wheat in the New York colony, this noodle can be eaten with white flour. Generally, European artisans eat bread, while Daming artisans eat steamed buns and noodles.

Although many craftsmen who eat rice in the south are not very adaptable, they are very happy because of the enough steamed buns. Poor people, it's good to be full, and dare to be picky?

And what makes the craftsmen of Daming happy and satisfied the most is the fish and meat served in the shipyard canteen!

Because of its proximity to Newfoundland's fishing grounds, there is plenty of salted fish to eat all year round. As for the meat? Hunting parties often go out into the forests to hunt wild deer, porcupines, turkeys, and other game meats. Shipyards, one of the most important establishments in North America, are often prioritized for the supply of meat......

Therefore, the Ming craftsmen of the shipyard are not nonsense to have fish and meat. Although meat is not available every day, fish can be eaten every day. Such a life is unthinkable in Daming.

In ancient China, the poor were rarely able to eat meat. And most of the people who can eat meat are the powerful and landlords. Therefore, in ancient China, the magnates were also called "meat eaters". There is a saying in "Zuo Biography" that "meat eaters despise", and the poet Du Fu also wrote the poem "Zhumen wine and meat stink". Therefore, in ancient China, eating meat was a characteristic of wealthy families. As for the poor families, they can't eat meat a few times a year. Therefore, the common people of ancient China were very short of oil and water. And the children are also looking forward to the New Year. Because, during the Chinese New Year, even if the Chinese are poor, they will grit their teeth and buy a few catties of meat to improve their lives. Therefore, in ancient China, there was a saying that "children look forward to the New Year, and adults look forward to farming".

However, in the New York shipyard, these craftsmen from Daming were simply stunned - Nima, the fish and meat in the factory canteen are simply not expensive. What salmon is usually served vigorously, whale meat or something, the shipyard is also in large quantities.

Whales are mammals, and the taste of meat is similar to the meat of land animals, and craftsmen often eat whale meat, which can be regarded as a relief from meat cravings.

In addition, the New York shipyard is in abundant supply of soybean oil because of its proximity to soybean producing areas. Therefore, when stir-frying, a lot of oil was also put in the vegetables, which caused the Ming craftsmen in the shipyard to have no shortage of oil and water in their stomachs, and even the amount of rice decreased.

What makes the craftsmen happiest is that the factory actually allows their wives and children to eat......

Although there are restrictions on meat, the families of the craftsmen in the factory usually have a sufficient supply of fish and meat. As for meat, if the family wants to eat it, they have to spend an extra fee, but the cost is very low. After all, the wages of the craftsmen are of little use in ordinary times, and there is no pressure to buy some meat for the children. In other words, these Ming craftsmen have achieved a good life of "one person goes to work, and the whole family fishes and meat" in the shipyard.

Such a day, they couldn't think of it before, and they are naturally very satisfied......

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Ma Lin actually didn't expect that a simple sufficient supply of fish and meat could make the craftsmen of Daming so happy.

Now, through the eyeliner planted in the shipyard, Ma Lin knows one thing - if you go to Daming to recruit craftsmen, you don't need to say anything else, just say "food and shelter, fish and meat are enough", "family can also eat", it is guaranteed to attract a bunch of people......

Of course, the premise is that you have to get those civil officials to let them go. After all, they got rich by squeezing artisans......

And the supply of fish and meat can be counted as a matter in North America? As long as there are enough fishing boats in the Newfoundland fishing grounds, there is too much fish to eat, and you can vomit up. And meat, as long as a hunting team is dispatched, there is always a lot of game in the forest. If you're lucky, you'll be able to hunt bison and eat beef......

The New World is cool, fish and meat are readily available, and resources are everywhere. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, which has been developed for thousands of years, there are farmlands everywhere, and eating fish and meat all day long is a life that only rich people can live......

Ma Lin plans to send a group of craftsmen back to Daming next time, show up and tell his colleagues who are still in Daming that they have a big meal of fish and meat in North America, so as to attract more craftsmen to come.

With cheap Ming Dynasty craftsmen, Marin didn't have to worry about the lack of production of wooden boxes for making packaging. Those Ming Dynasty craftsmen were used to being oppressed by officials, and they worked very hard......