It's another Lubu Feijie in Liaodong.

This time, it is said that Xu Shiyang, the crown prince of the north, personally led the army to sweep the rebellion in Jianzhou and beheaded 20,000.

I'm curious, are there so many Jurchens in the Jianzhou area?

Is this an exaggeration of the results of the war, or has it killed all the Jurchen women and children?

If it's the latter, I always feel that what these northerners did doesn't seem to be much different from what the Tartars did to us in the first place.

—Zhang Zong's diary of his journey to the north

As a Confucian student, Zhang Zong always felt that Xu Shiyang's Northern Expedition was a little too heavy.

However, the revenge of the ninth generation can still be avenged, this is indeed the teachings of the saint, no matter how crazy Zhang Zong is, he does not dare to say that the teachings of the saint are wrong.

The Han people in the north have only been oppressed by the Tartars for only a generation, and they certainly have reason for revenge.

Moreover, just as the old man who drove the car that day said that "killing is not enough", in a practical sense, Zhang Zong himself also felt that killing all the Tartars would help the peace of the Northland.

He just thinks that those who are beheaded by men, women, and children are too pitiful.

This form of pity is that in the course of his travels in Qi Province, Zhang Zong bought five thirteen- and four-year-old Tartar slaves in a row.

He felt that this was already a salvation and a sea of suffering.

The coachman's father and son expressed their understanding of Zhang Zong's approach, because the old man of the coachman also wanted to buy Yinu as his wife for his three sons - Yinu did not need a bride price, which seemed very cheap.

The only thing they don't agree with is Zhang Zong's vision - the three Yi girls he bought are all thin and don't look like they are easy to raise.

Zhang Zong felt that it was really difficult for him and the driver to have a common language in this regard.

In July, Zhang Zong came to Qingzhou Mansion and visited the Qingzhou Textile Factory, which is known as the world's No. 1 textile factory, as an investor.

He was indeed an investor, but not an investor in the Qingzhou textile factory, and his family's investments in the north were mainly focused on high value-added industries such as glassware and Liaodong medicinal herbs, rather than in the textile industry.

However, the local officials in charge of attracting investment in Qingzhou still received Zhang Zong, because his family was indeed very rich, and it was difficult to say whether he would temporarily increase investment.

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The Qingzhou Textile Factory now has 5,000 textile machines, as well as a dyeing workshop and a garment workshop, with more than 8,000 workers, of which more than 5,500 are women.

Thanks to the use of a new hand-loom (Jenny machine), the factory was able to produce 5,500 cotton, wool and linen cloth per day.

This is also due to the fact that machine maintenance and workers' rest time have been deducted, because Xu Shiyang does not allow factory owners to overexploit workers, and the Qingzhou Textile Factory, which is a state-owned enterprise, is naturally no exception.

But even so, this huge number was enough to shock Zhang Zong.

Men plough women weave traditional hand-weaving, each woman sits in front of the loom for a day, about eight feet of cloth, according to the value of a piece of cloth forty feet, five thousand women in Jiangnan can weave a thousand pieces of cloth a day, this is still not counting the fact that women also need to rest, and the loom needs to be maintained.

"At least eight times more efficient." The factory manager said in a ostentatious tone to the local officials accompanying Zhang Zonghe: "Moreover, the quality of our cloth is better, and our products are marketed in Goryeo, Menggu, Western Regions, and Fusang, and the profits are very rich." ”

As for how much money you can make, this is a trade secret.

However, Zhang Zong felt that he could probably guess that it was definitely not a small number.

After all, one person here can be used for eight people.

Zhang Zong offered to go into the workshop to have a look, but the manager refused, and the manager told him that although it was proposed that men and women should be paid equally for equal work, this proposal was not implemented for the time being due to customs.

At present, the Qingzhou textile factory is still a female worker responsible for weaving, cutting, sewing and other processes, and a male worker is responsible for manual work such as printing and dyeing, handling, etc., several workshops are separated, and male and female workers are strictly prohibited from visiting each other during work, and the management is very strict.

"This is also for the sake of the innocence of female workers, can men and women kiss each other?" The manager said helplessly: "Although I personally think this is a bit excessive." ”

Men are not allowed to enter the women's workshop, so as not to affect the innocence of the female workers, but this imposes more administrative costs on the factory - there must be a new set of female support managers.

This made the factory manager very angry, not only because of the cost of two sets of logistics personnel, but also because he, as a leading cadre of the factory, actually had very low control over most of the workers in the factory.

In fact, the female manager is more like the general manager of the factory, and I am like a person in charge of external reception. ’

The manager was embarrassed to say this.

As a Confucian scholar, Zhang Zong admired this strict management model of male and female workers, and the only regret was that he could not visit the production workshop, and he could not enter the women's canteen at lunchtime, which was also separated by men and women.

This made Zhang Zong unable to lift the thin veil of the legendary Qingzhou textile factory.

Digression: The wages of female workers in textile factories are not bad, and hard-working female workers can even be regarded as middle class, and they have no problem supporting their two or more children, and they can still have not a small savings.

This greatly improved the self-confidence and self-esteem of the female workers in the textile factory, they could wear relatively better and neat clothes, they could hold their heads high, and they could not help but be improved in terms of receiving people and things.

Perhaps the word factory girl in modern society represents the bottom of social status, but in this era of transformation from classical to modern, the factory girl of the Chinese Empire represents a new group of more confident and beautiful.

Therefore, it is not surprising that in the stories passed down by outsiders, the workshop of female textile workers is like a fairy palace full of beautiful women.

"In fact, they are all ordinary peasant girls, but they earn more money and have the support of the court, so they can dress up themselves."

When he came out of the textile factory, the young local official heard Zhang Zong's complaints, laughed for a while, and explained:

"The imperial court has a special women's work department, and the crown princess is in charge, and they also have a backstage."

"Have you ever been in a women's workshop?" Zhang Zong asked in a tone that wanted to hear gossip.

"Of course I haven't been in." The junior official shook his head: "But my mother-in-law is a female workshop manager, just look at her." ”

"Oh~~~"

This is a disrespectful and disrespectful emotion, and it is only an emotion, after all, he can't propose to meet other people's wives, which is really rude.

The official did not shy away from continuing: "Actually, they are beautiful, but they are ......, and with the support of their mothers, they are a little too unvirtuous." ”

"You can't beat or scold, you have to be reasonable when you encounter something, and you have to admit that you have done something wrong - why is she unreasonable when she does something wrong?"

This year, he also shouted that he would respond to the call of the country to help build textile factories in Liaodong...... The court gave a lot of money, but she ran so far with a girl, I always felt unsafe, and I could only apply for a transfer to Liao Province......"

Listening to the petty official's chatter and happy complaints, Zhang Zong pursed his lips, and somehow wanted to order someone to order this guy.