Chapter Seventy-Three: Gu Laoer's New Home

Li Zhi planned to move all his nearly 2,000 workers to Fanjiazhuang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first thing to move is the textile factory, and then the soap workshop.

The various processes of the textile factory are not very closely connected, and as long as some semi-finished products are prepared, the production will not be affected, and the relocation of a certain process to other places will not be affected. The soap workshop is different, the various processes of the soap workshop are assembly line operations, and the entire production cannot be organized if any one process is moved to other places. So Li Zhi decided to move part of the textile factory first, and then move the soap workshop when the people who moved first made Fanjiazhuang lively.

Single workers are easy to do, just move them to Fanjiazhuang and rent a small villa. But those who have families are more troublesome, and if the worker's spouse has other errands to do in the Acropolis, the workers are reluctant to let the spouse quit the errand and move to Fanjiazhuang. Although the monthly salary of the errand outside is low, after all, it is also an income for the family.

Li Zhi asked Zheng Yuan to count the spouses of the workers in the textile factory and report to Li Zhi.

According to the last statistics, Li Zhi found that among the 1,770 workers in the textile factory, about 400 people in the first category were single and unmarried, more than 900 people in the second category had spouses but their spouses did not work, and only more than 300 people belonged to the third category, that is, their spouses had errands outside the home. After all, in this era, women spin and weave at home to do more housework, and less go out to work, so there are more people in the second group.

As long as Li Zhi finds new jobs for the spouses of more than 300 people in the third category, he will be able to move all the industrial workers to Fanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi felt that this was not a difficult thing, and in the future, Fanjiazhuang would be lively, and there would be a shortage of people in all walks of life, and the spouses of more than 300 workers would be able to find new jobs in Fanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi decided to move more than 1,300 households in the first and second categories to Fanjiazhuang first, so as to support the popularity of Fanjiazhuang first.

After making up his mind, Li Zhi asked the masons to build a new building of the textile factory in Fanjiazhuang. After the new factory was repaired on December 24, Zheng Yuan notified the workers to move. Li Zhi organized the hand-to-hand transport of the textile machinery, and tried to transport 1,300 pieces of machinery to the new factory within three days, and then continued production.

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On Chinese New Year's Eve, the textile factory left work early at noon. Gu Lao Er got off work and wandered around the North Gate Market of Fanjiazhuang for a while, buying a pair of couplets, a firecracker, five catties of bacon, ten catties of fresh meat, twenty catties of flour and ten catties of various vegetables.

He has moved to Fanjiazhuang with his family and now rents a small villa on Dexin Street, renting two rooms.

After 1,300 textile workers settled in Fanjiazhuang, the vendors in the Tianjin Acropolis immediately smelled business opportunities - these textile workers are all consumer groups with stable monthly income and considerable spending power. Many traders left the Acropolis and did business in Fanjiazhuang, and sure enough, all of them had a prosperous business.

Li Zhi set up four markets in the four directions of Fanjiazhuang New Town, and by the last day of Chongzhen's seventh year, there were already quite a few vendors in these four markets. There are those who sell rice, noodles, meat, oil, vegetables, chickens and ducks, and groceries. The vendors knew that the workers of the Li family had strong spending power and had enough goods on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Gu Lao Er carried the New Year's goods and returned to his villa with joy.

In front of the villa, Gu Laoer's old mother was walking around the street on crutches. Now that Gu Lao Er is working in a textile factory, the old mother is full of food and in good spirits. After moving to a small villa in Fanjiazhuang, she likes to wander around the neighborhood.

Gu Lao Er greeted his mother and said, "Mother! I bought meat and went home to make dumplings! ”

Gu Lao Er's mother said: "You and your daughter-in-law are packed, I'll just wait and eat!" Seeing that Gu Lao Er was stunned when he heard his words, his mother said again: "When I raised you when you were a child, it was a hard work... Now let you make a dumpling for me to eat, what are you not happy about? ”

Gu Lao Er glanced at his mother, a little speechless, pushed open the door and walked into the villa. When he entered the door and went up to the second floor, he saw his daughter-in-law weaving cloth in the house.

After Gu Lao Er entered the Li family to do things, he had two taels of money every month. After saving money for a few months, Gu Lao Er bought a traditional loom for his daughter-in-law to weave at home. Although this loom is far inferior to the shuttle loom in the textile factory, the woman can still earn some hard-earned money by weaving at home. A diligent woman can earn more than a tael of silver in a month.

With Gu Lao'er's monthly money and the money earned by his daughter-in-law weaving, the Gu family can be regarded as getting rid of poverty, and it is no longer the family that has no food.

Gu Lao Er rented half a villa from the owner in Fanjiazhuang and shared it with another family, and the monthly rent was one hundred and forty Wen, which is nothing to the Gu family today. Gu Lao Er and his daughter-in-law live in the upper room, Gu Lao Er's mother has bad legs and feet, and lives in the downstairs room.

Seeing Gu Lao Er carrying firecrackers into the door, Gu's daughter-in-law ran out of the house happily and said with a smile: "Master, you have bought so many years of goods!" ”

Since Gu Lao Er got the monthly money for working in the textile factory, Gu Lao Er's daughter-in-law no longer called him by his name, but called him the head of the house.

Gu Lao Er said with a smile: "Move to a new house this year, let's have a good year." ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family looked at the New Year's goods on Gu's second-hand hand, her eyes were shining with tears, and she said, "Our family has eaten bacon this year!" At this time last year, there were only ten catties of flour left at home, which was not enough to survive the year! ”

Gu Lao Er smiled and hugged his daughter-in-law with his shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's all over, what are you going to do." Walk! Let's go to the kitchen to make dumplings! ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family wiped her tears with her hands and said, "The He family is using the kitchen, we will go later!" ”

The He family is another working family who share this villa with the Gu family. The same husband works in the Li family's factory, and his wife spins yarn at home, and there is an old mother and a boy at home.

Gu Lao Er said: "This is not good for sharing a house, you still have to share the kitchen!" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family said: "What's not good! Great! It's the first time I've lived in such a nice house! You see how strong and smooth this cement wall is, how decent this furniture is, ten times better than the house we rented in the courtyard of Tianjin Hao's house! If you want me to live in that room in the courtyard of the Hao family again, I will be crowded with my mother every day, why don't I go! ”

After thinking about it, the Gu family's daughter-in-law said again: "And the rent of these two rooms is about the same as the rent of one room in the Acropolis!" The Li family treats us so well! ”

Gu Lao Er said: "This place is naturally much better than the Hao family's courtyard. But I mean, after a while we have children, we'll rent a small cottage on our own, and we'll not share it with anyone else, and we'll be two dollars and seven cents a month. ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family complained: "With a little money, you start to spend it indiscriminately!" ”

Gu Lao Er asked: "Daughter-in-law, we now have money to raise children, has your stomach moved in the past few months?" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family complained: "Some time ago, when I was in the courtyard of the Hao family, your mother sat in the room as soon as she saw you coming back, and we didn't share a room a few times in half a year, how could we get pregnant?" ”

Gu Lao Er nodded and said, "My mother has a strange temper, my daughter-in-law has suffered!" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family said: "It's okay now, there are two rooms, you don't have to be locked in one room with your mother every day!" ”

Gu Lao Er said: "Why don't we go into the house now and try it, maybe we will get pregnant!" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family nodded, turned around and walked into the house. After Gu Lao Er also entered the house, Gu Jia's daughter-in-law looked at the door, and after making sure that Gu Lao Er and his mother had not entered the villa, she carefully closed the door of the house.

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