Walking to another small stall, the officer read again:

"Ko Kee Tailor Shop recruits female workers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This store is the official cooperative tailor shop of Xingguobo, with strong strength, and has long undertaken the clothing customization of Xingguobo's newly recruited farmers, and its income is stable. The recruitment of female workers is required to be over 15 years old and under 50 years old, and female workers are preferred. The basic salary is added to the piece-rate bonus, the basic salary is two taels per month, and there is another piece-rate wage. The average monthly income of the existing tailor is four taels or two. If you are interested, please apply in the Gaoji tailor compound on Hsinchu City West Street. ”

It is another job recruitment that pays more than four taels a month, and it seems that in Taiwan, it is not difficult to earn four taels of silver a month.

The officer who led the way looked at the excited peasants and said, "In Hsinchu, if you are a tenant of your uncle's field, as long as you are nimble with your hands and feet, you can harvest an average of 20 stone of rice into your granary in a year." According to the current price of two taels and five dollars a stone in the parity grain store, this is fifty taels of silver. ”

"After calculation, the monthly income of a farmer in Hsinchu is more than four taels of silver, so the monthly income of other industries to recruit people must be higher than four taels of silver."

At this time, it was September of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and the grain prices in various parts of the Ming Dynasty had been maintained at a high level because of last year's military disaster. Li Zhi's cheap grain store adapted to the situation, and changed the buying and selling price of grain to two taels and five dollars and one stone. This change has greatly increased the peasants' incomes.

Taiwan's farmers are now well-off.

The officer who led the way said: "Of course, Hsinchu's labor is more expensive, and everything depends on shipping, and the price is also higher. Except for the price of grain, which is the same as that of Tianjin, everything else is more expensive than Tianjin, and the silver is not so durable. ”

The peasants did not react much when they heard the officer's words. These peasants have been living above and below the subsistence line, and their living expenses are basically food, and they have not yet developed the habit of various consumption. They secretly said that it doesn't matter if things are 30% more expensive, as long as the food is cheap, they can raise a few more children. For things other than food, just spend less.

The officers smiled when they saw that the peasants had not yet realized the qualitative change in their lives after the monthly income of four taels.

The officers read all the job advertisements on the other stalls. Speaking of which, there are many farmers in Hsinchu today, and there is an urgent need to develop supporting commercial and service industries. However, most of the farmers who came to Hsinchu with the ship were willing to work in agriculture, and there were few people who were willing to go to the city to do chores, and there was a serious shortage of people in various jobs in the city.

Every time the peasants heard about the treatment of four or two months' money, they were amazed, as if they had never been able to react from their surprise. However, I heard from the officers that farming can earn more than four taels of silver, and only a very few people are interested in going to the city to do things.

The officer shook his head and continued to lead the new peasants forward.

At this time, the paddy fields on both sides of the road have been fully opened, and only the thousands of acres of fertile fields are staggered and staggered. It was September and the late rice had already been planted. The fields are green, and many farmers are busy working in the fields. This is the first time that the farmers in Tianjin have seen paddy fields, and they only know that paddy fields are highly productive, and they will plant this kind of paddy fields themselves in the future, and they are full of interest to see them one by one.

In the future, the good days will depend on this paddy field.

Along the paved road paved with gravel, the officer led the peasants through Hsinchu City. Although Hsinchu City has just been built, it is already quite large, with four gates four stories high and wide doorways underneath. The eight-mile-long earthen walls of the siege have been repaired, and the crossroads in the city are paved with bluestone slabs. Like Fanjiazhuang, there are drainage ditches on both sides of the road in Hsinchu City, and there is a garbage can every 200 steps on the road.

Compared with the dirty county towns of Tianjin, Hsinchu City is much cleaner and tidier. Yao Minle walked on the neat and wide road, and there was a feeling of walking in a paradise.

In the center of the city, there is a mighty and decent "Xingguo Bofu", and the two big stone lions at the door are taller than one person. The officer told the peasants that the place to do business was not here, and that the place to go to the government was in the "general office" in the south of the city, where Lord Zheng was seated. This Heungkookbo Mansion is the residence of Heungkookbo.

At this time, Hsinchu City had just been built, and there were not many shops in the city. The more lively is the cheap grain store in the middle of the city, where farmers who have a good harvest of early rice come to sell their rice in large carts. The peasants, who had sold their grain, got the money and happily searched the city for something. Therefore, the shops on both sides of the cheap grain store are doing very well.

Yao Minle looked at the small shops on both sides of the cheap grain store, and saw that there were butcher shops selling meat, tea, tobacco, soju and rice wine, and even children's toys. These shops were crowded at this time, and the gates were full of farmers who had harvested a good harvest and carried silver.

Yao Minle secretly sighed that Taiwan's peasants were really rich.

Walking through Hsinchu City, the farmers walked into a temporary settlement. The settlement was built into several large courtyards on a small hill, covered with rows of brick houses. Yao Minle held his daughter-in-law with his left hand and his daughter with his right hand, and as soon as he walked into the settlement, his face smiled happily.

Look at the sturdy house, look at the rows of wood-framed bunk beds in that house, look at the full set of sheets, pillows and other items on the bed, this is simply the life of the old man. And that's just a "temporary" settlement. If you officially settle down in the future, what kind of good life will you live?

As soon as the officers brought a hundred peasants into the settlement, they began to assign them rooms and beds. In the resettlement site, 16 people are housed, and the husband and wife are separated, and the men and women are placed in different courtyards.

The first thing you do after allocating a bed is to take a shower.

The peasants were taken to the large baths by the officers. As soon as Yao Minle entered, he was startled by the misty bathhouse. When he looked closely, he saw that there was a large pool of water in the bathhouse, which was filled with warm water and constantly emitted water vapor. Dozens of men were rubbing in the bathhouse.

The officer gave each peasant a bar of soap, explained how to use it a little, and then asked the peasants to take off their old and tattered clothes.

Old clothes were thrown into a large basket. Yao Minle asked the officer, how to use the old clothes? The officer replied: "Burn it!" ”

Yao Minle secretly shook his tongue and jumped into the bathhouse to take a clean bath.

After taking a shower and walking out of the bath, Yao Minle had just wiped his body clean when he saw a clerk walking in with a large basket of new clothes. The clerk walked up to Yao Minle and asked, "How tall?" ”

"Five feet two inches."

The clerk took out two sets of brand-new Chinese coats from the basket, and two sets of brand-new cotton round necks were stuffed into Yao Minle, and said, "Put it away!" ”

This is a new outfit?

Yao Minle grabbed the new clothes in his hand, his face couldn't be suppressed, and he showed a full smile.