Duo Jiugong was puzzled.

He is the old servant of the Ji family in Xi'an, and he has watched Ji Qingwen grow up since he was a child, and he has always thought that he is a good-for-nothing son in Xi'an City. However, Ji Qingwen's temperament has changed greatly in the past two years, and he has not only become a fat poor man in Suzhou weaving, but also an important person who speaks loudly in front of the emperor.

This made half of the elders of Duo Jiugong see it, and they were also happy for his old Ji family - after all, this great family business will not be ruined in the hands of Ji Qingwen, a loser.

But Duo Jiugong also found that Ji Qingwen's behavior became weird at some point, and he would say some strange things from time to time.

Take what Ji Qingwen said just now - it is true that he is a weaving admiral, and it is true that he is still in charge of more than 600 craftsmen and weavers, but these craftsmen all work on the looms of the weaving mill and never rely on farming for a living; If you don't go to farming, you naturally don't have to pay any tenant rent, and there is no such thing as "negotiating tenants".

Duo Jiugong was puzzled, but he felt that Ji Qingwen always had some reason in doing things, so he didn't dare to question it, and according to his instructions, he found a few familiar and quick weavers, and went to do things.

In the blink of an eye, in the evening of a day later, I heard that it was the weaving admiral Ji who invited guests to dinner, and the weavers under the weaving yamen did not dare not come, and there was no reluctance not to come, that is, occasionally a few weavers who caught a cold and were straining, and also rushed over with enough straw paper.

More than 600 weavers, old and young, plus 200 newly recruited villagers from Yiwu City, plus doctors, tutors and others who work in the weaving workshop welfare workshop every day, a total of nearly 1,000 people came, and the welfare workshop that was not too small was stuffed to the brim.

Since so many people have been invited to come over to eat together, the quality of the meals has naturally declined, and most of them are steamed vegetables and stir-fried soups, which cannot be compared with the exquisite dishes in the "Deyue Building" in Suzhou City.

Although the meal is a meal on the surface, it is actually the atmosphere and human affection.

Several eunuchs and admirals before the Suzhou Weaving Yamen were very stingy, and even if they made money, they were too late to stuff it into their pockets, and they had no intention of inviting guests to dinner.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen's invitation was the first time that all craftsmen and weavers gathered together in the more than 200 years since the establishment of the Suzhou Weaving Yamen.

Such a meal – no matter how monotonous the dish is and how ordinary the taste is – will never be unpalatable.

I saw dozens or hundreds of tables of banquets, except for the two hundred township brave regiments led by Chen Wenzhao, who ate a little dullly, the rest of the weavers all ate staggered, full of voices, and lively.

After eating like this for a while, Ji Qingwen remembered that he still had important things to do, so he hurriedly knocked on the porcelain bowl in front of him with chopsticks, and said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet, be quiet, I have a few words to say!" ”

Now is the time when everyone is in high spirits, but as soon as Ji Qingwen said these words, he was heard by a few people around him, and he immediately passed on: "Silence first, listen to Lord Ji!" ”

After a while, the originally noisy welfare workshop suddenly became silent, and even a few people couldn't help but cough a few times, and they could hear it clearly.

Ji Qingwen saw that everyone was listening to himself with bated breath, and suddenly realized that he was an extremely important person in the eyes of these weavers, and he suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.

So he coughed softly twice, cleared his throat, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in the past few months of being appointed as the Weaving Admiral, there has been nothing to boast about. But that's pretty good to be waiting for you, isn't it? ”

As soon as Ji Qingwen's words fell, someone replied loudly: "Lord Ji is as kind to us as a mountain, and he is our great benefactor!" ”

Immediately, someone chimed in: "Yes, my lord is our great benefactor!" ”

"My lord, Marquis Bandai! Many happy returns! ”

"My lord is promoted and rich! Add an official to the knighthood! ”

It's almost like saying something "Ji Dawen has become a martial artist, Ze has been born by the common people, and he has been unifying the rivers and lakes for thousands of years".

Ji Qingwen finally waited for everyone to calm down again before he said again: "Everyone, everyone has worked hard this year, and I have made a lot of money. With capital in hand, naturally there are more ideas. So I thought-"

He deliberately dragged out the word "think", looked up at the weaver in front of him, and saw that everyone was looking up at him, and he was very proud, so he said: "I think, from next year, you will not go out to work for other weaving workshops in Suzhou......

As soon as Ji Qingwen's words came out, it was like a stinky bomb was thrown in the weaver group, and they immediately made a noise: "Adults treat us well, can't you not let us eat!" ”

Ji Qingwen waited for the noise to settle down, and then said: "Everyone also knows that the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, the Suzhou Weaving Workshop, and the eldest lady of the Shen family are all my enemies. You continue to work over there, it seems too shameful for me, right? ”

With that, he laughed out loud.

In the midst of his laughter, all the weavers showed embarrassed expressions - as a craftsman under the weaving yamen, it was indeed a little unreasonable to work for the opponents of the yamen.

I only heard Ji Qingwen say again: "So I also thought of a way out for you." This year you will come to my weaving mill every day for a half-day shift, and from next year onwards you will be working with me all day. Originally, you worked in the weaving mill every day, and I gave you a tael of silver every half a day! ”

When the weavers heard this, it dawned on them.

This account doesn't need to be calculated, it is clear that where the silver is earned is not earned - where to make money from the weaving workshop owner in Suzhou City, where is it more comfortable than making money from Ji Qingwen's weaving yamen? At least there won't be anything wrong with discounted paychecks.

So after a little discussion, everyone asked Ge Sheng to come forward and said, "Lord Ji." We have thought about it, and tomorrow we will go to explain the situation to the owners of the weaving workshop, and we don't have to wait until the New Year, and we will work in the weaving yamen all day from the day after tomorrow. ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he was very happy in his heart, so he simply made another favor and said, "That's fine." However, this year, the task of Shanggong royal silk weaving has been completed, and everyone does not need to rush to work. In this way, there is still more than half a month before the New Year, and it is good for you to rest and rest in the past few days, accompany your family, and go out for a trip. ”

Ge Sheng said with a sad face: "My lord, but if we don't go to work for more than half a month, no one will pay us, and we will be hungry......

Ji Qingwen smiled again: "Don't you know how to keep some savings? Do you have to eat it all and be a 'moonlight clan'? ”

Ge Sheng didn't know what the "Moonlight Clan" was, so he had to say truthfully: "Rice is expensive in Suzhou City, and adults don't know it......"

"That's good! Then I will send you the money for most of the month. Twenty taels per person, is it enough? Ji Qingwen said.

Ge Sheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and immediately moved to tears, and suddenly knelt down with his knees weak, kowtowed a few times, and said: "The adults are so thoughtful, we weavers are all grateful to Dade, and we will definitely serve the adults in the future!" ”

The other weavers also knelt down, uttering countless words of thanksgiving.

In fact, although there are more than 600 craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the Suzhou Weaving Yamen, only about 300 people can work and make money, and each person has 20 taels of silver, which only costs Ji Qingwen 6,000 taels of silver.

And this mere six thousand taels of silver can buy the hearts of the weavers to such an extent, which makes Ji Qingwen overjoyed, and with one mouth, he increased the number of twenty taels of silver to thirty taels.

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In the next few days, Ji Qingwen gave the weavers a big vacation, and when the weaving workshop was suspended, he invited Tang Ruowang and Song Yingxing to re-inspect, renovate and improve all the looms.

Ji Qingwen was also quite proud when he saw that these two people were one Chinese and one Western, one soil and one ocean, so he asked Chen Wenzhao to come over and handed over the chariot drawings circulated by the Qi family army to these two, asking them to build chariots in the same way, and asked Tang Ruowang to guide the use of artillery.

Originally, with Song Yingxing's ability, restoring a chariot of the Qi family army can be said to be handy.

However, after John Tang got involved, he said that the chariot could be combined with the artillery, and as long as the shock absorbers and support rods were installed on the chassis of the chariot, it could withstand the impact of the artillery, so as not to collapse the entire chariot when the artillery fired.

Isn't it a tank with a gun on the car?

Although the car is a wooden carriage and the gun is a breech slow gun, it is assembled together, and it has a black technology that is a little ahead of the times.

In this regard, Ji Qingwen was willing to give up time and money, and invested a full 20,000 taels of silver in this chariot, so that Tang Ruowang and Song Yingxing spent two whole months to finally build this "tank" of the Ming Dynasty.