Ji Qingwen sighed in his heart: You want to lie to me? Mr. Ben had already investigated it today!

Then he said: "Senior Ge seems to have some reservations about this, right? As far as I know, the weavers have always only worked for half a day in the morning, and they have to go out to work in the afternoon to take on private work. Isn't that so? ”

Ge Sheng didn't expect that it had only been two days since Ji Qingwen came, so he investigated the matter so clearly, and hurriedly said: "It's true, Lord Ji, although we are all craftsmen. But the artisan household also had to support the family, and the artisan worked for the weaving yamen, and only thirty copper plates were given every day. Everything is expensive in Suzhou, thirty copper plates, not enough to buy a few cooking cakes! ”

"Oh, I see." Ji Qingwen is not a very unreasonable person, and then said, "I have a principle for doing things - as long as I have a comfortable life, then everyone will have a comfortable life." I wonder how much you can get when you go out to work every day? ”

Ge Sheng said: "We can only work for half a day, and we can get a tael of silver in half a day." ”

"So much!" Ji Qingwen couldn't help but exclaimed-according to his experience in Shaanxi, one or two pieces of silver over there were enough for a medium-sized family for half a month's expenses, but he didn't expect a weaver in Suzhou to earn it in half a day. With such great regional differences in each place, it is no wonder that in later generations, young people from third- and fourth-tier cities are crowded to go to big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Ji Qingwen was sighing, and Li Yan behind him also felt that this price was a little incredible, and asked, "This is too much, right?" Isn't it blowing a conch and trying to deceive us? ”

Song Yingxing hurriedly said: "No, no, it's indeed this price." A skilled weaver in Suzhou City earns a day of one or two pieces of silver. The weavers under the name of the weaving yamen all have ancestral crafts, and they rush to ask for them in private weaving workshops, and they are paid for one tael a day - that is, two taels a day, which is considered to be cheap. ”

Hearing this, Ji Qingwen hurriedly turned his head and discussed with Li Yan: "I didn't expect the weaver to be so valuable. I also thought about paying the weavers from the weaving yamen treasury. But now there is less than 10,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and now there are 300 weavers, and they can't even pay a month's wages, so it's troublesome. ”

Li Yan also said: "I thought that this 10,000 taels of silver could be of great use, but I didn't expect that even the weaver's wages could not be paid, so it seems that I can only think of another idea." ”

Ge Sheng over there seemed to see through Ji Qingwen's embarrassment and said, "The thoughts of adults are not incomprehensible to those who are small. In this way, we still only come for half a day every day, but when we work with more snacks, it can also increase the yield to some extent, and ensure that the adults can pay upwards. ”

Ji Qingwen was not satisfied with the result of such a negotiation, his face was cloudy, and he refused to express his position.

Li Yan seemed to have given up, and whispered in his ear: "It seems that we are not well prepared, but the weavers have promised to increase the output, and today is not without results, it is better to accept it when it is good, how about we discuss with them in the future?" ”

Song Yingxing also said: "Mr. Li's idea is good. Or we can wait for the brocade we produce to sell and accumulate silver taels, and then hire them back, and the result will be the same. ”

The two of them were still talking freely, but Ji Qingwen didn't even listen to a word - he was searching for the enterprise management system of later generations in his mind to see what systems and methods were worth learning from.

He was thinking about it, but he heard Ge Sheng say: "My lord, we had a meeting this morning, and the hour is not early, and we can't drive the loom?" ”

Ji Qingwen didn't pay attention to him, but turned his head and asked Song Yingxing: "Song Xiaolian, how much income does a Lang Zhong who sees a doctor here in Suzhou earn a year?" ”

Song Yingxing didn't expect Ji Qingwen to suddenly ask such an irrelevant question, and was stunned for a moment before answering: "Ordinary Langzhong is about fifty taels, and a better one can earn a hundred taels, right?" ”

Ji Qingwen nodded, and asked again: "How much money can that old mother who serves people earn in a year?" ”

Song Yingxing replied: "Twenty taels, thirty taels is the most." ”

"What about a private school teacher?"

"One hundred taels of silver, you can invite a famous teacher."

Ji Qingwen pondered for a while, and then asked: "Then how much does it cost to rent a big yard here in Suzhou?" ”

Song Yingxing said: "It depends on how big the yard is." ”

"It's as big as the Weaving Mansion Yamen?" Ji Qingwen asked.

Song Yingxing thought for a while and said: "The student has the impression that no one can rent such a big house. But I think it's better to rent than to buy, a house of this size, in Suzhou City, about two thousand taels of silver. ”

"Not in the city, how much outside the city?"

Song Yingxing didn't know why Ji Qingwen asked so carefully, so he replied truthfully: "There are also places outside the city. For example, Shantang Street in the north of the city, although it is outside the city, it is prosperous but not inferior to the city, and the housing prices are naturally not cheap. But outside the Xiangmen in the south of the city, it is much cheaper, and you can buy one for only seven or eight hundred taels......"

Hearing this, Ji Qingwen already knew it, and his mental abacus was "crackling", and he said to the weavers in the courtyard for a long time: "Everyone, we won't start work this morning, but I still have a few words to say, please be here, don't move around, don't be impatient." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Li Yan and Song Yingxing to a remote corner and said: "Yesterday, I counted the yamen warehouse, and now there are 10,000 taels of silver in the weaving yamen, so it costs about 1,000 taels to buy a yard and add some tables, chairs and benches." It is 200 taels to hire two langzhong, 200 taels to hire two private school teachers, and about 300 taels to hire two cooks and ten old mothers, so that it is another 1,000 taels. Then the daily expenses of the yard were about one hundred taels of silver per month...... That's about the same thing, right? ”

Li Yan calculated for a moment and replied, "It's right, but I don't know what Brother Ji wants to do?" ”

Ji Qingwen said: "Establish a welfare system for Suzhou weaving." The two of them think about it, the craftsmen go out to work, but there is no one to take care of the elderly at home, there is nowhere for the children to study, and there is no place to treat a serious illness or a small disaster. I started welfare in this way, which is equivalent to solving their worries, although the money is not much, but every tael of silver is really spent, right? ”

Li Yan's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this: "Brother Ji is really unexpected, how could you come up with such an idea?" If you do this practical thing, the weavers will not be grateful to you? ”

Song Yingxing understands the study of economics, and also said: "If a craftsman hires a doctor, a tutor, or a servant by himself, he will have to spend more than 20 taels of silver a month." Lord Ji did this, except for the money to buy the yard, it only cost less than 1,000 taels a month, and it was evenly distributed to each craftsman's account, which was less than 2 taels of silver, which was really a great thing. ”

"Okay, the money in the inventory of the weaving yamen is enough to last the yard for more than a year. Since the two of you agreed, I announced it to the weavers. ”

So Ji Qingwen turned around and returned to the weavers and explained his plan to everyone in detail.

Halfway through his words, the weavers began to applaud, and when Ji Qingwen finished speaking, everyone was already rejoicing.

I saw Ge Sheng take a step forward and arch his hand: "Lord Ji." Successive weaving admirals and eunuchs, all of them want to put money in their pockets, where will they think of helping us do practical things and open welfare! If Lord Ji can have such a mind, he will definitely be the prince of Wandai in the future...... I just don't know, how much do we have to pay to the yamen to enjoy such benefits? ”

Ji Qingwen said with a smile: "Song Xiaolian has calculated the account just now, such a welfare, you will pay twenty taels of silver a month for a family, and I will share it here for less than two taels per person per month, and a family will not exceed five taels of silver." ”

"Five taels? Cheap! I was the first to join. Ge Sheng said.

Ji Qingwen waved his hand with a smile and said, "I don't want you for five taels." This is a big benefit of the weaving yamen, and you are also the people who weave the yamen, of course, you can enjoy it for free. Just ......"

"Just what?" Ge Hong still has some suspicions about the government.

"It's just that each of your employees, in addition to the original plan to come over every morning to start work, has to work here for half a day every seven days. Would you like it or not? ”

"This ......," Ge Sheng muttered.

Ji Qingwen said: "I've calculated it for you, it's a good deal." If you don't believe...... Today, you will discuss it now, and give me an answer after you have discussed it. ”.