Chapter 160: Harvesting Cotton
Su Baiyi felt that his love hard work finally had a vague result!
Yue Ran's words may be hinting at something, or maybe he just said it casually and unintentionally.
But he took it seriously!
When it really turns out, it's very happy, and then love overflows!
"The hall is too dilapidated, change it!"
As soon as he gave the order, Chu Lun trotted all the way from the headquarters with all his subordinates, and then each of them had a small hammer in his hand, and nailed all the leaky parts of the hall with a wooden board that he didn't know where Mr. got it.
Although the warmth effect is still very average, it is much better.
"Cook porridge, cook!"
Several cartloads of various flour were purchased from the largest grain trading house in Guide Province, piled up in the main hall, and the cauldron began to cook porridge!
If one bowl of porridge is not enough, then drink two bowls, and if two bowls are not enough, come to three bowls!
It wasn't until everyone drank the porridge until their stomachs were swollen that the master who was cooking the porridge stopped.
This unknown hall is dilapidated, but it is huge.
In addition to the two main halls, there are many side rooms that leak air.
Su Baiyi asked people to clean up this side room and nail the air leak with a wooden plank!
"Come on, I used to be a carpenter!"
"I'm also a carpenter!"
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After a while, those who were still a little trembling but still full of food gathered one after another, Su Baiyi roughly counted, there were twenty or thirty people, including eight skilled carpenters alone.
Pin all the holes in the doors and windows and clear out a small room to make it vacant.
Then Su Baiyi closed the door and made crazy purchases inside.
There were a lot of worthless things in the system that he had never looked at before, but now it seemed that they were life-saving things.
Inferior cotton jackets, 40 yuan a set, 600 sets first!
Thirty-five cotton pants for the elderly, six hundred!
Old Beijing cotton boots, twenty yuan a pair, six hundred pairs!
I bought a room of winter clothes, and it only cost a few dozen taels of silver to look at it.
He did not immediately open the door to the small room, which would arouse the suspicion of the refugees.
In an instant, the room was piled with clothes, and anyone would doubt it.
"Separate, the men are in the hall on the left, and the women and children are in the hall on the right!"
Chu Lun followed Su Baiyi's plan to separate the men and women in the entire temple.
In each of the two halls, two large iron pots were erected to boil water, and several large wooden barrels were made, so that all the refugees who had eaten had their fills must go in and scald them with hot water.
Wash your body with good soap until you have all the dirt and parasites on your body.
After cleaning, the students brought a set of clothes from the storeroom for them to change into.
Although he is still yellow and thin, his mental state has indeed changed a lot compared to before.
The only trouble was the women's room!
At the beginning, both the students and the women were a little intimidated and couldn't open their scales.
It takes a lot of courage to undress and take a shower in front of a man.
However, thinking about the days they have been living these days, they have lost the last bit of dignity one by one, took off a clean and scalded round in boiling water, and then took the cotton jacket and cotton pants from the students' hands and put them on.
The warmth and satiety made them forget their embarrassing self-esteem for a while.
In fact, the students are also numb.
Although it is a woman, there is no difference between a hungry one and a thin pole, some can still see some bulges on the chest, and some girls only have two grapes left that can distinguish the front chest and back, and there is no seductive demeanor.
"All the rags were taken out and burned!"
"All the hay in the hall, the roll of covering, whoever it is, take it out, and burn it in one piece!" Chu Lun stood at the door and shouted: "Don't be reluctant, wait for our husband to send you a new one!" ”
As soon as they heard that there was a new one, although the refugees were still skeptical, but looking at the new clothes on their bodies and thinking about the porridge they had just eaten, they piled up the things outside the temple gate according to Chu Lun's words.
The students held torches and burned the dirty things clean!
"Assemble, sir has something to say!"
Chu Lun and his students, tired and sweating profusely in the winter, gathered a team of nearly 600 refugees in the open space at the entrance of the main hall.
Su Baiyi stood on the steps at the entrance of the store, a lot taller than everyone else.
"Great good man!"
"Good guys!"
"I've met a good guy!"
"I'll have something to eat later!"
"Don't starve!"
"There are a lot of good people in Guide Mansion!"
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Listening to the whispered muttering of these yellow-faced and thin-skinned refugees in front of him, Su Baiyi pressed his hand to signal everyone to be calm, and then said: "Friends from the northwest, this world is not peaceful, you have worked hard all the way to our Guide Mansion, and those who can live are lucky people, but today, your luck is even better." ”
He said that some of the refugees below were already whining and crying.
From northern Shaanxi to Guide Fu, how many difficulties did you encounter along the way? How many family members died? Only they themselves know. The nerves, which had been numbed by hunger, were awakened again at this moment.
Some have lost their parents, some have lost their children.
The refugee door was in tears.
When the students saw this scene, their noses were also sour.
Su Baiyi's heart was also uncomfortable, and he waved his hand and said, "Don't cry, listen to me." The past is gone. Today, while I am helping you, I will also tell you a piece of news, of course, it is not good news. ”
"I am Mr. Su Baiyi from the Yuyuan of Guide Prefecture, and our Yuyuan is now under construction, and there is a shortage of workers. If you are willing, sell yourself to our Yuyuan, and I will take care of three meals a day, and I dare not say how good the food is, at least I will not let you starve. Moreover, there is a salary every month, and those who do well have craftsmanship can get up to two taels of silver a month. If you don't do it well, we'll sell it directly.
Of course, when it comes to selling yourself, you and I don't force anyone. Even if you don't sell your body, I will give you the clothes on your body.
From now on, those who are willing to sell themselves to us will stand on the east side, and those who are unwilling will stand on the west side.
But let me be clear in advance, there is no money for selling yourself. ”
Su Baiyi's conditions for selling himself were very harsh, but he believed that there would definitely be people who agreed, and there were not a few people who agreed. After all, compared to starving to death and freezing to death, what is the loss of personal freedom?
As long as you can stutter and live, you will have a future.
What's more, it's good to have a monthly income in this troubled world.
In fact, Su Baiyi didn't want to do this either.
He didn't want to arrange the lives of these people well, let these people commute to work normally like later generations, and have the freedom to resign.
But the times decided that he could only do this!
Even if you want to be good to them in the future, now you should say the most demanding conditions first. This is called the villain first and then the gentleman.
If they are treated more in the future, they will be grateful.
If they promise a good future now, when they actually fulfill their promises, they will think that they deserve it.
This is very helpful in cultivating human loyalty.
As expected, almost all of them stood on the east side, except for a tall woman with a child in her arms, standing motionless on the west side!
"Don't you want to?" Su Baiyi looked at this woman strangely.
A woman with a child, she can't live in this kind of world, I offer such good conditions, don't you want to, are you a fool?
"I do, I do!" The woman hurriedly changed her words, looked at her child again, and said, "Sir, wait for me for a while, I will give the child away, and then sell myself!" As he spoke, he looked at the child in his arms twice, and tears fell down his eyes.
Once a slave, a slave for life, a slave for generations!
But in this world, there are many people who are forced by life to be domestic slaves, and there are a few mothers who want their children to be slaves for generations!
Su Baiyi was sour by what she said, and sighed and said: "Forget it, all the children can not sell themselves, the academy provides accommodation, and you work hard to earn money to support yourself." In addition, you can also study at the academy for free! ”
"Ahh
As soon as she heard this, the woman knelt down with a puff and kowtowed straight to Su Baiyi without saying a word.
There were also many adults with children in the east, who also knelt down and kowtowed to Su Baiyi.
"Get up, go to the main hall to rest first, and I'll arrange for you to do things later!"
Su Baiyi returned to the storage room and sat down, fumbled for a cigarette and lit it, and looked out the window in a daze. He was stunned for a while before he said to Hou Fangyu: "You take my name card and go to Qin Youde's mansion to make it convenient for him." ”
"Yes, sir!" Hou Fangyu turned to leave.
Lao Tzu is now the person the emperor is in a hurry to see, I don't believe you return to the prefect of the German Mansion, Qin Youde, and don't give this face!
After a while, Chu Lun ran in from outside with Huang Heng and said, "Sir, it's all counted, there are 380 men, 160 women, and 44 children. Five hundred and eighty-four in all. ”
"Good!"
Su Baiyi glanced at Chu Lun and said, "Keep those eight old carpenters for me, I will be of great use." The rest of the people, except for the children, will go to Yuyuan from tomorrow onwards, and build fifty dormitories next to the glass firing furnace, a large canteen, two toilets for one man and one woman, how to build it, and what kind of construction you want, but each single room must be separated. Tell these people that it must be completed within five days, and if they can't finish it, let them all go, and don't stay in Yuyuan and waste food. ”
"Yes!" Chu Lun has more than 20 people under him, and he has been idle and has nothing to do during this time, but now that he has something to do, he is full of energy.
"I will let the buns buy the brick and wood materials, the management is not enough, you can ask for the buns, there are more than 20 people idle there!"
"Yes, sir!"
He glanced at Huang Heng deeply: "Leave ten people for Huang Heng, I have important things for him to do." ”
Huang Heng hurriedly bowed down, feeling very nervous.
Su Baiyi groped out five hundred taels of silver tickets from his bosom and handed them to him, saying: "Take ten people to buy a large amount of cotton near Guide Mansion, Yucheng, Xiayi, and Suizhou, and transport it to Yuyuan for me within fifteen days." ”
The mechanical production and temporary construction should be completed within fifteen days, that is, in half a month, the textile factory in Yuyuan can be put into operation.
So years ago, a batch of cloth production could be produced to impact the Guide market.