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The people who should be sent out have already set off. Except for the people sent by Li Guangdi, the others who went to the north also thought that the workshop here in Fujian was short of people, but the real reason was that they didn't know. Among the dozens of teams, there are their own people to check and recruit with a purpose, which also makes Li Guangdi feel a lot more relieved.

Geng Jingzhong didn't recruit people in Fujian without thinking about it before, but the action here in Fujian is already very big, that is, a lot of labor is needed to repair roads in the province, and he just wants to recruit, and the number of people will not be large. What's more, now that workshops are opening in various places, people are reluctant to leave their homes if they can find work at their doorsteps. The northern region is different, except for the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the other areas are still poor, especially the disaster-stricken areas, it is easier to recruit people.

Unlike those who went to the north, only twenty people went to Guangzhou in the south. Five master craftsmen of the Mawei Shipyard are responsible for selecting and inspecting the quality of timber, three purchasing managers are responsible for purchasing matters, eleven escort guards, and one leading negotiator. This leader is none other than the long history of Jingnan Palace, Miao Quanchen.

Changshi can also be counted as an official, but most of them are officials of the nature of the staff, and they were also called other drivers in the past. The long history was first set up in the Han Dynasty, when the prime minister and the shogunate of the shogunate all had a long history officer, equivalent to the current secretary general or chief of staff, the long history of the general can also lead the army to fight, called the history of the general soldier, the famous Ban Chao of the Han Dynasty is the history of the general soldier, in addition, the county of the border also set up the long history. He is the adjutant of the Taishou. After many years of evolution. The history of the present is not as long as it was before; The current long history is set in the palaces of princes and princesses. Decrees in the executive government.

Miao Quanchen was Geng Jimao's staff member when he was young. In fact, thirty years ago, the whole country was in an era of war, human life was as cheap as grass, there was a way to be like a comb, and a soldier was like a grate; The bandits came and plundered, combing through the belongings of the house like a comb. However, the gap between the teeth of the comb is large, and there are still leaks; The teeth of the grate are very thin, and the soldiers come to plunder, it is clear, there is plenty of time, they scramble carefully, and they hate it more than the bandits, unlike the bandits, at least they are afraid that the government will come and they have to rush over and leave.

Miao Quanchen's ancestral home is Funing, and he is also a scholar and a scholar. Tsinghua family, but he is powerless. The wealthy family was remembered by the passing Ming army. So he was charged with fornicating with Tartars, and the whole family was imprisoned. He was lucky enough to be out of the house and was not immediately arrested. The escaped servants found him, informed him of the situation, and fled with him north. In the process of being pursued by officers and soldiers, he met Geng Jimao, who was also young, so he stayed by Geng Jimao's side from then on.

When it comes to everyone's abilities, he is indeed very good, and he is good at words, which Li Guangdi is not as good as him. As soon as Li Guangdi arrived, he became Geng Jingzhong's most powerful assistant, and he was not convinced at first. However, in the slow contact, I was also completely impressed by Li Guangdi's talent. Don't look at him, he is nearly 30 years older than Li Guangdi, and he has a lot of life experience, but when it comes to handling things, he still doesn't have Li Guangdi decisive, fast, and thoughtful. This is indeed everyone's talent, the only thing he has grown longer than Li Guangdi is that his mouth is powerful enough!

Miao Quanchen is already familiar with the whole thing, and it should be no problem to go to Guangzhou to deal with such an arrogant Shang Zhixin. If there is no other change in this trip to Guangdong, then a large amount of shipbuilding timber can also be shipped from Guangzhou to Fujian.

All the people under him are busy, and Geng Jingzhong himself can't be so idle all day. The past two days have been fine, Geng Jingzhong has inspected the entire workshop behind Houyu Port one after another. Now the Houyu Port Industrial Zone is still in the climax of large-scale construction, and various workshops are constantly being built, and half of these workshops do not belong to Fujian businessmen, but most of them are businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to build factories here. Merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang discovered the business opportunities here a year ago, so they relocated some workshops in the north to Houyu Port.

For the construction of Houyu Port, Geng Jingzhong can be said to have spared no effort. Two towns, Zike Town and Pingtan Town, were specially opened up as the first industrial park in Fuzhou to develop the handicraft industry. To build a factory here, you can enjoy a lot of discounts, and the simplest one is that the land for building a factory does not cost money. Of course, that has to be as much space as you can use, and it is definitely not okay to falsely report. In addition, if you build a workshop here, you can be protected by the Ponytail Army, and absolutely no one will come to harass you. Whether it is official or underworld, in fact, when the Jingnan Royal Mansion released its words, no one came to make trouble without opening their eyes.

Most of the workshops of these merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are silk weaving workshops. Jiangnan is the most important production center of sericulture and silk weaving in the country, and the silk weaving industry is concentrated in Jiangning, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other cities. The imperial court forbade the sea, and no one in Jiangsu and Zhejiang dared to blatantly transport goods to sea, but Geng Jingzhong's offshore fleet could travel between Fujian and Jiangnan.

Don't look at the ships of the offshore fleet, they are very small, they can only carry more than a dozen tons of cargo, but they can't hold enough of them. Every time I go to the Jiangnan area, in addition to reselling Fujian specialties, I buy back the goods from the north, and at the same time help these merchants to transport raw materials and earn freight. On this silk fabric, Qingpu customs, industrial weaving, with three catties of cotton can weave a horse, the interest rate is more than three times, and here in Mawei, the profit is even higher.

If it is woven in Jiangnan and transported here, then there is no need for these people to come to Fujian, and Geng Jingzhong himself can order the offshore fleet to buy it on a large scale, and then transport it back and resell it. The reason why they were invited to Fujian to set up workshops was to increase some job opportunities in Fujian. After all, Fujian is far less affluent than the Jiangnan region. These merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were also happy to come here to set up workshops, although the raw materials had to be transported from the north and some freight was earned by the offshore fleet, but these costs were passed on to the Western caravans. Their prices here are much higher than in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their profits are more lucrative.

It's their overproduction. The Kunpeng fleet will also take away the inventory. Shipped to the Japanese country, North Korea, Manila and other places for sale. Don't worry about not being able to sell at all. In addition to the high profits here, they also had another idea, that is, they hoped to join Geng Jingzhong's ocean trading company. Their capital is better than that of the Fujian family, and Geng Jingzhong has not replied, so they frequently contact the people of the palace, hoping to open up channels. There are also some people who go to the shipyard by themselves and want to order a few sea boats to go to sea. Participate in maritime trade.

These dozen large and small shipyards in Fujian have been serving Geng Jingzhong's orders for the past two years, that is, since the end of last year, after a batch of fireships were built, they began to continue to order ships outside. By the time the merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang learned the news, the orders for the shipyard had been lined up for two or three years.

In addition to these newly built workshops of Jiangsu and Zhejiang people, the others are the workshops of local families. These workshops built by local businessmen are relatively early, and they are the first to settle here, and they have already formed a scale. Most of them are close to Houyu Port, and a small number are in the outermost part. In fact, the entire Kezhen and Pingtan Town are not much bigger. Even the factory area under construction in the rear is only a few kilometers away from the wharf. However, the scale of this first batch of workshops is not very large, and they are basically some workshops that belong to people's livelihood.

For example, garment workshops, leather liao workshops, carpentry workshops, car workshops, mills, wineries, etc., have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and only a small number are still under construction. Some brick kilns, lime kilns, cement kilns, porcelain kilns, sugar liao, etc. are far away from the wharf, and you need to turn a hill to see them, which belongs to another cluster.

In the beginning, the shortage of labor here has been basically alleviated. Going west deep into the hinterland of Fujian, many people in the inland were recruited to work here, plus the local people in Fuzhou, there are now tens of thousands of people. The farthest workers, all close to the Jiangxi region, walked more than 200 kilometers before coming here. However, the Chinese are indeed a model of being able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and they have no complaints about doing a lot of heavy work, as long as they can earn money to support their families, no matter how hard and tiring they are, they can also do it deliciously.

There is another aspect of the work of the workers here that cannot be ignored, that is, the busy agricultural season every year. Geng Jingzhong made strict regulations on this matter, every worker must report his busy farming time, and when the time comes, he can go home and come back again. Of course, if there is no shortage of people at home, you can also not go home. Geng Jingzhong is not worried about the cheating of some workers, after all, it is not easy to have a stable job, and no one has a grudge against silver, this is a day's work, but no one can bear the salary of sixty yuan!

There are not a few workshops built in various parts of Fujian, and the products produced are not only digested by the sea trade and Fujian Province, but also radiate to the neighboring province of Jiangxi. Jiangxi's population is nearly one million more than that of Fujian because of its large cultivated land, which is three times that of Fujian Province. In particular, Fujian has built roads between various provinces for more than a year, and a large number of goods have become easier to enter Jiangxi, and at the same time, Jiangxi's goods have been more convenient to be transported to Fujian, and the trade between the two places has become more prosperous. The people of Jiangxi, which borders Fujian, were very envious of the situation in Fujian after learning about the situation, and many poor people came to Fujian to find things to do and earn food.

The fact that the people were able to participate in the construction of the road workshops and to work in the various workshops without any worries also benefited from a series of measures formulated by Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi. One of the most important is that Geng Jingzhong was exempted from forced labor by the people of Fujian. To be precise, it was not directly exempted from forced labor, and Geng Jingzhong did not dare to blatantly order the exemption. You must know that the slogan of Li Zicheng's rebellion in those years included the exemption from forced labor.

The labor service activities carried out by the government to recruit people from all walks of life without compensation are called forced labor, which includes two parts: forced labor and military service. Geng Jingzhong knew that this was a heavy burden imposed on the people by the government, so he changed his approach. There was no war on Fujian's side at this time, and the army was controlled by the Geng family themselves, so there was no military service. However, forced labor still exists, and it is impossible to deal with this paralysis, so Geng Jingzhong has set a unified period of labor for those who participate in the government's labor service, and it is only limited to three months.

When working, it is no longer unpaid labor, but paid by Geng Jingzhong. At the same time, if the government officials sent someone to oppress the people, they could report it to the garrison, so the people no longer worried about their safety. In this way, it is equivalent to Geng Jingzhong's disguised exemption from forced labor. As soon as the time comes, these people can go home immediately, and change a group of people here to continue to work, so as to avoid the long-term occupation of the labor in the family, and the abandonment of their own farmland, or the neglect of their farmland, which affects their lives.

Geng Jingzhong began to be so enthusiastic about this matter, not just to invite people's hearts. To put it bluntly, this conscription is mostly for the purpose of repairing hydraulic and river works, and this is also a good thing that is beneficial to Fujian. (To be continued......)

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