"Chengzong, what trouble will you have?" Pan Mei asked puzzled. Others are in Tanzhou, but they still know about the big things in the capital, in recent years, Zhao Pu wants to be windy, to rain and rain, Zhao Kuangyi has made him dare not make a sound, if the big three envoys Zhao Wei said that the whole step down will step down. Zhao Kuangyin wanted to use some people, such as Dou Yi, as the prime minister, and under Zhao Pu's suppression, until Dou Yi died, he couldn't worship the prime minister. With his Lao Tzu, what troubles will Zhao Chengzong not be able to solve? Or he will also cut slaves and maids like Wang Jixun.

Zhao Chengzong said: "It's hard to say a word, one person stumped us." ”

"Who?"

"Just ordinary servants."

"Who is so bold?"

"General Pan, listen to me," Zhao Chengzong began to complain. The river bank has changed a lot, but there is a huge crisis hidden in it, a manpower crisis!

Zhao Chengzong began to count from the Hezhou industry, counting with his fingers, starting from the workshop, among the workshops in Hezhou, the most profitable is the glazed workshop, including craftsmen, nearly 300 people. This is inevitable.

I didn't expect the clothing workshop to suddenly expand.

Not only could he not think of it, but Song Jiu couldn't think of it either.

The new clothes started with sportswear, sports skirts, sweatshirts, and something convenient for guests to play. Various styles, including shoes and hats. Mainly for the sake of elegance. Then there are the Maiko, who designed many dresses. And there are more and more styles, and the first recruits are female workers who are extremely skillful in handwork, Song Jiu drew a picture, and gave rich rewards and incentives, drawing inferences from one another one by one, and designing more styles of dresses. And then to the servants.

If you let the servants wear short jackets for work, they will not be of class, and if they do, they will also wear robes. It's also inconvenient to work, so shirts, T-shirts, suits, tuxedos, and tuxedos come out together. It's a step-by-step approach. Song Jiu only painted a few styles, and more than ninety percent of the other were designed by various female workers. Almost a third adopted.

But it only circulates inside, either diving and swimming sports, guests have to buy it. However, customers only wear it in special cases in the industry. Therefore, after it came out one after another, it did not cause much controversy. There is no external sales, but people are curious, there are indeed some clothes that are convenient and beautiful, especially some skirt styles, which are quite popular with ladies. So there are people in the capital who imitate it.

Song Jiu handed over the profits of the industry and saw this situation. I chose more than 100 styles, designed various specifications, and sold them in the clothing store. In fact, the clothing store is not so much a toy store, mainly selling toys, and the price is the same as in the playground, but not all guests can enter the playground, and the playground is scattered in various scenic spots, which are not complete. It is full of varieties and beautifully packaged. There is also a quality assurance certificate, which is stamped with a large seal in each office to prevent counterfeiting. If it is a large transaction, the profit will be ceded. Really. One or two big deals are made every day.

Although these clothes were sold, they were originally intended to enrich the variety of goods in Hezhou. There are two stores left, both of which are in good locations. And the store is big, it's its own. Of course, there will be no controversy. Divide everything into two. Half is used to sell toys, and half is cut, one for men's clothing and one for women's clothing. If you come to buy, there is also a beautiful gift box, and there is also a beautifully printed name thorn inside, stamped with the official seal.

The officials are distributing dividends, and the stewards are placing goods with their servants.

Everyone's focus is still on the glass, and they don't think about clothes. The next day, Song Jiu went to the morning court and was fined by Zhao Kuangyin, but Hezhou was very lively. This is not the small stall vendors in the past, many of the owners are big businessmen from all over the world, and half of the goods they sell can be of high grade. So we came to shop together, and half of them didn't come to the playground to play, but to shop for goods. Most of them are women. Then I saw these clothes, which they used to imitate at home, but they were not beautiful. And the female workers have been making clothes for more than a year, and they have followed both the style and the manual work. Beautiful clothes hung out, and the ladies coaxed in together.

There is no preparation, the store is all four, how big can it be, in the blink of an eye, it is crowded with women sweeping goods, people are crazy, and the more people there are, the more people behind them will squeeze inside. Not only that, but the clothes are not well prepared, and some styles are fancy, and they shout no if they squeeze slowly.

This made these women panic even more, and the more they squeezed, the more they squeezed.

Song Jiu returned home and asked Zhao Kuangyin to pay a penalty, feeling a little unhappy, and he wanted to prevent Wang Jixun from getting muddy, so he didn't care too much, and only said one sentence, expand the recruitment. So I recruited again, but these female workers only came, and they had to learn slowly. The most important thing is that it is now all hand-sewn, and the speed is slow.

There are many good styles in the glass window, but there are no goods in the workshop, and there are people queuing up in the store every day. After hearing this, Song Jiu said again, let's recruit again. But even if he can't recruit a thousand people, these later female workers have a training period, and they can't solve the problem of shortage in a short time. The people in the government were dumbfounded, this is really weird, they have to grab everything, even clothes.

As a result, all kinds of novel costumes quickly appeared in the capital, including some Yanai also wore Mao suits, and the monarchs and ministers also discussed this matter, how to deal with it? So Zhao Kuangyin called Song Jiu to the political hall. Song Jiu said three things. The first thing is that Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu rode and shot, no matter how he died, Zhao Guo became strong because of his change. and even directly led to the appearance of armor. The second thing is the women's skirt and men's robe, which is very inconvenient to do. The third thing is to be weathered and shameless, the clothes of the early Song Dynasty have inherited some Tang Dynasty styles, some of them are very bold and open, relatively speaking, the new clothes are slightly conservative. Not to mention anything else, it's like there are many underwear now, some people want to be cool in summer, they don't wear anything inside, and when they lift their robes, shame and things are exposed. But with panty wrapping, will this happen. This is really conducive to the convenience of doing things, and it is also the education of honesty and shame.

But Song Jiu also admitted with a wry smile that he hadn't thought of it at all, otherwise it wouldn't be like this, at least prepare some more clothes to stock up and open a separate storefront. Everyone wanted to buy it, but no one persuaded them to buy it, and they didn't even do the usual advertising. What should I do?

When the monarch and the minister heard what he said, they looked at each other and laughed.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyi also sent someone to investigate the day before, and he taught people that some of Hezhou's clothes were similar to the styles of Western clothes, but not all. There are differences. According to their guess, it may be that Song Jiu heard from his husband. Then according to the imagination of the Song Dynasty clothing, it was processed by female workers. So all kinds of new clothes appeared. That is to say, it is a combination of Chinese and Western, unique clothing in the world.

Song Jiu left.

The monarchs and ministers were discussing, and the ministers brought a few clothes, Zhao Kuangyin didn't know how to wear them, so he let the eunuchs wear them, and they looked more energetic when they wore them, at least a little, it was really convenient to do things. Mainly, it is not a court dress, and a non-mourning dress. There are strict rules, this is just casual clothes, what are the rules for casual clothes, from Zhou Li to Tang Li, there are none, and it is not an exaggeration to show your chest and belly in summer. Or convict on novelty, then the entire river island industry will be shut down. I couldn't think of it, so I had to disperse.

However, the two expansions resulted in nearly 400 female workers in the garment workshop alone. It is estimated that when the spring flowers bloom, the enrollment will be expanded. In order to make room, we had to rent a warehouse for each stock.

It's just a clothing workshop, and so is a wine workshop. More than 2 million catties of stored wine should be steamed and rebrewed every seven or eight months to make the inflow and exit of wine, grain and wine. and other management servants, the clothes were clumsy manual work. Moreover, there is also a lot of labor for these jobs.

Many people are employed in several industries. If you add the workshop. Nearly 3,000 people were employed, and more than 2,000 people were hired from Lianghe. After the opera house gets up, it will still employ people. It looks like it's going out and running around.

This time the merchants are not those small vendors in the past, some of them are very large, and more can use more than 20 people, and some of them have to hire two or three people.

Most of the shops hired people, and this one hired even more, three or four thousand people at once, most of whom came from Lianghe. Even Sister Song Jiu hired six or seven people on her side, and the prostitutes who came to the hall to sell singing and losing wine in the middle were not counted.

This is only from Hezhou, and then to Hebei, Hebei is stained with the light of Hezhou, and the business is also good, so more and more shops are opened, not only Zhao Chengzong and them, but also many of them are opened spontaneously by the people. This is to be done with manpower. And there are still many shops under construction, such as Zhao Chengzong, who bought a lot of land, but only a quarter of it was actually developed, which is less than the proportion of Hezhou development. If you want to build these houses, you need manpower. Covering it requires more servants. How many people will you use? How much labor can be pumped out of the villages and villages in the suburbs?

Also, there are some people who don't need to work, they have their own property, or do some small business, or become officials and petty officials, how much labor can the two rivers squeeze out? Fortunately, under the leadership of Song Jiu, a large number of female workers began to be employed, otherwise the labor problem would have broken out long ago.

It's starting to erupt now.

There is a shortage of manpower in many places, and people are always greedy and insufficient, and the treatment on the Hezhou side is good, and they want to run to the Hezhou side together. Song Jiu did benevolence and righteousness, and if there was a contract, not only did he not want it, but he also warned the shops that it was not acceptable.

But this is a contract, some have signed it for a year, some have signed it for half a year, and they can't be forced to sign it, what if it expires? The problem is that Hezhou will continue to employ people in the future, not Hezhou, when the flowers are about to bloom, the cargo ships on the dock will come, and they will need coolies to move and unload the goods.

When the time comes, the store will be opened, but there is no shopkeeper and uncle who runs the hall, who will sell things, is it possible that Zhao Chengzong will be the shopkeeper himself? Of course, there are people in the capital, but they are far away from the East Water Gate, and it is impossible for them to run more than ten miles back and forth to work. Or learn from Song Jiu and send someone down to buy someone back, how high is the cost, a clever young man has to pay at least a few hundred dollars, and at this time the man is more expensive than the woman. Zhao Chengzong's hair is about to turn gray these days, and he can't help himself, so he asked Song Jiu and everyone to find a way together.

Yu Ping laughed on the side, Zhao Chengzong said: "Jade Lady, don't be happy, not only will I be troublesome, Jiu Lang will also be troublesome in the future, and what about it, next year, the two taxes of the imperial court will arrive, and the wharf will also have people to unload the goods, do you force them to stop the work in their hands, ignore the business of the store, and the attitude of the owner, and use officers and soldiers to escort them to move and unload?" ”

"Chengzong, don't be in a hurry, can't you transfer people from other places?"

"General Pan, I can adjust it early, I also discussed with my father, and let my father scold, saying that many fields in various states and counties are barren and lack of manpower to grow food, so should everyone come together to do business and ignore grain production? When the time comes, all drink the northwest wind. It's all to blame on General Wang Quanbin, if he wasn't too greedy and transferred more than 100,000 Shu soldiers to the capital, would he still lack labor? These people are also greedy and insufficient, and I have inquired that in the past, the salary for working in a month was only more than a penny. I gave two pieces of money, and occasionally gave out some rewards, but I was still not satisfied. Kuro, why are you setting your salary so high? ”

"Da Lang, how much profit are there in various industries in Hezhou? If I can't help it, will the servants be happy? It is not that the servant is not greedy enough, but that I am not greedy enough. ”

"What then?"

"There is a way, not a lack of labor, but ruthlessness, if you are willing, build a similar house for the people, and then sign a long-term contract, the people don't go back and forth, even in the capital, you can recruit enough manpower."

"How much does that cost?" Zhao Chengzong was even more worried, maybe Song Jiu would dare to do this, but he dared to do it only if he had profits, he had to raise his salary and build a house with his little profit, and the land was so expensive, how much money could he make?

"There's another way."

"Tell me."

"Send people to rob below, and rob tenant farmers with various main households, especially Bashu, some side households live very miserably, they are not soldiers, your father is a father-in-law, for each other is not evil, this is the guarantee of credibility. Five or six thousand miles is to walk slowly, walking forty miles a day, and you can also walk to the capital in four months. A family of four or five people, eating and drinking on the road, is simpler, and twenty yuan is enough. But you still have to build houses, they are side houses, and the houses can be built a little simpler, but even a simple house costs at least ten yuan to build three rooms. But then you can get at least two cheap laborers. ”

"That's not okay, it's too far away, and the people may not want to come."

"Then the last way out, wait for the disaster, where there is a disaster, please come over. But the house still has to be built, and if you don't live in it, who has the heart to do things for you? ”

Zhao Chengzong was at a loss.

Force is not good, can you learn from Wang Jixun? (To be continued......)