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Outside Lulong City, in the eastern suburbs.

A large factory covering an area of more than ten acres and surrounded by thick walls welcomed its first visitors.

"The whole factory is divided into 12 areas." Yin Ji introduced them one by one, "stripping linen, yarn, weaving, pulping and washing, drying, garment making, storage of raw materials, finished products, money, as well as office, accommodation and dining areas." ”

That's right, this large factory, which does not involve silk satin, only produces linen clothes.

This was finally determined by Yin Ji after careful consideration.

Minjun has inconvenient transportation, making ordinary cloth, and merchants are unprofitable, so they are reluctant to come. Only by taking the route of high-end silk fabrics, in order to make huge profits, will businessmen gather.

The dense mulberry trees in the local area also provide enough raw materials for Minjin.

Lulong City is different.

The main cloth crop in Yongzhou is ramie, and Zhaoguo set up a factory not to compete with businessmen in the capacity of the state, but mainly to provide for the needs of the military.

In this way, the fabrics produced should naturally be large-scale, inexpensive and durable.

Seeing that Yin Ji was very kind, she actually took them to visit and explain to them in person, and these women who were sincerely afraid gradually calmed down.

A woman in her twenties was bold and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "The slave is shallow, and has the courage to ask Lord Guowu, do the female workers have to live in the dormitory?" Can I go home once a month? ”

Yin Cheng smiled and encouraged the other party's behavior of asking if they didn't understand: "Female workers often have husbands and children, and they have been separated from their families for a long time, which is too unkind. These dormitories are only for women workers who travel far away. If your home is near the factory, you can get money to go home when you finish it every day. ”

When the women heard this, they all showed shock.

Listen to the meaning of the national witch, the salary is actually a daily settlement?

No matter how benevolent an employer is, there is no such generosity, and it is normal for the month-end or even the year-end to be closed.

If an apprentice wants to learn a certain trade, he has to work hard for the master, and he has to work every day, and there is nothing!

Yin Cheng knew that they didn't understand, so she took them to the table clock and taught them to tell the time: "The female workers in the factory are divided into three shifts. The first shift, from midnight (5 a.m.) to midnight (1 p.m.); the second edition, before the time (9 p.m.); The third class, from the hour to the hour. ”

The reason why the time is set this way is so as not to violate the curfew.

The law of Zhaoguo stipulates that if the second watch (around half past nine in the evening) is still walking outside, if one is caught, it will be counted as one, and he will be punished with a rod.

Of course Yin Ji can't say that we have lifted the curfew now, God knows if the people who are running around in the middle of the night are thieves.

Therefore, she can only set the time of three shifts a little bit in line with the standards of the times.

Although from her point of view, it is not humane to go to work at five o'clock in the morning, after all, people in later generations are night owls, and sleeping at two or three o'clock is not considered to stay up late.

But for people in the feudal era, they got up at three or four o'clock in the morning and went to work in the fields. Not at all!

"It's almost time to get to and from work, and you have to send someone to the big clock in the middle of the factory and ring the bell on time."

Speaking of this, Yin Ji glanced at Abu.

Abu immediately handed over a thick roll of paper—the paper that Shaofu had made out according to Yin Hui's description.

Although it is completely thin and soft as the rice paper of later generations, and there is no difference between it and hard-shell paper, Yin Ji feels that this is better and suitable for ordinary people to use and preserve.

On this piece of paper, a table has been drawn, with a total of ten columns and nine rows.

The first, fourth, and seventh lines indicate the dates, i.e., the 1st to the 10th, the 11th to the 20th, and the 21st to the 30th of each month.

The two lines below the date say "In and Out".

Yin Ji picked up another wooden tablet and said, "When the factory opens, each female worker will be given a bamboo stick with her identity written and this piece of paper to them." ”

"When they enter the factory, they need to show these two things, and then the person in charge of registration will tick the box of 'enter' and give them the corresponding wooden sign as a meal ticket. When you come out, you have to check 'out' and pay your salary. ”

Another woman asked, "What if a slave goes into the factory and does not go to work, but finds a place to hide, and then comes out to collect the money?" ”

Of course, these women of the family have seen lazy and slippery people, who usually don't know where to hide, and when they need to show their faces, they run faster than anyone else.

Yin Cheng said with a smile: "In front of each workbench, there will also be three wooden tablets, arranged in the order of shifts, and the names of the staff members of each shift will be marked. Who's coming and who's not is clear at a glance. ”

Some people want to ask, what should the people do if they are illiterate?

But when I thought about it, the wooden tablets on the workbench must be exactly the same as the wooden tablets held by the female workers themselves, and the words on them were exactly the same.

Even if the people don't know how to read, don't they still know how to read pictures?

"As for the menu, please take a look."

Yin Cheng took out two kinds of menus, one made of bamboo and the other made of wood.

"The wooden menu is for breakfast and lunch. For example, the female workers of the first shift came at two or three o'clock (after four o'clock) and received two wooden menus. You can go to the cafeteria for breakfast first, and then go to work at the end of the day. After work, I went to have lunch and then went home. ”

"The bamboo menu is a special dinner. Compared with breakfast and lunch, there is only one more - each person can receive a hard-boiled egg. ”

The women looked stunned, and then lowered their heads in shame, a little as emotional as Zheng Jiao, who was already secretly wiping her tears.

Before she came, her father repeatedly told her that she must put away the pride of the princess's beloved daughter, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and not treat female workers as slaves, cows and horses.

Her mother also warned her that even if the background of the female workers was comparable to hers, their hard work for a year might not be able to buy her a single dress. But any good citizen who works to make money (slaves and maids are not counted), Zheng Jiao is not qualified to despise him.

People are self-reliant, but you still rely on your parents to support you!

Zheng Jiao listened to her parents' advice and decided to deal with the female workers, no matter how vulgar the other party's words and deeds were, she had to endure it and not lose her temper.

But now, she realized how arrogant she was.

Zheng Jiao was thinking just now, if the time of three shifts is arranged like this, then everyone must want to go to the first shift.

But the reason why she didn't ask "what if the second and third classes are not satisfied" is that she didn't dare to point directly at Yin Xi's omissions, for fear of angering the most powerful woman in the empire;

The second is because she feels that Lord Guowu is already doing great things, and the people should not be picky, no matter what class they are assigned to.

It's like a slave in her house, everyone wants to serve their master closely, do the lightest work, get the most paid, and live the most glamorous life, is it possible?

But hearing the arrangement of Lord Guowu, Zheng Jiao couldn't help but burst into tears, she tried to lower her head and wipe her tears slightly, trying to keep herself from losing her temper.

It's not a hard-boiled egg thing.