"It's okay for everyone to go, but don't forget that when you came, you signed a contract with me to return to the workshop. If you are not dismissed from the workshop and you leave by yourself, you will have to pay the apprenticeship fee and breach of contract fee first. Gui Mingyue said coldly.

The craftsman below couldn't help but gasp, and suddenly he didn't know what to do, this second lady was a little ruthless.

"There is also Steward Song, this is the account book of the workshop, why is there a match between the number of hairpins made every day and the number of the shop?" Gui Mingyue shouted.

"This ...... This doesn't matter to me, it must be which side is wrong......" Steward Song wiped his sweat, and scolded in his heart Why is the old Xu who keeps accounts in this shop so careless!

Gui Mingyue snorted coldly: "Is it a bad memory, what is the matter, I will definitely be able to find out." No matter how much Steward Song says, it is useless, it is better to go home and rest for a few days. I still have a lot of work to do, so I won't stay long. ”

Jin Qi'er sent the depressed and unwilling Song steward out, originally she wanted to take care of Gui Mingyue under the pretext of illness, who knows where this second lady is still the little girl who smiled at everyone a few years ago, and now it seems that it is really not a fuel-efficient lamp.

After Steward Song left, the remaining craftsmen cooperated more. In the end, after everyone introduced themselves, Gui Mingyue roughly understood that the craftsmen here were roughly divided into two factions, one faction followed Yu and Yu Hongbo's apprentices, and this accounted for the majority; One faction brings its own craftsmanship.

After a general understanding of the situation, Gui Mingyue beckoned, and several entourages brought two heavy boxes, and after opening them, they were full of hanging money.

"I'll just say it, the second miss came back after making a lot of money." Zhuang Dalijia whispered to his companions: "As long as the second lady is here, I won't have to worry about wages in the future." ”

The others also pricked their ears. They are all from poor backgrounds, and as long as they earn a little silver, they will seize this hard-won opportunity. After all, the job of making hairpins is a craft, although there were people like Song Guan who bullied them before, but where are the people at the bottom not being oppressed. At least after learning the craft here, they can still be respected as a master, manage one meal a day, and get paid, which is many times easier than washing clothes and farming, which is why they still persist here even if they have not been paid for several months.

After Yinsheng'er gave them the completion money one by one, Gui Mingyue said slowly: "If you still want to leave now, I will not keep you when I return to the workshop, and the apprentice craftsmen only need to pay the apprenticeship fee, and I don't plan to pursue the breach of contract with you." ”

This time, none of the people below moved, Gui Mingyue nodded and said: "I want everyone to understand that what we need in our homecoming workshop is a loyal and reliable craftsman, if you have his heart, then we will never keep it." Since everyone has chosen to stay now, then do their own work seriously, and one day when I return to the bright moon, I will not allow any more things in the workshop to hide dirt, give and receive privately, intrigue and fight, fan the flames, and oppress colleagues. ”

"Yes, Miss!" The craftsmen spoke out.

"If you are promoted from an apprentice to a craftsman, please go back to the workshop first, finish the work at hand, and then wait for the next step." Gui Mingyue got up and entered the tea room, and said, "The remaining masters, please come with me." ”

Yinshen'er silently packed up the booklet in his hand and followed. When she entered the tea room, she saw that her mother was already waiting inside, and Yinzhu'er looked at Jin Qi'er, who whispered in her ear: "When I went to find the Song steward, the young lady asked me to invite Aunt Li to come over first." Don't worry, Miss has actually been the softest since she was a child, and she won't let Aunt Li go. Silver Pendant nodded tearfully.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated." Gui Mingyue said with a smile, and personally made tea and served it one by one.

The masters said they didn't dare.

"These two are craftsmen sent by the Yu Mansion of Jiangling Mansion," Gui Mingyue pointed to the two beside her, these two people didn't say a word since they entered the workshop, just quietly watched Gui Mingyue do things, they learned from the eldest young master of the Yu family early in the morning that Miss Biao is a woman who is simply capable of doing things and has business minds, and she is indeed comparable to a man's decisiveness when she sees it today.

After drinking a few cups of tea, a master couldn't help but say, "Boss, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly." Most of them were hired by Gui Jingxue in the years when Gui Mingyue left home, and now since the second lady is in charge, they are naturally the first to bear the brunt, and several masters are also ready to be dismissed.

"Okay, then I'll make a long story short," Gui Mingyue said: "I want to choose three of you, and follow me to make some difficult and more novel and rare jewelry in the future, as for the salary, you are now five taels of silver per month, and in the future, you will be given a fixed salary of ten taels per month, and after the jewelry is sold, the silver taels you get will be divided into the cost of materials, and each piece will be given a bonus of one percent." How is it? ”

The masters looked at each other, how could there be such a good thing? Ten taels of silver in a month, it is worth the county's money, and there are dividends, since it is a rare jewelry, it must be expensive, so the more dividends will be. As soon as they thought of this, several of them began to jump into the pre-test.

At this time, Jin Qi'er took a roll of drawings and handed one to each person. A few of his attendants brought over a few more chests, which were filled with gold and silver, as well as various gems, crystals, and so on.

"This ...... These are really unseen and unheard of...... "Several masters, including Aunt Li, are all experts, and when they see the novel style, their eyes are shining, and they don't care about anything else, and they carefully observe and ponder.

Seeing this scene, Gui Mingyue nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "You have time for three incense sticks, you can pick one of them to make at will, and then I will choose the three I need." "Most of the elements in the pattern drawings come from what Gui Mingyue saw in his previous life, cherry blossoms, lilies, iris, roses, swans, dolphins, etc., each of which is seemingly simple, but in fact the requirements for the delicacy of the details and the smoothness of the outline are very strict.

After the three incense sticks, the masters put the results in front of the case, and Gui Mingyue selected the works of the three people, namely Aunt Jiang from the Yu family this time, as well as Master Wang invited by Gui Jingxue before, and Aunt Li, the mother of Yinshen'er, these three people are at any time to obey Gui Mingyue's dispatch as masters. The other four, one of whom is Master Bo from the Yu family, is the youngest of the seven, and his skills are not bad, but he is more experienced than Aunt Jiang, Gui Mingyue intends to temper him, so he asks him to go to the workshop as a teacher for those apprentices; The remaining three people, each following the master selected earlier, as a deputy, the salary is five taels, but there are also dividends.

Such a distribution, several people are also convinced, especially Aunt Li is even more tearful, she is an honest person, she does not want to talk much all her life, and she will not stammer, before she is not as good as the master who left angrily in the courtyard today in front of the eldest lady, so she ended up being abandoned. At Miss, he finally proved himself to be a useful person. Just like all talented people, being appreciated and reused is the greatest affirmation and kindness for them.

"It seems that our Yue'er not only has the mind to do business, but also is a good hand in managing the house!" At dinner, Gui Hongyuan couldn't help but sigh that his daughter was indeed capable, but she even refused to ask for marriage from the Marquis Mansion in that town, so it seems that she is still very stylish, worthy of being her own daughter! Thinking about it, I was happy and ate an extra bowl of rice.

Yu Shi said angrily: "It's naturally your own good to look at the baby, and you're not afraid that others will listen to the joke when you say this." ”

"Daddy, mother, Xue'er is full, go back to the room to check the accounts first." Gui Jingxue put down the dishes and chopsticks, got up and said.

"Okay, you've worked hard too." Gui Hongyuan looked at the dignified and generous eldest daughter appreciatively and said softly, since he resigned from the post of master Bo and concentrated on teaching in the village for two years, he has now contacted a few talented people who are generally talented and useless in general, and want to open a teaching hall in the county. And his children, all of them stand out and are capable, and now he is really proud and energetic, as if he is several years younger.

"Yue'er, the wrong accounts in the workshop and shop that you asked me to check have been settled again. It was a bookkeeper surnamed Xu in the shop who secretly colluded with Steward Song to deliberately undercount the number of hairpins made by the craftsmen, and then took these jewelry out to sell without permission, and then the two shared the spoils. After the dinner, Gui Chengzhi walked with Gui Mingyue, and said angrily: "What's even more infuriating is that these two people actually opened a small shop in Linjun, specializing in selling jewelry stolen from the workshop!" ”

"Is there a report to the officer?" Gui Mingyue asked.

"I've already reported to the official, and I may need to go to the county yamen tomorrow." Gui Chengzhi said: "My sister has to deal with the things in the shop alone. ”

On the second day, Gui Mingyue took Yinshen'er and Li Mobai to Angelica Pavilion.

The three shopkeepers in the pavilion waited early at the door of the shop to greet each other.

After sitting down, the shopkeeper Liu of Luoshenpu got up first and took out the account books of the past three years and presented them.

Gui Mingyue has roughly doubled, with the most profits in the first year and many new customers; In the second half of the second year, it began to decline; In the past year, there have been few new customers, and most of the people who have come to visit are classmates and friends who have returned to Mingyue before, as well as their relatives and friends. Overall, Roselle is also quite profitable.

Now it's the turn of the demon idle shop and the private custom shop, these two shops are very profitable in the first year, and in the second and third years, they have been losing money, and they have been maintaining it by the profits of the first year.

Gui Mingyue rubbed her brows and said, "Say, how many new shops have opened in the county?" ”

"The proprietor is really a miracle, since the second year after you left, there have been four or five head shops in the county." Seeing that Angelica Pavilion sold head jewelry to earn one sum of silver, people with hearts naturally blushed and wanted to share a sum of money. Shopkeeper Liu said helplessly: "And as long as we come up with a new style, they will immediately produce the same style of jewelry in a few days, and the price is cheaper than ours." ”

In this era, there is no such legal system as patent rights, so there is no way to deal with plagiarists.

"We also lowered the price before, and we wanted to fight them to the end, but in the end, everyone lost both, and no one could get any benefits. Ay! The shopkeeper of the demon shop sighed.

The youngest of the private custom shopkeepers was also the most indignant: "Yes, looking at the new style that Miss has worked so hard to make, we are so easily learned by this group of shameless people, we are angry and vomit blood!" ”

Gui Mingyue nodded, in fact, she had already considered plagiarism and following the trend.

But she is not afraid of those people plagiarizing, because the style can be plagiarized, but the material cannot be plagiarized. That's why she took the trouble to collect new materials from all over the world that others couldn't reach, such as those cheap and shiny crystals of various colors, Miao silver that can replace high-cost silver, rare and superb Kunshan jade, and even pearls from the Northland, which are all unseen and foreseeable by the locals and will be very popular and sought after.

"The three shopkeepers are very relieved, I have my own way to ...... this matter" Gui Mingyue said, the most important thing at the moment is to form a caravan to transport those goods back from all over the world, only in this way can she be able to reverse the situation in front of her.

"The owner, the owner, someone is fighting with Big Brother Li at the door of our attic!" The little guy at the door of Angelica Pavilion hurriedly ran in and said.

Gui Mingyue stood up and walked outside, she wanted to see who came to Angelica Pavilion to make trouble when she just came back.

It's him?

Ji Yunyi!