Cen Carpenter stopped stammering.

"What the princess said, the little one has never been done before, but you can try it."

"Okay, here's the drawing, if you need anything, go to the housekeeper. By the way, I heard you say last time that your two sons also learned carpentry? Do you want to pick them up and give you a hand? It doesn't matter if the carving is not exquisite, the things I need are mainly practical, and I generally don't use carving. ”

The little guy's hands and feet are quick, but after all, they haven't learned carpentry systematically, and the simple ones can still learn with them, and the complex ones can not be learned for a while, so is it possible to distract the old carpenter from teaching them?

The apprentice brother was in a hurry, and she didn't want to waste her time on carpentry teaching.

If she could, she would even like to form a team of carpenters to assist her in her mechanical inventions.

But Nanban was too poor before, it was not easy to make a living, and few people learned the craft.

Cen Carpenter was also hired by the palace steward from Furong County, and he was able to carve exquisitely.

After the mansion was completed, the craftsmen sent by the palace returned to Beijing one after another, thinking that the mansion always needed to keep a knowledgeable person to do daily maintenance, and the housekeeper left the old carpenter after reporting to the prince.

The salary is high, and Carpenter Cen is quite happy, anyway, he is in his hometown in Furong County, and he goes to the county to do odd jobs when he is not working, and he doesn't have much time to stay at home.

Although the resident Nanban will be homesick, it is better than the high salary, and there are 500 wen per month for food and housing, and it is enough to save for a year, which is enough for the family to buy a thin property.

Since the princess came, she has been rewarded with silver for doing things for her, and she married her grandson a daughter-in-law a while ago. Not only him, but also his family are very satisfied.

Unexpectedly, the princess proposed to let his two sons come over at this time, this is to provoke the rhythm of his family!

"Little thank you for the princess's promotion!"

Cen Carpenter was moved and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Xu Yin: "......"

This hat is too big, brother dei!

She just wanted to recruit a few more professionals to work for her.

Yan Kejin poured her a cup of tea and slowly proposed:

"Since you want to recruit people, you might as well recruit a few more. In the name of the palace, a carpentry workshop was set up, with the needs of the palace as the first priority, and some orders from ordinary people could be received in their spare time. ”

Xu Yin drank tea.

Carpentry? Isn't that what she wants? What a great idea!

immediately gave the prince an appreciative look.

Yan Kejin lowered her head to add tea to her, and her lowered eyelids covered the star-like smile at the bottom of her eyes.

Isn't it time to ask for a reward again tonight?

King Jinnan acted very efficiently, and it was only at noon that he decided to open a carpentry workshop, and in the afternoon he let people choose a good site - not far from the palace, the first batch of streets and alleys with cement roads, and it is a four-way intersection, what are the large items, and it is also very convenient to transport.

Xu Yin really didn't expect that the first thing to be done would be the carpentry workshop.

But if you think about it, this workshop is really necessary.

Whether it is a large juicer needed by the sugar mill, or a spinning machine and loom that the textile mill will need in the future, it needs the support of woodworking.

After all, it is ancient times, there is no steel and no plastic, and the material that can be supplied in large quantities and is easy to make is wood.

As for iron, Xu Yin only plans to use it for forging some core components, otherwise there will be no money if there is a mine at home.

The palace came forward, what can the county guard of Baigui County say? What's more, it sounds like a good thing for the people, just like the flat and hard cement road, wasn't it also proposed by the royal government?

This is equal to good deeds for the people, and the more the better.

The county guard gave the green light all the way, and all the formalities were completed as quickly as possible, and within a few days, the carpentry workshop was built.

During this time, Carpenter Cen returned to Seremban County.

In addition to picking up his two sons, he also shoulders the task of recruiting people.

Fortunately, the treatment given by the palace is good, and the money he asked someone to bring home before allowed the family to build a new house and let his grandson marry a daughter-in-law, which is known to the village within a radius of ten miles.

As soon as he came home, the people who came to inquire almost broke the threshold of Lao Cen's house, and they all wanted to know where he made his fortune.

As a result, when they heard that they were working in Nanban, some people retreated, Nanban is so poor, what good life can there be?

But there were also people who stayed and wanted to follow Carpenter Cen to Nanban to find work.

Cen carpenter said the request: "The master asked me to recruit a group of carpenters to go back, not to be good at carving, but at least to be able to play ordinary furniture, get started quickly, not to recruit apprentices, you meet the conditions to sign up, and let's go to Nanban together." ”

Listening to what Carpenter Cen said, only three of the people left met the requirements.

So Cen Carpenter went to neighboring villages and towns to publicize it, but most people thought the same: Nanban is so poor, what good work can there be, don't make any money, but people have been poisoned by miasma and become short-lived ghosts, and they can't make a lot of money.

Yes, it took three days to recruit seven people, all of whom were too poor to open the pot, but who was a little hopeful, who would want to come to Nanban to work?

In this way, Carpenter Cen took nine people, including his two sons, back to Baigui County.

He faintly felt a little in his heart, those people are unwilling to come to Nanban today, and they will definitely regret it in the future.

In fact, there was no need to wait for the coming day, and the people who came with him were all widened in surprise as soon as they arrived in Baigui County:

"Why is the ground so flat here? There's no dust, it's so clean! ”

"This is Baigui County Mansion City? It's so different from what I imagined! ”

"We're going to work here in the future? With such a big yard, only a few of us live? And the mother-in-law cooks for us? I'm not dreaming, am I? That's a great treat......"

"Master Cen, what are we going to do in the future? Is it just a wood job? But why don't you have a shopkeeper? A carpenter asked.

Carpenter Cen shook his head: "For the time being, our workshop will not accept outside work, and will do things exclusively for the palace." There is a lot of wood work in the palace, don't look at the fact that there are a lot of us, and the work in the palace alone may have to be done for half a year. ”

Before recruiting people, Cen Carpenter informed them of the treatment: 500 wen a month, and food and lodging.

This is much higher than the market price in Seremban.

At that time, he was paid a lot of money, so he followed the housekeeper to the palace. I didn't want to be reused by the princess, so I completed the waterwheel and sugar cube mold, and won several silver rewards one after another.

But he didn't tell his co-workers about the silver reward, if there is a follow-up, he will be happy, but what if it is gone, wouldn't it make them happy in vain if he said it in advance?

The other people were already very happy with the five hundred wen monthly money for food and lodging, not to mention that the food provided by the palace was much better than what they ate at home.

Not to mention three meals a day, there is also a meat dish at noon, sometimes grilled pork belly, sometimes fried crispy meat, sometimes sake lees fish.

The cooking mother-in-law also cooked herbal tea for them every day on the orders of the princess, and cooked a pot of mung bean soup every five days to relieve the heat and remove obstacles, in short, it was much better than they imagined.

Nanban is not as poor as they think!

No wonder Master Cen has built a new house in his family and his grandchildren have married a daughter-in-law after a year of coming, can they also do it?

After a few days, these people were desperate, and they expressed their willingness to work for the palace until they were old.