The first batch of sugar, Xu Yin didn't plan to sell it, so she asked people to pack it into small portions and go back to distribute it as a New Year's benefit.

Seeing the rough oiled paper used for packaging, Xu Yin couldn't help but think of bagasse.

The bagasse after marrow removal is a very good raw material for papermaking, easy to cook and bleach, and can be used to make cultural paper and household paper.

Yan Kejin heard that bagasse still has this function, what are you waiting for! Immediately people went to build a paper workshop.

In this way, the most lacking is not raw materials, nor various auxiliary materials, but short-term workers.

The population of the Southern Barbarians is not as large as that of the Central Plains, and most of them are still mountain farmers, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, they all honestly nest in the mountains, planting as much as they eat.

Those who can think of coming to the city to work for a short time are often more flexible, or they really can't live and need to seek another breakthrough.

With the rise of various workshops, the treatment of short-term workers has risen again and again. After hearing about the remote village, many people rushed to Fucheng to find a way out.

Xu Yin seemed to see from them the migrant workers who went south to Shencheng in the eighties and nineties.

Once the population moves, many trades are created.

In places where there are many short-term jobs, stalls selling all kinds of food, housing rentals, and travel and transportation are all following the trend.

After seeing the prosperity of Fucheng and witnessing the advent of high-yield grains, the short-term workers brought various propaganda when they returned to their hometowns for the New Year.

Xu Yin believes that after the New Year, Fucheng will be more lively.

On the one hand, some people will come to inquire about the news of high-yield grain varieties, and when they see that it is true, they will naturally try to bring it back to their hometown to plant, and the high-yield grain varieties will not spread since then.

On the other hand, more people will come to the city to find work.

Workshops and mines need manpower, and to put it bluntly, labor plays a decisive role in the contribution of production value.

Xu Yin stepped on the tail of Layue and opened a labor market at the south gate of Fucheng.

It is said that it is a market, which is a wooden shed, and all kinds of recruitment information are posted on the four wooden walls. A literate guy was specially sent to stay there and interpret the recruitment information for the illiterate villagers.

The workshops under the royal palace need to hire a lot of people in the coming year, and she asked the directors of each workshop to list the requirements for the additional positions and copy and paste them in the labor market.

Those who meet the requirements can go to the workshop for an interview. After passing the interview, you can enter the palace workshop to work after the New Year, and you can receive monthly money and enjoy benefits without signing a deed of sale.

This kind of treatment is unheard of before.

When the people of winter idle heard about it, they came here with a half-believing attitude to find work.

"Oops! You're here too? ”

"I came here last month, and I didn't look for a stirring job in the sugar mill, and I have already received a month's salary, and this time I came with my cousin."

"Is that true? The palace recruits people, and you really don't need to sign a death deed? ”

"Not really! Just sign a work deed, in case you receive the monthly money and don't work well. ”

"Oops! Then I'll go and sign up! ”

"I'll sign up too!"

Many people have signed up for the workshops under the Royal Palace.

The smile on the job application is like good luck!

One by one, they were happy and ran to tell each other.

As a result, the reputation of the Seongnam labor market is becoming more and more famous.

During the New Year's Festival, all those who come to Fucheng, whether they come to visit relatives and friends, or those who come to try their luck in desperation, will not be able to help but go around here.

Labor shortages in the workshops have been alleviated.

Xu Yin believes that after the start of construction the following year, all livelihoods will be on the right track.

It's almost the Chinese New Year, and she has recently been busy going to the silkworm house and woodworking workshop to give red envelopes to the masters.

This year, only these two workshops have been in operation since they were built, and because they have only been open for less than half a year, the pressure on the masters must be greater.

In order to appease them, he specially asked the housekeeper to prepare a batch of red envelopes and reward silver, which is not only a New Year's benefit, but also a reward for working together to complete the giant juicer, and one person gave twenty taels of silver.

After receiving this heavy reward, the carpenter masters who followed Carpenter Cen to leave their hometown to work in Baigui County were red-eyed.

If it weren't for Xu Yin's fast flash, they would all be excited to kneel for her.

"Lao Cen, you are not kind, you didn't say that there was such a good thing before you came! Now my father's illness has money to cure! Woowoo woo ......"

"With this reward, don't say that my family's debt to the clan can be paid off, and I can save a little to send my son to study in a private school."

Each family has its own difficulties, otherwise it would not be too poor to open the pot in the year when the wind and rain are good.

Carpenter Cen stroked his beard with a smile and said, "I didn't lie to you, did I? I said that I was very kind to the master, and as long as I did a good job, the reward would not be less. ”

"When did you say there was a silver bounty?"

“…… Uh, didn't I say that? That may be forgotten. ”

No, he deliberately didn't say it.

At first, they were worried that they would be happy in vain if they didn't reward the silver in the future. Now, isn't it good to have such a surprise for the New Year?

Carpenter: "......"

The honest old Cen has changed!

In any case, Cen Carpenter and his entourage thanked the main family with gratitude, and embarked on the journey home for the New Year with a smile on their faces.

Along the way, they were terrified when they crossed the strange mountain, and they couldn't stop them from coming to Baigui County to work for the palace in the spring of the next year.

In addition to the craftsmen, other workers in the workshop and mine also received a red envelope.

It's just that the amount is not as much as that of craftsmen: those who usually perform well can get two taels; The average performance is only five or six hundred yuan, which is equivalent to receiving an extra month's salary.

There is a holiday for the New Year, and you can get an extra month's salary, and ordinary workers are also so happy that they have a smile on their eyebrows.

The palace was cleaned and dusted inside and out, festive red lanterns were hung, and all kinds of New Year's goods were also prepared.

Xu Yin took the maids, and after drinking the thick laba porridge, she grinded the bean juice and made a batch of tofu.

Gypsum dotted tofu, before the discovery of gypsum mines, she couldn't have imagined.

Of course, if you like to eat old tofu, you can also order brine.

After simply refining the gypsum, the tender tofu is as white as jade, and the taste is very tender. Cold salad or boiled soup, and tender tofu has to be counted.

After making tofu, there was still a lot of soy milk, so she adjusted the salty and sweet flavors, sent one to the study, and tasted it herself.

Mellow bean aroma, with pure white sugar, this is sweet soy milk.

A spoonful of soy sauce and a spoonful of vinegar, and then put some chopped green onions and coriander, there are seaweed and shrimp skin from Qinbei in the house, and each comes a little bit, which enhances the freshness and flavor, and the boiling hot soybean milk is sprinkled into the bowl, and the soybean milk meets the vinegar, as if it blooms a flower. This is the salted soy milk that was popular in Haicheng in later generations.

Xu Yin has a good mouthful, but I don't know which flavor the prince will like.

But according to what she knows about him, most of them like salted soy milk.

Sure enough, after a stick of incense, the little maid who was waiting in the study ran back and said that the prince likes salty bean juice very much, and asked Ming'er if he had it in the morning?

Of course you can eat it, but if you don't have it, you can do it again.

It's not easy to make tofu, and it's not easy to grind bean juice and cook soy milk?