When the entire Western Regions fell into the infinite terror of the Ming Dynasty, the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty showed the vitality of all things.

Because Daming is in the period of building railways, highways and other infrastructure madness, government-run steel plants have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

This is followed by a variety of related industries, such as mining, coking, processing, transportation, and so on.

Therefore, the economic and social development of the Ming Dynasty has taken hundreds of years of detours, and has directly transitioned from agricultural civilization to semi-agricultural and semi-industrial civilization.

The reason why it is semi-industrial is mainly because the Ming Dynasty has a vast area, and the prosperity of the Jiangnan region is only half of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Because of the unprecedented prosperity of the market, the population of the Gangnam area has once again ushered in explosive growth.

Not only is there a large number of immigrants, but the number of local newborns is also increasing day by day.

Coupled with Zhu Yunxi's continuous subsidies before he ascended the throne, and the policy tilt towards childbirth, the entire Jiangnan region ushered in a period of rapid population explosion.

But even so, it is still far from quenching the thirst of the near.

At present, several important cities in Daming are facing a serious labor shortage and labor difficulties.

The emergence of this phenomenon, not to mention that the officials of the Ming Dynasty have never seen it, and even the previous dynasties have not appeared.

Therefore, while lamenting the foresight of the new monarch and the fact that he had begun to guide population growth many years ago, they were anxious about where to recruit workers for the government-run factories under their rule.

Lao Zhu stayed on Zhongshan for two months, and when he saw that the king of Hades did not come to collect him, his courage gradually became bigger.

First of all, he was dissatisfied with the environment he lived in, so he ordered someone to renovate the small courtyard in the middle of the mountain and changed it into a palace in the middle of the mountain.

Secondly, he was also tired of seeing the scenery of Zhongshan and wanted to go down the mountain to see the fireworks in the world.

Therefore, after looking at a sunny morning and confirming with Qin Tianjian that there was no strong wind and rain for a few days, Lao Zhu finally walked out of the mountains and came to the bustling capital.

However, as soon as his carriage drove out of the Zhongshan area, six or seven miles away from the capital, he saw a crowd of people on the side of the road, gathering at least tens of thousands of people.

Lao Zhu heard that it was so lively outside, and immediately got out of the carriage and led a few guards dressed as farmers to come up.

Na Cheng thought that as soon as he showed his head, he saw several people holding a sign forward.

"A few fellows went to the city to find work, right?"

"Come to our Wang's Oil Mill!"

"Our Wang's Oil Mill is in charge of food and housing, and we can still have three old man's money every month!"

As soon as Lao Zhu heard "old man's money", he subconsciously pressed the brim of his hat down, for fear that he would be seen to look like the old man on the Daming silver coin.

"Don't listen to Wang Mazi's nonsense, their oil mill is tired and dirty, so they still come to our soap factory!"

"Not to mention the easy work of our soap factory, the monthly wage is two dollars more than his old man's money!"

"I, I, I...... Our steel mill recruits workers, and the monthly salary is ten yuan for the old man! ”

The steel mill has a lot of money, and it makes all the people around who are holding signs shut up.

However, their silence was only temporary, and after a short period of stunnedness, they began to whisper again.

"What's the matter with the government, didn't it say that this is a light industry recruitment area, why did you put it in a steel factory?"

"Who says it's not, who can rob the steel mill now in the Ming Dynasty?"

"It is said that their steel factory does not need to sell out the steel produced by it, and our Daming Mansion will buy it all!"

When the people of the steel mill heard this, they couldn't help but be modest.

"Oh, it's not as good as you say, and the price given by the government is not high!"

"A pound of good steel is only a few copper plates of pure profit."

The owner of the soap factory next to him pursed his lips disdainfully when he heard this.

"We believe your ghost!"

"Don't think we don't know, your steel factory can produce thousands of catties of molten iron in one furnace now, even if you only make one penny per catty, it is thousands of miles!"

"Besides, which steel mill can't have ten or eight furnaces, and the net profit will be at least tens of thousands of dollars a day!"

"Moreover, your net profit is more than that of our small workshops......, which is more than all the costs of labor, coal, etc."

After the explanation of the understanding person, the people around him who had just been a little sympathetic to the steel mill suddenly cast envious and jealous eyes.

However, the reason why they hate the steel mill is that the steel mill recruits too many workers, and there are tens of thousands of workers at every turn, who can rob them?

There are less than 10,000 people in many counties in Daming!

They have a factory, they are a county!

Lao Zhu listened to the conversation of the people around him, and his face was full of surprise and shock.

Is the price of Daming so high now?

He remembered that when he first became the emperor, as long as he was full of food, he could recruit craftsmen with a few copper coins.

Now that these people are paying such high wages, can they still make money?

Lao Zhu was suspicious but couldn't bear it, and kept wandering around the crowd, listening to it in the east and looking at it in the west.

Lao Zhu is old, and at first glance he is an old man, so naturally no one will attack him. But the few guards who followed him disguised as peasants were stopped by several waves of people.

If it weren't for their great height and strength, they would have broken free from the pull of human teeth, and they might have lost the emperor a long time ago.

Lao Zhu looked at the plight of the guards, and chatted with the people around him with a smile.

Just as Lao Zhu was pulling an old farmer about his age and wanted to inquire about the growth of this year's crops, he was suddenly grabbed by a person's teeth.

"Don't go, uncle, are you interested in coming to our workshop to work?"

Lao Zhu was surprised when he heard this, and asked in a strange voice.

"Have you thought about it, are you sure you want someone of this age in your workshop?"

"Yes!"

"Our workshop is different from others, we are a workshop specializing in pasting cartons for the match factory, and all the female workers are recruited in it......

"We're not female workers, why are you pulling us!"

"Uncle!"

"We're not asking you to paste the cardboard box, we want you to make a change!"

"Think about it, when a female worker sleeps at night, there must be a watchman in the yard to help take care of the yard, right?"

Lao Zhu was a little moved when he heard this, he really wanted to find a place to stay for a few days and take a good look at what the Ming Dynasty was like when the eldest grandson tossed out.

"How old are we, I'm afraid we can't do it if we're dazzled and deaf, right?"

"Even if you really come in, we can't beat it at our age!"

As soon as Ren Yazi heard this, he hurriedly said with a smile.

"Uncle, you're worried, what we want is your age!"

"Think about it, we are all young and beautiful female workers here, and we don't feel at ease if you let us recruit young offspring!"

"In case we hook up with the female workers in the workshop, we don't have a working worker, and we have to pay for a wedding drink."

"It's different when you're old, even if you have that heart, you don't have that ability, hahaha!"

Lao Zhu was immediately unhappy when he heard this, what does it mean to have that heart and not that ability?

He was able to endure it once yesterday, and he couldn't get out of bed after cleaning up Concubine Guo Hui's mother-in-law!

This person dares to underestimate us, let's let him see what it means to be old and strong, and what is the spirit of dragon and tiger!

"When are we going to work?"

"Uncle, don't you ask how much the monthly money is?"

Old Zhu Hao said dryly.

"Don't ask!"

"Look at it!"

"Hey!"

"We just like people like Uncle who is so open!"

Lao Zhu followed Ren Yazi to the matchbox workshop, but he was stupid and scared a few guards behind him.

"Head, what should we do, do you want to tell His Majesty the Emperor!"

"I have to tell it!"

"But I'd better tell Master Hu about this first, and let his old man decide."

"Medium!"

Several people discussed and decided, and several people followed Lao Zhu to keep an eye on him, and one person quickly ran back to the carriage, and informed the tiger master of the news that Lao Zhu was taken away by his teeth through the mobile radio.

Erhu immediately reported to Zhu Yunxi after learning about Lao Zhu, and Zhu Yunxi saw that Lao Zhu was so leisurely, and quickly gave a reply of "As long as the old man is happy, the old man can do anything".

Lao Zhu's eyes didn't stop after entering the matchbox workshop, looking at the small two-story dormitory building of the workshop.

"I can't imagine that I can live in such a good house with a cardboard box?"

The workshop owner was humbled when he heard this.

"Uncle has won the award!"

"It's not that we're blowing it to you, let's not say that our dormitory is in our area, even if it is put in Xuanwu Lake Industrial Park, it will be counted as a class!"

"You live better than the female workers, you have a single house, and you don't have to climb the stairs!"

"Oh?"

Lao Zhu put his hands behind his back and said with interest.

"Take a look!"

"Uh-uh......"

As soon as the workshop owner heard this, he looked at Lao Zhu's style, and suddenly had a feeling of facing the Thousand Households of the Household Registration Department of the Five Cities Terracotta Division.

"Uncle, what did you do?"

"Shall we?"

"We are farming, and we have raised more than 20 pigs by the way!"

"Pig farmer......"

"You don't have the same temperament as ......"

Lao Zhu asked with a smile when he heard this.

"Then what do you think we are raising?"

The workshop owner quipped.

"Let's see that you are like a dragon raiser, or where did you get such extravagance, hahaha!"

Lao Zhu also laughed when he heard this, and said in his heart that the owner of the workshop was really right, didn't he raise a five-clawed golden dragon with teeth and claws for Daming.

The workshop owner led Lao Zhu to the room at the door of the dormitory building, pointing to the neat beds, basins and other things inside.

"Uncle, this is where you live!"

Lao Zhu looked at the furnishings in the room and nodded.

"It's okay to see!"

When the workshop owner heard this, he broke his defense again, and said in his heart, what the hell is this old man?

Let's live in this single dormitory, not to mention living in a more old man, it's enough to live in a rich man!

However, now that the workshop is the time to employ people, not to mention that female workers are not easy to recruit, even the old men who play more cannot be recruited.

Nearby paper workshops, soap workshops, towel workshops, etc., that is really anyone's want, as long as you have arms and legs, can move freely, they dare to ask for it.

Like the quality of the old man in front of him, if you go to them, you have to give the three old men money a month!

"Uncle, let's take care of the rice in the workshop, you can just go to eat together when you hear the sound of greeting and opening the meal."

"The food in the canteen is average, but at least it can ensure that there is meat and vegetarian food, and there is a hot soup to drink at the end."

Lao Zhu nodded when he heard this.

"That's not bad!"

"How many times can you see meat in ordinary people's homes throughout the year?"

The workshop owner said with a smile when he heard this.

"You're right!"

"Although our workshop has not been opened for a long time, our master is benevolent and righteous, for fear of mistreating the workers and making people gossip, so it is the best to eat and live!"

"The main house?"

"This workshop isn't yours!"

The workshop owner smiled when he heard this.

"Thanks to the old man's promotion, we are actually working for people, and we just receive a few extra dollars of old man's money every month."

"Oooh......"

Seeing that Lao Zhu was so indifferent, the workshop owner thought that Lao Zhu looked down on him, so he hurriedly put a layer of gold on his face.

"Uncle, let's get to the bottom of you, don't tell outsiders!"

"The master of our workshop is a noble man in the palace!"

"Huh?"

"The nobles of the palace?"

Lao Zhu almost burst out laughing when he heard this, he really didn't know which nobleman in the palace was so idle that he had done such a small deal in private.

"Oops, it's scared to death."

"We didn't expect that such a workshop could still involve the nobles in the palace!"

"Dare to ask which nobleman in the palace is it?"

The workshop owner shook his head cautiously when he heard this, and said mysteriously.

"We can't talk about this, when the nobles come to the workshop in the future, let's remember to inform you."

"Oooh!"

"Uncle, if you are satisfied with the food and accommodation in our workshop, then let's talk about wages?"

"Medium!"

"Our workshop has just opened, and we can't give too much, so let's open two old men a month for you?"

"Medium!"

"Then let's register now, you give us the road guide or household registration book, and we have to make sure that you are from Tianfu."

Lao Zhu immediately exploded when he heard this.

"What do you mean, if we weren't from Ying Tianfu, wouldn't we even be able to do a shift job?"

"No, it's not ......"

"There are regulations in Shangfeng, in order to take care of the old people in our Ying Tianfu, some positions can only recruit people from our Ying Tianfu!"

"Oooh......"

Lao Zhu has no habit of going out to lead the way, and he doesn't have a household registration book.

Looking at the Ming Dynasty, there is one person who does not have it, that is, Zhu Yunxi, who invented the household registration book.

Just when Lao Zhu didn't know what excuse to make, a rough-faced man in a short dress ran in.

"Uncle, you went into the city to look for work, why didn't you even bring this!"

Lao Zhu looked at the fat face of the second tiger and was angry, since the anti-Sun ascended the throne, this guy has risen to the top, directly from the head of the palace guards, promoted to become the chief officer of the Supervision Department, who is responsible for inspecting the illegal affairs of officials, as well as supervising the big boss of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Now as soon as he saw this guy come out, Lao Zhu didn't have to think about it to know that his whereabouts must have been exposed.

"Why are you here?"

Erhu didn't respond to Lao Zhu's question when he heard this, and still nagged to himself.

"Uncle, now the city is different from our hometown, you have to have a household registration book to work in the city!"

"This is what my aunt asked me to bring to you, saying that if you are not used to living here, you will go back, our family is not short of this money!"

When the workshop owner on the side heard this, he immediately understood why Lao Zhu was dragging it, and he dared to give it to the master who was not bad for money.

Lao Zhu snorted and took the household registration book handed over by Erhu, only to see that the book was a vermilion cover, and the first page inside was written with the words Shangyuan County household registration book, and the second page was the name of his head of household.

Zhu Liuyi?

Lao Zhu looked at his name with great disgust, thinking that when the rebel grandson came back, he would have to clean him up.

What kind of name does this rebel grandson give himself, he has to be so shabby?