"Uncle, can you show us the household registration book?"

Lao Zhu flipped through it casually, and saw that there was nothing outrageous in the back, but he just changed the name of Lao Zhu's family.

For example, Queen Ma was changed to Ma Yun, Zhu Biao was changed to Zhu Mu, Zhu Xiongying was changed to Zhu Ying, Zhu Yunxi was changed to Zhu Tong, and so on.

Lao Zhu threw his household registration book to the workshop owner with a disgusted face, and the workshop owner hurriedly and carefully took it, looked at the household registration information of Lao Zhu's family and exclaimed.

"Uncle is really a blessed man......"

Lao Zhu pouted when he heard this, half of his heart was dead in the household registration book, and he was a fart!

"Uncle Zhu, we have read your household registration book, and there is no problem with the household registration in Shangyuan County!"

"When the people from the Five Cities Terracotta Division come to check on the displaced people another day, they can register you and file it with the government!"

"Oooh!"

Lao Zhu understands this very well, after all, this policy was formulated by him to prevent the people from running around.

It's just that he doesn't know that this policy has long been useless.

Even if the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division came over, it was just a knock on the workshop owner, and then a temporary guide to everyone was done.

Because the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division didn't want much, and by the way, they also maintained local law and order, so the major workshop owners didn't have too many complaints about it.

"Uncle, then let's start counting the days now?"

"You can do it!"

"Okay!"

"I'll write it down in the work book when I go back, and I'll start counting my salary today!"

Seeing that Lao Zhu had officially joined the company, Erhu immediately nodded and said.

"Uncle, you do it here first, if it doesn't go well, go home, our family is not short of this money!"

Lao Zhu scolded impatiently when he heard this.

"Get out!"

"Go back and tell your family, don't bother us if it's okay!"

"Alas!"

"Uncle, don't worry, except for my nephew, I guarantee that no one will come to disturb you!"

After Erhu said this, he walked away, but not long after he left, the head of the household registration department of the Five Cities Terracotta Division walked in with two soldiers and a scribe.

"Who's the factory owner!"

"I ......"

"Little Wang Guangmin, meet a few officials!"

The main bookkeeper looked at Wang Guangmin at room temperature, then looked at the layout in the courtyard, and said in an official tone.

"Routine!"

"Check this area for outsiders!"

Wang Guangmin was puzzled when he heard this.

"Official, didn't you just check it three days ago, why do you want to check it again?"

Hearing this, Room Wen snorted coldly.

"Are you an official or am I an official!"

"I will check when I say!"

"Besides, the last three consecutive days of recruiting unions, the ghost knows how many outsiders have mixed in!"

"If there are traitors and criminals, or Jiang Yang thieves who kill people and overhaul goods, you should scold us for not doing anything at that time!"

Wang Guangmin hurriedly praised when he heard this.

"The permanent master is responsible, and having the permanent master is in charge of this piece is the blessing of small people!"

"Chang Zhushu, let's still follow the old rules?"

"Hmm!"

When Wang Guangmin heard this, he hurriedly beckoned the female workers who were working in the workshop to come out, and stood in line one by one, waiting for the inspection of the permanent master and others.

In fact, the government is generally reluctant to manage a workshop like theirs, which is dominated by female workers.

Because few women left home to work in other places in those days, most of the female workers here were villagers from nearby counties and towns, and they died dozens of miles away from home.

Therefore, after a hard investigation, in the end, there was no problem to find out.

If there is no problem, there is no money.

Ancient and modern principles.

Wang Guangmin beckoned other female workers to come out and line up very smoothly, no matter how long or short they worked, they had more or less experienced this kind of battle.

It's just that it doesn't work when I get to Uncle Zhu, no matter how I greet Uncle Zhu, Uncle Zhu is sitting on the pony at the door of the dormitory building with his eyelids drooping and not moving.

"Uncle Zhu!"

"Hurry up and let the official take a look, and it will be done soon, just take a look at the household registration book and compare your portrait ......"

Wang Guangmin talked for a long time, but only got a cold response.

"Humph!"

"Let's just sit here, he likes to check!"

Just when Wang Guangmin thought that the official would be angry, he didn't expect the official to look at Uncle Zhu, and said that it was okay.

"It's okay...... This old gentleman is so old, he doesn't look like a person who can be a traitor! ”

"We'll check on these female workers and leave as long as we're sure they're okay!"

Room temperature instructed the scribe to re-register the information for the female workers in the workshop, and finally when he passed by Lao Zhu, he glanced at Lao Zhu and quietly retreated.

Chang Zhu's gathering was directly reorganized by Wang Guangmin, and he said in his heart, what is the origin of this old man, even hiding when the official is on a mission?

Just when Wang Guangmin was puzzled, the people from the Five Cities Terracotta Division and the Water Dragon Division walked in.

"Who's the workshop owner!"

"I ...... I'm ......."

"A few days ago, there was a fire in a workshop, which caused damage to several nearby houses!"

"Today, the imperial court issued an official document, saying that it is to focus on preventing water!"

"Come on, check all the corners of this place, and deal with the messy piles and hidden dangers of water!"

"Okay!"

More than 20 strong men rushed into the workshop with water and fire sticks, sorted out all the messy stacked matchboxes, and put the stacked materials in a safe place.

"Wang Guangmin, your workshop is not well managed, there are hidden dangers everywhere!"

"I won't punish you this time, but you have to pay attention in the future, we will come to check every once in a while!"

"Oops......"

Wang Guangmin even had the silver ingots in his sleeves ready, which Cheng thought that the other party didn't want money!

It's just that if you come here every once in a while, can you still do business?

"Official, we haven't talked so much about it here before, this is ......"

"Humph!"

"Didn't we have so many people here before?"

"What did we say you did, where did you get so much nonsense!"

Lao Zhu has been watching coldly from the pony, and he doesn't even need to use his brain to know that these people must have been arranged by Erhu.

There is only one purpose, and that is to check if there is any danger in this place and to think about your own safety.

But he doesn't accept it!

I have picked up a life from under God's nose, can I still be afraid of this little wind and waves?

Lao Zhu is very crazy now, feeling that he has overcome fate and successfully won himself decades of longevity.

Of course, his madness is only madness on the surface, and he is still panicked in his heart.

Otherwise, he would not have been in a hurry to abdicate and forced Zhu Yunxi to ascend the throne.

He is afraid that the goal of being the emperor is too big, and he will be stared at by God every day, in case God comes back to his senses one day and arrests him again.

After sending away the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, it was also time for dinner.

The female workers happily came out of the workshop one by one and went to the canteen in groups of three or five to eat.

Lao Zhu also went back to the room to get his own rice bowl, and then went to the cafeteria to cook.

Wang Guangmin is right, the food in the workshop is really good, a pork slice fried cabbage, and a cabbage stewed tofu, plus an egg drop soup.

However, Lao Zhu didn't like vegetarian dishes, so he directly asked the kitchen aunt to serve him two spoons of pork slices.

This kind of requirement seriously violated the professionalism of the vegetable aunt, but the vegetable aunt saw that Lao Zhu was still out to work at a great age, and under pity, she forcibly stopped her trembling hands and gave him a pot full of meat slices.

Lao Zhu took the food and went to the side to snort and finished, and began to look at the female workers chattering and eating in the dining hall.

Lao Zhu's harem has never lacked women, even if he moved to the Mid-Levels Palace, he brought dozens of women to serve him.

But the female workers in the workshop were different, which gave him different feelings.

They may not be as beautiful as the women in the palace, and they may not have many talents. But their smiles are brighter and sunnier, and they make people look happy.

Especially when they found a large piece of meat in the bowl and cheered, Lao Zhu couldn't help but follow the silly music.

It's the breath of youth!

Lao Zhu settled in the workshop in this way, slept during the day every day, walked around a few times at night with a lantern, and then continued to go back to lie down and sleep.

The rest of the time is to listen to the big girls and little daughters-in-law working while pulling the east family, the west family short, and arranging the main family in front of him, can you really make money by opening a workshop like this?

Lao Zhu also had the same doubts, he knew after a few days that ten matchboxes were worth a penny.

A skilled female worker can paste about 1,000 a day.

And the salary given to them by the workshop is 3,000 wen per month.

Coupled with the management of food and housing, a few days off every month, and the money for raw material procurement, this workshop is a money-losing product.

But it's none of his business, he just needs to have something to do and then go out on the streets.

Within half a month, Lao Zhu finished shopping around this area.

Through this shopping, he also roughly knew how many industries Daming has now.

At least in the early years, the so-called three hundred and sixty lines would definitely not be able to stop, and there were more than three hundred and sixty kinds of workshops in this area alone.

Even a small screw can derive more than a dozen workshops.

Lao Zhu once visited a screw factory a few hundred zhang away from the matchbox workshop factory, and saw with his own eyes how they turned an iron rod into a screw.

Lao Zhu sighed at the rapid change of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually accepted these new things.

For example, whenever workers go to and from work, there is an overwhelming tide of bicycles.

However, it is said that bicycles are high-end goods, and can only be afforded by those who are involved in steel-making workshops, and those who work in the workshops can only live in factories, or a dozen people hire a horse-drawn carriage to commute to work.

Lao Zhu has been working in the workshop for less than a month, and he is a little bored, and he has the idea that he might as well go back.

It's not that he doesn't like the outside accommodation, in fact, he's never been picky about that.

The main thing is that he is too boring, and he just wanders around with nothing to do every day, which makes him feel like he is wasting his life.

But just as he was about to disappear suddenly, the owner of the workshop gave him a new job.

"Uncle Zhu, Lao Zhou, who delivered goods to us recently, broke his leg and couldn't pull goods back and forth for us."

"Do you think you want to give you two more dollars a month?"

Lao Zhu immediately became interested when he heard this, and pointed to the three-wheeled lane in the yard.

"Are you still riding this?"

"Yes!"

"Don't worry, this thing is very easy to learn, you can learn it by sitting on it and riding two laps!"

"You don't need to load and unload the goods, we are loading the children, and there are workers over there to unload when you get to the ground, you just need to pull the goods over."

"That's ......"

"Let's try it first!"

Lao Zhu took over this job, and happily rode a tricycle in the yard to spin, except for a little uncomfortable accident at the beginning, after riding two laps, he became more and more proficient, whether it was turning or parking, he was familiar with the road.

"Uncle Zhu can, it's better than many young offspring riders!"

"It seems that you were born to earn this money, even if Lao Zhou comes back in the future, you won't need him, and you will be allowed to do the work of pulling goods!"

Lao Zhu listened to Wang Guangmin's praise and smiled, he was really proud and happy at this moment, and he was happy to collect millions of taels of silver more than the imperial court.

After all, compared to the imperial court tax silver, the fact that he can ride a tricycle is completely achieved through his own efforts by removing his status as an emperor.

After Lao Zhu took over the delivery errand, because of his literacy and hyphenation, he undertook the work of counting the goods in and out of the workshop, and he had two more old men's income every month.

Since then, Lao Zhu has become the person with the most monthly money in the workshop.

The increase in income does not matter to Lao Zhu, but it is important to the female workers in the workshop.

In their opinion, an old man like Lao Zhu can earn 4,000 wen a month, which is quite capable!

can ride, can play shifts, can also read and write and make money, who doesn't love such an old man?

Just the eldest lady who cooks in the back kitchen, there are several pairs of old Zhu secretly sending autumn waves, making him soup from time to time, opening a small stove for him, and so on.

Lao Zhu enjoyed the worship and courtesy of the middle-aged aunts very much, which was a feeling that could not be experienced in the palace.

Because no one here knows that he was once an emperor, only treats him as an ordinary old man.

But Lao Zhu has no interest in those vulgar fans, just happily perfunctory everyone.

On this day, after Lao Zhu finished counting the warehouse and recorded the entry and exit records in the account book, he saw Aunt Wang in the kitchen coming over with a bowl of mung bean soup.

"Brother Zhu, you have been busy all morning, you must be thirsty."

"Let's drink some mung bean soup first, and when the meal starts later, I'll make up for you!"

Lao Zhu took the mung bean soup and drank it all, smashed it, smashed it, and said.

"Thank you, sister of the Wang family!"

"Let's get hot in the past two days, let's have less braised pork, and just put more cabbage and tofu for us!"

Aunt Wang said unhappily when she heard this.

"What is this!"

"We bought chicken at the vegetable market today, and we kept the chicken legs and breasts for you, you have to eat more!"

"Chicken, ......"

"Okay, but don't have too much, I'm afraid that I won't be able to eat it and waste it."

"Medium!"

"It's all up to you!"

When Aunt Wang said this, she deliberately lowered her voice and said mysteriously.

"We also brought you a secret salted garlic, it tastes good, you must try more!"

Lao Zhu watched the sister of the Wang family twist her fat waist and leave, with a smug smile like an old fox on her face.

However, just when Lao Zhu was proud of his undiminished charm, a fat-headed and big-eared guy came over.

"Uncle, if you play with such flowers, aren't you afraid that your aunt will know?"

(End of chapter)