Liang Yunying's feelings about the children being too smart, I don't know what the mothers of those children who can't finish their studies at the age of 20 and are eliminated directly think.

Anyway, Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Jianyan, father and son, both had nothing to say, and they both knew that Liang Yunying was really reluctant to let the child leave, so he could only comfort and comfort him.

Liang Yunying was sad for a while before she reluctantly accepted the fact that her son was going to leave soon, and slowly recovered her mental state, but she still talked about the child from time to time.

After dinner, Zhu Jingyuan handed over his mother to his father and slipped back to his room.

Sitting down in his study and looking at the two personal maidservants who came over, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly thought of the previous arrangement:

"Did you ask what I asked you to ask yesterday? I asked a few of the other servants what they thought. ”

Qiu Yue subconsciously looked at Chunxiang, Chunxiang's expression was a little complicated, and she reported cautiously with some uncertainty:

"I told Your Highness that Qiu Yue and I asked a total of thirty-six servants, and most of them did not believe in the wages of fifteen silver bills, and they were not small craftsmen.

At the same time, most of the servants told us that even if someone paid such a high amount, they would not go, and that it must be a work that requires human life.

"There are only three servants willing to try, but they say that they are all slaves and cannot go out and work on their own to get paid."

Zhu Jingyuan asked a little uncertainly:

"That is, even if you are paid fifteen dollars of silver, only one-tenth of ordinary slaves are willing to work as workers?"

Haruka nodded, then added:

"Yes, Your Highness, but it's not that they don't look down on the pay, but they are mainly worried that the work is too hard or dangerous, so they don't dare to accept it.

"And the three slaves who are willing to try are all Kunlun slaves from Nanyang, and they are the ones who do the most exhausting hard work......"

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly became even more helpless:

"Well, sure enough, only those who are about to lose their lives will be willing to go out and become workers.

"The point is...... These most unbearable slaves may not become free people in a short time......

"There is a chance to be a free man, but he is not willing to be a worker at all."

Hearing Zhu Jingyuan's emotion, Qiu Yue couldn't help but ask:

"Your Highness, the ...... When will the contract of all of us be changed? ”

Zhu Jingyuan thought about the old emperor's attitude, and if this matter was to be compromised, he didn't count, and said a little melancholy:

"For you, at least one or two years, three or five years normally, seven or eight years at most, you have to change after all.

"But for Nanyang Kunlun Nu, it may take twenty or thirty years, or it may be that there is no chance in this life......"

The two maidservants were in mixed moods and didn't know what to say.

If they could, they wanted the status quo to remain the same, and if they had a choice, they wanted to choose the longest period.

The slaves of the Ming Dynasty were not the slaves of the traditional so-called "slave society", nor were they the slaves before the abolition of slavery in modern America.

After the Song Dynasty, the slaves all had monthly money, and the master's family would also give rewards, and the actual income exceeded that of many workers, that is, they had some property rights.

At the same time, if the master kills the slave for no reason, it is also punishable in law, but it is not easy to deal with in practice, that is, they have some personal rights in name.

Even, all deeds of sale are not dead, and in theory, slaves and maids can save money for themselves and redeem themselves.

Relatively speaking, the Americans kill their own slaves, they only destroy their own property, and no one cares.

The slave of the Ming Dynasty is actually a low-level citizen, a rank below the right of abode.

They have incomplete personal and property rights, and they also maintain an incomplete personal dependency relationship with the owner's family.

The exact amount of rights they receive depends on the preferences of their owners.

Zhu Jingyuan's two handmaidens may actually enjoy higher treatment in society than the so-called Miss De of the ordinary elite.

The actual monthly money is 3 yuan silver bills, and the actual income is higher if you count the irregular rewards.

The key is that food, clothing, and housing are all expenses of the palace, and the palace directly finds a doctor for medical treatment, and the basic living needs do not have to be spent by themselves.

Coupled with Zhu Jingyuan's care, their actual living standards are higher than those of many middle-income families.

After all, the price they bought was thousands of yuan in silver bills, and the actual cost was several thousand yuan, including the hidden expenses of education and training in the palace.

According to the purchasing power, this cost can be worth the high-end cars of later generations, and death from illness is definitely "the loss of important fixed assets".

Their actual daily work is just Zhu Jingyuan's life maid.

The Nanyang Kunlun slave that Chunxiang talked about is the lowest-level slave who does not need to be castrated.

The purchase price is basically around three hundred silver bills, and as for cultivation, it is better to say that it is domesticated, and it is enough to be able to do hard work.

But if both of them were liberated at the same time, Nanyang Kunlun Nu should be able to continue to live as low-level workers.

Chunxiang's two girls may not be, the standard of living will definitely not be maintained, and it is unpredictable to fall into any industry.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about these things in his heart, shook his head slightly melancholy and said:

"You two, if you want to help me do things in the company in the future, you have to continue to read some books, at least you can keep accounts, otherwise there will be no future in the future.

"I'm going to pay you twenty-five dollars in silver, which is the level of a junior craftsman, and you won't get it anywhere else.

"Wait—you two might as well go straight to the craftsman's school, learn the bookkeeping and housekeeping, and be my official secretary later.

"I'm not at home during the day anyway, in the words of a capitalist? The workload of both of you is not saturated at all. ”

The two girls were directly stunned, and they didn't understand how their Royal Highness's thinking turned to this place:

"Your Highness...... What do you say? ”

"You're sending us to school?"

Zhu Jingyuan quickly made up his mind, if you want to say that the people who are really relieved and reliable, and who are really easy to use, are still these two girls.

They no longer have a family, the palace is their home, and they are their masters and families.

It can cost a little money to train them into modern personal secretaries and assistants, which is more assured than recruiting them outside, and they can continue to be hired even if they are really freed from slavery.

They are just eighteen years old, and they can still learn things, the key is that they already know some words, they are not completely illiterate, and they will learn craftsmen faster:

"That's right! Tomorrow morning I will tell my mother that I will arrange for the two of you to go to the craftsman school during the day. ”

In the stunned and dazed eyes of the two maidservants, Zhu Jingyuan seemed to have solved some major problem, and his heart was obviously relaxed a lot:

"Okay, that's all for today, you guys go and get ready, I'll take a shower later......"

The two maidservants immediately gave up the inquiry and dispute, and immediately went to prepare bath water for Zhu Jingyuan.

Now there are boilers and tap water in the palace, and preparing bath water is to release water and adjust the water temperature, which is much simpler than boiling water, fetching water, and mixing water.

As industrialization progressed, the number of servants actually needed by aristocratic families decreased.

High-level servants are basically transformed into life assistants, middle-level servants are becoming skilled domestic workers such as gardeners and cooks, and low-level servants are transforming into coolies.

A few minutes later, Chunxiang came out of the bathroom and told Zhu Jingyuan that the bath water was ready.

took Zhu Jingyuan into the bathroom, untied his clothes with Qiu Yue, helped him lie down in the bathtub, and carefully helped scrub his body.

After taking a shower, dry him off, put on his dressing gown and send him back to the bedroom to rest.

For the handmaidens of the male masters, especially the personal handmaidens of the unmarried boys, it is very important to be not seductive and steady.

They should be able to change the little boy's clothes calmly as usual, and avoid stimulating the little boy when they shouldn't be moving.

Of course, Chunxiang and Qiuyue did a good job, otherwise they would have been kicked out by Mrs. Liang a long time ago.

The aristocratic parents of the classical era did not allow their sons to use handmaidens to solve their physical needs, but they were worried that they would empty their bodies at a young age.

It was a convention formed after the Renwu Dynasty that Zhu Jingyuan, a prince and grandson, could not be broken until at least the age of sixteen.

At the same time, before they are twenty years old, they will let the maid help strictly limit the number of times, and the standard is once every half a month.