In the end, the king of Jin went to Lu Li's residence to trace the palace, and the princess "fought alone".

The big room of the embroidery workshop, at this time the candle is brilliant, Mo said that the twenty embroidery girls are still busy, and even Qiao Niang did not rest, the princess composed, embroidered by her own hands The shaft of the bird and the phoenix, now only a third is completed, although the "delivery" date is still far away, but she does not dare to slack off.

Seeing the princess enter, everyone was surprised, and they hurriedly stopped the needlework in their hands and wanted to bow down.

"Excuse me, please be seated." Shi Niang is quite approachable at the moment, there is no shelf at all, and she doesn't care that there is no couch here, and she has never even sat on her knees, but sat on the felt carpet like everyone else.

"I'm tired of you, these days are busy with trivial matters, and I haven't asked about daily habits."

The princess was originally polite, as the opening remarks, there was a young daughter-in-law at the bottom, but she couldn't help but be excited, and seeing that the princess was amiable, she was no longer restrained: "It's a lot of trouble, since entering the Jin Palace, three meals a day are full, and the refreshments have never been broken, not afraid of the princess's jokes, the concubine has never seen such a rich diet." ”

A middle-aged woman also echoed: "In the past, in the Luoyang embroidery workshop, the owner was also lenient, never in arrears of wages, but a day only had two hours to rest, in the beginning of the winter rest, and no hot drink charcoal warm, which seems to be in the palace, a day of embroidery only four hours, every five days also have a day of rest, even if the night value, the supply of refreshments is continuous, and it is in the room of the fire wall, not cold at all." ”

Many female workers also can't help but express their gratitude -

"A salary of 2,000 yuan a month, which was unimaginable in the past."

"There are even servants and concubines who serve and wash clothes for us, and I suspect that I have become a noblewoman, but I never expected that in this life, I can still be pampered."

"Princess, the concubine is grateful to the princess, a few days ago I learned that the young son was sick, the concubine was worried, I was going to ask the princess for permission, and the concubine was allowed to return home to visit, I didn't want to ask the steward, the steward actually invited the prince Dong Doctor to diagnose the child, and the child is finally free now, all because of the princess's benevolence."

Eleven Niang had never heard of this, thinking that she was in charge of her duties, and reported this matter to Jiang Huai, and Jiang Huai immediately made a decision.

She just asked, "Are you from Taiyuan Mansion?" ”

At present, the vast majority of these embroiderers are not locals, so Eleven Niang asked.

"The concubine is indeed from Taiyuan Mansion, and she was originally working in the Zhongcheng embroidery workshop, and then the owner moved to Luoyang, and the concubine had to follow, and was selected by the Liang shopkeeper, first went to Chang'an, but I didn't expect the princess to go to the domain with His Royal Highness, and then returned to her hometown."

Another woman said: "The concubine is also from Taiyuan Mansion, but she has been working in Cangzhou, Yan Zhao fell, and the concubine moved to Pizhou with the owner, and she was also hired by the Liang shopkeeper, and the concubine thought that her husband and children were all in Taiyuan, so she went to Jinyang." ”

Eleven Niang sighed: "Among you, most of your family members are outside Taiyuan, so you should have a lot of worries in your heart." ”

This time it attracted even more gossip.

"Although I am concerned about my family, I am helpless, I don't hide it from the princess, the concubine is a fugitive, and I take refuge in the big family as a tenant farmer, although I don't bear taxes, but I am busy for a year, and it is rare to be full, and the concubine is good at long-term needles and chisels, and I go out to work, so I don't add to the burden with my family, and I still have some surplus, thinking that when my son becomes an adult, I can also find a daughter-in-law for them."

"The concubine's net worth is also a little thin in the Central Plains, but the taxes are too heavy, and the concubine's two sons died, and then she finally got a son and a daughter, and the daughter was ...... He was drowned by Aweng...... I don't blame Ah Weng, the family can't make ends meet, I really can't support my daughter, Aunt Weng is sick, and my husband has no choice, so I let the concubine go out to work. ”

"The concubine also gave birth to two daughters, although she was not drowned, she sold her slavery when she was four or five years old, and now she can't even see each other, and I don't even know where the two daughters are." A woman couldn't help but weep.

"The concubine was originally the daughter of a merchant, her father and brother offended the local magnanimity, and was forced to ruin the family, and the concubine was originally going to be sold to the church, but the Chinese were kind, and when they saw the concubine, they swore to die, so they were resold to the merchants, and they were glad to meet the shopkeeper Liang, ransomed the concubine, and followed Qiao Niang to learn the skills of needle chisel."

They are all born of suffering, and when they talk about their own lives, all the women are full of sorrow.

"What if...... I mean, if, if it is up to me to let your family members move to Jinyang, but you are not allowed to grant land, but become craftsmen, I don't know if you are willing? "Eleven Niang is back to the point.

There was silence at first.

The woman who sold her daughter into slavery first said: "If you can ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing, and no longer suffers from illness, let alone craftsmen, it is a family that sells the family to become a slave and maid in the palace, and it is also a blessing for three lives." ”

At first, the woman who claimed to be from Taiyuan Mansion was also pleasantly surprised: "Don't hide it from the princess, the grandson was originally a craftsman, but the income from a year is not even enough to make ends meet. ”

The rest of the people were no longer silent: "Guarding a few acres of thin fields, it is really difficult to have full food and clothing, but if you flee and are afraid of being convicted, if the princess is gracious, she can bring the concubine's family to Jinyang for reunion, and I really can't ask for it." ”

"Now it's a flight, if you don't give money to buy that place, where can you flee? Don't hide it from the princess, the concubine has seven or eight people in the family, and only relies on less than ten acres of land, which is ruthlessly sold to the nobles, and most of the money has to be used to prepare for the escape, and it is true that there is no capital to escape. ”

"I'm not afraid that the princess is contemptuous, the concubine even planned to sell the Qinglou herself, but unfortunately she is old and decrepit, and she doesn't even accept the Qinglou, if she doesn't have some needles and chisels, she will starve to death." No one laughed at the woman's "self-indulgence", everyone looked at her with special sympathy, and she said: "The concubine is a widow, no parents and no children, no permanent property at home, living relatives, only a sister, is married to Jinyang, at that time Liang shopkeeper chose to hire, the concubine also held the idea of being able to reunite with her sister, so she agreed to come to Jinyang, but only to learn that her sister and brother-in-law had no work, and the eldest son finally raised to seventeen, and traveled with the merchant group, but never returned, and did not even know whether she was alive or dead, a daughter, In desperation, I had to allow the merchant Jia to be a concubine, because I couldn't give birth, and I was not allowed by the eldest woman, and sent home, a family of three only relied on my brother-in-law to live on casual labor, and I didn't eat the last meal, and the concubine was thinking about it, to see if I could ask for a Liang shopkeeper, so that my sister could also enter the palace as an embroidery girl, I didn't want to have the honor to see the princess today, and the concubine promised that as long as the princess could give her sister a family of three to live, not to mention the craftsman, it was a slave and a maid. ”

Some of the plans of Eleven Niang are still in the planning, but looking at this group of emotional scenes, the compassion is moved, and I can't take care of a lot, so I directly explained to Qiao Niang: "Please inquire, which embroiderers are willing to move their families to Jinyang, record them in detail, hand them over to the steward, let her report them statistically, you don't have to worry, whether it is in the Jin Palace, or in the future to return to the Ni Zhen Clothing Workshop, your family is small, but anyone who is willing to settle in Jinyang, I can guarantee that they will be paid according to their work, not to mention the glory and wealth, at least they have no worries about food and clothing." ”

and specially explained to the woman of my sister's family in Jinyang: "Tomorrow you will take a holiday, you can go home, Ling Mei will be an embroiderer as she wishes, and she will be able to enter the house immediately, as for Ling Mei's son-in-law, I will explain Ruan Changshi, ask him what craft he has, or what craft he is willing to learn, how to arrange it at that time, then I will talk about it." ”

All the women were grateful, they couldn't believe the good news from the sky, and all of a sudden, the embroidery workshop was in full swing, and Eleven Niang had gone far away, and even could vaguely hear everyone's conversation and laughter.

But her mood was very heavy and heavy.

If it weren't for being in its territory, hearing and seeing with your own eyes the hardships of these toiling people, even if you understand that the corruption of the official system has caused the people of the Great Zhou to be miserable, it is really hard to imagine that it has deteriorated to such an extent, but whether it is the villagers of Bailing or these embroidery girls, in fact, it is not desperate, and it is really difficult for Eleven Niang to imagine that under the so-called rule of the Great Zhou, the people who are more difficult than witnessing these people, how far they have experienced misery.

Selling children and girls and even changing children to eat, I am afraid that it is real.

But in the face of all this, she couldn't do anything, and now all she can fight for is the fourteen counties under the rule of Taiyuan!

Their strength is still too limited and too weak, and Shi Niang even deeply doubts that even if they can ensure that Jinshuo is not lost, exterminate Pan Wei and deter Northern Liao to recover the lost land, and then overthrow the Wei Hou regime to order the world, this devastated country can still restore the rule of the prosperous era and give the people cloth clothes to live and work in peace and contentment.

She wasn't sure, she wasn't sure.

The greed of the human heart is not a day, and the loyal people she knows can rest assured that they can reuse the talents who govern this country, which is really too few and too few.

Therefore, Eleven Niang was not motivated at all because of the results of this trial, and even her steps were vain and her mind wandered.

It wasn't until the Retrospective Pavilion and walked into Lu Li's still bright study that the oncoming eyes were first suspicious and worried, but suddenly turned firm, and Eleven Niang felt a little more steady, at this time she ignored He Ye, and only bowed to Lu Li: "We have a long way to go." ”