Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Tooth Walk
In this world, there is no race that has such a strong feeling for the word home as the Han people that cannot be described in words.
What fallen leaves return to the roots, the soul returns to the hometown, the homeland is difficult to leave, and so on, in the final analysis, it is the nostalgia for the word home.
Chen Kan has a home, but he can't go back to that home.
Then the next best thing for him is to make this place his home.
Although Fang's mansion is good, it is Fang Xiaoru's home, Fang Zhongxian's home and Fang Zhongyu's home, not his Chen Kan's home.
Out of the old mansion of the Marquis of Puding, Chen Kan rushed to the Fang Mansion with a jump.
"The money sent by King Jin can be used to buy some belongings, and dozens of more subordinates can be hired, well... Be sure to invite many, many sisters from the world.
One helps me dress, one feeds me, and the other... Oh no... A group of people massaged me and washed my feet. Warm the bed... It's good to warm the bed with big eyes and cute girls.
I'm here for a beautiful life! ”
In a very short period of time, Chen Kan planned where Zhu Jihuang gave him the 50,000 taels of silver.
It's a must to hire a housekeeper.,It's also a must to ask for some housekeepers and the like.,Not to mention the beautiful sister.,It's a must.。
In the evil feudal society, the corrupt and degenerate officials and masters must have everything in their homes.
When I returned to Fang's mansion, I looked around, but I didn't see Fang Xiaoru.
Chen Kan didn't care, returned to the room to change his clothes, took out two silver ingots from the box sent to his home by Jinyiwei, and then beat his horse and headed towards Nancheng.
Since you have decided to move tomorrow, if nothing else, the housekeeper will naturally be invited first.
If you hire a housekeeper, you can hire a groom, a maid, a maid and other things to let the housekeeper do it, and Chen Kan can be a hands-off shopkeeper, why not?
The Ming Dynasty had a labor market that specialized in hiring all kinds of talents, which was called: "Tooth Walk"
The dental shop is a kind of place similar to the intermediary office in later generations, and large families can come to the dental store to hire if they need to work for employment.
And small families need to recruit workers, and they will also come to the dental store to register.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Hong Wuye explicitly prohibited human trafficking, stipulating that ordinary people were not allowed to have cheap slaves and maids, but they could be hired as appropriate.
Chen Kan had read books and was theoretically a scholar, but he had no fame and no specific official position, so it was not allowed to buy lowly slaves and maids.
If you want to have someone in your family to serve, you can only hire a good family.
To put it simply, Chen Kan's identity is the boss of the employment, and his subordinates are his employees, and the two parties sign a contract.
During the contract period, if either party breaches the contract, it needs to compensate the other party for a large amount of liquidated damages.
What many people boasted in later generations was that the germ of capitalism began to appear in China as early as the Song Dynasty, which was actually the rise of the contract system and Jiaozi.
And these things were naturally inherited by Hong Wuye, who was known as the reopening of the sun and the moon in the Great Song Dynasty.
Chen Kan ran all the way to Chengnanfang City, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of Fang City, before he could get off the horse, a group of tooth people poured up like a tide.
"This son, but the family needs to hire laborers?"
"Childe, we have a new batch of maids who are washing and waiting, do you want to come in and take a look?"
"Childe, there is no bullying in this bank, enter the door and talk in detail."
Looking at the tooth people who rushed up, Chen Kan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, sure enough, the intermediary industry, no matter what era the competition is very fierce.
"My son needs a housekeeper!"
As soon as Chen Kan said this, he persuaded at least two-thirds of the tooth people to quit.
The profession of housekeeper, no matter which dynasty or generation, belongs to high-end talents, besides, the housekeeper is basically the henchman of the main family, and the housekeeper in the big family is often inherited from father to son, from generation to generation.
In other words, most of the people who can afford to use the housekeeper are trained by the master himself, and few of the housekeepers who are familiar with the master are willing to quit.
Therefore, not all dental shops will have this kind of talent pool.
"Able to read and write, preferably in a large family with more than three years of housekeeping experience is preferred."
As soon as Chen Kan's request was made, the rest of the tooth people had almost retreated.
In these years, the illiteracy rate was ridiculously high, and those who could read and write were all treasures, and those who could read the Analects smoothly could enter the yamen as a pen clerk even if they did not participate in the imperial examination.
Seeing that his two words frightened off the enthusiastic tooth people, Chen Kan couldn't help frowning.
Is it going to be a no-brainer today?
"This son, there may be someone you need in this bank."
A clear voice came, and Chen Kan followed the sound to see that it was a woman with a curtain covering her face and wearing a wide robe.
I can't see the figure clearly, I can't see the appearance clearly.
But just by his voice and those smart eyes, Chen Kan could tell that the hidden face behind the curtain must be unbelievably beautiful.
Chen Kan turned over and dismounted, leading the horse towards Hengfeng, where the woman was.
When he came to the woman, a wisp of fragrance penetrated Chen Kan's nose, which instantly made him feel refreshed, and his eyes couldn't help revealing a touch of intoxication.
He could smell that it wasn't the smell of rouge, it was purely the body fragrance emanating from the woman's body.
"Widow Liu, don't cheat this little brother, ruin the reputation of our tooth shop!"
Before Chen Kan could speak, the tooth man on the side frowned and shouted at the woman.
Chen Kan was a little surprised, it turned out to be a widow, just looking at those eyes, the woman's age should not be more than thirty years old.
"Ma Laosan, do you want to talk more?"
The woman frowned, looked at the tooth man who spoke out and replied, then looked at Chen Kan, and said: "There is indeed someone in this bank who needs Gongzi, but this person was retired from the prisoner's house a few days ago, I don't know if Gongzi dares to use it?" ”
When Ma Laosan heard the woman say these words, he didn't say anything more, just shook his head and turned his head into his own house.
Chen Kan looked at the woman, nodded and said, "Why don't you dare to use it, what does the main family's crime have to do with the housekeeper, is he here with you now, call me over and take a look." ”
When the woman heard this, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, as if she was surprised by Chen Kan's courage.
In such a special period now, most people don't even dare to ask about the people and things that are related to the prisoners, let alone use them, and they will be implicated in going to Jinyiwei's edict one day.
She also saw that this young man came on horseback and his net worth was not low, so she asked casually with a tentative attitude.
But now Chen Kan's indifferent attitude made the woman hesitate a little.
After all, the people who come here to find a housekeeper are not big families, at most they have a little money at home, and they have nothing to do with power.
Seeing that the woman didn't speak, Chen Kan asked impatiently, "Why are you stunned, are you there?" ”