Chapter 471: The Old Man and the Old Lady Enter Beijing
The porter had already seen them, and at this time the door was wide open, and the porter was secretly hiding next to it to peek at Mama Zeng, feeling that the two young ladies seemed to be very afraid of this mama.
I saw that the maids beside Mama were all carrying burdens, and the porter was stunned.
Before entering the house, Mama Shi had already brought Mingyue and Qiaoyan to greet her, seeing the two of them looking so dignified and upright, several people were stunned at first, and then saw the people following behind the two, Mama Shi paused and saluted with everyone: "Miss Rongrong, Miss, you are back." ”
"Hmm." Wen Yao snorted.
Mama Shi looked at Mama Zeng and the two palace maids again, and silently stepped forward to salute: "Miss, are there any guests?" The old slave will arrange for someone to clean up the guest room now. ”
Wen Yao thought about it, although Mama Zeng was a slave, she was also a slave of the queen, saying that she would let her live in their house in the future, but she didn't dare to really call this current person.
Then he nodded: "Well, Mama Shi, this is Mama Zeng next to the queen mother in the palace, and she will live in the Earl's Mansion in the future, so let's clean up a yard for Mama Zeng alone." ”
Mama Shi glanced at Mama Zeng and saluted: "Yes." ”
Wen Yao introduced Mama Shi to Mama Zeng again: "Mama Zeng, this is Mama Shi, Mama Shi is responsible for all the big and small things in the house now, if you want anything, you can tell her directly." ”
Wen Yao didn't understand what the queen meant, would Mama Zeng return to the palace in the future? Or did you just stay at their house all the time?
Whatever it is, let's do it first.
Mama Zeng nodded to Mama Shi: "I'm sorry to trouble Sister Shi." ”
Mama Shi smiled: "No trouble, no trouble, yes, you come with me, Mingyue, Qiaoyan, serve a good lady." ”
"Yes." The two girls hurriedly responded.
Mama Shi led Mama Zeng away, and Wen Yao and Qiu Rongrong breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.
Qiao Yan was still curiously looking at the direction in which Zeng Mama and they left, and said, "This is Mama in the palace, she looks so fierce." ”
Mingyue nodded again and again, fortunately they Mama Shi was not like this.
Wen Yao moved her neck, she kept a posture all the time, she was really tired.
"Don't care if you're fierce or not, people are the queen's people, and they are here for our down jacket factory, just be careful when you talk when you see them in the future, don't be afraid."
Mingyue and Qiaoyan nodded again and again, in front of Mama Zeng, they must be honest.
It didn't take long for Mama Shi to come back, and when she saw Wen Yao, she wanted to speak and stopped.
"Mama, what's wrong with you?" Wen Yao asked.
Mama Shi then asked, "Miss, is this Mama Zeng...... Are you going to stay in the house in the future? ”
Wen Yao glanced at her, ah, Mama Shi is in a career crisis.
"How is it possible, people are the most trusted grandmothers around the queen mother, the old man who has followed the queen mother for decades, this time it is for the queen mother to keep an eye on us to do business, and when the business is stable, the queen mother must have other arrangements, rest assured." Wen Yao said.
She didn't dare to think that if she let Mama Zeng take care of this house, she would still be so easy? Joke.
Mama Shi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and smiled slightly: "The old slave will also ask." ”
Wen Yao looked at her with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, Mama, I understand, I understand." ”
In the next few days, Wen Yao wrote and drew in the study every day, drawing the design drawings of the down jacket factory, the division of labor in each factory was very clear, Zhuo Yi also wrote all the things he needed, and handed over the list to Qiu Rongrong and he didn't care.
Qiu Rongrong found a few people in Beijing who specialize in helping people build houses, but they were not very satisfied, although they were only building houses, but after all, they had to build a workshop, and after thinking about it, they could only let Zhuo Yi give an idea.
In the end, Zhuo Yi said, it is better to find the Ministry of Work directly, their business is done with the queen's mother, and the Ministry of Industry is not completely business-like, as long as the silver is given enough, they can also take over some work outside, not to mention the work of the queen's mother.
In addition, there are many craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, so they can make whatever they want.
So when they found the Ministry of Industry, the people in the capital also knew that the queen mother actually started a business in partnership with Wen Changbo's two daughters, and what down jacket factory was built, and what was done was the down jacket called the down jacket in the Feather Coat.
It's still hot weather, and no one knows what this down jacket is for, only that it's the same as a cotton suit, but it's warmer than a cotton suit, and even the palace and the internal affairs office have set it better.
All of a sudden, many people were curious about this Yuyi Pavilion, and there were a lot more people who came to Yuyi Pavilion overnight, and many orders were added, which made Qiu Rongrong even more anxious to quickly build the factory.
In addition to building factories, they also have to recruit people, they are now doing business with the emperor and empress, and the most basic confidentiality work must be done well, but they can no longer recruit people from various households like in Gutong Village, and the most direct way is to buy people directly.
In addition, the iron used to make sewing machines is also a problem, but fortunately, there are many households, and iron ore is in the hands of the imperial court, and there are a lot of them in the treasury every year.
Lack? Then find the household department to buy it.
Iron has always been the most scarce resource in every country, weapons, agricultural tools, everything is inseparable from iron, so the treasury has always had sufficient iron reserves.
But it was not enough, there was no place to use it, it was just a pile of scrap iron, so when the Yuyi Pavilion wanted to find the household to buy iron, the household department didn't think about it and reported it to the emperor, asking if it could be sold, and also knew that the iron ore resources in Annan were still abundant, and now they could exchange the inventory of iron for real money and silver to fill the treasury, wouldn't it be better.
The emperor listened to the report of the people in the household department, and secretly laughed in his heart that the people in the household department really only have silver in their eyes, sell it, sell it, and there will be more opportunities for them to make money like this in the future.
Although he thought so in his heart, the emperor still pretended to be worried, saying that after all, this was a matter of the imperial court, so how could he buy and sell it to merchants at will.
The people in the household department said again that the person behind this feather pavilion is the queen's mother, not an ordinary merchant.
What else can the emperor say, he can only sigh and agree, who let the treasury have no money?
In this way, the people of the household department have to praise him for his wisdom.
However, these two girls are too ruthless, 100,000 taels of silver to buy iron? How much money do they have?
In fact, it's not that Wen Yao wants to buy more, but Wen Yao faintly guessed some of the emperor's plans, anyway, he can buy more now, and it may not be so easy to wait for the people in the household department to react.
At the same time, there is also a letter sent back to Gutong Village, and the demand for duck down and goose down must also keep up.
At this time, Luo and Wen Laohan, who had not yet recovered from the news that his son had become an earl, had already boarded the ship to Beijing.
The people sent by Qiu Rongrong to pick them up happened to meet the team sent by Princess Fu to pull cans, so they simply rubbed the official ship together and went all the way to the capital, and they would arrive in the capital in two days.