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Chapter 78 Good Tea, Good Tea!
Inside the M Moser Textile Factory.

Mu Xiyun took Yuan'er and inspected the textile factory inside and out.

In fact, there is nothing to observe.

The machines are working fine, the weavers and the workers are working hard, the managers have not deducted their wages, and the staff are provided with two meals, and the food is not bad.

Staff satisfaction is also ok.

The current light industry factories in Daming are basically paid well.

In addition to working five hours a day, the salary is full two, and the work meal can also guarantee that you can eat meat once a week, and the vegetarian dishes are all fried.

Much better than those skinny capitalists during the first industrial revolution in Europe in Penke's previous life.

However, this is not to say that all merchants in Ming Dynasty are great benevolent people.

The main reason is that the emperor sitting on the throne now is called Emperor Hongwu.

Moreover, he is one of the few founding emperors who came from grass roots, and he still pays more attention to the lives of ordinary people.

In addition, business has always been a cheap industry in China from ancient times to the present, and businessmen have no political status. No matter how rich you are, it is only a matter of minutes if the government wants to do you.

It doesn't matter whether the snowball of capitalism will roll in the future, or whether it will set off the ability to fight against imperial power.

At least at the moment, all businessmen are afraid that they will be ransacked and wiped out by Emperor Hongwu as a model of harming the people.

Therefore, when they set up factories, they strictly followed the private factory system formulated by the previous generation of giants.

Not only does it need to protect the lives of workers, but there are also strict requirements on the daily working hours, which should not exceed five hours at most.

Otherwise, as long as the workers sue the officials and report, the factory will be closed down and the heads will fall to the ground.

The Mu family's factory also strictly abides by the rules and regulations. They would rather hire twice as many workers in two shifts, rather than let Xiu Niang work more than five hours a day.

This is the prestige gained by more than 20 businessmen killed by Emperor Hongwu in the past ten years.

"Miss, the inspection is almost over. Let's go back to the other courtyard to rest. You came to Suzhou early in the morning, and you haven't even had a bite yet."

Yuan'er, who followed Mu Xiyun around the factory for an hour, persuaded his young lady with a worried face.

It's almost noon, and Miss usually has already eaten breakfast and lunch at this time.

But I've been busy today, and I haven't eaten anything yet.

But Mu Xiyun shook his head, and said calmly: "No hurry, let's go shopping again."

"Why are you still shopping, miss, don't starve yourself to death." Yuan'er grabbed the skirt of the miss and shook her head in reluctance.

The master has told her that she must take good care of the young lady.

"If you don't eat a meal, you won't starve to death, so wait."

Mu Xiyun forcefully shook off Yuan'er's hand, still standing in No. [-] weaving room, watching the weavers busy.

Yuan'er pursed her lips, with a puzzled look on her face: "What are you waiting for!"

Just when she was about to persuade her again, the factory manager trotted into the workshop with a nervous expression on his face, and ran straight towards Mu Xiyun.

"Miss, Master Peng, the Commander of Jinyiwei, is here and said he is visiting Miss."

"The little one didn't dare to delay, so I had to invite Mr. Peng to the lounge first."

Jin Yiwei came to the door, this is not a good thing!

The Suzhou factory he is in charge of has always been law-abiding and operating in compliance with laws and regulations. There shouldn't be anything that can alarm Jin Yiwei?

Could it be that the Mu family offended the emperor, or is there something hidden that he doesn't know about, and now it happened?

You won't be implicated in this, will you?

The steward was in a panic, and was extremely nervous.

But Mu Xiyun raised the corner of his mouth.

I was still a little irritable and angry, but it has improved a lot.

"I know~"

After waving his hands to let the steward back down, Mu Xiyun snorted softly.

This hum was a little coquettish, a little joyful, a little proud and a little shy.

"Go, go see Commander Peng."

"I don't know why he came here."

"Really!"

Mu Xiyun pulled Yuan'er and walked to the rest room of the factory.

Yuan'er looked at Mu Xiyun who was disgusted but couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and his mind was in a mess.

So this is what you were waiting for?

The lady is really more and more duplicity, and more and more incomprehensible.

In the lounge, after rushing to the Mu family's other courtyard in Suzhou Mansion, Peng Ke came here non-stop after learning that Mu Xiyun was in the Mu family's Suzhou Textile Factory.

He was holding a cup of tea and drinking it in small sips.

I'm going to see Mu Xiyun soon, but Peng Ke doesn't know what to say
Although there was an ambiguous period of two years with Yan Qingbo, whose pseudonym Mu Xinyou, almost pierced the window paper.

But after all, Mu Xinyou approached him with a purpose in the beginning, so she always followed Peng Ke, making Peng Ke feel that she was very caring, and never lost her temper with him.

So in his two lifetimes, he actually has no experience in coaxing girls, especially those who are angry.

After drinking a few sips of tea pretending to be calm, Peng Ke glanced at Ahu who was standing behind him like a log, coughed dryly and said, "Ahem, Ahu, you go out first."

"Just stay outside."

Ah Hu scratched his head, and said unwillingly: "My lord, I have to personally protect your safety!"

"Those disciples of the Hualien Sect are likely to plan to assassinate you."

"Be careful!"

Pen Ke glared at him, waved his hand and said impatiently, "Go out as soon as I tell you."

"You stay outside the door for a while, and don't let anyone in except Miss Mu."

"I have my own protective baby, so I will call you if something really happens."

"Okay." Seeing that his eldest son looked a little unhappy, Ah Hu had no choice but to obediently obey and walked out of the lounge.

Coincidentally, as soon as he went out, he bumped into Mu Xiyun who was coming towards him.

"Miss Mu, you are here, the prince has been waiting for you for a long time."

"Please come in."

Hearing the greeting outside the door, Peng Ke quickly put down his teacup, and tidied up his clothes at a loss.

After making sure that he was neatly dressed and there was nothing messy, he picked up the teacup again.

"crunch..."

The door was pushed open, and two figures in red and green walked into the lounge, one in front and one in back.

Peng Ke quickly lowered his eyebrows and put his eyes on the teacup. He seemed to be concentrating on drinking tea, and didn't even dare to look at the person coming.

"Pfft."

Looking at Penke's poor acting skills and guilty conscience.

Mu Xiyun was angry and gave him a funny look.

"Brother Peng, is this tea good?"

"Well, it's delicious. Drink a cup, and you'll feel the sweetness of your teeth and cheeks. Once you drink it, you'll know it's definitely a good tea."

"It shouldn't be." Mu Xiyun pretended to be puzzled, with a simple expression: "There is no good tea here in the textile factory. This tea is rationed for workers to refresh themselves."

"You can buy a catty for a few tens of pennies. The taste is strong and astringent, which is more refreshing."

"Brother Peng, you came here suddenly, and the manager couldn't find any good tea for a while, so I can only make do with this."

"Pfft..." Peng Ke choked his throat with a sip of tea, and sprayed it out of his mouth.

He doesn't know how to taste tea, and he is not in the mood to taste tea.

After taking a few sips of tea, I didn't care about the taste at all, just being blind.

This is embarrassing.

"That. It's still good for me to drink, um, it's very to my liking." Peng Ke put down the teacup with an awkward smile.

Looking at Peng Ke's face with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, with a flattering awkward smile.

Mu Xiyun was immediately happy.

She was originally full of anger, but after seeing Peng Ke's appearance, it disappeared a lot.

How dare the person in charge give Peng Ke a cup of inferior tea? Even if he didn't have it, he couldn't intentionally serve inferior tea.

She was just teasing Penke on purpose, just to vent her anger.

Blinking her big beautiful eyes, Mu Xiyun looked at Peng Ke with a smile, and asked softly: "I still want to inspect other properties of the Mu family in Suzhou, so please forgive me for entertaining Brother Peng."

"I don't know Brother Peng, why are you looking for me?"

"It's not appropriate for us to be alone and widowed in the same room for too long."

(End of this chapter)