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Chapter 19 Xie Ningzi

Qi Yingzhi collected very little information about Xie Ningzi, written on paper, there was only less than one piece of paper.

There are about 270 words in total, no photos attached, just a brief introduction of Xie Ningzi’s hobbies, what she has learned, what she likes to eat, what colors she likes, and the places she often passes by.

What Chu Tianshu valued most, Xie Ningzi's appearance, height and other specifics, none of them.

"Miss Six, is this information a little too brief?"

"This is already all the information that can be collected." Qi Yingzhi frowned: "As Miss Xie, not many outsiders can get in touch with her, and the information is very hard to find."

"In other words, are you still looking for it?"

"Yes." Qi Yingzhi nodded: "And there is one more thing... There are many people who miss Miss Xie just like us."

Chu Tianshu sighed: "We can only get so little information, the competitors must not be much more than us, right?"

"That's not necessarily true." Qi Yingzhi shook her head: "Prince Chen's Mansion is after all... From the perspective of Ms. Xie, she has no problem marrying a prince and becoming a concubine, so many competitors have advantages over us. At the very least, there are many people who can recognize Miss Xie."

"Understood." Chu Tianshu sighed: "Then Miss Six, I still have something to do."

"Tell me." Qi Yingzhi looked at Chu Tianshu.

"What's my idea... I want to take a look at your factory."

"What are you looking at?" Qi Yingzhi nodded: "If you want to build a bicycle, I advise you not to think about it."

"What is a bicycle?" Chu Tianshu wondered, "Is it a new gadget invented in Miss Six's factory?"

"What do you want to see? I don't have any exclusive secret recipes in this factory. Tell me what you want to see. I'll just ask someone to take you to see it. Save some time, and you can spend more time thinking about it." Find Miss Xie."

"I want to see the workers." Chu Tianshu said.

This is nothing to keep secret.

He wanted to see the specific living conditions of the workers.

Based on his experience in the past few days, it is actually impossible to make a basic judgment on this world.

The basic living conditions of the people, the psychological state derived from the living conditions, and the comparison between the current living conditions and the previous living conditions produce a more detailed bottom-level emotion and thinking range.

These meticulous things are the core things in the experience summed up by those struggling characters in the previous world.

This is the way to fight.

In the popular sense, it is a starting move that can move the five continents, disrupt the world, turn the earth upside down, and create a new world.

Qi Yingzhi frowned and looked at Chu Tianshu: "These workers don't have much money. Their only needs are simple things like food, clothing, housing and transportation. They have no market for other things."

She felt that Chu Tianshu was doing market research.

That's fine too.

"I always like to see it with my own eyes, and Miss Six." Chu Tianshu smiled: "After I get out of slavery, I have to eat. It doesn't take much money for me to eat and support a family. Yes, a small market may be better for me, maybe."

"After all, the market prospect is small, which probably means...there are few competitors."

Qi Yingzhi smiled: "You're hiding it in your heart. I'm not interested. If you do what I've told you to do, whether it can be done or not, I'll give you freedom."

"For a character like you, if you are forced to keep you, you may be hurt instead."

"Thank you Miss Six for your understanding." Chu Tianshu bowed his head.

"Xiaofeng, go and take him for a walk around the factory." Qi Yingzhi waved his hand and called out to Xiaofeng.

Chu Tianshu walked around the factory.

The main business of Chiyang Iron and Steel Works is steel manufacturing, and its sideline is to manufacture some firearms for the Dayun court.

Ammunition is not manufactured here, even for firearms, there is no complete assembly line, and more emphasis is placed on various types of spring machines required for the manufacture of firearms.

"This structure..." Chu Tianshu glanced around the finished product.

Most of the products produced in the factory are long-barreled breech-loading flintlock guns. The work of the workers on the assembly line, if it is said to be a single gun, is actually not heavy and tiring.

What is really tiring and excruciating is this endless staring at repeated scenes, racing against time to repeat the same action.

Chu Tianshu once worked in a factory and knew what kind of numb work it was.

This kind of work can really wear out a person's humanity and brain through repeated scenes and mechanical labor.

Chu Tianshu asked questions during the working hours of the workers, but the workers had no time to answer him.

Asking what to eat, how much is breakfast and other non-nutritious nonsense, people don't particularly want to answer.

After searching, Yan Yu and Chen Ya were not found either.

"Sister Chufeng." Chu Tianshu asked: "Do you pay wages in this factory every day or monthly?"

"Naturally, it is issued monthly." Chu Feng looked at Chu Tianshu with some strangeness: "If it is issued on a daily basis, the turnover of personnel in the factory will be large, it is too unstable, and it is not good for production."

"So it's better to pay monthly?"

"It's not just better to pay monthly, the longer the cycle, the better!" Chufeng said this, very excited: "If you want me to say, it's better to pay annually."

"In this way, workers who don't get paid will be less afraid to be lazy, and less likely to resign or change jobs."

"And in this way...it's easier to deduct wages, right? Most workers don't have the habit and ability to keep accounts. If you make a fake account, it will be easier to deduct them a little more money." Chu Tianshu smirked.

Chufeng nodded abruptly: "Yes, why didn't I think of that?"

A dog of high purity.

Chu Tianshu didn't have any intention of fighting for Xiaofeng in a short time, and just smiled: "Actually, to be honest, I think it's boring to suppress workers' wages, and it's not good for us."

"It's not good for us?" Xiaofeng looked at Chu Tianshu in a daze: "How do you say that?"

"Workers work honestly and earn only so little money throughout the year. They can't afford to eat or drink. If this is the case, they will be just outsiders to our factory all their lives, and they will be just ordinary wage earners."

"Just imagine, a person who has never eaten delicious food or played fun games, how can he have much motivation to work hard beyond the stipulated time?"

"Even the efforts that should have been made, they are unwilling to pay."

"Just messing around every day."

"But if we give them a little material reward according to their performance, for example, this month he arrived on time every day and worked overtime, then we can give him a little bonus."

"In this way, he has a little more money, obtained more funds and living materials than usual, and his life is better, so he is naturally happy."

"Especially when he has more money in his hand, then he will naturally improve his quality of life."

"In this way, his personal interests, to a large extent, are aligned with our factory."

"In this way, he will sell more strength than usual, more than prescribed, for his own personal happiness."

"They work harder, can't we gain more?"

　I've been a little busy these two days, and will resume double updates tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)