Datang first village

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Li Yuanxing looked around carefully, it was very quiet.Looking at Bai Erwa again, she will behave very calmly.

When it comes to being an actor or something, Bai Erwa is really not popular.

Perhaps only Du Yiye, who was completely unaware of what he was saying, was arguing with the other party.Calling Du Yiye back, Li Yuanxing returned the other half of the salute, indicating that the other party can go first.

The other party offered a red envelope with only one copper coin in it. It was said that it was for celebration, so Li Yuanxing also accepted it with a smile.

The team began to formally walk to the workshop area, and immediately there was a loud gong and drum, and many red pieces of paper were thrown high and torn off by the wind.The red paper was still learned from His Royal Highness King Qin, but ordinary people didn't know how the firecrackers came from, so they only learned the red paper.

Li Yuanxing stood on the side of the road and watched quietly. The team was very long, with five or sixty people.

A small sedan chair carried by two people was in the middle of the team. The sedan chair was tied with a red ribbon, and the sedan chair pole was also wrapped in red paper. The two people who carried the sedan chair were covered in bright red clothes all over their bodies.

An old man over fifty years old sat on the sedan chair, his clothes were patched and patched.His hands were full of calluses, and his face was written with years of wind and frost. Sitting on the sedan chair, his body was trembling slightly, his eyes were always looking around anxiously, and his hands were constantly rubbing each other.

Frightened, this is the expression of frightened.

Li Yuanxing believed that the old wolf knew about the appearance of this team, but the person dressed as an old farmer may not have been arranged in advance.It should be a coincidence, but the old wolf must already know the reason of the matter.

Li Yuanxing got off the donkey cart and followed many onlookers to the workshop area.

I saw a man wearing bright red and leading dozens of people to welcome him out from the workshop area. This man was slightly fat and his surname was Lu.Li Yuanxing had seen this person before, and remembered that Fatty Lu was a distant branch of the Lu family, but his business was doing well.His workshop is called Datang Royal Tianfu Silk.

It is one of the three silk companies in Datang that are qualified to use the word "royal".

It's just that the Brocade Silk Chamber of Commerce was divided into three. Li Yuanxing only saw the report, but he didn't notice that the shopkeeper Lu was the leader of the Bashu Brocade Silk Chamber of Commerce.

Shopkeeper Lu resisted the urge to take a look at Li Yuanxing, and kept admonishing himself.I don't know King Qin Weifu, I don't know anything, just do my own thing well, don't think that His Highness King Qin is among the crowd.

What happened today was prepared a long time ago. It is an auspicious day and an auspicious time.For the sake of the business, I absolutely dare not interrupt it.

After reporting to the old wolf, the old wolf thought that His Royal Highness King Qin just went to have a look, and it would not affect your work.We only protect the safety of His Royal Highness, and everything else is fine.

Therefore, half of the people in this team are the guards of Qin Wangzhuang, and they have sharp knives hidden in their bodies.

The ceremony seems to have begun. First, six servants, two of whom sprinkled the loess on the ground, and then two of them flattened the loess with wooden planks and compacted it.The last two were sprinkled with clear water on the compacted loess.

Li Yuanxing didn't understand, so he turned around and asked Du Yiye.

Du Yiye replied: "This should be taken from the ancient ceremony, but it is different from the ancient ceremony. Clear water is poured on the street, and the road is paved with loess. Although it is different from the ancient ceremony, I think it is for the meaning of welcoming virtuous people, or for distinguished guests to come to the door."

Li Yuanxing nodded and continued to look down.

Next, the shopkeeper Nalu stood at the end where the loess had been sprinkled, and two elders came out from behind him.The clothes on both of them were the same, with the words "Royal Tianfu" printed on the chest, and the words "上表" printed on the back.

Li Yuanxing, who was on the counter, knew that among the big firms, there were five levels of shopkeepers.

The highest is the chief shopkeeper, who is usually called the big shopkeeper together with the senior shopkeeper. In the modern age of later generations, it is the level of the chairman or general manager, and then the big shopkeeper. This level is also called the big shopkeeper. The shopkeeper is equivalent to the absolute high-level in later generations.

The wording on the back of the big shopkeeper is the upper cabinet.

Next is the middle cabinet, which is sometimes honored as the big shopkeeper, but it is called the deacon shopkeeper in the industry. This is the backbone of the management.

There is also the lower cabinet, commonly known as the small shopkeeper.For example, the one who greeted Li Yuanxing at the Bashu Tea Chamber of Commerce that day and was responsible for explaining was the level of the small shopkeeper.If a person of his level is placed in a store in a small town, he will be at the level of the general manager of the store, and the person who welcomes customers will be a senior man.

Finally, there is the cabinet.This category is higher than apprentices. They have been exposed to formal management work, and temporarily belong to the level of deputy and assistant, which is the lowest level of management.

The ranks of big businesses are strictly prohibited. In addition to the shopkeeper, the buddies are also divided into three, six, and nine grades.

Now, because Li Yuanxing promoted the primary development of industry, craftsmen have also begun to have a class distinction.If a fourth-class craftsman beat an apprentice to death during working hours, even if he sued the official, he would only order the apprentice to be incompetent, unwilling to learn, and humiliate the teacher.

More advanced craftsmen have begun to have some small privileges.

Two shopkeeper-level people came to the small sedan chair and saluted at the same time: "Please get off the sedan chair, Magi!"

The hands of the man dressed as an old farmer were shaking, he was really scared.

He is a carpenter, his father is a carpenter, his grandfather is also a carpenter, and his son and grandson are all carpenters.Generations have been carpenters, and generations have relied on this craft to make a living.

Just a month ago, the old carpenter received a job, and the other party paid him a bucket of grain.For him, this is a huge sum of money.His son and grandson have been busy all the time because of too much work in Chang'an City, and they don't have a home at all.He was a little too immobile, so he went to earn this bucket of food.

The job is not difficult. It is repairing a waterwheel. The waterwheel fell down because the pile was not erected properly, and a part was broken.

Because the seller is too busy, it will take five days to repair it.

Here is waiting for the waterwheel to grind the noodles, so I found an old carpenter who I have known in the same village for a long time.

After the old carpenter repaired the waterwheel, he kept thinking about it when he returned home. After trying to make more than ten models by himself, his grandson came home one day and saw his grandfather fixing the model of the waterwheel, so he made a joke.

It is said that there is a Tianzhi Institute in Chang'an City. If grandpa thinks that his craftsmanship is better than others, the waterwheel is good.The Tianzhi Institute gave money, and even a lot of money.

The temper in the old carpenter's heart was aroused. The ancestral craftsmanship in his family, no one from all over the world would say that his craftsmanship is good. His son and grandson are all taught by himself, and the wages are twice as high as ordinary craftsmen. Can be worse than others.

After a few days and nights, the old carpenter can be said to have brought out his peak technology and made the most exquisite model of a waterwheel in his life.Every size, every angle, every fastener is the ultimate essence.This can be said to be the ultimate understanding of mechanics by ancient craftsmen.

Such a model was placed on the table in the appraisal room of Tianzhi Institute.

In less than a few breaths, someone offered a price of [-] yuan to buy this right of wisdom.The largest group of people who can stand guard in the Tianzhi Institute and wait to buy Tianzhi rights are various firms, and then there are a group of speculative patent dealers in later generations who buy it to earn the difference.

One hundred guan is a huge sum of money for an old carpenter.

When the price was finally increased to [-] guan, the old carpenter almost fainted.

The dean of Tianzhi Institute and the second-class craftsman of the Ministry of Industry personally appraised it, and the evaluation given is the best waterwheel registered in Tianzhi Institute, [-]% stronger.Under the same weather and the same water flow, it is conservatively estimated that it can have [-]% or even [-]% more force than the existing waterwheel.

This means that two of such waterwheels are equal to three of other people's.

The bronze badge of the third-class master was worn on the old carpenter, and the old carpenter asked a sentence: "Listen to my grandson, the waterwheel is well made, and it can be exchanged for a few ingots of white silver!"

Everyone in Tianzhi Institute laughed, but the old carpenter was at a loss.

The head of the Bashu Brocade and Silk Chamber of Commerce, Master Lu of Royal Tianfu Silk, seized the opportunity. On the same day, he brought a transmission device designed by several fourth-class craftsmen from the Chamber of Commerce, and planned to apply for that Tianzhi right in the Tianzhi Institute.But I happened to see the old carpenter and the waterwheel.

"Old man, I would like to have an annual salary of one thousand guan, one hundred dans of food, and ten sheep. I just ask the old man to come to my shop to be the master craftsman, and the trumpet is Royal Tianfu Silk. The workshop is west of Zhuangzi where His Royal Highness King Qin grows. You are old, servant , servants, and apprentices are free to choose, and a set of four small courtyards will be prepared for you."

The old carpenter was stunned for a long time, but shopkeeper Lu put a handful of gold leaves in his arms on the old carpenter's hand: "This is the order!"

The old carpenter stared blankly at Shopkeeper Lu, and asked again: "I have two sons and five grandsons, all of whom are carpenters. They are all good carpenters. Our family has been carpenters for generations, and they are all good carpenters!"

"Come, come all. The original small courtyard is no longer there, and I will prepare a small courtyard with three rooms and eight rooms for you, all of which are green brick houses!"

"That, Qianguan, yes, it's true!"

"Really, there is Shangguan, the head of Tianzhi Institute, who testified that there is no lie." At that moment, shopkeeper Lu wrote the evidence.

Some people have already reacted to this, and offered an annual salary of 20 years.You must know that there are no more than [-] second-class craftsmen in the entire Tang Dynasty, and there are only six third-class master craftsmen in Qinwangzhuang.Many big firms can brag about a fourth-class craftsman for a long time, but how could they let go of a third-class craftsman who doesn't even have an owner.

"A certain increase in salary, [-] yuan!" Shopkeeper Lu yelled angrily.

"No, no, just Qianguan. The old man has already agreed, and this is Qianguan." The stubborn old man in Guanzhong was spitting and nailing his mouth, even if he was tempted by a cart of coins, he would never change what he promised.

The dean of Tianzhi Institute is a second-class craftsman who will be the supervisor of the Ministry of Industry. At this time, he said: "The rules cannot be changed. The contract of the third-class master craftsman is signed every two years, and there is no death contract. The second-class craftsman once a year." Signing the contract, first-class master craftsmen are not allowed to work, this is the rule set by His Royal Highness Qin Wang, and the fourth-class and above must be recorded in the Ministry of Industry."

"The trumpet naturally follows the rules!"

If there is no death contract, whether people can live there depends on the sincerity of the workshop.

Without a death contract, the craftsmen have to rely on their own efforts to keep their jobs.

Shopkeeper Lu had already thought about it at that time, and he must welcome this third-class craftsman into the Royal Tianfu Silk Workshop with a big gift. (To be continued.)