Late Tang

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The night is silent and the depths of winter are cold.

Wang Guiniang in her arms was sleeping soundly, with a satisfied smile on her plain face, and the slight breathing sound like a kitten made Li Jing feel extremely peaceful.Carefully pulling out the numb arm that had been pressed by her, Li Jing carefully pulled the quilt up to help her cover it tightly.Gui Niang was like a sleeping kitten, she seemed to be immersed in a beautiful dream, purred a few times, and immediately fell asleep quietly again.

Stretching out her hand to gently rub her numb arm, Li Jing was extremely awake in the dark, without the slightest drowsiness.With a ray of moonlight shining through the window, Li Jing half leaned on the bed and carefully looked at his sleeping wife.This woman is so affectionate and even scorching towards her, but he has always been a little estranged from her.He still remembered how happy she was on the wedding night, the pain of parting in his eyes when he joined the army and said goodbye, and the joy when he said goodbye after marriage.Li Jing could even understand the hostility and inferiority she felt when she saw Li Huier and Yu Youniang.

Although Li Jing returned home during this period, except for the few days when she just came back, Li Jing has been busy all the time, and has no time to talk to her properly.During the day, he was busy with various things, and at night, because Han was worried about his health, he asked the husband and wife to sleep separately.Perhaps it was after the birthday, that the Han family finally felt eager to hold a grandson again. Today, the Han family took the initiative to let Guiniang move back to Li Jing's room, and even Wanniang was sent to move here together.

Xiao Biesheng was newly married, and after an intimate session, all the grievances and worries in Wang Guiniang's heart disappeared, and all that was left was satisfaction and joy.

The sleeping man muttered softly again, "Husband, don't leave my concubine." Li Jing heard these words clearly, but her heart was heavy.In the darkness, Guiniang's face could be vaguely seen, her two willow eyebrows were twisted together, as if she was experiencing a nightmare.Li Jing quickly stretched out his arms to hug her, and gently stroked her black hair.Wang Guiniang is actually pretty good, with an oval face, two willow-leaf eyebrows, a cherry mouth, a small and delicate but straight nose, and a pair of big eyes with thick eyelashes.In the early days, because of the poor situation and famine of the Wang family, she was still a little yellow and hungry when she first married into the Li family.Now that the Li family has revived, her life has improved, and her nutrition has kept up, she has also changed a lot.She became fair and plump, especially her chest swelled a lot, her skin and neck also became whiter, and her whole person completely changed.At this moment, Li Jing was surprised to find out that this wife who used to be very savage was also so good-looking. Although she was not a beautiful woman, she also had a very simple chic.

Li Jing was a little thirsty, the previous sex consumed a lot of his energy.Without calling Wan'er who was sleeping outside, he got up softly and went to the ground.Just as she was about to get the teapot at the table, there was a sound in the darkness, and Wan'er had already put on her clothes on the corner of the bed.

"Husband, it's cold and you can't drink cold tea, just wait a moment, I will go and re-fire a pot."

Looking at this thin figure who is considerate and busy, Li Jing couldn't help feeling pity.He stretched out his hand and pulled her over, hugged her back to the bed and stuffed her back into the quilt: "It's just a sip of tea, how can you be so particular, but you have to pay attention to it yourself, if you get cold, it will be terrible." Wan'er lay on the bed very obediently , just looked at Li Jing and smiled silly.Li Jing stretched out his hand to gently rub her still thin face, and sighed lightly.

Although Wan'er has become his concubine, in fact, this girl's life is considered good.After all, when her family came to Dengzhou from Silla, they were fleeing famine.It's hard to come to a foreign country.She was not sold to Ren Yazi like other fellow villagers, and she was also better than her sisters. Although she was sent to be a slave together, at least she entered the kind Li family.These years, not only has she been raised as a daughter, but now she is also married to Li Jing as a concubine. The entire Li family, whether it is the Han family, Li Jing, or Li Jing's wife, Gui Niang, all treat her well.

"Go to sleep, I see you are very busy these days."

These days, this girl is also very busy.After Li Jing recruited those refugees that day, Li Huier, Yu Youniang and the others suddenly became interested in these refugees. At first, they just looked at the hungry children and gave them some clothes and food.Later, the two of them got involved with Wang Yueying and Xiao Yulou, and Wang Guiniang and Wan'er to organize the families of the refugees to make shoes for the trainees and recruits.

Originally, the recruited servants and recruits were training, while the artisans and the families of the refugees were idle for a while.Li Jing saw Li Huier and the others making a fuss, but also felt that their ideas were good.Li Jing originally planned to build a quilt workshop first, using the family members of those refugees to uniformly change the clothes of the newly recruited recruits and servants.Immediately, he simply handed over this matter to a few women who love to make troubles. Originally, he thought Li Huier, Yu Youniang, and Xiao Yulou, these rich ladies, were just doing it on a whim.Unexpectedly, a few women made things more colorful. After Li Huier got the style of military uniforms and quilts that Li Jing had set for the recruits from Li Jing, she directly brought Wang Yueying here, and brought them here from her cloth shop. A large amount of cloth, and then borrowed a lot of tailors from the cloth shop, and then organized the women of the refugees to make military uniforms.

Not to mention, this matter made them so impressive that in the end even Wan'er, Wang Guiniang and other young daughters-in-law and big girls in Wangli Village also got involved.

Wan'er nodded, holding Li Jing's hand but reluctant to let go, hesitant to speak.

"If you have something to tell me, just say something."

Wan'er hesitated again and again, but it turned out that it was her natal family's business.Wan'er's family was originally from Silla. When she was young, her family fled famine and crossed the sea to Dengzhou. There were eight brothers and sisters, and they couldn't support them, so they sent her and four sisters to a nearby family with a better family background to be slaves.Because of Li Jing's sudden imprisonment, Li's mother arranged for Wan'er to stay in prison and become Li Jing's concubine.Unexpectedly, the Li family immediately revived the family.Because of this, she suddenly changed from a slave to a general's concubine.When Li Jing was in Dengzhou, he sent back a lot of money and food to his family, and the Han family once gave out a lot for Wan'er to take back to her natal family.Although the money and food taken back improved the life of her mother's family, the few sisters still worked as slaves in other people's homes.

"Why didn't you mention this matter earlier, since your four sisters are all in the nearby Good Household, then this matter is not difficult to deal with. I will send a few servants to go from house to house tomorrow with posts, and each family will give a sum of money. If there is no money, they will definitely issue good books to send people back.”

Wan'er wept softly with excitement, and threw herself into Li Jing's arms, holding her tightly.Li Jing had no choice but to pat her on the back to soothe her excited mood, and it took a long time to comfort her to sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Jing was stopped by the hot-tempered Li Huier as soon as she went out, and she was directly dragged to their bedding workshop.

"The workshop will soon be moved to Salmonella Island. We have to summarize and arrange the affairs of the workshop. You are in charge of the house, and some things have to be decided by you." Li Huier spoke to Li Jing in the tone of a professional woman Said, Li Jing was secretly surprised by that look, the majestic Princess Xihe actually took the matter of this workshop so seriously.

The courtyard of Mr. Wang's village chief's house is now the temporary office of Li Huier and others' workshops. Li Jing followed Li Huier in, only to find that Yu Youniang, Xiao Yulou, and Wang Yueying were all there.

"Let me tell Saburo about the results of our workshop first." Yu Youniang took out an account book, which is a two-dimensional form drawn by Li Jing, and even the above bookkeeping method was changed to the double-entry bookkeeping method. This form and the double-entry bookkeeping method were originally created by Li Jing himself for bookkeeping, but Zhang Hong, a dog-headed military strategist, saw it and immediately discovered the advantages of this new bookkeeping method. Then he begged Li Jing to teach him, Li Jing He didn't mean to hide it, so he taught Zhang Hong the form and the double-entry bookkeeping method. Zhang Hong is indeed a man who has been an official for many years. Jing seems to be more difficult to learn, but Zhang Hong quickly learned the double-entry bookkeeping method, two-dimensional tables and Arabic numerals. With Li Jing and Zhang Hong taking the lead, two-dimensional tables, Arabic numerals and new-style Yu Youniang's bookkeeping method has been quickly spread, and Yu Youniang and the women learned it faster, and they are already out of blue, and they are more proficient than Zhang Hong's second-tier master.

Ever since Yu Jian went to Guanzhong, there has been no letter from Yu Youniang asking her to go to Guanzhong, nor did she mention the matter of her last fiancé Lu's family.Now that she is working with Li Huier in this workshop, she seems to have thrown away all those troubles, and she is much more cheerful and light-hearted.Holding the ledger, she said softly: "According to the style set by Saburo, after nearly half a month of hard work, the workshop has completed [-] pieces of crotchless robes, [-] pieces of trousers, and four corners. There were [-] pieces of trousers, [-] pieces of middle clothes, [-] pieces of swivel jackets, [-] pieces of backpacks, and [-] pieces each of linen, hemp shoes, and Ubud boots. Small, medium, large, extra large, and extra large are made to order." After speaking, Yu Youniang lowered her head in embarrassment and did not dare to look at Li Jing.

Boxer trousers, trousers, tunic, crotchless gown, swivel jacket, back with a pair of shoes and a pair of wraps are the whole set of new military uniforms that Li Jing prepares for the recruits.In this new military uniform, Li Jing changed the original triangular calf-nosed trousers into boxer underpants, and the large-mouth trousers with huge trouser legs were directly changed into new trousers equivalent to the trousers of later generations.As for the coat, Li Jing didn't make many changes. The middle coat and the crotchless robe are all in accordance with the usual practice, but now it's winter, Li Jing was added a swivel jacket and a back.

For these jackets, the crotch-less gowns are straight-legged gowns with slits on the left and right, but they are relatively short for military uniforms, and the hem only covers the buttocks.The spin aoi is no longer than the waist, and the sleeves only cover the elbows. It is made of the thickest cloth and has a layer. This kind of clothing was originally worn by horse breeders.The front and back flaps are short, so you can wear them on the saddle; the short sleeves are easy to control.The back is a straight collar, double-breasted, long sleeves, with slits on both sides without sewing, and a kind of smock that is specially covered outside and tied with a cloth belt that is as long as the calf.

In fact, in Li Jing's opinion, the clothing style at this time was too complicated, not as simple and practical as the clothing of later generations. However, considering the times, in the end, only the underwear and pants were changed. After all, the changes were only a few details.As for the top, in the end it was left unchanged.

"Yes, [-] sets of military uniforms have been produced in such a short period of time. However, my plan is that every soldier and servant must have at least two sets of military uniforms, but the follow-up uniforms should wait until Salmon Island to continue." I will pay for the [-] sets of military uniforms at a price of [-] renminbi each. As for the cost of materials and workers’ wages, these are all arranged by you, how about it?”

Li Huier and the others were stunned for a moment, "This workshop is all the family members of craftsmen and servants, and food and lodging are all paid by Saburo, isn't it just a family?"

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "Since this workshop is run by you, it should be independent. Although the workers in those workshops are also the family members of the craftsmen and servants I recruited, since they work in the workshop There should also be wages. Therefore, I just place the order for you and pay the corresponding payment. As for how you purchase the goods, how to arrange workers to make military uniforms, and how to pay the workers, whether you earn or lose, that is your business. "

For this quilt workshop, Li Jing also has his own ideas in doing so.Although those workers were the family members of craftsmen and servants, Li Jing didn't want to run the workshop by himself.He has limited energy alone, training soldiers and horses, and building those important military workshops in the future are tiring enough, and he doesn't want to manage the clothing workshop run by a group of women by himself.Moreover, it is more worry-free and labor-saving to separate the workshop and use the contracted operation method.Now this workshop is an experimental site for Li Jing. If the effect is good, Li Jing plans to use this contracted operation method for some less important workshops in the future.Anyway, all he cares about is the product, as for who will manage it, it's not the most important thing.

Li Jing's explanation made several people a little stunned at first, but they quickly realized it.Wang Yueying is a shrewd businessman, she has been spared no effort to invest in Li Jing, and she naturally wants to get something in return.As soon as Li Jing's meaning was made public, she immediately calculated it.This set of military uniforms includes four pieces of clothing, plus two pairs of trousers, a pair of shoes, and a pair of boots. A hundred words of space.There are 480 sets of 500 guan, and there are more than 300 women in the workshop. This batch of goods has been produced for about ten days.If the workshop pays each worker [-] yuan a day, the wages only need to be more than [-] yuan, leaving a lot of profit.

Wang Yueying glanced at Li Jing again, and after thinking about it, said: "Each set of Saburo is paid at [-] Wen, and we pay each worker at [-] Wen per day."

As soon as Li Jing made a plan, he knew that according to this calculation, Wang Yueying would lose at least five or six yuan for each set of military uniforms, and it was impossible to make a profit. "Then you will lose money. It is very difficult for workers to pay fifty cents a day, but I can't let you advance the money yourself. There is no need to say more about a set of one thousand six hundred." Cooperation without benefits will not last long. Yes, even if it is Wang Yueying, Li Jing also hopes that the cooperation between the two parties will be mutually beneficial and win-win.Although if this order of military uniforms is divided in this way, the workshop will only have a profit of tens of dollars, but as long as it has a good start, Li Jing can expand the scope of cooperation with Wang Yueying in the future, so that she can get more returns.