Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1358
The General Management Office of Phoenix Mountain Villa is a complex of buildings, similar to a small town with only one street in the early years.It is not far from the Phoenix Villa mansion and the residences of several servants, so it is convenient to travel around.On both sides of the slate street, there are workshops, warehouses, shops, and the core of the operation of the entire villa: the general management office building.

The general management office building is a small two-story building with brick and wood structure with arcades.Standing on high steps, there is a bulletin board on the left and right of the gate, with various "notices" posted.However, most of the farmer servants in the villa could not read, and most of them ignored them when they passed by.

The general management office of Fenghuang Villa is managed according to the model of modern agricultural enterprises. Fenghuang Villa is a large-scale enterprise integrating agriculture, industry and trade.From the very beginning, Zhao Yingong transplanted the entire management model of the enterprises under the Council of Agriculture from Lingao.A small number of "politically reliable" naturalized civilian cadres were also introduced as the backbone of the Fenghuang Villa General Management Office.And gradually promoted some reliable and capable people from the local servants to serve as middle-level managers.

Although it is under the management of Hangzhou Station, the production and operation of Phoenix Mountain Villa are often operated directly according to the instructions of the Agricultural Committee and the Ministry of Light Industry.Although Zhao Yingong has the final decision on specific operations, he seldom directly interferes with the production of Phoenix Villa—in fact, he can't control it.

As a "leader", Wang Siniang's only concept of the general management office is to come here every day to receive dispatch work orders and hand in the work registration badge after work.In addition, at the end of each month, I come here to receive monthly money and buy daily necessities.

There is a large pavement on the street of the general management office: a two-story building with a three-bay facade.It is similar to the general store opened by the cooperative in Kaohsiung—in fact, it is indeed a branch opened by the cooperative head office of the Ministry of Commerce.It sells various daily necessities.The second floor also doubles as a small restaurant.Customers are naturally all the servants of Phoenix Villa.Right now, the number of servants and their family members who are "hanging up" in Phoenix Villa has expanded to six or seven hundred people, just like a small town.

In order to ensure the stability and controllability of personnel, Zhao Yingong, except for a few professionals who had to be hired outside, did not use long-term labor in the manor. Except for a few highly specialized technical jobs, all the work was handed over to the refugees who came from the asylum. The slaves who have to sign the "death contract" are selected from among them to do it.As for a large number of clumsy jobs and seasonal short-term jobs, the refugees waiting to be transferred in the refugee camps by the river will go out to work.

Phoenix Villa is a closed economy.All people who have "hang up the ranks" in Fenghuang Mountain Villa, regardless of men, women, old or young, as long as they go on business, they will receive a monthly payment, but this monthly payment is not silver or copper coins, but a circulation certificate of Delong Bank.

Delong Bank also has a branch cabinet on the street of the general management office, which is responsible for the distribution of monthly money and also provides savings services.Its main job is to be responsible for the capital dispatch and turnover for Hangzhou station.Ensure that every fund is under effective supervision.

At first, the servants were not used to taking circulation coupons, but seeing that there were many good things in the store and the prices were fair, they accepted this fact.Although Phoenix Mountain is just outside the city, it is quite far from the commercial area in the city. It is much more convenient to have such a shop.

The monthly money is sent to the servants every month, and then it circulates in the commercial street of the general management office and returns to the account of Hangzhou Station.This can effectively reduce the amount of silver used, and also increase the support for circulating notes in a disguised form.Prepare for the next step of circulation coupons entering the Hangzhou market.

Zhao Yingong and the Planning Institute are not considered unscrupulous capitalists. The prices of various commodities on the commercial street are not only not high, but even cheaper than outside.However, because the cooperative's local supply is at wholesale prices, and many things are produced by the villa or Lingao, the actual profit is still much higher than the internal transfer price.People in the villa can also apply and exchange the circulating coupons for silver and copper coins according to a certain price and a certain amount after application.In order to take it outside for consumption, but since most daily consumer goods can be bought in the villa, and the price is lower than outside, the motivation to exchange it into silver is not strong.

It was around 05:30 now, and many people came to the street, some were shopping, and some were preparing to work the night shift. The street felt a little bustling.There are "street lamps" along the road here, which are actually iron torches, which are filled with firewood and will be lit as soon as it gets dark.

Wang Siniang came to the "work recording room" under the eaves of the general management office.The door is open here.There were seven or eight "masters" cracking their abacus.The "leaders" who have already left work are queuing up to come here to record their work with their notebooks.The sum of the daily work sheets is the basis for the monthly payment at the end of the month.She handed in the registration card for today's tea picking, and the master in the registration office had already obtained the storage slip from the tea factory. It came out - this receipt is kept by the "leader", in case there is any objection when the monthly money is issued, it will be the proof of verification.

Wang Siniang is handsome and smart, she is very popular with people, and she can talk to people wherever she goes.When she arrived in the work record room, someone immediately greeted her, and the work record in her hand was immediately accepted.A few lustful masters took the opportunity to say some frivolous words to tease her.One simply took the opportunity of handing over the receipt to pinch her arm.

"Damn! I have a man." Wang Siniang slapped off the other party's salty pig's hand with a smile, "You have no benefit at all, and you still want to eat my tofu?"

There was a burst of laughter inside, and a teacher said: "It's good, fourth aunt! The master just sent someone to pass the message, telling you not to go to work at night, and go to the inner house to see him after dinner. I have something to tell."

Wang Siniang was taken aback, for no reason, what did I hear her doing at night?Before she came back to her senses, all kinds of teasing words rushed towards her.

"Fourth aunt, you have such a pretty face, I'm afraid the master will look more favorably on you."

"That's right, fourth aunt, you are a flower..."

"Your mother is beautiful." Wang Siniang cursed a few words, and carefully put the receipt handed out from the counter in a "protection book" that she carried with her.

Since she didn't need to do the evening work, she hurried outside to find another female worker in the group, and took care of her a few words.He rushed home in a hurry.

Their whole family belonged to the "outer courtyard", that is, slaves who could not enter the inner house and were specially used for production and business activities. Therefore, they did not enjoy the treatment of free meals for the servants in the inner house, and had to cook for themselves.

The servants in the outer courtyard will be provided with one or two meals by the villa depending on their working hours.If the work continues until after two o'clock in the afternoon, there will be a "snack" as usual to prevent them from being too hungry and affecting work efficiency.

When not in class, all meals are taken care of by themselves.Due to the long working hours, the servants of the villa often buy ready-made meals directly on the commercial street of the general management office.In addition to the slightly higher-grade cooperative taverns, there is also a food establishment on the commercial street-not a restaurant, no dine-in, only ready-made meals-similar to a box restaurant.

Walking into the shop, the floor and walls are covered with ceramic tiles, which are dazzlingly bright under the gas lamp that has just been lit. Rows of counters with glass covers are filled with vermilion lacquer platters, containing all kinds of ready-made dishes.Most of them are vegetables and "small meat" with a little fish - such as minced meat vermicelli stew, steamed fish and so on.It also comes with staple foods such as soup, rice, multigrain porridge, noodles, steamed buns, and various pickles.

After buying it back, it is very convenient to reheat it or eat it directly, and the food is clean.So very popular, business is booming.Wang Siniang's family has a large population, and both husband and wife have to work. It is impossible for Wang Siniang to go back and cook again, so she buys meals here every day and takes them home for the whole family to eat.

Customers who often buy food here can use the tin lunch box inside for free. Tinware is easy to process, easy to clean, and is a base metal. It was often used as tableware in ancient society. See the figure of its food maker. .

Wang Siniang bought some vegetables, and also bought braised snails in sauce—this is the cheapest dish among the small meat dishes. The plate next to it was piled high with green onion grilled crucian carp, each of which was the size of a palm, and it was delicious. be envious.Wang Siniang hesitated for a while and bought three.There is more food than this family, and just filling the stomach will cost a large part of the monthly income.Had to plan carefully.Fortunately, as long as there are children under the age of 16 in the family, you can get a [-]% discount on the price of meat dishes.

The master took good care of the "little boy". For families with children, each child can receive four catties of rice for free every month.When I was in school, the school also provided a meal for free. The rice was full, and the dishes were both meat and vegetables.

The so-called "half a child, eat me to death".Although Wang Si's family is all girls, they are all of an edible age.With these policies, the family budget is finally not so tight.

Hangzhou is a city full of fish and rice. Aquatic products such as fish, shrimp and snails are relatively cheap, but meat is expensive.Therefore, small meat with meat is not cheap.As for the big meat, there are very few people who buy it.

I hurriedly bought meals to take home.The three daughters have come back from school and are doing homework around the square table.Although Wang Siniang is illiterate, she has seen masters and gentlemen write with a brush and write vertically.The three daughters use charcoal pencils with wooden sticks to write at an angle.She didn't understand what was going on, but the fact that her daughter could read and write now was enough to comfort her.How many daughters of landlords and food households are blind.

The eldest daughter is already fifteen years old, and she is much taller than before——she grows up so fast, which makes Wang Siniang very unhappy.The little lady was already as tall as she was.If it goes on like this, she won't be able to wear her old clothes, so she can only make new ones.Although the old clothes eliminated by the elder sister can be worn by the younger sisters, the momentum of the two small and tall is no worse than that of the elder sister.

"Every one of them looks like eating baking powder." Wang Siniang often mutters this way recently.She didn't know that because they had consumed much more animal protein in the past two years than in the past, they would develop better than ordinary people.

A 15-year-old girl has to prepare for marriage in the past.The burden on the family can also be lightened after getting married.Now they are no longer free, and the marriage of their children has to be approved by the master.Last time, she tentatively asked Butler Cai, but Butler Cai told her not to think about it.

"The master doesn't like the girls in the family to marry early. You can take it easy."

Why don't you like girls marrying early? 15 years old is not too early.Wang Siniang thought about it for a while, maybe the master wants to pick a few girls to serve him?So he tentatively asked if the inner house should pick a maid to go in as an errand?Still got nothing.Butler Cai said that there are no female relatives in the inner house now, the master doesn't need many maids to serve him, and the girls can stay in the private school and continue their studies.

Wang Siniang did not give up, tried several times, and hinted that as long as he could get the eldest sister to work in the inner house, it would definitely benefit him.Unexpectedly, after Cai Shi became a housekeeper, he would not let in oil and salt, and he did not reveal a single useful word.It's just called "Let the children study hard".After asking again and again, Cai Shi added another sentence: "Reading well will definitely benefit you in the future."

Wang Siniang didn't understand the benefits of a girl's reading well, but seeing her eldest sister growing up day by day, she couldn't help but feel a little worried--when she was 15 years old, she would already be the bride of the Shen family.What's the point of procrastinating any longer?

Thinking so, she kept these words in her heart on weekdays.

"Big sister! Clean up the table, and we'll be eating in a while. Second sister, come and help me light the fire. Third son, go play while you play. Don't get in the way!"

While talking to her daughters, Wang Siniang put the food on the stove to reheat.The firewood burned in the stove is the firewood from the pruning branches on the mountain, which is distributed to each household by the general manager on a head-by-month basis.While the fire was burning, her husband Shen Da also came back.

He has been working in the mulberry fields on the mountain all day, and his feet are covered with yellow mud.First scoop up a few spoonfuls of water from the water tank at the door of the house to rinse your feet, and then put on the cloth shoes at home and enter the house.

Seeing that his wife came back from get off work early, Shen Da was not surprised at all - he already knew it in the recording room.

Shen Da's face was sullen, Wang Siniang and the children didn't dare to provoke anyone, the family sat around the table and finished eating silently, while the daughters were cleaning up the dishes, Shen Da said that the master had just visited the mulberry garden today, and said that It is necessary to double the size of the mulberry garden.

He lit the water pipe that the master gave him last time, and smoked it with a grunt: "...the expansion of the area is not counted. It is said that we need to invite someone to teach us how to grow mulberry. To engage in intensive mulberry planting - our family I have been planting mulberries and picking leaves since my grandfather’s generation, and I still need someone to teach me? Really!”

"It came from Guangli again." Wang Siniang made a cup of powdered tea for the head of the family. This was the tea powder that was swept out of the warehouse when the warehouse was cleaned up in the spring, and sold cheaply to the servants in the villa. a benefit.Although the appearance is not good, there are quite a few good tea leaves inside.

"Probably, the newly planted mulberry trees are the same as last year. They are also saplings unloaded from the ship. I don't think it's unusual. No matter how good the mulberry trees in Guangdong are, they are not as good as the local lake mulberry trees. I don't know. Why does the master like it so much?"

"People from the village probably have human feelings." Wang Siniang is very familiar with the world, far more shrewd than her husband, "In other words, in this Zhuangzi, except for Steward Cai, whoever is respectable around the master is not brought from Guangli?"

"That's true." Shen Da blew out a smoke ring, "It's so strange to see people from the boats coming to the village from Guangli one after another—the master seems to not trust our craftsmen here. , Bigger things have to be transferred from Guangli to do it.”

Another boat stopped at the pier at the bottom of the mountain yesterday. The person who is going to guide the planting of mulberry has already arrived.Wang Siniang suddenly thought that the news that she was going to the inner house tonight was probably related to this incident.But I don't know how to grow mulberry, I only know how to raise silkworms. Is it true that I really have to raise silkworms this year?
While guessing, Shen Da showed hesitation, took a few puffs of hookah before saying, "I heard that Master is going to send you in for questioning tonight?"

His complexion was a bit ugly, Wang Siniang seemed to understand in her heart.He suddenly called her to the inner house for no reason, and it was still at night.I can be considered pretty, a man has to think about it.

Immediately said: "It is to pass me in." She quickly distinguished: "I think, the master is going to raise silkworms this year, and he probably wants to ask about the joints here. When we came in, he asked if it was right. Don’t raise silkworms and reel silk.”

"How is it possible? There are quite a few scattered mulberry trees on this mountain, but the entire mulberry garden was planted last year. No leaves can be picked this year. How can silkworms be raised without mulberry leaves?" Shen Da showed suspicion.

Without their own mulberry gardens, they had to buy mulberry leaves to raise silkworms.This is a very risky thing for silkworm farmers.Especially after the third instar of silkworms, a large amount of mulberry leaves are consumed every day. Not only the price of mulberry leaves on the market is high, but also the supply is tight.If you can't raise mulberry leaves, you can only fall silkworms.It's like working hard in vain.Therefore, sericulture farmers more or less have their own mulberry gardens as the basic market, and they can buy some supplements from the market as appropriate.

Like Fenghuang Mountain Villa, relying on the scattered leaves of wild mulberry trees on the mountain, it is impossible to raise silkworms on a large scale.Today it was suddenly reported that Wang Siniang had entered the inner house, and it was explained by the matter of raising silkworms, no wonder he didn't believe it.

"It's hard to say, I think our master can do things that ordinary people can't do." Wang Siniang said, "Look, this year he will definitely raise silkworms."

Seeing that her husband showed no signs of letting go, she hurriedly said: "It's been almost two years since our family took refuge in the mansion, and everyone can see what kind of person the master is. Even if there is something, I can take care of it." You can rest assured."

Shen Da took a heavy breath, as if he wanted to say something, his lips moved, but he still didn't say anything.

(End of this chapter)