Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 105 The Emperor Also Comes to Increase Shares ([-])

March 1590, 10 AD.

In a shed not far from the Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm, the howling of pigs was heard. It was the newly built Wuzhaibao Slaughterhouse that was slaughtering pigs.

After the animals in the Wuzhaibao Large Livestock Farm can be slaughtered, starting around 20th, after the Wuzhaibao Slaughterhouse is built, the pigs in the pigpens in Wuzhaibao and the sheep in the Horseshoe Po Sheep Farm will begin to be slaughtered. .In addition to supplying the soldiers and civilians of Wuzhai Fort, the meat will also enter various processing plants in Wuzhai Fort to be processed into non-staple food such as ham.

This slaughterhouse occupies a large area, several acres in size. There are a series of supporting measures in it. At the same time, it will be carried out in strict accordance with relevant health regulations to ensure the health of pork.At the same time, the fur, bones, fat, etc. left by the slaughtered pigs and sheep will also be collected and used to produce a series of items.

However, since the weather is not cold yet, the slaughter of live pigs cannot be carried out in large quantities. After the cold storage in the slaughterhouse is built, the slaughter of live pigs and sheep can be carried out on a large scale.

But having said that, a large number of related non-staple food processing factories are being vigorously built by Huang Laifu and various businessmen in joint ventures to produce a large amount of bacon, bacon, ham, bacon, dried fish, fish oil, fish meal and other foods in the future.There are also eggs and duck eggs, which have begun to be made into salted eggs and preserved eggs for sale.

There is also the processing of various soy products, which are in full swing. All kinds of soybeans will be made into soy milk, tofu skin, dried tofu, tempeh, soy sauce, yellow sauce and various fermented bean curd, bean paste, etc. These products will be used in the future. It should be labeled as Wuzhaibao and sold to the outside world.As for tofu, because the Qinglian River in the territory flows down Luya Mountain, the water quality of the river is sweet and pure, so a tofu workshop was opened at the foot of the mountain, which is specially used to process tofu. The joy of the army and the people of the village.

As soon as these food factories and workshops opened, they attracted a large number of refugees and various masters to apply for jobs. All of a sudden, Wuzhai Fort was idle, and the number of idle refugees was greatly reduced, which significantly eased the pressure on Wuzhai Fort. .However, with the establishment of various factories, seeing the opportunities for survival and work, many refugees were attracted from Kelanzhou, Ningwuguan and other places. The pressure on law and order has intensified again.

Of course, the management and recruitment of these food factories are now being carried out by Qu Yuanrui and other businessmen. They have also obviously introduced some advanced management experience from the various farms in Wuzhaibao, which has enhanced the work efficiency of the food factories in Wuzhaibao. .

The construction of these large factories not only placed a large number of laborers, but also led to the birth of various industries in the surrounding area.Since these factories attract strong labor, and the workers also have a few dollars a month, in response to their needs, there are various small restaurants with simple shacks, food stalls, and various street vendors in the vicinity of the factories. Markets, etc., have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.There are even some professions that specialize in coal transportation, laundry, prostitutes and other occupations.

Of course, these factories are now built outside the fort, mainly along the gates of Wuzhai Fort and along various roads. The hygiene and appearance planning of these factories are naturally managed by the city of Wuzhai Fort. bureau to manage.During these times, Director He Qianhu, Deputy Director Li An Baihu and Li Cheng Baihu were just soaking in the fort and working in various factories every day.

After the Wuzhai Fort meeting that day, the three people in charge of Wuzhai Fort's city management were refreshed. After returning, it took only two days and with the assistance of an accountant, they submitted the budget for the bureau. After getting the initial budget from Huang Laifu, the three of them speeded up their work.

Soon, a group of excellent subordinates and some cleaning staff were recruited to start the cleaning work of Wuzhai Fort.There are about ten of these cleaners, each of whom is five taels a month, responsible for the sanitation and cleaning in the fort, and each person cleans the fort once every morning.In everyone's eyes, this job can be said to be very leisurely, and there is a lot of money and food. After the news spread, the applicants can be said to be overwhelmed.

In addition to these cleaning staff, the other management personnel recruited by the Wuzhaibao Urban Management Bureau can be said to be all kinds of miscellaneous tasks. Whether the people in the fort are spitting, littering, etc., and whether the houses of the people in the fort are built indiscriminately, whether the trees in the fort have been damaged, and so on.

Thanks to the efforts of these people, Wuzhai Fort has taken on a completely new look within only a dozen days, especially on Dadong Street, the main street of Wuzhai Fort. The few streets in the fort were still a bit messy, all the accumulated garbage in the castle had been transported away, and all the gutters had been cleaned up.After spitting, throwing garbage once, and being fined a penny, the residents of Wuzhai Fort quickly changed their bad habits.

In fact, the monthly wages of these city management personnel are also five yuan. However, due to Huang Laifu's regulations, these people go to the streets for management, and half of the fines are handed over to the management bureau, and half can be kept by themselves. Therefore, these people are very motivated every day. Walking up and down the street, staring at everyone's hygiene.It also made the residents of Wuzhai Fort feel subconsciously afraid when they saw these managers.

Now, every morning, the residents in Wuzhai Fort, after getting up in the morning, will put the garbage in their homes on several large buckets on the side of the street, and then the cleaners will take it away instead of throwing it on the street. On the street, no one dares to litter or spit anywhere.

As for the vendors who set up stalls on the street, although they are still crowded in various streets to sell their goods, each of them consciously took a big bucket to hold some garbage left after the operation, instead of still selling goods as before. On the street it is.In this way, although there are many merchants in Wuzhai Fort, the streets are clean. Compared with before, it has changed greatly.

As for the factories and other places outside the fort, Huang Laifu stipulated that each factory area should implement its own sanitation management. The Wuzhaibao City Management Bureau would conduct spot checks every month.Coupled with the planning of the Wuzhaibao Urban Management Bureau, these factories are also built in an orderly manner, without the messy and dirty problems of emerging places.

March 1590, 10 AD.

Wuzhaibao has already built a wool spinning factory on the south bank of Qinglian, named Wuzhaibao Woolen Mill.

This is also a joint venture between Huang Laifu and various merchants in Wuzhaibao. Since it is a handicraft workshop, there are many workers needed in the factory, and nearly a thousand people have been recruited successively.All of a sudden, all the young and strong men among the refugees who were building shacks outside the fort were wiped out, and many healthy refugee women and children were recruited to work.And with a few dollars a month, these refugees can support their families after earning money.

Woolen mills need a lot of supporting facilities, and the cotton textile industry is similar. For example, workers need: general workers, weavers, weaving workers, weavers, weaving workers, and workers such as brushing, transporting, buttoning, and jointing, plus dyeing workshops , Kicking Workshop, Spinning Workshop, Spinning Workshop, Cloth Machine Workshop and a series of facilities, so the investment is huge.

Although the profit prospects of this new woolen mill are unclear, but with the successful experience of various farms in Wuzhaibao, and Huang Laifu and Qu Yuanrui investing huge sums of money without hesitation, the merchants in Wuzhaibao They are no longer waiting and watching, they are all scrambling to invest, lest Huang Laifu will not accept their money.The relevant craftsmen, looms and spinning machines were all recruited and purchased by merchants such as Qu Yuanrui from Kelanzhou, Taiyuan and other places.In Daming at this time, as long as you pay money, you can buy these things without worrying.

At present, the cotton textile industry in Daming is very developed. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, cotton textiles have gradually become the main raw material for Chinese people's clothing. Especially in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the cotton textile industry and cotton cloth processing industry in Daming developed extremely fast.At present, Songjiang and other places in the Ming Dynasty are the cotton spinning centers of the world, and cotton clothes and quilts are popular in the world. At this time in Suzhou, there are at least [-] private machine households, and the number of weavers employed is very considerable. The sound of the machine chattering, endlessly all night.At that time, skilled workers in the Ming Dynasty could get four or five taels of yarn a day for a spinner, and a piece of cloth for a weaver a day.

Because in Daming at this time, the cotton textile industry has its own system, whether in the south or the north, and the competition is very fierce. Wuzhaibao wants to compete with them. It has no raw materials and excellent technicians, so it may have no advantage at all.Even if they are dealing in fur, they cannot compete with Shanxi merchants from other places at this time.Therefore, Huang Laifu's textile goal is on wool.

At this time, besides felting and blankets, there were very few wool spun cloths and clothing materials. According to history, China’s wool textile industry did not open the Lanzhou Weaving Bureau until Zuo Zongtang’s time, in order to supply military supplies. Production of military materials.This is where Huang Laifu's sword took a slant.

According to the scale of Wuzhaibao Woolen Mill, there is a lot of wool needed, and the thousands of sheep in Wuzhaibao, the wool produced is naturally a drop in the bucket.Therefore, during this period of time, the business shareholders of Wuzhaibao Wool Mill were buying wool everywhere, which caused the price of wool in some surrounding Junbao prefectures and counties to rise sharply. Mongolian tribes bought wool and shipped it to Wuzhai Fort.

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October 1590, 10 AD.Kelan Prefecture, Jiaoshan Village, Sanjing Town.

On this day, the whole village was in a commotion, because Yang Daguan, an old shepherd in the village, sold dozens of goats in his family for a few taels of silver just for the fluff that they raised at home. A comfortable few years.In the current year, the harvest of wheat is not much, plus paying taxes, farmers live frugally for a year, and they may not earn even a tael of silver. It was a huge sum of money, and everyone couldn't help being a sensation.

At this time, Yang Daguan's house was already crowded with people from the village.The so-called home is just a leaky thatched hut with piles of mud walls on all sides, but right now Yang Daguan's face is full of red, with white silver in his hand, he is a little too excited to speak .
Yang Daguan's face is covered with dense wrinkles, his hair is already a little gray, he is in his forties, and he is still a widow. He used to raise sheep, because no one bought the goat hair, and the sheep often died, so he kept going. Years later, I also lived a hard life of full and hungry.The villagers are idle and he is poor, and he is an outsider, so even now, no woman is willing to marry him.

"Okay, Shepherd, I, Mr. Liu, do things with ease. If there is still wool in your house, I don't have anything to say. I want as much as I have. Remember, this is my name card. I'm leaving."

A blessed businessman handed a name badge to Yang Daguan, and satisfactorily ordered a clerk to transport the received wool to the carriage. During these days, he ran here and there, crossing the village and town Although it is hard work to buy wool, the rewards are huge. After the wool is sold to Wuzhaibao Wool Mill, the interest can be doubled. Of course, it is worth it.

"Uncle Liu, go slowly." Hearing what the blessed businessman said, Mr. Yang hurriedly sent him out of the door respectfully, and only when the businessman had gone away did he carefully put the bookish name badge into his arms. Literate, but it's always right to put away the uncle's famous name, isn't it?

At this time, everyone in the village looked at Yang Daguan with different eyes, and they all smiled and became friendly. Everyone asked about Yang Daguan's businessman, and the old village head even invited Yang Daguan. Guan came to visit at home in the evening, and the next day it was reported that old man Qian from the village intended to marry his daughter to Yang Daguan.

And Yang Daguan's experience made people in the village even more excited. The current situation is not good, and it seems that eating in the fields is not enough. I heard from the people in the town that many people fled to Wuzhai Fort. Working in various factories in Wuzhaibao, you can get a few dollars a month, which is enough to support your family. If you can be recruited to various farms in Wuzhaibao, you will get an "iron rice bowl", which makes some young people in the village feel excited. The old man still loves the soil and is unwilling to be a foreigner.

Right now, people like Yang Daguan are the best. They don't have to flee famine, and they can have enough food at home. Suddenly, many people in the village are planning to raise sheep.

(End of this chapter)