Chapter 3041

There are two managers in the weaving workshop. They are women. They are all technical talents dug by Bai Shan from Qingzhou City. They are the best weaving mother and the best embroidery mother. Bai Shan gives them a lot of money and promises to provide them with old-age care in the future.

It's not difficult. The weaving workshop now belongs to the Beihai county government. He has their body contract. In the future, if they want, he can take them away or buy an industry in Beihai county and let them provide for the elderly in the shop. That is, they have the ability. It's not so difficult.

They also know that a noble man came today and wanted to pick up people at the entrance of the alley, but they were tripped early in the morning. In order to satisfy the noble people, they handled things first, so they had no time to pick up people in front.

The door was wide open and they were still excited to see Lord Zhou and the princess coming together, although they had not seen them for the first time.

They immediately took people to meet them quickly, bent their knees and saluted, "meet the princess and Lord Zhou."

Mingda raised his hand slightly and said, "don't be polite. Let's go to the weaving workshop first."

She looked around curiously and asked, "are there weaving workshops on both sides?"

"Yes." Jiang zhiniang said: "at the beginning, Bai county magistrate only rented us two yards, both at the end of the alley and near the river. There are looms on this side and embroidered women's clothes on that side."

In fact, because the long-term workers were in urgent need of clothes, at first they needed a large number of embroidery women who could cut and sew clothes, and few followed Jiang zhiniang.

Even now, "the three courtyards on this side are owned by embroidery women, and there is another one here. Only those two are the places where we weaving women learn."

She said: "many people who came here can't weave. They can't learn it in a day or two, so the output is very low. Now the embroidery women still buy the cloth for cutting clothes from outside."

Zhou man and Mingda nodded and went in to see the weavers weaving on the loom.

Zhou man takes it very seriously. Her family also has a loom, but it's very different from here.

The loom is in the third sister-in-law's room. She weaves the best cloth at home, so the tune they hand in every year is the linen she weaves.

Sometimes extra cloth will be used to make clothes for everyone. In her memory, she can make a new dress every year.

There is still a big difference between the two. Zhou man said with a smile: "there is one in my family, but it is not like this, but hand-operated. People sit like this, and then pull and push with the heald pole..."

The weaving mother was stunned and said, "that's a waist machine. Now many people have it at home, but the speed of the waist machine is not as fast as the treadmill. As far as I know, all weaving workshops have changed their treadmills for a long time."

Zhou man nodded slightly. "What you're doing now is much faster than what I've seen."

Her third sister-in-law's weaving speed is fast in the village, but now the less skilled Weaver uses a pedal machine, and the speed looks almost the same.

Not to mention the skilled weaver, there was a weaver dug from Qingzhou. Her hands and feet moved together and did it quickly.

Zhou man looked at the loom thoughtfully, but she didn't say anything and began to ask about the lives of the women workers.

They live very well here, not only the new female workers who come to apply for work, but also the weaver who was dug up from Qingzhou.

Here, they not only have high wages, but also get red envelopes every month. The amount of red envelopes is determined according to the number and quality of their apprentices.

Also because of this red envelope, they are very dedicated to these students.

After watching the weaving workshop, they went to see the embroidery workshop opposite.

The people inside are sitting on a table, cutting clothes.

Yue xiuniang said, "what they do now are the simplest clothes. They don't have embroidery samples. They use the most common cyan linen..."

It is also because the clothes they make are provided to the long-term workers, so there is no need to embroider. The embroidering women also want them to master the wonderful use of needle and thread first, and then embroider when they are proficient.

But embroidery is actually different from making clothes.

Those who can embroider must be able to make clothes, but those who can make clothes do not necessarily embroider.

With so many people, it's only basic that xiuniang can teach them. To go further, it requires not only more efforts, but also their elite teaching.

But that's more than one-on-one teaching. At present, there is no such condition.

Yue xiuniang took them to see the clothes made by Xinxiu niangs.

Zhou man and Mingda don't know much about women workers, but they can still see them. Besides, there are several powerful palace maids and pastries beside them.

They all do.

So he picked up the clothes and checked them. Zhou man and Mingda thought they were good. They nodded again and again. At least they didn't see the clothes with long sleeves and short sleeves as Bai Shan said before.

The maids frowned and whispered, "the stitches are a little loose..."

"The stitching is not very good. It's easy to break..."

When Yue xiuniang heard this, she was embarrassed and nodded: "yes, they are all beginners, so the needlework is basic. By the way, here are the first batch of embroidery niangs, and the clothes they make are good."

Zhou man simply takes out his clothes from the basket and shows them to the palace maid. She is a layman. Just listen.

The maids checked the stitches and nodded reluctantly. Although there were still many problems, the quality was indeed better than that batch just now. They could barely wear it.

Mingda's eyes moved on their faces. After a long time, he smiled slightly and said to them, "if my body is inconvenient, take care of the weaving workshop for me."

The maids immediately pushed off, "the maidservant has to take care of the princess."

Mingda said, "how can you take care of me with so many people? You should also learn more skills. If you let them go in the future, you can support yourself if you have a skill. "

The maids who were about to push off immediately stopped talking, but looked at Zhou man and bowed their knees, respectfully replied, "yes, please follow the instructions of the princess."

Zhou man said: "you women knitting workers are good. I think there is nothing to learn in this field, but to run a weaving workshop well, in addition to women knitting workers, you should also be able to keep accounts, deal with people and talk about business."

Zhou man has a good relationship with the palace maids. When it's her turn to be punctual in the palace, she often chats with the palace maids.

There is no less talk about the future.

The empress is kind and kind. The maids can be released at a certain age. However, when they are released from the palace, they are not young. Most of them are over the age of 25. Some of them are more useful and will be retained all the time.

For example, aunt Shang, she is now nearly 40. According to common sense, she will always accompany the queen. When the queen goes West, she also has several choices.

First, martyrdom;

However, the queen should not like it, so no one will ask. Unless aunt Shang is determined to die, she will probably not choose this one.

Second, the next emperor and empress will honor and support her, but the honor and support is also divided into levels. One is to directly seal an order and give her a house and servants, so that she can live a long life; One is to send it to Chuang Tzu for honor and care, but it is not as free and noble as the former;

The third is that if the next emperor can't remember her, or even has a bad relationship with her, she must find a way to release her, or she will only die in the palace.

With aunt Shang's qualifications, if she doesn't go back to her mother's house after she is released, she will circulate among the powerful aristocratic families as a nurturing mother and earn some money to support her family;

Or find other jobs, such as taking over some women knitting workers and living on some of their savings. Basically, most palace maids choose this option.

It's OK when you are young. The older you are, the more difficult life will be.

So like the waiters, the palace maids like to save money. If they can't save money for the elderly, they have to find a way to get married.

But even if they can walk out of the palace at the age of 25, they are very old outside. It is difficult to find a suitable man, mostly widowers, and even with children. Life is even harder.

Especially the palace maids who have seen all kinds of men in the palace would rather be single and work harder than marry themselves foolishly and fall into a deeper mire.

So Mingda and Zhou man's words made them very excited.