In just half a year, Beihai County has undergone tremendous changes. Bai Shan rented a few cheap houses in the west of the city, mainly for weaving and making clothes for the female workers, and the rooms for them in the back.
With more and more people coming to seek refuge, as well as some young ladies in this county who heard the news and braved up to come to ask for work, there are already many female workers in Beihai County.
These people were originally under the care of Mr. Cui and Fang Xiancheng, but now there are people everywhere, especially now that they are still serving in the military.
Princess Mingda is bored while raising her baby, Yushantang is already on the right track, as long as the rules are set, enough money and food are provided, and teachers who teach various skills are hired for the children. It was very rare to get her and Bai Er.
They just have to go and look at it once in a while.
The carriage stopped in front of an alley, and the guard stepped forward to take a look and said, "Princess, the alley is too small for our car to enter."
The maid got out of the car, turned around and helped Mingda and Zhou Man down.
When people in the alley saw such a gorgeous carriage for the first time, they stood under the eaves curiously, but because there were guards with knives, they didn't dare to approach it.
The ground was a bit wet, the eldest maid took a look, she didn't dare to let the princess and Zhou Man walk on such a ground, she really needed someone to use wooden boards to cover it, and said to the servants in charge of finding the way, "The princess is pregnant, you are so careless, if If you slipped your foot, I hope the palace will not cut your skin."
The servants hurriedly bowed their heads in response, and hurriedly asked people to fetch wooden planks to put them on, and then glanced at Li Zheng who rushed over.
Li Zheng was wronged in his heart, he was not well-trained like the maids in the palace, even if he was wronged, he didn't dare to speak out, so he bowed his waist and said flatteringly: "My lord and princess have wronged me, since the weaving workshop was built here , I followed the order of the county magistrate to have the lanes cleaned up, and now it’s much better, not to mention the water before, what kind of broken vegetable leaves, vegetable roots, everything that is not needed at home is thrown on the road.”
"Master Zhou has also been here before, you should know, it is much better now than before."
Zhou Man: "That's all because I did too badly before."
Li Zheng: "... yes, yes, I didn't do well before, but this time I didn't dare to be negligent. I knew that the nobles were coming, so I asked someone to clean the street early in the morning. I called here two quarters of an hour ago. After passing by, this road is still dry, who knows that a wrong eye, who knows who the gods are, poured water on the road."
He gritted his teeth and said: "Master Zhou, don't worry, I will investigate in a while and find out who did it. I will let them go around."
Anyway, it must be around these few houses, no more than six houses at most, door to door, early in the morning, and someone will definitely see it.
Zhou Man asked curiously: "I found that you all like to splash water on the road. Is there no small ditch for drainage in the yard?"
Whether they were renting a house in the capital or in Yizhou City, there was always a drainage ditch in the yard, and no one poured water on the road at all. I want to splash water on people.
Li Zheng smiled awkwardly and said: "Some people have it, some people don't, and some people have it, but it's not big, and it's easy to get blocked and difficult to get out if mixed with things, so..."
Anyway, the yard is only that big, so you can wash things in the yard and just throw them out.
Zhou Man looked at him quietly for a while, and said: "Since there is no one, let's dig one. There is a drainage ditch outside. If it is connected, it will always be poured on the road, and even the best road will be broken."
He said again: "If you find someone, you don't need to be severely punished. Have you seen the uneven potholes on this road?"
Li Zheng nodded.
"Let his family pick some stones and soil back, and give these potholes to the sky. In the future, whoever pours water and garbage on the road will do it. In addition to cleaning the streets, they have to pick mud to fill the road."
Li Zheng asked: "Then what if all the potholes on the road are repaired?"
"Then let them clean the road," Zhou Man said, "I heard that people from the weaving workshop are cleaning this alley every day. If there are any violations in the future, they will be fined to sweep the road for a month at a time. If the sweep is not clean, they will be fined again."
Li Zheng: ... so ruthless!
He would have wanted to fine money and grain and cloth and things like that.
He turned his head to drink with the bystanders, "Did you hear what your lord said? If you throw things on the road, you will have to repair and clean this road from now on!"
The guards found a few planks and placed them on the ground, and then the maids helped Princess Mingda walk through this wet section of the road.
Xibing followed suit and reached out to help Zhou Man.
Zhou Man could walk steadily by himself, but when he saw her supporting him, he also extended his hand to her.
At the end of the alley is a river, which is already the lower reaches of the river. Because it is a weaving workshop, there are many people living there, so Bai Shan paid special attention to this point when renting the house.
Several rooms on the left and right were rented by them, and they happened to be at the end of the alley.
Zhou Man asked Li Zheng, "I see that the residents here are very unhappy. Why, don't they like the weaving workshop here?"
Li Zheng was afraid that Zhou Man would move the weaving workshop if he said "I don't like it", so he hurriedly said: "No, your excellency also knows that the rent paid by County Magistrate Bai is high, and it is paid every year, so many people here They all want to rent the house to the county government, but they can't rent it out, so they can't help but feel a little bit of resentment, it's not that they don't like the weaving workshop, but they like it too much."
Not to mention Zhou Man, even Mingda was convinced by this explanation, and after a while he asked, "Where are they going to live after renting a house?"
"They can go to other places to rent a house, and they can also go back to the countryside to live. No matter how bad it is, they can live in a straw shed on the open ground."
Zhou Man: "...The thatched hut can be built casually? And is the rent given by the Bai county magistrate so high? It can make them prefer to go out and rent a house?"
Li Zheng smiled shyly, "It's a little more expensive than the ones offered outside, but that's not the important thing. What's important is that the house is rented out, so maybe the lady at home can get a job?"
"Oh," Xibing used an idiom that he had only learned recently, "it turns out that the drunkard's intention is not to drink."
Li Zheng smiled awkwardly.
Zhou Man said: "If they want to enter, they can go directly to the county government to apply. Now the weaving workshop still needs people, and they are not fully recruited."
It's just that I went to others and didn't like it, so I thought of such a way.
But Li Zheng didn't say it out, it's not known whether this method will work or not, the most important thing is that they refuse to obey discipline and dump things on the road because of jealousy and disobedience.
But he didn't dare to say the reason. What if the county government got angry and really moved the weaving workshop
So he can only try his best to talk about the reason he came up with, thinking that the reason he found is really good.