One more skill, if one day they don't serve the princess and don't get married, they can make more money after going out, so life will be easier anyway.
The princess went around every yard, and she had a good idea of their daily output. She couldn't help being curious, "Are these clothes going to be sold to long-term workers?"
Yue Xiuniang hurriedly said: "Almost, because the county magistrate requires that long-term workers have to take a bath at least once every three days, so each long-term worker will prepare an extra set of clothes."
"Besides, there are servicemen who are serving in the army. Now some families in the countryside, because our ready-made clothes are not very expensive, so occasionally people will buy them."
Ming Da asked: "Isn't this stealing the business from the cloth shop?"
"Then we can't help it, but we have also inquired. Except for the clothes made by us embroiderers, other clothes are not as good as the ready-made clothes in the cloth shop, and their prices are also higher than ours. Most of the people who come to us to buy clothes have never bought clothes from them.”
So it's not a steal.
Only then did Ming Da nod his head, and looked at the maids beside him, "Do you remember?"
The maids were stunned for a moment, and immediately bowed their knees happily and answered "Yes".
Mingda nodded, and helped the maid's hand to go out, "In this way, the weaving workshop is still losing money?"
Yue Xiuniang and Jiang Zhiniang said embarrassingly: "The cloth, linen, etc. bought by the county government are not bad. Occasionally, when the business is good, you can earn some wages and come back, that's..."
The two looked at each other, and reported in a low voice: "There is still a loss on the books. The main reason is that in addition to wages, there is also daily food, which is also a lot of expenses."
Zhou Man didn't care much about this, and she comforted Mingda, "Don't worry, you can always make money."
Ming Da is different from Chang Yu, she said: "I don't want the government to compete with the people for profit." So she wants the weaving workshop to make money and continue to maintain it, but not to make it too large and compete for profit with the people.
Zhou Man felt that she was thinking too much, she said: "There is no way to have both in the world. If we want to support them, then the weaving workshop will inevitably compete for profits with the folk cloth and garment shops in the future. This is inevitable."
She said: "What we can do is to give more benefits to ordinary people. Are these female workers not ordinary people?"
Mingda asked: "It's still a loss now. When all the long-term workers have bought two sets of clothes, they will have three sets. With their savings, I'm afraid they won't buy any more clothes in three or four years. What about these clothes? What should I do?"
She really can't see the future, that is to say, the weaving workshop is now considered a semi-public welfare, basically making a loss to benefit the long-term workers.
And this is better than letting the long-term workers go out to buy clothes. Both the long-term workers and the county government save money, so no one objected.
Zhou Man said: "When they have them all, these weavers and embroiderers have also practiced their skills. At that time, they can sell the clothes they make outside the county."
She pointed to Yue Xiuniang and said, "Don't you keep the clothes you make all the time?"
Yue Xiuniang's eyes lit up, and she immediately said: "It's like this, according to the county magistrate's order, the clothes made, as long as the quality is not bad compared with the clothes shop outside, they will be put away separately, and he will still be useful in the future."
Zhou Man nodded and said: "That's it, and to be honest, it's going to be cold soon, and even the long-term laborers have to add more clothes to do the hard work. Don't worry, the clothes in our weaving workshop will be worn out in a short time. It won't be slow-moving."
The more Mingda listened to it, the more unreliable he felt, he couldn't keep catching the long-term worker's wool, could he
Yue Xiuniang and the others couldn't think of this, as long as they knew that the clothes in the weaving workshop could be sold, it would be fine for the two workshops to continue to operate.
Zhou Man saw Si Jing and the others, so he couldn't help calling them over to ask, "Are you still used to it here?"
"I'm used to it." Sijing and the others bowed deeply, looked at Zhou Man reverently and said, "Thank you sir for interceding for us to settle down as a female householder and send our family away, otherwise we would not be able to stay in the weaving workshop. "
As more and more long-term workers were recruited in Beihai County, Sijing and her family also heard some rumors.
Originally, although they were annoyed that the dozen or so girls ran away from home, they thought they were unfamiliar white-eyed wolves. After all, they were not raised by the family since they were young. I can't live a hard life, but because I don't know where the person has gone, and it costs money to find someone.
So they only searched in a few nearby villages, and when they couldn't find anyone, they cursed and pretended that these daughters had never been born.
But they didn't expect that they went to Beihai County.
I heard people say that working in Beihai County can make money now, whether it is a male worker or a female worker, so they can't help but come to Beihai County to find someone.
It's a pity that their families are very scattered. Although they are in the same county, they are in different villages, and some even have different villages, so they found seven families, and one person from each of the seven families came to Beihai County.
They thought it was quite easy for a group of big men to catch a few young ladies. In fact, it was not difficult to find them. The difficult thing was that they really couldn't take them away.
The female workers who came to Beihai County either went to Zhuangzi to grow vegetables and raise chickens or cook rice and vegetables, or they worked as weavers and embroiderers in the weaving workshop.
Without even thinking about it, they went to the weaving workshop to inquire. The daughter (sister) of their family was a maid from a young age, and she had learned some knitting girls, so she should be in the weaving workshop.
Then they found someone as soon as the door was knocked open, but just as they reached out to arrest them, the women waved their sticks and ran them out and reported it to the police.
Then Beihai County threw them into Zhuangzi to work for half a month on the grounds that they were picking quarrels and provoking troubles before releasing them.
Every three days they watched the people they worked with go get paid and they got nothing.
At the end of the fifteen days, Bai Shan specially met them again in the lobby of the county yamen in his busy schedule, and said to them: "When these people came to Beihai County, they were reported as refugees, so this county doesn't care whether you are them or not." family members, since they have registered female households in Beihai County, they are people from Beihai County, you should stop harassing them, let alone forcibly taking the people of this county out of Beihai County."
Bai Shan said solemnly: "And do you have evidence to prove that they are your daughters or sisters?"
Except for a very few people, most of them really didn't, because at that time the county government released them and directly returned the deeds of sale to the girls. In other words, they only lost their slave status, but they did not have a naturalization certificate.
When they ran away, they also brought the deed of sale that had been cancelled, so except for a few other families, no one could produce evidence to prove that their daughter was their daughter and their sister was their own sister.
Of course, there are other ways besides reading books, such as Neighbors and Li Zheng came to testify, but Beihai County is not far from their home, if they invite someone to come to testify, they are not allowed to provide food and housing for them.
Just thinking about it, they don't want to fight this lawsuit, let alone robbing a county magistrate.
So they thought about it, and three of them planned to go home, while the other four chose to stay, planning to do some work in the village and earn some money before returning home.
Bai Shan welcomed him endlessly, turned around and handed the person over to Zhao Ming, who was re-registered and sent to Zhuangzi.