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While Duoduo was busy recruiting leaders of various Mongolian tribes in Bozhou in the hope of stabilizing the precarious situation, Ye Bushou was also not idle and had already taken action.
Will Daqin hang himself on a tree in the Sunite tribe
of course not.
It all depends on how each side makes its move. Will it be the Qing Dynasty that stabilizes Mongolia, or will it be the Qin that consumes the alliance between Manchuria and Mongolia? It all depends on their abilities.
For the Qin Dynasty, it was a question of whether it could achieve a great result with little effort; for the Qing Dynasty, it was a question of survival or destruction.
While the two sides were busy wrestling, a "Hanyan Painting and Embroidery Workshop" opened in Jinling City.
The four virtues of women are appearance, speech, morality and craftsmanship. Among them, craftsmanship includes embroidery.
In this era, a woman who couldn't embroider would be looked down upon. When a matchmaker came to a girl's house, the first thing he would ask was probably how well the girl did with her needlework. Don't get me wrong, he wasn't asking about her blood, he was asking about her needlework, or sewing.
If you are not good at needlework, you may be disliked by the man.
Therefore, from rich young ladies to farm girls, almost every girl had to learn needlework from a young age. From floral decorations on clothes to sachets as small accessories, all were embroidered stitch by stitch by dexterous women.
Embroidery plays an important role in women's daily life.
However, in the past, embroidery was mostly done by women at home, and many women in wealthy families even used it to kill time. Few people operated embroidery as an intensive enterprise production.
Therefore, the emergence of Hanyan Painting and Embroidery Workshop is destined to become an epoch-making event.
The embroidery workshop is located near Wenqing Bridge, with the rippling Qinhuai River behind it. The embroidery workshop can be divided into two departments, one department focuses on mid- and low-end embroidery products.
The spacious embroidery room was filled with embroidery frames. A woman named Lin Hui was giving a speech to the first 200 recruited embroiderers: "We will prepare all the embroidery patterns and needlework for you. All you have to do is embroider the patterns according to our requirements.
One point I want to emphasize is that your wages are not calculated on a daily basis, but in the form of a base salary plus commission. Specifically, you have a basic wage of five cents of silver per month. If you want to get more, it depends on how many qualified embroidery works you can produce in this month.
The workshop would set the remuneration in advance according to the difficulty of each embroidery. For example, the remuneration for embroidering this piece of embroidery is 200 coins, and if you embroider 20 pieces in a month, then your piecework income for this month is 4 taels of silver, plus your basic salary of 5 qian of silver, your total income for this month is 4 taels of silver and 5 qian of silver. In short, the more you embroider, the more you will be paid; the less you embroider, the less you will be paid. Do you understand?"
"I understand." The embroiderers answered happily. Everyone was full of energy and couldn't wait to start embroidering.
This is the power of capital. It can make people forget about food and sleep and devote themselves to it day and night.
These embroiderers may not know that they will spend most of their time in this factory in the future. In order to earn a little more money, they forget the seasons and are "exploited" day after day, and they are happy with it.
This may sound cruel, but this is the law of capital operation.
In the past, workers in the market were generally paid by the day. This pricing method has been used for thousands of years and is based on the Confucian "benevolence, righteousness and morality".
I hire you for a day, and I pay you for a day. You use your morality to restrain yourself and work for me with conscience... But in fact, once morality meets money, it is often useless. The lower class people are busy making a living all day long. Not everyone's moral integrity can be satisfactory, and there are many people who are cunning and dishonest.
Paying workers by piecework, although this is only a small change, has actually caused great damage to the original social morality.
But there is no doubt that this is the appropriate model for capital operation, and only in this way can the productivity of the entire society be stimulated.
In addition, Hanyan Painting and Embroidery Workshop has another department that focuses on high-end painting and embroidery.
This department recruits women with cultural accomplishments, including ladies from wealthy families like Xu Ruoshi. Of course, her brother Xu Yongshun is the investor of Hanyan Painting and Embroidery Workshop and owns 51% of the shares, so she is considered the boss's sister.
Originally, the department only planned to recruit 50 people, but hundreds of people came at once, and many people would rather not be paid, but also rushed to join. In the end, the embroidery workshop selected 100 women who were good at painting, calligraphy, and needlework.
This department cares about quality, not quantity. It may take a year or even several years to embroider a painting. But it is very important, and the fine products produced will represent the brand of the embroidery workshop.
But the shy Gu Hanyan couldn't say a word about the brand effect in public. She stood there, facing hundreds of women, and her face turned red before she could even speak.
This water-like woman was full of the graceful and soft beauty unique to the Jiangnan region. She simply omitted the words that Qin Mu taught her and directly picked up the needle and thread to demonstrate the embroidery techniques to everyone.
"My Gu family's embroidery is divided into more than ten kinds of needlework, including straight needle, spread needle, seed needle, joint needle, nail gold, single set needle, engraved scale, vertical cross, random cross, coiled cross, separate stem, virtual and real, and applied needle. Each needlework is determined according to the needs of the picture and is integrated with the brushwork and painting. Now I will demonstrate the techniques of various needlework to you..."
As Gu Hanyan spoke, she demonstrated needlework on the spot. Her skillful technique allowed her to use different arrangements of silk threads to create different light effects, making the light and color of the picture change with movement and unpredictably, expressing the ethereal, elegant and ethereal beauty of the Jiangnan landscape more fully than the original work.
Xu Ruoshi and other women were so engrossed in watching that in the hall filled with hundreds of people, only Gu Hanyan's soft Wu dialect could be heard.
Now Gu Hanyan's paintings and embroidery are all the rage in the world, and are collected by dignitaries, scholars and scholars. It is said that during the Suzhou exhibition, someone offered a sky-high price of 30,000 taels for the painting "Blue-green Landscape". Even so, it is still unavailable.
It can be seen from this that although the output of this kind of elegant painting and embroidery would not be large, the value it brought was absolutely astonishing. Among a hundred women, even if each one only produced one work a year, and even if the average sale was only 500 taels, the output value would still be 50,000 taels.
Excluding labor, the cost of sewing and needlework to create these fifty thousand taels of silver is estimated to be no more than twenty taels of silver. From a business perspective, the profit... ...don't even mention it, it can definitely be called a huge profit.
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On this day, Qin Mu also took time to visit the newly established Military Medical College. The college was newly established and very simple. It was located on the bank of Mochou Lake in the west of the city. The first dean was the white-haired Qin Liangyu.
This heroine who fought in battles all her life was highly respected. Although she knew nothing about medicine, because of her high reputation, having her preside over the Military Medical College could avoid many rumors. At least the people would not misunderstand that this was recruiting camp prostitutes.
When Qin Mu arrived, Qin Liangyu was holding a dragon-headed cane and was supported by Li Zixuan, who was wearing the clothes of an imperial physician, to greet him. The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau, Wu Youxing, was also there.
The hospital has recruited 300 women, 200 of whom will be nurses with relatively low requirements.
The requirements for the other 100 girls aged 8 to 12 were higher. These 100 girls were orphans selected by local governments from refugees. They were literate. In the late Ming Dynasty, the literacy rate of rich girls was still very high. Due to war and famine, their families were broken up and they were left alone.
Qin Mu was very satisfied and said to Wu Youxing and Li Zixuan, "Teach them carefully and make them excellent doctors. This is not only for the development of Daqin's medical industry, but also a merit for you."
"Yes, King Qin."
Qin Liangyu said with emotion: "I have been a warrior all my life, but thanks to the King of Qin, I can finally do something virtuous in my old age."
This is really a good thing. These women have no one to rely on. If they were not recruited into the Military Medical College, they would either become slaves or end up in brothels. After entering the Military Medical College, their life's destiny will be rewritten.
Qin Mu smiled and said, "Sister, you have worked hard all your life. Now that you are old, I feel bad for you to worry about this. But apart from you, I really can't find anyone suitable to take charge of this matter."
Qin Liangyu also laughed: "To be honest, when the King of Qin first mentioned this matter, I was reluctant, but now, I don't want to leave even if you ask me to!"
"Ha ha... ... .."
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