Kou Ji and his party got out of the carriage, and the cold wind swept a little snow star, hitting the face, a little bit cold.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others took the refugees who were trembling in the cold wind, and saluted Kou Ji and others together.
Bi Sheng led the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, wrapped in a thick leather jacket, saluting Kou Ji and others.
After they gave the salute, Kou Ji tightly grasped the big cloak on his body and said: "Let the people go back to the house and rest first. It's hard to heal if it freezes in this weather."
When Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others heard this, they didn't say much, and they turned around and ordered the refugees to go back to their houses and rest first.
In every house, there is a clay stove. The stove is next to the wall. A hole is taken out of the wall and a chimney is molded, all the way to the roof.
Once the stove is burning, the house will be warm, and there is no need to worry about smoky fires.
The refugees don't have much clothing to keep warm, so they stay in the house so they won't be frozen.
The refugees heard Kou Ji's instructions and didn't wait much. They returned to their houses in small groups.
After the refugees were resettled outside of the city, Kou Ji went to the refugee resettlement place from time to time. Most of the refugees knew him and knew that he was a good-for-nothing person.
They also knew that when Kou Ji spoke, there was not much room for maneuver.
After sending the refugees back to the house to rest, Kou Ji asked Chen Jing to take them to the newly built textile workshop.
The one-foot-high bluestone wall is very dazzling in the shelter of the refugees.
The roof made of wood and bricks has a herringbone shape and is pressed against the stone wall, looking very solid and firm.
About twelve feet long, it looks like a solid city wall, more than two workshops.
The gap between the stone and the stone was scraped clean with iron rings, and the muddy water that dripped on the wall when building the roof was also cleaned.
If it weren't for the plain gap to remind everyone, if it was a wall, everyone would treat the stone wall as a stone wall.
Refugees from Zhuanghu people, work as practical and delicate as ever.
Liu Heng looked at the stone wall and kept clicking his mouth, wishing to drag the refugees from outside the city into Bianjing City, and to overthrow Liu Mansion and rebuild it.
Cao Tong stared at the stone wall and sighed, "Four brother, you are a construction workshop, and it is clear that you have built a fortress."
Kou Ji glanced at him and said irritably: "Nonsense... After the textile workshop is built, it will take decades or even hundreds of years. If it is built with civil engineering, it will collapse in less than a dozen years. At that time, it is not necessary to continue to build.
Rather than building it again and again, it's better to complete it in one step. "
Liu Heng nodded in agreement: "The fourth brother is right. After this textile workshop is built, it will take a long time. Although our brother is the owner of the textile workshop, we don’t have so much free time to help the textile workshop. Build again and again."
Among the crowd, only the three of Mu Chong had more complicated expressions.
They made the stones for the textile workshops.
The three of Kou Ji were happy, but the three of them spent a lot of money in it.
"Go in and see..."
Chen Jing saw that Kou Ji and others were satisfied with the workshop they had built, and invited with a bright smile on his face.
Kou Ji nodded and led everyone along the path paved with bluestone, crossing the two circular waterways all the way to the workshop.
The workshop is divided into two parts, one is a spinning workshop and the other is a weaving workshop.
Kou Ji and his party first arrived at the spinning workshop.
There are a group of women in the workshop.
Outside the door stood an old and a young, two craftsmen, one carrying the ladder and the other carrying the vermilion lacquer.
Kou Ji looked at the two craftsmen, the old and the young, for a moment, and said, "What is this?"
Wang Tiansheng leaned forward and said with a smile: "Our workshop is going to start, so we have to find a way to win the prize? The students wondered whether we can borrow the finishing touch to add the finishing touch to the workshop. I wish our workshop, after we started, Prosperous."
While speaking, Wang Tiansheng pointed to the top of the workshop door.
Everyone in Kou Ji followed his fingers and saw the top of the workshop door, there was a bluestone engraved with two words.
A, line...
A is sorting.
The order of the ancients is based on the terms of A, B, C, and D.
The thread is the purpose of the workshop.
Used to distinguish it from spinning workshops and weaving workshops.
Kou Ji looked at the two inscribed characters and knew what the ladder and lacquer were in the hands of the old and the young at the door.
Before Kou Ji spoke, Meng Weizhong frowned and said, "In the textile workshop, it is most forbidden to see red."
Everyone was stunned when they heard the words.
The smile on Wang Tiansheng's face froze.
Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "There are no taboos... Moreover, if red silk is really avoided in the textile workshop, wouldn't it be impossible to produce red silk in your silk workshop?"
Meng Weizhong was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "It's a gaffe...
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing.
A group of people entered the spinning workshop.
The women in the workshop gave salutes together.
Headed by a few older women, they dressed far better than the other women, and seemed very close to the three of Mu Chong.
Obviously, these women are all textile masters transferred from Sichuan and Sichuan by Mu Chong and others.
Kou Ji and others entered the workshop, and an elderly woman showed them around the workshop.
The workshop was filled with three-spindle spinning wheels, which looked like a classroom.
Seven or eight three-spindle spinning wheels have their backs from west to east, and the remaining three-spindle spinning wheels have their backs from east to west.
Some hemp, wool and other things have been put on the side of the spinning wheel.
Seeing that some spinning wheels have been hooked up with threads, it must have been taught to spin threads.
Kou Ji and others circled around in the workshop and ordered the women to start spinning, so that everyone could watch.
The few textile masters invited from Sichuan and Sichuan immediately got into the spinning wheel with seven or eight frames back to the west and east.
The other women sat in the other spinning wheels shyly and started spinning.
There was a clatter of footsteps.
The women began to spin the thread with the three-spindle spinning wheel.
After a while, the sound of spinning became a piece of sweetness.
Chen Jing and others smiled brightly as they listened to the sound of spinning threads.
Mu Chong, Qian Le, Meng Weizhong, Liu Heng, Cao Tong and others were slightly shocked by the pleasant sound of spinning.
They have never seen such a large-scale and neatly spun yarn, and they have never seen it before.
Although the fabric produced may be very single, the output will increase linearly.
Kou Ji's eyes stayed on the women for a long time, and smiled and said to Chen Jing and others: "Later, I will send a steward from the mansion to pick a few exciting ones from among them to serve as stewards.
By the beginning of the spring next year, they will begin to calculate their wages. "
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others nodded with a smile upon hearing this.
After hearing the words, the women were so excited that they couldn't help themselves, and they became a little diligent.
Kou Ji took everyone to the weaving workshop for a round tour.
The situation in a weaving workshop is similar to that in a spinning workshop.
What surprised Kou Ji was that the women weaving seemed to have started to weave with the textile masters who came from Sichuan and Sichuan before the workshop was completed. So when Kou Ji visited the weaving workshop, he saw a lot of things. The twine and wool that have been spun, and the cloth hung on the loom.
Wool and linen fabrics are more than a little bit worse than silk fabrics.
But it does not affect their sales.
Compared with silk, hemp and wool fabrics are in greater demand.
When Chen Jing took Kou Ji on a tour of the weaving workshop, he told Kou Ji that the first batch of fabrics would come out in a few days.
"As long as there is enough wool and linen, we can spin a lot of fabric before the New Year's Day. If you can sell it during the New Year's Day, you can make a lot of money."
Chen Jing said with some joy.
Kou Ji smiled and said, "There is no need to worry about the issue of wool and hemp. But the fabrics from the first few batches cannot be sold. They must be kept for the people here to make clothes.
I hope that, before our fabrics are sold, everyone here can have a complete warmth from the cold. "
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others paid a deep respect to Kou Ji.
Liu Heng, Cao Tong, Mu Chong and others did not disagree with Kou Ji's decision.
Only when there is input, there is output.
If the refugees can't get enough to eat or dress warmly, it is impossible to work hard for them.
After the inspection of the textile workshop.
Everyone went outside the workshop.
Following Kou Ji's order, a car of firecrackers brought by Liu Heng and Cao Tong were picked on the poles and set on fire together.
The crackling of firecrackers resounded through the world.
The refugees poked their heads out of the house and craned their necks to watch.
The sound of firecrackers seemed to have magical power, dispelling the gloom that had hung in their hearts for many days and the damage caused by the flood.
There were bright smiles on some of their faces.
Some old people, stroking the children obediently in their arms, whispered, "Baby, we have a home..."
Firecrackers are lit.
The craftsmen standing in front of the two large workshops climbed up the ladder and painted the two words on the top of the workshop door in red.
Kou Ji gave an order on the spot to kill pigs and sheep, so that the people in the camp would be happy to follow.
There are not many pigs and sheep, and there are very few people who can eat meat, but it is easy for everyone to share a bowl of soup with shredded meat.
The common people were holding the warm broth, while sucking carefully, and smiling cheerfully.
Kou Ji and others formed a circle. Everyone was holding a bowl of soup filled with meat, and seeing the bright smiles of the people from the bottom of their hearts, they felt warm in their hearts.
Mu Chong stared at the meat in the bowl, and said dumbly: "Such things are placed in front of me on weekdays. I can't touch them. I don't know why. Today I think they are especially sweet."
Liu Heng chewed the greasy lamb with only a small amount of salt, and nodded earnestly.
Kou Ji smiled and nodded, and brought in a little guy who was not far from them, staring at the meat in their bowl and drooling.
The little guy was not afraid of life. Seeing Kou Ji waved his hand, he walked up to Kou Ji in a daze, with two rows of clear nose, and the frozen red face, drooling, staring at Kou Ji's bowl. Meat.
He doesn't know how old Kou Ji is and how noble the identities of these people are.
He only knew that the meat in Kou Ji's bowl was really fragrant.
He wanted to take a bite.
Just one bite...
Kou Ji picked a lean lump from the bowl and handed it to the little guy.
The little guy didn't pick up the chopsticks in Kou Ji's hand, but quickly took the meat from Kou Ji's chopsticks, and quickly stuffed it into his mouth.
"Eat slowly..."
"Eat slowly..."
Kou Ji reminded in a low voice.
The little guy didn't seem to hear it, and gnawed the meat in his hands.
Until the meat in his hands was cleaned, he raised his face again and looked at the meat bowl in Kou Ji's hand.
Although the little guy is gluttonous, he is very disciplined.
Kou Ji didn't give it to him, and he didn't have any stance to snatch at all.
Kou Ji did not give the little guy any more meat, but laughed in a low voice: "You haven't seen oil and water for a long time, so you dare not eat more. If you eat too much, it will make your intestines slippery..."
The little guy tilted his head and stared at Kou Ji, thinking for a long time, but didn't think about what a slippery bowel was.
However, he analyzed Kou Ji's words and found that it was generally embarrassing to the body.
The little guy pondered for a while, staring at Kou Ji, and said, "Can you give me another piece? I want to give it to the nanny..."
As if afraid that Kou Ji would not give it, he made a small face with a runny nose and said seriously: "When I grow up and raise a sheep, I will give you a whole one."
Kou Ji was taken aback.
Mu Chong and others laughed loudly.
Qian Le even laughed loudly and said, "This business is not at a loss..."
Kou Ji directly stuffed the meat bowl in his hand to the little guy and said with a smile: "Okay... I will wait for you to grow up and give me a whole sheep."
The little guy was holding the meat bowl and nodded in no uncertain terms.
Then turned around, holding the meat bowl and ran away.
With Kou Ji taking the lead, Liu Heng, Mu Chong and others also recruited the little guys not far from them and handed them the meat bowl.
Kou Ji let out the meat in the bowl with a sound.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others stared at Kou Ji and others and said, "You are really different from the officials and merchants we met before."
Kou Ji and others looked at each other and shook their heads with a smile.
Kou Ji said to Wang Tiansheng: "After the snow stops, the workshop will continue to build workshops, and they must build enough workshops for women to work. While building the workshops, they also score a group of people to build several large furnaces. The stove is different from other stoves, and the craftsmen in my house are responsible for the details.
In addition, some of you will find some craftsmen among the people to build some houses together.
Gather the children here and teach them to read and read.
I remember many scholars among the people.
The gentleman who teaches children to read can choose from among them. "
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others were taken aback when they heard the words, and Wang Tiansheng said in shock: "Kou Industry Department, you want to build a private school? Let the children here all study?"
Kou Ji questioned: "Can't it?"
Wang Tiansheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not impossible... It's just that there are 450,000 children here. Excluding those girls, there are also 20,000 or 30,000 male dolls.
Twenty to thirty thousand dolls can't be placed in a private school. "