After talking about the ideal of Zheng Yuming night sleep sleep is very sweet, when the eastern sky there is a trace of white light reveals, he still immediately woke up. He was the only one lying on the summer mat, touch the bamboo mat around him, there is still a bit of warmth on it, Chu Chao Hui has just left.
Zheng Yuming will be mosquito incense extinguished, the bamboo mat rolled up and put into the attic, to the second floor to wash his face and brush his teeth, and put on a set of summer clothes made of Nambu cotton downstairs. Villa bathroom excretory system can be used, just no running water, washing and brushing the use of water is well water, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui every day upstairs will bring a bucket, half used to flush the toilet, half used to wash.
There were very few stewards who came to see Zheng Yuming this morning to report on his work, and before the sun jumped out of the horizon, Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong rode out of the valley to Nambu. Arriving at Nambu, the hand of the watch in Zheng Yuming's pocket was just pointing to six o'clock. Summer clothes wear too little, Zheng Yuming's watch is not worn on the wrist, but placed in the pocket, need to know the time will take out to look at it. Habit, Zheng Yuming still like to use the original time and space of twenty-four hours of time, only and the village people talk about the time and then converted a little.
Before the village of Nambu became the possession of Zheng and Chu, the village people were very industrious, and now that they have changed masters, the village people are even more industrious. The original hard work was to not starve to death, but now the hard work is to live a better life.
After the barley harvest in May, the two Zheng Chu men did not collect any taxes, and the people of the village received enough food to feed them. Textile factories, brick kiln factories, pottery factories, iron factories and wood factories were opened in the village, and these many factories needed workers, and the pay was very good, especially for the women who went to the textile factories and worked there, and they earned five gold dollars a month, and they could support a family with this wage alone. As long as one person in a family worked in a factory to earn a wage, they could purchase items that they could not have hoped for before. Especially after the brick kiln factory fired bricks and tiles, all the people in the village hoped to convert their houses into spacious, tall and solid brick houses.
Nambu village old people and children are all counted in, the whole village is not 2,000 thousand people, eligible to enter the factory labor force is only more than 800 people, the few embryonic factory recruited more than 400 people, the remaining more than 400 labor force to take care of more than 2,000 acres of farmland seems to be very strenuous, not to mention that the dock where there is a need for a large number of drudgery, nowadays the Nambu dock transport volume than two months ago tripled, the foreign businessmen who come to the Nambu monthly The number of foreign merchants coming to Nanbu is increasing every month. After only three or four months of development, Nambu is facing a labor shortage.
Tianhu Tianbao came to work in Nambu in early March, began to build water conservancy, water conservancy construction, participated in the construction of brick kiln factory, Nambu village to give them pay is to eat and bring back a day of rations, Tianhu Tianbao family rely on this hard labor through the spring and summer of the green.
In April and May, it rained several times in the Dacheng area, alleviating the drought in the area. If the landlord in Houpo was a feudal lord like Zheng Chu, who did not care about the tax, the harvest in the land would still be able to let Tian Hu and Tian Bao's family make a living. However, the landlord had no choice but to reduce the tax with the Ulsan King last year, and he realized that he had lost a lot. This year, because of the good harvest, the Ulsan King did not reduce the tax, and of course, the landlord refused to voluntarily sacrifice the interests of his family, and the tax of Houpo Village was then restored to the level of the previous years. After the villagers of Houpo Village paid their grain, only one-fifth of the villagers had enough food left at home to last until the second half of the grain harvest.
The Tian brothers, who had worries, continued to work in Nanbu to earn food, and many young and strong people in Houpo gradually followed them to work in Nanbu. Zheng Yuming was happy to see this situation. After the spring grain harvest, Dacheng's slave market supply is drastically reduced, as long as there is a mouth to feed, no one wants to leave their homeland to sell themselves into slavery, the south port and the valley will face the problem of insufficient labor force, there is an influx of young and strong young adults from the surrounding villages, which just supplements the labor shortcomings of the development of the south port.
In order to attract villagers from Houpo village to work in Nambu, Zheng Yuming set a salary standard for them, as a porter at the pier, they can have an income of 3 or 4 gold a month, and if they work elsewhere, their monthly income will not be less than 2 gold. As for the highest-paying textile factory, Zheng Yuming didn't use female workers from outside Nambu village, firstly, the textile technology has to be kept secret, and secondly, the scale of the textile factory is not too big, so the women from Nambu's own villages can't all be placed in it, and many of them who weren't employed in the textile factory ran to Wu Da's house to find his wife to request to be in the factory every now and then.
Wu Da's wife is now the supervisor of the textile factory. Wu's wife learned from Zheng Yuming that two months later the textile factory will be expanded, by that time all the women in Nambu village into the factory can not meet the production needs, and immediately to the door to the request of the women to make a package, to ensure that these women two months later can also be earned every month also on the five gold, to become the family only to work, what chores can be done without the textile workers. The women textile workers spend twelve hours in the factory, of which only half an hour is for eating and resting, and the rest of the eleven and a half hours must be spent on the machines. Women textile workers go home very tired, because of their high income, these women workers after work, the family do not want them to do anything, to home can enjoy the treatment of food to the mouth.
Zheng Yuming temporary office in the textile factory, textile factory periphery has built a high wall to block, from the village to the textile factory, you must go along the pier embankment to the south, Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong rode two white horses past the pier, the pier has been unloading the ship, the Tianjia cousins are there to carry the straw bag. The straw bags were filled with cotton and hemp silk, the raw materials needed for the textile factory.
"Good morning my lord!" Tian Hu saw Zheng Yuming's flowery white horse riding over and immediately saluted after putting the straw bag on the ground. Because of these two good people, his mother did not send the mountain, the family can eat a lot of food, grateful Tian Hu, as long as you see Zheng Yuming, always grab in front of the salute.
"Good morning, Tian Hu!" Zheng Yuming nodded towards this back slope youth, back slope to walk to Nangbu to more than an hour, this Tian Hu and his cousin Tian Bao, every day before dawn to Nangbu dock, after the close of work to go back against the moon, every day's midday meal is the home of the old mother to do the dry food. Looking at such a willingness to bear hardships and stand hard work of young people, who would not have thought that they had taken the risk to do robbery.
"My lord!" The ship's owner who was standing on the shore overseeing the drudgery of the removal hurried over. "My lord, please stay!"
"East Master Qi, what is it?" Zheng Yuming reined in his horse, he knew this ship owner.
This boat owner is a native of Chu, is a cotton cloth peddler, rely on the purchase of green cloth from the city of Dacheng to sell back to Chu to earn the difference in price for a living, since the Wu Mu monopolized the Nambu to Chu cloth business, his green cloth trafficking business has been in a downfall, as opposed to the same price of high-quality cloth in Nambu, the Chu people who would abandon the green cloth to choose the cloth in Nambu. This was the end of this peddler's business.
"My lord, the price of cotton and linen in Chu has increased, if it continues to increase, I will not be able to buy cotton and linen for my lord anymore." Qi surnamed shipowner is full of sorrow, after the cut off of the road of trafficking in cloth, he saw Wu Mu every time from the Chu back with a full load of cotton and hemp raw materials, inquired about the price of cotton and hemp in the two places, Qi surnamed merchant rejoiced, according to the difference between the price of cotton and hemp in the Chu and Wu land, the return to Chu to buy cotton and hemp to sell to the south port than he sells green cloth profits are large, this news for him, is simply a dark and bright and a village.
Red-hot cotton and linen raw materials business has only been done for two months, Chudi cotton and linen in this half a month up one-fifth, such a rise, fast to the cotton and linen raw materials profit margins up.
"Has cotton and hemp risen aggressively recently?" After having Chu's cotton and flax supplied to the textile mills for production, Zheng Yuming stopped purchasing in Dacheng, allowing the price of cotton and flax in Dacheng to return to its original position. Zheng Yuming didn't want to stimulate the farmers in Dacheng to plow cotton and flax.
"Now is very fierce, when the new cotton flax up, the price will not fall to the original position." Chu Di's cotton because of textile technology reasons, planting area is not much, but it is flax planting widely a little.
"Chudi this time the price increase by the weaving factory to bear, you are still in the future for the acquisition of cotton and hemp raw materials for the South Port, South Port will not let you suffer." Zheng Yuming contemplated for a while, decisively raised the purchase price, Chu cotton and hemp price increase is not a bad thing, see the planting of cotton and hemp earnings are very large, Chu land will expand the planting area, this situation is Zheng Yuming happy to see. Nambu cloth profits against the sky, raw materials quadruple all right.
"Thank you, my lord! I will definitely acquire more raw materials for Your Excellency." The shipowner surnamed Qi smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits, his profits were back.
Located in the northern part of the village of Nambu textile factory, is built in front of the river, the source of this creek is the south mountain of the valley, the creek is fast-flowing, from south to north to Nambu and into the Yangtze River. The textile factory has five large waterwheels, there are a dozen mud factories, mud factories full of textile machines and jacquard machines, female workers come to work at six o'clock every day. In winter, the women's working hours are shortened by two hours. The different working hours in winter and summer are the result of the lack of cheap lighting in this time and place. The textile mills can't run night shifts.
Mud factory not far from the open space, has played two rows of foundations, there will be covered with tall brick houses, the textile workshop later moved to the brick houses. Outside the factory wall is built with bricks, Zheng Yuming code calculated to expand later, the wall enclosure area is very large.
Nambu village in addition to the textile factory walls are brick masonry, other masonry used only iron and wood factory, Zheng Yuming's own office in the textile factory is still mud house. Textile factory office is only temporary, the village center, Wu Da has organized manpower to Zheng Chu two people to build residence, estimated to the autumn grain harvest, Zheng Chu two people in the Nambu governor's house can be completed.
Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, Peng Fu, the house servant of Wu Da Clan, ran out from the communication room to open the gate for Zheng Yuming. After the women workers entered the factory at six o'clock, the textile factory gate would be closed.
The textile factory is the most important tool for making money in Nambu, and at night the village sends five people on duty to patrol the factory, and Wu Da even sends the family servants, Peng and his wife, to guard the door.
"Second brother, come have a sip of green bean soup." Wu Da's wife stood at the office with a smile and waved towards Zheng Yuming, and beside her, Wu Feng poked his head out from behind his mother and smiled coyly towards Zheng Yuming before stepping out and saluting, "Uncle!"
"Thank you sister-in-law!" Zheng Yuming took the green bean soup in the hands of Wu wife and drank it all in one go, and patted Wu Feng, who followed his mother to the textile factory every day, and when Zheng Yuming had spare time, he instructed Wu Feng to read and learn arithmetic. "Where is big brother?" Zheng Yuming handed the empty bowl to Mrs. Peng.
"Your big brother went to the brick kiln factory early in the morning to keep an eye on the bricks." Wu's wife answered Zheng Yuming while making a bowl of wheat tea for him. Wu Da was very attached to the construction of his two sworn brothers' mansions.
Knowing Wu's couple has been five months, to this day Zheng Yuming do not know what Wu's wife's last name is called, many people in this time and space often only have a last name, no first name. Such as Gongsun smith, only last name, because the industry is a smith, only have a name called smith. And women, mostly at home from the father's surname, to the husband's family from the husband's surname.
Wu's wife can not read and write, but know how to count, memory is also superb, management of the textile factory to be well organized. The largest number of workers in the textile factory, but the management is the best of several factories, Wu's wife for Zheng Yuming, is an unexpected management personnel.
"Big brother also don't labor too much, in the future there will be more and more things, don't do everything yourself." Wu Da, compared to his wife, could only be a businessman, not an entrepreneur, he was too fond of taking care of big things and small things together.
"Your brother feels energized today." Wu's wife couldn't help but purse her lips as she thought of her husband. Every day before Wu Da went to bed, he would mutter to his wife about the family's income. Wu Da had shares in several factories in Nambu, and today's textile factories had a profit of 80,000 or 90,000 gold a month, and Wu Da could share three percent of it, which was more than 2,000 gold in income every month. One month was the income Wu Da had made in the previous ten years.
"In the future, all cotton and hemp raw materials delivered to the factory will have their prices raised by one-fifth." Shipowner Xu would immediately deliver to the factory, and Zheng Yuming hastened to tell Wu's wife that the purchase price had been raised.
"Still only acquiring raw materials outside of Wu?" Wu's wife looked at Zheng Yuming in desire to speak.
"Yes, all cotton and linen raw materials around Dacheng are not accepted." Zheng Yuming nodded.
"Second brother, why would you prefer to buy cotton and hemp from abroad at a high price and not from Dacheng?" To follow Wu's wife's idea, if cloth and silk were so lucrative, the Nambu villages should all switch to cotton and hemp.
"Nowadays there are always deserts, we have to take care of our stomachs first." Textile is very lucrative, but stimulate to da city are going to plant cotton and hemp, not planting food is not good, to have any war or around the food-producing areas of the great shortage, no food da city will only be the first place to collapse.
"Oh, so!" Wu's wife bowed her head in deep thought. She kind of understood, but more than that, she still didn't.