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295. Cashmere workshop

Just when Luo Yong was worried about how to increase the number of household registration, the caravan of the Zhao family in Zhengzhou came to Changle County, and they also came with Luo Erniang.

The day Luo Erniang and the others entered the city, many Changle people gathered around the streets, watching the carriages lined up in long queues on this not-so-spacious street.

These carriages are rarely used to carry people. Most of the Zhao family's ladies rode horses and were loaded on the carriages. They are said to be all copper coins and silk, and they were brought by Luo Erniang from Liangzhou City to give them gifts to the magistrate of Luo County.

Previously, their county magistrate refunded taxes to those unemployed households, and they also gave food to families with difficulty in winter. Many people in the city were worried that he had no money. This winter, this city wall is probably difficult to repair. Now it seems that they are over-concerned. Their county magistrate Luo is not only rich, but his sister seems to be richer than him.

Luo Erniang is indeed very rich. In recent years, he has bought many real estate in Liangzhou City and got the nickname of Luo Bancheng, which is quite similar to the name of Luo Yong's coffin board.

Ernie doesn’t know how to invest. In recent years, she always makes money, she uses it to buy real estate. At first, someone joked about her courageousness. Nowadays, those people are so envious that they even have their eyes red.

"Why has it been half a year since I arrived in Changle County? Is it still so thin?" After Luo Erniang, who is known as Luobancheng, came to Changle County, he helped Luo use them to make up for sewing, wash and rinse them every day, and often cook some delicious food with them.

At the end of last winter, when Luo Yong and they passed by Liangzhou City, Er Niang felt sorry for him to be too thin and even came to Changle County. After his life stabilized, the situation would improve. Unexpectedly, he would still be so thin when he met.

"You are young, you don't look good when you are fat." Luo Yong squatted at the edge of the ditch under the porch, dipped it in clean water from the basin with a brush, and carefully washed the pair of leather boots he had worn today.

The two days ago, it turned out that workshops were being built on the wasteland northwest of the city. Luo Yong's disciples were there, and there were so many officials in the county. He himself didn't need to worry about everything, but only went there occasionally to take a look.

"What's the point of getting fatter? You've been hurt once. You have to pay more attention than others on weekdays." Luo Erniang was sitting in the corridor with a gray leather hat sewn.

In addition to collecting cashmere, her cashmere workshop sometimes also contains some sheepskin and wolf skin. The hat he is sewing now uses a piece of gray wolf skin, and he chose the thickest and softest fur on his neck and chest.

Luo Erniang was sewing a hat while talking to Luo Yong: "Earlier, my sister wrote to me that in the Guangdefang where they opened a shop, there was an official who was not ashamed. When those people were clamoring to stop your official position last year, he also started a teahouse in the south. This year, their family also opened a teahouse in the south..."

"She said something to you?" Luo Yong quickly changed the subject, for fear that she would get angry the more she talked about and would lose her good mood again.

"She also said that she has a few good players." Erniang smiled and said as Luo Yong said: "Recently, many businesses in Chang'an City are preparing to open branch districts in Su Yang and other places. She also plans to divide a few people to open branches there. Su Yang and other places are already rich in silk, and now tea is added, and many people are optimistic about the prospects there."

"Then is she not going to be with the Ma family this time?" This is the first time Luo Yong has heard of this.

"I heard from my sister that the newly opened shops in the south of the Ma family are mostly in small places, mainly to collect tea. She has been operating in Chang'an City for many years and has also met some merchants. This time she went to Suyang and other places with those people, so she would not be able to make any mistakes." Luo Erniang said everything she knew.

"But it's decided?" Luo Yong said with concern.

"No, there are still some people who are undecided among them. After all, Su Yang and other places are quite far from Chang'an City." Erniang said.

"..." Luo Yong was a little worried. If the aunt calculated based on her actual age this year, she would only be twenty-three years old.

Er Niang saw his thoughts, so she comforted her: "When she wrote to you next time, she would say that you don't need to worry about her. My sister has always had an idea. She told me before that although the Zhao family is good, she should not rely on them in everything. Although it is convenient for others, it will inevitably be blocked by some vision and miss some opportunities. I also think this is the reason. Now most of the guards of my cashmere workshop have been replaced by the people I hired, some are from Liangzhou City, and some are herders whom I had asked me to sell cashmere before. They are people I think I can trust."

Luo Yong turned around and looked at his sister. Luo Erniang was twenty-one years old this year, one year older than Luo Yong. The two of them were about the same age as the aunt, both of whom were only one or two years apart. Si Niang was younger, and she was five years younger than Luo Yong, and she was only fifteen this year.

Luo Yong is not the oldest in his family, but he always treats the aunt and the second daughter as little girls. One of them went to Liangzhou City and the other to Chang'an City. Luo Yong also tried his best to find protection for them, but he never thought that they would feel that they were bound by this protection.

Luo Yong used to think that among his brothers and sisters, Si Niang should be the most aggressive and capable of working hard, and the aunt and second wife should be a little conservative. Now it seems that he was wrong at the beginning.

It is a good thing for the aunt and second wife to want to be independent. Only by getting rid of the mentality of relying on others can we thrive and have the possibility of becoming a strong man. Even if we lose Luo Yong's solid backing one day in the future, they can rely on their own strength to survive and develop in this world.

This time, Luo Erniang came to Changle County. In addition to visiting Luo Yong, there was another very important thing, that is, she planned to open a cashmere workshop here.

With his unique sweater knitting technology and his reputation as a perfect person, Luo Erniang has always had a good business in the cashmere workshop in Liangzhou City. Even in the past two years, news that other workshops can weave cashmere sweaters and pants have been reported in Chang'an and other places, but it still cannot stop Luo Erniang's workshop's business from getting better and better.

Nowadays, whether in Chang'an, Luoyang, Suzhou, Yangzhou and other places, when cashmere sweaters are mentioned, almost everyone knows this cashmere workshop in Luo Erniang, Liangzhou.

In the past two years, wearing cashmere sweaters has become a very common thing in many places. As more and more people accept this new thing, new markets are still opening up. Luo Erniang's cashmere workshop in Liangzhou City has long been in short supply.

Luo Erniang has been considering whether to open a branch workshop in the Jiuquan area of ​​Zhangye. Now Luo Yong has been demoted from Chang'an City and came to Changle County to become a county, so she decided to open the workshop in Changle County.

Changle County is now headed by Luo Yong. This cashmere workshop is open here, so it will naturally have many conveniences. Moreover, the impact of such a cashmere workshop on the local economy cannot be underestimated.

In the northwest of the city, Luo Yong first chose the largest and best place for his sister. This is not only because Luo Erniang is his sister, but also as the magistrate of Changle County, he attaches importance to this cashmere workshop.

On the other hand, the house had not been repaired yet, Luo Yong and Luo Erniang started recruiting people early.

Except for a few guards, the rest of the cashmere workshop only has female workers. The treatment of female workers is the same as that in Liangzhou City. Ordinary workers who pick cashmere and spin wool are also responsible for food and accommodation, and their wages are piece-based. If they can be selected to learn how to knit sweaters and sign a long-term contract with the workshop, they can get seventy cents a month and four seasons of clothes. If they are well done, they will often have bonuses.

Such treatment is considered a good choice in Changle County. A woman who is not regarded as the main labor force in the family does not have to eat and wear the family. She can still earn a lot of money every month. After the contract period is over, she can still have a skill to keep her husband alone. Who doesn’t want her daughter to learn this?

So in the past two days, the business of the cloth shops in the city suddenly became prosperous, and many families were cutting new clothes for their daughters.

These people all want to dress up the girls at home cleanly and decently, hoping that they will be selected by the cashmere workshop in the future and become female clothes weaving workers.

"Dad, please call me. I heard that if I were chosen by Na Luo Erniang and learned to knit sweaters, I would have 70 cents a month!" In a herdsman's home outside the pass, the daughter of this family always said that she would work in the cashmere workshop in Changle County in the past two days.

"Your father told you that the boy from the Qin family is going to get married in a while. Why do you say you want to work in a cashmere workshop? You should stay at home with peace of mind. Don't make your father angry anymore." Her mother sighed.

"Dad, just let me go to the cashmere workshop to work. I don't want to marry the boy from the Qin family. You know that I have been hardworking and skillful than others since I was a child. Those Han girls are not as good as me. I will be selected and earn seventy cents back every month."

"You can use this money to buy salt, cloth, and make new clothes for your younger brothers. With this money, even in the coldest winter, no one in our family will starve to death."

Perhaps this last sentence touched the male owner of the family, and the girl from the herdsman family was finally allowed to work in the cashmere workshop in the inner city.
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