A large amount of manpower flocked to Zhenguo Mansion, but what made everyone and even Sun Qi stunned happened.

The manpower recruited by Zhenguo Mansion was like using sea water to quench thirst, and the more he drank, the more he became thirsty. Hundreds and thousands of people poured in every day, not only did not alleviate the problem of manpower, but also had a tendency to become more and more intense.

It's like a ghost.

In fact, in essence, the prosperity of Zhenguo Mansion, in addition to being the monopoly workshop of Zhenguo Mansion, is essentially due to internal needs.

The greater this demand is beyond everyone's expectations. The more craftsmen and apprentices, the more people's lifestyles have changed drastically. With salary, they have the ability to buy and have purchasing power. Because the pace of life has accelerated, they cannot solve the problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation by themselves. In the past, people farmed, cooked themselves, sewed their clothes by themselves, and traveled by walking. After all, one is that they have no money, and the other is that their time is not precious, so they can spend a few hours to go east and west of the city, and they can let their wives spend several months cutting a new piece of clothing. They can leisurely, but they do all kinds of useless work.

No one can tell the reason for the good or bad life in the past, but for generations, everyone lived like this, so even the wealthy families were just riding in sedan chairs. But now, time has begun to become expensive, and the workshop has been going on since early and it will not take a break day and night. In this way, these tens of thousands of craftsmen and apprentices have flowed into the "market".

So they converted their salary, that is, nearly three million taels of silver every year, into food, clothing, housing and transportation, and three million taels of silver. This is such a big market. It is precisely because of this that various shops came into being. Shops require manpower and countless workers. In this way, the small town government is no longer just tens of thousands of craftsmen and apprentices, including footwork, coolies, coachmen, bartenders, merchants, even artists who play tricks, as well as craftsmen, mud and water, and even various boatmen at the docks. There are tens of thousands of people, and most of them have a higher standard of living than nearby places. Many people have a stable income. If they want to supply these people, they need countless cloths, countless rice and white flour, and countless various daily necessities.

So many small workshops rose from the ground, some weaving cloths and some dyeing workshops. These people are no longer just ordinary farmers, but they are definitely not rich people. In this way, the extended industries are completely different.

Ordinary farmers or poor people in the city consume almost no goods, while the things they use are often meticulously crafted. Therefore, most of the families who supply such people are skilled craftsmen. They may spend several months making an Eight Immortals table, a year and a half to make a screen, or a month to carve a jade pendant.

However, the newly born craftsman class is completely different. They have consumption needs, but they cannot absorb those extremely expensive consumer goods, so they often settle for the second best. However, if they make such consumer goods manually, they are often expensive, which leads to the favor of whoever has the lowest product and can maintain the price to the lowest price while ensuring that it can be used.

This is the driving force behind the birth of a small workshop. Large-scale production. Even if the machinery cannot be improved, labor can be collected for division of labor. The division of production in Zhenguo Mansion has given imitators a lot of inspiration. A production process is divided into several details. Each craftsman only needs to do one simple thing. This assembly line production method greatly improves production efficiency today.

Then, the problem arises again. Small workshops are numerous, but they require more labor. The more labor and the more population, the more consumption power it will be. Therefore, more commodities have to be produced to meet the needs of the population and expand production, and manpower is also needed. The same is true for those shops. When the business is good, they naturally need to recruit more employees. More employees have promoted the prosperity of industry and commerce, so...

This is a loop.

Sun Qi was at the China Merchants Association, looking at some of the "business and business" theories that have been born recently. These so-called theories, such as "Theory of Merchant", were mostly written by scholars who were full and full, and seemed to introduce this special phenomenon.

In fact, the entire Zhenguo Mansion had a confused feeling about this phenomenon. Everyone only knew that as if they had money, their lives began to get better and better, and the transactions were getting bigger and bigger, and there was a lack of manpower everywhere. However, no one knew the principle behind it, just like a dream, watching countless buildings rising up.

As for those workshops, generally speaking, they will not appear in other prefectures and counties, because except for the Zhenguo Mansion, other prefectures and counties have too many uncertainties. At least local local officials may not welcome them. If they encounter difficulties from the servants, the merchants will have to manage the money, and the cost will be higher.

Sun Qi began to feel it was difficult. The scale of China Merchants Group was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more things to manage. At this time, he, the big shopkeeper of China Merchants Group, could no longer be seen by ordinary people. Only some extremely important people could meet him for one or two incense sticks.

However, early this morning, Sun Qi put down all the official duties and rushed to Zhenguo Mansion.

He rode a crane carriage and came to the Zhenguo Mansion Building. When he saw his nephew, Sun Qi couldn't help but feel mixed emotions.

It can be said that Sun Qi is in the noisy investment and promotion every day, and he meets many people every day, so busy that he is not stuck in the ground. However, when he comes to the Zhenguo Mansion building, the noise outside seems to be separated, which makes the tranquility here contrast. The Sun family also suddenly understands that his nephew, who is always busy running around, does not like to socialize with others when he is not particularly needed, but rather likes to stay at home.

For people like them who are busy every day, peace is rare.

However, what made him even more moved was that even though they were all in the Zhenguo Mansion, the uncle and nephew were both busy with their own affairs, and they could not be seen many times a year.

He walked into the Zhenguo Mansion Building, and Ye Chunqiu bowed and said, "Uncle."

Sun Qi smiled, but said, "I have met Duke Zhenguo."

Two busy people gathered together at this time and walked towards the Zhenguo Mansion. Ye Chunqiu said, "Uncle, how did the Japanese general's conquering negotiations with his uncle?"
Chapter completed!