Manpower is tight

In Dunhuafangzheng, Xuanyi Lang Lu Jiasheng, with his belly gradually bulging, brought Lu Feijia to the door carrying several beef heart persimmons.

Fan Zheng couldn't help but joke: "The sun rises from the west today? Do you, Lu Jiasheng, also give gifts?"

This is really not a joke. Lu Jiasheng, who is afraid of poverty, is very careful about money. Whether it is the public money in the workshop or the income and expenditure of each workshop, he is just as obsessed with his own small money. Fortunately, everyone in Dunhua Fang

The workshop basically means that the emperor's daughter doesn't have to worry about getting married.

Uh, that's wrong. Throughout the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's daughter was also worried about getting married. Who gave Princess Yongjia a bad start?

Although there is a suspicion of overturning a boat with a stick, the fact is that princesses with good conduct such as Princess Xiangcheng are simply ignored by the world. Of course, Princess Xiangcheng's jokes sound more enjoyable.

Lu Jiasheng rolled his eyes, full of disdain: "Shangguan Mo's old peacock spreads his wings - I'm so sentimental, this persimmon cake is not for you, right? This is a specialty that Fan Baili always invites Lu Feijia to eat duck and duck, and Lu Feijia invites him to taste it.

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It's not that we have a very close relationship, so we don't have the right to speak like this.

Fan Zheng didn't pay much attention to this. Anyway, no matter what you say, I'll definitely eat this persimmon cake!

Persimmon cakes are more delicious than fresh persimmons, less astringent and sweeter.

Wei Wuji brought out some homemade thousand-layer pancakes, also known as shortbread pancakes in later generations, and Fan Baili immediately greeted Lu Jiasheng to eat them.

In this regard, Fan Baili is very generous and will never show grudges to anyone he likes.

However, people with supercilious looks can never hope to get a bite of food from Fan Baili.

"Stay here, there's beef soup to eat." Fan Baili showed off to Lu Feijia in a low voice.

Lu Feijia swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Lu Feijia could often eat chicken, duck, pork, and even mutton, but he couldn't eat beef, so he had to hear its name.

Lu Jiasheng threatened Fan Baili: "I killed officials for a year and a half. Are you not afraid of being a servant?"

Fan Baili chuckled: "Uncle, please don't coax me, the oxen will not count."

Lu Jiasheng grabbed a thousand-layer pancake and gnawed it, then pointed at Fan Zheng: "You want Fan Baili to know the rules from an early age!"

Fan Zheng laughed: "There is no way, there are too many evil people, and there are many people who regard deer as horses, so we can only rely on laws and regulations."

Of course, Lu Jiasheng was not just chatting with Fan Zheng, there was still something to discuss.

On the other side of Weiqu, Wei Siyan personally went to Dunhuafang to talk about the sale of Dunhua paper in Shandong. Even though Lu Jiasheng was a little bit brooding about the past, he could only talk about the matter.

The quantity must be large and the price must be higher. There is no need to discuss these normal operations with Fan Zheng.

"However, if the Shandong line is really opened, Dunhua Paper Mill will need to add at least three more barrels and three floating ponds, and at least double the raw materials."

"This is not the main problem. Anyway, the director named Wu Mazhu said that bamboo can still be supplied in large quantities. The key is that, including women and middle-aged men, manpower is still tight, and most of the cement workshop's manpower has to be withdrawn.

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This is the disadvantage after reaching a large scale. Manpower is never enough. If you rely entirely on the manpower in the workshop, you will simply not be able to meet the demand.

"Well, in the future, all workshops, except the wine shop, will be gradually opened up, allowing people from Qinglongfang to fill the vacancies. Only the key positions must be controlled by the old people from Dunhuafang."

There is nothing we can do about it. I am afraid that in the future not only the residents of Qinglong Fang, but also the residents of Lizhengfang next door will have to be recruited.

No way, the geographical relationship, coupled with the relationship between Tie Xiaozhuang's wife Gao Yue'e, will have to be eased sooner or later.

However, whoever dominates and who follows should be careful.

Recruit people and recruit people, no one wants to play tricks in Dunhuafang. The stick skills learned by Lu Jiasheng and Fan Zheng are very easy to use. Plus, with the pressure of official status, who wants to rebel?

By the way, the stubborn Yan Sanshun finally ran into a wall outside. Knowing that it was not so easy to hang out outside, he thought about it when he went home and simply prepared some simple meals such as cakes and soup cakes for each workshop.

Things are booming.

Although Yan Sanshun complained a little about Fan Zheng because of Yan's little wife, it was not an irreverent incident after all.

Life was getting better, and Old Man Yan easily arranged a marriage for him. The lady from Lizhengfang next door had been discharged from the widowhood, she was twenty-three, she had no children to burden her, and she was beautiful.

This aspect of the Tang Dynasty was very good. It did not insist on keeping any moral integrity. It was perfectly normal to remarry and remarry, and no one would discriminate.

Yan Sanshun's eyebrows were filled with joy, and his opinion of Fan Zheng had long been forgotten.

He never thought that he was also a Cao thief.

Yan's little lady, we are destined to be together, so we can only meet each other as passers-by.

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"Your Majesty, is there anything wrong? I am at Sinong Temple now, not at the Yushitai!"

In the Taiji Hall, Fan Zheng was a little anxious.

You don’t want me to have a few days of free time at Director Jingyuan, right?

I just pouted the wheat and delivered it to the Taicang Department. You want me to go to Jingzhou Quai County (chún gū)?

This place name, wow, the homophony is so interesting.

Li Shimin was helpless: "However, there is a big chaos in Quaigu County. The people in the city block the county government office all day long, and the Jingzhou Zhechong Prefecture is almost unable to suppress it."

Fan Zheng chuckled: "Your Majesty has found the wrong person, hasn't he? Supervisor Yushi Qiu Shenji has always been decisive in doing things; Tianshui County Duke Qiu Xinggong, if he eats two more hearts, why can't he be decisive?"

This eye medicine was said to be fair and aboveboard, even if Qiu Shenji was outside the temple, he would do nothing.

Li Shimin smiled bitterly: "His tricks can't be put on the stage. The trouble in Quaigu County is that the criminal Shen Xiaomao, who was already in the county jail and executed according to the law, showed up in the county town and harmed a girl.

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"The outraged people did not do anything for five days and demanded justice from the county government every day."

No need to say any more.

If Quaigu County could provide justice, it would have been done long ago. Why is it so embarrassing?

Fan Zheng even estimated that this mess had little to do with Quaigu County, otherwise the Quaigu County magistrate would have had to find a scapegoat.

"It's impossible to check. I'm just a junior member of the fifth rank, which is only a little higher than Quai Guling. But Jingzhou is Shangzhou, and the governor is a junior rank of the third rank. I'm not even qualified to speak."

The number of households in Shangzhou was 40,000, which was the standard in the Tianbao year. It was not that high in the Zhenguan year, and 10,000 households was about the same.

In Jingzhou, which has 8,773 households, and its geographical location guarding the capital, it is normal for the salary to be higher.

"Do you think so badly of the local officials of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin's eyes flashed with a dangerous light.

Fan Zheng sighed: "Human nature is evil, and the good ones are hypocritical. Your Majesty, I am not young anymore and have a wife and children. I must act for their sake and do not dare to take risks easily."

Liu Rengui snorted in his nostrils but said nothing.

He is really talkative, and if Fan Zheng promotes himself, many things will happen.

If Shen Xiaohao dares to be so unscrupulous, of course there is a huge force behind him.

As Fan Zheng said, he is no longer young. Back then, he was so enthusiastic that he beat Lu Ning to death, but now he has to think twice.
Chapter completed!