White sugar is the number one money bag in Xian Ruxing's hand. So in order to ensure a certain degree of secrecy, the factory has a very large area. There are places for white sugar processing and employee dormitories.
According to regulations, two rooms can be provided for each worker for free. If a family member wants to move in, the rest will have to be rented by themselves, but the rent is also very cheap.
Several people followed the gravel road and walked in. They almost reached the innermost point. Suddenly, Liu Xiuzhi covered his nose and frowned and said, "What's so smelly."
Zheng Yao ignored her and continued to lead the way until she opened the two huge doors. The three of them saw clearly the scene inside.
I saw several large buckets that were tall on the empty ground, and ladders were erected next to the bucket. Many women climbed up and down carefully, stirring them in the bucket with sticks.
On the other side, there were some people kneeling on the stool and constantly scraping something with the chain.
Xu Jie couldn't help but look forward for a while, and then suddenly said, "Is this tanning leather?"
Zheng Yao nodded, “Sister Sister said that winter will get colder in the future, and the preparation of winter clothes must start from now on. Due to manual technical reasons, we will prepare fur clothes in the past two years and sew cotton in two years.
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Because the capital of the Ming Dynasty was in Beijing, and the Little Ice Age was in a huge demand for winter clothes. The Ming Dynasty also absorbed a lot of elements from the previous dynasties in clothing, and leather clothes became the first choice for the upper class. For example, the popular female Bijia
Many of the cares are made of leather.
There are many fur merchants from Liaodong, and Xian Ruxing quickly finalized several suppliers. The commonly used tanning process is vegetable tanning method. People in the Yuan Dynasty extracted the skin and leaves of the plant to soak the leather and soak the leather
, at least soak it for a month, so that the fur can become clean and soft. However, Xian Ruxing certainly cannot take such an inefficient method, because in the sugar factory, lime water can be replaced with calcium hydroxide solution, and the effect is more
Not to mention it, and it was almost done in three or four days.
Because most of the workers in the sugar factory would bring their families in, their wives wanted to find a living plan when they had nothing to do in their spare time, Xian Ruxing took advantage of the situation to start the fur business.
Since we have to deal with the broken and rotten meat and have to climb up and down to tannate leather, the job is naturally very hard, so all the women who come and go are wearing shorts and shorts, with their sleeves rolled up high, revealing most of their arms.
, in this era, it is definitely bold and bold.
At this time, a few women saw them and immediately pushed the cart to find Zheng Yao to check the newly tanned fur.
Liu Xiuzhi turned his head and said a little uncomfortable: "Do not look at what is wrong with it, it is so concise in broad daylight."
"Physical?" Zheng Yao sneered: "Young Master Liu, these women rely on their own hands to support their families and have made mistakes, right? Even if they are outside, their work is not exclusive to you guys, let alone my senior sister said, we
Here, men and women have to participate in labor."
While picking out the unqualified products selflessly, she continued: "Also, you taught me to be kind to others before, but this is my job. My senior sister will be worthy of her if she gives me this task.
If you have to deceive the superiors and conceal the subordinates, wouldn’t it behave like those corrupt officials among the people?”
"You..." Liu Xiuzhi couldn't imagine that he was just kind enough to remind the other party but cursed people like this, and his face turned red with anger.
Xu Jie quickly advised: "Forget it, such a small matter would not be enough, Master Zheng didn't mean that either."
Zheng Yao looked at him and suddenly laughed disdainfully, "That's what I mean, you know who is right and who is wrong, what are you mixed in the middle? As his friend, he doesn't even have the courage to help him correct his mistakes in person.
, I will take the imperial examination and become an official in the future, and I don’t know what my senior sister likes you.”
Xu Jie was stunned for a long time, sighed, and bowed to Zheng Yao, "Master Zheng is right, I'm here to be taught."
Zheng Yao rolled her eyes and finished the work in her hands. At this time, a few bells rang out from afar, and the women put down their work and walked west.
"It's time for lunch. Come with me, senior sister may be in the cafeteria too."
The two of them were just being criticized in turn, and now it was just the time to be sad, but Zheng Yao didn't care about that. After all, she didn't even pay much attention to Zhengde when she saw him in the Leopard Room, so she raised her legs and left.
Seeing this, Xu Jie and Liu Xiuzhi hurriedly followed. When they arrived at the cafeteria, the two were shocked again.
"You even use glass windows for dining?" Liu Xiuzhi couldn't help but estimate how much it would cost.
Zheng Yao stood on tiptoe and looked around for a while, and immediately noticed that a piece in the center was obviously empty, and there was a slender woman in a blue Taoist robe talking to the people around her with a smile.
"Senior Sister!" Zheng Yao suddenly laughed, but unlike her usual sneer, she could see her sincere joy now.
The woman looked up and looked in the sound. A beautiful and beautiful face appeared in front of everyone.
Xu Jie and Liu Xiuzhi stayed there. They had heard that Xian Ruxing was not old, but they didn't expect that they would look like this. However, they had just been stabbed by Zheng Yao, so they didn't dare to show any abnormality. They just obediently
Follow behind.
Xian Ruxing was always quick and could tell that the atmosphere between the few people was not right at the right time, but he didn't say much, and he smiled and asked them to sit down.
Zheng Yao respectfully reported to him about his recent work, and the focus was on the sugar factory: "We have recently upgraded our equipment, and the sugar produced has become better and better. The guys are working very quickly, so I have a few
No problems were found in the random inspection. But the quality of sugar is so good. I heard from Senior Sister Zhao that the income is still the same as the money, and it has not increased at all. Why is this?"
"The market is saturated," Xian Ruxing shook her head. The Ming Dynasty had only so many people. If you want to make a little more effort, you have to go to sea. At least you have to open up the Silk Road on the road. I don't know how things are going on in Senas.
, Central Asia is also a big sugar-eating household.
Xian Ruxing pondered for a long time until he heard a roar.
Liu Xiuzhi covered his stomach embarrassedly. He didn't eat much because he was too excited in the morning. Now he is in the cafeteria, the fragrance is rushing into his nose and immediately can't help it.
"Oh, it's my negligence. Junior Sister Zheng, you take this young master to get food first. I just happened to have something to say to Mr. Xu." Xian Ruxing apologized.
Zheng Yao nodded and pulled Liu Xiuzhi away from here.
After only Xian Ruxing and Xu Jie were left, the surroundings suddenly became deserted.
"Mr. Xu, I heard you always want to see me?" Xian Ruxing spoke first and said warmly to Xu Jie, who was obviously nervous.
"Yes, yes." Xu Jie swallowed his saliva, "For a long time, I have always had a question in my heart. Now that I have arrived in the capital, I remember all the experiences and experiences about the real person along the way. I think the real person can answer them for me."
"Oh?" Xian Ruxing was intrigued and leaned on the table with her arms crossed, "Let's talk, but if it's an imperial examination, I can't help you."
"It's not an imperial examination," Xu Jie quickly denied that because he went to Beijing to take the exam, he was naturally worried that others would say that he was competing with the powerful because of his dating with Xian Ruxing.
After organizing the language in his heart, Xu Jie said slowly: "I believe the real person also knows that I am Nie Bao's disciple and the descendant of the Xinxue School."
As a school of Confucianism, the study of mind was barely able to compete with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song Dynasty. However, in the Ming Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism became an official designated doctrine, and most of the court were disciples of Neo-Confucianism, and the academic atmosphere was extremely dull.
It was not until Wang Shouren's appearance that there was an opportunity to break this phenomenon. At this time, Mr. Yangming was already fifty years old. His theory of mind learning was basically completed. He is now teaching at Jishan Academy in his hometown, and he plans to set up an academy to spread mind learning.
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"At the beginning of the year, the master's father died of illness, so he is now filial to his hometown and cannot get out at all. I told the real person before that he could help recommend it, but it actually has an exaggeration." Xu Jie said carefully.
"It's okay, I'll talk about this later." Xian Ruxing smiled and shook his head, seeing that Xu Jie did have part of the reason for Wang Shouren, but in fact, she also wanted to see the prime minister who called the wind and rain in the late Jiajing period in history.
Xu Jie thanked Xian Ruxing for a large number of adults, and then said, "To be honest, when I first came into contact with the study of mind, I was very excited. My master's "unity of knowledge and action" was simply about the heart. It is to be honest,
My father is also a man in the officialdom. Although he is just a small official, I followed him and have met those stupid people who only talk about the great truths but are actually mediocre. Among them, there are many who have read the books of sages, and I have once been
I think the reason why they did this must be because they learned the wrong truth."
"Later, I came into contact with some disciples of Xinxue with my master. Although they were better than those stupid people before, they seemed to be different in nature. The real person may not know that in fact, many people in the coastal areas were secretly reselling the things you produced, and many of them were doing so.
People have secretly sold sugar perfume and other things to foreign merchants."
"Those foreign businessmen could have a comfortable life, but they still ran around on boats. A few years ago, the Franchise man came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they occupied a lot of territory by sailing. I didn't understand why these people were.
I was inexplicably very irritable and asked Master specifically. The Master only told me that there is nothing outside my heart. If I don’t look at it, these things will not exist. But is this really the case?"
Xu Jie looked at Xian Ruxing with confusion in his eyes, "After seeing the real person, I think you are very similar to those Franchise people. Now the court says that you are just a businessman, but why?
It is a world that is constantly changing and changing every day.”