Sugar is Xian Ruxing's top purse, so in order to ensure a certain degree of confidentiality, the factory is very large and has a sugar processing place and employee dormitories.
According to regulations, each worker can be provided with two rooms for free. If a large family wants to move in, the rest will have to be rented by themselves, but the rent is very cheap.
A few people walked along the gravel road and almost reached the innermost place. Suddenly, Liu Xiuzhi covered his nose and frowned: "What the hell, it smells so bad."
Zheng Yao ignored her and continued to lead the way. It wasn't until two huge doors were opened that the three of them could clearly see the scene inside.
On the empty ground, there were several large buckets as tall as a man standing. Next to the buckets were ladders. Many women climbed up and down carefully, stirring the buckets with sticks.
On the other side, there were some people kneeling on stools and scratching something with their chains.
Xu Jie couldn't help but stepped forward to observe for a while, and then suddenly said: "Is this tanning leather?"
Zheng Yao nodded, "Senior sister said that winter will get colder and colder in the future. Preparing winter clothes must start now. Due to manpower and technical reasons, fur clothes should be prepared in the past two years, and cotton can be sewn after two years.
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In the Ming Dynasty, because the capital was in Beijing and it coincided with the Little Ice Age, there was a huge demand for winter clothing. The Ming Dynasty also absorbed many elements from the previous dynasties in clothing, and leather coats became the first choice of the upper class. For example, the popular Bijia for women
Protective equipment, many of which are made of leather.
There were many fur traders from Liaodong, and Xian Ruxing quickly identified several suppliers. The commonly used leather tanning process now is vegetable tanning. People in the Yuan Dynasty extracted juice from the skins and leaves of plants and used it to soak the leather.
, it should be soaked for at least a month, so that the fur can become clean and soft. But of course Xian Ruxing cannot adopt such an inefficient method, because there is a lot of lime water in the sugar factory, and it can be replaced with calcium hydroxide solution, which will be more effective.
It's easy to say, and it was almost completed in three or four days.
Because most of the sugar factory workers would bring their families to live there, and their wives had nothing to do on weekdays and wanted to find a job to make a living, so Xian Ruxing took advantage of the situation and started a fur business.
Since you have to deal with animal carrion and climb up and down to tan the leather, this job is naturally very hard, so the women who come and go all wear shorts and shorts, with their sleeves rolled up high, exposing most of their arms. They are dressed like this.
, it is definitely bold and bold in this era.
At this time, several women saw them and immediately pushed their carts over to see Zheng Yao to inspect the newly tanned furs.
Liu Xiuzhi turned his head away and said a little uncomfortably: "Don't look at anything inappropriate, don't look at anything that's inappropriate. What kind of behavior is this in broad daylight?"
"Decent?" Zheng Yao sneered: "Mr. Liu, these women have trouble making money to support their families with their own hands, right? Even outside, working is not exclusive to you men. Besides, my senior sister said, we
Both men and women here have to participate in labor."
While unselfishly picking out unqualified products, she continued: "Also, you taught me to be kind to others before, but this is my job. If my senior sister gives me this task, I have to be worthy of her. If I do this,
If you have to deceive the superiors and conceal everything, isn’t that just like the corrupt officials among the people?”
"You..." Liu Xiuzhi didn't expect that he was just reminding the other person with good intentions, but he was cursing in such a roundabout way, and his face turned red with anger.
Xu Jie quickly advised: "That's all, it's not such a trivial matter, and Taoist Zheng didn't mean that."
Zheng Yao looked at him and suddenly laughed disdainfully, "That's what I mean, you clearly know who is right and who is wrong, why are you arguing in the middle? As his good friend, you don't even have the courage to help him correct his mistakes in person.
, I will take the imperial examination to become an official from now on, I don’t know what my senior sister sees in you."
Xu Jie was stunned for a long time, then sighed and bowed to Zheng Yao, "Taoist Master Zheng is right, I will teach you."
Zheng Yao rolled his eyes and finished the work in his hands. At this time, several bells rang in the distance, and the women put down their work and went out to walk west.
"It's time for lunch. You two, come with me. Senior sister may be in the cafeteria too."
The two of them had just been criticized in turn, and now it was the time to be shy, but Zheng Yao didn't care about that. After all, she didn't even pay much attention to Zhengde when she saw Zhengde in the Leopard Room, and just walked away.
Seeing this, Xu Jie and Liu Xiuzhi quickly followed. When they arrived at the cafeteria, they were shocked again.
"You even use glass windows in the dining area?" Liu Xiuzhi couldn't help but estimate how much it would cost.
Zheng Yao stood on tiptoe and looked around, and immediately noticed that there was a clear space in the middle, and there, a slender woman in a green robe was smiling and talking to the people around her.
"Senior sister!" Zheng Yao laughed immediately, but unlike her usual sneer and sneer, now she could see her sincere joy.
The woman raised her head and looked around, and a beautiful and beautiful face appeared in front of everyone.
Xu Jie and Liu Xiuzhi stayed where they were. They had heard that Xian Ruxing was young, but they never expected him to look like this. However, they had just been stabbed by Zheng Yao, so they did not dare to show anything unusual, so they just behaved obediently.
Follow behind.
Xian Ruxing was always alert and could tell that something was wrong in the atmosphere between a few people just by looking at each other, but he didn't make any noise and smiled as he invited them to sit down.
Zheng Yao respectfully reported the recent work to him, focusing on the sugar factory: "Our equipment has been upgraded recently, and the sugar we produce has become better and better. The guys are also efficient in their work. I have several times."
No problem has been found in every spot check. But the quality of the sugar is so good. I heard from Senior Sister Zhao that the income is still the same and has not increased at all. Why is this?"
"The market is just saturated."
, Central Asia is also a big consumer of sugar.
Xian Ruxing pondered for a long time, until he heard a roar and then came back to his senses.
Liu Xiuzhi clutched his stomach in embarrassment. He had not eaten much because he was too excited all morning. Now that he was in the cafeteria, the aroma went straight to his nose, and he couldn't help it immediately.
"Alas, it was the poor man's negligence. Junior Sister Zheng, please take this young master to get food first. I just have something to say to Mr. Xu." Xian Ruxing apologized.
Zheng Yao nodded and dragged Liu Xiuzhi away from here.
After Xian Ruxing and Xu Jie were left alone, the surroundings suddenly seemed deserted.
"Mr. Xu, I heard that you have always wanted to see me?" Xian Ruxing spoke first and said warmly to Xu Jie, who was obviously nervous.
"Yes, yes." Xu Jie swallowed, "I have always had a question in my mind for a long time. Now that I have arrived in the capital, I have kept in mind everything I have seen and heard about Zhenren. I think Zhenren can answer it for me."
"Oh?"
"It's not the imperial examination," Xu Jie quickly denied, because he came to Beijing to take the examination, and naturally he was worried that others would say that he was clinging to the powerful because of his association with Xian Ruxing.
After organizing some words in his mind, Xu Jie said slowly: "You must also know that I am a disciple of Nie Bao and a descendant of the Xin Xue sect."
As a school of Confucianism, Xinxue could barely compete with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song Dynasty. However, in the Ming Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism became the official doctrine, and most of the imperial court were disciples of Neo-Confucianism, and the academic atmosphere was extremely dull.
It was not until the emergence of Wang Shouren that there was an opportunity to break this phenomenon. At this time, Mr. Yangming was already fifty years old. His theory of mind theory was basically completed. He was now giving lectures at Jishan Academy in his hometown, and he planned to open an academy of his own to spread mind theory.
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"At the beginning of the year, my ancestor's father died of illness, so now he is observing mourning in his hometown and can't come out at all. I told the real person before that I could help introduce him, but it was actually an exaggeration." Xu Jie said cautiously.
"It doesn't matter, we can talk about this later." Xian Ruxing smiled and shook her head, seeing that part of Xu Jie's reason was indeed for Wang Shouren, but in fact she also wanted to see face to face this chief minister who was the most influential man in history during the late Jiajing period.
Xu Jie thanked Mr. Xian Ruxing in large numbers, and then said: "To be honest, when I first came into contact with mind science, I was very excited. My master's 'unity of knowledge and action' really speaks to people's hearts. I can't hide it.
My father was also in the officialdom. Although he was only a minor official, I followed him and got used to seeing those fools who only talked about great things but did nothing in reality. Many of them had read books by sages. I once
I feel that the reason why they are like this must be because they have learned the wrong principles.”
"Later, I followed Master and came into contact with some disciples of Xin Xue. Although they were better than those idiots before, there seemed to be no difference in essence. Real people may not know that, in fact, many people in coastal areas are secretly reselling these things you produce, many of them
People have secretly sold sugar, perfume and the like to foreign businessmen."
"Those foreign businessmen can obviously live a comfortable life, but they still travel around in boats. A few years ago, the Franji people came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They occupied many territories by sailing. I didn't understand why these people
I felt very irritated inexplicably when I had to do this, and I asked Master specifically. Master only told me that there is nothing outside the mind. If I don't look at it, these things don't exist. But is this really the case?"
Xu Jie looked at Xian Ruxing with confusion in his eyes, "After meeting the real person, I felt that you are very similar to those Franji people. Now the court says that you are just a businessman, but why, when I saw
On the contrary, it is a world that is constantly growing and changing.”