Chapter 846 The female general who unarmed and married (15)
The businessmen who are Shijiang's distributors will naturally not give up such a good business opportunity.
They approved a batch of silver mirrors and went out, but they just walked around in their area, and all the silver mirrors they brought were sold out.
Jiang is planning to make a batch of these silver mirrors for the convoy going to the south to take with them along with the glass products and fans.
Shi Jiang believed that no matter whether women from the north or the south, could not escape the charm of silver mirrors.
Because of the income from silver mirrors and glass products, Jiedushi's mansion finally relaxed.
Although Mr. Liang still eats and drinks, at least the daily meal for Shi Jiang is no longer a vegetarian dish, but an additional meat dish.
Sweet potatoes can be used to make sweet potato vermicelli and sweet potato flour, potatoes can be used to make potato flour and potato vermicelli, and even corn can be ground into corn flour.
These things can be stored for a long time, making them easy to transport for a long time without fear of damage.
And that glass, I think of women’s love for these bling-bling things.
After thinking about it, Shi Jiang went to a glass workshop and asked them to make glass products. The remaining bits of glass-making raw materials were used to make various beads, some petal-shaped, some square.
There are also five-pointed stars, hearts and various geometric figures. Of course, the most classic ones are naturally round.
This kind of round beads are taken to the treasure house, and the most skillful silversmiths are used to make hairpins, and then they are inlaid with crystal clear glass beads, or they are made into hairpins and decorated with beads made of such tiny beads.
string.
Plugged on the head, when people move around, these beads will also sway, making them look dazzling under the sunlight.
Glass beads of other shapes are fixed on the small hairpin flowers. The two irregular ones on the random hairpin on the head look very unique.
As soon as Zhenbaolou put these new jewelry on the shelves, the women in the city began to go crazy about them again.
The North-South convoy had just transported silver mirrors, glass products, and sweet potato vermicelli to the south. They originally planned to visit a few more towns in order to receive more orders.
Unexpectedly, before unloading the goods, they were surrounded by some businessmen from the south who got the news.
The goods were swept away without a word.
Therefore, the North-South convoy originally planned to stay in the south for at least half a month, but now they could only spend three days to purchase some supplies that the general asked them to purchase, and then returned to the north.
As soon as I arrived in the north, I was shocked by the large amount of newly made jewelry.
Not caring about rest at all, he filled up the convoy again and set off again to the south.
I don’t know what kind of surprise the general will give them next time.
With the money brought back by the North and South convoys this time, Mr. Liang's expression became even more kind.
There were even several times when I met Shi Jiang at Jiedushi's house and smiled at him.
When Shi Jiang saw this, he felt a little hairy on his back. When he returned to the study, he couldn't help but muttered, was this old man planning something?
However, Shi Jiang soon put this matter behind him.
After all, if we need infrastructure, how can we let women just stay in the backyard and guard that small space!
With Shi Jiang's guidance, a spinning jenny was soon built.
This spinning machine is composed of oil vertical spindles, rollers, roving bobbins, conveyor belts, and movable tension rods.
It can spin more than a dozen threads at a time. Although it is easy to break, it is still nearly eight times faster than the hand-operated spinning wheels that are in every household today.
Moreover, compared with the cloth woven by the yarn spun by hand before, the cloth woven by the spindle of this spinning Jenny is obviously thinner.
Delicate and strong.
Because of the emergence of these spinning machines, the families who had previously received the money for their daughter's head began to have other ideas as time went by, and all those who were shaken became unwavering.
The reason is very simple. General Shi recruited these girls to work in the spinning mill, and they were given favorable treatment and included food and accommodation.
This made those families who thought their daughter was a loser overjoyed.
The Jiedushi government made it very clear to those families who sent their daughters to work.
You will sign a contract when entering the yarn factory, which is divided into two types.
One is a life-long system. After a one-time payment of money is given, the family can no longer interfere with the female worker's future affairs.
Of course, when these female textile workers grow old, they will be provided for by the Jiedushi Mansion.
In addition to this, if a female textile worker regrets one day, taking the employment system as an example, the one-time payment will be subtracted from the money earned by the female worker during the years of working. If the one-time payment is more, then as long as the amount of money is given is more
It is also possible for the part of the money given to oneself to be redeemed by oneself.
If the female worker earns more money during the years of working than the one-time payment, then the cotton mill will not embarrass the female worker and will pay her the extra money.
The other type is employment-based, starting at least five years.
Wages are paid monthly until five years later. If you still want to continue working, you can renew the contract again.
If you don't want to renew the contract, you can just leave.
However, both options have a prerequisite, that is, you cannot break the contract and leave early. If you break the contract, you will have to pay liquidated damages.
Most people immediately opened their eyes when they heard the amount of money for life-long tenure. How could they choose the second option?
Just sign and pledge the money, leave your daughter to the cotton mill, and they will take the money and leave.
With such a large sum of money, they can buy a few more acres of land, marry their son a wife, and give birth to a fat grandson.
After all, even if your daughter is married off, the family she is marrying to may not be able to give such a high betrothal gift.
Moreover, even if a betrothal gift is given, they can't give up any face and not give a small dowry.
In addition, the cost of the wedding banquet is not small, it is better to let the daughter work in the cotton factory, at least to tell the truth, it is much better than selling it to those masters as concubines, or working as maids for others.
Of course, there are also those who feel sorry for their daughter, but they just can't bear the thought of her daughter coming to help share some of the family's burdens.
Most of these families choose the second option and sign a five-year contract.
At my daughter's age now, even in five years, as long as the family searches hard, they can still find a good family.
Shi Jiang was not only thinking about building a yarn factory, but also a weaving factory and a clothing factory.
From now on, all the people and soldiers in Jingzhou will be able to wear new clothes every year and can afford new clothes.
Shi Jiang didn't know that this cloth was later called Jingzhou cloth by people in the south of the Yangtze River. It was strong, durable, high-quality and cheap, which was its surrogate name.
Because of the emergence of Jingzhou cloth, the market for low-end fabrics in the Jiangnan area was directly occupied by Jingzhou cloth.
Even if others want to bring the price down, they can't bring it down to the price of Jingzhou cloth.
After all, where are the prices of labor and raw materials!
If it's any cheaper, you'll have to make a loss doing business.