Chapter 86 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (35)

  Xu Yin didn't plan to sell the first batch of candies, so she had someone pack them into small portions and distribute them later as New Year's benefits.

   Seeing the rough oiled paper used for packaging, Xu Yin couldn't help but think of bagasse.

  The bagasse after pulp removal is a very good raw material for papermaking. It is easy to boil and bleach. It can be used to make cultural paper and household paper.

  Yan Kejin heard that bagasse has this function, so what are you waiting for! Immediately send people to build a paper workshop.

  In this way, what is most lacking is not raw materials, nor various auxiliary materials, but short-term labor.

  The population of the Southern Man is not as large as that of the Central Plains. Most of them are mountain farmers. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, they all honestly nest in the mountains and eat as much as they grow.

   Those who can think of coming to the city to do part-time jobs are often more flexible in mind, or they just can't live on and need to seek another breakthrough.

  With the rise of various workshops, the wages of part-time workers have risen again and again. After hearing about the remote village, many people rushed to Fucheng to find a way out.

  From them, Xu Yin seemed to see the wage earners who went south to Shencheng in the 1980s and 1990s.

  Once the population flows, many businesses will emerge.

  In places where there are many short-term workers, stalls selling all kinds of food, housing rentals, and travel traffic all follow suit.

  While seeing the prosperity of Fucheng and witnessing the advent of high-yielding grain seeds, the day laborers brought all kinds of publicity with them when they returned to their hometown for the New Year.

  Xu Yin believes that after the new year, Fucheng will be more lively.

  On the one hand, someone will come to inquire about the news of high-yielding grains. If they see that it is true, they will naturally try their best to bring them back to their hometown to plant. Since then, the high-yielding grains have spread.

   On the other hand, more people will come to the city looking for work.

  Workshops and mines all need manpower. To put it bluntly, labor plays a decisive factor in the contribution of production value.

  Xu Yin stepped on the tail of the twelfth lunar month and opened a labor market at the south gate of Fucheng.

  It is said that it is a market, but it is a wooden shed, with various job recruitment information posted on the four wooden walls. A literate boy was specially sent to stand there to interpret the recruitment information for the illiterate folks.

  The workshops under the Wangfu will need to hire a lot of people in the coming year. She asked the managers of each workshop to list the requirements for the positions that need to be added, and copied and posted them in the labor market.

   Those who meet the requirements can go to the workshop for an interview. If you pass the interview, you will be able to work in the Wangfu workshop after the new year, and you can receive monthly money and enjoy benefits without signing a contract of sale.

   Such treatment was unheard of before.

  After hearing this, the common people in Dongxian came here to look for work with a dubious attitude.

   "Oh, big cow! Are you here too?"

   "I came last month. I found a mixing job in the sugar factory. I have already received a month's wages. This time I came with my cousin."

   "Is it true? The palace recruits people, so you really don't need to sign a death contract?"

   "It's really unnecessary! Just sign a work contract, in case you don't work hard after receiving the monthly payment."

   "Oh! Then I'll sign up too!"

   "I sign up too!"

  Many people went to the workshop under Wangfu to sign up.

   The smiling face on the application is like a big luck!

   One by one, they ran around telling each other happily.

  The reputation of the labor market in the south of the city has also become more and more famous.

  During the New Year's Eve, anyone who comes to Fucheng, whether they are visiting relatives or friends, or those who are desperate to try their luck, can't help but walk here.

  Workshop labor shortage has been alleviated.

  Xu Yin believes that after the start of work next year, all businesses will be on the right track.

   It’s almost Chinese New Year, and she’s been busy going to silkworm houses and carpentry workshops recently to give out red envelopes to the masters.

  This year, only these two workshops have been in operation since they were built, and because they have just opened for less than half a year, the pressure on the masters must be relatively high.

  In order to appease them, the housekeeper specially asked the housekeeper to prepare a batch of red envelopes to reward silver. It is not only a New Year's benefit, but also a reward for working together to complete the giant juicer. Each person gave 22 taels of silver reward.

  Receiving this heavy reward, the eyes of the carpenters who followed Carpenter Cen to work in Baigui County, who left their hometown to work, were red-eyed.

  If it wasn't for Xu Yin's quick flash, they would all kneel down for her excitedly.

   "Old Cen, you are not kind, you didn't say that there is such a good thing before you come here! Now my father's illness can be cured with money! Woooooo..."

   "With this reward money, not to mention that my family can pay off the debts owed to the clansmen, and I can save a little to send my son to a private school."

  Each family has its own difficulties, otherwise they wouldn’t be too poor in a good year.

  Carpenter Cen stroked his beard with a smile and said, "I didn't lie to you, did I? I just said that my master and I are very kind, as long as the work is done well, the reward will not be less."

   "When did you say there was a silver reward?"

   "…uh, didn't I say that? Maybe I forgot."

   No, he didn't say it on purpose.

   At first, they were worried that they would be happy in vain if they said too early if they didn’t get a silver reward in the future. Now, wouldn't it be nice to have such a surprise for Chinese New Year?

  All the carpenters: "..."

  The honest old Cen has changed!

  In any case, Carpenter Cen and his team thanked the host family with gratitude, and embarked on the journey home for the New Year with smiles on their faces.

  The road was full of wind and dust, and the fear when passing the strange mountain could not stop them from coming to Baigui County Fucheng to work for the palace in the spring of the coming year.

  In addition to craftsmen, other workers in workshops and mines also received a red envelope.

   It’s just that the amount is not as much as that of craftsmen: those who perform outstandingly usually get two taels;

   There is a holiday for Chinese New Year, and you can get an extra month's salary. Ordinary workers are also so happy that they are smiling.

  The palace was cleaned and dusted inside and out, festive red lanterns were hung up, and all kinds of New Year's goods were fully prepared.

  Xu Yin led the maids, after finishing the thick Laba porridge, they grinded the bean juice and made a batch of tofu.

   Gypsum ordered tofu. Before she discovered the gypsum mine, she couldn't think of it.

  Of course, if you like to eat old tofu, you can also order brine.

  Simple refined gypsum, the tender tofu is as white as jade, and the taste is very tender. Cold salad or soup, but also soft tofu.

  After making tofu, there was still a lot of soy milk. She adjusted the two flavors of salty and sweet, sent a copy to the study, and tasted it herself.

  The mellow bean fragrance, with pure white sugar, this is sweet soy milk.

A spoonful of soy sauce, a spoonful of vinegar, and some chopped green onion and coriander. There are seaweed and shrimp skins from Qinbei in the house, and a little of each to enhance freshness and flavor. Sprinkle the boiling hot soybean milk into the bowl. When the soybean milk meets the vinegar, It seems that a flower has bloomed. This is the salty soy milk that is popular in Haicheng in later generations.

  Xu Yin liked this one, but she didn't know which flavor the prince would like.

   But according to her understanding of him, he probably likes salty soy milk.

   Sure enough, after a little incense burning, the waiter in the study came back joltingly and said that the prince likes salty bean juice very much, and asked if there is any more in the morning?

  If you want to eat, of course you can, and if you don’t have it, you can make it again.

   It is not easy to make tofu, but it is not easy to grind soybean milk and cook soybean milk?

  (end of this chapter)