Qiming 1158

Chapter 83 Su Yonglin's Will Becomes Firmer
Once the days of living as serfs were liberated and gained unprecedented advantages, the peasants supported Su Yonglin and Shengjie Army very much.

Out of this gratitude, the peasants did their best to cater to and accept Su Yonglin's policy, rather than oppose it.

So when Su Yonglin decided to set up some jobs that women can do to recruit women to work, people were a little surprised, but they didn't object.

The first jobs were washing, mending and making clothes for army soldiers.

Next to the barracks, Su Yonglin specially set up a coat-washing camp, recruiting women to do these logistical tasks for the soldiers, giving money,

In order to respond to the call, the cadres in the peasant association had to take the lead, no matter what they thought, so they took the lead and sent all the girls in the family who were in their [-]s, [-]s and [-]s who had not married out to work. .

This is a decision made after careful deliberation between the cadres of the peasant association and the commissioners.

The strong laborers in the family have to cultivate the fields and have no time to cook. The elderly have to look after them, and the younger ones have to support them. Therefore, it is necessary to leave the wife at home to take care of the housework.

Then the girls who can come out to work are the girls at home.

Girls in the countryside have to work early. According to tradition, at the age of eight or nine, they have to learn to do housework and become female celebrities, so they often endure hardships and stand hard work.

People in the village think that girls who are raised at home are for food anyway, and are of no use. Now that they have a job where they can work, it is good to go out to work and earn some money to come back to subsidize the family.

So after the cadres of the peasant association took the lead in doing this, people in the village with daughters all felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing.

The cadres of the peasant association came to the door again to talk and settle the account, and the farmers sent their daughters out one after another and sent them to the Huanyi Camp to work and earn money.

Not to mention, Shengjie's military rules are strict, and they do what they say.

The wages are paid every day, and there is no meal at noon. When the girls go home with a few copper coins and give them to their fathers, the fathers look at them all wrong.

Raising girls has always cost money, so farmers can't wait to marry girls off early to reduce the burden on the family.

But once the Shengjie Army came, the girls could also go out to do work and bring income to the family. After calculating the account, it didn't seem to be such a loss.

Of course, raising a son can make money, and at the age of [-] or [-], it is considered a labor force.

Can this foster daughter make money?
After the initial operation was successful, Su Yonglin insisted on doing so, and every girl in the village near the garrison camp could find a job.

Gradually, it is no longer a strange thing for Shengjiejun to recruit women to work and pay them back.

Then the arsenal and the mine began to recruit people, and when people in the surrounding villages inquired about the long-term good jobs of the arsenal and the mine, they immediately became excited.

The garrison camp is not necessarily stationed there for a long time, and the money is not always earned, but it is not easy to transfer the arsenal and mine here.

Can work for a long time.

So what are you waiting for, hurry up and send your daughter to earn money.

So they scrambled to sign up, saying that their daughter was good at craftsmanship and hard-working, for fear that they would not be able to get a place and would not be able to send their daughter in to make money.

Because there are too many girls here, and even some five- or six-year-old female dolls are brought to their families to come to work, and the arsenal and mines have to make some regulations, such as not being too young, etc. .

After a series of ridiculous things ended, the mining work started smoothly, the iron ore needed by the arsenal was guaranteed, and the arsenal started trial production smoothly.

At the stall where Su Yonglin came to inspect, the work in the mine and the work in the arsenal were already on the normal track.

The work at the mine is going well.

Su Yonglin saw many miners pushing their carts back and forth in and out of the mine. The work helmets distributed at his request were also put on each person's head, which was somewhat of a safety guarantee.

The work and rest here is basically similar to that of the military camp, with lunch breaks and public holidays, working for a certain time limit every day, not like a sweatshop, so after Su Yonglin asked several miners in a row, he was satisfied with the current work and life.

"It's not good to be able to get wages, to have food, and to have enough to eat? When the gold man was mining, it wasn't this stone that was pushed in the cart, it was all dead people. Those who were crushed to death, everyone said that if they were sent in, they would not be able to get out alive."

At the lunch break stall, an elderly miner chatted with Su Yonglin with a sighed expression.

"Is it better now?"

"Of course, don't you say it? It's good to have money and food. Of course, the best ones are those little girls who can make money for the family. Who would have thought of it before? The little girl's family is good, and she can earn a little more money for her family."

The old miner smiled, and then he saw something, and then he sighed and said: "If I could have done this earlier, I would not have married my daughter so early. If I keep my daughter at the age of 15, I can earn more money for my family." Two or three years of money, isn't it better than exchanging a few livestock? Lost..."

Following the sight of the old miner, Su Yonglin felt a little comforted when he saw a group of lively girls walking past not far away with pots in their hands with smiling faces.

The Song Dynasty stipulated that if a woman did not marry at the age of 15, she would be questioned by the government. The Jin Dynasty basically followed the same way, but basically only officials and eunuchs could raise their daughters to 15 years old.

A considerable number of poor peasant families simply cannot support them for that long, and can only hope to marry off their daughters as soon as possible to reduce the burden on the family.

Therefore, chanting the slogan of equality between men and women [-] times is not as realistic as ten jobs for women.

Improving the situation of women financially seems to be the right thing to do.

It is better than shouting slogans and not doing real things.

If this can become a normal situation, more and more girls can find jobs and earn money, and more and more families are willing to raise their daughters until the age of 15.

In this way, the situation of women can be really improved, so that they can live a little better, instead of going into the abyss of foot binding.

And from the perspective of productivity, Su Yonglin has a total population of only over [-] people, and more than half of them are women. They can also work and carry out production activities. Getting them out of their homes to work is very important for the Shengjie Army, which is short of manpower. Of course it's a good thing.

It's a good thing now and in the future.

Therefore, the Shengjie Army must be strong, and must be able to truly protect this world, otherwise everything in front of him is just a mirror.

Su Yonglin's will became stronger and stronger.

After coming out of the mine, Su Yonglin went to inspect the arsenal again.

The arsenal is all technical work. Su Yonglin can't strike iron or cut wood. He doesn't know anything about professional work, but he looks very good.

The craftsmen burned the boilers, the irons were hammered, and the clanging sound was very pleasant.

Su Yonglin watched with interest a blacksmith smashing a red-hot iron with a sledgehammer.

Beside him, Lin Jingchun's subordinate Zhao Guangsi, who was in charge of preparing the arsenal, reported to him the relevant situation.

"At the moment, spears and long knives can be made stably, and shields are not a problem as long as there are enough raw materials. In addition, most weapons themselves take a long time to make, such as heavy axes and armors, as well as bows and crossbows. The manufacturing process itself is quite complicated.

The number of craftsmen who have mastered relevant skills we found in Tai'an Prefecture is not many, there are more than 20 in total. Now the magic arm bow cannot be manufactured, and we can only use the existing raw materials to produce ordinary bows. If we want to make crossbows, there are some key components It cannot be produced, and there are many defects in general. "

Zhao Guangsi was an honest man, and he told Su Yonglin all the problems without hesitation.

Su Yonglin nodded.

"These problems are very normal and can be overcome in future battles."

With that said, Su Yonglin turned around and said to the officers behind him, "You all have to pay attention. In the future, you must pay special attention to protecting these craftsmen, craftsmen, and arsenals who can strike iron and cut wood, as well as arsenals. That's all of us. lifeblood."

All the officers nodded, expressing their understanding.

Next comes the question of firearms.

Due to the lack of raw materials for the production of gunpowder, the arsenal could not produce gunpowder independently, and the Shengjie Army hardly used firearms before.

But this does not mean that the Shengjie Army has no reserves of gunpowder and firearms. In fact, there are, and the number is still quite large.

(End of this chapter)