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When Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing returned to the inn, Yu Ting was standing at the gate of the courtyard. He stretched his neck to look left and right. When he saw the two of them, he rushed up to greet him, "The second master has already returned. The food is ready. I'll just wait for you two." Ah Wu, let them deliver the food. What is this?"

Yu Ting took the package of silk from Wan Qing.

"Useless trash." Wan Qing replied.

As Yu Ting walked in, he took out a piece of material from the paper bag, and said pleasantly, "This is a good thing! How much is it?"

"One piece of skirt material, two pieces of jacket material, a total of one tael of silver, and a lot of silk thread." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"The material is so fine and dense, and the color is so good. It's only a tael of silver? It's really a good thing!" Yu Ting kneaded the material carefully, envious.

Wan Qing glared at Yuting and Li Xiaonan, and let out a laugh.

Li Wenru greeted him from the house, "There are indeed quite a few people in the tooth shop, and it is said that some weaving workshops have released some..."

"Eat first." Li Xiaonan brushed past Li Wenru and rushed into the house to drink tea. She was thirsty.

Ah Wu came in with the food, and several of them ate, made tea, and sat on the porch to talk.

"What did you tell those people? What did you find out? Why did you buy those pieces of useless material?" Wan Qing asked repeatedly while brewing tea.

"Let Second Tang Shu talk first." Li Xiaonan put the tea leaves in the teapot.

"I asked carefully. There are [-] weaving workshops in Huating County, and each of the twelve weaving workshops has released a few weavers to change hands. Xiangyun Workshop has the most, with [-] released, Ruifu Workshop has nine, and other weaving workshops have all It's one or two."

Li Wenru frowned.

"Yatouer didn't mention anything else, just said that the youngest was 12 years old and the oldest was 15 years old."

"I just entered the weaving workshop at the age of 12!" Wan Qing said in surprise.

"They are all apprentices." Li Wenru continued.

"Not only are they all apprentices, but they are also stupid apprentices who most likely won't be able to learn." Li Xiaonan sighed.

"They can't be considered weavers. These people are useless, so we can't have them," Wan Qing said bluntly.

"If you don't want it, it means that we don't count what we say, and we don't want it if we let go." Li Xiaonan sighed again.

"You went to buy those pieces of silk to inquire about this?" Wan Qing turned her head and asked Li Xiaonan.

"I'll go and see if the weavers are doing well, and whether the management of the weaving workshop is strict." Li Xiaonan replied.

"Selling these waste materials can't be regarded as lax. The weaving workshop in our house produces such waste materials, and we let the weavers take them back and make clothes by themselves, or sell them for subsidies. The little stewards use these waste materials. Reward the diligent or obedient weavers." Wan Qing hurriedly explained.

"The families of those weavers are clearly separated, and they live their own lives. In a big courtyard, there is a strong sense of human kindness." Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru and said.

Wan Qing frowned, what do you mean?
Li Wenru didn't quite understand either.

"Let's go to the dental shop tomorrow and call all the weavers who are going to sell. Let Wanqing take the test one by one to see how far they have learned, and bargain one by one according to their skills. As for the rest, we will look at it tomorrow." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"That's true. To do business is to adapt to the situation and see what happens." Li Wenru nodded in agreement.

Wan Qing glanced sideways at Li Wenru.

Thanks to him being able to say the phrase adapt to the situation, there is obviously no way for Ah Nan to bite the bullet and go forward!

This Second Master Li can speak like Shi Gun, Shi Gun is like this, no matter what kind of trouble his family's grandson has, Shi Gun can find something to praise, and he looks up and flatters him a few times.

The next day, Li Wenru went to the tooth shop first, and handed over the word. After lunch, the weavers who were about to change hands from various weaving workshops gathered in the tooth shop.

Li Xiaonan didn't shy away from people, she borrowed a box loom from the woodware shop, carried them into the Ya shop, and in the big yard of the Ya shop, the examiner Wan Qing tested dozens of young weavers one by one.

After Wan Qing finished one of the exams, Li Xiaonan called over and asked questions in a low voice for a long time.

Dozens of people finished the exam one by one, and it was already dark, so we can only talk about it tomorrow.

Back at the inn, Wan Qing frowned and complained, "There isn't even a single person who has actually worked on a loom! These are all handymen, how can there be any weavers!"

Li Wenru frowned and looked at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan bit a piece of glutinous rice cake and said vaguely: "Among the forty or so people, thirteen are not from weaver's family, but bought from outside."

"Why so many!" Wan Qing was surprised.

Most of the apprentices in the weaving workshop are the children of weavers, and they rarely buy from outsiders.

"Well, it is said that all the ones bought from outside were picked." Li Xiaonan took another bite of the glutinous rice cake.

"Reselling is a matter of dismantling people's flesh and blood, and no family is willing to be dismantled. It is reasonable to buy from outside first." Li Wenru sighed.

"Well, secondly, it is said that the most stupid people are selected, but there are also many people who are more stupid than these people who came here. They were not selected because their parents or relatives were in charge of things. Yes." Li Xiaonan continued.

"This is also human nature." Li Wenru laughed dryly.

"Third, I said that there are a few girls who can weave silk on a machine, and they pretended not to be able to because they were afraid of being picked by us."

"Those little girls even told you this?" Wan Qing stretched out her head to look at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan stretched out her hand to push Wan Qing's face back, "Fourth, some girls said that they heard from the stewards that the weaving workshop didn't intend to sell them at first, and they had to sell a few because they had no choice."

"What do you mean by that?" Wan Qing raised her eyebrows high.

"Could it be that the son of the world put pressure on him?" Li Wenru stretched his neck and held his breath.

"How could it be the eldest son? It's not him!" Li Xiaonan squinted at her second cousin speechlessly.

"Keep talking, you haven't finished talking! Who is forcing them to sell weavers?" Seeing Li Xiaonan paused, Wan Qing hurriedly urged.

"Those who can suppress these weaving workshops to do this and that, the first place is the silk industry, followed by the government, it must not be the government, then it is the silk industry, do you still have to ask?" Li Xiaonan looked at Wan Qing.

Wan Qing kept blinking.

No, it's either one or the other, what's the point?But why didn't she think of it?
"Do we want these little apprentices?" Li Wenru asked.

"Ruifufang and Xiangyunfang each pick the three best ones, and the other ten pick the four best ones, and don't want the rest. We say we want weavers, and these people are not weavers at all. These people know better than us, so ten people are enough for us." Li Xiaonan laughed.

Wan Qing hastily flipped through the roster and glanced, "Of these ten people, seven of them are children of their weaving workshop, and they want to tear their flesh and blood apart."

"Well, I just want a family to have a baby. Second cousin, we have to discuss how to write this body contract." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"Tell me what you say!" Li Wenru stood up hastily, and came over with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Wan Qing took the inkstone and added water to grind the ink.

"First, allow them to redeem themselves at the original price." Li Xiaonan waved a finger.

"Secondly, how many steps are there in warping, sizing, reeding, heald making, shoveling, pulling out healds, cloth tying, etc.?"

Li Xiaonan looked at Wan Qing and asked.

"Depending on what we weave, the heald and tapestry are the most, and the plain silk is much less."

"Plain silk."

"64 big and small."

"Based on plain silk, the meeting will cost ten copper coins. If there are 64 handicraft plenums, that month will be 640 copper coins. In addition, each person who teaches a craft will be given another ten big coins.

"These things should be written together when writing the body deed. Let's give them a copy. Just like the body deed, we also need to get a seal from the government as a witness." Li Xiaonan smiled.

Wan Qing fixed her eyes and pinched her fingers to calculate, and took a breath, "If you follow the method you teach in Guoxiang Town, if you teach a round of ten or twenty people, then they will be able to redeem themselves in a month or two! You People are gone!"

"They haven't learned all 64 skills yet." Li Xiaonan patted Wan Qing, "I wish they could redeem themselves in a month or two. It would be best if they were gone."

"That's great! Let them find their parents to learn, these people have to stay in Huating.

"If that's the case, it's best not to buy these ten people together, buy two or three first, and let these two or three go back to spread the word, and we will come back to buy in a few days!" Li Wenru rubbed his fingers happily.

"Yeah, Second Tang Shu is more thoughtful, so let's buy three first, and then we'll go to Jiaxing to paint the gourds, and then we'll come back to see how the next batch of people are doing." Li Xiaonan smiled. Eyes bent.