I am Da Song

Chapter 591

Xiaoyi put down the three bowls of bean curd, and happily introduced with the tray: "Uncles, this high official is named Zhao, and he came to Hejian Mansion from Tokyo to play."

After she finished speaking, she introduced to Zhao Huan: "These are friends from my father's workshop. They often go to my mother's stall after get off work to take care of business."

Sure enough, they are workers. Judging by their dress and temperament, they look a bit like enthusiastic and unrestrained craftsmen in the workshop.

Zhao Huan nodded to them with a smile, and then asked Xiaoyi: "Do you have any wine at your booth? Bring a pot here. I'll talk to your uncles."

Xiaoyi shook her head and said, "We don't have any at the stall, but Aunt Zhang not far away sells green ant wine. Shall I go and get you a pot?"

Green ant wine refers to newly brewed wine, with lees floating on the surface of the wine, slightly green in color, as thin as ants, and is called "green ant".

Zhao Huan took a picture of Yiguanqian and gave it to her, saying: "Green wine is easy to get drunk for the first time, drinking alone is not enough, you'd better bring back some appetizers."

Xiao Yi said with a smile: "Master, let me invite you this time."

Seeing the girl running away with her skirt in hand, several craftsmen sighed in admiration and said, "This girl from the Lao Liu family is really a promising young girl now."

"Yes, this girl can treat guests to dinner at a young age."

"Sure enough, she has a craft like her father, so she has a future."

Zhao Huan asked with a smile, "Xiao Yi's father is called Lao Liu?"

A craftsman immediately replied: "No. Lao Liu is his nickname, and he is a sixth-level craftsman in our workshop. Sixth-level craftsman, have you heard of it?"

"This is really not there." Zhao Huan said frankly.

"This involves the craftsman system of our court. The craftsmen of our dynasty are divided into the official workshop and the employment system and the differential employment system. Among them, the differential employment system is to hire craftsmen in the form of errand labor. And the employment system is to employ market wages. artisan."

"But craftsmen have different skills, and the price of employment cannot be generalized, so the government set up the craftsman title system."

"Lao Liu is one of the few craftsmen in our Hejian Mansion who can enjoy the sixth-level treatment."

"Oh? What kind of skill does he have to be treated like this?" Zhao Huan asked curiously.

"He is very amazing. He can tell where the problem is with the machine tool just by listening to the sound. Therefore, the size of the machine tool he has polished is extremely fine, and the specifications of the equipment after starting production are exactly the same."

"This is a magical skill. Hejian Zhizhou personally asked him to help him, and debugged the government's machine tools to unify the specifications and mass-produce them."

Zhao Huan asked, "Then what are your machine tools used for?"

"This is too much. The early machine tools were relatively simple, and they could only cut jade and wood with pedals."

"But the machine tools produced now are different. Steam engines are used, and there are various types of milling machines, planers, grinders, drilling machines, etc., which can produce gears, screws, rifling, and other processes."

A female worker added: "Hebei Water Conservancy, the high-ranking officials know that the knives and various precision shafts and gears used in it are basically produced by our machine tools in Hejian Prefecture."

This statement really shocked the three of Zhao Huan.

To know any aspect, productivity determines efficiency.

Even for water conservancy governance, industrial governance must be faster and more reliable than manual governance.

The standardized use of a set of gates is much faster than craftsmen grinding all kinds of wood with completely different sizes and shapes on site.

What's more, the steel parts produced by machine tools are absolutely incomparable to wooden materials.

In the past, if a set of wooden water conservancy projects could be used for ten years, now this kind of water conservancy project can be used for at least 30 years. This is still the case of rough maintenance.

If the water conservancy workers maintain it carefully, it will not be a problem to use it for a hundred years.

We must know that the dock built in the north in the late Qing Dynasty has been used in China and has been carefully maintained for more than 140 years.

If a water conservancy can benefit more than 100 years, then the Song Dynasty can be said to be full of Dujiangyan.

This small Hejian Mansion gave Zhao Huan a lot of surprises.

So Zhao Huan asked eagerly: "Then where is Xiaoyi's father? Why didn't he come with you?"

It stands to reason that they are all co-workers, and the other party also came to take care of his family's business, so they should come together after get off work.

The craftsman who was the first to speak up said: "Hey, Lao Liu is a very busy man. Today, he was invited by Zhizhou to the Hejian government office. It is said that there is a new production machine tool that cannot run smoothly. Please ask him to help Debugging went."

The sixth child didn't come back, but Xiao Yi came back with a lot of food in both hands, a jar of mellow wine in her right hand, and a few oiled paper bags in her left hand.

He Qinhu immediately stepped forward to help pick it up, and spread it out on the table with oiled paper. Inside were still steaming stewed meat, roast chicken, sauced meat, peanuts, plums, and pickles.

A craftsman yelled in shock, and said, "Xiao Yi, you are bleeding heavily today. If you buy so much, it will cost two to three hundred yuan. Can your mother earn this in a day?"

The female worker also said again and again: "Xiao Yi, you have spent a lot of money. You are a normal person. You can just buy some river seafood, clams, dried fish, dried shrimps, etc. How can you buy so much?"

Earning a hundred dollars a day is a very high standard in Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Taishang, there was a Lesheng in Ezhou who worked as a vend in the city. He stopped doing business after receiving a hundred dollars and went home to play the flute, sing and have fun.

A daily income of [-] qian means a monthly income of [-] pennies. This income is definitely enough to ensure that ordinary people have no worries about food and clothing.

Zhao Huan looked at Xiao Yiniangqin, who had set up two pots in this stall, one selling bean curd, the other selling meat soup, offal, miso soup, and on the counter table there were also marinated tofu cut into pieces.

Adding up these three things, she should sell more than a hundred copies in one day.

After excluding the cost, her income may not be more than a hundred yuan, and it may reach 150 yuan or even two hundred yuan.

Zhao Huan asked, "Does this stall have to pay any taxes?"

The craftsman next to him replied: "There is no tax, Zhizhou is looking at more such small stalls on the street, there is smoke and fire in the world."

Zhao Huan became more and more interested in the magistrate of Hejian Prefecture, and asked, "Is Xiaoyi's father still going to the Hejian Prefecture Office for debugging tomorrow?"

"Should be going. It's been almost half a month of debugging, and it hasn't recovered. I don't know what parts are being produced this time. The requirements are so high."

When Zhao Huan heard that he had a plan, he smiled and chatted with the craftsmen, while drinking and eating, waiting for Xiaoyi's father to come back, while talking to the craftsmen about the magistrate of Hejian Mansion.

The craftsmen knew a lot more about this magistrate than Zhao Huan expected.

The magistrate was transferred from Guantao County in Daming Prefecture next door. It is said that he achieved a super leap from magistrate to magistrate in one step by relying on an unparalleled contribution.

(End of this chapter)