Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Liu Kun has really gained experience over the years. In a few months, he investigated the cotton planting situation across the country.

Shandong Province produces the most abundant cotton, ranking first in the country.

There are a total of 35 prefectures and counties growing cotton in Shandong Province, mainly concentrated in Dongchang Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, and Jinan Prefecture on both sides of the canal. In addition to convenient transportation, this area is a loess plain formed by the alluvial flow of the Yellow River. The soil is sandy and is very suitable for growing cotton, so the quality of cotton is better than elsewhere.

Liu Kun directly asked people to set up a cotton purchasing point in Shandong.

With higher prices than before, almost all the province's cotton production was covered, exclusively used to supply Mingji Textile.

Yang Xian was not idle here either. He directly spent a lot of money and bought a large piece of land by the river.

The first thing to be built was the textile factory. It was built along the river and surrounded by blue brick walls. It looked a bit like the large state-owned factories built in the 1950s and 1960s.

Along with the factory buildings, there are dozens of new waterwheels.

In this way, Mingji Textile Factory was officially established.

Mingji Textile Factory only produces one kind of cloth, which is cotton, and does not produce silk-based satins.

Yang Xian has his own ambition, and he wants to implement changing the trend.

Such a large-scale textile factory naturally requires a large number of employees.

Unlike those big projects that require physical strength, the textile industry is extremely suitable for women.

Yang Xian's Mingji Textile Factory is so large that there is also a huge shortage of female workers.

During the few months when he was building factories and waterwheels, Yang Xianshun also established Jiangzhou's own newspaper, Jiangnan Daily.

In order to directly increase the sales of Jiangnan Daily, Yang Xian used the method of serializing novels in the daily, using Luo Guanzhong's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In later generations, several well-known newspapers in Hong Kong used this method in order to compete for sales.

Among them, we are familiar with various martial arts novels represented by Jin Yong Gu Long, which were originally serialized in newspapers and periodicals.

It turns out that this method is really effective.

Jiangnan Daily quickly established a foothold in the Jiangnan area, and almost every issue sold as many copies as it printed.

In order to prepare for the upcoming official launch of Mingji Textile Factory, as well as various other light industrial processing plants that were opened one after another, Yang Xian directly asked the literati at the newspaper office to publish a report on Mingji's recruitment of female workers in Jiangnan Daily.

In Yuhang Town, an inconspicuous cabin.

A young woman was weaving, and not far from her feet, two children were playing on the ground.

The young woman looked out the window from time to time, as if she was worried about something.

Outside the window, it was pouring rain.

At this moment, a familiar sound of footsteps came from a distance.

Hearing footsteps outside the house.

Zhao Limei spun the spinning wheel twice, and the cotton thread spun out quickly from her left hand. When she finished spinning a handful of cotton, she cut off the thread, stopped spinning, got up and went out.

When I walked to the door, I happened to see my man coming back.

"I've been healthy for a few days, but I still have to go to work in such a heavy rain."

Zhao Limei took the backpack from her man, opened the oilcloth that protected him from the rain, and skillfully took off his coat, preparing to hang it on the robe rack to dry.

Inside the house, two innocent children ran out after hearing the noise.

"Hey, Rourou!"

"And balls!"

The two children were so excited when they saw what was under the basket.

"There's something delicious!" The children jumped around the basket, just like the Chinese New Year. "Be quiet, I don't miss you. You know your father is here for you." The young woman Zhao Limei said with a bad face to her two children.

But before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by his man.

The man had a warm smile on his face and said, "Okay, why are you talking to the children about this?"

The man smiled palely and took the two children to play.

Zhao Limei's family was originally well off, but her husband suffered a serious illness years ago and spent a lot of money before he was finally cured.

All the family savings were spent.

There is nothing he can do, his man is still not in good health now, so he has to go to work on the river embankment.

Working on the river embankment earns money from working hard.

Because she was a woman, she could only stay at home. Since she was from Qiongzhou and had the skill of weaving, she wanted to weave some cloth by herself and sell it.

But after throwing away the cost, the profit is extremely low, and the help it can provide to this family is really too little.

Seeing her man holding one in his hands and carrying another on his back, but his figure became more and more stooped, the woman's eyes turned slightly red.

The woman wiped her eyes and bent down to carry the meat and eggs to the kitchen to start cooking.

At this moment, the woman discovered a newspaper at the bottom of her man's backpack. Because it was covered with a lot of things, it was not wet by the rain.

Out of curiosity, the woman reached out and took out the newspaper from the basket.

The man played with the two children for a while, and when he looked back, his wife was still standing there.

He walked over and saw the woman holding Jiangnan Daily in her hand. She immediately explained: "I didn't buy this Jiangnan Daily. I borrowed it from my fellow workers."

The woman did not react to the man's words.

Those eyes were still fixed on the newspaper in his hand.

The man stepped forward and followed the woman's gaze.

I saw what was written in the newspaper:

Mingji Textile Factory recruits a large number of female workers, with preferential treatment. Those with textile experience are given priority.

Three meals a day, room and board are included, the monthly basic salary is 2 taels of silver, and there is also a performance commission based on the job.

Below are the registration addresses and contact information for each location.

The woman stared at the job recruitment report in Jiangnan Daily, and her breathing became rapid unknowingly.

You must know that in this era, the salary of an adult male is only more than 20 taels a year.

Women often only get half, or even less, of their wages, but this Mingji Textile Factory actually directly offers their female workers a salary of more than 20 taels a year, and as mentioned above, what performance bonuses are there? take.

Regardless of any performance bonus, the salary of more than 20 taels this year is already attractive enough.

The woman is completely unaware that her man is standing behind her.

There was only one thing on her mind at the moment, and that was to sign up.

Zhao Limei suddenly raised her head and looked at her man, who "suddenly" appeared next to her, and was startled at first.

But soon, she calmed down.

She looked firm and said, "Mr. sir, I want to work in Mingji Textile Factory."

"What about the child?" the man asked subconsciously.

"I can only work harder, mother. The child will soon reach the age of elementary school, and our family needs money." Zhao Limei said. (End of chapter)