Eagle-eyed and wolf-watching

Chapter 1506: You can do anything unless prohibited by law!
December, twenty-eight
Although the Chinese New Year is still two days away, Yijing is decorated with lights and colors everywhere, and all the people are immersed in this joyous atmosphere. At the same time, many shops in Yijing are already closed. This is not only due to traditional holiday factors, but also related to the current work methods promulgated by Daqian.

In recent years, as Yijing's economy has been developing better and better, many people from Daqian have come to Yijing to work.

Because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation, these migrant workers cannot go back to their hometowns for a long time. Only during the Chinese New Year can they go back to their hometowns to reunite with their families.
And most importantly, according to the latest work law promulgated by Daqian, it is clearly stipulated that during the Chinese New Year, all workers in Yijing and Lin'an can enjoy three days of paid vacation and another three days of unpaid vacation.

Therefore, the six-day holiday is enough for some workers whose homes are around Yijing to go home for a short visit and relieve their homesickness.

For workers who live far away from home, the Employment Law also stipulates that their paid vacation can be accumulated for a maximum of five years. For example, if you do not take any paid vacation in the past five years, then after five years, regardless of whether your boss agrees or not, you can enjoy 15 days of paid vacation.

At Ye Mingsheng’s request, the Lin’an and Yijing government offices both strictly implemented the work law. As long as the workers reported the matter to the government office, the government office would have to investigate. In the past period of time, Yijing and Lin’an had dealt with many businesses and factories on this issue...
Many shop owners who complained that you could sue them at will now get the punishment they deserve!

Although some shops have closed down, there are still many shops in Yijing that are still open, most of which are leisure and entertainment venues, such as several large teahouses, theaters, and hotels in Yijing. The New Year period is the time when they are most excited, so in order to make money, they don't take holidays.

For this reason, they had to pay their employees three times the usual salary as compensation according to the governor of Yijing!

At this time in Chenji Teahouse, amid applause and cheers, two famous Yijing crosstalk actors, Li Qian and Feng Yue, walked onto the stage and began their performance of the day.

"Hey! Can I ask you a question?"

"What's the problem?"

"Can you speak, sir?"

Feng Yue, who was asked, looked at his partner in disbelief, pretended to hesitate for a moment and said:
"will not!"

"Why don't you open your mouth?"

"You're looking for trouble, aren't you?"

Watching the two people performing passionately on the stage, the tea drinkers in the teahouse immediately burst into laughter. At this moment, in a hidden corner on the first floor, Ye Mingsheng looked around with great interest.

In Ye Mingsheng's impression, Chenji Teahouse, as a relatively high-end teahouse in Yijing, has always had very good business. There are seldom any empty seats at the dozens of tables on this floor. However, although the teahouse business is not bad at the moment, and the dozens of tables are basically occupied, compared with before, some differences can still be clearly seen···············
After nearly two months, Ye Mingsheng made another incognito visit, wanting to see the true appearance of Yijing City under his rule.

Just like before, Chenji Teahouse is still the first stop of Ye Mingsheng's incognito visit. However, compared with before, Ye Mingsheng's purpose of coming to Chenji Teahouse is not just to drink tea, listen to crosstalk and relax, but Ye Mingsheng also comes here for inspection and research.

A person's life is inseparable from the four necessities of life: food, clothing, housing and transportation. However, after satisfying the basic needs of survival, people will inevitably pursue spiritual pleasures!
As one of the leaders in Daqian's economic development, Yijing's economic development has made a group of people rich first. These people are no longer satisfied with the leisure and entertainment of the past. They begin to pursue better enjoyment. The essence of the market is the relationship between supply and demand. Since the demand has appeared, there will naturally be supply.

Therefore, in the past few years, high-end brothels, gambling dens, teahouses, theaters, and restaurants have sprung up like mushrooms in Yijing. This is because brothels and gambling dens require licenses, and the review of gambling den and brothel licenses in Yijing is relatively strict, so there are relatively fewer of them. However, there are many teahouses, theaters, and restaurants!
In order to compete for the market, these teahouses and theaters have also put a lot of effort into service. At the beginning, everyone was competing with hardware facilities such as decoration, bowls and tea sets, tables and chairs, but later everyone began to compete with soft power.

Soft power mainly refers to employees. For example, many famous actors of opera and crosstalk that performed in Chenji Teahouse before were poached by others with huge prices. These actors were all influential, and when they left, they also took some tea drinkers with them...
Chenji Teahouse did not care too much about this situation at first. They thought that their platform was good enough and there was no shortage of people coming to perform operas and crosstalk. If you leave, I have others and my business will still be as good.

However, as more people left, business began to decline, and Chen Ji Teahouse wanted to prevent the situation from getting worse.

However, they had a weak legal awareness in the past and did not sign contracts with these celebrities. They mainly had a cooperative relationship without a contract as a guarantee. So if they wanted to leave, they could only stare and could not stop them. The most they could do was shout a few harsh words and tell them not to come back after they left.

As the competition became increasingly fierce, Chen's Teahouse could not stay out of it. They had to join the ranks of chasing famous actors. However, compared to other teahouses and theaters that had wealthy sponsors, the Chen family really did not have much money. But in order to keep the business from declining, they had to sign Li Qian, Feng Yue and others at high prices.

The competition among these leisure and entertainment venues is not only reflected in the high-priced autograph corners, but also in the training of their employees!
In the past, influenced by traditional concepts, except for brothels, the service staff in many leisure and entertainment venues were all men, such as waiters and guys, almost all of them were men!
However, due to the fierce competition in the market, in order to attract customers, some restaurants, teahouses, and theaters have begun to try to use women as service staff. This has also caused a huge discussion, and many people have started the debate using newspapers as a platform.
Some moralists are firmly opposed to this. They believe that women should stay at home to follow the three obediences and four virtues, take care of their husbands and children, and should not be allowed to show their faces in public. It is not only immoral for your teahouses and restaurants to employ women as service staff, but it will also cause some unnecessary troubles...

For this reason, these people began to cite examples, such as those restaurant guests who got drunk and started to tease the waitresses, and some people even got jealous and fought over the waitresses, resulting in some human tragedies.

This also leads to these waitresses being criticized and criticized, and it will be difficult for them to get married in the future. In short, it is wrong to let women work.

However, some people think that there is nothing wrong with these teahouses and restaurants using women as service staff. These waitresses are from poor families, and they are basically penniless and can hardly make ends meet. Those rich girls from wealthy families will never work in the open!
Therefore, if you don't allow them to work in service places such as theaters, teahouses, etc., they may have to work in brothels in order to make a living. So being able to work in formal places such as theaters, teahouses, and restaurants is also a help to them!
In addition, these women who come out to work can also increase their family income and make their family life better!
And the most important point is that the laws of Daqian do not explicitly stipulate that women cannot work!
Your Majesty has emphasized many times that you can do anything unless it is prohibited by law!
So since the Daqian law does not stipulate that women cannot work, it is completely legal and compliant for these women to work!

At present, the two sides are arguing fiercely in major newspapers, and neither side can convince the other!
And because at this time the Censorate had already sent a letter to Ye Mingsheng, requesting him to enact a law to prohibit women from working...

This is also the reason why Ye Mingsheng came to Chenji Teahouse today. Currently, Chenji Teahouse is one of the few teahouses in Yijing that employs female waiters, and it is said that some tea drinkers even had a fight over this female waitress.

Ye Mingsheng read about this in the Yijing Morning Post a few days ago, and he was very interested in it!
It so happened that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and Ye Mingsheng had been planning to go on a private visit to find out the current prices of grain, cloth, pork and other basic living materials in Yijing, as well as the market supply situation. So today, Ye Mingsheng went on a private visit and specially took time out to do these two things at the same time!
Soon Ye Mingsheng noticed the waitress in the teahouse. It would be better to say that she was a girl rather than a woman. She looked only thirteen or fourteen years old. She was very thin and seemed a little malnourished, but her face was very pretty and she gave people a timid feeling!

Coincidentally, because Ye Mingsheng was going on a secret visit, he wanted to try the food outside the palace, so he did not eat in the palace. Therefore, he just ordered some osmanthus cake, chestnut cake and other food. So now the little girl happened to bring it to Ye Mingsheng on a tray.

Although she seemed timid, she worked very efficiently. She skillfully placed plates of cakes and snacks on Ye Mingsheng's table and said:

"Sir, please enjoy your meal!"

Just when the little girl wanted to leave, Ye Mingsheng suddenly said:
"Can I talk to you?"

Hearing Ye Mingsheng’s words, the little girl immediately looked at Ye Mingsheng with a vigilant look, and then wanted to walk away quickly. However, at this moment, Zhang Hu beside Ye Mingsheng blocked the little girl’s way. Seeing this, the little girl was a little panicked...

Just when Ye Mingsheng wanted to say something, a shopkeeper of the teahouse came over and said with a smile:

"I am Wang Li, the third manager of the teahouse. I wonder if this guest has anything to do for you?"

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Ye Mingsheng said calmly:
"Manager Wang, can you please spare me a moment to talk?"

Wang Li hesitated for a moment and said:
"Please!"

After a while, Ye Mingsheng and Wang Li left the lobby and came to a quiet room. Under Wang Li's gaze, Ye Mingsheng took out a token without saying a word and said:
"I am the censor of the Metropolitan Censorate! I came here today just to understand the situation!"

Although Wang Li did not know Ye Mingsheng, and did not know whether the token in Ye Mingsheng's hand was real or fake, as the third shopkeeper of Chen's Teahouse, he had seen the world and was not completely frightened by the token in Ye Mingsheng's hand. He hesitated for a moment and said:
"Can I borrow your token, sir?"

Seeing that Manager Wang was still doubting the authenticity of the token in his hand, Ye Mingsheng smiled and handed it over. Ye Mingsheng had gained experience from these few incognito visits. The token with the character Qian in his hand, which represented the imperial power, was too eye-catching, so under normal circumstances, Ye Mingsheng did not take it out, but used the token of Yijing Prefecture or the Censorate...

Wang Li took the token and looked at it for a few seconds before a look of surprise emerged on his face. Chenji Teahouse is a high-end teahouse in Yijing. Usually, court officials come to drink tea and listen to crosstalk. Among these people, there are also censors, so Wang Li has also seen censors’ tokens. The token in his hand at this moment is exactly the same as the token Wang Li had seen before in terms of details of workmanship!
So if he was not mistaken, this token should be real!
Although the token was genuine, Wang Li was somewhat skeptical about the identity of the person in front of him. After all, the New Year was approaching, and there were too many scammers in Yijing who had listened to Master C. Each of them boasted that they had connections and that their connections were so strong that they could reach the heaven!

So after pondering for a while, Wang Li exchanged the token with Ye Mingsheng, then hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively:

"May I ask what your name is, sir?"

"My last name is Zhang! My name is Zhang Shengli!"

After saying this, Ye Mingsheng glanced at Wang Li and saw the suspicion of Shopkeeper Wang. He then said calmly:
"I am here incognito today. If you don't trust my identity, how about I dispatch a patrol battalion here?"

Wang Li was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he quickly said:

"My Lord, you have misunderstood! How dare I have such an idea!"

"I don't know what you want to know, sir. I will tell you everything I know!"

Ye Mingsheng ordered:

"The fact that your teahouse uses female waitresses has caused a lot of public opinion. The higher-ups are paying close attention to this matter, so they asked me to investigate. Go call that little girl over. I have something to ask her..."