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In the summer of this year, another Yanerfei workshop and a threshing machine workshop appeared in Changle County.

The advantage of opening so many workshops is that as long as the locals in Changle County are diligent and willing to work, they can generally find work. There are many people who go to and from work every day in the workshop area, mainly men, and some of them woman.

In that needle workshop, there was even a female blacksmith, who was said to be very skilled.

Her monthly salary plus board and lodging subsidies can get three to four hundred cash. If the working hours are extended, sometimes there will be extra work at night, and she will have to pay extra. She earns more than those guards in the county.

This incident is also a strange story in Changle County. This woman was just an ordinary woman in the past. She was originally from a farmer. Very capable, there are sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces below, and the whole family lives in a clang that day, and they have to quarrel every now and then.

This woman gave birth to four children successively. The family was too poor, so she went out to bear the burdens for others. A few years ago, she and her husband went to the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang to carry the soil. Three or two months.

When Ye Niang is not around, the children will inevitably suffer some grievances. Every time they come back, there is often another quarrel. They once beat her sister-in-law in the street. The sister-in-law couldn't beat her, so she was beaten so much that she went home crying to find herself. Mother complained, but the family was in a commotion again.

Now the sister-in-law and sister-in-law are doing well. The female craftsman who is frying iron has received food subsidies and does not eat at the needle workshop. Her sister-in-law brings her meals at noon every day.

I can't say that her sister-in-law is a philistine. In the past, when their family had no money, the two of them could fight because of a piece of cloth. Now she can earn money as a sister-in-law, and she is not bad to the family. Seeing her sister-in-law arrive It should be said about the age of the relatives, and he bought the cloth brought by the Jinchang merchants with her, and asked her to make a new suit with himself.

In short, the people in the city are very envious of the monthly salary of three or four hundred wen, but it is a pity that frying iron requires skill and talent. It is not easy for ordinary men to learn, let alone women. People, first of all, if the body is not strong enough, it will not work.

This iron frying female craftsman is really good, she seems to be born with that skill, she just watched people fry it a few times, and she told the needle shop manager that she could do that job, and the needle shop manager told her to do it Go to fry a pot, the first pot is just ordinary, and the second pot looks like it, and the more you fry it, the better, and the wages continue to rise.

In the past, most of these women in the city were envious of the little ladies in the cashmere workshop, and felt that they were born a few years early and did not catch up with the good time.

Now they are very envious of this woman who earns three or four hundred wen a month. They heard that her old lady treated her like normal, but now it is very different, and they wish they could treat her like a treasure.

If the baby wants something to eat and wear, she can get it out by herself. I saw her buying cakes on the street two days ago. The sweet cakes from Dunhuang cost two catties at once, and she didn't feel any pain .

Recently, the newly opened Yanerfei Workshop and Threshing Machine Workshop also accept women. Some of the jobs that require skills are also taught by women. The overall performance is worse than that of men, but there are also a few who are diligent. In the future Possibly also become a craftsman.

There is also an advantage that men do not have in this era when women go to learn crafts, that is, they are not afraid of being changed of household registration, anyway, whatever their husband's nationality is, they will be whatever.

The workshop also has the willingness to train craftsmen. Among the several workshops opened by Luo Yong's disciples, there are special places for people to practice skills, and occasionally someone will come to give pointers.

I heard that their workshop here in Changle County is willing to teach people crafts. Many people from outside the city and Jinchang Dunhuang have come to work. The scene is very lively now, but I don’t know how many people will persist in the end. After all, the real There are very few people who can persevere.

In terms of motivation, it is still very sufficient. Ordinary work only costs a few tens of pennies a month. If you become a craftsman, you can spend at least one or two hundred pennies. If you master a key technology, you can spend three to four hundred pennies.

Those craftsmen in the city often leave the food in the workshop and go to the street in groups of three or four to make tooth sacrifices. When others see it, they are very envious. They can't earn a few hundred yuan a month, so they dare not spend it like this. Yes, not to mention there are wives and children to support.

"Didn't you go home a while ago, what's the matter?" On this day, the wages had just been paid, and several craftsmen met to eat at a restaurant on the street. During the dinner, someone asked a craftsman who was a herdsman outside the pass road.

"That's it." The craftsman smiled, but the corners of his lips were slightly curved.

Some time ago, the medical officer from Chang'an City came to them to inoculate them with cowpox. After the craftsman was inoculated with cowpox, he left the customs that day and rode all the way back to his tribe. The pus inoculated his wife and children with cowpox.

Because he had to rush back to work, he didn't stay long, and after teaching the method to the elders in the tribe, he left with mixed feelings. Every time he went back in the past two years, he often had mixed feelings.

He was born in that tribe and grew up in that tribe since he was a child. He used to feel that life should be like that, and he didn't think there was any shortage.

Now I am used to living in Changle County. There are ready-made meals every day, and the clothes are well-dressed. The accommodation provided by the workshop is also good. The public areas are cleaned every day, and even the toilets are cleaned. It is clean, there is hot water for bathing every day, and for a few pennies a month, some women who do laundry in the city will clean their clothes and change them in a day or two .

After living in such an environment for so long, when I returned to my hometown, I saw my sons and daughters waving their dirty paws to snatch the caramel he bought, the clothes they never changed, the hair they never washed... …

When his wife faced him, she seemed a little ashamed...

"After a while, I will go back and bring my wife and children here." After a while, the craftsman who was born as a herdsman said.

"At this time?" The bystanders asked in surprise, "At this time, the sheep are growing meat. If all your family members come to the city, what will happen to the sheep?"

"Sell it at a low price." The man said.

"Your tribe is willing to release people easily?" People in Longxi, even if they live in the pass, have heard of the situation of those tribes on the grassland and Gobi. There are some generous and strict within those tribes. Yes, but if anyone wants to leave his tribe, he will easily be regarded as a traitor. Going to the city alone to work and bringing his wife and children to live in the city are two different things.

"Many people in our area want to come here to be craftsmen." Including the sons and grandchildren of the patriarch's family.

"That would be much easier to handle." Others also said.

"Then when will you go back?"

"After they have all the cowpox planted."

"At least bring some money and silk back."

"I know."

"Don't conflict with others, maybe there will be a day to go back in the future."

"If the money and silk are not enough, we will lend you some."

"The wages in the workshop can also be advanced a few months in advance."

"Exactly, someone's wife got sick earlier, so she paid a lot in advance from the workshop."

"Use some money and have more contacts with the tribe in the future."

"Thank you, brothers!"

"You don't need to see each other with me!"