Chapter 3041 Management
Beihai County has changed dramatically in just half a year. Bai Shan rented a few relatively cheap houses in the west of the city, mainly for the female workers to weave and make clothes, and the back of the house was used as a living room for them.
As more and more people came to seek refuge, some young ladies from the county heard the news and bravely came to ask for jobs. Now there are many female workers in Beihai County.
These people were originally managed by Mr. Cui and County Magistrate Fang, but now every place needs people, especially since they are still serving in the army.
Princess Mingda was bored while she was pregnant. The Yushan Hall was already on track. As long as the rules were set, enough money and food were provided, and teachers were hired to teach the children various skills, with the previous manager of the Yushan Hall around, there was very little need for her and Bai Er.
They just need to go over and take a look occasionally.
The carriage stopped in front of an alley. The guard stepped forward and took a look before saying, "Princess, the alley is too small. Our carriage can't fit in."
The palace maid got off the car and turned around to help Mingda and Zhou Man down.
The people in the alley were seeing such a gorgeous carriage for the first time, and they all stood under the eaves to watch curiously, but because of the guards with swords, they didn't dare to get close.
The ground was a little wet. The head maid took one look and didn't dare let the princess and Zhou Man walk on it. She asked someone to bring wooden planks to pave the way and said to the eunuchs in charge of scouting the way, "The princess is pregnant. If you are so careless, if you slip, you will be punished by the palace."
The eunuchs hurriedly nodded their heads in agreement, and quickly asked someone to fetch wooden boards to pad the ground. Then they glanced at and glared at the headman who had rushed over.
The village head felt wronged. Unlike the well-trained eunuchs and palace maids, he dared not speak out even when he was wronged. So he bowed and said flatteringly, "Your Excellency and Princess have wronged me. Ever since the weaving workshop was built here, I have followed the county magistrate's orders and had the lanes cleaned. Now it's much better. Before, not only water, but also broken vegetable leaves and roots, everything that was no longer needed at home was thrown onto the road."
"Master Zhou has been here before, so you should know. It's much better now than before."
Zhou Man: "That's because we did so poorly before."
Village head: "...Yes, yes, I didn't do it well before, but I dare not neglect it this time. I knew the nobles were coming, so I asked people to clean the streets early in the morning. I walked by here two quarters of an hour ago, and the road was still dry. Who knew that in a moment of carelessness, some damned person would throw water on the road."
He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, Master Zhou. I'll investigate right away and find out who did it. I'll make them pay for it."
Anyway, it must be these few houses around here, no more than six at most, door to door, early in the morning, so someone will definitely see it.
Zhou Man asked curiously, "I noticed that you all like to splash water on the road. Don't you have a small ditch in the yard to drain water?"
Whether they rented a house in the capital or in Yizhou City, there were drainage ditches in the yard, and no one would splash water on the road. If there was, it was most likely that the person had ulterior motives and did not want to splash water on others, but on others.
The village head smiled awkwardly and said, "Some families have it, some don't. Some families have it, but it's not big. If something gets mixed in, it's easy to get blocked and hard to get out, so..."
Anyway, the yard is only this big, so you can wash things in the yard and just throw them out.
Zhou Man looked at him quietly for a while and said, "Since there's no drainage, then dig one. There's a drainage ditch outside, so just connect it. If you keep pouring water onto the road, even the best road will be ruined."
He added, "There's no need to punish them harshly even if we find them. Do you see the uneven potholes on this road?"
The village head nodded.
"Have his family fetch some stones and dirt to fill up these potholes. From now on, anyone who dumps water or garbage on the road will have to do the same. In addition to cleaning the streets, they will also have to fetch dirt and fill the roads themselves."
The village head asked, "What if all the potholes on the road are fixed?"
"Then let them clean the road," Zhou Man said. "I heard that the people from the weaving workshop clean this alley every day. If anyone violates the rules again, they will be fined to clean the road for a month. If they fail to do so, they will be fined again."
Village head: ...How cruel!
He originally wanted to impose fines and things like food and cloth.
He turned around and shouted at the people watching the excitement, "Did you hear what the adults said? If you keep throwing things on the road, you will have to repair and clean this road from now on!"
The guards found a few wooden boards and placed them on the ground, and then the palace maids helped Princess Mingda walk through the wet road.
Xibing followed suit and reached out to help Zhou Man.
Zhou Man could walk steadily by himself, but when he saw her asking for help, he extended his hand to her.
There is a river at the end of the alley, and this is already the downstream of the river. Because it is a weaving workshop and many people live there, Bai Shan took this into special consideration when renting the house.
They rented several rooms on both sides, which were right at the end of the alley.
Zhou Man asked the village head, "I see that the residents here are very unhappy. Why? Don't they like the weaving workshop being here?"
The village head was afraid that Zhou Man would move the weaving workshop if he said "I don't like it", so he quickly said, "No, Your Excellency knows that County Magistrate Bai offers a lot of rent, and it's paid annually, so many families here want to rent their houses to the county government. It's just that they can't rent it out, so they can't help but feel resentful. It's not that they don't like the weaving workshop, but they like it too much."
Not to mention Zhou Man, even Mingda was convinced by this explanation. He was stunned for a while before asking, "Where will they live after renting the house?"
"They can just rent a house somewhere else, or they can go back to their hometown to live. At worst, they can just build a thatched hut on the ground and live there."
Zhou Man: "... can straw huts be built anywhere? And is the rent offered by County Magistrate Bai really that high? To the point where they'd rather move out and rent a house?"
The village head smiled sheepishly, "It's a little more expensive than what you get outside, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that if the house is rented out, maybe my wife can find a job."
"Oh," Xibing used the idiom he had just learned, "it turns out the drunkard's real interest lies elsewhere."
The village head smiled awkwardly.
Zhou Man said: "If they want to join, they can just go to the county government office to apply. The weaving workshop still needs people and has not yet recruited enough people."
It's because no one liked it when I went there, so I came up with this idea.
However, the headman did not say it out loud, as he did not know whether this method would work. The most important thing was that they were disobedient and dumped things on the road because they were jealous and unwilling to accept the consequences.
But he didn't dare to tell this reason. What if the county government got angry and really moved the weaving workshop away?
So he could only try his best to stick to the reasons he came up with, and he felt that the reasons he found were really great.
See you at 10pm
(End of this chapter)
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