Chapter 591 The Chen Family's Hope for Revival
At this time, Chen Er came back from outside and saw a room full of women in silence. He casually asked, "What's wrong?"
Old Mrs. Chen was furious and pointed at them and said, "The Shen family wants to open a sugar factory. I asked them to prepare well and apply for the job when they are recruiting. Look at them like this. I really..."
Chen Er frowned, "Grandma, I heard that the Shen family will recruit people from Shangyang Village, and we may not want them."
He heard it from Shen Xiao.
Ever since they were released from conscription last time, Wang Hao and his colleagues no longer had to go to the mine. They spent the whole day farming and seemed to have become much calmer.
As a disciple of Master Qin, although Chen Er was unable to develop gunpowder with Shen Xiao, he did a lot of research on the cold weapons of the Military Equipment Bureau. Because of this, he and Shen Xiao had a closer relationship.
"Why not recruit people from our yard?" Old Mrs. Chen was stunned and didn't react.
Chen Er nodded and said, "We already have a lot of work to do in the yard, how can we spare some manpower to go to the sugar factory?"
"Well, my family has worked hard, so we can still get a share." Old Mrs. Chen was a little depressed. She had lost another opportunity to establish a good relationship with the Shen family.
Chen Er didn't reply, but instead said, "Don't control the sugar mill for now. I heard we're going to plant cotton this year, so we should go get a piece of wasteland and start clearing it out."
Last month, Shen Qingqian mentioned the issue of cotton planting to Liang Cheng. In addition to cultivating higher-yield cotton in the planting base, they will also start trying to plant it this year.
There is no doubt that cotton-padded clothes can keep you warm. After consulting Shen Qingqian, Liang Cheng has designated an area for planting cotton. However, in order to increase the income of the people in northern Hubei, Shen Qingqian suggested that it be promoted among the people starting this year.
April is the season for planting cotton, and related publicity work has already begun in early March.
However, because there were too few finished cotton clothes, other people did not have much trust in it. As for Huanxiyuan, the land had been occupied by other economic crops and there was no place to grow cotton.
Now that spring plowing is over, everyone has just taken a break and has not had time to plan this matter.
Chen Er went home today just for this matter, mainly because the army had already formulated the purchase price of cotton, and he felt that the Chen family could fully seize this opportunity.
"How could I have forgotten about this?" Old Mrs. Chen cheered up. "You're right. Cotton is a good thing. Even if we don't sell it to the army, we can still make money by selling it to ordinary people in the city."
Old Mrs. Chen was a person of action, and she immediately stood up and walked out.
Since the women in the family are not ambitious and don't want to work in the sugar factory, let them do something else.
The women of the Chen family: ""
They originally thought they could rest for a while after spring plowing, but now they have to open up wasteland and plant cotton again. They simply feel like life is hopeless.
Thinking of the culprit behind all this, all the women in the room glared at Chen Er.
Chen Er didn't care about this and went back to his room as if nothing had happened.
He is special in the Chen family. All the other brothers and sisters have to squeeze into one room, but he has a room of his own because Old Mrs. Chen sees him as the hope for the Chen family's revival.
The sugar factory was in full swing of preparation. On this day, Shen Qingqian finally freed up half a day to start selecting workers for the sugar factory.
At first, she wanted to go directly to Shangyang Village to select people, but Village Chief Xu came to her specifically, hoping that she could also select some people from Huanxiyuan, otherwise he was afraid that it would be difficult for her.
After thinking about it, Shen Qingqian decided to recruit workers in the open space outside Huanxiyuan.
It’s not that she was afraid of having a hard time, but she thought of a way to maximize productivity.
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