"This Master Yang hasn't left the yard for a long time!"
Seeing Yang Zhengwen, Mother Chen couldn't help but tease him, "A Xiu usually takes good care of him and feeds him. Why did he feel like coming out today?"
Although Yang Zhengwen had married Ah Xiu, he still hadn't made his life clear yet. He blushed when he heard Mother Chen teasing him like that. But Ah Xiu said, "Mother Chen, don't tease our master. He has been studying hard in his room these days. Today I have good news to tell you all."
"What good news?" Liu asked with a smile.
Yang Zhengwen said: "The article I wrote some time ago was noticed by the dean of Yuelu Academy. He guaranteed me, and next month I will be able to take the imperial examination as a student of Yuelu Academy!" The laws of this dynasty are strict. After passing the examination to become a scholar, if one does not study in a school designated by the court, one cannot continue to take the imperial examination.
Yang Xiucai studied in a school in his hometown. When he arrived in the capital, his original plan was to first pass the entrance examination to a school and then continue to take the imperial examination.
"Is it Yuelu Academy?!" Liu was a little surprised.
She didn't know about this academy at first, but she had been with the noble ladies more recently, so she naturally wanted to know what they were talking about. Yuelu Academy was considered the most noble academy in this dynasty. Even if you had a fortune, you couldn't get in if you didn't meet the academic requirements. Anyone who could get into Yuelu Academy would become a marquis or a prime minister in the future.
Yang Xiucai lowered his head embarrassedly and agreed.
"That's great news, we have to celebrate it!" Liu said hurriedly.
"No need to bother."
Liu didn't listen, and quickly told Chen Mama to go out and buy some good things together, and have a big meal to celebrate at noon. Yang Xiucai was in a hurry, and there were not many days left before the imperial examination this year. Yuelu Academy was anxious to get him there, so he moved from his home to the academy that night.
It wasn’t very far, and the round trip by carriage only took an hour, so everyone didn’t feel reluctant to leave.
Originally, Yang Xiucai didn't go out often, especially the next afternoon, when Tu Jiu, who had gone to the south by boat, also came back.
"Master Jiu, you're back!" Jin Cai went out and hurriedly took the bag from Tu Jiu, still smiling sweetly, "Master Jiu, you've worked hard on this trip..." Before she could finish her words, she lowered her eyes and saw a short woman standing next to Tu Jiu. She had big eyes and white skin. She was not extremely beautiful, but she was cute at first sight.
Seeing Jin Cai looking at her again, the woman seemed a little scared and hid behind Tu Jiu.
Jin Cai's originally smiling face suddenly fell.
"What's so hard about it? The work the master gave me isn't hard." Tu Jiu said as he walked in. "But I'm quite thirsty after walking all the way here. Jin Cai, can you pour me a cup of tea?"
Jin Cai threw his package on his head, turned around and left.
Tu Jiu took the package and looked confused.
"Tu Jiu, take them into the yard." A clear female voice came, and Tu Jiu looked over.
Shen Qingqiu had grown a lot taller this year, and her cheeks, which were originally a little chubby, gradually revealed the delicate appearance of a young girl, but the slight coldness between her eyebrows and eyes was still the same as before. Tu Jiu nodded, then opened the door, and saw about twenty women wearing the same clothes outside the door, most of them were beautiful.
Jin Cai looked at her for a while and realized that she was wrong. The woman just now should not be the concubine that Jiu Ye brought back from his trip to the south.
Even if I could, I couldn't bring back more than twenty at a time.
He followed Tu Jiu into the yard again.
Shen Qingqiu set up a square table in the courtyard, with white paper on it and writing brushes and ink beside it. She was sitting on a rattan chair at the gate of the courtyard, saying, "I think Tu Jiuxiang has already told you about the incident on the way. No one here will tell you about your past, and no one will ask about it. I am hiring a female teacher from the textile factory, and I will give you two taels of silver per month."
Then he looked at the woman below him, "Do you have anything to ask me?"
A woman in her twenties stood up and asked, "Miss, although we know what weaving means, we have never heard of a textile factory. Moreover, I have never even come into contact with weaving cloth or feeding silkworms."
Shen Qingqiu only said: "If it's about weaving cloth and feeding silkworms, I can just find some farmers, why bother looking for you who can read and write? I'm looking for you to be female tutors, and I'll naturally teach you what to teach you in the first two months." As she spoke, the corners of her lips curled up slightly, "But this is not a charity shop. If you don't pass the assessment after two months, you naturally can't stay any longer."
"I'm asking you to sign this, but it's not a contract of sale. You are not allowed to pass on what you learned from me to others, otherwise I will send you to the government for theft." Shen Qingqiu said, "If you agree, then sign it and follow Tu Jiu to settle Xuanlai before it gets dark. If you don't agree, don't worry, I won't send you back, just leave on your own."
The woman thought about it for a long time and nodded, "I am willing to work for the boss."
She was the oldest among the group of women, and when she nodded, the other women also nodded.
Shen Qingqiu didn't have the time to wait for them to sign and seal one by one. After handing them over to Tu Jiu and Jin Cai, he left first. While collecting the documents, Jin Cai talked to Tu Jiu, "Who are these women? What are they here for?"
Tu Jiu said: "Master asked them to come here to do the work." As for who they were, he didn't say a word.
Jin Cai was so angry that she wanted to hit him, but she just bit her lip and followed him to collect the documents one by one.
Shen Qingqiu went to Liu's place.
Now that she has the machine and the weaving girl, she naturally plans to open a textile factory. In today's world, the weaving technology is still too backward, but the first generation of textile machines in the future can catch up with the weaving speed several times faster, and food, clothing, housing and transportation are the four major points of survival.
If she could master [clothing], she would have grasped the pulse of the nation. Thinking of this, Shen Qingqiu shook her head. She didn't have such big ambitions. She just came to this world and it would be unreasonable not to do something.
"It is not allowed to establish it in my name."
When she heard her daughter say she wanted to open a textile factory, Liu agreed at first, but when she heard she wanted to set up the textile factory under her own name, she shook her head. Liu is no longer the concubine Liu in Shen Bin's backyard. After a year of business, she can see the profit of this textile factory. How can a small factory weave the same amount of cloth as all the weavers in the country in one month?
The huge wealth here is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
"Qiu'er, mother has an engagement with the Marquis's Mansion, and I will have to move into the Mansion sooner or later. Although I know that the Marquis is not the kind of person who is blinded by money, there are so many people in the Mansion. If I move into the Mansion and become its mistress, then is your textile factory mine or his?" I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it clearly at that time.
Shen Qingqiu thought about it and it made sense. She didn't think it was expensive to give her mother a textile factory as a dowry.
But money can make people excited. There are many hidden tricks in wealthy families like the Marquis' Mansion. This textile factory is like a big gold brick, and it is bound to bring disaster to her mother.
Fortunately, Gu Yong, who wanted to be a cheap father, had some skills. Knowing that Shen Qingqiu was going to open a textile factory, he got her an identity of [Gu Qingqiu] that night. It was not a fake identity after it was registered. The only fake thing was that this [Gu Qingqiu] was a man.
"It's safer for a girl to dress like a man when she goes out." Gu Yong patted her shoulder.
Shen Qingqiu looked at him. It was not because of gender. What did this man mean by changing his last name? But in the end, he just curled his lips and ignored him. That night, outside the city in the suburbs of Beijing, Shen Qingqiu bought a barren mountain and the flat land below for two thousand taels of silver. The next morning, Tu Jiu found craftsmen to start construction. With a generous amount of silver and a large number of people, the house was completed in more than a month, almost two months.
The craftsmen hung up the plaque and covered it with a layer of red cloth, waiting for the owner to come and set off firecrackers to officially open the business.
The twenty or so women had been trained for nearly two months, and the house behind the textile factory had been built. The next day, Shen Qingqiu and Liu brought the group of weaving girls here.
Firecrackers popped all over the floor, and a lion dance team was invited, which was a great start.
As the saying goes, one should not show off one's talent, and one should keep quiet when making money. Shen Qingqiu did all these things quietly, and except for those who were interested in finding out, no one thought it was strange that he opened a factory outside the suburbs of Beijing.
"A textile factory is a cloth shop, right?" Princess Changping frowned. "That girl is so naughty. She even gave a cloth shop such a weird name."
"Then Princess, what should we do?" asked the maid.
Princess Changping shook her head, "What can a cloth shop do? I have all the cloth shops in the capital under my control. From now on, I will not allow anyone to sell cloth to anyone who claims to be buying from her. I wonder if her textile factory can continue to operate." She waved her hand again, "Forget it. This princess has been so idle these days that she was actually tripped up by this little girl."
Instead of venting my anger, I was only getting angrier. I should just ignore it. What's more important is the real thing.
"Those old guys in Sichuan and Guizhou are getting harder to serve now," Princess Changping frowned and whispered to the maid, "Go and tell the subordinates to make sure they find delicate girls. If there are no girls at home, go and look for those from wealthy merchants and small officials. Don't be greedy and look for girls from poor families. They will be rough if you touch them."
The maid nodded and was about to leave.
He remembered something and said, "Oh, Princess, I heard from the people in the Liu family that Liu's cousin entered Yuelu Academy two months ago. It seems that he will take the imperial examination this year."
Princess Changping didn't take it seriously at first, "Find some people to trip him up..." But as she said this, she stood up from her seat, "Imperial examination?" She murmured, her eyes shining as if she had thought of a good idea.
After a moment, he looked up again and smiled at the maid Biyu, "Biyu, come here."
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