The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 62
"How many couples are there?" Zhu Gaochi asked.

Zhou Shifeng hesitated for a while, and guessed with uncertainty: "Probably one or twenty."

I don't know if the little prince will be angry, everyone subconsciously looked at the nobleman, feeling uneasy.

"There are so many." Zhu Gaochi was stunned, how long had it been since the factory recruited workers.

Hearing the nobleman talk a lot, Zhou Shifeng and the others changed their expressions. Fortunately, what he said was relatively conservative, and he didn't say too much.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to make amends, he would come forward to send those couples away, but when he saw the nobleman laughing, Zhou Shifeng couldn't figure out the nobleman's intentions.

"Then provide couple's room." Zhu Gaochi agreed.

What happened to the couple's room?
There are so many new couples, even if they are not young, they will have children after getting married. A family will have at least two or three children.

What does it mean?
The population under his rule has increased by dozens of people because of his factories.

Dozens of mouths today, dozens of mouths tomorrow, and dozens of mouths in the next day, the cumulative numbers will be considerable.

And it is an industrial family, which is different from an agricultural family.

In an agricultural society, the population has reached the peak that can be accommodated by an acre of land, and future population growth is not a good thing.

The economy, consumption, taxation, etc., per capita will decline instead, and the national strength will be weak instead of strong.

Only the development of industry is different. The population absorbed by industry represents consumption, taxation, and economic improvement.

Now the workers of China Heavy Industry, they reproduce, and with their current wages, they can create wealth for Daming, not a drag.

However, the expansion speed of the land can never keep up with the reproduction of the population, and the peak can be reached in three generations. Only industry is the solution.

Zhu Gaochi was happy, and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhou Shifeng was a little unhappy. He said that he was too small just now, and he should be big.

Is it too late to change my words now, will it create a bad impression on the nobleman?

"Is there any compulsion?"

The virtue of some men is to be excited when they see widows and divorced women, and the same is true for the offices of later generations.

In the current conservative era, women who enter factories to work must be unable to get rid of it at home, and men in factories naturally feel that they are strong psychologically.

Zhu Gaochi is willing to increase the population, but the premise is the premise that both men and women are willing, not forced by someone.

"No, no." Zhou Shifeng waved his hands again and again.

Zhu Gaochi was a little skeptical, and urged: "Go and investigate this matter yourself, will some women be forced to bow by the overlord, and the raw rice will be cooked, but they don't dare to speak up, so they can only give in helplessly."

The people in the public house were speechless.

Are all nobles like this? At the age of 14, he understands human nature so well, and he looks very experienced when talking about men and women.

Seeing the nobleman's tough attitude, Zhou Shifeng quickly reassured, and then said worriedly: "But if the couple's room is provided, the four-person room becomes a two-person room, which is not enough in the first place, I'm afraid...".

"What do you think should be done?" Zhu Gaochi threw the question back to Zhou Shifeng, taking so much money from himself every month, he wanted to do something.

Zhou Shifeng quickly sorted out the clues and made sense.

"Some workers can continue to live in the homes of their fellow workers temporarily, and the construction of the second batch of dormitories should be started in advance." Halfway through the talk, Zhou Shifeng paused and proposed a bad move.

"Many people in the engineering team work outside. The demand for dormitories is not as high as that of the factory. We can allocate more of the engineering team's quota to the factory."

I'm afraid that the engineering team will be so angry that they will scold their mothers on the spot. Zhu Gaochi shook his head, sure enough there are contradictions everywhere.

I don't know who in the engineering team provoked Zhou Shifeng and made him come up with a bad idea.

"According to what you said, I will go over there to urge the engineering team in person." Zhu Gaochi agreed, and took the initiative to solve some problems.

The engineering team and the factory are two sets of teams, and Zhou Shifeng's appearance has little effect. In order to solve the problem of the husband and wife's house, Zhu Gaochi is willing to come down in person.

"When will Zhang Dehui come back?" Before leaving, Zhu Gaochi confirmed it.

Recently, I have to be distracted by the guards, and I may not come to the factory for a few days, but I haven't seen Zhang Dehui for many days, and I have to discuss many things with him.

Zhang Dehui was busier than himself, not only in the factory for a long time, but also heard that his mother-in-law had been to the factory, and suspected that he was raising someone outside.

"Boss Zhang's family has been in Baoding for five days. According to his arrangement, if there is no change, he can come back the next day." Zhou Shifeng remembers clearly.

Zhu Gaochi counted his own time, so he told Zhou Shifeng: "Then let's come back in the future and tell him when you see Zhang Dehui, otherwise we may not see him again."

"Save it." Zhou Shifeng agreed.

After leaving the public house, before going to the engineering team next door, Zhu Gaochi deliberately went back to his place, only to see that the two brothers Zhu Gaoxu were already bored.

Seeing the eldest brother seemed to have met a savior.

"Brother, shall we go back?"

"You guys wait for a while, we still have some things to do."

"Brother won't go back, let's go back by ourselves." Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently.

"Then don't follow us next time."

In the past, it was Zhu Gaoxu's business to run around, but this time he was brought out by himself and took responsibility, so he must be watching him go back.

Zhu Gaosui's face was wrinkled, and he stared at his second brother nervously, hoping that his second brother would take him away quickly, it's so boring here.

It's really boring to follow the big brother, and I won't come again next time.

Zhu Gaoxu actually stayed obediently.

Seeing that the second child was not making trouble, Zhu Gaochi softened his heart, "We will be back soon."

Teenagers are curious about everything, thinking that the world of adults is full of excitement, only to be disappointed after exposure to it, and understand what is boring.

Zhang Quan didn't know that Zhu Gaochi was going to the next door, so he stayed behind to guard the two young masters, and Zhu Gaochi walked alone on the road to the factory.

In front of the factory building, there is a large open space. The ground has been compacted and crushed stones are scattered, so it will not become muddy ground even in rainy days.

In the porter's room, the long followers of the two brothers Zhu Gaoxu were gambling, Zhu Gaochi frowned, but walked out without making a sound.

Unknowingly, a person went outside.

Looking at the waterwheels of different sizes on the river and the houses on both sides, I realized that I was alone.

Never thing.

No matter where the original owner went, he was accompanied by at least three or five people, or he felt that there were too many people, so he gradually only brought Zhang Quan with him.

The engineering team has three large courtyards connected to form one courtyard, with thirteen houses.

Four are used as various warehouses to store tools, one accounting room, three office rooms, three livestock rooms, and two miscellaneous rooms.

"That figure is so familiar." Xu Ning took a rest by the window while drinking tea.

"It seems to be the little prince."

Xu Ning immediately put down his teacup and ran out in a big jog.

"Where are the people next to the little prince?"

Xu Ning turned blue from running.

"I was about to come to you, but it so happened that you saw us first." Zhu Gaochi laughed.

(End of this chapter)