Half an hour later, Shu Guan's figure slowly emerged from outside the rear wall of the match factory.
He had carefully looked at everything in the factory just now. As for the results, he couldn't say whether he was satisfied or not.
He first went to see the workshop of the female Hu paper worker. It was a huge warehouse. There was some air leakage in the warehouse. It would be a bit cold to sit in it on windy days in winter, but it was still strong and the house would basically not collapse. ACCIDENT.
It was filled with matchboxes, good or bad. More than a hundred female workers wearing sleeves sat on small benches among the piles of matchboxes, silently picking up the matchboxes.
There are few people talking, because here, every time you add a matchbox, you can earn a little more money for your family. At the end of the year, maybe we can buy an extra pound of meat and an extra item for our husband and children. new clothes.
So everyone lowered their heads, hunched their waists, and mechanically held the small matchbox, as if they were tireless.
Shu Guan stood silently in the warehouse for a long time. No one could see him, but he could see everyone.
The immortal looks down on all living beings.
But at this moment, Shu Guan suddenly felt that this feeling was not good.
Then he went to the kitchen of the factory and saw several cooks preparing today's lunch meal.
Two corn buns per person, a bowl of relatively thick porridge, and some pickles.
Then, Shu Guan ran to the female workers' dormitory and took a look.
Twelve people live in a room. There are public toilets on each floor with hot water. The person who looks after the dormitory is an aunt.
Finally, Shu Guan walked back to the building where manager Liu had just received him, walked past the offices, and finally found Manager Liu in the innermost room on the second floor.
Manager Liu was excitedly reporting to an old man in a silk robe for the first time, saying that after more than a hundred new female workers arrived, the production scale could be expanded by another 30%.
Shu Guan was finally convinced that this was a normal factory, and then he left.
Then, after walking for seven or eight minutes, she came to the second factory she wanted to see today.
This is a spinning mill called Dachang.
The one who received Shu Guan was the director of the spinning factory. He was a thin middle-aged man named Zhou with a rather stern look. Just like Manager Liu from the match factory, he first asked Shu Guan for an introduction. the identity of the female worker.
After hearing that they all had local household registration, their expressions softened a little.
The conditions offered by this factory are much better than those of the original match factory. The daily wages can reach twelve cents, which is equivalent to a monthly salary of two silver dollars.
And the working hours are similar to those in a match factory, except that if there are a lot of orders during peak seasons, you have to work overtime until 8 p.m., and overtime wages are calculated separately.
In comparison, Shu Guan felt that the treatment was better than that of that match factory. If he had to choose, he would definitely choose this one.
However, when he came in with the invisibility charm for the second time and walked around, he rejected the choice he had just made.
Because the factory director Zhou said that if you are a novice, you can only go to the cocoon peeling and silk reeling workshop, or go to the woolen spinning factory.
So using the invisibility charm to return to the spinning mill, Shu Guan first visited these three places.
In the cocoon-peeling room, the rotting cocoons emitted a strange smell, but there were many female workers who were immersed in peeling the cocoons while breathing the nauseating odor.
In the silk reeling room, the light was extremely dim and the air was also extremely dull. The reeling machine made a huge noise. There were also many boilers on the machine. Hot water was constantly flowing out of the boilers, pouring out basins for peeling. In the wooden basin of a good silkworm cocoon, the thermometer of the boiler indicates 210 degrees. Only at this temperature is it easiest to extract the silk ends from the cocoon and then put them into the reeling machine.
Hundreds of female workers were working in such a stifling and noisy environment, wearing thick gloves and inserting their hands into the boiling water in pots and pans. Their faces were steamed yellow and thin by the hot stench. When I pulled it out of the glove, it was already red and swollen from the heat.
As for the woolen spinning workshop, the spinning machines were arranged very densely. It was also a dull and noisy space, and thin silk wadding was everywhere. The hair and eyebrows of the female workers were dyed white by the silk wadding.
The most important thing is that although the female workers all wear masks, it is still difficult to avoid the silk wadding getting into their mouths and noses with their breathing.
Seeing this scene, Shu Guan raised his eyebrows slightly, because he knew very well that if they worked in such an environment every day, within a few years, these female workers would definitely have lung problems.
Then he left the Dachang Spinning Factory directly without looking at other places, not planning to come back again.
Although the wages offered by this spinning factory are much higher than that of the match factory, working in such an environment will lead to occupational diseases within a few years. Shuguan will never want the villagers to work here. .
The third factory he chose yesterday was also a spinning factory, but after seeing the situation inside the Dachang Spinning Factory just now, Shu Guan was not ready to go there again.
What he didn't expect was that when Shuguan was heading to the fourth factory, one kilometer away from the Dachang Spinning Factory, he passed the Lixing Spinning Factory he had originally chosen.
While passing by, Shu Guan looked inside through the iron gate.
Then he was slightly startled and stopped.
Today he has been to two factories. Whether it is the Guangming Match Factory or the Dachang Spinning Factory, the environment inside is messy, with low and dilapidated factory buildings, garbage thrown everywhere, and sewage flowing horizontally.
But when Shu Guan took a quick look at this Lixing spinning factory, he found that it was extremely neat and clean inside. The factory buildings inside were also very new, and there were also many flowers, plants and trees planted, just like a garden.
Inside, I occasionally saw workers wearing uniform work clothes walking by. Their faces were not like those of the workers in the other two factories. Their faces were always full of sadness and tiredness. The workers in this factory had rosy faces and even wore Smiling.
For a moment, Shu Guan thought he had traveled through time again.
Originally, he was no longer planning to visit this spinning mill, but after hesitating for a while, he still chose to go in and take a look. But this time, he did not go to find anyone first, but directly used the invisibility charm to go in. Went around this factory.
The factory inside is very spacious, with plenty of light, air circulation, and hot and cold air ducts to adjust the temperature inside the factory. The machines look much more advanced than those of Dachang Spinning Factory, and the noise is minimal. The water in the reeling room is only slightly warm. It is not hot to the touch, and there is no hot odor in the workshop. The most distinctive feature is that the pots for cooking cocoons are all installed in a large machine and steamed with electricity, avoiding the need for manual labor to pump high-temperature water like the Dachang Spinning Mill. silk process.
Then, after Shu Guan walked around other places in the factory area, he suddenly discovered that this factory not only has a medical room, a reading room, a recreation room, a rest room, clean toilets everywhere, and bathrooms with hot water supply, but also There is a nursery specially prepared for female workers.
After traveling through the entire factory area, Shu Guan really doubted whether he had really traveled through time again, because even in that era of his previous life, such a factory area was considered quite good.
Compared with the other one-kilometer Dachang spinning factory, this Lixing spinning factory is like another world.
At this moment, Shu Guan suddenly made up his mind. No matter what, he would find a way to get the girls from Taoyuan Village to work in this spinning mill.
Then he left the factory area, went back outside, tidied his clothes, and then walked back to the gate of Lixing Spinning Factory.
Within ten minutes, he met the director of Lixing Spinning Mill in an office in a four-story Western-style building surrounded by flowers and trees in the factory area.
This is an office with a simple and elegant layout. Behind the mahogany office, there is a large bookcase. When entering the door, Shu Guan glanced at the bookcase. It was filled with books, basically about machinery. There are even a few professional books on spinning technology in Injili, as well as some management books. These books give the office a bookish feel.
The owner of this office is also a very polite young man in his early thirties. Unlike the directors and managers of the other two factories that Shu watched today, he looks like he has climbed up from the bottom step by step. This person is different. A young man who calls himself Fang looks more like a scholar.
After asking about the identity of the female worker, the young factory director Fang asked Shu Guan one more question.
"Excuse me, are they literate?"
Shu Guan was slightly startled.
Because neither Manager Liu nor Factory Director Zhou he met today asked this question.
In this era, even in big cities like Jingcheng, the literacy rate of women is very low, and if they are literate, who would be willing to come to these factories, do such hard work, and easily get occupational diseases? Live!
So after being stunned for a moment, Shu Guan shook his head.
Then I saw the gentle Factory Director Fang with a look of regret on his face.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Shu, if the female worker you introduced is illiterate, she won't be able to work in our factory."
"Because our Lixing Textile Factory is different from those old-fashioned textile factories and silk reeling factories. It is a new factory built safely and in accordance with the standards of the Western Continent. All the spinning and reeling machines have just been imported from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, so in Those who work in our factory must have at least a primary school diploma."
Shu Guan was silent for a moment.
After seeing the situation inside this factory, he really wanted to let the girls from Taoyuan Village work here, but now the reason for their refusal was also very legitimate.
"...Director Fang, although the people I introduced are illiterate, they are very hardworking and smart. They can learn..."
"This is not a question of hard work or not, but if you are illiterate, you simply cannot operate those new machines."
Director Fang directly interrupted Shu Guan's words, and looked at him as if he was ready to see the guests off directly.
At this moment, there was a knock on the office door, and then someone pushed the door open and walked in from behind Shu Guan.
"Miss……"
When Director Fang saw the visitor, he immediately showed a respectful look on his face and stood up from his seat.
"Director Fang, when you are in the factory, don't call me miss, but call me director."
An elegant and melodious voice came from behind.
Shu Guan looked back.
