thefictionvixens Chapter 2079 Recruiting Women
Chapter 2079 Recruiting Women
In the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, dozens of managers gathered together, with Di Renjie sitting in the front, and the scene was like a court session.
"Hello, young master." Everyone bowed.
"No need to be polite, everyone. Please take a seat." Di Renjie looked evaluative. Although he was only eighteen years old, he was used to such scenes.
After everyone was seated, Di Renjie said:
"I asked you all to come here today because I have something to tell you."
"I wonder what instructions the young master has." Liu Su asked first.
"First, let me talk about the progress of the construction. At present, the progress is a bit slow. Di said that His Royal Highness Prince Ji wants us to speed up the progress.
The project needs to be completed before this winter, so the supervisors should urge the workers to increase the speed while ensuring the quality.
We must not disappoint His Royal Highness Prince Ji. "Di Renjie first looked at Liu Su's group, most of whom were supervisors.
They are all Liu Su's subordinates.
"Young Master, we are already working day and night, there is really no way we can go any faster."
A steward stood up and bowed to report.
"Manager Liu, what do you think?" Di Renjie looked at Liu Su.
"Young Master, to be honest, it is true. Yesterday I wanted to tell you that this city is too big.
We only have 110,000 laborers in total, and some of them are building the outer city and digging the moat.
If they were transferred to the middle city, the middle city could be completed, but the moat would probably never be fully dug."
Liu Su stood up and told the truth. He had never thought that King Ji had built a big city, much bigger than the city of Qinghai.
It took 100,000 laborers to build Qinghai City back then, but now there are only 10,000 more.
Di Renjie fell into deep thought after hearing this. He could tell that Liu Su was not just being perfunctory, so he didn't dare to.
But if I complete it, I won’t be able to explain to King Ji.
After a long while, Di Renjie looked up and said:
"In that case, we will continue to recruit and hire another 50,000 workers."
"My lord, this may be difficult." A steward in the front row stood up.
"Why?"
“My dear young master, our 110,000 men are the majority of the men from the four regions of Hizen, Chikuzen, Chikugo, and Buzen, as well as some of the men from the Hizen and Buzen regions.
If we want to recruit another 50,000 men, we will have to go to further places to recruit them.
Moreover...if we recruit so many men, the local families will be wary of us."
The steward explained.
Di Renjie frowned. It was indeed as the steward said. The number of laborers they recruited was indeed too many for this Chikushi Island.
This is simply incomparable to the Tang Dynasty.
According to his understanding, the entire Japanese country has less than one million households.
But if we don’t hire people, we won’t be able to complete the project on time.
"Young Master, we have recruited 110,000 people, and the local Nabeshima and Saga families have always been dissatisfied.
If the palace hadn't sent these five thousand guards, they might have wanted to attack us.
If we recruit another 50,000 men, the surrounding families will surely attack us together." Another steward stood up and said.
"I know what you said makes sense, but there is no other way for now except to recruit more people. The city must be completed, otherwise His Royal Highness Prince Ji will blame you and you will all be punished."
Di Renjie looked at everyone seriously.
Yes, if they fail to complete the task, they will all be punished by King Ji.
The hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone was thinking about countermeasures.
After a long time, Di Renjie suddenly said:
“Recruiting women.”
"What? Recruiting women?"
“What can you do by recruiting women?”
"Yeah, what can a woman do?"
After hearing Di Renjie's words, people in the hall began to talk.
Women were never recruited for labor in the Tang Dynasty, as they were not suitable for physical labor.
"quiet."
Di Renjie shouted and the hall became quiet.
“Everyone, you should all be in charge of the affairs of Prince Ji’s Mansion. Don’t forget that many workshops in Prince Ji’s Mansion recruit women.
I wonder if there is anyone in your family working in the Ji Wangfu workshop?
The clothing and weaving workshops in Prince Ji’s mansion are all run by women, and women can do a lot of things.”
"But we are building a city, which is different from weaving and embroidering." A manager stood up.
"Not all work in city construction requires physical labor, such as painting and paving. Some easy work can be done by them.
Let the men do the heavy work and pair them together, so that there will be more helpers.
There is also the work of digging a moat outside the city, which has no requirements and can be assigned to women.
If one person can't lift it, two people will do it, and transfer the men from the moat to the central city.
I just don’t believe that tens of thousands of women are not as good as thousands of men.”
Di Renjie remembered that the Prince Ji's Mansion was also recruiting female workers, and there were a lot of them. Since the Prince Ji's Mansion could do it, he could do it too.
"Pair them together? Isn't that bad?"
"Yes, it's not good for men and women to be together, especially now that the weather is hot. Men are working shirtless. Isn't that against etiquette?"
After Di Renjie finished speaking, people started discussing that although the Tang Dynasty was relatively open to women, it was still not open to the point where men and women could work together.
Especially the men were naked.
"Ahem!" Di Renjie coughed twice, and after everyone below quieted down, he smiled and said:
"Everyone, don't forget that this is Japan, not the Tang Dynasty. Those women are also Japanese women, and this has nothing to do with etiquette.
Maybe that's the case with Japan?"
"Haha, that's right, young master, what you said is absolutely right. I agree with you. What etiquette? That's the etiquette of our Tang Dynasty.
Japan has its own etiquette and laws. Their etiquette and laws are like this: men and women can be together.
Our Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette and we must respect the etiquette of other countries."
Liu Su was the first to stand up and laugh, and his laugh was very vulgar. However, Li Shenruo's laugh was even more vulgar than his.
"That makes sense. Our Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette and will not interfere with the laws and customs of other countries."
"Yes, that's how Japan is."
Everyone agreed, because they felt that what Di Renjie said was right, the woman was from Japan, not from their Tang Dynasty.
"Since everyone agrees, let's post a notice. As usual, those who can speak Tang language will be recruited first, and they will be divided into different levels like the men.
And they were allowed to go to academies to study and learn literacy to improve their grades.
However, their wages are 30% less than that of men, after all, they do not do as much work as men.
Transfer all the men digging the moat outside the city to the inner city. No matter what, we must complete the mission assigned by His Royal Highness Prince Ji and complete the construction of Prince Ji City before winter."
Seeing that everyone agreed, Di Renjie began to issue orders.
(Someone in the comments section actually said that I wrote this using AI. I really hope that what you said is true, so that I don’t have to stay up for five hours.)