Chapter 602 - 600 Time reveals a person’s heart (second update)
Although the clothing workshop was murky and unhealthy under Kewo’s supervision, there were indeed honest people getting real work done.
Only, these veterans of the clothing workshop were suppressed and pushed aside by Kewo time and again, forced to do the most tiring and burdensome tasks.
Li Xianyun learned quite a bit of information from those who had labored in the clothing workshop for many years.
In the beginning, the workshop operated normally under the official government’s management.
But ever since Kewo arrived, he colluded with local gentry, eliminated dissent, and his reach extended ever further.
The former, upright female workers of the workshop had all been dismissed for various reasons, replaced by female members of punished officials’ families and abducted women from the Han ethnic group.
They wantonly exploited the labor of these pitiful women without incurring any cost.
In just a short year, each of them made a fortune.
What shocked Li Xianyun even more was that the back courtyard of the workshop actually harbored numerous well-dressed women who, because of their good looks, were selected; they didn’t have to sell their labor, but were forced to sell their bodies.
Kewo used these women to entertain the gentry and secure his influence over the powerful.