She Became A Downfall Noble Lady

The day after Jinrong arrived at Guangsha Construction Firm, Zhang Chang, Zhao Qiusheng, and Liu Qing officially took up residence at Guangsha Construction to work on the preliminary preparations for laying out the railway lines, alongside Qi Younian. These preparations included not just familiarization with the construction process, but also surveying and confirming the terrain.

Fortunately, Qi Younian and others had already done this once; now, it was simply a matter of expanding a sixty-li track into a thousand-li one.

Besides arranging preparatory matters for laying out the tracks, Guangsha Construction began a rather large-scale recruitment.

This time, the recruitment of craftsmen was much smoother than before. After the last disturbance, many people, including those in Jishui Lane, knew that the Qi family’s Guangsha Construction Firm was involved with the granddaughter of Duke An, and that its owner was on very good terms with His Highness Prince Yu.

This recruitment was made all the more prominent because Guangsha Construction had undertaken the court’s railway transport project.

That is to say, this construction firm now had the backing of the government office, so which craftsman or construction firm would dare to mess with such an entity?

At this point, many people became intrigued. Within the capital city, the civilian construction firms with court connections already had their fixed craftsmen. Guangsha Construction, being an outsider and newly established, was now recruiting craftsmen for the railway project. Did this mean that those craftsmen without a steady job could find a long-term place to stay, to earn a consistent wage?

Therefore, recruiting at Guangsha Construction this time was much simpler; craftsmen came in droves to try out for positions. This indeed confirmed what Jinrong had said, that a shout in Jishui Lane could easily gather a hundred and eighty craftsmen.