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.