Qiming 1158

Chapter 942 Workplace Women in Tai'an Prefecture
Su Yonglin's suggestion caused extensive discussions and disputes at the central meeting of the Revival Society.

The reason why he made this suggestion at this time is not only the need for policy advancement, but also for other reasons.

This reason is a bit special.

Not long ago, Su Yonglin took time to read a work report from the Tai'an State Revival Branch. The report mentioned one thing that caught Su Yonglin's attention.

Xiao Cui, a young female worker who worked in a textile factory set up by the imperial court in Tai'an Prefecture, was doing a good job in the factory. She suddenly heard that her father had given her a son from a family in a neighboring village, and she was asked to leave the factory to get married.

And the reason why this marriage happened is because her father, who likes to drink heavily, owes debts because of alcoholism. He borrowed money from others to drink, and he is lazy and lazy, so he doesn't have any money to pay his debts.

Because he wanted more money to drink, he accepted the family's three chickens and three ducks, and a small amount of dowry money, so he decided to give his daughter Xiao Cuixu to the family's son.

Xiao Cui resisted with all her might and firmly disagreed with this marriage.

The alcoholic father was very annoyed and felt that he had lost face and his father's authority, so he conspired with the family to bring people to the factory to make trouble, and asked the factory to hand over Xiao Cui and bring him back to marry.

After the workers in the factory learned about the incident, they were very angry about it.

Xiao Cui works conscientiously and responsibly on weekdays, and is very popular in the workshop, so everyone, under the leadership of the workshop instructor Fang Zhiqiang, helped Xiao Cui drive away his alcoholic father and the helpers of the family.

But those people didn't give up, they came to the factory many times to make trouble, disrupting the production order, making noise, and causing everyone to live in peace.

In desperation, Xiao Cui got Fang Zhiqiang's suggestion and went to the public opinion consultation room in Tai'an to ask the local revival members for help, hoping to get rid of this nightmare.

The Tai'an Fuxing Association was shocked to learn about this, and felt speechless at the father's behavior, expressing respect for Xiao Cui's choice, so they sent someone to coordinate, hoping to resolve the matter.

On the very day they sent people to mediate, Xiao Cui's father brought people over to make trouble again. More than 20 middle-aged men tried to storm the factory and brought Xiao Cui out.

The coordinator of the revival association was furious and immediately stepped forward to stop it. They also called for Xiao Cui's village instructor and the president of the peasant association to discuss it together.

Knowing the name of the Renaissance Society, Xiao Cui's father was a little restrained, but he still insisted that this daughter was brought up by him, and he was the master of marriage.

In a word, she must marry if she is married, or if she does not marry.

The coordinator asked the president of the peasant association and the instructor for help. Both of them reluctantly said that Xiao Cui’s father was a famous alcoholic and lazy in the village. On track, all failed.

No matter how good or bad he has said, this person doesn't eat oil and salt, and he doesn't eat hard or soft. He is just a flat-out waste. Letting him do things is more tiring than they help him finish things, so they have given up.

They entrusted his family's land to the left and right neighbors, and asked the left and right neighbors to help his wife cultivate part of the land, and then the left and right neighbors each received 20.00% of the harvest as remuneration, and the remaining 60.00% maintained their family's food and clothing.

Really, in an era of unprecedented excitement and excitement among farmers, in an era when everyone is working hard to cultivate the land to accumulate wealth, there is still such waste.

They also opened their eyes.

But this time the coordinator was helpless.

As a civil servant, the most fearful thing is encountering a cheeky rogue. As long as you encounter it, you can't beat him, and you can't scold him.

This Xiao Cui's father is such a person.

More importantly, the coordinators cannot rely on this kind of thing.

Due to lack of energy and time, the content of the first edition of the "Ming Law" was mainly to assist political reform. In the aspect of marriage, the principle of non-intervention by the imperial court was continued in the past, and the people were allowed to be independent, and there were no more regulations.

Business as usual for now.

The coordinator was helpless and went to the family who wanted to marry Xiao Cui to work.

The family was from a neighboring village, with a lot of labor and land. In that village, it was considered a big business, and his words were quite weighty.

They also said that the dowry was given, the chickens and ducks were given, and the debts were forgiven. Father Xiao promised to give his daughter to their son. Now that he regrets it, who will bear their losses?

They also work hard to make money to accumulate wealth!

The coordinator thought it was reasonable, so he hoped that Father Xiao would return the dowry money and chickens and ducks to the family, and everyone sat down again to discuss, but it didn't work.

Father Xiao had already exchanged the chicken and duck for money, and bought wine and drank it with the dowry money. Including the arrears, it was a large sum. Xiao Cui’s family couldn’t afford it at all, so Father Xiao insisted on using it. daughter to pay off the debt.

This time it's good, it's deadlocked.

The coordinators were unable to coordinate this matter, and in the end they could only say that they would not interfere in marriage, but they could not continue to mess around, and they could not continue to make trouble and make noises in the workshop.

If the chaos continues, disrupting the production order of the factory, affecting the production of the factory, and the imperial court is convicted, they will notify the government to arrest people.

Arrest all of you troublemakers and put them in jail to eat!Do hard labor!Also compensate the court for losses!
It doesn't matter if you eat prison food, Xiao Cui's father has not eaten it before, and thinks that prison food is good, and it is considered to be eating imperial food in a certain sense.

But when they heard that they were going to be arrested and do hard labor to lose money, Xiao Cui's father and others did not dare to forcibly make trouble, and did not dare to enter the workshop again.

But they said something, saying that Xiao Cui had the ability to hide in the workshop all his life, and as long as he came out, he would definitely take her back to marry her.

So Xiao Cui is still hiding in the workshop and does not go out. Xiao Cui's father also appears outside the workshop from time to time, as if he wanted to take Xiao Cui away and send her to get married.

This thing is so deadlocked.

After Su Yonglin learned about this, he thought about it for a while.

It should be said that since Su Yonglin has a stable base, he has begun to consciously liberate the productivity of women.

This idea was first implemented in his early important base, Tai'an Prefecture, because Tai'an Prefecture has iron ore, large-scale mining fields and iron smelting workshops, and many workers work in it.

At that time, Su Yonglin decided to hire unmarried young girls to work in the factory, providing logistical help for the workers and paying wages.

He plans to use Tai'an as an early experiment to see if women's participation in social work has a positive impact on the social economy.

It turns out that there is.

After a young woman joins the job, the income of a normal family will increase. With an extra income, the family's property situation will be much better. Parents are more inclined to marry their daughters later, hoping that they will have more time to make money.

Whether it is subsidizing the family or raising enough dowry for themselves, there is a positive meaning, and this also virtually curbs the local custom of marrying daughters at the age of twelve or thirteen.

Like men, women who work in the workplace can also eat a free and more hearty lunch in the workshop.

In addition to the wages, there are also some benefits of meat, oil, rice and noodles during the New Year and festivals. When you are sick, you can take medicine and see a doctor in the small clinic inside the factory without spending money.

If a family has many children, in addition to the necessary land labor, other children are working in the factory, then the burden on the family will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the mining workshops and iron smelting workshops in Tai'an have quickly become the local sweets, and it is the dream of many peasant families to get a job there.

With the transformation of the Shengjie Army to the Restoration Army and the Ming Army, Su Yonglin's stall became larger and larger, and the demand for steel increased. More locals were admitted to work.

At the same time, there is also a local textile factory established during the war, which specially provides summer and winter uniforms and quilts for the army. After continuous expansion and development, the scale is now also large.

According to the written report of the Tai'an State Revival Branch, Su Yonglin learned that the local folk customs have changed a lot over the years.

The first is that it rarely happens that a daughter gets married very early.

(End of this chapter)