Qiming 1158

Chapter 949 Xiao Cui decides to buy a house
After the Great Revolution, Su Yonglin wiped out seventy-eighty-eighty eighty-eighty people in the city.

Seventy-eighth of the upper class people were eliminated, and seventy-eighty-eight of the main consumer groups in the city also disappeared.

After these people were eliminated, a large number of citizens who were constantly wandering around them had no livelihood, no source of income, and no way to live in the city at all.

So they had to leave the city with their family and try to return to the countryside to settle down and live the days of men farming and women weaving again.

This has led to a massive wave of urban residents returning home.

It was also precisely because of this wave of revolution that a large number of rural land was regained control by the imperial court, which was precisely when the imperial court needed the agricultural population to fill the gap and expand the area of ​​agricultural production.

Therefore, this wave of "reversing history" behavior has a successful transition without any risk.

A large number of "citizens" returned to the countryside from the cities to settle down, returned to the fields, obtained rural household registration, land and houses, agricultural tools and agricultural preferential policies, and began to cultivate the fields and restart food production.

A wave of "counter-urbanization" is taking place in the territory of the current Ming Dynasty.

As the central area of ​​the Great Revolution, the cleanest area where the upper class was cleaned, and the area where anti-urbanization occurred most violently, Laiwu County in Tai'an Prefecture naturally inevitably saw a large number of "citizens" who returned to the countryside to settle down. .

Their appearance made the settlement quota of each village a little nervous.

The families of urban residents who returned to their hometowns for farming were eager to obtain household registration and land, which was quite a test of the grass-roots government of the Ming Empire.

At this time, the rural peasant associations set up by Su Yonglin played an incomparable role. The county government officials and state government officials were all grateful for the current state of grassroots organizations in the empire below the county level.

Village peasant associations, township peasant associations, and county officials often get together to discuss solutions. This village will claim a few, and that village will claim a few. Anyway, this wave of population return must be resolved within three months.

This wave of repatriation has also brought about a large reduction in the urban population, while the number of rural households has become tight.

In the context of the entire Great Revolution, the original landlord and gentry class in the city was purged on a large scale, and their entire family was physically wiped out by the imperial court. Coupled with the loss of citizens, some cities were almost empty. A deserted city.

The gentlemen sent it, the citizens ran away with buckets, and a large number of empty houses were left in the county town, becoming unowned houses.

In addition to the houses of the original citizens, a large number of houses of the gentlemen were confiscated by the court and became state-owned property.

It is a pity that there are a large number of real estate registrations in the imperial court, but it cannot be realized as wealth and re-entered the circulation field.

But in this era, after killing the old men, there is really no picker who can pick up the house in the city.

Except for the locations of government offices at all levels and some traditional commercial towns, the entire Ming Dynasty cities are experiencing a wave of population loss. If there is a housing market these days, the Ming Dynasty housing market must have completely collapsed, and the whole society has begun to violent turmoil.

Fortunately, the country of Ming Dynasty still has the huge economic base of the countryside, which has successfully achieved a soft landing of the economy, without any major troubles.

In most cities of the Ming Dynasty, apart from officials, officials and some people hired by the government to do odd jobs, there are only some small traders and hawkers who specialize in their business. So the city is slightly "desolate".

Against such a background, Fang Zhiqiang's persuasion to Xiao Cui was taken for granted. Of course, he didn't think there was anything good about living in the city. He didn't see a few big living people, and there was no one to talk to when he lived together. , it's not lively at all, what's good?
But when Xiao Cui heard it, she was heartbroken.

Needless to say, she really thinks the city is pretty good. If possible, she is willing to move to the city, buy a small house, and bring her mother and younger brother to live in the city.

Because there are such people in her workshop.

In the workshop where she works, there are some male and female workers who see each other as husband and wife. Such cases are not uncommon in the workshop in recent years.

Xiao Cui knew a pair of married male and female workers.

Because most of the factories are closer to the city, and the couples need private space after they get married, it is not suitable to continue living in the collective dormitory of the factory.

So when the two parents combined, they worked together to buy a property in the county as their new house.

Due to the sparse population and a large number of people returning to the countryside to live in the county, many properties have been vacated, but buyers are relatively rare.

As a result, some very good properties only need a relatively low price, or even a fire sale. It is not difficult for them to buy a property.

The young couple took out the wages they had saved, and the two families took out a little money from the income from agricultural production. Together, they made up the house payment. After the young couple got married, they left the factory dormitory and lived in a new house in the county seat.

When they got married, they also invited their close friends in the factory to a wedding party. Xiao Cui also went with them, saw the new house in the city, and then witnessed how they went to work together and lived happily every day after they got married.

Such a young couple is not a pair in the workshop.

But almost all married male and female worker families choose to buy real estate in the county seat and then move to the county seat. From then on, the county town’s factories live a stable life.

Their way of life is completely different from that of their ancestors. They do not live in the fields, but rely on the cultivation of the land to shave food from the ground. They like the work of the workshop, so their choice is to rely on the wages of the workshop to live in the county seat. Life.

They became new citizens.

Therefore, in Xiao Cui's view, although there are fewer people in the county and it is more "desolate", it is also because of this that the houses are cheaper.

Some small houses where civilians lived in the past were cheaper. As long as she worked hard and lived frugally, she could save money to buy real estate in a few years with the salary from the workshop.

Xiao Cui clenched her fists and made up her mind.

She has to rely on her own efforts to save money to buy a house, and then take her mother and younger brother to live in the county town to get rid of that hateful alcoholic father.

As for the future life, it is better to support them with the wages of the workshop, or ask the instructor to find a cooking job for the mother.

When my younger brother grows up, he can also enter the factory to work. At that time, the family of three will work in the factory and receive three wages, which will definitely be enough to live on.

Xiao Cui happily planned a happy life for a family of three in the future, then gritted her teeth and started saving money.

She didn't say it casually, she actually made a plan and started working hard.

The original form of wages in textile factories is hourly wages, that is, wages are calculated according to the hours of work, and paid to workers on a daily basis, in order to gain support from the people.

After running for a while, because it was too cumbersome and required too much manpower, the salary was changed to be paid every ten days, and then changed to 20 days, and finally the rule of paying salary once a month was formed, which has not changed.

In the first year of Hongwu, because of dissatisfaction with the production efficiency of a large number of public workshops and the huge demand gap in the military and some markets, Su Yonglin took the lead in formulating a worker's wage reform bill, changing the hourly wage system to a half-piece wage system.

That is to say, workers' wages are divided into two halves, one half is the original hourly wage, which is paid according to the time of attendance, and the other half is the piece-rate wage, which is paid according to the production efficiency.

Su Yonglin hopes to increase workers' enthusiasm for production, improve work efficiency, and reduce the "fishing" behavior of working hours on the premise of ensuring the most basic fair distribution and not causing too much income gap between workers.

Sure enough, after the change to the half-piece-rate wage system, the work efficiency of factory workers has been greatly improved, and the productivity of workers in Hongwu three years, when the half-piece-rate wage system has been fully popularized, is much higher than any previous year.

The Laiwu County National Textile Factory where Xiao Cui is located is one of the earliest factories to implement the half-piece wage system.

Under such circumstances, Xiao Cui is ready to give full play to her own initiative and get a higher salary.

(End of this chapter)