I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 643: Boiling South City

Zhu Yijun turned and looked at Pan Yinglong.

"Mr. Pan, there are labor service companies now?"

"Yes, Master Zhu. There is a severe shortage of people in Luanzhou, Taiyuan, Liaodong and Liaoxi. In the past, Shuntian Prefecture took in all the stray people on the streets, including beggars.

The old ones were sent to the poorhouse, the young ones were sent to the nursery, and those who could work were sent to work. But it was still not enough.

Here in Zhili alone, there were needs for building railways, repairing water conservancy projects, expanding port terminals, and renovating urban areas. Construction cooperatives and building companies were even more short of staff, so they had no other choice but to go to Korea and Annan to recruit laborers.

However, factories in Luanzhou, Taiyuan and Liaoning opened one after another, and each factory required thousands of workers. There was really no other way, so they consulted the Ministry of Justice and the Court of Justice and decided to move all the prisoners in prisons in Shuntianfu, Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other provinces to Luanzhou, Taiyuan and Liaoning.

However, these prisoners were also used with caution, for hard labor such as building roads and bridges, expanding cities, dredging rivers, and constructing river embankments, and they were concentrated in places that were easy to manage.

But there is still a shortage of people.

So the factory offered a reward, asking for a certain amount of money to recruit someone.

People with extensive connections immediately smelled the potential and set up such labor companies, going around the countryside to recruit surplus young and strong people from landless families and sending them to various factories.

The Sanhe Labor Service Agency was relatively large, and its owner and manager were relatively prominent and had connections. They invited more than a dozen police officers from the National Police Department and Anding Police College to serve as instructors, providing military training to the recruited young and strong men and cultivating their discipline.

We also invited doctors from the epidemic prevention station to teach young people health knowledge, and teachers from the Baita College and the training institute to teach basic technical knowledge.

It’s so advanced that they even know how to conduct pre-job training.

In any era, as long as there is money to be made, there will be smart people who will think about it and research it, and make unexpected leaps and bounds of progress.

"All the factories were vying for the people from Sanhe Labor Service Agency. They were crazy about it. Each factory was raising the salary one after another. The owners and managers of Sanhe Labor Service Agency were making a lot of money."

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "This is a good thing. If we leave many things to the market, they will do a better job than our government, and we can save ourselves the trouble.

This is a good thing that benefits all parties, and you in Shuntian Prefecture should strongly support it."

Pan Yinglong quickly replied: "In reply to your question, sir, we have strong support. We will provide training venues, personnel transportation, and help in finding suitable training teachers. Shuntian Prefecture will come forward to help."

"Well, in addition to being a helper, the government also has to take on the responsibility of supervision. We should not count on the conscience of the owners and managers of the Sanhe Labor Service Agency. We should use laws and regulations to restrain them and put a tight ring around them.

Why do we need to wear a tight hoop?

It is not about suppressing them, but about protecting the rights of the workers, that is, the young and strong people who were recruited.

What do the owners and managers of labor service companies want when they open companies and trading companies? They want money! In order to make more money, they may eat both ends, eating the factory and then the workers.

The factories are powerful and have strong backers, so they generally can't take advantage of them. The workers are weak and will definitely become the targets of their exploitation. When the workers suffer losses and make trouble, who will clean up the mess?
It's not our government.

If a big mess happens, it won't just be a matter of losing a few official hats, but of going to jail and losing your head.

You should pass on my words carefully. Don't be bribed by the boss and manager of the labor service company for a little profit, and risk losing your job, going to jail, and even your head!"

"My Lord, you are wise. I am going to set up a bureau to protect the rights and interests of factory workers, construction workers, and transport workers. I am going to put it under the Ministry of Rites."

“This is a good idea, it is called the Labor Bureau, and its duty is to protect the rights and interests of those who work and get paid.

You write a note and report it to the cabinet. I will discuss it with Master Zhang and urge the cabinet to set up a general labor bureau under the Ministry of Rites. It will be dedicated to establishing labor bureaus in places with flourishing industry and commerce such as Luanzhou, Taiyuan, and Shanghai, and take on the responsibility of protecting the rights and interests of workers. "

"According to the order."

Now Zhu Yijun's responsibilities for the cabinet, six ministries and various temples have gradually become clear.

The six ministries are similar to committees, or the "major departments" of the American cabinet in later generations, which are responsible for several related responsibilities and are divided into several functional bureaus.

Each temple is a "small department" that specializes in a certain important function. It usually does not have a general bureau under it, but is directly responsible for leading a certain work.

The Ministry of Personnel is responsible for the recruitment, training, assessment, appointment and removal of officials.

The household department is responsible for finances and resources.

The military is responsible for transportation, post stations, mail, veterans' resettlement, and emergency rescue and response.

The Engineering Department is responsible for the planning and construction of all facilities including cities, ports, roads and bridges, and water conservancy projects.

The Ministry of Rites is in charge of sacrifices, education, examinations, medical care, and people's welfare.

The criminal department is responsible for police administration, prosecution, justice, and corrections.

The Guanglu Temple was responsible for establishment and approval; the Honglu Temple was responsible for foreign affairs; the Taichang Temple was responsible for propaganda; the Taifu Temple was responsible for the development of industry and commerce; the Sinong Temple was responsible for the support of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and forestry; the Dushui Temple was responsible for river management; and the Taipu Temple was responsible for military equipment and supplies.

There is also the Imperial Observatory, which specializes in scientific and technological development; and the Imperial Medical Service, which specializes in the training of medical staff, and the establishment and management of the hospital, health center and epidemic prevention station system.

The Shaofujian is very powerful and will get involved in any money-making activity.

The group left the City God Temple and went out of Xuanwu Gate to the South City, where they suddenly found themselves at a large construction site.

The first thing you see is a long ditch more than 20 meters deep, which is being built with bricks, stones and concrete.

"Mr. Zhu, this is the main tunnel of the South City drainage system. It is designed to be fifteen meters below the ground, three meters high and four and a half meters wide."

Su Feng next to him couldn't help but ask, "It's so high and so wide, it's almost like an underground river."

Pan Yinglong smiled and replied: "This Class A main drainage culvert is not only the main drainage culvert of South City, but also one of the main drainage culverts in other urban areas according to the plan.

In the future, half of the drainage from the east, west, north and inner city will be led out from here and discharged to the open channel outside the city that leads directly to the Lugou River. So we must leave enough margin in the design.

In the planning document, there are only three Class A main drainage culverts, one of which is in the South City, and is mainly responsible for the drainage of the current West, North, Imperial City, East and South Cities, and the future Inner City, South City and Imperial City.

There is one near Fuchengmen, which is responsible for the drainage of New West City and half of New North City, as well as the emergency drainage of Old West City. There is one near Chaoyangmen, which is responsible for the drainage of New East City and half of New North City, as well as the emergency drainage of Old East City.

Pan Yinglong pointed to the distance and said, "Mr. Zhu, everyone, over there is a Class B drainage culvert, two meters high and three and a half meters wide. There are five culverts in the south city, three in the east and west, and two in the north and south.

They collect sewage from various households in the Class C and Class D drainage canals in the southern part of the city, as well as rainwater when it rains, and then flow into this Class A culvert."

Zhu Yijun stood at the edge and took a look. It was indeed very deep, with a long slope leading all the way down. Every five or six hundred meters there was an iron and wooden frame on top, which was used to lift soil from the bottom up, and bricks and stones from the top down.

In the distance, people were pushing wheelbarrows in a black line, pouring concrete into the deep square pits one by one, while workers were desperately poking the pits with long wooden poles.

When I got closer, I could vaguely see a dozen thin poles standing in the deep pit. They were all threaded iron bars. Workers stood beside them, constantly swinging long poles, stirring concrete, and changing positions from time to time.

It looks very dangerous.

If you accidentally fall in, you will either be skewered into a bloody gourd by the threaded iron bars, or take a bath in the concrete, and there is a high possibility that you will become one with the culvert.

Now there are no concrete mixers, so we can only make and pour concrete on the spot. Everything has to be done quickly. If the concrete solidifies a little slowly, it will be troublesome. It can be seen that the workers are tied with ropes, but Zhu Yijun knows that this is just a psychological comfort. In order to facilitate activities, the safety ropes are put long enough, which can't prevent the workers from falling, at most it is convenient to pull the bodies back.

savage growth.

When any new productive force emerges and triggers a major economic leap, it will grow wildly.

No one knows how to adapt to these new productive forces and can only make adjustments as they go along, which will inevitably cost them a bloody price.

Although I have studied political economy and history, this is the first time I have built a new Ming Dynasty in the 16th century.

I know the direction, but I have to feel my way along the way.

Pan Yinglong pointed to this area and said: "After this Class A drainage culvert is repaired, we will fill it with soil and compact it, and then we will pave the road on it.

The plan is to build a cement road, called Xuanwu South Street, one of the main roads in the south city. It will be 30 meters wide, with a cement road surface of 12 meters, and 2.6 kilometers long, all the way to You'anmen.

"Students learned that Luanzhou Chemical Research Institute had developed tar a few days ago. When they were experimenting with dry distillation of coking coal, they extracted a kind of tar. By continuing to dry distill the tar, they extracted heavy oil and a sticky residue, also called black oil.

The heavy oil was used in rockets, but no one knew how to use the black oil, so it was just abandoned there.

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Later, the young master issued an instruction to call the sticky black oil asphalt, mix it with gravel, spread it on the compacted mud and sand road, and then compact it with a roller truck. The effect was very good, and everyone called it asphalt road.

Asphalt roads are water-permeable and smooth, and unlike cement roads, they don’t accumulate water and crack easily when it rains.”

Zhu Yijun laughed loudly, "Mr. Pan, you saw something good and are you interested?"

Pan Yinglong smiled and replied, "Sir, the reconstruction of South City is the result of the hard work of our students. They are like our own children, so naturally we want to use all the good things.

It’s just that the transportation of asphalt is too expensive, so after careful consideration, the students decided to build a cement road first, and then convert it into an asphalt road when the railway is completed and the transportation cost is reduced.”

"now it's right.

Everything should be done gradually, step by step. If you take steps too fast, you may fall. "

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Yan and Lin Fu behind him.

Everyone laughed, and Qi Yan and Lin Fu laughed especially happily.

We continued walking forward and saw a large construction site. In the distance, they were digging a pit and laying the foundation. In the middle, they were pouring concrete. In the near distance, they were laying bricks. At a glance, it looked like a rectangular house.

Qi Yan couldn't help but say, "Mr. Pan, this house is very similar to the model building for family members of Luanzhou Iron and Steel Plant."

Pan Yinglong replied cheerfully, "Yes, Brother Qi, this building is the same as the model building for family members of Luanzhou Iron and Steel Plant. Both are based on the drawings produced by the Ministry of Construction, Design and Planning. They are basically the same, with some modifications and adjustments made."

“Is there running water?”

“They were the first to get running water.”

Those who had seen the model building during the Eastern Tour to Luanzhou could not help but exclaim, "My goodness, if this building was built like that, it would have caused a sensation in the entire capital."

“Who will live in such a nice house?”

"One third of the houses are resettlement houses, which are for the people who originally lived in this area. We demolished their original houses and this is compensation for them.

Basically, it is one household per family, and in a very small number, two or three households per family. The remaining houses are sold.”

"Sell?"

Everyone looked at each other, their hearts excited.

Pan Yinglong laughed and said, "But everyone, it's too late for you to buy it now.

There are 27 buildings in three districts, totaling 2,460 houses. Excluding 830 resettlement houses, the remaining 1,630 houses have been bought up by several major banks, including Huijin, Wells Fargo, ICBC, and the Ministry of Finance. Not a single house is left. "

Su Feng immediately complained, "All inclusive?"

"Yes, there is not a single set left."

"Eunuch Yang and the big banks are eating the spoils alone. I'm also planning to order a hundred sets for the Pacification Bureau to reward meritorious officials. Mr. Pan, you're too unkind. You didn't even inform me of such a great thing."

"Old Su, how dare I tell them? There are many people in the capital who know what's good. If I let out even the slightest hint, I'll be blocked in the government office and unable to leave."

"But we can't let Yang Jinshui take all the good things."

"There's no way," Pan Yinglong spread his hands, "Most of the money for the reconstruction of South City was raised by Eunuch Yang who called on several major banks and large companies to invest in it."

Zhu Yijun said a few fair words on the side, "In order to convince these people to pay the money, Yang Jinshui spent a lot of effort.

If he hadn't taken the lead in raising funds and invested in it, the reconstruction of South City would not have been possible. He is the founder and the great contributor, so he must be the first to get the benefits. "

Pan Yinglong immediately agreed, “Sir, you are wise and fair.

But don't worry, everyone. Did you see that? That area and that area are being demolished. They are going to start construction in the second half of next year. There are 60 buildings in total. You can do whatever you want."

Su Feng immediately jumped out and said, "Mr. Pan, I will go to Shuntian Prefecture to find you tomorrow morning, and we will discuss this matter carefully."

Zhu Yijun said beside him: "This area is the new residential model area created by Mr. Pan, you can rest assured. The area in the south city."

He pointed to a place not far away and said.

"Most of them are ditches and swamps. Mr. Pan filled them all up, planted trees and dug ponds, and planned to build a park with a radius of more than two kilometers. It is a good place with good wind and water, and it is like the back garden of the capital. I want to buy one for myself."

Pan Yinglong smiled and replied, "Sir, I will print out your words and use them as an advertisement for the transformation of South City."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand nonchalantly, "Print it, you can even print my name on it.

Only by attracting the attention of those wealthy people here, and letting them take out their money and invest it in the transformation of South City, can we achieve great merits and benefits. Why not borrow my name?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The group walked around the South City, looking at the construction sites everywhere, and were moved by the bustling construction scenes. The sun was setting over the Fuchengmen Tower, and the group returned to the East City from Chongwenmen, turning north to Zhengyangmen Street.

There are many restaurants here, with singing and dancing, bright lights and wine, which is another kind of prosperity.

"Mr. Feng Wu!"

Someone on the street was shouting Pan Yinglong loudly. Everyone turned around and saw a young man waving at them happily.

(End of this chapter)