Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 260 Recruitment and Land Contracting

At the gate of Jinling City, Huo Weihua, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, took the lead in posting the recruitment notice. There were very few applicants at first, but when he learned that he could pay a month's wages in advance as soon as he signed up, and the wages were twice as high as the wages of the weaving workshop, he began to come. There are more and more applicants.Three days later, the entire gate of the city was already full of people, and the team even lined up on the riverside.

The most difficult part of building the national road between the two capitals is the erection of bridges and the compaction of the soft soil, but the other ones do not require high technical content, as long as one has strength.

Therefore, it was not very difficult to recruit ordinary people who signed up, and soon [-] strong men were recruited in Jinling City alone.

At the same time, a total of [-] strong men were recruited in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

The management of [-] strong men and such a huge project is a big problem, but this is not a problem for Huo Weihua, Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Since he has been in charge of large and small water conservancy projects across the country, Huo Weihua has his own set of backbones and management experience.

He did not gather the strong men recruited from various places, but directly dispatched his own backbone to various places, and then took charge of the construction on various sections of the national highway in a multi-point operation manner.

Prior to this, he had determined the necessary route of the Liangjing National Highway after considering various factors, and had already issued instructions directly to the person in charge of each section, ordering the person in charge of each section to bear the construction problems on the road section.

For a time, the entire south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River were like flowers blooming everywhere. Every hundred miles, you could see Daming's construction team wearing special iron hats and carrying engineering shovels to work in some bushes or on the side of the street.

The trucks carrying the earthwork were dumped on both sides of the national highway by the strong men, and they were all in full swing, because the wages were calculated according to the number of trucks they carried. If you worked hard, you could even earn one silver dollar a day. So one by one rushed to do it, and the hundreds of catties of earthwork just trotted back and forth.

In Daming, even though it is in the south of the Yangtze River, the population density is still not high, so there is no need to pay much for the demolition of houses or other buildings when building the Liangjing National Highway.

However, Huo Weihua, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, still prepared a certain amount of money to deal with demolition and land occupation, and the amount of compensation was not small, so the smart people are now wishing that the imperial court would occupy his house or fields when the road was built. .

Of course, the people in the Ministry of Industry are not stupid. If you bargain for a higher price, you can change the route directly, and Huo Weihua also ordered the people in charge of various operations to avoid disturbing the people as much as possible.

In addition to the construction of the Liangjing Avenue, which has recruited hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau have also begun to recruit apprentices.

But these two companies are not picky like Huo Weihua, you can take them in if you have the strength. The Royal Industries Company favors all kinds of handicraftsmen or young people with certain literacy skills or at least good intelligence.

Young people are good at learning new things, and craftsmen and ordinary people can get started very well in short-term training.

The Royal Weaving Bureau only recruits weavers, and does not restrict men and women. change.

But there are still many poor girls who are good at female workers and enter the Royal Weaving Bureau, because the treatment of the Royal Weaving Bureau is too generous.

The recruitment of the Royal Industry Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau is different from that of the Ministry of Industry. These two recruit employees who will be used for a long time. Each employee has a complete set of welfare system. , group travel, housing and meal subsidies, and even directly included in the internal promotion system, once the assessment is passed, one can obtain the qualification of supervising students, which in modern times means that there is an establishment.

In this way, a large number of craftsman workers who were originally looked down upon were naturally tempted to sign up for interviews as employees of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau.

Seeing the representative employees of Royal Industries and Royal Weaving Bureau wearing neat, clean and beautiful staff uniforms and confident temperament at the interview place attracted countless people to want to work in these two companies.

In fact, although many unemployed people in Jiangnan hated the Royal Weaving Bureau this time, the anti-Royal Weaving Bureau also couldn't eat the grapes. You can buy a house on the ground in Jinling, but after working hard for a year in the weaving workshop, you can only get enough food and clothing after being cut off by the owner of the workshop. This has caused many people to envy the treatment of the workers of the Royal Weaving Bureau.

However, the Royal Weaving Bureau has always had strict requirements and quotas for recruiting new employees, and the difficulty of the assessment is very high, sometimes no less than that of a scholar.

Now the Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Industrial Company have successively expanded their enrollment, and once they expand their enrollment, they will expand their enrollment by tens of thousands, and they will specifically target the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

What's more, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao has also specially established the Federation of Trade Unions, with Wei Guogong Xu Hongji as the minister of the Ming Federation of Trade Unions, and Li Mingrui, a cabinet scholar, and Wei Zhongxian, the governor of Nanjing, as the ministers of the Federation of Trade Unions, such as Zhang Dai, Wen Zhengming's great-grandson Wen Zhenmeng, etc. The well-known folks who have not been arranged to teach in the western mountainous area are arranged to be members of the Federation of Trade Unions.

The purpose is to protect the rights and interests of craftsmen throughout the Ming Dynasty. However, when the commodity economy was not developed enough, this Federation of Trade Unions can be regarded as a decoration, but Zhu Youxiao believes that it may become a communication channel between the Ming court and the new class in the future. bridge.

While establishing the Federation of Trade Unions, Zhu Youxiao also directly ordered the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau to take the lead in following the ten-hour work system and the one-day off system every ten days.

As the largest capitalist in Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao also has the potential to be a profiteer, and he is eager to let Ming Dynasty gain a strong national power in a short period of time, so he did not directly use the eight-hour working system and weekly rest system.

But one day off for ten hours and ten days a day, and such high wages and treatment as well as development prospects, this is already something that can be met but not sought after for the workers of Daming.

You must know that the private workshops of the Ming Dynasty in the past still had a more or less primitive capital flavor, and they always worked from morning to night, so now, there are naturally many people flocking to them, and there are even many people from Jiangxi and Fujian. When the foreign provinces came, many of them were still studying children and even scholars.

These days, not everyone who studies can be elected as an official. There are also people who have wasted years and wasted their lives because of studying. It just so happens that the Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are the third way to enter the official career besides the imperial examination and scientific research. Therefore, it has attracted many scholars who are frustrated with the examination field to sign up for interviews.

The Royal Bank also began to recruit people, but the requirements for the people he recruited were higher. In many cases, they were required to be able to learn arithmetic or obtain the status of a child born or above. The top 211 recruits must be undergraduates or even [-] or above.

However, after the Royal Bank's recruitment advertisement was published in Daming Daily, government offices at all levels, city gate notices or other conspicuous places, there were still a lot of young students or scholars who were recruited.

The ancients were not stupid, until it was a good job to enter the financial system such as the bank. Not only did the money come, but as soon as they entered, they would directly obtain the official status of the general official and the household department.

However, there are very few people who can successfully interview and pass the customs, and there are even those who pass the exam and pass the provincial examination. Usually, there are special announcers who go to the host's house to announce the good news.

As a result, the common people in the major cities and towns in the south of the Yangtze River had the roots of survival, and the whole of the south of the Yangtze River became active again. Due to the ten-day rest and ten-hour working system, coupled with high wages, many cultural industries also developed.

Although the attics and painting boats on the banks of the Qinhuai River are the most popular, countless workers leave their hard-earned wages, their hundreds of millions of descendants, and a day's tiredness here on the belly of women every day.

However, the sales volume of Daming Daily has also increased several times, and the storyteller's business has also surged, and the value of the famous storyteller Liu Jingting has increased dozens of times.

Other storybook novels and operas have also become popular. In order to earn more money, many writers and drama actors began to deliberately cater to the needs of these low-level people. Although there are many pornographic and violent things, many of them are also It really reflects the lives of the working people. Many works have begun to learn to be down-to-earth, to show the warmth and comfort of ordinary people, instead of blindly showing princes and generals.

There are also more and more cultural carriers praising Zhu Youxiao, and of course they have begun to ruthlessly expose many bad social phenomena in Daming today.

Zhu Youxiao did not deliberately prevent the development of the Jiangnan cultural circle, except that there is nothing wrong with the general direction of being loyal to the emperor and the people, caring about the country, and respecting China.

But in the Jiangnan countryside, for the farmers in this area or the migrant workers stranded in the cities, the most gratifying thing for them is that Huangzhuang can actually give them land.

In Huating, Songjiang, Wu Derong, the magistrate of Huating County, and Lai Dekai, the young supervisor of the Nanjing Inner Palace Supervisor sent by Huangzhuang to Huating, are leading the Nanjing public security forces to carry out the on-site contracting and delivery of the Dong family's property in the Dong family compound.

The landless people from the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will accept the contract responsibility system of Huangzhuang here, and contract the 30 mu of land that the imperial court seized from the Dong family.

Many of them were people who defended Dong Qichang in the parade, but now, they agree with what the court said and what was published in the Daming Daily, that Dong Qichang deserved to die!
In addition to the use of a large amount of evidence by Daming Daily to characterize Dong Qichang, the more reason is that since the common people want to legally contract the Dong family's more than 30 mu of fertile land, they must follow the imperial court and think that Dong Qichang is wrong!

"Fourth Zhao, from Xiashui Village, Huating Village. There are five people in the family, three laborers, ten acres of paddy fields and four acres of dry land, right?"

Hu Zenghui, who was temporarily drawn to assist in the work, read a few words to a young man who looked a little capable, and then handed him the contract agreement in his hand.

Mr. Zhao went to a private school for half a year, and he could read a few words. After seeing that it was true that his family would contract the land, he said with a smile: "That's right, Mr. Hu, my father, my brother, and I all have strength. , it’s not a problem to contract another four or five acres, you see.”

"When the imperial court assigned us a target of no less than 3 people to contract the land, if I give you more contracts, how can we deal with business? Didn't you see that the people behind me are all people from Dongchang! If I dare Play half a sloppy eye, and your head will move immediately!"

Since Hu Zenghui and Zhao Laosi were from the same village, he said a few more words, but even though he was a fellow villager and a young boy, he didn't dare to open the back door and quickly stamped the official seal and let Zhao Laosi leave.

In addition to the Dong family's 30 acres of land being divided and contracted by the common people, the millions of acres of land owned by other major criminal officials and gentry families in Jiangnan were also divided one after another.

It is difficult to spit out the meat that has been eaten in the mouth. Although countless scholars lamented that they would no longer be able to confuse the people in the south of the Yangtze River to make troubles, they had to admit that Zhu Youxiao's move was a complete blow to land annexation.

Once farmers have their own land, they cherish it as much as they have children.

According to Dongchang's report to Zhu Youxiao, after a large number of landlords' land was contracted to farmers, many farmers took the initiative to go to their newly allocated land to loosen the soil and sow seeds before dawn.

Zhu Youxiao only asked Huangzhuang to contract the land in his hands to the people as soon as possible, but did not encourage the people to vigorously promote the planting of new crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, although the hunger crisis can be solved by letting the people vigorously promote new crops, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to rely on these two things to become the staple food before getting enough nutrition, because it will reduce the National Quality.

Everyone knows that the main component of potatoes and sweet potatoes is polysaccharide starch, which has no nutrients such as protein at all. However, rice or wheat, which are traditional Chinese staple foods, are rich in several essential amino acids.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to use the food crisis as an excuse to let the entire Han people's genetic level decline due to long-term use of nutritionally deficient potatoes and sweet potatoes, which in turn will affect the IQ of the entire nation.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao simply did not ask the people to plant anything, and gave them the greatest freedom in planting.

In this way, some began to consciously overcome the laziness and bad habits of begging for food in the city, and became diligent.

Of course, potatoes and sweet potatoes, as the easiest crops to plant and grow in barren lands, were unknowingly used by farmers on barren lands, which can be regarded as making up for the famine that often occurs during the period when rice and wheat are not harvested.

And because of this, farmers in the south of the Yangtze River worship Zhu Youxiao, His Majesty the Emperor even more, and under the deliberate promotion of Daming Daily and Huangzhuang, Zhu Youxiao began to gradually increase his prestige among the people.

I don't know who started the rise, someone actually started to grow opium, which is beyond Zhu Youxiao's imagination.

However, Zhu Youxiao also immediately made a clear decree, requiring restrictions on tobacco farmers, and strictly prohibiting the sale and smoking of tobacco in the country. , if it can be sold to Great Britain, you can also get rewards from the court.

　Thank you etjojo book friend for the reward of 500 starting coins, and thank you Mushen Ruozhu for the reward. It is a two-in-one chapter. I am not in the state recently, and the content is not very exciting. Forgive me. Tomorrow weekend, I will sort out the plot

　　
　
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