Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 343
Bai Mingxiu has a lot of real money in his hands. In terms of budget, he is not particularly worried.But after all, Daming is such a huge country, money is spent everywhere, and if the money is spent, but social production is not brought up, there is still a situation of insufficient supply, which will also lead to rising prices.Therefore, Bai Mingxiu's extravagance is relatively cautious.

Compared with investing a lot of money, Bai Mingxiu still cares more about how much the actual output will increase.This is also why, although heavy industry is the core field of development of Ming Dynasty at this stage, Bai Mingxiu has raised the depth and breadth of agricultural development and light industry development to this position.

Before the meeting of the House of Representatives is approaching, Bai Mingxiu will also put aside complicated meetings, put on ordinary clothes, and follow the public officials to the grassroots to have a look.To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a private visit by Weibo. He did not reveal his identity, but went to see with his own eyes how the various offices were handled.Even in many cases, the staff who went down to the grassroots level only knew that it was the censor sent by the top to supervise and inspect. Although they were very cautious, they would never consider that the person who came was actually His Majesty the Emperor himself.

Today Bai Mingxiu came to Tianjin Mansion, accompanied by a working group that went to the countryside to recruit railway workers.

"...Researcher, you may have also heard that the situation in the northern provinces is somewhat different compared to the southern provinces, because the proportion of owner-cultivators is relatively high, and after the rural integration, we also divided the fields. Land, so a large number of farmers own a large number of acres, and it is difficult for them to think of changing careers and becoming workers. Speaking of which, this is actually a work error of the Hebei Provincial Office, which directly applies the experience of the south. For example, Shuntian Prefecture Most of these surrounding places were the imperial estates before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or the lands enclosed by the Eight Banners. The lives of ordinary people were still very difficult. Once we came over, the Eight Banners enclosure lands and the Manchu imperial estates were all returned to the state. After that, they were distributed to the enslaved people. Everyone was very happy, but this happiness did not matter. Everyone wanted to farm the land well, live a peaceful life, and asked them to work in the city as workers, but everyone was still not happy. Although we The craftsmanship status has been cancelled, and the equality of the four peoples has been promoted, but in the hearts of the people, those who work are still at a lower level than those who farm."

A deputy director of the Tianjin Civil Affairs Bureau explained to "Bai Yushi" that obviously they don't often receive people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so they are still very cautious, lest the other party don't understand the situation and give them a random comment.But in the actual process, the level of the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very high.Many of them have real administrative experience and are well versed in affairs, so they can be arranged as censors to conduct inspections and research.It is very different from the simple officials in the ancient officialdom. The censor of the Daming Metropolitan Procuratorate pays attention to actual investigation and demonstration.

Bai Mingxiu nodded and said, "What you mean is that you didn't want to distribute the land to so many people at all, and just let some ordinary people who don't have land work as workers with wages and resettlement fees."

The deputy director said: "That's what I said, but in fact there may be other problems. Alas, no matter what, we must go on now. Now basically every newly established state-owned enterprise has to contact us. Bureau, Labor and Social Security Bureau, and then arrange working groups to go to the countryside to recruit workers. Our civil affairs department mainly connects with cooperatives in various villages, but the results of our work are mixed.”

He said: "Now is the winter slack season, and the situation can be a little better. We can recruit some who are willing to do seasonal short-term labor. Once the spring comes, the farmers will return to their hometowns to cultivate, so there is no way to cultivate any Skilled workers. Originally, we considered recruiting some younger farmers to work in our factory, but basically, when young men grow up, they become a very important labor force for the family, and most families are unwilling to let teenagers over the age of 16 come to our factory. "

Listening to the various explanations given by the deputy director, Bai Mingxiu also had a more basic understanding of the labor mismatch that Daming was facing now.Although Daming had his golden finger and suddenly transformed into a country with very strong industrial capabilities, it still required a large amount of industrial labor to spread these industries properly.But the disciples of the Ming Dynasty are still an agricultural country, and most of the labor force is restricted to the land.Even if there is no system of hidden personal constraints such as tenancy, farmers still have attachment and inertia to the land.

The labor force that Daming is currently facing is not in agriculture, but in the need to reverse the old economic model little by little, transforming the labor force from agricultural labor to industrial labor.

Bai Mingxiu followed the working group to a village. Although the secretary and captains of the cooperative were more cooperative and pulled out the whole village, the working group gave a not-so-long speech, especially explaining the treatment and benefits clearly. Clearly.

"...The existing land can be entrusted to the rural cooperatives, and the harvest is still owned by the individual. And after entering the factory and obtaining a formal establishment, it is equivalent to an iron rice bowl. It is not like farming, and you have to worry about it. Natural disasters, as long as you work hard, drought and flood will guarantee your harvest!"

However, farmers do not seem to have much trust in such empty promises.

Someone asked: "There is already a lot of collective land in the rural cooperative cooperatives. If it is entrusted to the rural cooperatives, who will cultivate it? If it is not their own land, who will take good care of it? It is impossible!"

The deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau could only smile bitterly because the question raised by others was indeed a real issue.On the one hand, they do not trust the so-called lifelong employment and stable wages that guarantee harvests regardless of drought or flood; on the other hand, they also show that they care more about the harvest in the fields.

Looking at this scene, Bai Mingxiu knew something in his heart.To change these things cannot be accomplished overnight.The real workers had to have a higher standard of living than the peasants, which in turn resulted in a seemingly higher social status, in order for the peasants to flock to the workers' occupation and urban life.Today's farmers may have never been to the city in their entire lives, and they have no culture. What they can recognize is very limited.

However, Bai Mingxiu soon discovered a phenomenon, that is, the farmers were very interested in some brochures brought by the working group. Even though they could not understand the words, they could still understand the pictures.

Bai Mingxiu suddenly slapped his thigh and thought of a key question.

"That's right, there is almost no entertainment in rural areas now. Even in later generations, movies are things that have been watched dozens of times, and everyone is willing to come out to watch them. If we can promote industrialization, urbanization, and new ideas and new cultures Combining these things in cultural works, and then taking these things to the countryside and showing them when the farmers are easy to accept the place, it will definitely have a very good effect." Bai Mingxiu's eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)