Chapter 48 Candidates

The people's commune pilot program proposed by Yuan Ruoxiu coincides with a project currently being prepared by the executive committee.

After the North American gang completed the investigation mission in the abandoned salt field area, before the executive committee had time to discuss their report, a pirate attack occurred. Now that the pirate matter has basically been dealt with, the situation has stabilized, and the salt field project has been

was put back on the agenda.

There is not a big technical threshold for reclaiming this abandoned salt field area. Even those who have not actually worked in salt fields have detailed plans for reference in the large database of the Ministry of Information Industry, covering everything from design and construction to production and operation.

All aspects of salt field production. Although limited to the conditions of this era, Chuanzhong's salt fields may not be able to reach the level of sea salt production in later generations, but it is not a big deal to control costs and make the salt production rate and quality surpass those of the same era.

Difficulty. In the view of the Executive Committee, as long as the sea salt production reaches a certain scale, the foreign trade route through China will be basically guaranteed.

Currently, there are two main issues troubling the Executive Committee on this project. One is the defense system of the salt field, and the other is the management system of the salt field. In terms of defense, it is okay. According to the recommendations of the Military and Police Department, settlements for salt field workers can be established.

In places far away from the coast and inland, if there is an enemy attack from the sea, the warning from the Yulinjiao post can be used to allow the saltworks workers to go into the mountains in advance to avoid danger. However, the problem of the management system is not so easy to solve. How to organize a team reasonably?

It is not that easy to help local people settle in the salt field, organize production, and at the same time bring them under the unified civil administration of the people.

However, the people's commune plan proposed by Yuan Ruoxiu undoubtedly lit a bright light for the Executive Committee. This organizational form that can merge production, life, and political power management is quite suitable for the people's reclamation and farming plan in the current period.

After discussion, the executive committee finally decided to set up two pilot communes first, one is the Salt Farm Commune opposite Yulinjiao, and the other is the Farm Reclamation Commune on the east bank of Tiandu River. The sources of commune members are mainly from nearby communities that were originally close to the sea.

Fishermen who make a living, farmers without land, and some Li people who want to get out of the mountains.

The commune will uniformly distribute farm tools, cattle, seeds and other production materials, and relevant departments will formulate a unified production plan and lead the implementation. The administrative organ of the commune is a management committee composed of members of the commune. This management committee will report directly to the executive committee

The specific personnel will be jointly held by the technical guidance department responsible for organizing production, the civil affairs department responsible for social affairs management, and the military and police department responsible for public security and defense.

The commune will also first start the trial operation of the "labor hierarchy" proposed by Ren Liang, and begin to implement identity registration and labor statistics for all local residents who join the commune. The "labor hierarchy" will be implemented in the commune for a period of time.

After checking for leaks and filling them, the improved system will be gradually introduced into other projects under construction. This can also avoid the situation where all projects are launched at once, causing the human resources department to be overwhelmed.

The next topic is about the trip to Yazhou, which is also one of the most discussed topics among travellers. Regarding the plan proposed by Luo Shengdong, the executive committee also announced it on the forum and opened the registration channel.

Anyone who intends to participate in this trip to Yazhou can sign up, but they must indicate their motivation and purpose for participating in this operation. In addition, the executive committee also specifically explained the dangers of this trip and warned those who want to take this trip

If you are traveling for a short distance, it is best to give up the idea as soon as possible.

Of course, even if you sign up, you still have to pass the strict screening of the executive committee. Because government-sponsored personnel will still account for the majority in this trip, there will be no more than five places left for self-registered participants.

Taking into account security issues, the main body of this team will still be elite personnel from the Military and Police Department. Except for Dr. Johnson who will stay behind, the other five members of the North American gang will participate in this operation. The main reason why the Executive Committee retained Johnson was to consider

A professional doctor must be left behind at the base camp just in case. In addition, among the six members of the North American gang, only Johnson is taking care of his family. It is also out of humane considerations to minimize his overseas assignments. With them are

There are five other members of the military and police department, and Yan Chujie will serve as the top decision-maker of this team. In addition to providing security protection along the way, they will also complete an inspection of the geography, hydrology, people's conditions and other conditions along the way.

.If there is enough time, and on the premise of ensuring safety, they will also conduct military reconnaissance on Yazhou Water Village and Yazhou City to collect intelligence information for possible armed occupation in the future.

The three major departments of industry, agriculture, and construction will each send one person. If there is an opportunity to trade with local merchants in Yazhou during this trip, they will be responsible for purchasing various raw materials needed by their respective departments. Schneider, the person in charge of the Ministry of Finance, will personally take action.

According to him, he planned to personally examine "the professional quality of businessmen in this time and space and the consumption power level of ordinary people."

At the same time, Schneider also played the role of cashier and accountant, responsible for coordinating and arranging the expenses that may be incurred by this trip. The executive committee spent a huge amount of money to reserve a full ton of silver and a small amount of gold before the crossing. This ton of silver was calculated according to this period.

According to the calculation of weights and measures, it is approximately 27,000 taels. In order to facilitate use, the Executive Committee also made part of the silver into silver ingots and broken silver in advance.

For this trip, the Executive Committee specially approved 3,000 taels of silver for the action team as operational funds. According to economic expert Schneider, this amount is as unrealistic as a cannon to swat mosquitoes. At this time, silver taels still retain relatively strong purchasing power.

, one tael of silver can buy two stones of rice. In later generations, the value of these nearly 200 kilograms of rice will be seven or eight times more than that of the Ming Dynasty. Schneider joked before traveling through the wormhole.

There is only a time limit and no limit on the number of uses. As long as you keep using the wormhole to transfer rice and silver back and forth between the two time and spaces, you can make money much faster than using foreign trade orders to defraud short-term loans. It is not that the Executive Committee has not been moved by this proposal.

, but considering that frequent bulk grain trading would definitely attract the attention of relevant departments, this method of making quick money was not adopted in the end.

At this time, the statutory salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was not high. Taking Yazhou as an example, the top leader in the civil service system was Zhizhou. From a fifth-grade official, his monthly salary was fourteen shi, which translated into the statutory annual salary of less than a hundred taels of silver. The second-ranking official in Zhou Tong

Zhizhi only has a monthly salary of eight stones. In the military attache system, if Luo Shengdong is lucky enough to be promoted to the general, his military salary for a year will be less than fifty taels of silver. This can only be obtained if his superiors are not greedy and have no arrears.

The amount. In a remote place like Yazhou with a limited socio-economic level, three thousand taels of silver is simply an astronomical figure on the market. Whether it is used for trading or bribing Luo Shengdong's boss, this amount is far beyond

Need. To put it bluntly, if Luo Shengdong knew that this team brought three thousand taels of silver, he might just turn against him when he returns to Yazhou and lead his troops to steal the silver.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were extremely low among all dynasties. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that when Hai Rui was the county magistrate in Chun'an, Zhejiang Province, he bought two kilograms of meat for his mother's birthday and was actually sold by Zhejiang Province.

The rumor in the officialdom was a strange story for a while. This certainly witnessed Hai Rui's integrity, but it also gave a glimpse of the embarrassment of life of grassroots officials at that time. When Zhang Juzheng was building a house in his hometown, Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty gave him a thousand taels of silver, but people at the time called him "the

"There are too many", and the emperor's rewards for the important officials of the imperial court were only at this level. Taizu of the Ming Dynasty set an ultra-low level of official treatment. It is no wonder that although he came up with the ruthless trick of "peeling off the skin and making the grass grow" to prevent officials from being corrupt,

But it still cannot prevent the gradual corruption of the entire bureaucracy.

The Ministry of Information Industry also had a public quota. Meng He originally planned to let Liu Zhuo go, but this quota was eventually taken away by female reporter Luo Wudan. After Luo Wudan served as a war correspondent the previous time, she seemed to have become more and more courageous.

Big trend. During this operation, she will be responsible for recording and collecting the entire video data, and will issue a series of press releases after returning to provide detailed reports on this operation.

In addition, the executive committee selected five people from the registered members to participate in this operation as special observers. In the current situation where the political system of the members is not perfect enough, this is actually a disguised form of supervision. Five

A special observer will closely monitor whether public officials in various departments have neglected their duties or acted against the interests of the public during this operation, and will submit an independent report to the Executive Committee upon their return.

Finally, there are still a few places reserved for local Ming people. This is mainly to facilitate communication and information collection between the traveling people and the local people in Yazhou. The Yu family and his son, who have become veteran guides, have been to Yazhou City many times.

And was gloriously elected again. In addition to them, in order to show their strength and build relationships, the executive committee also specifically named Fu Li, the future master of Fujiadong.

Fu Li has been living in a temporary settlement of Li people outside Base No. 2 these days. He goes to the hydropower station construction site to work with other Li people during the day, and goes to Zhou Hengxing's language class to practice Chinese in the evening. He has recently transferred to

In Ning Qi's class, together with other Li people who are not proficient in Chinese, they began to receive a streamlined primary education specially provided by Chuan Zhong - mainly based on basic mathematics, with the purpose of allowing Li people to accept Chuan Zhong as soon as possible.

The "labor hierarchy". At the same time, Ning Qi would gather the children of Ming and Li people after school to carry out targeted cultural indoctrination, such as letting them watch some carefully prepared promotional videos.

When a city with tall buildings, a highway full of vehicles, and a huge ocean-going ship appeared on the projection screen, all the children were stunned. Fu Li also asked Ning Qi after class about the incredible things he saw

Is the picture an image of fairyland?

Ning Qi's answer was still deeply remembered in Fu Li's heart decades later: "This is not a fairyland, this is the new world that the Executive Committee will lead you to build."
Chapter completed!