Chapter 475 Is the capital a paradise for workers?
An old man with a white beard, wearing a long gown, rode a bicycle to work in the cabinet, the highest administrative unit of the Ming Dynasty! Thinking of this scene, Zhu Youjian laughed out loud. It was really not serious. He probably had not seen this scene.
possible.
After explaining the bicycle project plan to the participants, Zhu Youjian turned the topic to the steam engine project.
"It is impossible to apply the steam engine now. But the progress cannot be slow. Let me first talk about the task arrangement for the next six months. Within half a year, we will make twenty steam engine prototypes! When we do it,
Each machine must be designed separately and must be improved in performance compared to the current one. The most important performance improvement directions are power, flywheel speed, stability, and coal consumption. At the same time, the people who make it
You still have to think about where this thing can be used. If anyone comes up with an idea for a serious use, I’ll give it a big reward!”
I can't imagine where this thing can be used, so I won't think about it for now. Let's improve the basic performance first. The current performance is not good for anything. Even if you think of application scenarios and implement it, you still have to continue to make significant improvements.
A steam power engine is a complex systematic project, and every component involved needs to be gradually improved, and it must go through a long development cycle before it has practical value. If a practical steam engine can be built within five years from now, it will be
Pretty good.
Zhu Youjian still has a certain understanding of the complexity of this thing. If his head was not clear, he would have launched an electric motor project. In principle, electric motors and generators seem to be much simpler than steam engines. But Zhu Youjian
It is clear that industrial development cannot take such shortcuts. Electric motors involve more theoretical knowledge, and truly practical electric motors and generators are much more technically complex than steam engines. Among other things, bearings that can maintain high-speed operation of electric motors are now
It cannot be done with materials and production technology, such as wire materials, voltage stabilization, transformer equipment, measuring tools, reducers, etc. It is not as simple as understanding the basic principles and getting some magnets and copper wires to invent a motor.
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Ten thousand years is too long. Seizing the day and night, Zhu Youjian has always had the contradiction in his heart that he is too dissatisfied with the current level of productivity and cannot satisfy his desires. This contradiction puts him in pain all the time.
, he also has to struggle with this contradiction from time to time. He must always balance reality and desire, and prevent desire from getting too out of control!
That's how people are. When he first traveled through time, he was thinking about saving his life all day long, and he became more demanding after doing it. Now he even thinks about seeing the light, telephone, downstairs and upstairs, and the train before he hangs up.
The car scene would be great. The more you know, the more painful it will be. Now Zhu Youjian understands this very well.
Few people in the world can understand the pain of the Emperor of Heaven. Even the lower class people living in the capital do not feel as painful about their lives as Zhu Youjian. On the contrary, they feel that their lives are getting worse and worse.
The more hope you have.
On the periphery of the factory area outside the Second Ring Road of Beijing, there is a large stilt area. These shacks were temporary buildings built by poor people who have been looking for food in the capital in the past two years to stay in the capital.
Tian Ge lives here now. In the spring of this year, Tian Ge came to the capital with about twenty people from the housing construction team of the 7th Huairou Anmin Institute, and began to live a wandering life as a migrant worker in the capital.
At the beginning of this year, the No. 7 Anmin Institute in Huairou began to transform. The land it opened was allocated to the earliest immigrants. Most of the site services were contracted and closed down, and the transformation back to the private sector was completed in a drastic way. Like the Tian Ge family
According to the plan of the Civil Affairs Bureau, those who come later will be brought to Liaonan to build farms. However, whether they go to Liaonan is entirely up to their own volition. If they don't want to go, they will have to fend for themselves.
Tian Ge's father and brother chose to settle down in Liaonan, but Tian Ge didn't go with them. For some reason, she just didn't want to continue living in the Anmin Institute. In the Anmin Institute, she cooked for the building team. When the building team was about to disband
, there are about 20 people who don’t want to go back to farming, but want to go to the capital to continue their old business of building houses. They heard from people that there are so many places to build houses in the capital in the past two years, and the wages there are high.
It's much higher than Anmin, and you can find work there.
When those people came to the capital, Tian Ge also came with them, because they happened to need a cook.
After arriving in the capital, Tian Ge cooked for migrant workers building houses, which he did for more than half a year. The situation was indeed as people rumored. House building jobs in the capital were easy to find and the wages were high. A skilled worker could earn eighty or ninety a day.
A laborer can earn fifty or sixty cents as a wage. A cook like Tian Ge can earn forty or fifty cents.
Winter arrived in a blink of an eye, and most of the house-building projects were stopped. Most of the people who came out of Anminzhu went back to Huairou. Tian Ge did not go back. She had no home anywhere, and her father and brother went to Liaonan.
Just because there is no construction work to do, does not mean that there is no work to do in the capital. Construction workers who are living in the capital and have not returned to their hometowns can still find some temporary work, but the wages are lower. Compared with the big cities
Unlike most people who work as part-time workers, Tian Ge took an unusual path this time. She found a business opportunity and made furniture for people who had houses in the capital.
Making furniture requires skills. As a daughter, she will definitely not be able to do carpentry work, but it doesn't matter. This does not prevent Tian Ge from making money from this. She doesn't know how to do it, but the brothers who work with her do. She has to do it.
The thing is to go door-to-door to ask if there is a need to make furniture, negotiate the price, calculate the materials, and then take people to build furniture for them. Yes, she has now become a small foreman taking jobs!
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Female subcontractors like her are really rare in the capital. Maybe it’s because things are rare and valuable, or maybe she’s born to do this job. Anyway, since she started doing this job, she has never stopped taking jobs.
Sometimes she even makes furniture for several houses at the same time! At the beginning, there were only three or four people working for her. After more than a month, she had almost ten migrant workers working under her.
During the day, I went to the Second Ring Road to work and look at the furniture sites, and at night I took my brothers back to the shack outside the Second Ring Road to cook and sleep. Such days were very hard. I got up early and stayed late, and had to eat cold water and hard steamed buns for lunch.
But Tian Ge likes this kind of life, and she feels extremely satisfied. Every time she returns to the shack and counts money by the oil lamp, she looks happy. She can earn at least three to four hundred military coins a day, and there is nothing better than this in the world.
What's the happy thing? After nearly two months of living, she has saved more than ten taels of silver! The capital is really the best place in the world. She has never encountered such a happiness that makes ordinary people happy in her life.