Chapter 19 Uncle and Nephew Discussing Wealth (Part 1)
In fact, there is a way to solve the labor problem, and that is to sign a contract and hire professional workers. Of course, the word "professional" here is different from before he time traveled. This era is the Ming Dynasty, not the society under the modern education system of later generations. Many
A person's "first occupation", whether they have land or not, should be regarded as a farmer. However, being a farmer alone sometimes cannot support a family. Therefore, many people also learn a craft, such as carpentry and burning.
In brick kilns, there are those who learn to be a bamboo craftsman, and there are those who learn to be a mason... and so on and so forth.
But one problem is that most of the time, these craftsmen only regard their craft as a second job, and they only do it during the slack time of farming. This makes it difficult to continue to work for a long time - they leave when the farming is busy.
Generally speaking, this kind of workers are called day laborers, but among actual workers, day laborers are the largest group.
For someone who is accustomed to the high pragmatism of various enterprises in the later industrial system, he dislikes this model very much. Because you are an "enterprise". If there are no workers when the busy farming season comes, then won't you have to stop production? Stop production.
Who should bear the loss? Also, a group of day laborers went home to work during the busy farming season this time. Will the day laborers recruited by the company the same as before during the next slack farming season? If not, they are new arrivals.
Not only do part-time workers need to spend a certain amount of time understanding the company's production and living system, but they may also have to be trained on work skills first... This seriously damages industrial efficiency.
Therefore, in his opinion, for a stable enterprise, it is best to reduce such short-term employment as much as possible, turn short-term employment into long-term employment, or even simply let them only do the job of "workers".
Only those who meet this standard are professional workers in his mind, and production efficiency will increase. Otherwise, even if you change it to long-term employment, you will be working here during the day while still worrying about not getting enough fertilizer in your vegetable garden.
Can work efficiency be improved?
But this problem is very difficult to solve. In later generations, many companies have employee dormitories, but it is impossible for Gao Wu to build them now - these days, everyone is the boss of the family. If you arrange accommodation for everyone, how much will the family get?
Is a flat dormitory enough to live in? If only employees are allowed to live there, that would be a completely new experience. How many people these days are willing to leave their wives and children alone to come to work at your place?
Of course, if you follow the words of Mr. Ma, a world-famous person in later generations, theoretically speaking, as long as the money is sufficient, companies can recruit people no matter what. But now the problem lies here: high
Pragmatically, we don’t have enough money right now!
After much deliberation, we can only compromise with reality: we will talk about the future later. At present, the first batch of people can only recruit a group of part-time workers from outside. As for how to change the system in the future, that can only be considered after we have money.
This is the only solution to the problem of soap factory workers for the time being, but transportation issues also need to be considered. Although according to Gao's pragmatic plan, at least the early soap products must be high-end goods, and they do not take up much space, so transportation cannot be said to be too much.
trouble.
But no matter how troublesome it is, with the current traffic conditions in Ming Dynasty, it is not easy to drag goods so far - don't look at the distance from Mentougou to Beijing, which is only about a hundred miles (not kilometers), in future generations it will be
It's less than two hours' drive, but nowadays, you can't get there in one day, and you have to stay overnight in between.
Although soap is a small and expensive product in the early days when it is first launched, it is a small and expensive product in high pragmatic plans. However, because it is expensive, security must also be paid attention to. Mentougou is close to the capital, which is of course a major guarantee for the public security environment. Generally, it is a bit
The experienced horse bandits usually wouldn't go directly to the capital, but some of them were seeking death if they couldn't protect themselves. The Ming Dynasty was not a later red dynasty, and the difference in public security level between the two was huge. It was a world of difference.
It has been seven or eight years since Gao Qingshi traveled to the Ming Dynasty. Although it is difficult for him to go out at a young age, he can still feel it even if he listens to the chatter of people around him. In this era, if you travel far away, you are dressed in rich clothes but there are not many rich and powerful servants to follow you.
In later generations, the danger is estimated to be comparable only to climbing the outer walls of high-rise buildings with bare hands and without protection, and to rival Ethan Hunt's climb of the Burj Khalifa. So even if we hire dozens of stronger workers from the soap factory to escort us, the risk will still be high.
There has to be an arrangement, right?
The location of this manor is near Wangping Town in Mentougou, not far from the Yongding River. Logically speaking, the transportation is quite convenient - because you can walk about half of the waterway to the capital. However, although the waterway is relatively convenient, it is not enough to travel in one day.
When arriving, assuming you set off from the manor early in the morning, you can basically rest after walking on the waterway and landing. You will have to catch up early the next day to enter the capital in the evening. In this case, you will need both a boat and a carriage, and finally
Fortunately, there are two warehouses of our own built on the upper and lower banks of the Yongding River.
Alas, all these incidents cost money!
Otherwise, it's the same as the labor issue. You have to compromise with reality first. Whether it's a boat or a carriage, you have to hire people first. When you have money in the future, you can build your own one-stop system.
But even if these two things are done according to this compromise idea, there are still problems. The soap factory is scheduled to be located in Mentougou, two days away from Beijing. Since Gao Gong wants to personally supervise Gao Pragmatic's studies, he will definitely not
If he is allowed to go to Mentougou alone, then the soap factory will have to arrange at least one person to take charge of the matter, or even one person may not be enough, and a team will be needed to carry out the work.
In other words, there is still a shortage of people, and what is more, there is a shortage of confidants.
How could an eight-year-old have so many confidants? These four were arranged by his mother, Mrs. Zhang.
No, I still have to ask for help from my family, and I can only ask for help from my hometown in Xinzheng, not Gao Gong.
Thinking of this, he sat back at his desk, told Tingqin to study ink, and wrote a letter home seriously, preparing to send it to his mother who stayed in Xinzheng.
But at the end of the day, I thought of one thing. Should I also give my mother two pieces of soap to prove that I was not lying and that I really had a product and was not a pyramid scheme...
Thinking about it again, these two soaps really need to be given away. Among other things, the four people I have are all assigned by my mother. Maybe they are also responsible for supervising me? After all, I am only a minor now.
Mother is their mistress and master in the true sense.
Thinking of this, he called Shangyue in again, and asked her to choose the best one from the two soap scents, mint and laurel, wrap it in good oil paper, and then took two small sandalwoods.
It was packed in a box and sent to Xinzheng together with the letter from home.
