As expected, Zhu Yijun and Gao Pragmatic were close friends with each other. His guess about Gao Pragmatic was absolutely correct. Gao Bingxian was not worried at all about accepting these salt dings and their families.
Although according to Jinghua’s internal investigation and understanding of various salt fields in Yingkou during this period, as well as the calculation of the employment requirements of Jinghua’s new salt production method, it is actually not necessary for all of the 178 salt workers to be used for salt production, and Gao Pragmatic is not worried.
What burden will you bear?
In his plan to build southern Liaoning, there are many places where people are needed and there are plenty of them. How can he worry about having too many people and nothing to do?
First of all, this batch of salt men can be screened, and 3,000 of them with the best physical fitness can be selected and trained into a force. They can be used as a force directly under the military and military yamen. Of course, the name must be clever, such as "anti-smuggling"
——There would be no problem under the Ming Dynasty’s system for organizing and training in the name of investigating smuggled salt.
Moreover, this force is not a highly pragmatic personal armed force, but is affiliated with the Military and Military Administration. Its military pay and ordnance are all borne by the Jinghua Salt Plant. The only requirement is to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the salt field, be responsible for anti-smuggling, and protect the safety of the salt field.
matter.
In order to ensure that the nature of this force would change after he left office in the future, Gao Pragmatic even signed contracts with his left and right hands.
The Jinghua Salt Farm and the Bingxian Yamen agreed in black and white: As long as the interests of the salt farm are ensured, the salt farm will provide military pay and ordnance to anti-smuggling agents every year at a standard that is no less than the average military pay for the Liaodong border army. However, if the salt farm encounters any military disaster, the impact of smuggling will be
, but if the anti-smuggling police do nothing and shirk responsibility, then the salt farm can refuse to pay military pay.
As for individual cases where the anti-smuggling operation requires an increase in military pay or the purchase of additional ordnance, the decision will be made through consultation between the Military Military Administration and the Jinghua Salt Plant, and the Salt Plant may not accept unilateral increases in taxes.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic's approach is a bit too cautious, because as long as he Gao does not fall, under the Ming Dynasty's system, it is impossible for the next or any military commander in the future to impose inexplicable levies on a civil servant's property.
That would be regarded as an act of banditry by the whole world.
After organizing and training to seize the private sector, the remaining salt workers accepted the arrangements of the Jinghua Salt Farm according to their physical conditions and entered various salt production links to begin the division of labor. There is no need to elaborate on this point.
It was their family arrangements that made some people who were waiting to see Gao Pragmatic's joke dumbfounded.
In the name of the Bingxian Yamen, Gao Pragmatic ordered the establishment of the "Tsasi Female Worker Camp". All the female dependents of saltmen aged between fifteen and under forty could join as female workers.
After female workers join the camp, they need to undergo three months of training in advance to learn the various steps of making tussah silk. The training is free and all meals are included. After completing the training, the benefits are divided into two parts: the basic salary is one or two silver taels per month;
Performance pay is distributed according to work. Those who do more work and have excellent quality can get up to 6 taels of silver! Even based on ordinary estimates, there are about 2 taels of silver in the account.
At the same time, the Bingxian Yamen was responsible for the safety and security of the Tusi Women's Work Camp, ensuring that there were only women in the camp. Without the request of the women's work camp supervisor, workshop director and other appropriate persons, not only the escorting soldiers were not allowed to enter, but even Gao Bingxian himself was not allowed to enter.
No one is allowed inside.
Moreover, any male who is allowed to enter the female worker camp must always be under the supervision of the female worker guards sent by the female worker camp and must not wander around at will. Violators will be severely punished. The punishment is severe, ranging from twenty lashes to beheading.
Showing to the public. Moreover, there is a unique punishment here, called "eye killing" - gouging out the eyes.
Obviously, Gao Bingxian was still very worried about the Ming Dynasty's ethics and ethics, so he had to do something special and openly exposed corporal punishment to scare Xiao Xiao.
When the news came out, the entire Gaizhou was dumbfounded.
The first one was dumbfounded because the future income of the female workers' camp would be so high that even men could not compare with it. The second one was dumbfounded because Gao Bingxian protected the female workers' camp so strictly that it was almost like he was guarding a palace.
Should we let our female relatives try to go to the female workers’ camp? This question has caused many salt workers to lose sleep.
In later generations, it may not be shocking that a wife's income is higher than that of her husband, but that is after all, and this is not popular in the Ming Dynasty. Except for a few saltmen, they are indifferent to the accusation of "eating soft rice"
, obviously worried about losing husband's rights as a result.
Therefore, the news was shocking. Three days later, there were only over 200 female workers who signed up for the female worker camp.
Gao Pragmatic sent someone to investigate and found that almost all of the more than 200 people had special circumstances, such as the husband was sick or the husband had passed away, the son was now making salt, and there were several children in the family who needed to be raised, etc.
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This situation obviously did not satisfy Gao Pragmatic, but his consistent thinking was "don't act recklessly", so after much deliberation, he summoned the person in charge of the salt field to discuss it for a long time, and finally released another news the next day.
Jinghua Saltworks also implements a "double salary system", that is, basic salary plus performance pay. According to this salary standard, if the salt workers work hard, their income will not be lower than that of the female workers' camp, or even slightly more than that of the female workers.
This is Gao Pragmatic's greatest effort and the greatest goodwill he has released. If he still struggles with this, he plans to directly recruit female workers from "the whole society."
Fortunately, his efforts were not in vain. Within ten days after this news was released, more than 4,000 female preparatory workers went to the female worker camp to sign up, which finally made him relieved.
This is a small step, but also a big step.
If society wants to develop, how can it be achieved by relying on men alone? After all, God created men and women. Men have things that men are good at, and women have things that women are good at. Gao Bingxian did not intend to launch any suicidal measures such as equal rights for men and women in one go.
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Women must be better than men at work such as reeling and weaving. Why shouldn't we admit this? Otherwise, should we let men weave and women fight?
Speaking of which, in later generations, there were even many female workers in the salt fields! It was just that Gao Bingxian was very cautious. The reason why he dared to set up a female worker camp was because at this time, there were already "textile factories" that employed female workers in the south -
- There are many in Suzhou. Later generations often talk about the "germination of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty", and many of them are based on this matter.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, it is the Southern Zhili region with a developed commodity economy after all, while Liaodong is relatively too conservative, and Gao Bingxian did not dare to "make big strides forward"
, for fear of breaking the egg.
But Gao Pragmatic didn't expect that his actions would quickly attract the attention of several women he knew, and thus involve some other things.
After finishing these things, his attention was once again attracted to Yanjing.
On the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Wanli, which was Bingshen Day, at noon, Emperor Yuanzi was born, and Concubine Gong was born.
The next day, when the prince was born, he gave the three assistant ministers and lecturers various silver coins.
The next day, Zhu Yijun issued an order to the Ministry of Etiquette: I am a ancestral ancestor. In this tenth year, it has been five years since the wedding ceremony. I pay tribute to the Queen Mother Yi'an and the Queen Mother Xuanwen for her great kindness.
In memory of this, I am blessed by the emperor and heaven, my ancestor Kao Chuixiu, Yuanzi was born, my face is kind and full of kindness, and I will always be virtuous... It is appropriate to add an emblem to express your respect and respect, and the Ministry of Rites will choose a day to carry out the ceremony.
Yisi, Grand Scholar Zhang Siwei and others proposed the emblem of the Holy Mother of the two palaces, adding two characters to each, and accepted it.
In Xinyou, Zhu Yijun came to the Huangji Palace and gave birth to a prince, and issued an edict to the world. The edict said: I have heard that since ancient times, emperors have worshiped saints and prayed to heaven.
There is nothing greater than this. With my humble bow, I succeeded to the great treasure. In these ten years, I am fortunate to be at peace in my country, and the people from all over the world are convinced...
Then there was a series of rewards, edicts, mercy, reduced sentences, exemptions, etc. The entire edict was three thousand words long.
Gao Pingshi unexpectedly discovered that he was actually mentioned in a short paragraph, to the effect that he had defeated Tumen in the previous series, and a prince would be born soon. It was God's will to restore the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yijun mentioned the python suit that was rewarded to him.
Click on the grade and upgrade from "walking in the python" to "sitting in the python".
Gao pragmatically smiled bitterly and thought to himself: This is good, my clothes will be worn out at the age of twenty, and I will probably be prepared to wear these clothes until I die.
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