I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 666, Three views are hard to change

After hope was shattered again, the scene was extremely embarrassing, and the atmosphere here cooled down for a while.After the great man perishes, their nephews are not allowed to take imperial examinations. Then for several years or even before the death of Lei Gong, their family will not be able to appear in the officialdom of Dagan. A powerful family has no one in the officialdom. What kind of powerful family is this? Not at all, it can be said that their family is not even powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are ordinary people now!
Many people couldn't bear such a blow and left one after another. In less than a while, the lively scene just disappeared, leaving only a few old people who continued to stay here.

At this time, Ding Gong walked up to Liu He and said: "Cao Cao from Crab Island heard that we are extremely short of labor here in Dagan, and he is willing to provide a group of strong labor to work here in Dagan, but he doesn't know whether the ruling party is willing to take it, so he entrusted I'll call to find out! And you are the only one among us who is in the officialdom, do you think the ruling will agree to this matter!"

Liu Hedao: "If there is a labor force, even if the savages are in power, there is a high possibility that they will agree. In the past few years, ordinary people's fields have been expanded, and many families in the countryside are already overwhelmed. The previous cooperative groups have become popular again. Now In the countryside, more than a dozen families join together to build a small farm to save labor.

At the same time, factories are also expanding. Now there are more than 5000 factories with more than [-] employees. Every year, many people come from the countryside to work in cities, but even so, there are still too few workers, whether in the countryside, in the fields, or in the cities. Factories are extremely short of labor. Every year during the summer and autumn harvests, the villages have to rob labor from the factories, shutting down the factories for a month or two, and causing huge losses.

If you can really get tens of thousands of people to come over, it will be extremely beneficial to the development of Daqian, but it will only take a few years for Cao Cao to develop Crab Island. Logically speaking, he should also be extremely short of labor. How can there be labor? Come to us! "

Ding Gong said helplessly: "What is there to develop on Crab Island? Do they want to build some elevated canals and waterwheels there?"

"Even if Cao Cao wanted to build it, Crab Island doesn't have such high-level craftsmen, and it can't make waterwheels and elevated canals at all. Now Crab Island is still in a state of slash-and-burn farming. Farming is to set fire to burn weeds, and then let these savages use sticks Just poke a hole and put a few seeds down, and one mu of land can’t even harvest half a stone of grain.”

"But to these savages, it's already a lot. They didn't farm land at all, and now they have half a stone of grain income. In addition, the population of the island is not large, so they set fire to get millions of acres of land. , You can get millions of shi of grain, and some fishing boats for fishing, and the grain you buy from us is enough to feed them.

"And there is no need to build a city. Now Cao Cao is the same as us. He does not need a city wall to build a city. In this case, there will be vacancies for their labor force on Crab Island. They will not be able to generate much benefit by staying on Crab Island. I don't know. Who suggested to Cao Cao that they want some laborers to come to Dagan to work and earn money, after all, the wages here are higher, and the monthly income is enough to buy several shi of grain."

Zhao Qi, who has not yet left, said with a smile: "Cao Aman really has some skills, and even he has found such a way of development. It is true that it is more cost-effective for savages to work in Dagan than to keep Crab Island to farm. Now Dagan The price of grain is also extremely low, it is enough for him to buy grain from Dagan!"

Food is of course the foundation of a country, but it doesn't matter to Crab Island. If you really want to deal with Cao Cao, you don't need food. It's better to use warships directly!
Xu Shao also said with a smile: "Cao Cao still has some talents, maybe Crab Island can really achieve a career!"

Cao Cao obviously wanted to develop the tertiary industry and use the tertiary industry to feed back the primary industry.Xu Shao found that this idea is really suitable for the weak Cao Cao.

It was Guo Jia's suggestion to work for Dagan. He found that it would take decades to develop a Crab Island just by developing step by step. In terms of the quality of the labor force of Crab Island, he dared not to catch up with Daqian in the development speed of Crab Island. , Thinking of the desperate thing that they were in Qingzhou back then, the more they chased, the bigger the gap was, the bigger the gap, he understood that there was no way out for the step-by-step development of Crab Island.

And when his old friend Xi Zhong wrote to him, he kept complaining about the lack of population in Yuyang County. He, a prefect of 2000 shi, sometimes had to compete with other prefects for population.

This made Guo Jia discover the shortage of labor force in Dagan, and of course their Crab Island also lacks labor force. After all, it is a barren land, and they have to rebuild everything by themselves. Food, cloth, machinery, funds, all right!They lack everything at all, but the population is relatively better. After all, they have to wait for enough bricks to build a city. They can't build a city without tools, and they can farm land by slash-and-burn without much labor.

When these savages were wandering around in the wilderness, Guo Jia wondered if he could send them to work in Dagan. The monthly salary in Dagan is not high, but they can buy seven or eight shi of grain for a year. If you work hard, you can earn hundreds of shi of grain.

However, to grow so much food on Crab Island requires dozens of people to work on thousands of acres of land for a year. In this comparison, Guo Jia found that going to work hard can generate more income than leaving them to farm in Crab Island. Out ten times!
So Guo Jia discussed his ideas with Cao Cao and the others. Everyone also felt that this kind of labor market is extremely rich, and it might become an accelerator for their development. As long as they have money, they can buy cattle, and their own advanced Farm tools, it's no faster than they let these savages farm and develop!
After the discussion, Cao Cao wrote a letter to his father-in-law, asking him to inquire about it. Even if Ding Gong had a bad relationship with Cao Cao, he would not hinder Cao Cao in such a matter. After all, his daughter is still alive. Cao Cao is the princess there, and all his family members are on Crab Island!
Liu He reported this matter the next day. If this matter came true, the Department of Foreign Affairs would have something to do!
In this way, the news has been passed to Xu Wei in the steam engine laboratory!

At this time, Xu Wei is busy instructing craftsmen to make more efficient steam machine tools to improve the efficiency of steam engine production!
At the same time, find ways to expand the use of steam engines in other industries to increase the productivity of the entire Daqian.

People in this era are still figuring out how to use steam engines. The most they do are steam looms, water pumps, trains and other three types of machines. These three types of machines have been produced, but they have already made Daqian's productivity soaring. Steam pumps alone Let the grain output of Dagan increase by more than [-]%, and there is still potential for further improvement. Many places need to spend a lot of money to build canals. Now it only needs a water still pump and a few knots of moso bamboo.

Xu Wei knows that the steam engine can promote productivity in all directions, which is far from its potential. It can also do many things, such as the steam engine can be put on an ocean-going freighter to increase the capacity of the freighter, and it can be improved by putting it on a grinding machine. The efficiency of the cement factory reduces the price of cement, so that the cement road is no longer limited to the city.

It can be said that as long as a machine with power can be used, its production efficiency can be greatly improved. For these machines to appear, craftsmen need to constantly explore, but now Xu Wei directly pointed out the answer.

Of course, it is not enough to develop new machines, but also to find ways to increase the output of steam engines.Since the steam engine appeared in Dagan, it has become the darling of Dagan because of its extremely high work efficiency. A year later.

Even the number of technicians is a little insufficient. After all, the steam engine is the crown of industry in this era, and it cannot be manufactured by just any worker. The steam engine factory in Dagan has the highest degree of education in the entire Dagan factory. Even ordinary workers are Only after graduating from middle school can one become a worker.

At the same time, the steam engine has also created a new industry, that is, the mechanical maintenance worker. After all, the new steam engine is extremely prone to accidents, so it is necessary for maintenance workers to repair it. Mechanical knowledge related to steam engines is required to repair steam engines.

It can be said that the nascent steam engine industry is an industry that requires high education, high technology, and high requirements. This industry continues to expand and has quickly swallowed up the industrial talents Xu Wei has cultivated in the past ten years. Now there is not only a shortage of steam engines everywhere, but also a shortage of people who know how to maintain them. The talent of the steam engine.

Faced with such a situation, Xu Wei had no choice but to open a technical school about steam engines, hoping to quickly train a group of technicians and maintenance personnel!

When it was time to eat at noon, Xu Wei went to the canteen of the laboratory to eat with the technicians!At this time, a young technician Wang Peng said to Xu Wei: "I want to take part in this imperial examination, what do you think?"

Xu Wei asked: "Why do you have such an idea? You already have a monthly salary of 10 yuan, and you are already one of the highest-paid people in Dagan. Why do you still want to take the imperial examination? You must know that becoming an official with 400 shi The monthly salary is only a little over 1000 yuan!"

Although the salaries of low-level officials have been rising over the years, it is impossible to raise the salaries of these people to such a high level. It can be said that even Xu Wei, who is in power for a month, has a little higher salary than him. The technicians in the steam engine laboratory are all golden collars!

"Besides, your technology is so good that you became a senior technician at a young age. If you polish your skills, you might become a master-level technician in the future. If there are more inventions and creations, the income of big merchants will not be as good as yours! Being able to realize your own personal value is no better than being a small bureaucrat!"

Wang Pengdao: "This is my parents' request. They think that being a craftsman is not as good as being an official. The money our family has earned over the years is enough to support the whole family. Now they want me to be an official to honor our ancestors!"

Xu Wei felt helpless when he heard this. He could not change this concept alone. He has done well enough. I still feel that the first-class occupation is to become an official. This reality has not changed even after thousands of years!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Whether you want to be an official is only you who think it's good, but I think it's extremely lucky for a person to be able to do what he is interested in, and this career can still protect himself. Think about it, do you really want to be an official?"

Being able to become a senior technician at a young age, Wang Peng naturally likes machinery, otherwise he would not have such achievements, so he thought about it and said: "I still like the work here, but I still have to take a test. Otherwise, it’s not easy to explain to my parents, now that there are so many people taking the imperial examination, I may not be able to pass the exam!”

After much deliberation, Wang Peng still gave up the idea of ​​becoming a small bureaucrat. He is very satisfied with his current life. Not only is his income high, but he can also do what he likes to do. If he becomes an official, he will not have to think about the high income now. Moreover, he had to leave Jidu and go to the countryside somewhere to become a petty tax collector. The mechanical skills he learned would be wasted when he went to the countryside.

Then he sighed: "If a technician like us also has an official position, then I will be able to explain to my parents!"

Xu Wei smiled wryly and said: "If there are really more high-income officials like you, our imperial court will go bankrupt!"

There are almost thousands of senior technicians in Dagan, and the salaries of these people alone will cost 12 billion a year, which is not a small sum.

However, Xu Wei is also thinking about whether to give these senior technicians an honorary title to meet the needs of people in this era. In Xu Wei's opinion, 100 low-level bureaucrats are not as good as a senior technician. He doesn't want to work hard The trained technicians have become petty bureaucrats, and the current big cadres cannot afford such waste.

Mechanical production is a technical activity, and it takes several years just to eliminate the stress in the machine.Turning, milling, planing, grinding, and pliers basically require some skilled workers, which cannot be done by just one person, and skilled workers with such skills cannot be trained in two or three years.

Starting from Mayi, Xu Wei trained workers continuously for more than ten years, and the cost was extremely high. Only then did he have the current professional technicians. The number of county magistrates is more than twice as small, and each of them is a treasure to Xu Wei.

(End of this chapter)