Villager of Daming

Chapter 291 Migrant Workers Are Difficult to Travel (Part [-])
Zhu Biao stood by and watched the bargaining between the two parties, and found it very interesting.

In his impression, when a businessman is looking for someone to work, he usually gives as much as he wants, and there are many people rushing to do it.

In order to avoid their own losses, the workers will gang up to raise the price together, and even increase the price in the middle of the work.

After a long time, the merchants avoided them, and they continued to look for things.

Now everything is gone, the convenience department is in charge of management, no one dares to make trouble here.

Seeing that someone agreed to a wage of [-] cents a day, he turned to talk to the village chief: "The wages have increased a lot now?"

"The more stable people's lives are, the better the economic development will be. Since Taiping Prefecture began to grow crops last year, fewer people came out to work.

It belongs to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, where many goods were loaded and unloaded, and the imperial court opened the mine again, and a large number of laborers entered the mining area.

Nanjing itself is the center of politics, economy and culture.The palace in the imperial city is under construction, and the factories outside Xiaqiu Village also need manpower.

Coupled with the construction of the canal, the number of ships passing through has increased, and the number of manpower has decreased. If you want to find someone to work here, it will naturally be expensive. "

The head of the village explained the current situation to the prince, and Zhu Xi listened to him. He understood that this is called the relationship between supply and demand.

Zhu Biao thought for a moment: "Is Luyin restricting people from further afield to work here?"

"There are no restrictions on road guides, and many people open roads in the name of visiting relatives and go to work in Nanjing.

There are hardworking people in the north who leave home for Nanjing after harvesting the rice. Some people don’t go back during Chinese New Year, and bring money back home to work when it’s time to grow rice.

This is called the floating population, which competes with the local permanent population for jobs, and at the same time makes up for the shortage of local migrant workers.

Otherwise, the businessman would not be able to recruit manpower to go out with him to carry the goods at Liushiwen. Look at that group of people. "

The chief said and pointed to a place where there were five or sixty people, all of whom were not very old.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi followed Li Chang's fingers and looked over. Those people looked at the youngest fourteen or fifteen years old and the eldest twenty or so years old, but they both showed puzzled expressions.

The head of the village said: "They came from a county outside, and they got in touch with each other. They are all families with a small area and a lot of people, and they are not married."

"Zhu Lichang, how did you tell?" Zhu Yu didn't notice any difference between those people and others.

"The people who work are all shirtless, and those who carry things wear clothes for fear that they will be worn out, and wearing clothes will get in the way.

Everyone wears short trousers with trouser legs above the ankle, with a piece of cloth or hemp rope tied around the waist, and the upper body is not worn.

Those people had marks on their backs, the marks left by the sleeping straw mats, sometimes when it rained, they couldn't just lie on the ground to sleep.

And if you sleep directly on the ground, you will catch a cold.They usually sleep in temples and monasteries, do not go in, put their luggage inside, and go out to work. "

The head of the village also talked about the details, but it is difficult to identify them in winter, and people cover them with bedding in winter.

"In this way, it can be regarded as being able to subsidize the family, which is not bad." Zhu Biao nodded, thinking that people from other places are diligent.

Li Changque shook his head: "If they are not guided correctly, they will learn bad things slowly. Nanjing is too prosperous, especially along the Qinhuai River.

No one cares about them outside, they also want to eat meat, and they are also tempted when they see beautiful women.

Even if someone intends to save money and take it home, people from the same place will cajole and bring it down. "

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi showed surprise at the same time, the group of people...

"What should I do?" Zhu Biao didn't want the people in front of him to take the road Li Chang said, they were all the people of Ming Dynasty.

"When the workshops outside Xiaqiu Village are completed, they will be able to house 4000 to [-] people, centrally manage, dispatch, and find someone to teach them.

The wages are not given to them, and free board and lodging are provided. For those who are waiting for them to go home, arrange for someone to take them back with their wages. It is best to have someone from the yamen go with them.

Their people and money are safe, they can learn some words and arithmetic, and they want to work again next year. "

The head of the village told about the arrangement of Xiaqiu Village to deal with three or four thousand migrant workers.

But Zhu Biao shook his head: "No, Chief Zhu, it's not like this, think about it again? Or find someone to ask, what we want is a solution to all outsiders."

Zhu Biao didn't care about the three or four thousand people at all. He wanted to get a more comprehensive solution from Xiaqiu Village.

The head of the village nodded: "Yes, yes, you should not only consider part of it, but... it is very troublesome to search for road guides, unless... well... the imperial court allows various places to issue labor guides.

For example, we only go to Nanjing now, and take that road to guide the trip to Nanjing, and it is not allowed to go to other places.

In this way, after they came, it would be convenient for the government of Yingtian Mansion to manage them, because it was agreed that they were here to work.

A house was built farther away from the Qinhuai River for them to live in, and the government paid the rent in advance, and returned it to the yamen after they made money. "

The village chief did it on purpose, otherwise he would have said this method directly, and he would have lightly stated how many people Xiaqiu Village has taken in.

Zhu Biao nodded, thinking that this was normal, how could it be possible for an expert to deal with three or four thousand people?
Zhu Xi said from the side: "No, Chief Zhu, it's still not right, set aside a piece of land, who will build the house? Who will collect the rent? Who will take care of it? What will they do after that? They eat and drink, it's too messy.

It's agreed, if you ask a question, it will be solved. If you haven't solved all of it, think about it again, Zhu Lichang, I believe you. "

"Uh... I'll submit a test book later?" Li Chang stretched his hand into his bosom, and took it out again after hesitation.

"Okay!" Zhu Xi said yes.

Zhu Biao: "..."

He dared to bet that Zhu Lichang had a copybook in his arms, which had been written long ago, but he didn't show it for reading now.

"Look at the convenience place first." The head of the village reminded us that we didn't come to look at the question book, although I copied it from Hanhan yesterday and learned a lot of knowledge temporarily.

Zhu Biao understood, yes, let's look at the convenience store, he walked into the hall where the merchants bought, and there were all information about buying.

The businessmen sat there drinking tea and eating snacks, some stood up and looked at the paper on the display board on the wall, some asked the service staff, and some were registering information.

Zhu Wentian was always by Zhu Biao's side, so nothing could go wrong.

With his hands behind his back, Zhu Biao casually looked for a display board on the wall. There were few people here.

Only after watching him did he realize why there are so few people. To buy soap here, you can buy as much as you want.

Twelve sheets of paper were posted on a display board, all of which were for buying soap.

Zhu Biao knew that they couldn't buy it, and most of the soap in the palace was exported, and then the workshop had to make soap for the soldiers.

20 troops, go out once, at least 100 million pieces of soap, to avoid getting sick from small wounds and eating.

There is also a reserve of soap in the palace, and it will be brought to the soldiers when they wait for the next war.

Occasionally, thousands of pieces of soap are put on the market, and no one is allowed to buy more than five pieces.

Another Xiaqiu village with technology and production capacity only provides a small part of Fuhualou and Qinghuai River's brothel-cum-restaurant.

Zhu Biao left the display board and went to look at it with few people.

"Buy honey? Are you collecting honey? Is there any honey now?" Zhu Biao turned his head and asked Hanhan.

Zhu Wentian: "..."

(End of this chapter)