Villager of Daming

Chapter 759: Technology changes people’s livelihood

The people playing with the ice carts here are all children, and some are brought here by older people. There are no men or women who can work. They all have something to do.

Men also mainly do hard work, such as helping to carry work, or transporting things to the construction site, to the Ma'anshan mine.

Either Yingtianfu's silage pond, coal transportation, and briquette making.

Women work in match factories, textile factories, greenhouses, pickle factories and other factories.

If you really have free time, you won't go to the ice rink so far away. Instead, you will find a place to read and read.

Because according to rumors, in the future, the business in Xiaqiu Village will only recruit people who can read, and those who can't will not be hired, including jobs that make a lot of money.

When it comes to money, ordinary people work very hard, especially those who work in various factories. When they go home to rest after get off work, they take the time to take out the literacy books borrowed from the library to read.

The only people who can be in the ice rink are older people. They bring their grandchildren here to play. They are mainly responsible for safety issues on the road and are afraid of someone stealing their children.

In fact, there are no human traffickers. It’s not that some people are kind, but that the stolen children cannot be transported away. If the child is more than a hundred miles away, he needs a road to guide him. To open a road to guide him, he must have a household registration.

If a child is stolen and wants to leave, he can apply for road guidance according to his household registration, but where can the child get road guidance?Asking the child's parents for a registration book?
The children continued to play while the elderly family members who brought them stayed nearby.

"How many people does this old man have in his family?" Zhu Yuanzhang came to the nearest person and looked at him carefully and asked.

The older man also looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and smiled: "There are many people in the family, my wife is here, my four sons are married, and there are nine grandchildren in total. This one is the youngest. I will take him to play with me." .”

As he spoke, he pointed to a child. The child could not use an ice drill on his own and could only be skated together with others. He looked to be two or three years old.

Zhu Yuanzhang was happy: "It's good to have children and grandchildren in the house. How is life at home?"

He understood that there were nineteen people in his family, and it was not easy for the children to live so much.

"It's done! Everyone makes money and spends it. We don't care about the money. The boss is the best. He can take home three guans a month. The others are about two guans.

Aren’t all the wives at home going to work?Earning more than twenty yuan a day is better than before. In the past few years, wherever I could find such a job, I would weave at home.

Our family still has a hundred acres of land, which has been rented out. The two elders of us have only one vegetable plot left to grow vegetables for our own consumption and to dry them in the sun.

By the way, I raised chickens, ducks and geese, but not pigs. It was difficult to feed the pigs, and everyone at home was busy.

The eldest grandson is studying in the official school, and the younger siblings, except the youngest, all go to the library. "

The old man was still so happy and told him about the general situation at home.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood. This family was powerful. If they rented land, they would collect rent, save some food money, and at the same time, they would not have to perform labor service.

The key to saving money on vegetables in the vegetable field is to have a student from the government school. Now the student is ready to go out and replace the department store with someone else at any time.

The students are now learning more than just scriptures and the like. Secondly, the most important thing is practical knowledge on how to lead people to live a good life.

With such a grandson, this family will do well.

"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then looked at the others, mainly looking at their faces, and found that they were all good.

There are no cracks on the face or the back of the hands, and the lips are not chapped.

Like the children who came to the library, all their faces were flushed, and there were no small pimples at the corners of their mouths. It was angular stomatitis.

"Leave them to eat at noon and give them some food." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered. They were all common people and had no less than a few mouthfuls to eat.Turning his head, he said to the ministers: "The people of Yingtian Mansion are better off, but the ministers in other places have to work hard."

He knew the situation. Some of these children came from nearby villages. They did not live in the library because it was too far away.

However, their parents would go to the library to borrow books for them to read. When they saw that there was an ice rink here, they invited other friends to come and play.

If you ask one person, they will tell you that your parents are busy at home. If you ask another person, it will still be the same.

Being busy means making money. It is winter now, and there is not much to do under normal circumstances. In winter, we stay at home. The women do some housework, while the men get firewood and clean up the yard.

Time is wasted in vain, and an income is lost.

When everyone is busy, looking at the clothes and complexions of the children, you can see that their lives are better. At least they have cotton clothes to wear, and there is no shortage of meat to eat.

In other places, it is estimated that only the people of Ningguo Mansion can compare with this, not even Taiping Mansion.

Naturally, the ministers responded repeatedly. In fact, they only need to do their job well, and they can't help much.

They have been accustomed to the long-standing thinking mode. Everyone has been like that, through the ages, and suddenly they want to change methods, which requires a whole set of theoretical systems to support it.

They usually dredge silt, build embankments, encourage farming, and reduce or reduce land taxes and labor in case of disasters, but nothing else.

Some places have been hit by disasters. If you want to open a warehouse to store grain, you just have to think about it. What can you do if there is no grain?

Historically speaking, Shandong has been hit by successive disasters. Now the grass roots and tree bark should be eaten away. Why not put away food if there is food?

"Yichang, where do you think all the money comes from?" Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect the ministers to change anything. He put his hope in the masters of Xiaqiu Village.

"Your Majesty, of course you dig it from the ground, select better seeds to plant, use more reasonable methods to manage it, and take more complete measures to assist.

Only when the yield per mu increases can there be surplus materials. Exchanging goods for takeout is a surplus product, and the surplus product itself has its own value.

As long as logistics is good, the surplus value will be used in exchange, thus increasing the total amount of social resources.

The derivative product of grain is naturally meat, so social division of labor begins, and people will engage in more professional things, such as craftsmen.

To put it bluntly, it is a matter of utilization of existing resources. The resources are there, and better technology can be used to transform more of what we need.

The use of water resources is water trucks. People no longer have to carry water, and the time saved is used for other things..."

The director briefly mentioned where things come from, it’s just production technology.

Production technology is transformed into productivity, which is the basis for improving people's living standards.

The next step is administrative matters, ensuring that stupid people can keep up with the team, providing social welfare, and using money from smart rich people to subsidize the poor.

"Yes, it means giving money from the rich to the poor. If you don't give it, the poor will rebel. If we have food for every meal, can we still rebel against the Yuan Dynasty?"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think there was anything wrong with taking money from some people and giving it to others. This had been the case since ancient times.

Including civil and military officials, they also agree with this point. This is how tax collection is done!If the common people grow something at home and sell it, they will not be taxed, while the merchants will pay thirty to one tax on what they sell.

(End of this chapter)