People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 552 With such high subsidies, everyone is lying down!

Even if there are only three or four taels of silver a year, many people already feel that such a life can be very comfortable.

It could even be said that it was a uniquely good day.

Because being able to earn this much in a year is considered a very high income.

But no one would have thought that the craftsmen in Daming Engineering College could obtain patent royalties even if they just used their unique skills and applied for so-called patents.

This expense actually reached ten taels of silver per month. This is ten taels of silver per month.

Just think about it, they work so hard and only earn three or four taels of silver in a year.

But people don't have to do anything. Just by offering their unique skills, they can get a subsidy of ten taels of silver every month.

If you think this way, then what are your own people?

He can only be regarded as a truly lowly person.

No wonder the common people here compare themselves to the lowest of low, it turns out this is true.

This is because the craftsmen at Daming Engineering College can earn so much every month just by contributing to such a problem.

This is equivalent to two or three years of work in one month, and they don't even have to work.

If you calculate it this way, you won’t have to do anything in just one year and you can just lie down for the rest of your life.

When I think of this place, countless people are envious.

Even Wang Dahai and Captain Liu were actually envious.

My people used to look down on those craftsmen, but I never expected that after arriving at Daming Engineering College, as long as they had the skills and ability to donate these things, they could get direct subsidies as long as they were used.

Even if your technology is not used, you can still get subsidies after applying for a patent.

Then Wang Dahai continued, "This is a monthly subsidy of ten taels of silver for first-class technicians, and they don't have to do anything.

And if your technology saves silver for a project, for example, building a house requires one thousand taels of silver, and using your technology saves five hundred taels of silver.

Then the five taels of silver is your patent royalties.

If ten such houses are used in a year, then you can get a subsidy of ten silver taels per month and a reward of fifty taels of silver.

The total is one hundred and seventy taels of silver.

Even for the lowest grade, Grade C, the monthly subsidy was two taels, or twenty-four taels a year.

Once you use this technology, there will be additional rewards.

This is the subsidy provided by Daming Engineering College to ordinary craftsmen.

I believe that each of you has your own unique skills, otherwise you would not have survived.

If every craftsman does not have unique skills and can only follow others all day long, then he can only be considered a laborer, not even a craftsman.

And I believe that if anyone here has such skills, you may be willing to contribute them, because such income would be an astronomical figure for you.

Of course, it is an astronomical figure for us.

To be honest, even if we became generals in the Ming Dynasty, we were very envious of those craftsmen.

Because the salaries of people like us are indeed high. For example, my salary and the salary of Captain Liu are different when we go overseas than when we stay locally.

Our monthly salary locally is five taels of silver, and the additional subsidy for going to sea is twenty taels of silver per month.

Our ordinary soldiers receive a monthly subsidy of ten taels of silver. If we perform meritorious service in battle, we also receive a monetary reward, which is calculated separately. But to be honest, it is not as good as those craftsmen."

The people in Mandala City were actually very shocked when they heard this.

They knew that the Ming Dynasty was very rich, but they didn't know it could be this rich.

The monthly subsidy outside is twenty taels of silver, which means two hundred and forty cars a year.

This does not include combat rewards and some daily subsidies.

Ordinary soldiers also received ten taels of silver a month.

That means it’s 120 cars a year, and it’s not considered a bonus.

But even so, they were very envious of those craftsmen.

What is the reason for this?

This is because some craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty could earn several hundred taels of silver a year even if they did nothing.

When I thought about it, I felt extremely envious.

Even the soldiers standing next to Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu were actually very envious at this time.

Although we can see different scenery when we go out to sea, we can also get very high rewards.

But it was a life-and-death struggle. Some people vomited on the boat for a month or two before they adapted to the situation. The discomfort was not something that most people could accept.

Others will also sacrifice.

Although the Ming Dynasty now had muskets and artillery to directly push forward, a small number of people were still sacrificed.

For example, during the conquest of Majapahit last time, no one died on the way to the battle, but some of them died of illness in the smoky jungle.

Although they have very high pensions, of course it is best to be alive.

It was also the first time they heard that the craftsmen at Daming Engineering College could actually have such high salaries, and they were very envious.

But for some reason, even though they envied him, they didn't feel curious or jealous at all.

Or maybe he wants to change his career and become a craftsman or something like that.

Because in their eyes, the scenery they see now is not something that ordinary people can see.

Now I go out to sea to fight pirates, how satisfying it is to take revenge.

And you can also get high rewards, and these obvious rewards are actually visible.

What you don't see is that after each pirate raid, the generals would actually take out some of the pirates' stolen money and divide it up. This was inevitable.

Every leader of troops in battle relies on these to make everyone convinced.

And relying on the dividends from these extra spoils, they can get several hundred taels of silver every year.

This is much more than before.

The reason for such benefits is that after the Duke's reforms, the Ming Dynasty had become very rich.

Especially the silver and gold that were continuously shipped over from Japan. Those were huge amounts of money, and it was too much to spend.

Many times they even heard many senior military officers say that they should spend the silver after taking it out, and not keep it in their hands, as it has no value if saved.

Because you don’t know whether the price of silver will drop when you return to Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after a large number of soldiers received the silver, the first thing they did was to exchange it for treasure notes, because the treasure notes were so valuable now that they could be exchanged at a one-to-one ratio with silver.

It may even exceed the current level, reaching about 1:1.5.

The reason why they could know that the exchange rate of silver to Baochao in the Ming Dynasty had exceeded 1:1.5 in such a remote place was because even though they were far away in Southeast Asia, there were still many merchants coming from the Ming Dynasty to do business.

They were able to know the current situation of the Ming Dynasty at the first time, thanks to the fact that there are no pirates on the sea.

It can even be said that the pirates on the sea are hiding from the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships and navy.

Because once a Ming merchant ship discovers their whereabouts, it will immediately report to the Ming Navy.

The navy is like a lone wolf and a tiger. Now that most of the pirates on the sea have been wiped out, pirates have become a scarce commodity.

The naval officers and soldiers have a big gathering every year. No matter whether it is a squadron or a corps, or the navy led by a general, they have to return to the Ming Navy Headquarters every year to hold a meeting to summarize the battle achievements over the years.

Now that everyone has been at sea for half a year, many marquises and generals have gathered at the first Ming naval port in Annan for a gathering.

At that time, Lan Yu, the marshal of the Ming Navy, would hold a so-called commendation meeting for everyone.

Everyone reported their own achievements. It would be really embarrassing if they didn't have any outstanding achievements at this time.

Moreover, the military discipline of the Ming Navy is so strict that not everyone dares to make mistakes. Of course, no one will make mistakes, because as long as they do not make mistakes, they will receive a large reward every year.

The rules set by Chen Han are actually very humane.

Why do you do this?

Because that's where the discipline of ancient soldiers came from.

In fact, it comes from the little rewards.

Why does this happen?

The reason is very simple, that is because of the Ming Dynasty, no matter if it was the Ming Dynasty, the salaries of most ancient soldiers were very low.

So there is no difference between being a soldier and being a bandit.

In order to get more money, they can be said to be just like bandits.

Every time after a battle, they would sift through the sieves the same way the bandits sifted through them. In fact, the mesh of their sieves was much smaller than that of the bandits’.

In other words, there may be no grass growing wherever it passes.

In order to eliminate this situation and establish good military discipline.

On the one hand, Chen Han strengthened the construction of military discipline, and on the other hand, he also increased subsidies for the soldiers.

Anyway, Ming Dynasty has plenty of money now, so as long as the Ming Navy does not violate military discipline, there will be a reward every year.

This award is called the Good Military Discipline Award.

The rewards for these things are over one million taels of silver every year.

So for the sake of this sum of money, Lan Yu and his men tried their best to maintain good military discipline.

We need to train and grasp the ideology, but at the same time we must also make every soldier feel a sense of balance and not let them cause trouble.

In addition to driving away and killing pirates on the sea, rescuing people in distress on the sea is also an essential task for the navy.

Escorting merchant ships on the sea is a task that needs to be completed.

Therefore, the Ming Navy today is not just a combat force, but also a team for maintaining stability on the sea.

With the Ming Navy, all the surrounding countries feel very relieved.

They will cooperate with the Ming Navy with confidence and provide the Ming Navy with sufficient food and fodder every year.

This amount of food and fodder reduced a lot of transportation and logistics pressure on the Ming Dynasty.

And where do these things come from?

It comes from good military discipline, and Lan Yu worked hard to achieve this.

Now the Ming Navy can sail on the sea with confidence, ensure sufficient supply of food and grass, and make countries such as Annan, Champa, Myanmar, and Siam willing to do so.

Or it could be said that they were very willing to do so, because Lan Yu and his men had established very good military discipline in the navy.

The navy has never harassed coastal residents in the past.

Such good military discipline ensured that the people were very supportive of the Ming Navy.

So that there will be no need for other naval forces to appear on the sea.

All patrolling, escorting, and pirate-killing tasks were handed over to the Ming Navy.

The Ming Navy also had the opportunity to receive many additional subsidies during this process.
The silver, food and fodder supplies, and military equipment replenishment that are paid from various countries every year are all huge sums.

Let them gain a lot, and all these are things that Chen Han and others must do after the reform.

Neighboring countries must feel this before they will willingly give such good treatment.

The Ming Navy can operate in other countries just like in its own country, without having to worry about any messy problems.

This is the benefit of the Ming Dynasty's reforms, and this is also the real reason why these soldiers are not envious or jealous even when they heard that the subsidies for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty Engineering College are so high.

Because they themselves can also get a very high sum.

However, when the common people heard that the craftsmen from Daming Engineering College actually received such high subsidies, their eyes widened.

No one could believe that Daming Engineering College actually had such treatment.

It is even more unbelievable that craftsmen could receive such treatment.

I was extremely envious and jealous for a moment.

Because no one has ever treated them so highly.

I never imagined such high treatment.

I can’t even imagine it.

It turns out that once you have a unique technology and apply for a patent, you can just sit back and do nothing and still receive such a high subsidy every month.

If there is such a good thing, then I guess all the workers would flock to it.

Wang Dahai said: "As you can imagine, it is precisely because of such high subsidies that those craftsmen will not hesitate to contribute their unique skills.

Because what if others learn your skills?

The patent is his own.

He can get patent subsidy fees if he gets this patent.

I don’t know how many people can be fed with this expense every year.

They no longer have to worry about others learning their skills and taking their jobs.

Because no matter how well you do or how high your income is, it will not be as high as the subsidy I, the original creator, can get after applying for a patent.

Moreover, you have to work very hard, but I don’t. I can receive the money just by lying down. Why should I hide it?
That’s why craftsmen are willing to contribute their skills.”

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(End of this chapter)