Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 135 New System ([-])

"Let's put aside the matter of finding wives for them for now," Ma Qianzhu said.

"Let's talk about finding a woman for ourselves—"

"No, it's nothing to talk about. What I want to talk about is the issue of employment." Ma Qianju interrupted the topic, "We brought so many people to Bairen Beach, gave them food and lodging, and asked them to give us Work, then what?"

"And then, of course, keep working."

"I mean, um—" He was silent for a while, considering his words, "Land, labor system, remuneration and management system."

Wen Desi asked to speak:

"Before discussing the employment system or such topics, I think that the status level of the indigenous people should be formulated first, otherwise there is no way to discuss their differential treatment."

Currently, the Traversing Congregation divides these native laborers under their direct control into three categories:

slave.No personal freedom, forced labor, supply of clothes and food, without pay.Including the captured captives, they also belong to this level before they have been screened and reformed.

Labor: personal freedom, according to the work and labor assigned by the traverser, free food and lodging, clothing is also provided at present, and the traverser is paid according to his labor.

Workers: Basically the same as labor, but the salary is 20% higher than that of the same period last year.

There is mobility between these three levels. Slaves can be liberated as laborers, and laborers can be upgraded to employees if they work hard.Social classes need to be mobile for a society to be stable - at least among the ruled.

In the executive committee's plan, the worker class will become the basis of their rule, from which qualified industrial workers, low-level administrators and soldiers will be trained.

Although employees enjoy preferential treatment, they are also placed with high expectations by the executive committee.But there are not many people in the labor force who want to become employees.To this day, less than a quarter of the entire production team has been converted into workers.Many people still come here with the idea of ​​working long-term jobs, and have no real plan to join their "thief ship".

What's the problem?Wu De thought over and over again, and pointed out that the limited effect of the employee system is mainly due to the lack of temptation—workers only get 20% more wages. Although there are some who claim to allocate housing and private plots, they have not been fulfilled.Those who became employees in the first period, like the rest of the production team, lived in tents and sheds.As for private plots, Lingao has a lot of wasteland, but because of the lack of hydraulic facilities, it requires a lot of manpower to take care of it. For workers who work more than [-] hours a day, they don't have the time and energy to take care of it.

In the end, they still wore the hats of "pirates". Although the whole county has peacefully coexisted with the traversers, it does not mean that the local people recognize their dominance.Get 20% more rewards, but the risk is "accident" - the benefits and risks are obviously not proportional.Although farmers don't understand economics, they can still figure this out.

"Let's find a way to recruit safety right away? To be a good short-haired person who can make the common people feel at ease?"

"No, it's not that easy to recruit. Zheng Zhilong's recruitment took several years to complete. He is still a native of Fujian Province and has a wide range of local connections. We are completely outsiders. If the government treats us as barbarians, we will be treated like wild boar skins." , then there is no negotiation at all.”

The solution is reverse thinking.Since the risk cannot be reduced, then the return should be increased.The risk is directly proportional to the benefit, and there will naturally be people who are willing to take risks—not to mention, Zheng Zhilong was able to continuously recruit sailors and soldiers in Fujian Province to supplement and expand his fleet. to the greater good.

"A simple 20% increase in income right now won't make a big difference among workers."

The starting point is to implement the housing policy for employees.Executive Committee Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows the great enthusiasm of farmers for building houses.In the few years after the implementation of the joint production contract responsibility system in the countryside, farmers whose situation improved a little almost unanimously built new houses. Even today, many peasant families still build new houses for their children in the countryside even though their children have settled down in cities.

Home ownership, a person whose residence is temporary will not feel a sense of belonging to the place.Once you have your own house, you will regard this place as your home, and you will work hard to build it and defend it.Otherwise, he is just a passer-by, so what does other people's property have to do with him?

The housing for the production team started construction outside the South Gate is such an attempt.The executive committee asked the engineering team to treat these houses as a real village, not simply as a collective dormitory for construction.

The construction engineering team comprehensively considered the rural living habits and the effective use of land to save building materials, and finally came up with a design for an apartment building.Each apartment building has three floors, and three living units are arranged on each floor.Each unit consists of a bedroom of 14 square meters, a main room of 1 square meters, and a kitchen of 16 square meters. There is no toilet in the unit, but a public toilet on each floor.The sewage is discharged into the biogas digester through pipelines for harmless treatment.There is no water and electricity supply and independent sewage system in the building.However, relevant positions are reserved in the design structure.

The apartment building is mainly used to arrange family households. Of course, a unit of this size is a bit crowded to accommodate large families, but a family size of 4 to 5 people is still more appropriate.

The house adopts a brick-concrete structure. The floor slabs of the first batch of unit buildings are made of wood. The construction team plans to use concrete prefabricated panels in the future to reduce the possibility of fire.

"What about the property rights of the house?" Someone asked after reading the drawings and renderings.

"Because our land system has not been formally finalized, there is only a deed for this house for the time being. After the land policy is determined, the relevant title deed will be reissued."

The issue of land ownership is divided among the traversers. Most people want to confirm the private ownership of land, while some people insist on state-owned land. Some people think that they can follow the land policy of time and space and sell the land use rights instead of ownership—but not Plus that weird age limit.

The executive committee does not plan to distribute welfare housing to workers—people will despise things that don’t cost money—each unit is priced at 60 taels of silver, anyone can buy it, and can pay in installments, and employees enjoy a [-]% discount offers.

Needless to say, the employees who carry the installment payment on their backs will work harder than anyone else to maintain the existence of the traverser-otherwise his dream of living in peace will be completely shattered-the members of the executive committee have more or less experience It is impossible for them to own such a house even if they work for several lifetimes.

"I have a question." Xiao Zishan asked, "Farmers generally raise livestock or something. If such an apartment building is given to them, what will happen to the livestock? If they want to raise pigs and chickens, they can't keep them in the corridor, right?"

"The barns and pigpens are intensive," Mei Wan, who was in charge of the explanation, explained. "They are not put together with the houses, which is good for sanitation. Similarly, this new village will also have intensive granaries, which can minimize insect pests." Rat attrition."

"Employees have such great benefits. I'm afraid the workers want to transfer. There should be some restrictions."

"That's right," Wu De nodded in agreement, "We have to make this employee a little rarer, so that we can be competitive."

The basic conditions he has drawn up to apply for employees are:

1. Personnel who are willing to serve the traverser and possess specialized skills recognized by the traverser.Such as craftsmen, literati, soldiers and so on.

2. Those who have served time travelers for more than 12 consecutive months as laborers and are willing to continue to serve.

3. Those who have performed major meritorious service.

"But now there are only levels of employees and labor to distinguish people, which is not suitable for us." Wu De said.

No matter what kind of differential treatment there is among these people, the labor mode is the same collective labor.Except for a very small number of craftsmen and intellectuals with specialized skills, most of them are dispatched by Wu De to work every day according to the labor demand put forward by each professional group.

In the current state of a large number of infrastructure projects, this system ensures that there is enough manpower available for each key project, and it also strengthens the personal control of labor.

As many enterprises are about to go into production, specialized industrial workers are bound to emerge.Industrial workers are professional. If we continue to dispatch workers on a daily basis, it will be inconvenient for enterprises to organize production, and it will be difficult to cultivate a professional team.

The second production team that migrated from Goujiazhuang has many family units, which is completely different from the first production team, where most of them are bachelors.If men count as workers, what about women and children?At present, many women and children are also participating in the labor force. How should their remuneration be calculated? For those women with more children or young children in their families, it is not realistic to simply use kindergartens to solve the problem, and the resources and resources needed for kindergartens are limited. What are the expenditure items of the funds? ...All kinds of questions reminded the executive committee that they needed a civil administration system to manage their first batch of subjects.

Travelers have many options when choosing a civic system.For example, Yanchang Village and Damei Village adopt the model of village self-government, managed by the village committee. This method has a ready-made model to apply, and the effect is relatively good.However, under such a system, the inherent power in the village is too strong, and the main positions in the village will form a monopoly in the hands of a few people. The most typical is Yanchang Village. The village administration is almost completely controlled by the Tan brothers. Although the Tan brothers are their training objects, At present, he is also very loyal to the traversers, but it is not as good as direct control.

(End of this chapter)