No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Li An continued to observe in the rice hulling workshop, looking at the work efficiency of this workshop, from time to time to check the processing effect and give some comments.

After the lap, Li An already knew the basic situation of the workshop, and was generally satisfied, but this is also satisfactory under the existing conditions. This backward processing method is too bad before the machine. Far away, simply without comparability.

“Workers here, how much is the monthly salary?”

Li An looked towards the Su’s little housekeeper asked.

“Back to Minister Li, each person pays 3 yuan per month, if they do well, there will be additional rice rewards.”

Su family little housekeeper said.

“Three dollars per month means 3 liters a day. Now the price of rice is around 100 liters per bucket, and rice costs between 5 liters and 20 liters. After removing the weight of rice bran, the value added from a rice to rice is only 5 As long as it is 50 essays, one person can process a maximum of 5 denier rice per day, that is, 200 50 essays. Among them, the cost of labor accounts for 100 essays, accounting for a full 40%! It is indeed a small proportion. No wonder all of you big grain growers shouted for machines? “

Li An said.

The Su family’s small housekeeper nodded repeatedly, saying that the labor cost is too expensive and takes up too much cost. If the labor cost is not too much, the price of rice and rice may not double, and the profit may be more.

This is a very real problem. Because labor costs take up too much, nearly half of the added value of processing rice into rice is occupied by labor costs, which greatly reduces the profits of large grain growers and merchants. It is also the main reason why the price of rice is much higher than that of rice.

In the past, when the manpower was relatively low, the price difference between rice and rice was relatively small. The old 100 surnames could lay their own rice when they were idle, but now it is different. Even the bottom 100 old surnames in Beijing are all Most people buy rice directly, and the bottom 100 people who choose to buy cheap rice are only a few.

This is mainly because there are too many workshops, many of the bottom 100 surnames are busy working in the workshop to make money, and even the women in the family have to find work to do it. In this way, there is really no time to go to the rice. Without this energy, it is like the society of later generations. There is no retail rice on the market. Even if there is, it ca n’t be sold, because no one has that idle time to go to Chunmi. Everyone is very busy, let alone shelling the rice. Even if they bought good rice, they did n’t have time to cook, and a takeaway was delivered with just one click, which was much more convenient than cooking by themselves.

It is the continuous development of the industrialization of Jingcheng that has changed the living habits of the old 100 surnames in Beijing, so that the old 100 surnames, which originally had many things in person, began to like to buy ready-made things. It is an obvious trend to buy processed rice directly. You have to know that in the previous capital, only families in good condition would directly purchase processed rice. Most families buy rice and then clam their own rice. Many old people in the capital now have tools for claming in their homes. That’s all was abandoned for a long time, even if it was covered with leaves and dust, some people sold this useless guy, and some did not sell it, and they just throw it away. Of course, throw The people who dropped the rice were all well-off wealthy homes, and even poor people would put them in their homes without throwing them away. After all, they were bought with money. It ’s a pity to throw them away. Even if it is useless, it is reluctant to throw it away, poor people, there will always be such a stinky problem of hoarding garbage, and it is also a problem of poor development in early years. , May not be able to change in a lifetime.

Slight love for hoarding and useless items is not a problem, and it will not have much impact on life, but if this hoarding problem is more serious, it will be worse, and later generations will often report a person. They love hoarding rubbish very much. They even stock up their houses. They do n’t even have a place to walk. They sleep on the rubbish at night. The smell at home is very thick, which makes it hard to bear.

People such as this kind of garbage hoarding seriously affect their quality of life, there must be something wrong, normal people will not do this kind of thing, only people with diseases in their hearts will fill their entire house with garbage To turn your little home into a garbage dump.

The little housekeeper of the Su family listened to Li An meaning Research & Development paddy rice hulling machine, and was very happy at heart. He quickly said: “Minister Li, if there is a machine for rice hulling, our workshop has a maximum of 50 people. It should be enough, it can save a lot of labor. The most important thing is to work fast enough to meet big business. Now because of the limited processing speed of rice, big customers can only be given to others or with several The big grain sellers work together to provide rice to big customers. “

“I heard that the wages in Suzhou are relatively low, why not directly process them in Suzhou, and then ship them to Beijing in large quantities? Isn’t that a lot of money saved?”

Li An asked.

In the era of Great Tang, where transportation is more and more convenient, if you choose to take the waterway, it takes a long time to transport rice to Beijing, but now there are railways, and the efficiency of transportation has been greatly improved. It is not very easy to transport rice directly to Beijing. difficult.

After listening to the helplessness of Su Xiao, the housekeeper said, “Minister Li has no idea. Although there is a railway now, there are too many goods that need to go along this road, and the freight rate has also increased year after year. It is more expensive to transport food than to go by water, of course, because it can be shipped to Beijing quickly, and paying a little more freight is not a big deal, but our Su family is not a Great Family, and there is no good background, we basically ca n’t grab it. To the carriage, so many merchants’ goods need to go this way, especially the fruits and vegetables. If they go to the capital by water, it will break, so we must give them priority to transport, and our food can not be damaged in a short time. Naturally, they can’t compete with them, so the rice we transported from Suzhou is all waterway, and sometimes the rice is far away, but the quantity will not be too much. The main reason is that the road is not well preserved. It ’s not good. “

This little housekeeper is telling the truth. Although Great Tang has newly built a railway with strong transport capacity, because there are only a few lines, and there are a lot of materials that need to be transported through this path, so many materials are destined, especially large ones. Materials are difficult to transport through this line, and there is no way to have enough capacity. Powerful people with strength and backstage will naturally be able to compete for the capacity of the railway, and merchants with ordinary status will be difficult to obtain, or to wait for a long time, or even refuse to transport directly. Even if Imperial Court adds many trains, it will not be able to meet the increasing transportation demand.

Li An is naturally very clear about the situation of tight transportation, but it is not easy to change this situation, because the construction of the railway is not so easy. This is a huge project, and each one requires a lot of real gold. , white silver can only be built, under the circumstances of limited funds, naturally only the most difficult and most important roads can be satisfied first, and the construction of less important roads will be delayed.

The construction of the railway has great demands on resources and capital, and there are so many big rivers and small rivers inside the Great Tang. These rivers must be built with railway bridges to allow trains to pass through. It is difficult to imagine the difficulty of building bridges on the big rivers. Yes, the resources and capital to be consumed are naturally low. Therefore, these big rivers on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River have only had a few bridges that’s all. The bridges on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are all added up with one hand. There are not enough bridges, so the passage of trains will be greatly restricted, and the bridges on the rivers will become the bottleneck in railway traffic. Therefore, to resolve this contradiction, besides building more railways, more rivers are needed. Building a bridge cannot allow rivers to hinder the development of the transportation of the Great Tang Empire.

However, whether it is road repair or bridge repair, you need to take your time slowly. It is absolutely urgent and not useful. The funds and resources are limited. If you meet the transportation requirements, it is difficult to meet other aspects.

“Oh, you are worried that the rice will be damaged during long-distance transportation, so you only transport the rice. This is indeed a good idea. Rice is much more spoiled than rice. If it gets wet on the road, it is really not easy to handle.

Li An agrees very much.

“Minister Li, the rice hulling machine, must be difficult! How long will it take to get out?”

Su’s little housekeeper asked.

Obviously, this product is very good for this kind of machine. Although he is only a little housekeeper of the Su family, he is loyal to his master, but he is really eager to wait for the master.

This kind of loyal servant is very common in ancient times, because since ancient times, there are sayings of loyalty and loyalty, especially the two loyalty are very important to the ordinary person, be loyal to the master, right Parents and elders should be filial. This is the rule for ordinary old people to live. Only when they are loyal to their masters can they be trusted by their masters, and their status can be more stable, but more often they have been instilled with loyalty since childhood. There will not be much change when we grow up, and in later generations, people like this who are very loyal to Owner will be difficult to find. Everyone is self-loyal, and it is difficult to be loyal to others, or it is Valuable loyalty is false loyalty.

When Boss can provide employees with sufficient benefits, employees are loyal to Boss, and if Boss can not give employees what they want, then employees will be loyal to other Boss, throw away their original Boss, this is the benefit of First, stupid people do not exist in later generations.

There are many stupid people in Great Tang. This is unique to ancient times. It is a group of people poisoned by faithful thinking. In their eyes, it seems that only being loyal to their master is a qualified This Slave. If it is If you have unfaithful thoughts, it is a big deal.

Li An looked towards the master Su Xiao, the housekeeper, said easily: “It is not difficult to study the rice hulling machine, but it is not available for the time being. Now it is spring cultivation, and when the autumn harvest, this machine will almost come out Now, when the time comes, your workshop can be used. “

“Oh, that’s very good. It’s definitely faster than using the machine to grind the disc.”

Su Xiao’s butler said happily.

“At least ten times the speed, maybe 100 times, it depends on the size of the machine, just like the small carts here, one cart can only accommodate up to 2 deniers, but the big cart outside can transport 20 denier rice, this is the difference. “

Li An said.

“100 times better, still 100 times better, 100 times faster, one machine can reach the capacity of 100 stone mills here, the faster the better!”

Su Xiao’s housekeeper said.

Li An looked at the working artisans and suddenly sighed: “If the machine is built, these working people are afraid that they will lose their jobs. Only a few people can stay. This Official is a good thing? Still doing bad things. “

Finished looking towards Su Xiaobutler.

Su Xiaobutler quickly said: “Of course it is a good thing. There are workshops everywhere in Beijing. As long as it is not a lazy man, it is always possible to find work and feed yourself and your family. There is no problem for Minister Li. Hehe! “

The tone of this little housekeeper’s speech obviously has the meaning of contempt for working people, since ancient times, in any era there is a strong concept of respect for the humble, the person with a high status is respect, and the person with a low status is humble, which is also In order to enslave the people and prevent people from resisting because of dissatisfaction, the ancient rulers came up with such a brainwashing thought, and the effect is naturally also a lever. In the case of food and drink, the old 100 people rarely resist Yes, obediently and honestly doing the imperial court’s Shunmin, unless they can’t survive, they will rise up, and, not the old 100 surname themselves, but some dressing up as God, playing the devil He made himself a new venerable and gave many promises to the old 100 surnames. This organized these old 100 surnames who could not survive and formed an armed force for the change of the dynasty.

Li An naturally also knows that it is a general trend for machines to replace artificial, so they will not stop researching machines for the livelihood of these people. Moreover, they must also speed up the research of more and more practical machines so that the Great Tang Empire can develop faster. More quickly.

“It seems that you really need rice hulling machines urgently. How many such rice hulling workshops are in Beijing?”

Li An asked Su Xiao’s housekeeper.

Su Xiao’s housekeeper froze for a moment and said, “When I return to Minister Li, the villain is not very clear, but the general situation, the villain thinks he still understands, the large and small rice hulling workshop is estimated to be no less than one. Hundred Schools of Thought is larger than our Su’s workshops. There must be no more than ten. There may be some small processing workshops further away from the city. “