First update of Chapter 374 Returning to work in a trance
In the afternoon, one hundred and forty students returned to the library in a daze. Many people sat down in their own places and giggled.
The students who did not go out yesterday looked puzzled and went over to ask.
"Brother Zhang, are you tired?" one person asked the classmate named Zhang.
The two people next to them also looked concerned. They had heard that millions of sacks were used to reinforce and raise the river embankment yesterday.
The people who worked were simply too tired to come back at night. I didn’t see any classmates who went out this morning or noon. They
"tired" kept looking outside in the sunshine. Classmate Zhang, who was holding a cat, slowly turned his head and looked at the person asking the question, "Hey hey hey hey hey hey."
"Brother Zhang, wait, I will call the doctor for you right away." The person next to him Anxious.
"What are you calling the imperial doctor? We are fine. Hey, hey, you know where we had lunch today and who we had lunch with."
Classmate Zhang's smile at this moment was the same as what Zhu Wentian saw. Human time is about the same.
"Where else can you eat? His Highness the Crown Prince will not invite you to dinner, right?" The person who first asked the question had a look of disdain on his face.
"Brother Song, please tell me that ten thousand taels of silver are falling from the sky. Tell me quickly." Classmate Zhang looked at the other party in surprise.
"Come on, you are only thinking about ten thousand taels of silver. You asked me to tell you before."
The student who said he wanted to go to Xiaqiu Village and meet the prince spoke out.
He said to the classmates who gathered around him, "Let's go to Xiaqiu Village first, take a shower, change the clothes we are wearing now, and then spray perfume.
Afterwards, we entered through Chaoyang Gate and arrived outside Donghua Gate. His Royal Highness was waiting there. He said that we had worked hard and gave us a barbecue banquet, including fresh scallops, clams, oysters and prawns. Let’s drink a bowl of ice-cold rice wine each.
That’s the prince. Who are we working for?”
The people who gathered around looked surprised and yearning for a moment. I wish I was the one who got tired from going out last night.
Just run out and do some work, how can you still see the prince and have dinner with him
"How far away can you see His Highness the prince clearly?" Someone asked.
"More than ten steps away, you can see that His Highness the Prince looks good," the person who went answered.
"I don't believe it. His Royal Highness is so noble. He is more than ten steps away, and there are guards in the middle. What do you think?"
"There are only children from Xiaqiu Village who have guards." From now on, you must be polite when meeting people in Xiaqiu Village. They can meet the prince every day.”
“I have always been polite. They provide us with food and accommodation.”
< p>"I have to go back, the children are waking up soon.""I want to read a book."
"I am sleeping, my whole body aches, I was exhausted yesterday."< /p>
“That’s right, go to bed, we have to take care of the kids again tomorrow.”
The inspired students immediately ran back to do their own things, fearing that they would fall behind and be eliminated.
The students have returned to their original rhythm of life, but the embankment reinforcement of the Qinhuai River has not ended.
The construction of the Rouge River facilitated travel, but it also caused the Qinhuai River to bear more water.
More people went to the Qinhuai River to load sand and gravel, ready to deal with possible dangers at any time.
The large number of people placed there makes the labor market in Yingtianfu lack manpower and labor prices rise.
On the morning of May 18th, Zhu Yuanzhang held a court meeting, and a group of ministers entered the palace under the leadership of You Cheng.
After the simple courtesy, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask, "Today, the water in the Qinhuai River has surged due to rain. Yingtianfu is busy with business and there is insufficient labor. What should we do?"
The ministers looked at each other Look, Yang Xunwen, the Minister of Household Affairs, came out and said, "Your Majesty, we will call for those who have not served as laborers this year to come and build the river embankments. This is easy."
The others nodded slightly, yes, they are calling for labor this year. Didn't use them much.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Yang Xunwen, "Nowadays, labor prices are high but labor deductions are cheap. Anyone who calls for labor must pay for it."
When everyone heard it, it made sense and was true. Is that so?
In the past, people could not afford money. Calculated based on the acres of land owned by a person, if one acre of land did not work in vain for thirty days, they would only need two liters and five tons of grain.
Ten acres of land is two buckets and five liters. How much does two buckets and five liters of grain cost? How much does it cost to work for thirty days?
As a result, everyone has to pay for the grain. Then work to make money. Food prices cannot rise so fast, otherwise the court will not agree.
For example, Taiping Prefecture and Ningguo Prefecture are currently farming twice a year, so people don’t come out to make trouble
It’s just food. It’s okay to double the amount.
In thirty days, I raised chickens at home, grew vegetables, and looked for herbs to sell, and I had already earned back the money I earned from serving.
Then it can only be a tenant. If the tenant's tenancy contract has not ended, he must work for the owner's family, and the landowner will get one stone of food.
However, this year many tenant farmers have stopped working and are looking for jobs.
The landowners have no choice but to pay extra money to hire people to farm the land. Like in Xiaqiu Village, they cannot farm it themselves.
An Ran, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the only way to do this is to hire people from the imperial court, and then"
He couldn't continue, and then he became what he is now, a businessman We can't find the manpower, so we have to pay more.
As for people hired by the court, they find that others have more money, so they don’t want to do it.
Others are outside, earning fifty cents a day, and they listen to the court and earn thirty cents a day. Why?
"Wang Qing" Zhu Yuanzhang called his name.
Wang Guangyang looked helpless, "Your Majesty, didn't Xiaqiu Village have the idea to send out labor diversions outside and build a migrant settlement on the south bank of the Qinhuai River?
I see that the repairs there are almost complete, why don’t you call meGovernments from various places organized people to come here to make money.
As long as the number of people increases, the price of migrant workers will naturally decrease. Shandong soybeans have been planted, and it is expected that many people will be recruited in the future. ”
He was helpless because Xiaqiu Village had already provided solutions, but he had been waiting for the houses where migrant workers lived to be repaired.
This was something that the Manchu civil servants were unwilling to mention. , showing that he is incompetent.
The masters in Xiaqiu Village always arrange things one step ahead, or even several steps ahead.
When that time comes, you will find that their calculations are too accurate.
"In this case, you ministers should make arrangements quickly, from near to far, and those who can come first, don't mess up. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was waiting for this. He kept eyeing the construction of the house there and spent a lot of money in the palace.
He had to find a way to recover the cost and let others owe the rent first. , when others find a job, return it.
Then increase the number of government officials to maintain law and order there.
Then rent shops to merchants and let them provide daily necessities for others. Department stores, let's all compete together.
People coming from other places will have more ways to live, and they won't have to go elsewhere because of road problems. The key is that wages in Tianfu are high.
For the poor. In places like this, even ten cents a day is considered a lot, and others envy you.
But in Nanjing, thirty cents a day is a normal income, and people in the world are reluctant to eat meat. This is unfair, but it is difficult to change. I wonder if experts can come up with a solution.
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