"Let's put aside the matter of finding a wife for them for the time being." Ma Qianzhu said.

"Now on the issue of finding a woman for ourselves—"

"No, there's nothing to talk about, I'm going to talk about the issue of employment." Ma Qianzhuo interrupted the topic, "We got so many people to Bairentan, gave them food and shelter, and asked them to work for us, and then what?" ”

"And then, of course, get back to work."

"I mean, um-" he was silent, considering his words, "the land, the system of labor, the system of remuneration and the system of management. ”

He has asked for the floor:

"Before we talk about employment systems or things like that, I think we need to work out the status hierarchy of indigenous people, otherwise we can't talk about their differential treatment."

Currently, the Travelers are divided into three categories for the Indigenous laborers under their direct control:

Slave. No personal freedom, forced labor, supply of clothes and food, no pay. Including captured captives, they also belong to this level before they have been screened and transformed.

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

Employees: Basically the same as laborers, but the pay is 20% higher than that of the same period last year.

There is mobility between these three levels, slaves can be emancipated as laborers, and laborers can work hard to be upgraded to workers. Social classes must be able to move in order for society to be stable - at least among the governed.

In the Jihua of the Executive Committee, the class of workers would be the basis of their rule, from which qualified industrial workers, low-level administrators, and soldiers would be produced.

Although the employees enjoy preferential treatment, they are also highly expected by the Executive Committee. But there are not many workers who want to become workers. To this day, less than a quarter of the total number of people in the production team has been turned into workers. Many people still come with the idea of working long hours and have no real intention of getting on their "thief ship".

What's the problem? Wu De thought about it again and again, and pointed out that the main reason why the staff system has limited effect is that it is not very attractive -- the workers only receive 20 percent more wages, and although there are claims to allocate housing and self-reserved land, they have never fulfilled it. Including those who became employees in the first phase, they still live in tents and sheds like the rest of the production team. As for the self-reserved land, there is a lot of wasteland in Lingao, but because of the lack of hydraulic facilities, it requires a lot of manpower to serve it, and there is no time and energy for the laborers who work more than 12 hours a day.

Zuihou still wears the hat of "pirates", and although the whole county is now peaceful with the traversers, it does not mean that the locals recognize their dominance. Take 20% more reward, but the risk is "thief" - the benefit is obviously not proportional to the risk. Although the peasants do not understand economics, Xiao Jiujiu can still calculate this.

"Let's find a way to recruit security right away? Be a good short hair that reassures the people? ”

"No, it's not that easy. Zheng Zhilong's Zhao'an tossed for several years to complete, he is still a native of Fujian Province, the local people are widely connected, we are completely outsiders, in case the government treats us as barbarians, and the treatment of wild boar skin, then there is no negotiation at all. ”

The solution is to think backwards. Since you can't reduce the risk, let the return increase. The risk is directly proportional to the benefit, and naturally there will be people who are willing to take risks - not to mention, Zheng Zhilong was able to recruit a steady stream of sailors and soldiers in Fujian Province to supplement and expand his fleet, to a large extent, to be a pirate can bring greater benefits to the local people.

"At present, a simple 20% increase in income will not form a big difference among workers."

The starting point is to implement the housing policy for employees. Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows very well the great enthusiasm of the peasants for building houses. In the years following the introduction of the contract responsibility system for joint production in the rural areas, peasants whose situation had improved slightly almost unanimously built new houses, and to this day, even though their children have already settled down in the cities, their parents still build new houses for their children in the rural areas.

A person who has a house and a temporary place of residence does not feel a sense of belonging to the place. If 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 passerby, and what does other people's property have to do with him?

The construction of the production team's housing outside the south gate is one such attempt. The Executive Committee asked the engineering team to build the houses as a real village, rather than simply as a dormitory.

The construction team comprehensively considered the living habits of the countryside and the effective use of land to save building materials, and Zuihou came up with a design for an apartment building. Each apartment building has three floors, with three living units arranged on each floor. Each unit consists of 1 bedroom of 14 square meters, 1 room of 16 square meters of hall, and 1 kitchen of 10 square meters. The sewage is discharged from the pipeline into the biogas digester for harmless treatment. There is no water and electricity supply and no separate sewerage system in the building. However, there is a relevant place reserved in the design construction.

The apartment building is mainly used to arrange family residents, of course, the unit of this size is a little crowded to accommodate a large family, but the family size of 4~5 people is still more suitable.

The houses are made of brick and concrete, the floor slabs of the first units are wooden, and the construction team Jihua will use concrete prefabricated slabs in the future to reduce the possibility of fire.

"What do you say about the ownership of the house?" After reading the drawings and renderings, someone asked.

"Because our land system has not yet been formalized, for the time being, the house only has a title deed. After the land policy is determined, the relevant title deeds will be reissued. ”

The question of land tenure is divided among the travelers, with most wanting to affirm private ownership of land, some insisting on state ownership, and still others arguing that land use rights can be transferred instead of ownership in the land policy of the time and space of the manuscript - but without that strange limit on the number of years.

The Executive Committee did not intend to divide the welfare of the laborers - things that do not cost money will be despised by people - each unit costs sixty taels of silver, anyone can buy it, it can be paid in installments, and the staff level enjoys a nine-percent discount.

Needless to say, the workers who are saddled with installments will work harder than anyone else to maintain the existence of the traverser - otherwise his dream of a peaceful house will be completely shattered - and the members of the Executive Committee have more or less seen the living conditions of the local tenants, long-term laborers, and small farmers, and such a house is impossible for them to own even 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 to live in, what will happen to the livestock? If they want to raise pigs and chickens, they can't keep them in the hallway, right? ”

"The barn and the pigsty are intensive," explains Mei Wan, who was in charge of the explanation, "and it is good for hygiene if they are not placed together with the house." The same new village will also have an intensive granary to minimize pest loss. ”

"Employees have such great benefits, I'm afraid that workers want to change, and there should be conditions."

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

The basic conditions for applying for employment are as follows:

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

2. Serving the traveler as a laborer for more than 12 consecutive months, and willing to continue to serve.

3. Those who have made major meritorious contributions.

"But now it is no longer appropriate for us to only have the level of employees and laborers to distinguish people." Wude said.

Regardless of the differential treatment between these people, the mode of work is the same collective labor. Except for a very small number of craftsmen and intellectuals who have mastered specialized jishu, most of them are assigned to work every day according to the labor needs of each professional group.

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

As many enterprises are about to put into production, there is bound to be a specialized industrial worker. Industrial workers are professional, and if they continue to dispatch workers every day as they are now, it will be inconvenient for enterprises to organize production, and it will be difficult to train a professional team.

The second production team that migrated from Goujiazhuang has many family units, which is completely different from the first production team, which is mostly bachelors. If men are considered laborers, what about the status of women and children? At present, many women and children are also participating in the labor force, how should their remuneration be calculated, and for those women who have a large number of children or young children in the family, it is not realistic to solve the problem simply by kindergartens, and what are the expenditure items of resources and funds required for kindergartens? …… The array of questions reminded the Executive Committee that they needed a civil system to manage their first subjects.

The traverser has many options when it comes to choosing a civil system. For example, Yanchang Village and Damei Village adopt the model of villager self-government, with a village committee to manage, and this method has a ready-made model that can be set up, and the effect is relatively good. But under such a system, the inherent shili 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, and the village administration is almost completely controlled by the Tan brothers, although the Tan brothers are their cultivation objects, and they are also very loyal to the traverser at present, but it is not as good as direct control.