Section 232: Labor shortage

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Jiang Tian has always believed that private education can be an effective supplement to public education, but after hearing some practical things in later generations, Zhang Tao firmly believes that education must be fully state-owned, and cannot leave hidden dangers in the education front.

This is also one of the differences between Jiang Tian and Zhang Tao, but there is no serious contradiction between water and fire, because Jiang Tian also knows that private education will not only leave loopholes in students' ideology and morality, but also easily produce uneven distribution of social resources.

So he didn't have much objection to Guozijian's annexation of his private school, and although he had enough means to avoid those problems, he still felt that under the existing conditions. Unnecessary troubles can only be avoided by leading by example in this way.

Later, after coming to Tianjin Wei, Jiang Tian's identity changed, and his requirements for teaching naturally changed along with it. In the past, the emphasis on cultivating academic talents has changed to popularizing basic education and teaching applied talents, after all, the requirements for scientific knowledge in industry and commerce are not high.

It is precisely because of the different positions that Jiang Tian gradually understood Zhang Tao's thoughts, but understanding does not mean agreeing. Especially for Guozijian's poor academic literacy to manage those students taught by private schools, it is inevitable that there will be some jokes of laymen commanding insiders.

In the past, when Jiang Tian was still studying, he could always hear all kinds of remarks in the society complaining about the education system, such as the theory of meritocracy, such as the selection of topics and seniority, and the administrative interference in academics...... There are many aphorisms like this. But it's rare to hear about university faculty members worrying about the utilitarianism of academic research.

It is precisely because professors themselves are very utilitarian that there are fewer talents who study basic sciences in a down-to-earth manner, and there are more and more people all over the world who pull relationships, run topics, spell papers, and evaluate professional titles. So some people lament that there are more and more college graduates now, but there are fewer and fewer masters in universities.

In the past, Jiang Tian also thought deeply of this statement, but now he has a different opinion on it. After all, he is also an educator now, and in light of the needs of reality, no matter how deeply he understands the impact of the lack of basic research, he cannot abandon the existing accelerated education.

For example, in the current workshops, there is the greatest demand for people who have mastered primary school culture, because only with such a level of education can they understand the instructions of the new machine, or can understand the manufacturer's explanation at one time. And most of the technicians who are sent to explain the commissioning and installation of the machine are only at the elementary level of the accelerated literacy class.

In such a context, if you have to ask everyone to complete the nine-year compulsory education step by step, doesn't it seem bureaucratic and hypocritical? In reality, this is indeed the case, so Jiang Tian can only sacrifice another set of education systems in later generations - vocational education.

It can only be regarded as a semi-literate person who has studied private school for a few days, and was fooled into the so-called vocational training class by Jiang Tian, and after a large number of cramming teaching in a period of ten days, and forcibly instilling Arabic numerals and basic popular science education, he was issued a certificate of completion and graduated happily.

If this is placed in the future generations, even those so-called non-governmental educational institutions that specialize in cheating money, they cannot be so perfunctory, otherwise they will be reported every minute. However, in Tianjin Wei in this time and space, the graduating students have not only become sought-after sweets, but also the teaching quality of the training class has been praised.

"This textbook ......" Song Yi looked at the textbook at a glance and ten lines, whether it was the quality of the paper or the quality of the content, he really didn't dare to compliment.

"Judging from your level, it is indeed very simple, but it must be considered that these accelerated personnel have neither the foundation of Chinese studies nor the basic scientific concepts, so they can only use this shrunken thing to pull out the seedlings and help them."

Seeing that Jiang Tian had defined the nature of vocational education, Song Yi didn't want to say anything more, but just thought about it, would such a rush for quick success affect the real talent's progress? For the sake of the immediate small profits, the talent is buried.

In fact, these people who have obtained short-term training certificates, if they are motivated, can still continue their studies, just like those adult education and vocational qualification certificates in later generations. The entry-level can be obtained for almost a small fee, but if you want to get a higher-level certificate, it will only get more and more difficult, and the gold content will also get higher and higher.

After several trainings, there are still those who are dedicated to learning to inquire about the charter of the refresher class, but Jiang Tian's current teachers are already stretched, and many of the teachers of this kind of literacy and vocational training are students with better grades in the previous class.

"The national examination class is the most important thing, and the limited force must be tilted here! If a group of people who don't understand industry and commerce are pointing fingers at you, do you still have the heart to open factories and shops here? ”

At a regular briefing meeting, the representatives of the businessmen routinely expressed their dissatisfaction with the small number of training courses, but in fact, these people did not expect to compete with the government, but only routinely complained, so everything was routine. But they can't help but say it, because these people who eat crabs first can find all kinds of business opportunities better than those who realize it later, but many times they are stuck in the neck by talent and production capacity.

In the past, Jiang Tian always said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, but no one knows what science and technology are, let alone what productivity is. Now, through his own personal practice, Tianjin Wei has a practical feeling that science and technology are the first production.

For example, the state-owned textile factory that has just been put into production, because of the use of new spinning machines and looms, the efficiency is several times that of traditional machines, one person can withstand the past five people, if it is not because the new machine is not perfect enough, there is always a little trouble, otherwise the traditional textile workshop can be crushed by it, when this factory reported the number of weaving horses in a day, but it caused a sensation in the cloth business circle.

It's not that no one has ever thought of a new machine, but the textile mill only accepts shares and does not sell the machine, and the official share capital must still be the majority, so many people can't squeeze in at all. Even if you can buy a new machine, you can't find a worker who can operate it proficiently and troubleshoot minor faults.

These capitalists are very shrewd, although the machine is expensive and the wages of the workers are high, but a machine is five times more efficient, and the wages and costs are only three or four times that of the previous one, and this transaction is more profitable than before. Seeing that those guys with training diplomas can earn more than 10 or 20 yuan a month to go home, many people are not in a hurry to let their own half of their children be sent to a certain shop as apprentices, and more and more people inquire about vocational training registration.

As for the younger ones, they are simply happily sent to government-run primary schools, hoping that even if they fail to pass the civil service examination in the future, they will have a better future than those who came out of the training classes. Then Jiang Tian threw out a bombshell news, that is, in the future, he would consider adding workshops all of them to the expanded textile factory, on the grounds that weaving was originally a woman's specialty.

This made those families who did not have school-age boys also see hope, and at the same time made many capitalists discover new human resources, in fact, they did not know how to use women to weave, but because of the constraints of etiquette and religion in this era, no one dared to be the first to break the traditional rules. But the people of Tianjin Wei have been whetted by all kinds of high-income jobs, and they only hate why they can't meet those employment requirements, as for etiquette...... It's still the most important thing to make money, anyway, if all the factories are done by female workers, there is nothing to accuse men and women of not kissing.

In this way, many parents who only have girls in the family are not so resistant to sending their daughters to primary school, and even if they can have a primary school diploma, they can ask for a decent bride price when they find a mother-in-law to marry, after all, if they can enter the factory to work, the income can be really eye-catching.

It is also in this context that as soon as several women of the White Lotus Sect set foot on the boundary of Tianjin, they found that although it was still a town in the Central Plains, everyone was in high spirits to talk about reform and business, and every morning there were a large number of young and strong people who went out of the house in groups to work, and the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law were either at home to receive some odd jobs to subsidize the family, or they went to the construction site, factories and other places to see if there were any odd jobs for washing and cooking. That is, one or two lazy beggars can be seen occasionally. 、

At first, they were still wary of these beggars, after all, how could there be beggars in a place where they could eat enough as long as they worked? But later, when I inquired, I learned that most of these were the small leaders of the former beggar gang, and these people were used to being lazy and lazy, so they naturally couldn't stand the hardships of working for others.

The young lady sat in the middle of the room, and on either side stood the main personnel lurking in Tianjin

Especially with the person named Liu Protector in the front position. But no one in the room was in the mood to envy his position now, because it was also the responsibility of his leader to carry out the work slowly.

"Protector Liu, so the immortal sound I teach can't reach the ears of these fools?"

The Holy Aunt asked, even if this girl was younger than her granddaughter, this Liu Protector still didn't dare to slack off and turned around and saluted, and returned respectfully: "Holy Aunt, the brothers I teach have been doing their best in the past few months, but this Tianjin Wei is no longer the original Tianjin Wei, the military households in the city rely on the real estate in the inner city, and they have a good income just by selling or renting houses, and these people are also very vigilant about our teaching. Even if the brothers went to work with them and teased them from time to time to dissatisfaction with the government, few people responded, and after the public trial a few days ago, no one paid attention to our teachings......"

Even the young man who had always wanted to seize power and ran to Shenggu early to show his loyalty, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb at this time, because he knew that if he took the opportunity to bring down Protector Liu, the heavy responsibility of preaching would fall on his head.

The holy aunt frowned: "Since Qingzhuang didn't have the blessing to listen to the fairy sound for a while, the old people and children in the village should always have a chance, right?" ”

Speaking of this, Liu Hufa had to smile helplessly: "It's impossible!" ”

"Why?" The Holy Aunt began to get confused.

"Shenggu didn't know, and her subordinates thought the same way when she first started, but how did she know that on the ground of Tianjin Wei, there were old people up to seventy or eighty, down to five or six years old, and they couldn't even find a single idler......

With his explanation, the newcomer Shenggu and her party finally figured out what the "evil" government was. The most effective way to deal with people like them, who are hiding in the shadows, is to mobilize the masses to isolate them or even to stand out from the crowd, so that they cannot hide among the masses.

Tianjin is now in a serious shortage of labor, and there were still people shouting that "millions of workers are tied to food and clothing" to oppose the abolition of the sea and the change of water, but now the so-called millions of workers in their mouths have all been working on the construction site. Even if it can't come in a short time, it also relies on the word-of-mouth channels in the Caogong circle to spread the news of Tianjin's high-paying recruitment, even if there are many scattered jobs still can't recruit people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a large-scale plague outbreak in the entire Central Plains, and North China was also severely hit, and it was precisely because of the overlap of various reasons that Li Zicheng was able to capture Beijing. Coupled with the loss of population caused by the war, it is not a joke that millions of workers have been collectively transferred to work.

However, once the migrants are accumulated, it is likely to lead to cross-border epidemics of some regional diseases. Therefore, most people who are a little older have lingering palpitations about this plague pandemic. As Zhang Tao, who knows some modern epidemic prevention knowledge, he formulated a detailed epidemic prevention manual before the Northern Expedition.

Jiang Tian read this epoch-making epidemic prevention guidance document, and also asked Zhang Tao how he knew so much knowledge of infectious diseases, but Emperor Zhang's answer made Jiang Tian a little surprised: "I think that the American devils threw bacteriological bombs in North Korea, but we learn epidemic prevention knowledge every day from top to bottom!" ”

Many people were not surprised when Jiang Tian mobilized the elderly and disabled who were unable to do heavy physical work to exterminate rats and flies, sweep up road garbage and renovate drainage ditches. And this kind of work, which is more time-consuming but not well-paid, just makes use of these old, weak, sick and disabled.

Originally, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a welfare system for taking care of vulnerable groups such as widows, widows and loneliness, but except for some economically developed areas that still nominally retained this function, most of the places were not implemented as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, at this time, no one in Tianjin Weili thought that there would be a free lunch, but this form of work-for-relief could dispel people's doubts.

The old people who can still work can not be found, and those five or six-year-old children are not idle, they are all sent to school by their parents and elders, in addition to seeing that they can make more money even if they are educated, and the free lunch at noon every day is also really attractive to these parents. Besides, since even women can find a job to earn a job within their means, they naturally have no time to take care of their children at home.

It is precisely for this reason that many parents still think that the time for only three years is a bit short, and as for whether their children can continue to go to school, they don't care too much.

After listening to Liu Protector's lecture on the local situation, those White Lotus Sect people who had just arrived here couldn't help but be silent, this is really up to ninety-nine down to just leaving, as long as the people who can be used to rebel have been snare by Jiang Tian, the key is to follow Jiang Tian to get money, and their White Lotus Sect has to pay money to operate.

The young holy aunt still didn't give up, frowned and asked directly: "What about the medicine that practices medicine to drive away ghosts and evil spirits?" The local rich did not take the initiative to work? ”

It's good not to mention this, it's okay to mention this Liu Protector crying, you are so easy to fool when they are these landlords who have read books, didn't they just because they saw the chaos in the world, so they had to take the initiative to take the family property to change the identity of the protector, although they avoided the chaos of the world that changed the dynasty, but now they see the new dynasty and new atmosphere, and then think about themselves on the thief ship and can't get off, I really regret not being at the beginning!

Before Liu Protector could speak, the young scholar who had been jumping up and down gritted his teeth and answered: "I don't know what kind of ghost Jiang Tian is, he is against us everywhere." First of all, he opened a pharmacy in the city, which not only gave medical treatment, but also always sent some apprentices to the countryside to consult and treat medicine on credit, so that those foolish men and foolish women were grateful and wept, and there were very few people who came to us to ask for medicine! ”

In fact, this is his ignorance, and he uses a good hospital as a pharmacy. As for the credit medicine, it is also a helpless move, because there is not so much money for free, and the doctors are all interns with more fashionable skills, so if there is a medical accident because of taking the wrong medicine, it is justifiable not to charge money, fortunately, in this era, people do not have too high luxury in the cure rate of the hospital, but there is rarely a phenomenon of medical @ trouble.

Because of the limitations of his cognition, the young scholar didn't expect to use medical accidents to damage the doctor-patient relationship, and I don't know if Jiang Tian was lucky, but Liu Protector knew that the reason why he would stand up and take the initiative to state his feelings was not to excuse himself, but to show how hard he worked, so as to win sympathy in front of the holy aunt.

In his heart, as a literati who had read books, he actually looked down on this young man, because although this person looked like a scribe, he was not forced to join the White Lotus Sect because of the current situation, but a careerist who wanted to use the White Lotus Sect to achieve his ulterior purposes. Besides, he has a reputation for being a talent, but this kid is just a child, what qualifications does he have to compare with himself!

Thinking of this, Liu Protector continued: "Not only that, but Jiang Tian also has an apprentice named Zhao Zhi, this kid sets up a stall at the canal wharf or in the market every day to talk about cross talk, and I don't know how Jiang Tian knew some secrets, so that his apprentice was in the cross talk, and he arranged to break some spells to catch ghosts and exorcise demons, so that we didn't have a good way for a while." ”

Dancing gods...... I haven't eaten pork and seen a pig go, like making money in an oil pot, a villain who stabs a grass with a peach sword can prick blood, etc., a casual search on the Internet in later generations can tell you the principle, Jiang Tian was curious to search a lot of knowledge in this area, after coming to this time and space, he communicated with Zhang Taoyi, and found that he knew a lot, and then inquired to know that when the feelings were just founded, when they cracked down on the remnants of the white lotus such as ***, they had systematically cracked their methods.

Hearing this, the holy aunt's brows furrowed even tighter, they couldn't stay in that poor country anymore before they came, if they couldn't develop new believers, they could only be eaten by other peers on the rivers and lakes in the end, but she immediately discovered a key problem: "Phase."