Chapter 482 Supporting Former Migrant Workers

"I'm serious,"

Li Tao put away his smile, glanced at Xia Bomin, and said in a low voice, "If you don't solve your own lifelong affairs, what should you do brothers?" ”

"Forehead ......"

Lin Xiao's face turned red, and he said to him, "Let's not talk about this first, and then I'll talk to you about something serious......

"What?"

"In the city...... Aren't there a lot of refugees from other places, let me relieve you of some pressure,"

Lin Xiao bit his lip and said, "How about you help me recruit thousands of civilian workers with the army and go to Yangzhou with me?" ”

"How much?"

Li Tao immediately reacted and asked urgently.

Food is so scarce, the less food there is in the city, the better.

"Five or six thousand,"

Lin Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Those who are strong are preferred, those who have tools are preferred, and those whose hometown is in Jiangbei are preferred......"

"Can you have more? How about 10,000? ”

Seeing Lin Xiao give him a blank look, he immediately laughed and said, "Seven or eight thousand is fine." ”

"Okay, it's just eight thousand, no more,"

Lin Xiao waved his hand, shook his head and said, "However, you can find the boat yourself...... I originally planned to recruit ...... again when I arrived in southern Jiangsu."

"Gotta get it, don't you have to recruit workers over there in southern Jiangsu?"

Li Tao hurriedly interrupted him, turned his head and shouted to Xia Bomin, "Xiao Xia, did you hear it, eight thousand people, and the list will be recruited tomorrow......"

"Okay,"

Xia Bomin on the side grinned, but then asked hesitantly, "Treatment...... How do you calculate it? ”

It has been more than a year since he led the troops to fight alone, and Xia Bomin naturally knows the logistics problem.

In this era of extreme food shortage, and at a time when there is a shortage of green and yellow, a large number of military supplies really need to be transported along with the army and civilian workers, otherwise, the troops will run out of food as soon as they go deep into the interior.

Therefore, transporting food supplies from the rear concentration points to the front-line troops is the main body of the dynamic supply line in wartime.

In this backward agrarian society, it is absolutely not an easy task to pump out so much labor in the local area within a radius of several hundred miles, and it will inevitably require a complex organization that involves a lot of energy.

And his old leader, Lin Xiao, went north this time, and there was no helper in this area by his side.

From this point of view, Lin Xiao, who has sufficient military rations, is actually not simply helping them solve the dilemma of food supply......

"How else can it be calculated, the old rules,"

Li Tao waved his hand, and immediately took care of it, "You just go out, and I'll explain to Lao Lin when you turn around." ”

"Okay!"

Li Tao realized that in this era, the mobilization of a large number of migrant workers may not be able to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people by relying only on orders and punishments from above.

After all, the newly liberated beggars have given the refugees a taste of sweetness - even if they don't work or contribute to Hangzhou, they can still receive relief rations, at least they don't have to worry about starving to the streets.

They have realized that the new government seems to be different—they cannot tolerate people starving to death.

Therefore, Li Tao knows very well that in this unprecedentedly complex era, the core mobilization work is to quantify the labor remuneration of migrant workers, and link it with material and spiritual rewards.

The direct material rewards, first of all, were various forms of wages - in the circumstances of the time, simple silver money did not necessarily impress the people, and it had to be mainly in kind, especially the distribution of food.

In addition, in the long run, different migrant workers have different levels of participation in the war, and their living conditions must also be differentiated.

Roughly speaking, the treatment of migrant workers is mainly divided into two categories: "supply" and "transportation".

Among them, the "supply system" is mainly aimed at the standing migrant workers, and the tasks of the standing migrant workers are basically equivalent to the miscellaneous soldiers in the old Ming army, so they should enjoy the treatment of soldiers in the army.

Li Tao knew that the advantage of doing so was that if necessary, they could be recruited on the basis of merit to supplement the reduction of troops.

For the more second-line temporary migrant workers, food and tea are generally provided by the logistics station, and a certain amount of money is also distributed to supplement the family, so that the family and the child who have lost their strong labor force will not suffer from cold and starvation.

In order to ensure the enthusiasm of second-line migrant workers, under the principle of "wages are lower than commercial transportation, but they must make it profitable", after the materials are delivered, migrant workers can take 10% of the transportation volume as a commission for every 100 miles transported.

Take the best means of transport for example, a car with two people and two horses (mules), a day of transportation can get about 20 catties of remuneration, if the whole team can better coordinate the food expenditure, including the back and forth consumption, the whole process can earn about 4 catties of extra food per day as additional wages.

This remuneration is already quite attractive - at least higher than the level of 100 catties of wages per month for ordinary long-term workers in this era.

In the previous long-distance campaign, Li Tao and Xia Bomin had already tried this scheme - to ensure the enthusiasm of migrant workers with ample remuneration.

In order to accurately calculate materials in a standard chaotic agricultural society, Li Tao and his team also organized manpower and simultaneously issued calendars, scales, rulers and other standard weights and measures tools - this is a bit similar to Qin Shi Huang's expedition to the east and the destruction of the six kingdoms at the same time to unify weights and measures.

Of course, they also found a drawback: once the supply line exceeded 500 miles, the volume subsidy would exceed the cargo itself, and the cost would be huge......

The biggest difficulty is the mobilization and management of migrant workers, who have to be classified into categories for quantitative management due to the focus on human transportation.

In Li Tao's long-term planning, he divided the migrant workers in great detail.

According to the different states of the pre-branch, he divided the migrant workers into three main categories:

The first category is the standing military and civilian workers who move with the troops, bear the burden of military logistics, and take off work for three months to six months; The second category is the second-line transfer migrant workers who are responsible for transporting the grain from the rear to the forward logistics station and taking off production for one to three months; The third category is the migrant workers who transport their grain from the countryside to the surrounding concentration points and do not leave their jobs; due to the war and the season, the peasants have not yet been asked to pay public grain, so this type of migrant worker is temporarily vacant.

According to the different types of work, he divided the migrant workers into stretchers, porters, trolleys, and lathe workers.

In terms of geographical origin, it is divided into detachments (prefectures), brigades (counties), squadrons (townships), detachments (villages) and other organizational levels......

In terms of spiritual honor, in addition to the background of "driving out the Tartars and protecting the homeland and defending the fields" after the land reform, they also carried out a "meritorious service movement" among migrant workers.

The meritorious service campaign is based on democratic mutual evaluation, and the five third-class merits can be "exchanged" for one second-class merit, and the five second-class merits can be exchanged for first-class merits, while the special merits require special approval from the "chief" of the army or the responsible person at the provincial and government levels.

Although in principle, there is no other material reward for meritorious service except for the certificate, for the ordinary peasants at the bottom, the official honor conferred by the army and the government is also a rare reward since ancient times.

Moreover, as a politically active and reliable guarantee, after returning to their hometowns, meritorious migrant workers have a certain degree of priority in terms of participating in politics, joining the army, and even being promoted...... Please Baidu "Throw Book Network" Thank you for your support!