Chapter 27: The Tooth Man
Su Daya looked at the young descendant and wondered, "Why are you only here now?" I'm all closed. ”
The next generation, that is, Wang Ran, hurriedly replied: "It's okay, will you open the door tomorrow?" I'll be able to come back tomorrow morning. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry to go home, if you don't have anything else, we can talk while we walk." Su Daya thought that he was going to the Wangjia Teahouse, and he was looking for a job in this later life, maybe he could return the favor of the Zhuang who took this opportunity, so as not to be scolded by Wang Daju's mother-in-law once, and finally be able to open a business, why not.
Wang Ran naturally had no objection, so the two walked east and talked.
Wang Ran claimed to be named Wang Qi, his family was in Qingcheng County, he had been farming for generations, he was the only one in the family, he left a few acres of thin land after his parents died early, and he had no money to pay taxes in the drought this year, so he could only sell the land to work.
Su Daya introduced himself, it turned out that he had a very poetic name called Su Shuting, a native of Chengdu Mansion, who had been a tooth person here for more than 20 years, so everyone who knew him loved to call him Su Daya. There are two daughters, the eldest daughter Chunhua married a good local family in the first year, and the second daughter is still in the boudoir.
Wang Ran talked about his experience in Huajin Building today, and Su Daya smiled and explained it to him. Originally, recruiting and looking for workers in the city had to go through a tooth intermediary, and the merchants and shops were also forced to do it, which has a lot to do with the current imperial court's management policy on population migration.
Su Daya looked at Wang Ran's curious expression, and thought that he would have to walk for a while to go to the Wang Family Teahouse, so he continued to explain patiently.
There is a big difference between the current imperial court and the previous dynasties in managing the people, that is, the restrictions on the free movement of the people have been relaxed, but it is not completely laissez-faire, and there is still a set of management methods.
The household registration of the population of this dynasty is mainly divided into the main household and the customer, as the name suggests, it is distinguished by whether there is a fixed property, and the main household is divided into the fifth class household registration of the main household in the village and the tenth class household registration of the main household in the city, these people are to pay taxes to the local government, and they are naturally not allowed to move without authorization, if they want to go to other places to do business, they need to be issued by the local government to prove that the person is only going to do temporary work, and when they go to the field, they must also go to the local government for the record, indicating the approximate stay time, otherwise they will be locked up and then repatriated when they encounter official checks.
For customers who have no land, the government is allowed to move to other places in principle, but there are also many restrictions, for example, the restrictions in Shuzhong are relatively strict, if it was originally the main household, and then the land of the family was merged into a customer, it will generally automatically become a side household of the big family, and then attached to the big household, this side household can not move freely, unless the big household takes the initiative to release people, but this situation is very rare, otherwise who will plant the land of the big family?
Hearing this, Wang Ran understood why those farmers in Qingcheng County were forced to survive by the government and large households, and they didn't think about going to other places to make a living.
There is also a type of customer who is a businessman, a machine owner, a craftsman and other artisan households, and although they often do not have a fixed property, it is difficult for them to move freely. First, because of the prosperity of commerce in this dynasty, these business-related people can contribute considerable taxes, and the government will naturally not let these people leave easily; The second reason is that machine households, artisan households, and other handicraft households still have to serve the government every year, and if they are allowed to move freely, then there will be no one to do the local labor, so the government will naturally strictly restrict it.
The most lenient aspect of this dynasty compared to previous dynasties is that it began to allow tenants and floating tourists to migrate, tenants help large households to farm when they are busy farming, and they can go elsewhere to make a living when they are not farming, and if they do not come back, the local government does not care, because these people often have a hard time surviving, and they do not contribute much to taxes if they stay in the local area, so it is better to let them go to other places to make a living. Not to mention floating customers, who have no land and no money to make a living as casual workers, most of the time they have nothing to do, typical idle people in society are often the difficult pain points of local public security management, and the government naturally wants them to go as far as they can.
However, if tenants and floating guests want to leave the local area, they also need to go to the government to open a certificate to prove that they are tenants or floating customers, and then get the official government to report and register.
Speaking of this, Su Daya asked: "Brother Wang, you are not a side, right?" Can there be a certificate issued by the Qingcheng County Ya? ”
Wang Ran remembered that Wang Xiaobo did give himself a voucher after hearing that he was going to Chengdu Mansion, and said that he would use it, so he nodded and said that he was a floating guest and had a voucher.
Then Su Daya continued to explain, such as today, there are more and more people, so there are more and more tenants and floating customers, and it is difficult for such people to stay in their hometowns to survive, so they have to go to the city to make a living, because the city often gathers outsiders.
At the beginning, because most of these people are honest and diligent, and the wages are less than those of local workers, they are naturally widely welcomed by merchants, but over time, there are more and more problems, because more and more people are inevitably mixed, and there will be some people with bad hearts, so theft and brawls are becoming more and more frequent, causing great trouble to merchants and the government.
Later, the government stipulated that after the merchant recruited a person, he must go to the government to verify and register, if the person has a record of committing adultery, the merchant will naturally not hire him, but if the person is stealing, fighting and causing losses during the work period, and the person is gone, the merchant who hired him to work will be responsible for himself.
However, this is too troublesome for the government and businessmen, and the government has to carefully judge the workload and low efficiency of each person who comes to work from other places.
So the tooth man joined in the effort. The duty of the tooth person is to help facilitate the transaction, supervise the signing of the contract, and provide guarantee for both parties to the transaction.
In order to avoid risks, some businesses will entrust the tooth man to help find the worker, and only dare to sign a contract with the worker after the tooth man guarantees it, so that if the worker runs away after causing losses, the business will naturally find the tooth man to compensate for the loss.
So the major businesses gradually formed a tacit understanding, recruitment only through the tooth people, the tooth people to find the right candidate will first review it, to determine the character of the origin is no problem and then bring to the business interview, after the interview passed the tooth people and then take the person to the government to register and report, in the future, there is a problem in the government to find the business, the business to find the tooth person, forming a complete chain.
Only then did Wang Ran understand why the second child of Huajin Building would say that today, and he really blamed himself for being lonely and unheard.