After taking the lead and cleaning up the trouble hidden in the Hongmen, Li Tianyang never took care of anything related to the Ming literati.

Even if there is no trouble from Li Tianyang, these study tour scholars of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to make much waves in Hongmen.

Li Tianyang still has more things to do, such as building a high monument with a height of more than five zhang in the center of the two major towns of Hongmen Keelung Town and Bengang, and printing all the "Hongmen Charter" on it.

"Boss, do we really want to sign an employment agreement with the workers we hired in accordance with the law just issued? Is it really necessary to enforce the labor time standard? ”

Not long after the promulgation of the "Hongmen Charter", the Hongmen Legislative Council successively promulgated several laws, most of which were laws on the industrial and commercial industry, and these laws referred more to the relevant laws of Westerners.

Just two days ago, Hongmen led the implementation of a "Labor Law", which stipulated in detail the normal working hours, work obligations and rights of workers, and also restricted the employment of factories and workshops to exploit labor without restrictions.

Defuxuan Xu, who had just moved to Keelung Town, just caught up with such a pass, and after the implementation of the "Labor Law" in Keelung, the people in charge of the work came to ask Xu Yingfu, the director of Xu's workshops.

In the Jiangnan area, with the gradual rise of factories and workshops, those peasants who had lost their land gradually embarked on the path of full-time workers, relying on selling their physical strength to make a living.

It's just that there are many displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River nowadays, and those mercenary factory owners naturally squeeze the labor of the workers as much as possible when hiring workers, and exploit them to create greater value for themselves.

Because of the collusion between merchants and officials, the Ming Dynasty did not have a perfect business model to deal with this new form, and the vicious competition between laborers and workers made countless dirty money soaked in blood and sweat.

After Hongmen implemented the "Labor Law", the cost of these businessmen who set up factories and workshops in Keelung Town suddenly increased countless times.

This made the stewards sent by the merchants who set up factories and workshops in Keelung Town unable to sit still, and they came to the proprietors behind them to seek their instructions.

"What else can be done, of course, it is in accordance with the Hongmen and other systems!"

Xu Yingfu is also helpless, as one of the hundreds of direct clansmen of the Xu family, he can do his current position and be in charge of several factories and workshops, far luckier than many of his cousins and cousins of the same generation.

Naturally, Xu Yingfu's own ability is indispensable, as well as his talent for observing words and feelings, after their clan moved to Dayuan Island, the old patriarch of their clan was very satisfied with Li Tianyang's arrangement.

The old patriarch of the Xu family not only directly entered the Legislative Council and became one of the members of the Legislative Council, but also those clansmen of the Xu family who are interested in their careers have also passed various examinations and been recruited into the Bengang School for reconstruction, and there should be many clansmen who will enter the political arena in the future.

The affairs managed by the government system in Hongmen are not very different from those of the government, but they are more detailed than the functions and powers of the government, so that the people can more easily find the competent authorities they need help when they need it.

The working members of the Hongmen government do not need to specialize in the knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, the Eight Strands of Literature, etc., as the Ming Dynasty did, but more require the professional knowledge of their departments.

The Ministry of Finance, for example, needs to be extremely good at mathematics; The Infrastructure Department needs to understand all aspects of engineering construction; For example, the health bureau and so on require the necessary medical theories.

Of course, the requirements for professional knowledge do not necessarily require them to have a very high level of professionalism, but at least they are not unfamiliar with this aspect, and the ability to coordinate in other aspects is an important factor in determining whether a staff member is competent.

This seems to be much more complicated than being an official in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, for ordinary people who are interested in entering the government, it is much easier to walk than the Ming Dynasty.

After all, there is a difference in people's natural nature, some people are good at counting, some people like to study carpentry, and some people are obsessed with planting crops, but they may not have the talent for the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight Strands of Literature, do they think that the other party is not competent for the work of the government?

That's obviously not true.

It was not that the Xu clan of Chongming Island had not worked hard in the imperial examination before, but it was really the fierce competition in the Ming officialdom, and the Xu clan itself had no advantage in the connections of officialdom and the reading ability of the clansmen.

After decades of hard work, their Chongming Island Xu clan was stunned that there were only two Jinshi, and now it is just the county order of Erpin County tonight, and it is not much benefit to feed the Xu family, which is also a major factor why the Xu clan of Chongming Island can easily move the clan to Dayuan Island.

There is not much prospect in the Ming officialdom, and if the Xu family of Chongming Island wants to transform from a business family to a more tempting gentry family, it can only find another way.

"But you also put your brains in various subjects, I should be smarter, since the minimum wage is stipulated, then when we pay wages, remember to firmly control the workers' wages within this range!"

The Labor Code stipulates a minimum wage for workers, normal working hours, etc., which is too much for factory owners, but fortunately it is not unprofitable. Not to mention that most of the products produced by these factories and workshops in Keelung Town are bestsellers sought after by the outside world.

"Understood!"

The steward immediately showed an expression of understanding, and then said another thing.

"Then what kind of trade union will be set up by the workers in our factory, and we don't care?"

"What do you care, how can you manage it, you haven't seen this Hongmen and other laws, what kind of rights do they organize workers to defend their rights, can we still stop it?"

Xu Yingfu glared again, and stunned this useless steward.

Hongmen's current affairs are one after another, and they don't do anything else, so they just pick up what kind of trade union the low-level sufferers form to protect the interests of the workers' work; What agricultural cooperatives should be reorganized, so that farmers can coordinate with each other and uniformly allocate the prices of commercial crops in order to obtain more profits.

On the contrary, for the merchants who can bring great benefits to Hongmen, Hongmen not only has to charge a high commercial tax that is rare in previous dynasties, but also restricts commercial activities and other despicable means, so that merchants can trade normally within the legal range, but many merchants should not adapt.

(End of chapter)