Ma Shiying's signing room, which is also the office room that His Majesty said, is three times the size of the office rooms of other officials in the city hall, and is almost the same as the conference room on the same floor. ≦ to see the latest ≧≦ chapters≧≦ Baidu ≧≦ search for ≧≦ products ≧≦ books≧≦ ≧ Jiangnan has been a rich land since ancient times, and the Chengping period of more than 200 years has allowed the local gentry and wealthy families to bring the things they enjoy to the point of reaching the peak.

Therefore, in Ma Shiying's office, whether it is tables, chairs, doors and windows, or pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other objects, all of them are exquisite. In fact, some utensils are not even used by Chongzhen in the Xiyuan Elite House, after all, the skilled craftsmen in the Jiangnan handicraft industry are still overshadowing their counterparts in the capital at this time.

Ma Shiying, who was standing at the window and watching the scenery while listening to the adjutant's report, felt that this mayor was really much stronger than the county magistrate and prefect he used to be. After ignoring those civil lawsuits, all he has to do now is economic and administrative affairs, for Ma Shiying, this is the career life he wants, after all, he has little interest in hearing lawsuits and making decisions for the people at the bottom.

After absentmindedly looking at the scenery outside the window for a while, Ma Shiying finally interrupted the adjutant's report and said: "Dongbao, you don't need to report in detail on the specific steps of this kind of resettlement personnel, you just need to tell me how many refugees we have accepted in the past week, and whether there are any problems in the resettlement process." ”

"Yes, my lord, by the end of the week, the number of people who had fled from other places to the sea had increased by 4,679, and the average number of victims arriving at the sea every day was between 600 and 800. Of course, there may be some people who have not registered, but these hidden people will not exceed 10% of the new population. Most of these people who refuse to register belong to the affected areas of illegal trade and have been brought to sea for the purpose of going overseas from this ship, so that they will hide their tracks, which will not cause an additional burden to the sea, but it is against the law of the country..."

Hearing the adjutant pause here, Ma Shiying replied casually: "In this year's situation, the victims can only wait for death if they stay at home, although they are sold to Nanyang as coolies, but at least they can live." Just turn a blind eye, as long as they don't make a murder case. However, the police must send people to monitor them, and they must not allow these people to take good people to sea, and if there is really something to do, they will have time to investigate them. ”

"Yes, sir. The difficulty we are facing now is that, according to the current rate of influx of victims, in another 20 days, all the temporary shelters we have built will be full, and the price of local bamboo and wood has already begun to rise, so I am afraid that we will have to allocate another amount of money to build temporary shelters. ”

Ma Shiying frowned and calculated for a while, before he said: "With so many people crowded into the sea, just the daily firewood will increase by two or three percent, not to mention the bamboo and wood used to build their residences, and this price increase is also certain." It used to cost 12 yuan to build a temporary shelter, but now how much has it risen? ”

"Back to my lord, according to the current price, it is 15 yuan, but the next words are not good."

"With the city hall appropriation alone, where do we post it? I think this way of resettlement needs to be changed. Now an ordinary male worker in Hai has a monthly salary of 5-6 yuan, and an ordinary woman is 4-5 yuan a month, so as long as you stay in Hai for three months, you should always have some savings.

In my view, the shelter for the resettlement of the victims cannot be free of charge, and those who have lived in it for three months must start paying rent, and those who do not want to pay must vacate their housing. In addition, local merchants were notified and allowed to lease wasteland to the city hall to build houses for rent, and the rent was waived for three years, and the agreement was renewed after three years depending on whether the land use was changed.

The city hall will then allocate $10,000 for the construction of temporary shelters, and the cost of each room shall not exceed $10..."

"10, 10 yuan..."The adjutant almost thought that he had heard it wrong, and couldn't help but repeat it subconsciously. Ma Shiying looked out the window and nodded, "It's not winter now, there's no need to build such a good house, as long as there is a shack to protect from the wind and rain, I think it's enough." See those abandoned reeds on the river beach? Let people collect it, and use it with bamboo and wood, I don't think I can even use 10 yuan..."

Regarding Ma Shiying's decision, the adjutant could only silently swallow back his objections. Then Ma Shiying said to him: "Now that the price of bamboo and wood has risen, the daily salary of the people will inevitably be high, and this coal will inevitably become a bestseller." I'll allocate 50,000 yuan to you to reserve a batch of coal, which can be used to make up for the deficit in the future... In addition to the problem of the victims just now, is there any news outside that should be worth paying attention to? ”

The adjutant put away the piece in his hand, lowered his head and thought for a while before replying: "President Bai and several councillors of the Chamber of Commerce have asked the lower officials about one thing, whether Hai wants to implement policies such as the minimum wage system and the freezing of dismissals within the year, like Suzhou and other places. ”

"Huh? Who proposed these policies on the minimum wage system? Why haven't I received such a piece here?" Ma Shiying walked back to his desk from the window with some confusion and began to rummage through the pieces on the desk.

The adjutant hurriedly explained: "These policies were not issued by the imperial court, but were put forward by Li Jin, an independent prosecutor who inspected the disaster situation in Sanwu. ”

Ma Shiying stopped the movement of his hand, looked at his adjutant and said, "Let's be clear, what's going on?" ”

After Li Jin and his colleague Jin Guangchen inspected the Sanwu area, they believed that the most important thing in the area at the moment was not to stabilize grain prices, but to keep the jobs of those landless textile households.

According to the practice of previous years, now is the busiest time for these silk weavers, and it is also the source of their livelihood for a year, but because of this year's weather disasters, the mulberry leaf production in the Taihu Lake region has been greatly reduced, which has also led to a shortage of raw silk production this year.

Due to the sharp reduction in raw silk production, which has led to the high price of silk this year, and the continuous famine in various places this year, many silk merchants are not optimistic about the silk market this year, so they have closed down and waited. In this way, weavers have no money to collect silk, or it is difficult to sell silk after collecting silk at a high price, so many weavers are on the verge of bankruptcy, and if they cannot solve the problem of weaving their work, it is difficult to solve their livelihood problems even if they cannot stabilize the price of grain.

Therefore, Li Jin demanded that the silk merchants in the Sanwu area continue to operate, and also demanded that those large textile households should not stop their business at this time, even if these large textile households had no work to open, they should not dismiss the workers, and pay them a monthly guarantee, so that these workers could support their families.

As you know, the largest silk merchants and textile workshops in Jiangnan belong to Jiangnan Weaving, so Li Jin and Wei Gonggong, who is in charge of Jiangnan Weaving, clashed. Father-in-law Wei was annoyed by Li Jin, and simply refused Li Jin's Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, and then Li Jin took the weavers to surround the weaving mansion and prevent the people from the weaving mansion from going out, which is said to have started the day before yesterday. ”

Ma Shiying suddenly gasped, although Wei Zhongxian was no longer as powerful as he was back then, but after the emperor released him from Du Fengyang and placed him in Suzhou. As you know, this means that the emperor has forgiven him and allowed him to spend his old age in Suzhou.

Of course, in Ma Shiying's view, this also means that the emperor is dissatisfied with the Jiangnan gentry, and simply puts Wei Zhongxian under their noses to disgust them. Although I don't know what the emperor has about the Jiangnan gentry, Ma Shiying still cautiously kept a certain distance from these Jiangnan gentry when he was in charge of the sea all these years, which also made him not hear such exciting news for the first time.

But Wei Zhongxian was the former leader of the eunuch party after all, whether he cared about this identity or not, he still gave many people benefits when he was in his position in the past. Now that the emperor has forgiven him, there are still some people who will remember the original affection, or they need to use this relationship to get in touch, so as to give Wei Zhongxian some face.

Li Jin's move, if it was not instructed by the emperor, I am afraid that it would soon be counterattacked by those former eunuch party members, so as to show that the eunuch party is not a reservoir dog that everyone can fight. Of course, Li Jin's previous robbery case against the Jiangnan gentry in the Taihu Lake robbery case has already shown that he is not a follower of the Donglin Party.

As a result, his current actions are tantamount to annoying the Jiangnan gentry, and then angering the eunuch party members, and even the internal affairs office representing the palace is also offended. Isn't it to let the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion implement these policies to make money from the pockets of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At this moment, he really admired Li Jin.

He took a deep breath of air and stabilized his mind before continuing to ask, "So what do those Suzhou gentry and Jiangnan gentry think about this matter?" Are they already on Li Jin's side? ”

The adjutant's expression became a little weird, and he said without knowing how to explain: "This time, the gentry did not accuse Grandpa Wei, but some people stood on Grandpa Wei's side, saying that he finally did the right thing. Although there are many people who have not publicly praised Grandpa Wei, they are applauding Grandpa Wei in the chapter published in the newspaper."

After listening to the adjutant's reply, Ma Shiying's tone was smoothed back. That's right, this is the gentry he knows, the gentleman doesn't say profit, but he doesn't say that he can't benefit. Like Li Jin, it is the alternative of the gentry and bureaucracy.

Ma Shiying thought for a while and said, "Since it is not the intention of the imperial court, the sea will naturally not..." Ma Shiying suddenly stopped, and then turned around and said: "You go and give President Bai and those councilors a first blow, saying that there are too many victims pouring into the sea now, and I am afraid that it is a little unaffordable to rely on the city hall to pay for resettlement." Therefore, this official is considering whether to write to the imperial court together with Li Jin to promulgate these time-saving measures, or to set up a disaster relief association led by the city's merchants to solve the problem of food and clothing for the victims... Look at how much money these people are willing to pay to obstruct these policies..."

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