At the gate of Jinling City, Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, took the lead in posting a recruitment notice, and there were very few applicants at first, but when he learned that he could pay a month's salary in advance as soon as he signed up, and the salary was twice as high as the wage of the weaving workshop, more and more people began to apply. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After three days, the entire city gate was already full of people, and the queue even lined up on the riverside.

The most difficult thing in building the national highway between the two capitals is the erection of bridges and the tamping of soft soil, but the others do not require high technical content, as long as you have a lot of strength.

Therefore, it is not difficult to recruit the people who sign up, and soon 50,000 strong men were recruited in Jinling City.

At the same time, a total of 50,000 strong men were recruited in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

It is a big problem for the management of 100,000 strong men and such a huge project, but this is difficult for Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who has his own set of backbone and management experience since he was in charge of large and small water conservancy projects across the country.

He did not gather the strong men recruited from various places, but directly sent his subordinate backbones to various places, and then took charge of the construction of various sections of the national highway in the form of multi-point operations.

Prior to this, he had already determined the necessary route of the Liangjing National Highway after considering various factors, and had directly issued instructions to the person in charge of each section, and ordered the person in charge of each section to undertake the construction problems on the road section.

For a time, the whole Jiangnan to Jiangbei, as if everywhere bloomed, every hundred miles you can see the construction team of the Ming Dynasty wearing special iron hats, holding sapper shovels in some bushes or beside the street to work.

The bucket trucks carrying the earthwork were reversed by the strong men on both sides of the national highway, and one by one they were in full swing, because the wages were calculated according to the number of cars carried, if they were diligent, they could even earn a silver dollar a day, so they were rushing to do it, and hundreds of pounds of earthwork were trotting back at a trot.

In Daming, although it is in the south of the Yangtze River, the population density is still not high, so there is no need to pay much for the demolition of houses or other buildings when building the Liangjing National Highway.

However, Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, still prepared a certain amount of money to deal with the demolition and occupation of the fields, and the amount of compensation was not small, so the smart people now wish that the imperial court would come to occupy his house or field when the court built the avenue.

Of course, the people in the Ministry of Industry are not stupid, if you bargain and want a higher price, you will directly change the route, and Huo Weihua also ordered the person in charge of each section of the operation to avoid disturbing the people as much as possible.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers already recruited for the construction of Liangjing Avenue, the Royal Industrial Corporation and the Royal Weaving Bureau have also begun to recruit apprentices.

But these two are not as selective as Huo Weihua, you can take them in if you have the strength, and the Royal Industries Company favors all kinds of craftsmen or young people with a certain degree of literacy or at least good intelligence.

Young people are good at learning new things, and artisans can get started with short training.

The Royal Weaving Bureau only recruits weavers, and does not limit men and women, which has caused an uproar in public opinion, but although countless people sprayed the Royal Weaving Bureau in the Daming Daily that it is too shameless to make money, it is good to be good, and bad women are chaste and immoral.

But there are still many poor girls who are already good at female workers who enter the Royal Weaving Bureau, because the treatment of the Royal Weaving Bureau is too rich.

The Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are different from the recruitment of the Ministry of Industry, these two recruit employees to be used for a long time, each employee has a complete set of welfare system, in addition to high wages, there are also such as all kinds of festival expenses, group travel, housing and meal subsidies, and even directly into the internal promotion system, once the assessment can be obtained the qualification of the supervisor, which in modern times represents the establishment.

In this way, it is natural to tempt a large number of artisan workers who were originally looked down upon to sign up for interviews to become employees of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Board.

And when looking at the representatives of the Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau, when they wore neat, clean and beautiful staff clothes and full of confidence in the interview room, it attracted countless people to want to work in these two companies.

In fact, although many unemployed people in Jiangnan hated the Royal Weaving Bureau this time, the anti-Royal Weaving Bureau also had a little bit of a can't eat grapes and said that the reason for the sour grapes is in it, they saw with their own eyes that some people working in the Royal Weaving Bureau could not long be able to buy a house on the ground in Jinling, and they worked hard in the weaving workshop for a year and could only mix food and clothing after being deducted by the workshop owner's chickens and dogs, which led to many people looking at the treatment of workers in the Royal Weaving Bureau.

However, the Royal Weaving Bureau has always had strict requirements and quotas for recruiting new employees, and the difficulty of the assessment is very high, sometimes no less than the examination of Xiucai.

Nowadays, the Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Industrial Company have expanded their recruitment, and they have expanded their recruitment by tens of thousands of people, and they are specifically aimed at the people of Jiangnan, which is a pie-in-the-sky good thing for the people of Jiangnan.

What's more, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao has also specially set up a federation of trade unions, with Wei Guogong Xu Hongji as the secretary of the Ming Federation of Trade Unions, while Li Mingrui, a cabinet scholar, and Wei Zhongxian, a supervisor of Nanjing Town, are the attendants of the Federation of Trade Unions.

The purpose is to safeguard the rights and interests of craftsmen across the Ming Dynasty, but when the commodity economy is not developed enough, this federation of trade unions can be regarded as an ornament, but Zhu Youxiao believes that it may become a bridge of communication between the Ming court and the new class in the future.

At the same time as the establishment of the General Trade Union, Zhu Youxiao also directly ordered the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau to take the lead in following the ten-hour working day and the vacation system of one day off every ten days.

Zhu Youxiao, as the largest capitalist in the Ming Dynasty, also has some potential as a profiteer, and is eager to let the Ming Dynasty gain strong national strength in the short term, so he does not directly use the eight-hour work system and the weekly rest system.

But ten hours a day and ten days off, and such a high salary, treatment and development prospects, this is already a rare thing for the workers of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that in the past, the private workshops of the Ming Dynasty were more or less a little bit of primitive capital, and they always worked from morning to late at night, so now, there are naturally a lot of people who are rushing to come, and there are even many people from Jiangxi, Fujian and other other provinces, many of whom are still children who are studying and even have talents.

In these years, not only who can study can be an official, but also because of the years of studying, there are people who have been delayed, and it happens that the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are the third way to enter the career in addition to the imperial examination and scientific research, so they can attract a lot of frustrated scholars to sign up for interviews.

The Royal Bank also began to recruit people, but the requirements for the people he recruited were higher, and many times they also required that they must be able to learn arithmetic or obtain the status of a child or above, which is simply a very high requirement, just like recruiting people in the top 500 in later generations must be undergraduate or even 211 or above.

However, after the recruitment advertisements of the Royal Bank were published in the Daming Daily, the yamen of all levels of government and the city gate notices or other conspicuous places, the recruited children or Xiucai were still in the market.

The ancients were not stupid, until they entered the banking system, which was a good job, not only did they have money, but as soon as they entered, they directly obtained the official status of Shirou and the head of the household.

However, there are very few people who can successfully interview and pass the customs, and there are even those who once they pass, they also appear in the township examination, and there are generally special people who report the good news to the host's house.

As a result, the people in the major cities and towns in the south of the Yangtze River have the roots of survival, and the whole of Jiangnan is active again, because of the ten-day rest and ten-hour work system, coupled with high wages, many cultural industries have also developed.

Although the most popular is the attic and painting boat on the bank of the Qinhuai River, countless workers leave the wages of the day and their hundreds of millions of children and grandchildren and the fatigue of the day to the woman's belly every day.

But the sales of Daming Daily have also increased several times, the storyteller's business has also risen sharply, and the value of the famous storyteller Liu Jingting has risen dozens of times.

In order to make more money, many writers and drama actors began to deliberately cater to the needs of these low-level people, although there are many things that are yellow and 0 color and 0 violence, but many of them also reflect the life of the toiling people, and many works have begun to learn to be down-to-earth, to show the warmth and coldness of ordinary people, and no longer blindly to show princes and generals.

There are more and more cultural carriers for Zhu Youxiao to sing praises and virtues, and of course, many bad social phenomena in the Ming Dynasty have also begun to be ruthlessly exposed.

Zhu Youxiao did not deliberately prevent the development of the cultural circles in Jiangnan, in addition to the general direction of loyalty to the monarch and love for the people, concern for the society, respect for China, etc., Zhu Youxiao can not even care about which bold creator still takes out his own gags.

In the countryside south of the Yangtze River, for the peasants in this area or the peasant workers stranded in the towns, the most worthy of their happiness is that it is undoubtedly Huangzhuang that can actually give them land.

In Songjiang Huating, Wu Derong, the county magistrate of Huating County, and Lai Dekai, the young eunuch of the Nanjing Inner Palace sent to Huating by Huangzhuang, were leading the Nanjing public security forces to carry out the on-site contracting and delivery of Dongjia's land in the Dongjia compound.

The landless people from the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will accept the contract responsibility system of Huangzhuang here, and contract the 300,000 mu of land that the imperial court has copied from the Dong family.

Among them, there are many people who were still avenging Dong Qichang in the parade, but now, as the court said and what was published in the Daming Daily, they unanimously believe that Dong Qichang is innocent!

In addition to Daming Daily's use of a large amount of evidence to characterize Dong Qichang, the more reason is that since the people want to legally contract more than 300,000 mu of fertile land for the Dong family, they must follow the central court and think that Dong Qichang is wrong!

"Zhao Laosi, a native of Xiashui Village, Huating Village, has a family of five people, a labor force of three, and contracts ten acres of paddy fields and four acres of dry land, right."

Hu Zenghui, who was temporarily selected to assist in the work, read a few words to a young man who looked a little capable, and then handed him the contract agreement in his hand.

Zhao Laosi went to private school for half a year, recognized a few words, and said with a smile after he probably saw that it was written that his family wanted to contract the field: "That's right, Master Hu, my father, my brother and I all have the strength, and it is not a problem to contract another four or five acres, you see." ”

"The quota assigned by the imperial court to us is to meet the land contract of no less than 30,000 people, and give you more contracts, how can we pay the difference, don't you see that there are some people behind me, people from Dongchang! If Lao Tzu dares to hit half a sloppy eye, his head will move immediately! ”

This Hu Zenghui and Zhao Laosi were from the same village, so they said a few more words, but even though they were fellow villagers and small, he didn't dare to open the back door and let Zhao Laosi leave after quickly stamping the official seal.

In addition to the Dong family's 300,000 acres of land that was divided and contracted by the people, a total of millions of acres of land belonging to other major criminal officials and gentry families in the entire Jiangnan were also divided one after another.

It is difficult to spit out the meat that has been eaten in the mouth, and although countless people in the Confucian forest lament that they will no longer be able to bewitch the people of Jiangnan to make trouble, they also have to admit that Zhu Youxiao's move can be regarded as a complete blow to land annexation.

Once a farmer has his own land, he cherishes it as if he had children.

According to Zhu Youxiao's report from the East Factory, after a large number of landlords' land was contracted to peasants, many peasants took the initiative to loosen the soil and sow seeds on their newly divided land before dawn.

Zhu Youxiao only asked Huangzhuang to contract the land in his hands to the people as soon as possible, but did not encourage the people to vigorously promote the cultivation of new crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, although letting the people vigorously promote new crops can solve the hunger crisis, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to rely on these two things to become staple foods before getting enough nutrition, because this will reduce the quality of the people.

Everyone knows that the main ingredient of potatoes and sweet potatoes is polysaccharide starch, and there is no starch at all, and as a traditional Chinese staple food, both rice and wheat are rich in several essential amino acids.

Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to use the solution of the food crisis as an excuse to allow the entire Han people to use nutrient-deficient potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time, which would lead to a decline in genetic levels, which in turn would affect the IQ of the entire nation.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao simply did not ask the people to plant anything, giving them a lot of freedom.

As a result, some began to consciously overcome the laziness and bad habit of begging in the city to get by, and became diligent.

Of course, potatoes and sweet potatoes, as the most abundant crops to grow and grow in barren land, were unwittingly used by farmers on barren land, which can be regarded as making up for the famine often brought by the unharvested rice and wheat.

And because of this, the peasants in the south of the Yangtze River also admired Zhu Youxiao, His Majesty the Emperor, even more, and under the intentional promotion of Daming Daily and Huangzhuang, Zhu Youxiao's prestige among the people gradually increased.

I don't know who started to rise, and some people actually began to grow opium, which can be said to be beyond Zhu Youxiao's imagination.

However, Zhu Youxiao also immediately made a clear will, requiring that tobacco farmers be restricted, and strictly ordered not to sell and smoke in the country, once found directly beheaded, but allowed to sell to the Oriental Wa Kingdom, Nanyang countries and even Zhu Youxiao decreed, if it can be sold to Great Britain, you can also get the imperial court's reward.