All the way to the west, across the white horse, the accompanying four people each have guns and swords, there is such a sense of journey to the west. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The only drawback is that the road is too short, and the road is not barren, and there is land everywhere.

Large tracts of land are planted with a variety of crops, and occasionally you can see towering wind-powered mills or water-powered workshops along the river.

Except for Jian Chen, the four people who accompanied him were not in the mood to enjoy such a field scenery.

The leader of the four accompanying people is surnamed Zhao, and his name is no longer tested, and the three often call him the fourth brother, and probably Chen Jian can call him Zhao Si.

Zhao Si likes to wear short shirts and is often shirtless, mainly to show a few scars on his body.

In particular, the one the size of a wine cup on his arm is worth boasting about, which was made by a stone smashed by a cannonball on the battlefield.

These four men were brave and ruthless, too lazy to work, and had little money, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, intimidating, wandering, and joining the army to plunder when they fought.

At the beginning, these four people used some disgraceful means because of gambling money, and they were hung in the sea and poisoned, and Chen Siwen saved these four people, which is considered a little kindness.

can steal, rob, fight, dare to kill and set fire as long as the money is enough, and there is no wife and daughter to worry about, and how much to talk about the righteousness of the fox squirrel in the market, it is the person who can be used today.

Jian Chen also knew that this kind of person was actually unreliable, a genuine lumpenproletarian, but he was not ready to rebel, and it was completely usable to use these people to oppress employees and smash other shops.

At this time, to open a handicraft workshop, there must be a full-time thug, on the one hand, internally, on the other hand, if some technological innovation and the like touch the interests of those small handicraftsmen, cut off people's financial routes, and refuse to give up profits, people will naturally oppose it.

Opposition can't just rely on lip service, a little carelessness may have to set fire to the fight, a few outlaws are definitely the first choice to do this kind of thing, who will oppose the direct leg smashing when the time comes.

Since Jian Chen wants to use others, and knows that this kind of person has a good face, he doesn't call him by name, but the fourth brother and the fourth brother call him the same, take out some money to buy some wine and meat with him, and within three or two days, he actually has the intention of seeing each other late.

When eating and drinking, he praised these people for the few things they occasionally did that could be regarded as chivalrous and righteous, but he overshadowed the usual hooliganism, which made these people happy.

Especially after Chen Jian gave two silver coins, he patted his chest and only said that he would open a workshop in the future, and anyone who was disobedient would directly break his leg and so on.

In fact, Chen Jian doesn't need these people to break the legs of employees, after all, oppression and exploitation also need to pay attention to the Basic Law.

Now that Chen Jian has money in his hands, his father is more or less powerful, and he has some reputation, after reading the laws about workshops and hired workers, I have to sigh that this is really the best era.

The Law on Employment and Apprenticeship in Various Industries was promulgated decades ago, and Chen Jian was born at a good time, as long as he had money and was a proper class.

For example, the law on employment requires that if an employer and an employer want to terminate the contract, they must have a valid reason and be approved by a local magistrate, and they need to apply six months in advance. If both parties break the contract, they are punished.

It doesn't seem like a great thing, but if you look at the punishment, it's all clear. If the employee breaches the contract, he shall be sentenced to imprisonment, whipping and other criminal liability; If the employer breaches the contract, he only needs to pay a fine of 30 silver coins, as for whether it is a breach of contract, in fact, it mainly depends on what the judge thinks, so to fine 30 silver coins, it only costs five silver coins, and if the relationship is very hard, it does not need to be spent.

To put it mildly, the same mistake is committed by a first-class person who is civilly liable, and a second-class person who commits it is criminally liable. Since there is no distinction between ethnic groups that can be deducted, it is the simplest and most effective way to artificially rely on property to stipulate it.

It was an excellent law that guaranteed the smooth progress of primitive accumulation, greatly safeguarding the interests of the mill owners and landowners. It can be seen that the council that passed the law has a clear head and understands who is the ruling class at this time, and this is a very promising ethnic group.

Of course, this law has been revised several times since its inception, and there are some humanistic considerations in it: for example, it is strictly forbidden to use cotton, rags, and workshop products as wages, but it needs to be paid in cash. It is said that after the passage of this amendment, the hired workers bought many firecrackers to celebrate.

Prior to this, many industries such as iron smelting used products as part of their wages, especially in linen, iron smelting, wool spinning and other industries, which was also considered a progress.

As for the other revisions, it was a struggle between the agrarian faction and the artisan faction.

In the earliest days, the decree provided that during the harvest of grain, cotton, etc., the magistrates and magistrates had the right to compel the employees of the mill or small craftsmen to participate in the harvest; However, with the continuous expansion of workshops, the increasing strength of workshop owners and handicraft owners, the increase of the coal and iron industry, and the development of agricultural equipment, this law was revised.

The fact that the magistrates and magistrates no longer had the power to force workshop workers and small craftsmen to participate in agricultural work at harvest time was a victory for the artisans and a testament to the massive increase in the population after the war, and although labour was still partially scarce, the two demanders were no longer uncompromising.

This struggle does not affect the basis of the entire law, according to which Chen Jian can be regarded as a proper ruling class.

The Act provided that anyone who owned a hundred acres of land, owned a property, or owned a handicraft workshop, and owned more than one hundred and fifty silver coins, could employ the rest or apprentices.

Young people who have completed their Enlightenment education, who are over thirteen years old, who have little land in their families, who are not in school, who do not become apprentices, are regarded as wandering around, have their own poor laws to clean them up, and throw them into it and work for a year to know that "laziness" is wrong.

The minimum period of employment for an apprentice is five years, and during this period, the employer and the employer shall not be bound by the employment regulations in Article 1. Most of the time these apprentices only need a bite to eat, a small amount of money according to the minimum wage, and if they learn well, they can continue to be hired after the apprenticeship is over.

Obviously, most apprentices don't learn the skills and do less skilled work as the cheapest type of labor.

By the time their apprenticeship is over, they haven't actually learned, but a new batch of apprentices can be hired again - and since the same apprentices who don't require much skill are more economical, who is going to hire the adults at the normal price?

At the end of an apprenticeship, one is eligible to become a freelancer, and unless you have completed five years of apprenticeship, you are not eligible to compete directly as an adult employee.

There are also regulations on the minimum working hours per day, which is normally calculated according to the beginning of the sun, and in the summer they all work from 5 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening, which is different in each county, after all, the gap between the north and the south is too large. For every hour of absenteeism, the employer has the right to deduct half of the employee's wages.

This is not only the handicraft industry or the hydro-powered workshop, but also in agriculture, where the system of hired labor and apprenticeship is strictly regulated.

There are many details of the law, and the rules of each county must conform to the provisions of the law, and in order to reduce confrontation, there are appropriate laws and regulations that appear to be beneficial to apprentices and hired workers, and whether or not they are enforced depends on the local situation.

There were strict laws on hired labor and apprenticeships, so naturally there would be strict laws on the poor and the punishment for laziness.

is not lawfully employed (including the completion of a five-year apprenticeship that would otherwise be considered unlawful); did not receive the lowest rank medal in the army; Not engaged in shipbuilding, ceramics, glass, grain, fishing, trading companies, mining, metallurgy, agriculture, ...... and so on; Non-Taixue or other intermediate or above school student qualifications; does not own sufficient real estate, commercial property, workshops; Where the property of his parents or the property specified in the will does not exceed 20 silver coins, or the income does not exceed 20 silver coins, or the goods and money of a trading company does not exceed 150 silver coins; In addition to engaging in the above industries, the annual income obtained without violating the law is less than two silver coins; Those who are not officials...... These were to be sent to workhouses, government mineral lands, and the reclamation army. In the event of war, these people will be given priority for compulsory conscription into the army.

In fact, this is a kind of "thief army" in disguise, but once the guns appear, the combat effectiveness of the thief army is still very guaranteed.

The military stick was smashed down, and the soldiers who smashed it were more afraid of the officer's stick than the fear of bullets and bloodshed, strict discipline and the group of officers from the professional background, this is the guarantee of force in this era.

The soon-to-be-coming era of platoon guns is no longer an era of bravery, and only the extremely suffering and almost numb bottom of this era can support the ferocity and casualty rate of front-line shooting.

All kinds of similar laws are cold and ruthless and untwisted, purely from a personal point of view, Chen Jian is now a person who belongs to the kind of money, commodities, real estate, more than one hundred and fifty silver coins, and is an absolute beneficiary of the law.

This is all read and seen in the past two years, and it can be regarded as the basis for the preparation of workshops and simple industries in this era, and it can be said that these laws sound "gratifying" and normal.

This is a clear proof that the handicraft industry has begun to flourish, and the straightforward and fruitless employment relationship is most suitable for this era of bloody accumulation. The key lies in whether we can survive until the contradictions intensify to the point of falling apart, and whether we can alleviate the contradictions by plunder, colonization, war, or technological revolution before the contradictions become irreconcilable.

Therefore, Chen Jian or people with similar identities to Chen Jian can say that this is the best era, as long as you don't cast the wrong baby.

The things you see along the road and the things you see along the road are basically the appearance of those laws, which are full of vitality and a little bit of misery at the same time.

Compared with the bustling Mincheng, gradually approaching Nan'an County, the prosperity of commerce has gradually faded, but you can still see ships transporting coal, iron or various goods.

The county seat of more than 50,000 people is also a large county, and there are various mines nearby, which continue to support the needs of Mincheng.

The labor, raw materials, transportation, money, and laws were all perfect, and Jian Chen began to like this place a little.