Chapter 95 Establishment and Regulations
Liu Defu promised to send the first batch of silver to Renjiawan soon, and left. www.biquge.info He needs to go back and raise raw silk as soon as possible, because Ren Siqi said that he will go to sea in more than two months.
The northwest monsoon has passed, and it is no longer possible to go to Luzon this year. But two months later, there will be a southeast monsoon in June and July, and Ren Siqi plans to trade with Japan this time.
The reason why the "Fuchun" did not dare to go to Japan was because Fu Chun had a grudge against Zheng Zhilong. Ren Siqi and Zheng Zhilong have no grievances and no hatred, so they can naturally take the Japanese route. As long as you are willing to spend money to buy navigation beacons from the Zheng family, you can take the Japanese route controlled by the Zheng family. Of course, the price of the navigation beacon is not cheap, a ship costs 3,000 taels of silver, and the Zheng family has a trading house in Hangzhou, where you can buy navigation beacons.
After careful calculation, the time is already very tight, and Ren Siqi feels that he should hurry up and implement many things.
When he was in Hangzhou, Ren Siqi had been thinking about a problem: how to avoid a situation like the "Fuchun". The result of thinking is the adoption of reasonable and efficient management methods.
A partnership system like the "Fuchun" can no longer be used, and Ren Siqi cannot allow the crew to bring goods on board without permission, but it is necessary to ensure that the crew goes to sea to obtain sufficient profits, and the only way is to adopt the shareholding system. That is, the profits obtained from the sea trade are distributed to the crew.
In the past few days, Ren Siqi has come up with a reasonable method after repeated thinking, and he gathered all the crew members early in the morning and announced his method.
First of all, in the future, the crew is not allowed to bring goods on board without permission, and all the goods on board belong to the "Flying Fish".
Secondly, Ren Siqi divided all the crew members into five levels, namely trainee crew, ordinary crew member, deputy supervisor, supervisor and ship owner.
There is a base salary for each level. The lowest-ranking trainee sailors, such as those who have just become crew members in Renjiawan, have the lowest salary, and the monthly salary is two taels of silver; After a year of sea voyage, trainee crew members can be converted to ordinary crew members depending on their performance, and their salary will be increased from two taels of silver to three taels; The deputy supervisor level refers to the management of a certain work, such as the deputy of finance who manages property, the treasurer who manages weapons, the head of the sailman, the helmsman who manages the helm, the gun commander who manages the gunner, etc., and has a salary of five taels per month; There are three supervisors, one is the chief in charge of the ship's affairs, one is the chief fire officer in charge of the ship's navigation, and the other is the pipe belt in charge of the battle, and their monthly salary can be ten taels; The highest level is the owner of the ship, of course, there can only be one ship, and the salary is up to twenty taels of silver per month.
After establishing a rank, each crew member will have a goal to strive for, and if they perform well and competently, they will be promoted in rank and their income will increase. This part of the salary is a fixed salary and is paid every month as long as it is on board. This salary is not low, take the lowest-paid midshipman as an example, there are more than 20 taels of income in a year, and the income of an ordinary middle family is only like this in a year.
Of course, going to sea is a high-risk industry, and it is difficult to satisfy an old sailor like Sima Nan with this income alone, so Ren Siqi stipulates that if you go to sea to trade, everyone will have another dividend, and this dividend is no longer just based on rank, but more into account of seniority. This is done in order to increase the cohesion of the "Flying Fish", increase everyone's sense of belonging to the "Flying Fish", and twist everyone into a rope.
Of course, the amount of dividends also depends on how much sea trade makes money, and the more money you make, the more dividends you will pay, and the less you make will pay less dividends.
Ren Siqi also stipulated that the "Flying Fish" should have a fixed number of personnel, including one owner, three directors, and ten deputy directors, and the rest were ordinary crew members and trainee crew members.
The whole ship implements two sets of navigation and combat systems, and the fire chief is responsible for sailing, and all crew members are divided into sailman, helmsman, anchor, and lookout. In battle, the pipe belt is in charge, and all the crew members are divided into gunners, stormtroopers, muskets, and archers.
Ren Siqi served as the owner of the ship and the position of the leader, and the captain of the "Flying Fish" was held by the Dutchman Olier, and as for Situ Nan, Ren Siqi gave him the position of general manager, mainly responsible for the life of the crew. In order to appease Sima Nan, Ren Siqi privately promised that as long as his power grows, he will definitely make him the owner of a boat.
The Dutchman Monroe was still the gunner, responsible for managing the ship's guns, while the Dutchman Shabira was the musketeer captain and was responsible for training the ship's musketeers. Others such as Cao Changjiang, Jin Yufei, Chen Sheng, Ren Xingfan, Ren Likun and others all held the positions of deputy directors.
Counting Ren Siqi, there are only thirty-eight people on the ship now, and there are ten empty formations, which need to be slowly replenished later.
After the appointment was announced, the crew members were boiling, and the old crew members such as Situ Nan secretly calculated in their hearts the benefits they could get in the future.
The excitement of having the position of deputy supervisor is overflowing, and the ordinary crew members and trainee crew members who do not have a position are secretly saving up their energy, and they will perform well in the future to strive for a mixed position.
"Owner, this method of yours is very advanced and reasonable." The Dutchman, Olier, who was already able to speak some simple Chinese, gave a thumbs up to Ren Siqi.
"Thank you for the compliment," Ren Siqi said with a smile: "Mr. Olier, you have a heavy burden in the future, I hope you can do a good job." In addition, you manage the crew training operation ship management very well, can you write down your training methods and record them. ”
"Why do you want to write it in words, but I don't know how to write Ming characters." Olier Road.
"It was written down to record the steps of the entire training operation, and I wanted to make it a regulation that could be used to train new crew members who would join later. Our ship can't be just this one, there will be more and more in the future, and you only have one, you can only manage one ship. There were many things that Olier didn't understand, so Anthony translated them into Dutch.
"God, do you want to build a school for seafarers?" Oliel exclaimed, exaggeratedly.
Ren Siqi smiled and asked rhetorically, "Why not?" ”
"God, you are really a far-sighted person, I believe that your career will definitely get bigger and bigger, but your mind is not like that of a Ming man!" Oliel sighed.
After communicating with Olier, Ren Siqi asked Anthony to call the Dutchmen Monroe and Shabila again, and told the two of them the same thing, Monroe was in charge of the artillery operation regulations, and Shabila was in charge of the musket operation regulations.
Then let Anthony be in charge of the translation, and the literate Ren Xingfan was in charge of the records, so that they must complete all the regulations as soon as possible.
Whatever you want to do is to do your best, Ren Siqi decided to form regulations for all maritime and combat matters, so that everything has rules to follow, and everyone can quickly adapt to their positions, and they can quickly train new people when they develop and grow in the future.
Of course, most of the crew members are illiterate and can't understand the regulations, so Ren Siqi decided to teach them word by word when the regulations are completed.
After arranging these things, the next step is to train the crew so that they can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!