The Ming Dynasty officials were set by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the county order of Zhengqipin was only 7.5 stone of rice or 45 taels of silver a year, which was equivalent to less than 4 taels of silver per month.

The income of ordinary soldiers is even lower, even if it is the famous Qi Jiajun, the monthly silver recruited by the army that year is only 9 yuan (later rose to 1 tael 5 yuan), and the people are strong 6 yuan, so the monthly salary of 2 taels of silver for the Jiangnan Navy Master is really a rare high salary in this era.

You must know that these 2 taels of silver are real, and the food and accommodation are in the barracks, which can be said to be a net profit.

The Ming Dynasty has never had a generous military treatment, soon attracted a large number of young people who meet the requirements to sign up, since yesterday, the Shangyuan Navy Wharf recruitment office suddenly became lively, hundreds of young people of school age lined up in front of the recruitment office.

The 12 young officers who received 15 days of special training in the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall had to leave the martial arts hall that brought them great benefits and returned to the garrison to recruit soldiers, and the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall also sent 7 instructors with military experience to assist.

Just after 9 o'clock in the morning, more and more people poured into the wharf, and many shrewd boatmen spontaneously opened passenger and cargo transportation routes from Sanshanmen Shuiguan, Xinhekou Wharf, Longjiang Market and other places to Shangyuan Wharf, and a large number of ships sent various raw materials to the major workshops of Hushan Manor every day.

Hundreds of traders and dispossessed coolies came to the wharf to try their luck, the traders hoped to get in touch with the directors of the major workshops, and the coolies hoped to enter the major workshops with high salaries and benefits, and become part of the Hushan Manor, which everyone envied for hundreds of miles.

Zhu Daolin, who had not slept all night, accompanied by his junior brother Yang Dading, followed the crowd who rushed to the dock by land and walked silently.

This "Qin King Sword", which is imitated from the sword of the emperor of Qin during the Warring States Period, is not Zhu Daolin's favorite sword, although it has been tempered and worth thousands of gold. It's just that the appearance is simple, simple and elegant, and it won't be too abrupt to hang around the waist, the broadsword that Zhu Daolin loves is too heavy and too long, and it can only be held in his hand and can't be hung on the belt, and the broadsword imitated from the Han sword has a unique appearance and is murderous. As a last resort, Zhu Daolin really didn't want to take it out to scare people.

Zhu Daolin found that the closer to the wharf, the more people flowed, and the passenger and freight carriages of the Ziyang View Carriage Company with cyan pennants drove by from time to time, and the specially opened parking lot and cargo transfer yard above the wharf were already busy at this time, crowded with people, and the liveliness was almost comparable to the big market outside the Sanshan Gate.

"Were there so many people yesterday?" Zhu Daolin asked Yang Dading, the junior brother next to him, in a low voice.

Yang Dading replied proudly: "There were not so many people and cars some time ago, but in recent days, there have been more and more, and the Gushan Iron City in the east, the pharmaceutical factory and the medical school in the northeast of our Ziyangguan have started construction successively. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and the price is high, how can the large and small merchants and young and strong laborers within a radius of several hundred miles still sit still? ”

"Coupled with the official start of the construction of the Sanli River embankment of Brother Mengshan yesterday, the three places combined, only the labor needs at least 40,000 people, and a large number of stones, bricks, wood and lime are also purchased.

"Anyone who has hands and feet should be diligent. Not only can you eat enough, but it is not difficult to earn some savings. Even the surrounding counties and towns within a radius of 100 miles have also benefited, this kind of prosperity has not appeared for decades, it is estimated that in less than a year, Jinling City will reproduce the prosperity scene before the Yongle Emperor moved the capital. ”

Zhu Daolin is far less optimistic than his junior brother Yang Dading, he knows very well that everything at present is triggered by a huge investment of millions of taels of silver. In later popular terms, the huge investment in infrastructure construction has driven the rapid development of the entire economy, and all walks of life have been rapidly driven under the stimulation of huge investment, and a large number of surplus labor force has moved from the countryside to the city, which in turn has triggered the urbanization effect. Promote positive changes in the overall socio-economic environment.

In the past six months or so, Zhu Daolin has read more and more books, experienced more and more things, and his vision and mind have become wider and wider, and he knows that everything in front of him is only a deformed prosperity, and only by vigorously developing the manufacturing industry, promoting the progress of production relations with advanced productive forces, rapidly improving labor productivity and creativity, and gradually embarking on the road of industrialization, can the economy of the entire region and the broad masses of the people really benefit, and such prosperity is the real prosperity.

After Zhu Daolin entered the wharf, he did not go to the recruiting office where the crowd was surging, but followed the wharf all the way to the south to inspect.

Miao Jinde, the 48-year-old shipbuilding workshop manager, Zhang Xiangling, the technical director, and Diao Meifang, the account manager, quickly came out and accompanied Zhu Daolin to board the small stone hill specially left between the shipbuilding workshop's own wharf and the No. 3 big wharf, and condescendingly overlooked the overall situation, and discussed the second phase expansion project of the shipbuilding workshop.

The shipbuilding workshop of Hushan Manor is the most technically demanding among the major workshops, so the development speed is also the slowest, so far the number of craftsmen is only 320 people, the number of apprentices is 900 people, of which only 62 craftsmen who have been engaged in shipbuilding for many years, most of these 62 people are the old men drawn by Miao Jinde from the Longjiang Bao Shipyard that has been abandoned for many years, and the rest are selected from the retired old craftsmen of the Navy Craftsman Battalion, although many old craftsmen can write and count the experience, but the number is far from meeting the actual requirements.

Zhang Xiangling, the 39-year-old technical director, is a native of Jiangning, and has been taking the imperial examination for more than 20 years, and he has not even gained fame for showing talent, but his talent in arithmetic and shipbuilding is extremely outstanding, and it was Zhao Xunting and Diao Meifang, who were discerning and talented, recommended him to Zhu Daolin.

At that time, Zhu Daolin and Zhang Xiangling talked for half an hour, and were moved by his solid knowledge of geometry and physics from practice, and immediately appointed Zhang Xiangling, who had real talent and practical learning, as the technical director of the shipbuilding workshop, and gave him the best treatment with a monthly salary of 100 taels of silver.

Zhu Daolin asked Zhang Xiangling to set up a technical group to sort out a large amount of technical data stolen back from the Ministry of Industry by Zhao Xunting and Diao Meifang, and summarize them while practicing.

Zhang Xiangling, who was immersed in shipbuilding technology, did not live up to Zhu Daolin's expectations.

In the past three months, he assisted Miao Jinde, the chief manager, in building an 80-ton sail oar patrol clipper and a 150-ton inland river warship during the day, and organized a painstakingly recruited 10-member technical team at night to study and digest various shipbuilding technical materials provided by Zhu Daolin.

After repeated calculations, experiments and improvements and optimization, Zhang Xiangling finally designed two new sail warships, and now the four and fifth docks built two 300-ton two-masted sail warships, which are the new warships that everyone is full of expectations, but the number of skilled craftsmen is too small, and the construction progress is very slow, which seriously restricts Zhang Xiangling's work efficiency.

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