Chapter 15, temporary worker Gao Yingxiang

In April 1637, the People's Democratic Empire of China completed its first census after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The results of this census made Wang Shuhui a little unexpected, as of February 1637, the registered population of the Chinese People's Democratic Empire had reached 140 million, a big gap between his original estimate of 8,000 and 90 million.

However, it is also relatively normal to consider that since 1620, the Baath Party has successively controlled the whole province of Hubei, Henan and southern Shaanxi, and the eastern part of Shandong, and the population of 40 or 50 million in these areas has experienced rapid growth under the conditions of stable food supply and medical and health beyond the times for more than ten years.

You must know that since the founding of New China, because the state has adopted a policy of comprehensive or partial buyout for the education and upbringing of infants, young children, teenagers and children throughout China, there have even been a few lazy bastard couples who live by giving birth to children to earn subsidies. It is precisely because of the existence of these people that the state has enacted the corresponding "Education and Maintenance Law" to put an end to this so-called ugly act of "eating children" from a legal point of view.

According to the provisions of the new "Education and Support Law", because the state has formulated a sound retirement policy and undertakes the pension work of all citizens, from the implementation of the law, the state will no longer pay education subsidies to parents, but will naturally have the right to education and support all minor children and infants.

The new Education and Maintenance Act has generated a certain amount of social unrest in some backward (post-occupied areas). However, thanks to the government's meticulous work of explanation and propaganda, and the tremendous deterrence of the repression of some of the stubborn "class enemies with deep-rooted feudal mentality hidden in the minds of the masses," the implementation of the new law went relatively smoothly on the whole.

In fact, this law is not a big deal for the people in the old base areas who began to live in an industrialized society more than 10 years ago. Most of them are already skilled workers of the third level or the same level, and for those of them who can earn about 3,000 yuan a month, the annual education subsidy of 300 yuan is indeed still a lot of money, but it is no longer a big money.

Moreover, in the past ten years, they are only responsible for giving birth, not for raising, and their children have been raised, cared for, and educated by the state since infancy, and as parents, they only need to go to nurseries, kindergartens, and junior junior military barracks every rest day to see their children. Such days make them quite comfortable.

The state has not cut off the parental bond between them and their children. However, the state has taken over the most onerous and difficult work for couples in raising and educating their children.

They don't even have to pay anything for their children's upbringing. When the children graduate from the learning stage, they can also harvest a few, and the couples who can have children can even harvest a dozen adult children who have grown up and have the ability to work.

Why not have to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of being a parent and still have children who have been fully educated and nurtured by the State?

Moreover, because the education and raising of their children has been taken over by the state, as parents, they can also enjoy a "colorful" personal life such as visiting parks, shopping malls, watching movies, and watching dramas in addition to their heavy work, and fully spend their wages to shop and enjoy. After the promulgation of the new "Education and Support Law", they clearly realized that their pension is also borne by the state. Therefore, they have completely relieved their worries, and there is even less reason to oppose the state's policy.

In fact, from the perspective of later generations, parents in modern China have not really taken on much responsibility for raising and educating their children. From Wang Shuhui's experience, the young couples he came into contact with in modern society all threw their children to their grandparents and grandparents to raise after they were born.

When the child is older, when he or she goes to kindergarten and elementary school, his grandparents are generally responsible for picking him up. By the time children reach junior high school, most of them are in prison-like all-round secondary schools until they get into college.

In other words, in a sense, about 80% of the parents' contribution to their children in modern China is purely economic. And those young parents in modern China have never expected their children to support themselves in the future. Their pension problems all rely on social insurance.

To some extent, Baath China does seem to have paid a lot of resources for the education and upbringing of the new citizens, and it also has to take on the work of providing for the old people. However, from the perspective of society as a whole, the old citizens have been working in factories and farms until retirement (the retirement standard in the People's Democratic Empire of China is 65 for men and 60 for women).

In layman's terms, the pensions and corresponding medical benefits paid to them by the state were all earned by themselves in the past. What's more, in terms of the current level of medical technology in Baath China, it is very rare for an elderly person to live to be about 70 years old. In other words, the pension and medical security paid by the state for them are about five years at most.

From the perspective of new citizens, among the tens of millions of new citizens born every year, about 80 percent need to pay education and upbringing subsidies for about 15 years to the state. Most of these people, who account for 80 percent, receive education and upbringing from the highest level of the state to technical secondary schools (three years in nurseries, three years in kindergartens, three years in junior junior colleges, three years in intermediate junior colleges, and three years in technical secondary schools). After graduating from secondary school, they began to enter factories, farms, military and other departments and units, and began to create value for the country until they were about 60 or 65 years old.

The remaining 20 per cent or so of the new nationals will go on to higher education (various colleges and universities) after completing their education in nurseries, kindergartens, junior and intermediate cadet soldiers, and pre-university (three years of upper secondary school).

But despite the fact that these people seem to spend four to six years more on the education and upbringing resources of the state (university and graduate students) than the 100 percent new nationals, after they join the workforce, the value they create for the country as high-level talents is much higher.

From a purely utilitarian point of view, the state pays for a person's upbringing and education for 15 to 20 years, but can get the services of a middle- and high-level worker for about 40 to 50 years. From this point of view, the country does not actually suffer.

The first industrial revolution may not have been very demanding on the quality of workers. Historically, bankrupt peasants without any literacy or basic qualities were able to assume the role of workers in the era of the First Industrial Revolution. But when the second industrial revolution began, workers were no longer something that ordinary laborers could easily bear.

To take a simple example, maintenance workers in the steam engine era can rely on practice to master the repair skills of steam engines, but in the electrical age, without basic junior high school level physics education, it is very dangerous and difficult to take on the job of an ordinary electrician.

For the new China, which was founded in 1634, after the completion of the country's first five-year plan in 1638, it was very difficult to carry out a nationwide electrification revolution in the country's second five-year plan without millions of workers with junior high school education as a foundation.

Only when the quality of the workers in New China is getting higher and higher can the development and deepening of the industrialization of the whole country be realized.

"There are not 10 million junior high school students, millions of secondary school students, hundreds of thousands of college students, and hundreds of thousands of college students, and it is a delusion to realize that airships are all over the sky and ironclad ships are all over the sea."

Wang Shuhui mentioned the above in his speech at the inauguration ceremony of the "Chengdu Secondary Normal College" in the Chengdu area.

Most of the three groups of party, government, and military teams in Chengdu who attended the ceremony learned through newspapers and radio that the Shanghai Shipyard of the Baath Party had recently successfully built a 1,500-ton all-steam-powered ironclad ship. As early as the beginning of 1634, when the Baath Party took over the Sichuan region, they had already seen the scene of the huge airship of the Chinese Renaissance Army Air Force undertaking the task of reconnoitring the enemy situation and topographic mapping in the Sichuan area.

At that time, Yuan Zonghou, deputy political commissar of the Sichuan Military Region, and some cadres of the Chengdu Prefecture of the Renaissance Party, who was now deputy political commissar of the Sichuan Military Region, also boarded the airship to experience a real flying experience.

Yuan Zonghou and others, who have a deep understanding of the complexity and "high-end" of airships, deeply believe in Wang Shuhui's speech. They are also people with secondary school level education experience. They also know that a "high-level" scientific and technological product like an airship cannot be produced without a large number of scientific researchers and high-quality technical workers.

As for the problem of ironclads, not to mention ironclads, they are also well aware of how high the requirements for workers and technicians are for the production of ordinary all-steam-powered wooden-hulled ships. After all, many of them have already worked in industrial enterprises.

Yuan Zonghou is 27 years old. An orphan, he entered the first junior junior army of the Baath Party in the Zhijiang region in 1623 at the age of thirteen. By 1625, after graduating from the junior cadet army, he had joined the Revival Army. As a grassroots cadre, Yuan Zonghou served in the First Army of the Northwest of the Fuxing Army for three years.

In 1628, at the age of 19, Yuan Zonghou entered the Army Command School of the Fuxing Army. Three years later, in 1630, Yuan Zonghou graduated from the Army Command School with honors and received a first-class military merit medal. Subsequently, he was assigned to the Wuchang Third Arsenal as the deputy secretary of the party committee. By 1634, when the Baath Party was preparing for the mission of entering Sichuan, Yuan Zonghou was transferred to the newly formed Sichuan Military Region and Ma Xianglin to serve as the political commissar of the mountain division.

After the end of the mission in 1636, Lin Yuze, before leaving office, specially recommended to the organization Yuan Zonghou, who had performed very well in the entire work of entering Sichuan, both militarily and politically, to take charge of the work of the newly established Chengdu area.

Because the entire Sichuan region is still under military control, in addition to the secretary of the Chengdu regional party committee, Yuan Zonghou was also appointed as the political commissar of the Sichuan Military Region by the Central Committee of the Baxing Party.

So from a practical point of view, Yuan Zonghou, who is only 27 years old, is not only the top leader of the Baath Party in Chengdu, but also the leader of the entire Sichuan region.

From a national perspective, Yuan Zonghou was the first senior leader of the Baath Party who was not from the teaching group. In the Baxing Party, which has begun to rise the trend of seniority, Yuan Zonghou can be regarded as a standout, and he himself can be described as trembling.

Wang Shuhui has also heard of the atmosphere of seniority in the revival party. However, he is not yet ready to completely rectify this unhealthy trend. As far as he is concerned, the completion of the first five-year plan is the most important task at the present stage, and he does not intend to make it clear as to this kind of atmosphere in the party that can only be understood but cannot be spoken.

The advantage of ranking seniority is that in a local area or in a certain section, people with qualifications and qualifications can rely on their qualifications and qualifications to concentrate and make decisions on the decisions of the party committees. From a positive point of view, this can indeed improve the speed of decision-making of party committees and quickly promote the development of work.

The disadvantage of seniority is that although it is not an obvious or deliberate attempt to undermine the organizational principle of collective leadership and democratic decision-making, seniority and qualifications themselves are a hidden factor that undermines the organizational principle of collective leadership and democratic decision-making.

Purely from the point of view of the work in Sichuan, because Yuan Zonghou has little experience in the party and weak qualifications, he does not yet have the ability to make a decision on the work of the entire Sichuan Military Region in terms of decision-making on various tasks. However, it is precisely because of his lack of qualifications and weak qualifications that the leadership and decision-making work in the entire Sichuan region must be carried out in accordance with the organizational principles.

The advantage of this situation is that the work in Sichuan has been relatively stable, and all policy decisions have been made in a decent manner. The disadvantage is that because Yuan Zonghou, as the No. 1 chief, lacks the ability to make a final decision, the work in Sichuan is carried out more slowly than in other regions.

However, although Yuan Zonghou could not carry out all the work in Sichuan as vigorously and resolutely as Lin Yuze did when he was in charge of the work in Sichuan, he called in the mountain divisions mainly based on the troops in the Shi'en and Shizhu areas, and used thunderous means to quickly strangle and eliminate the Tusi in various parts of Sichuan who were unwilling to accept the leadership of the central government.

However, after the high-level Tusi leaders and diehards who were unwilling to "return to the big family of the Chinese nation" in all parts of Sichuan were swept away by the mountain division of the Fuxing Army, the Sichuan Military Region under the leadership of Yuan Zonghou did a good job in educating and reforming the mountain people in various parts of Sichuan who had returned to the big family of the Chinese nation.

The Sichuan Military Region's plan to bring in the old and the new, to transform and educate the newly naturalized Sichuan mountain people in the form of an army, and to use the Banzhou area as a base to continuously recruit Tusi soldiers from the Yunnan-Guizhou region who had abandoned the darkness and turned to the bright to return to the big family of the Chinese nation won the affirmation and recognition of the party Central Committee.

Seeing that a large number of newly naturalized masses had already begun to be diluted into the railway construction corps in the Sichuan region in batches after receiving militarized management, reform, and education, Wang Shuhui, who had completed the inspection, expressed satisfaction with the work of the Sichuan Military Region led by Yuan Zonghou.

After the inspection work was completed, Wang Shuhui met with Yuan Zonghou and the principal responsible persons of the Sichuan Military Region, and assigned them the task of Gao Yingxiang's group, which was facing off against Mu Qiyuan's clique with limited assistance in terms of food and military supplies.

Wang Shuhui said to them at the meeting: "

Gao Yingxiang, the captain of the human resources transportation brigade, still has to continue to be a leader. The more completely he and Mu Qiyuan destroyed the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the more sufficient human resources we will obtain, the smoother our construction work in the Sichuan region will be, and the easier it will be for us to take over the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the future. ”

"Gao Yingxiang turned the world upside down when he was in the Central Plains, objectively did the work of transporting human resources for us, and did the clean-up work of local stubborn forces for us. To this day, we still need him to take on this job in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. Therefore, in the provision of food and military supplies, we must also be generous and give Gao Yingxiang, a supernumerary comrade, some confidence! ”

After listening to Wang Shuhui's words, these cadres of the Sichuan Military Region who had been tempered for many years laughed.

They all know that their beloved teacher Wang Shuhui has always been an old black-bellied man who likes to engage in yang plots and force people to go into the water.