Chapter 27: Beginning 3
86_86695On January 1, 1620 A.D., all the hired workers in the entire Zhijiang Wangbei Garden, except for the more than 20 female workers who worked for Zhu Youzi's father and daughter in the previous courtyard, the other more than 200 hired workers all started a three-day holiday.
As soon as Zhang Baoshu woke up in the morning, the first thing he did was to look at the clock on the wall, and as soon as he saw that the time was half past six, his heart was half cold. He immediately jumped up from the bed and hurriedly got dressed. After getting dressed, he remembered that it was a holiday. You don't have to do anything for three whole days, except for activities in the evening.
Knowing that he was not late for the morning workout at six o'clock in the morning, Zhang Baoshu relaxed, but it has been almost half a year since he first arrived in the other garden, and this is the first time that there has been such a day. actually didn't have to do anything, neither work, exercise nor class, and the sudden vacation life really made Zhang Baoshu a little uncomfortable.
Looking at the time, there was still half an hour before breakfast at seven o'clock, Zhang Baoshu subconsciously sat down at the desk and began to read a textbook called elementary geometry. After reading the book for more than ten minutes and memorizing a formula about the Pythagorean theorem, Zhang Baoshu picked up the washbasin on the shelf and prepared to go outside to get a basin of water to wash his face. He picked up the washbasin from the wooden shelf and stood by the door, looking contentedly at his new room.
At the end of December 1619, the employees of the entire palace were given the first grading examination. A total of 326 people from the teaching camp (students), the family camp, the women's workers' camp, the craftsmen's camp, and the agricultural workers' camp participated in this grading test. The purpose of this exam is to determine the relevant level based on the results of the examination, and then to pay the salary in the future according to the grade.
The exam is divided into three parts: physical fitness test, academic ability test and skill test. The fitness test consists of a five-kilometre trail run, a ten-person march, shot put and an obstacle course. The academic aptitude test consists of five papers: Mathematics, Chinese, Nature, Geography and History. Skills tests are conducted according to the division of labor.
In the skills test, the family is assessed. The craftsmen are assessed on the processing of iron and wood according to the drawings of the primary level. Female workers are assessed on the cleanliness of laundry and the speed and quality of knitting sweaters and spinning fabrics. Farm workers participate in the same assessment as domestic workers, but the standard is lowered by one degree.
In fact, the peasant and industrial battalion is the dozens of people left over from the original selection of the family, and their age is generally not very large, at least none of them are more than forty-five years old.
All skills assessments were conducted by the training camp, and the assessment of the training camp was conducted by Wang Shuhui. After the assessment, the grading was carried out. This grading is also quite simple, with only two levels, Level 1 and Level 2.
Wang Shuhui's purpose is also to let his subordinates understand and get used to the standardized test model. Because in the future plan, Wang Shuhui's management of these people is all linked to their rank, whether it is salary, treatment or position, they will be arranged according to the results of standardized tests. That is to say, the higher the level of physical fitness, academic ability and skills, the higher the salary and status in the group.
After the rating assessment ended, Wang Shuhui carried out a new treatment division for everyone according to the assessment results. Because the entire palace has been repaired and built, two streets around the palace have been built with the garden as the center and the wall under construction as the boundary.
The houses on these two streets, next to the palace, and on the first ring street, are all brick houses with independent courtyards. The yard has separate brick toilets, well houses, and bathrooms. All the housekeepers and agricultural workers who were rated as first-class were all divided into a set of such small courtyards.
The houses on the Second Ring Road are ordinary without yards, rows of brick houses, with a toilet, a well house (water room) and a bathroom for every three families. Second-class family members, craftsmen and agricultural workers lived here.
In fact, even the houses on the Second Ring Road were 10,000 times better than the living conditions of the ordinary people in this era. The house is a hollow brick and concrete structure throughout. The use of cement has accelerated the construction of these houses, and has also made them stronger and warmer than traditional brick and wood houses. All of the houses are made of tempered transparent plastic panels with windows on the roofs, giving them a light that is beyond their time.
The small people of this era, in one sentence, are the land without a cone under their feet, and there is no tile on their heads. This is not a rhetorical statement of a writer, but a realistic portrayal of the lives of the people at the bottom of the feudal society. And the more than 300 people under Wang Shuhui are a group that is more downtrodden than the ordinary people, a group of tortured homeless.
When they were able to live in a cramped and simple warm color steel house, they were already very satisfied. When they get a real, high-end and high-grade house, it can be said that like in the game, the loyalty has soared from 80 to 100, and the loyalty is full.
Because of the highly organized life for several months, the personal treatment they suddenly enjoyed was really unacceptable to them for a while.
Wang Shuhui has always believed that only when a person can fully control his own life can he truly settle down and do things. At the same time as arranging a house for each employee, he issued supply tickets on a per capita basis. According to the specifications of two silver dollars (two taels of silver) per person per month, 20 catties of rice, 20 catties of white flour, and 5 catties of edible oil, and one silver dollar (one tael of silver), 15 catties of rice, 15 catties of white flour, and 3 catties of edible oil per person for second-level workers every month. Supply daily necessities to his subordinates.
In order to ensure the sufficiency of supply and the recovery of silver dollars, Wang Shuhui specially set up a simple supply and marketing office and bank. Supply and marketing offices are responsible for providing a wide range of daily necessities, while banks are responsible for the distribution of salaries and food stamps.
In the first month, the work of both the supply and marketing office and the bank was carried out only once, and after the hired workers took the silver dollars and the food stamps and oil stamps from the bank, they immediately received all the grain and oil from the supply and marketing office. As for the silver dollar, it is the ability of each to exhibit. Some of them are carried in their clothes and pants, and some of them go to the house to dig the ground and hide in Tibet.
However, the students in the teaching camp, because they lived with Wang Shuhui, did not honor the food and oil stamps issued to them.
The palace garden is now renewed, and Zhu Youzi's father and daughter, plus seven maternal uncles, all live in the palace garden. Wang Shuhui divided the entire palace garden into two, and the front six courtyards were the living places of Zhu Youzi's father and daughter and uncles. The back garden was re-planned and built into a fortress-like building by Wang Shuhui.
The two buildings were one after the other, and the seventh courtyard, which originally connected the two places, was completely demolished by Wang Shuhui and transformed into a square with three earths. Every day, the training of the family camp and the student camp takes place in this square.
The employees called the two buildings differently, they called the residence of Zhu Youzi's father and daughter and the palace garden, but the residence of Wang Shuhui and the students was called "Daying"