Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 667: Three views are hard to change
After the hope was dashed again, the situation was extremely embarrassing, and the atmosphere here suddenly cooled down. Even if the Han Dynasty was destroyed, their nephews would not be allowed to take the imperial examination, so for several years or even before Lei Gong died, their family would not be able to appear in the officialdom of Daqian. A well-connected family has no one in the officialdom. What kind of a powerful family is it? They don’t even have land in the local area. It can be said that their family is not even powerful. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that they are ordinary people!
Many people couldn't bear such a blow and left one after another. After a while, the lively scene disappeared, leaving only a few old people staying here.
At this time, Ding Gong walked up to Liu He and said: "Cao Cao from Crab Island heard that our Dagan area is extremely short of labor and is willing to provide a group of strong laborers to work here in our Dagan area. He just doesn't know if the ruler is willing to do so, so he commissioned Let me ask! And you are the only one among us who is in the officialdom. Do you think the government will agree to this matter?"
Liu Hedao: "If there is really a labor force, even if the barbarians are in power, it is very likely that they will agree. In the past few years, the fields of ordinary people have been expanded, and many families in the countryside are already too busy. The previous cooperative groups have become popular again, and now In rural areas, more than a dozen families join together to build a small farm to save labor.
At the same time, factories are also expanding. Now there are more than 5,000 factories with more than 100 people. Every year, many people come from the countryside to work in the city, but even so, there are still too few workers, whether in the countryside, in the fields, or in the city. Factories are extremely short of labor. Every year during the summer and autumn harvests, rural areas have to steal labor from factories, causing factories to shut down for a month or two, causing huge losses.
If tens of thousands of people can really be brought here, it will be extremely beneficial to the development of Daqian. However, it only took Cao Cao a few years to develop Crab Island. Logically speaking, he should be extremely short of labor there, so how can he still provide labor? Come to our place!"
Ding Gong said helplessly: "What's so good about Crab Island? Are they going to build some elevated channels or waterwheels there?"
"Even if Cao Cao wanted to build it, Crab Island did not have such high-level craftsmen, and it was impossible to build water wheels and elevated aqueducts. Now Crab Island is still in a state of slash-and-burn farming. Farming means setting fire to burn the weeds, and then letting these savages use sticks Just poke a hole and put a few seeds in, and you won't be able to harvest even half a stone of grain from an acre of land."
"But for these savages, it's already a lot. They didn't farm at all at first, but now they can earn half a stone of food. In addition, the population on the island is not large, so they can just set fire to millions of acres of land. , they can get millions of stones of grain, and also get some fishing boats to fish, and the grain purchased from our Dagan is enough to feed them.
"There is no need to build a city. Now Cao Cao, like us, does not need a city wall to build a city. If this happens, there will be vacancies in the labor force of their Crab Island. They will not be able to produce much benefit by staying on Crab Island, and they don't know. Who suggested to Cao Cao that he want some laborers to come to our Daqian to work and make money? After all, the wages here in our Daqian are higher, and the monthly income is enough to buy several dan of food."
Zhao Qi, who had not left yet, said with a smile: "Cao Ah Man is really quite capable. He even found such a way to develop. Yes, it is indeed more cost-effective for savages to work in Daqian than to leave Crab Island to farm. And now Daqian The price of food is also extremely low, it is enough for him to buy food from Daqian!"
Of course, food is the foundation of a country, but it doesn't matter to Crab Island. If Daqian really wants to deal with Cao Cao, he can't use food. It would be better to directly use warships!
Xu Shao also smiled and said: "Cao Cao still has some talents. Maybe Crab Island can really achieve something!"
Cao Cao obviously wanted to develop the tertiary industry and use the tertiary industry to feed back the primary industry. Xu Shao found that this idea was really suitable for the current weak Cao Cao.
It was Guo Jia's suggestion to work for Daqian. He found that if he developed step by step, it would take decades to develop a Crab Island. However, considering the quality of Crab Island's labor force, he did not dare to think that Crab Island's development speed could catch up with Daqian. , thinking of the desperate situation when they were in Qingzhou, the more they chased but the gap between them and Daqi became bigger, he understood that there was no way out to develop Crab Island step by step.
When his old friend Xi Zhong wrote to him, he kept complaining about the lack of population in Yuyang County. He, a prefect with a salary of 2,000 dan, sometimes had to compete with other prefects for population.
This made Guo Jia discover the urgent lack of labor in Daqian. Of course, their Crab Island also lacked labor. After all, it was a wild place. They had to build everything by themselves, but compared to the lack of labor, they lacked even more. Food, cloth, machinery, funds, okay! They simply lack everything. On the contrary, the population is relatively better. After all, they have to wait for enough bricks to build a city. They can't build a city without tools. The land can also be cultivated through slash-and-burn farming, which does not require much labor.
When these savages were wandering around in the wilderness, Guo Jia was wondering if he could send them to Daqian to work. In Daqian, a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan was not high, but they could buy seven or eight shi of food a year. If you work hard, you can earn hundreds of shi of food.
However, to grow so much food on Crab Island requires dozens of people to work on thousands of acres of land for a year. By comparison, Guo Jia found that going to Daqian to work could generate more income than leaving them to farm on Crab Island. Out more than ten times!
So Guo Jia discussed his ideas with Cao Cao and others. Everyone also felt that such a labor market was extremely profitable, and it might be an accelerator for their development. As long as they had money, they could buy cattle, and their respective advanced Farm tools, this is no faster than letting these savages farm and develop!
After the discussion, Cao Cao wrote a letter to his father-in-law, asking him to inquire. Even if Ding Gong had a bad relationship with Cao Cao, he would not hinder Cao Cao in such a matter. After all, his daughter was still there. Cao Cao is the princess, and all his family members are on Crab Island!
Liu He reported this matter the next day. If this matter really comes to pass, their Foreign Affairs Department will have something to do!
In this way, the news was passed to Xu Wei in the steam engine laboratory!
At this time, Xu Wei was busy instructing craftsmen to create more efficient steam machine tools to improve the efficiency of steam engine production!
At the same time, we are trying to find ways to expand the use of steam engines in other industries to improve the productivity of the entire Daqian.
People in this era were still trying to figure out how to use steam engines. The most popular machines were steam textile looms, water pumps and trains. The creation of these three machines has already made Daqian's productivity skyrocket. Just the steam water pump The grain output of Daqian has been increased by more than 20%, and there is still potential for further improvement. In many places, water canals that need to be constructed at great cost can now be built with a water steamer and pump and a few sections of moso bamboo.
Xu Wei knows that the steam engine can promote productivity in all aspects. This is far from its potential. It can also do many things. For example, the steam engine can be mounted on an ocean-going freighter to increase the transport capacity of the freighter, and it can be improved by putting it on a grinding machine. The efficiency of cement plants has reduced the price of cement, so that cement roads are no longer limited to cities.
It can be said that as long as a powered machine is used, its production efficiency can be greatly improved. For these machines to appear, craftsmen need to continue to explore, but now Xu Wei directly pointed out the answer.
Of course, it is not enough to develop new machines. We must also find ways to increase the output of steam engines. Since the steam engine appeared in Daqian, it has become the darling of Daqian with its extremely high working efficiency, and orders are pouring in from all directions. , the production orders in the steam engine factory are scheduled to be a year later even if they are produced at the efficiency of three shifts.
Even the number of technicians is a bit insufficient. After all, the steam engine is the crown of industry in this era. It cannot be manufactured by just any worker. The steam engine factory in Daqian has the highest academic qualifications among the entire Daqian factory. Even ordinary workers are Only after graduating from high school can you become a worker.
At the same time, steam engines have also given rise to a new industry, that is, mechanical maintenance workers. After all, new steam engines are extremely prone to accidents, so maintenance workers are needed to repair them. The academic requirements are higher, and they must have a high school degree or above, and they must also study. Only with mechanical knowledge related to steam engines can you repair steam engines.
It can be said that the new steam engine industry is an industry that requires high education, high technology, and high requirements. This industry continues to expand, quickly swallowing up the industrial talents that Xu Wei has cultivated in the past ten years. Now, not only is there a shortage of steam engines everywhere, but there is also a shortage of people who know how to maintain them. Steam engine talent.
Faced with this situation, Xu Weidu had to open a technical school about steam engines, hoping to quickly train a group of technicians and maintenance personnel!
At lunch time, Xu Wei followed the technicians to the laboratory canteen for dinner! At this time, a young technician Wang Peng said to Xu Wei: "I want to participate in this imperial examination. What do you think?"
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Xu Wei asked: "Why do you have such an idea? You already have a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan, and you are one of the highest-paid people in Daqian. Why do you still want to take part in the imperial examination? You must know that becoming an official with 400 shi, The monthly salary is only a little over 1,000 yuan!"
Although the salaries of low-level officials have been rising over the years, no matter how much the salary increases, it is impossible to raise these people's salaries to such a high level. It can be said that even Xu Wei, who has been in power for one month, has a salary slightly higher than him. The technicians in the steam engine laboratory are all gold-collared!
"And your skills are so good that you have become a senior technician at a young age. If you polish your skills, you may become a master technician in the future. If you invent and create again, the income of big businessmen will not be as good as yours! Still! Being able to realize one's own personal value is no better than becoming a petty bureaucrat!"
Wang Peng said: "This is my parents' request. They feel that being a craftsman is not as good as being an official. The money our family has earned over the years has been enough to support the whole family. Now they want me to be an official to honor our ancestors!"
When Xu Wei heard this, he felt helpless. He couldn't change this concept alone. He had done a good enough job. At least few people in Daqian now felt that it was embarrassing to be a factory, but everyone I still think that the first-class career is to become an official. This reality has not changed even after thousands of years!
After thinking about it, Xu Wei said: "It's up to you whether you want to be an official or not, but I think that a person is extremely lucky if he can do what he is interested in, and this career can also support him. Think about it carefully, do you really want to be an official?"
Being able to become a senior technician at a young age, Wang Peng naturally likes machinery, otherwise he would not have such an achievement, so he thought about it and said: "I still like the work here, but I still have to take the exam. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to my parents. There are so many people taking the imperial examination now, and I may not be able to pass it!"
After much deliberation, Wang Peng gave up the idea of becoming a petty bureaucrat. He was very satisfied with his current life. Not only did he have a high income, but he could also do what he liked. As an official, he no longer had to think about the high returns. He had to leave Jidu and go to the countryside somewhere to become a small tax collector. The mechanical skills he had learned would be wasted in the countryside.
Then he sighed: "If technicians like us also have an official position, then I can explain it to my parents!"
Xu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "If there are really too many high-profit officials like you, our imperial court will go bankrupt!"
There are almost thousands of senior technicians in Daqian. The salary of these people alone costs 1.2 billion a year. This is not a small amount of money.
However, Xu Wei is also thinking about whether to give these senior technicians an honorary title to meet the needs of people of this era. In Xu Wei's view, 100 low-level bureaucrats are not as good as one senior technician, and he does not want to work hard for himself. The trained technicians have become petty bureaucrats, and today's big cadres cannot afford such waste.
Mechanical production is a technical job, and it takes several years just to eliminate the stress in the machine. The five major types of work, such as turning, milling, planing, grinding, and pliers, basically require some skilled workers. Not just anyone can do it. Such skills Technical workers cannot be trained in two or three years.
Starting from Mayi, Xu Wei spent more than ten years continuously training workers, and the cost was extremely high. Only then did he have the professional technicians he has now. The total number of senior technicians like Wang Peng is only a thousand, which is more than the entire Daqian. The number of county magistrates is more than doubled, and each of them is a treasure to Xu Wei.