Zhu Youxiao also saw the actual process of making armor by the craftsmen, who worked hard and even suffered injuries. The hands stringing the armor pieces were covered with calluses and small wounds. Painting and waxing the armor made the craftsmen cough.<
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These are all skilled craftsmen, and they are all treasures of the Ming Dynasty, but they only have fifteen taels of silver a year, and they are deducted to ten taels.
After a round of inspection, it was time for the craftsmen to take a break in the evening.
Zhu Youxiao prepared a short speech.
The craftsmen had long been tired of listening to the officials drawing big cakes. Emperor Tianqi came in person and wanted to speak, so they cheered up.
He cleared his throat and got straight to the point without any further nonsense: "I'm here to ask for your wages. Those corrupt officials intercepted project funds, sold cheap and low-quality materials, and deducted wages from everyone. I want this money from everyone."
Back."
"Ah!? Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The craftsmen had no idea that the emperor would get back the wages that had been withheld from them. They originally thought that after the house was confiscated, they would reward the meritorious officials with military pay, and the rest would be used by the royal family.
Unexpectedly, the emperor directly reimbursed them for the money that had been withheld.
"I not only replenish the money you deserve, but also pay interest. Don't some debts and loans now have interest? Corrupt officials and their families go to work in labor reform, and part of the money they earn will be paid back to you with interest." The craftsmen in the armor factory are only a large part of the many workers, but they have not been able to dominate the outcome of the war on the back line, which directly affects Xiao Ming's national destiny.
Zhu Youxiao did this just to win over the craftsmen.
Maybe we are still far from becoming the working class, but we are not workers who create small quantities of products, possess certain skills, and have certain organizational conditions.
Maybe I traveled to Chongzhen because I wanted to be the emperor, but I packed up and went back to Huaisi to fight guerrillas.
In our eyes, it is indeed the working officials who have embezzled their money, so they can only buy defective raw materials and produce armor of poor quality.
Speaking of social status, scholars, peasants, industry, merchants and craftsmen are ranked eighth, but merchants and landlords are separate families, and 40% of scholars are from landlords or merchants.
Originally, they were scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, but now they are scholars, merchants, farmers, and workers. They were originally ranked eighth, but now they are ranked first from the bottom.
There must be no workers and farmers.
Those craftsmen were all grateful to Emperor Tianqi and were willing to use all their skills to repay him.
But those supporting forces are still enough, enough for China to seize the opportunity to upgrade its industry and complete its rise.
Your Majesty asked for it for this young man, you are a true holy king!
Support alone is not enough, workers were also important participants in the pre-Qin revival.
The next step is for workers to improve their technology and culture, and for intellectuals to integrate with the field of production, so that social relations and class power will change.
Emperor Tianqi remembered Xiaojia. If Xiaojia does bad things in the future, he will make no money and have no future.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao arrived there, he saw Xu Guangqi, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, personally supervising the production of small cannons with copper bodies and iron cores.
The craftsmen registered one by one, and Tianqi asked Liu Qiao to lead someone to bring in the money.
Wang Gongchang knew it completely at this time.
This is unheard of.
Yes!
Liu Qiao led Zhu Chunchen and Zhou Jiamo to ransack the house for so long. In fact, they had already been arrested and the property was under control. What is left now is not to check the accounts and personnel.
For example, the pursuit of stolen goods under the imperial court is a pursuit of stolen goods. It has no impact on the craftsmen in particular, and the money is also in our hands.
If we want to spark the revival of hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin Dynasty and drive technological inventions and the advancement and birth of scientific ideas, we must start from classics and history. Production and technology are the material basis for the advancement of ideas.
The late Ming Dynasty was the best of times, but it was also the worst of times.
What kind of trust is that.
The sky is clear! The sky has eyes!
Ordinarily, if the quality of the armor produced in the future was so poor, the emperor would have no reason to track down the people and severely punish the craftsmen involved.
Everything that was lost was distributed in their own names. The eight members of the Ministry of Industry, Jinyiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervised each other and compensated the money to the hands of the craftsmen.
In addition to hiding the dirty money for consumption, to whom is it managed? Who is it subcontracted to?
In the past, only landlords and merchants lent money to peasants and hired workers, earning double the interest. This time, corrupt officials wanted to compensate the craftsmen for the interest.
Tong Ruoshi also attacked the civil servants and conducted examinations to select talents to push back the reform, gathering the support of some enlightened landlords and scribes.
The group went to Wang Gong Factory again.
But I didn't. Instead, I severely punished corrupt officials, compensated them for their wages, and said that workers are the most glorious.
Zhu Youxiao came to send it in person, and every craftsman knew that it was from His Majesty.
The inspection of the armor factory is confidential, so when I got there, I asked the Jin Yiwei to block the news.
In the pre-Qin period, the social status of workers was lower than that of the lowest craftsmen today. The Gongshu family and the Mohist family were both important for a while, with craftsmen and technical intellectuals as important components respectively.
Let’s talk about wages and food and accommodation first. Some craftsmen only received a lot of money. Without skills, they could only barely eat. Moreover, they basically ate millet, noodles and steamed buns, mixed with some pickles, and could eat crispy biscuits once every seven days.
You can eat meat and vegetables once every ten days, and you can eat fresh green leafy vegetables once a month.
The emergence of a small number of migrant workers has become a force that can be ignored outside small cities.
But since I am Tianqi, I have dealt with threats outside the capital after ascending the throne.
Moreover, the investigation also affects our work, and some of them are calculated on a piece-by-piece basis, so that we can earn more income.
There are no traitors like Zheng Yangxing, and there are no officials at all levels of the Ministry of Industry. It is easy to compensate a thousand craftsmen for the money they owe.
We carefully investigated the situation of employed workers in the Ministry of Industry, the Ordnance Bureau, the capital and surrounding areas, and found that the employed workers were very miserable.
Changes in social relations and class forces, from resources to talents, from land to land, but to the proportion of inputs in production, paid less and less attention to production. At that stage, Xiao Ming and even China had the conditions for the resurgence of ideas and the initial germination of science. "The first thing I want to say to you today is that workers are the most glorious!"
There are still very few workers.
Now that the buildings around the capital have not been inspected for damage, it is time to compensate the employees.
Of course, we need to find out which craftsmen have been expropriated and which farmers have had their land occupied.
Of course the craftsmen cheered and applauded.
In addition to rewards, there is no compensation.
The old craftsmen had no skills, and the new migrant workers had no numbers and influence. Although they came from the same source, they actually came together during the Wanli period.
We have all become supporters of the next governance and reform.
That’s what’s bad at the front: workers will be compensated for their wages, farmers will be given land, and a new social base of workers and peasants will be organized.
Our sincere praise was ignored by Zhu Youxiao, who knew that the Luban Competition, the selection of labor leaders, and the opening of night schools would all receive our support.
Zhu Youxiao decided to recover the stolen money and compensate the craftsmen for the larger amount. In addition, some skilled craftsmen would be compensated for technical fees, and special craftsmen would not be compensated for missed work fees.
Nothing is beautiful in itself but easy to do, but sitting outside the palace and issuing decrees may not be possible.