The reason why the governor of Zhejiang is so enthusiastic is because the economic development in Zhejiang is uneven.
For Zhejiang, the northern Zhejiang region is an economically wealthy area, because this area belongs to Jiangnan in a broad sense.
Although the definition of Jiangnan literally means south of the Yangtze River, not all areas south of the Yangtze River are Jiangnan. Basically, it surrounds Taihu Lake, including Chengtianfu (including Jinling City), the southeastern area of Wannan Road, and Jiangnan.
All roads include Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province.
The above-mentioned areas are all considered Jiangnan, and we are not just talking about Jiangnan Road.
The part of northern Zhejiang that belongs to the Jiangnan region naturally has a relatively good people's livelihood and economy, while the central region is also supported by Ningbo and Hangzhou, which is not bad.
But Southern Zhejiang is just average. Southern Zhejiang is a mountainous and hilly area, and it is also a place with many people and little land. It is not a land of plenty in the traditional sense.
Since the companies in Shanghai want to recruit people, then you can go to southern Zhejiang to recruit people. There are many people there. If you can recruit the local surplus labor to work, the local officials will be happy to see success. But if
You can directly set up a business locally, and local officials are extremely welcoming!
It's just that you can't force investment. Those investors are not even willing to go to northern Zhejiang, let alone southern Zhejiang. Now they would rather compete in Shanghai than go to other places where the conditions are not mature.
Invest in building factories.
However, it is still possible to recruit workers in southern Zhejiang.
When Zhejiang came forward and said it was inviting companies to directly recruit workers in southern Zhejiang, Feng Ni's worries were relieved. As long as the company could recruit workers, he didn't care whether they were from northern Zhejiang or southern Zhejiang.
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As for the extra costs that companies will pay for this, it's actually not much. On the contrary, when they go to areas with more backward economies to recruit workers, the wages given are even lower, and they can also make the local government owe a favor.
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Zhejiang took the lead in the country in recruiting workers for enterprises, but other places did not dare to fall behind. After the central government of the empire issued relevant policies, many places, especially those with relatively backward economies and large numbers of people,
There is little land, even wasteland, and there is not much area available for development, so the relevant officials are thinking about it.
Bringing the excess labor force within the jurisdiction to work in the city will not only alleviate the local population pressure, but also allow the people in the jurisdiction to have an extra way of living and earn more money.
In the end, a considerable part of the wages earned by these workers flowed back to the local area.
Because Chinese people have had a strong attachment to their hometown since ancient times. Whether they go out to serve as officials, do business, or work as ordinary people, many people will return to their hometown in the end.
What's more, migrant workers are unlikely to bring their families with them. They often go alone, with wives, children and parents behind them. If you make money in Shanghai, you still have to send it back to your family.
So there is no need to urge from above, officials in many places just do it on their own!
Especially in economically backward areas near industrial cities, officials have begun to organize large-scale labor to work in other places. Of course, the government's organization is only to take the lead, and it is impossible to engage in labor dispatch and the like.
Generally speaking, the government comes forward to contact companies and invite them to come and hire workers.
As for the government directly engaging in labor dispatch, and even trying to get a kickback from it, companies are not stupid and will not deal with the government easily. From ancient times to the present, businessmen who deal directly with the government generally have no consequences.
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Therefore, businessmen would rather hire workers themselves. If this place doesn't work, they would go to other places. Anyway, the empire is big and the population is large, so workers can be hired anywhere.
Under this situation, it can be regarded as an initial relief from the conflicts between industry and agriculture competing for population and land, as represented by the areas surrounding Shanghai and Guangzhou, where industry and agriculture are relatively developed.
However, this large-scale recruitment of workers from other places also gives companies a means to lower workers' wages.
In the past, they recruited directly in industrial zones instead of taking the initiative, which required them to compete with other companies, resulting in workers' wages gradually rising.
Excessively high wages will lead to an increase in business operating costs, thereby limiting businessmen's enthusiasm for investment and slowing down the development of industry. Now that they have taken the initiative to go out and have more choices, the salary space will naturally be reduced.
This also resulted in workers' benefits not only not improving with the development of the empire's industry and commerce, but actually declining.
This has to be said to be a great sadness!
Even though the salary of ordinary workers in Shanghai is the highest in the country, in fact the life of ordinary workers is still very difficult.
Except for technical staff and managers, hard times have nothing to do with them, but such people only account for a very small number in the entire Shanghai area.
Most people are still ordinary workers, and their salary is generally between one yuan and a half to two yuan, but they still have to use this money for food, clothing, and housing.
Today, Shanghai has basically become a pure agricultural product consumption city. Almost all agricultural products, regardless of whether they are grains, vegetables, or meat, basically require external input, and the prices are definitely higher than in other places.
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Basically, the salary of ordinary workers is just enough to support themselves. If they want to support a family, it will be more difficult.
So at first glance, this money seems to be more than the subsidies received by some ordinary soldiers in the Tang Dynasty military, but in fact, the overall treatment is far less than that of joining the army.
According to the latest subsidy plan of the Tang Dynasty military, the monthly subsidy for a private infantryman is eighty cents, which is less than one yuan.
However, this kind of subsidy is only a daily subsidy and does not include wartime subsidies. If you participate in the war, there will be wartime subsidies. If you are stationed overseas, there will also be overseas subsidies.
In addition, and more importantly, the subsidies that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty received were pure subsidies. All expenses such as food and clothing in the army were free.
If you add up the expenses for food and clothing, it will be a lot of money!
These days, eating is very expensive, not to mention eating a tube of white rice and bread every day, and eating meat every three days. Otherwise, why are all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty so strong and strong, and why are there so many poor people?
All the children in the family want to join the army.
What’s interesting is that most of the rice and meat that soldiers eat comes from their own farming and pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. Again, eating is too expensive these days, and the military’s military expenditures are also limited, so it’s impossible to say
All military expenditures were used to buy food.
Therefore, since the end of the Unification War, the military has carried out vigorous self-reliance. The troops stationed in the army grow various kinds of food and raise pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks on their own.
At the same time, in order to prevent the troops from weakening their combat effectiveness during the long period of farming and turning them into former Ming Guard soldiers, the military has implemented strict regulations on farming and training, requiring the troops to ensure the amount of training.
In addition, the settlement policy of the Tang Dynasty military was different from the guard system of the previous Ming Dynasty. The biggest feature of the guard system was the hereditary system. The sons of soldiers also had to serve as soldiers, and they served as soldiers for life. After the father died, the son succeeded, and the brother died.
Continue, and at the same time cannot break away.
As a result, ordinary soldiers were trapped in guard posts, and then evolved into serfs of hereditary officers.
However, the Tang Dynasty military currently implements a recruitment system. The service period of ordinary soldiers is only four years, so a large number of soldiers are rotated every year. What is interesting is that most soldiers are unwilling to retire after serving, and want to find ways to stay.
In the military, the only way they can stay in the military is to become a noncommissioned officer.
According to the military system of the Tang Dynasty, all non-commissioned officers were selected from soldiers. Once they became non-commissioned officers, they could extend their service period to eight years.
You still have to retire after eight years. If you don't want to retire, then you have to find a way to improve your military literacy and try to get into a martial arts school.
Every year, the martial arts academy gives certain quotas to active soldiers (soldiers and non-commissioned officers), and encourages soldiers to study and consider the martial arts academy. Of course, very few can get into it.
Currently, the martial arts school only enrolls more than 400 students each year, and in order to further cultivate higher-quality officers, the Tang Empire has already launched an officer candidate program.
This so-called officer cadet program actually trains professional officers from an early age!
Juvenile military academies are set up in various places to recruit young people between the ages of twelve and fifteen. The academic system lasts for three years. After three years of schooling, some of them will be selected and promoted to the Royal Youth Military Academy.
The restructured Royal Youth Military Academy actually bears the name of a military academy, but in fact, strictly speaking, it is a preparatory school that focuses on basic military education. In addition to all the courses of ordinary preparatory schools, its curriculum also includes
There is a lot of basic military education, and even training in foreign languages and etiquette.
After three years of study, you can apply for the Army Martial Arts Academy or the Navy Sea Academy.
Although in theory, students from each preparatory school can also apply to the two military academies mentioned above, but judging from the situation in the past two years, the proportion of students from each preparatory school has become smaller and smaller, and most of them can be admitted to these two military academies.
Students from the two formal military academies are still students from youth military academies.
The military is even considering that in the future, it will not recruit students from ordinary preparatory schools and normal schools, but directly from the youth military academies, and the youth military academies will only recruit students from infant military academies in various places.
This can ensure that every officer has received the most formal nine-year military education. At the same time, training them from an early age can better cultivate their loyalty to the empire.
After all, brainwashing is most effective if it is started from an early age. Waiting until they are around 20 years old to brainwash them again will have a hard time predicting the effect.