Li Xuan also directly issued an order for this purpose, requiring state-owned and imperial-owned enterprises to maintain market stability and employment stability.
In other words, female workers, child workers, etc. are not allowed to be fired on a large scale without any reason, and large-scale price increases in a short period of time are not allowed!
Everything is about stability.
As for doing so, it will lead to lower profits.
Then lower it. Whether state-owned enterprises or imperial-owned enterprises make money or not is not important.
Anyway, these are labor-intensive industries, and competition is fierce now, so even if you make money, you won't be able to make much money.
In the oil industry, which was just a few years old, the profits handed over by major oil companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises exceeded three times that of textile companies.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter if you don’t make money, just stay steady.
As long as the enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the royal family assets enterprises are stable, it means that more than 30% of the textile enterprises are stable.
If those textile companies with private capital insist on raising prices regardless of life and death, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the textile companies affiliated with the royal family will let them know how cruel market competition is!
They can pat their chests and guarantee that as soon as the textile companies with private capital raise their prices, they will be able to steal all the textile industry market later.
Switching to male workers doesn't work, nor does raising prices, so what should we do?
Direct bankruptcy?
This is naturally impossible. Although labor costs have increased, resulting in lower profits, we are still making money. It’s just that we could make a hundred before, but now we can only make eighty.
They would not throw away the remaining 80 just for the 20 they had already lost.
Businessmen are not so motivated. Making money is their focus.
So they complained and refused to give up. In the end, they had no choice but to accept the two major welfare policies.
As for not implementing the policy of direct resistance, they don't have the guts to do so.
Although the management of enterprises in the Ministry of Commerce and other institutions of the Tang Empire was a little looser, they still had a tax department!
Their tax department doesn't mind how you do business, but if you don't follow the two major welfare policies, then you can only do it secretly. For example, you have to falsify the account books, and the bank statements also have to falsify.
But your fraud means you have a lot of illegal income, and since it is illegal income, few people have the courage to pay taxes openly. If you don't pay taxes, the tax department will come to you.
Don't expect to be able to hide illegal income from the eyes and ears of the tax department.
If you pay taxes honestly, industry and commerce will come to you.
After all, even if management is lax, the industrial and commercial departments in various places will not fail to see such a big loophole.
Because the tax department is too powerful, it is actually very difficult for formal corporate institutions in the current Tang Empire to commit fraud.
On the other hand, some small businesses and small workshops that implement large-scale cash transactions have become the hardest hit areas for tax evasion. However, although the tax department is awesome, it is not awesome enough to monitor people's cash transactions at any time. At most, they can only monitor.
It's just a bank account. It's usually a public account for monitoring corporate institutions, or a private large-value account for gentry and businessmen.
Ordinary private accounts are generally ignored. After all, ordinary people don't have much money, and they can't collect much in taxes. Tax officials also have to pay salaries, and tax work also has costs.
In other words, the tax department monitors the accounts or tax issues of these ordinary people on a large scale, and the tax collected is not enough, so the administrative expenses of the tax personnel are outweighed by the gain.
But if you are a gentleman or businessman, well-known, most of your financial status will be monitored by the tax department.
As for enterprises, don't even count on them. Every one of them is a key monitoring target of the tax department.
But ordinary people don't have to worry about this.
Because of the telegraph, the two major welfare policies spread throughout the country in just a few days, and then major provincial highways began to formulate their own minimum wage guidance plans based on Jinling.
Then each state government formulates detailed plans for each state based on the provincial guidance plan.
Songjiang Prefecture quickly completed a minimum wage plan, according to which the minimum wage was three yuan and two cents per month.
The minimum wage in Songjiang Mansion should be relatively high in the entire empire. Even in Chengtian Mansion, the minimum wage is only three yuan.
Other state capitals are also completing detailed plans one after another. In some economically backward areas, the minimum wage is much lower, generally only about two yuan.
But even this is pretty good.
Before this standard was established, although the average salary of male workers in the manufacturing industry in Songjiang Prefecture had reached between four and five yuan, the proportion of male workers was not as high as expected. Overall, they only accounted for one hundred
A ratio of about 50/50.
Who are the rest?
They are all female workers and child workers, and their income is far less than that of adult male workers.
Female textile factory workers in Songjiang Prefecture generally earn only about two yuan and a half per month. If there were fewer child workers, the wages of early child workers were very low. They could not even get one yuan a month. Even if all this money was used to buy
Food can barely keep them from starving to death. If we look at it according to the minimum wage standard, then the monthly income can be increased by almost one yuan.
This is also an important reason why hundreds of thousands or even millions of people from the empire immigrate overseas or to border areas every year.
They cannot obtain enough land for farming in their hometowns, and it is difficult to support their families when working in the city. They have to let their wives and children work in factories.
In the contemporary Tang Empire, the living conditions of workers are actually more miserable than those of farmers.
Without farmland, working and unable to support their family, they still have no other choice but to immigrate!
Fortunately, the Tang Empire had enough overseas territories. Even if you were unwilling to go to overseas territories, there were also enough border provinces in the country. As long as you were willing to stay away from home and settle in a strange place, you basically didn't have to worry about not being able to survive.
It's just that there are too many people in the Tang Dynasty, and because of the prosperity and peace, the fertility rate is also very high. Even though people continue to immigrate every year, the local population is also rising year by year. The Ministry of Household Affairs estimates that the local population will be able to grow in a few years.
It has exceeded 300 million people.
Therefore, there is still no shortage of people in local factories, so business owners are unwilling to give high wages.
As various localities formulated detailed minimum wage standards in October and November.
In November, the Tang Dynasty Daily once again informed the whole country that starting from December 1st, all state-owned enterprises and imperial-owned enterprises will take the lead in fully implementing the two major welfare policies to set an example for the world.
State-owned and imperial-owned enterprises accounted for about 20% of the empire's total economic output in industry and commerce.
With these two major business groups taking the lead, it means that at least 20% of the industrial and commercial sectors have taken the lead in implementing these two major welfare policies.
Next, private enterprises must follow up whether they are willing or not!