1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 48 Candidates

The pilot program of the People's Commune proposed by Yuan Ruoxiu coincides with a project currently being prepared by the Executive Committee.

After the North American Gang completed the exploration mission in the abandoned salt field, the pirates attacked before the Executive Committee could discuss their report.Now that the pirates have basically been dealt with and the situation has stabilized, the Yantian project has been brought back to the agenda.

There is not much technical threshold for reclaiming this waste salt field area. Even if there is no Chuanzhong who has actually worked in the salt field, there are detailed plans for reference in the large database of the Ministry of Information Industry, covering from design and construction to production and operation. All aspects of salt pan production.Although limited by the conditions of this era, the salt fields of Chuanzhong may not be able to reach the sea salt production level of later generations, but it is not too difficult to control the cost and make the salt production rate and quality surpass the salt fields of the same era.In the opinion of the Executive Committee, as long as the production of sea salt increases, the foreign trade route through Zhongzhong has a basic guarantee.

At present, there are two main problems plaguing the Executive Committee on this project, one is the defense system of the saltworks, and the other is the management system of the saltworks.In terms of defense, it is good to say that according to the recommendation of the Military and Police Department, the saltworks workers’ settlements can be located far from the coast and inland backed by mountains. Once there is an enemy attacking at sea, the Yulinjiao post can be used to warn the saltworks workers to enter in advance. Mountain hedging.However, the problem of the management system is not so easy to solve. It is not so easy to organize a group of local people to settle in the salt field, and to organize production and bring them under the unified civil administration of Chuanzhong. .

But Yuan Ruoxiu's proposal for the people's commune undoubtedly lit a beacon for the executive committee. This organizational form, which can combine production, life, and government management, is quite suitable for Chuanzhong's planning of reclamation in the current period.

After discussion, the executive committee finally decided to set up two pilot communes, one is the Yanchang commune opposite Yulinjiao, and the other is the agricultural reclamation commune located on the east bank of Tiandu River.The commune members mainly come from some nearby fishermen who used to rely on the sea for a living, farmers without land, and some Li people who want to get out of the mountains.

The commune will uniformly distribute agricultural tools, cattle, seeds and other means of production, and relevant departments will formulate a unified production plan and lead the implementation.The administrative organ of the commune is the management committee composed of the people across the country. This management committee will be directly responsible to the executive committee. The specific personnel are the technical guidance department responsible for organizing production, the civil affairs department responsible for social affairs management, and the public security and defense department. The Military and Police Department jointly served.

In the commune, the "labor hierarchy" proposed by Ren Liang will be put into trial operation first, and all local residents who join the commune will begin to implement identity registration and labor statistics. The "Labor Hierarchy System" will be implemented in the commune for a period of time, and the vacancies will be checked and filled, and the improved system will be gradually introduced into other projects under construction.This also prevents all the projects from being rushed and overwhelmed by the HR department.

The next topic is about the trip to Yazhou, which is also one of the most discussed topics in the crowd.Regarding the plan proposed by Luo Shengdong, the Executive Committee also announced it on the forum, and opened the registration channel. Anyone who wants to participate in this trip to Yazhou can register, but they must show that they are participating in this action. motives and purposes.In addition, the executive committee also specifically explained the danger of this trip, and warned those who want to take this operation as a short trip, it is best to give up the idea as soon as possible.

Of course, even if you sign up, you still have to pass the strict screening of the Executive Committee.Because the public personnel will still occupy the majority in this trip, there will be no more than five places reserved for self-registered participants.

Taking into account security issues, the main body of this team will still be the elite personnel of the Military and Police Department. Except for Dr. Johnson who stayed behind, the other five members of the North American Gang will participate in this operation.The reason why the executive committee left Johnson was mainly to consider that a professional doctor must also be left in the base camp just in case. In addition, among the six members of the North American Gang, only Johnson was a family member, and it was also for the purpose of minimizing his expatriate errands. Human considerations.Along with them are five other members of the military and police department, and Yan Chujie will travel as the top decision-maker of the team.In addition to the security guards along the way, they will also complete the investigation of the geography, hydrology, and people's conditions along the way during this errand.If there is enough time, and on the premise of ensuring safety, they will also conduct military reconnaissance on Yazhou Water Village and Yazhou City to collect intelligence data for possible future armed occupation.

Each of the three major departments of industry, agriculture and construction will send one person. If there is an opportunity to trade with local merchants in Yazhou, they will be responsible for purchasing various raw materials required by their respective departments.The head of the Ministry of Finance, Schneider, personally went out. According to him, he planned to personally inspect "the professional quality of businessmen in this time and space and the level of consumption power of ordinary people."

At the same time, Schneider also plays the role of cashier and accountant, and is responsible for coordinating the expenses that may be incurred for this trip.Before crossing, the Executive Committee spent huge sums of money to reserve a whole ton of silver and a small amount of gold. Calculated according to the weights and measures of this period, this ton of silver was about 7000 taels.For ease of use, the executive committee also made part of the silver into silver ingots and broken silver in advance.

For this trip, the executive committee specially approved 3000 taels of silver for the action team as action funds. In the eyes of economic expert Schneider, this amount is simply unrealistic.At this time, silver taels still had a relatively strong purchasing power. One tael of silver could buy two stones of rice. The value of nearly [-] kilograms of rice was seven or eight times higher than that of the Ming Dynasty when exchanged for later generations.Schneider joked before traveling that, anyway, wormholes only have a time limit but not a limit on the number of times they can be used. As long as you keep using wormholes to dump rice and silver back and forth between two time-spaces, you can make money faster than cheating short-term loans with foreign trade orders. .It’s not that the Executive Committee has not been tempted by this proposal, but considering that frequent bulk grain trading will definitely attract the attention of relevant departments, it still did not adopt this method of making quick money in the end.

At this time, the legal salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was not high. Take Yazhou as an example. Knowing that there is only a monthly salary of eight stones.In the military officer system, if Luo Shengdong was lucky enough to be promoted to general manager, his military salary for a year would be less than 50 taels of silver, which was the amount he could get if his superiors had no corruption or arrears.In such a remote place as Yazhou, the socio-economic level is limited, and 3000 taels of silver on the market is simply an astronomical figure. Whether it is used for trading or bribing Luo Shengdong's boss, this amount is far beyond what is needed.To put it bluntly, if Luo Shengdong knew that this team had brought 3000 taels of silver, he might turn his back on Yazhou and bring soldiers to grab the silver.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were so low that they were considered extreme in all dynasties. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that when Hai Rui was the county magistrate in Chun'an, Zhejiang, he bought two kilograms of meat for his mother's birthday, which was rumored by Zhejiang officials. From this, we can also see the distressed life of the grass-roots officials at that time.When Zhang Juzheng built a house in his hometown, Ming Shenzong gave a thousand taels of silver, but people at the time said that "the number is too many", and the emperor's reward to the court officials was at this level.Ming Taizu set an ultra-low level of official treatment, so it is no wonder that although he came up with a ruthless trick of "skinning and real grass" to prevent officials from embezzling ink, he was still unable to prevent the gradual corruption of the entire bureaucratic system.

The Ministry of Information Industry also has a quota for public assignment. Meng He originally planned to let Liu Zhuo go, but this quota was finally taken away by female reporter Luo Wudan.After Luo Wudan served as a war correspondent last time, he seemed to have a tendency to become more and more courageous.During this operation, she will be responsible for the whole process of video recording and collection, and will issue a series of press releases after returning to report the operation in detail.

In addition, the executive committee selected five people from the registered transmigrators to participate in this operation as special observers.In the current circumstance that Transcendence's own political system is not perfect, this can actually be regarded as a disguised form of supervision.Five special observers will closely monitor the public officials of various departments for negligence or other acts that violate the interests of the public during this operation, and will submit an independent report to the Executive Committee upon their return.

Finally, there are a few places reserved for local Ming people, which are mainly to facilitate the communication and information collection between Chuanzhong and the local people in Yazhou.The father and son of the Yu family, who have become veteran leading parties, were re-elected honorably because they had visited Yazhou City many times. Besides them, the executive committee specially named the future owner of Fujiadong in order to show their strength and win over the relationship. Rune force.

These days, Fu Li has been living in the temporary settlement of the Li people outside the No. [-] base. Every day, he goes to work with other Li people at the hydropower station construction site during the day, and at night, he goes to Zhou Hengxing's language class to practice Chinese.Recently, he has been transferred to Ning Qi's class, and together with other Li people who are proficient in Chinese, he has begun to receive a simplified primary education specially conducted by Chuanzhong - mainly basic mathematics, so that Li people can accept Chuanzhong as soon as possible. The "Labor Hierarchy" that will be introduced next.At the same time, Ning Qi will convene children of Ming and Li people after class to carry out targeted cultural indoctrination, such as letting them watch some well-prepared promotional videos.

All the children were stunned when a city with high-rise buildings, a highway woven with vehicles, and a huge ocean-going ship appeared on the projection screen.Fu Li also asked Ning Qi after class whether the incredible pictures he saw were images of fairyland.

Ning Qi's answer is still deeply remembered in Fu Li's heart decades later: "This is not a fairyland, this is the new world that the executive committee will lead you to build."

(End of this chapter)