I want to be emperor

When Sun Xu and his wife arrived at Sun Yang's home in Jinling City, they learned the bad news. Sun Yang's wife, Sun An, had died last night after treatment failed.

Although the Sun Xu couple had expected this through the previous telegram, they still couldn't help but lament when they heard the bad news.

Since such a big event has happened, Sun Xu and his wife will naturally stay in Jinling City for a while to help with Sun An's funeral affairs.

While Sun Xu and his wife were in Jinling City, Jiao Tiancheng, as a private driver, also had a rare vacation. Before leaving, Sun Xu gave the private driver a few days of vacation. As for the children at home studying and traveling, there is also a family at home. The carriage.

On weekdays, Sun Xu mostly rides in this car, and his family members talk less. At least Sun Mengshi doesn't like riding in cars... She feels that cars are uncomfortable to sit in, and they feel unsafe if they go too fast. It is safer and more comfortable to ride in a horse-drawn carriage.

In fact, this is not the feeling of Sun Mengshi alone. These days, many people still have certain doubts about cars and would rather continue to ride horse-drawn carriages than use cars.

This is also related to the fact that contemporary cars are indeed lacking in technology...the comfort and safety of cars these days are actually not very good...far from being comparable to the mature cars of later generations.

Of course... in fact, the carriage is not very safe.

After all, the power of the carriage is horses, and horses are living animals. Even after rigorous training, they will still run wildly when frightened or under other special circumstances.

In Songjiang City, a lot of people are killed and injured every year due to horse-drawn carriage accidents... Proportionally speaking, the proportion of casualties in horse-drawn carriage accidents is much greater than the proportion of casualties caused by automobile traffic accidents in later generations.

Therefore, don’t think that a carriage running slowly means it is safe...

These days, cars and horse-drawn carriages are not very safe... It’s just that people’s access to information is limited, and empire officials won’t release these scary data for nothing, so most people don’t know about it.

Jiao Tiancheng is on vacation here, and he also took advantage of this rare time to visit some famous attractions in Songjiang City... Speaking of which, he has been working in Songjiang City for four or five years, but he has not really had a good time in Songjiang City. However, he has never been to many scenic spots.

After all, he was just an ordinary worker on the production line before, so how could he have time and energy to go out for fun? There weren't many holidays throughout the year, and now that there were holidays, he was more inclined to take a good rest for a day or two.

That is to say, after I learned how to drive and was hired as Sun Mansion's personal driver, my job became leisurely.

In daily life, his main job is to pick up and drop off Sun Xu when he goes out, and do some simple maintenance and inspections on the vehicle in his free time. Occasionally, if something needs to be done at home, the housekeeper will ask him to help. A favor.

But most of the time, he is actually quite free. In his free time, for example, after sending Sun Xu to the company, he has nothing to do. At this time, he just reads and studies in his lounge.

He wasn't reading those novels, but some knowledge about automobile repair and maintenance.

He couldn't be a driver for the rest of his life. He also wanted a better future... so he thought he would continue to study hard and see if he could open a car repair shop when he had the opportunity in the future.

You can’t say for sure what will happen in the future, but it’s always right to learn these car repair knowledge first.

He is not busy at ordinary times, and he still has time to study, so during the holidays, he does not need to lie down and sleep, but goes out for a walk and shopping.

After two days of shopping, he went to visit friends one after another... In the past few years in Songjiang, he had made a few friends, especially in his last job at a car factory, which allowed him to meet two people he could talk to. They are good friends, not close friends, but it is still okay to go out for a meal or drink and brag about them.

He has nothing to do, so he can look for them to eat and brag... Otherwise, in the huge Songjiang City, he would have nowhere to go and no one to look for him...

I came to Songjiang City, a prosperous big city, from my hometown in the southwest alone. To be honest, I felt lonely most of the time. If I didn't even have a few ordinary friends, then life would be even more difficult.

The friend I approached first was a fellow from southwest China. After the last small automobile factory closed down, this person did not change his career. Instead, he went to work in a large automobile factory. This factory is quite famous, it is Songhe Automobile. The company's factories.

This Songhe Automobile Company is actually a brand new automobile brand established after Hekou Machinery Company moved to Songjiang City, and launched the 'Songhe' brand car to the market.

Nowadays, the automobile industry has begun to adopt branding, instead of the previous situation where all automobile products are under the banner of one company.

Tangshan Automobile Company separated the agricultural machinery business, luxury car business, ordinary car business and truck business, and established subsidiaries for operation.

The same goes for Hekou Machinery Company, which has established multiple automobile subsidiaries to operate different automobile brands.

Of course, this is just a distinction in operations and marketing. In fact, the technology is still the same and the production base is similar.

Songhe Automobile Company, a subsidiary of Hekou Machinery Company, established a major production base in Songjiang City to produce passenger cars and recruit a large number of skilled workers from the society.

People like his friends who have relevant experience in automobile production can easily apply for the job... In fact, Jiao Tiancheng can also easily apply for the job.

But Jiao Tiancheng is unwilling to go... For people like them with no education and no skills, working in an automobile factory, the ceiling is too low... Even if you have been working for a long time, it is amazing that you can be a team leader. The income is not too high.

More than ten Chu Yuan a month is basically the limit...

In large factories, it is actually more difficult to rise, because the production in large automobile factories is very specialized. They all adopt assembly line production, and a worker is only responsible for one or a few of the processes. This day and night Just do these few steps, and you won't know anything else.

It's better to work in those small car assembly factories. At least you have to do everything and you have the opportunity to learn everything!

Workers who work with machines and can only do a few simple processes and can be easily replaced... have basically no value in the eyes of their superiors. Don't expect a salary increase or anything like that.

Under this situation, even skilled workers in the currently very hot automobile industry actually only earn that much... The monthly income of ordinary automobile workers in Songjiang City is only about ten yuan, which is better than workers in ordinary factories. Some, but the good ones are limited.

Some skilled workers who are skilled in specific technologies may have higher wages, but they only cost more than ten Chu Yuan, which is more than fifteen Chu Yuan.

On the contrary, in some small-scale third-party automobile assembly manufacturers, you can see many clinker skilled workers who earn more than ten yuan or even twenty or thirty yuan.

It’s not that the owners of other small workshops are generous, but that small automobile workshops all use small batches of manual production and do not have any professional large-scale assembly lines. The technical requirements for workers are actually higher.

At that time, Jiao Tiancheng just didn't want to continue to be an ordinary car worker working on the assembly line every day, so he ran to learn to drive... But his friend didn't think so. He felt that the salary was not bad if he joined a big company, and It is relatively stable, and at the same time, employees of these large companies also have retirement funds, so that they can receive monthly pensions after retirement.

The retirement pension fund in the Da Chu Empire began with the pension system implemented by the Da Chu Empire specifically for officials. Very early on, in order to stabilize the minds of officials, especially grassroots officials, and eliminate their worries, the empire implemented the pension system.

After officials retire, they can receive a certain percentage of pension.

In the beginning, this pension system was free...that is to say, all pensions were paid by the government. But later, considering that the financial pressure will be great in the future, we decided to pay a certain percentage of salary every month before retirement, and then this part of the salary paid was used as a retirement fund and handed over to official financial institutions for value-added financial management operations.

Of course, when this was done back then, the nominal salary was actually raised first, and then the nominal salary increase was used to contribute to the retirement fund... It was the same as when personal income tax was first implemented.

In this way, the Dachu Empire established its first pension fund, the National Pension Fund, which serves all officials, including administrative officials, non-administrative officials in the medical and education system... As long as you have grade-level benefits, you are included in it. Manage together.

Later, some large enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and some large private enterprises began to establish corporate employee retirement pension funds one after another.

Finally, the empire's financial department also began to intervene to supervise the retirement funds established by these enterprises. Finally, according to regions, each province successively established officially managed and commercially operated retirement pension funds.

Each enterprise provides certain pension subsidies to its employees based on its own circumstances.

Currently, there are no mandatory pension-related policies or welfare subsidies in the Dachu Empire. Everything is voluntary and commercially operated... Even if you are not an employee of a company, you can subscribe to these pension funds privately and pay monthly Pay and wait until you are old enough to receive your pension.

For company employees, the company will more or less provide certain subsidies as welfare benefits...

Generally speaking, the retirement and pension system in the Da Chu Empire, except for officials who are run by the state itself, is a spontaneous act of the market and supervised by official agencies. The government encourages but does not force...

At least that's the case for now. The current productivity is still a bit poor. It hasn't been long since the more than 700 million people in the Chu Empire have had enough to eat. It's still a bit difficult to establish a comprehensive and even welfare-based pension system now. .

Therefore, it can only be solved initially through marketization.

Only when productivity further improves in the future and existing pension coverage is further expanded will the empire be able to adopt a mandatory retirement pension policy.

but not now……

Jiao Tiancheng's friend went to Songhe Automobile Company for a stable job, with a decent salary and pension subsidies and benefits.

But Jiao Tiancheng was unwilling to go.

He wants to work hard and start a small business on his own...

Fortunately, Jiao Tiancheng was lucky and chose the right direction... Although the prerequisites for learning to drive were quite expensive and he had to pay off dozens of Chu Yuan's debts, he successfully found a good job after learning to drive.

Not only is the salary good, but he also has a lot of free time to study on his own... He even has the retirement fund subsidies that his friends often talk about...

Sun Xu hired him not in his own name, but as a housekeeping service company... Not just him, but actually all the servants in the Sun Mansion had their work contracts under this housekeeping service company. , otherwise management and accounting processing will be inconvenient.

Therefore, Jiao Tiancheng's work contract was under a domestic service company, and retirement fund subsidies were also provided to purchase retirement pension funds.

It's just that Jiao Tiancheng doesn't think it's of much use... After all, he doesn't plan to work in the Sun Mansion for too long. He may start his own business in three to five years. By then, he will have to pay for this retirement fund all by himself. .

I had a chat with my friend and had a meal. During the dinner, his friend expressed how envious he was of Jiao Tiancheng... After all, Jiao Tiancheng now earns more than 20 yuan a month, double his income, and The work is relatively light.

Jiao Tiancheng also said at the beginning that you can actually learn to drive. Now that the automobile industry is booming, the demand for drivers is definitely growing, so you don't have to worry about finding a job.

However, although his friends envied him, they had various concerns when it came to resigning or even taking out a loan to learn to drive, so Jiao Tiancheng only said a few words and stopped mentioning the matter.

People choose their own paths... My friend is worried about risks and likes the current stability, so he can't always persuade him.

Besides, no one can tell what the future will look like... What if drivers don’t look for jobs in two years and their incomes won’t be that high?

Therefore, he simply said a few words on this matter and didn't mention it again.

After drinking and eating, Jiao Tiancheng said goodbye to his friends and took the public tram back to Sun Mansion.

This public tram is also a new thing. It has only appeared in Songjiang City for a few years. However, although it is a new thing, it has developed extremely rapidly.

As a type of urban public transportation, the development of trams is much faster than that of buses... Mainly because of its relatively low cost and large passenger volume, it has been welcomed by the governments and public transportation operating companies of many big cities.

Nowadays, many trams have been built in Songjiang City, gradually replacing the public carriages on these lines and becoming an important tool for people to travel.

Relatively speaking, the development of buses lags far behind... Even though the three major automobile manufacturers have actually launched public passenger vehicle models one after another, the actual sales are not very good.

The main reason is that current buses are still very expensive, and maintenance is not cheap, and the overall operating cost is relatively high... Moreover, the power of current gasoline engines is not very good, and the top-level engines in cars are no more than high-end. It only has twenty horsepower. The engine on the bus is more powerful, but it is also limited.

If the power is not good, the carrying capacity will be limited.

The carrying capacity is limited, which means the average operating cost per passenger is higher.

High cost is the only factor limiting the development of buses... Not only buses are limited by high costs, but also in the field of trucks.

Cargo transportation is more cost-sensitive... As soon as the cost of your transportation increases, the cost of transporting goods will also increase instantly, and the impact will be huge.

So now it’s not that transportation companies don’t want to use cars, but they can’t afford them…

At present, the only one that can use various types of freight vehicles on a large scale is the military... After all, for the military, these costs are acceptable, and it is even cheaper to use trucks than to maintain a huge number of horses on a daily basis. Some.

This is also the reason why the Chu Empire Army, Guards and even the Navy are very interested in military trucks and placed orders early.

This year's 50th anniversary of Chengshun is also the year when various types of military vehicles enter military service on a large scale for trial use.

Not to mention that the military itself paid much attention to this, even His Majesty the Emperor Luo Zhixue paid more attention to it, and even sent the prince to the Guards to inspect the first automobile transport group in the Great Chu Empire: the First Motor Transport Group of the Guards .