Daming 1805

Chapter 34 Has the Empire's Minimum Labor Remuneration been Released?
Zhu Jingyuan arranged tasks for the two maids, ate the dinner prepared separately, took a bath and went to sleep directly.

The next morning I got up, had breakfast as usual, and went to exercise outside the city. When I came back, my parents were already waiting in the living room.

Mrs. Liang took her personal maid, plus Zhu Jingyuan's two personal maids, to go out in a carriage to run business affairs for Zhu Jingyuan.

Liang Yunying's original identity security needs, plus carrying a huge sum of [-] gold bills, plus going to the new city to do business, and the environment of the new city is not as stable as the old city.

Zhu Jianyan selected stronger, more able to fight and more clever from the servants, and arranged more than 30 guards to follow.

In ancient times, when the female relatives of large families went out, they usually called before and after, and at most the number of servants varied.

The one with only one personal maid is usually not the young lady of the big family, but the "lady" of the romantic occasion.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately went to take a shower, changed his court clothes and came out to say goodbye to his mother, and went to the morning court with his father and father.

This time, the early morning ceremony was held in Wenhua Hall as usual, and the number of participants was also reduced by more than half, and only the chief officials of each yamen came.

Zhu Jingyuan pondered that the specific policy planning for this reform is definitely not something that can be settled in one or two days, so most of the early mornings in these days will not have anything to do.

Walk through the scene, report the progress, and everyone should go to work on their own.

I will also go directly to the Ministry of Industry and start to conceive the design of the battleship.

As a result, at the very beginning of this morning, the ninth son of the emperor, Zhu Jianfeng, also known as Zhu Jingyuan's ninth uncle, took the initiative to report:

"Report to the royal father, the minimum labor remuneration has been basically determined, and the royal father is requested to decide."

Zhu Jianfeng is 36 years old this year. He was transferred back to the capital from the local area eight years ago. He first served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials six years ago. He still holds this position now.

Beginning with Emperor Renwu, when the heir was basically determined, most of them would put the heir in the position of the official minister before abdicating the throne.

This period is usually two years, mainly to let the heirs study in the Ministry of Personnel and become familiar with the overall personnel management of the imperial court.

Then, after the official succession to the throne, you can directly appoint your own competent subordinates to take over the most important position of the official minister in the court.

At the same time, when the emperor's brothers quit their positions in the court, they can also reward the new emperor's courtiers and quickly consolidate the new emperor's authority.

When Zhu Jianfeng was promoted to Minister of Officials five years ago, Zhu Jianfeng himself and most of the ministers were basically certain that Zhu Jianfeng was the heir chosen by the old emperor.

After all, it was arranged according to tradition.

Under normal circumstances, the Ministry of Officials should be in less than three years for a period, and most of them should be enthroned within one to two years.

But now that the empire was in a state of war, the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang did not dare to abdicate rashly, so he let Zhu Jianfeng stay in this position for six years.

In the past six years, this semi-public crown prince has gradually felt anxious, and a strange pressure has also formed inside and outside the court.

What happened in the past two days was mainly due to Zhu Jingyuan's presence in front of the old emperor, which made Zhu Jianfeng, who was already anxious, feel a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

Zhu Jianfeng desperately wanted to show off his work ability to his father.

So yesterday, he focused on the big and let go of the small, let go of the unimportant things first, picked out one thing to follow up, and took the initiative to deal with it personally.

Using the fastest speed, I took out a minimum pay investigation report and took it out this morning.

After Zhu Jianfeng spoke, a suppressed buzzing sound suddenly sounded in the hall.

All the personnel who were not directly involved in matters related to labor remuneration did not expect that the progress of this matter would be so fast.

The old emperor was also obviously a little surprised, and directly asked about the situation:
"Oh, then Lao Jiu, tell me in general, how did the Ministry of Personnel formulate this minimum labor compensation plan?"

Zhu Jianfeng took a deep breath, speaking at a steady pace and reporting clearly:
"The imperial court has formulated a comprehensive minimum compensation standard, based on the data submitted by engineering and business-related yamen.

"Currently, it is tentatively set to be a consistent monthly copper note, which is a one-yuan silver note.

"Next, the standard will be issued, and each commissioner will fluctuate a certain range above and below the standard according to the local situation to determine the local minimum compensation amount.

"The upper limit of the floating range of each envoy should be given by the court in advance, and it is tentatively set not to exceed [-]%.

"The specific floating range in each region should also be reported to the court for approval and determination."

The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang nodded slightly, as if he didn't think there was a big problem.

Seeing his father's reaction, Zhu Jianfeng breathed a sigh of relief and felt that he had done the right thing today.

Although it is a trivial matter, it can make the father pay attention to him, he is the person who can really do things, and he is the heir he deserves.

Then he sighed in his heart, whether he was a little too sensitive, his throne was originally stable.

Zhu Jingyuan was just at the right age, just in time for the negotiation, saying a few words right, and winning the favor of his grandfathers.

But he had no chance to influence himself at all. After all, he was just a grandson, and his father could not succeed him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jianfeng glanced at Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously, but found that Zhu Jingyuan looked at him with a very ugly expression.

Zhu Jianfeng was suddenly very surprised.

Why are you so angry now?Do you feel bad when I behave?

Sure enough, he was still a child, which was too suffocating.

Zhu Jingyuan was indeed a little angry, because this uncle, who used to be almost perfect, is doing something that makes people feel very... unreasonable...

The consistent money is a one-dollar silver note, calculated according to the average purchasing power of the current society, it is almost [-] yuan in later generations.

The purchasing power of living at the bottom of the world is higher than the [-] yuan of later generations.

The same amount of money, in the hands of different classes, the actual purchasing power is different.

As the class increases, the actual purchasing power of money will slowly decrease.

Of course, in fact, it is not a decrease, but the lower the class, the more services other than the necessary guarantees of life will be eliminated, and the purchasing power will increase.

It is impossible for modern people to imagine how low the living conditions of people at the bottom of the industrial revolution can be.

This dollar bill is the lowest level of workers today, most likely underage child laborers, apprentices, and temporary workers, and will actually receive the lowest wages.

All the money is always used to buy the cheapest food, and it can only make a thin person barely starve to death, which can almost be regarded as a death line.

Adult workers in the society have at least three coins for normal work, that is, three yuan silver notes, which can be higher with a little bit of skill.

The three-yuan silver note can make a bachelor live relatively normal, and can share a dormitory with several people, but don't even think about getting married and having children.

If you want to have a normal family and be able to give birth and support living children, of course, not including going to school, you must have at least a monthly income of more than six yuan in silver notes.

If you want to rent a house for your own family and raise two children, you need an income of more than 12 yuan.

The firm that Zhu Jingyuan plans to open will start with 15 yuan per month in silver bills for workers, and the wages will continue to increase if they perform well.

A 15-yuan banknote can provide a family with basic food and clothing, can afford to rent a house to live in, can raise two children, save a few years and buy a bicycle.

This gives them hope in their lives, and then they can stabilize, and then the society can stabilize, and then the country can develop.

If possible, Zhu Jingyuan hopes to make the minimum salary of his firm as the minimum salary standard of Daming, but this is obviously unrealistic.

But in any case, it can't be the consistent money that Zhu Jianfeng said.

This actual salary lower limit, the imperial court investigates it, formulates it, and publishes it, has no practical significance.

This uncle, he really didn't think about the real purpose and meaning of this behavior when he asked the court to formulate "minimum labor remuneration standards"?
(End of this chapter)