Daming 1805

Chapter 435 Eight Years of Ankang
Compared with the bleak clouds of the owners and shopkeepers of the manufacturers, the atmosphere among the grassroots managers, technicians, and workers of each manufacturer is completely different.

On the same street as Fugui Restaurant, but in a relatively remote small restaurant, a group of young people were drinking and chatting, discussing and confirming their future ideas.

"Old Wang, are you still going to the Great Food Kingdom?"

"No, I will go to work in a government-run factory next month. The salary should not be much worse than that of Dashiguo. The key is not to travel so far. I heard that the house and car may be divided in the future. If I become a Manager, it is possible to enjoy official treatment."

"I'm not going either. Our factory is likely to become a government-run factory. People from the Yamen have already been here. Our boss and shopkeeper are considering whether to sell the factory to the Yamen..."

"I also heard that the government-run factory will build its own school, and children don't need to spend money to go to school, or more than half of the subsidy..."

"Government-run factories are guaranteed. Even if they don't really have the same treatment as officials in the future, the court's regulations will definitely be implemented honestly, and they won't say one thing and do another like private owners... "

"However, I read in the newspaper that it seems to say that the country is advancing and the people are retreating. After all kinds of factories and commercial firms have become imperial courts, we ordinary people will no longer have the possibility of being our own bosses and making a lot of money..."

"Yeah, I heard that too..."

"In the past, you two didn't think about starting your own factory, opening your own business, and becoming your own boss. Why are you suddenly worried about this?"

"Besides, it seems that the imperial court didn't stop us from opening our own factories, right? The yamen didn't want to force the purchase of private factories, right? They were all discussed. If you want to sell it, you can sell it. If you don't want to sell it, you don't want to sell it... ..."

"Just read what's on the tabloids. The fundamental reason is that if the yamen doesn't come forward, those who are the bosses won't be willing to implement the new regulations honestly."

"That's right. The imperial court now requires that the minimum salary increase every two years. Now it is planning to increase the rest time to four days a month like the Great Food Kingdom. The key point is not to lower the salary."

"Employers always try to shirk the blame. It is said that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. But government-run factories must implement them, and workers will definitely go to government-run factories, so there will be no one to work for them."

"They just don't want to pay more wages, and they are worried that the workers will run away and no one will work, so they oppose the Yamen's opening of factories."

"It seems to be so reasonable..."

"I thought too much before..."

There was talk all over the city, involving almost everyone from workers to managers to shopkeepers and owners.

Because this reform affected the vast majority of the urban population.

This discussion and public opinion turmoil is not only spreading in Edo, but also in most areas of Ming Dynasty.

Because the establishment of government-run manufacturers was carried out simultaneously throughout Daming.

The reaction of public opinion in most areas is very similar to that of the Edo area.

Melancholy is mixed in the owner group, and ordinary workers and grassroots engineering and technical personnel all want to change jobs in government-run factories.

Relevant news soon exceeded Daming's range.

The royal families, imperial courts, and businessmen of various countries in Thailand and the West have also seen related news one after another.

They immediately started a very serious discussion and analysis.

The most critical question is whether to follow suit.

Most countries are discussing among themselves, but one person hesitated and asked directly.

Charlotte, Queen of America, and Charles, Crown Prince of France, both sent telegrams directly to Zhu Jingyuan personally.

The problems are very similar. Can we learn from the government-run consortiums and manufacturers run by Daming?

After Zhu Jingyuan saw the news, he thought for a while and made a similar reply:
You can choose to learn, but it is recommended to control the range and scope a little bit, not to be as direct as Daming.

Your country's royal family and court are far less capable of controlling the people than Ming Dynasty.

Your power is not strong compared to the folk.

If you completely copy Daming's plan and directly damage the interests of private capital, it may make certain groups take risks.

This may endanger your personal safety...

Zhu Jingyuan reminded Charles and Charlotte that he had already prepared himself accordingly.

After the construction of large-scale government-run factories started, Zhu Jingyuan himself could not go out without going out, and he avoided participating in any public and public activities as much as possible.

Although, even if it was Daming's plan, the yamen at all levels did not force the private manufacturers to death, they just ended up participating in the competition.

But it is hard to guarantee that no one will go bankrupt because of this, and then think of revenge against the society, or even revenge on himself, the representative of the royal family.

Since the end of the World War and the opening of the six major industries, Zhu Jingyuan has vigorously encouraged and promoted the development of private manufacturers through the Aviation Industry Association and the Machinery Industry Association. In these years, Zhu Jingyuan has been relatively relaxed about his personal safety.

Because on the whole, I have basically not harmed anyone's interests in this process. The key is to seek interests for the main forces of society. From businessmen to workers and technicians to bureaucrats, most of them support me.

If I occasionally show my face in public, there is basically no problem in being prepared.

The current situation is complicated, and Zhu Jingyuan is honest.

Now Zhu Jingyuan can only get feedback from the people through newspapers and his own hands.

As the reform continued, Zhu Jingyuan found that the reaction of the people was not much different from what he expected.

Of course, the group of masters is relatively depressed. They feel the competition and administrative pressure from the imperial court and Yamen.

Of course they are quite disgusted with this kind of institutional reform, but they are also powerless to stop it.

The continuous clamor in various non-governmental newspapers claimed that this situation of the country advancing and the people retreating would inevitably affect the development of Ming Dynasty.

Some tabloids even directly stated that the prosperity of Ming Dynasty is coming to an end, the market will inevitably continue to cool down, and the finances of the coming year will inevitably be ugly.

But the real bottom-level workers reacted in the opposite direction. They were all waiting for the government-run manufacturers to become bigger and stronger while planning to change jobs.

The end of the year is coming soon, and the financial data of various places in Ming Dynasty are indeed not very good. Many places have huge fiscal deficits.

Because in the absence of sufficient budget, a large amount of additional financial funds were temporarily allocated for investment in construction and acquisition of various basic industries.

In Ankang's eight-year fiscal budget, relevant types of expenditures were directly implemented and increased substantially again.

Budgets for other categories would of course be affected.

In particular, many support budgets for specific industries and industries, that is, budgets that might have been directly given to private manufacturers, or used to reduce or exempt certain manufacturers from taxes, have been transferred to the construction of government-run manufacturers.

After the relevant news was confirmed, that is, there will be no corresponding subsidies next year, and there will be no more various reductions and exemptions, it immediately aroused strong opposition from relevant manufacturers.

At the same time, the central court of the Ming Dynasty has also officially issued an order to implement the compulsory ten-hour work system and the regulation of at least four days off every month from the eighth year of Ankang.

Ever since, the public opinion about the struggle for the interests of the people and the advancement of the country and the retreat of the people reached an unprecedented peak between the end of the seventh year of Ankang and the beginning of the eighth year of Ankang.

Zhu Jingyuan stayed at home and in the yamen obediently and did not go out.

Eight years after entering Ankang, a large number of violations by manufacturers broke out in various parts of Daming, including Edo.

A large number of private manufacturers have received large fines for refusing to implement the latest labor system.

These are actually typical examples that the Yamen specifically catches.

Throughout the eight years of Ankang, if you read the news in some newspapers, you would feel gloomy and gloomy.

For private manufacturers, it is indeed empathetic.

Since the end of the World War, private manufacturers who have been in high spirits have felt unprecedented pressure in the eight years in Ankang.

Employment competition suddenly intensified, administrative law enforcement was suddenly severe, and shopkeepers complained incessantly.

However, the atmosphere among the workers is much more relaxed than in previous years.

The market did not appear to be depressed at all, and it seemed that it had become more prosperous instead.

The reason is actually very simple. The wages of workers have not been reduced, but they have more time to rest, and the number of people consuming in the market has also increased.

By the end of the eighth year of Ankang, when the various reports for the new year came out, many officials laughed.

Ankang's eight-year fiscal revenue has increased by more than [-] points!

The point is that the forecast for next year is also very optimistic, and the growth rate may increase.

The reason is also very simple. Not to mention the reasonable tax avoidance of private manufacturers, tax evasion and tax evasion are repeatedly prohibited.

On the other hand, it is difficult for government-run manufacturers to evade taxes. If they have extra profits, they must directly turn over the profits, which are all income.

In the past two years, the government-run manufacturers have just started operating, and those that have made profits are all light and small industries, and the amount of income is not high.

Moreover, it is still in the investment stage as a whole, and the direct surplus of government-run manufacturers is not much.

This income will be even more substantial when large-scale industries start to make profits and the whole enters the income stage.

The income of the industries under the Daming Consortium is directly handed over to the imperial court and the corresponding level of yamen, which is similar to the imperial court making money directly.

At the same time, the new benefits for court officials have been gradually implemented in the past two years.

So the atmosphere in the bureaucracy is quite relaxed and pleasant.

After the eight years of Ankang ended, Zhu Jingyuan's term in the Edo area would also come to an end.

The reforms in Edo, Nara, and Korea have also achieved initial results.

After the Spring Festival in the ninth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan no longer directly participated in local affairs.

While reviewing and summarizing the achievements of the past two years, while waiting for the new appointment from the imperial court, he packed his things and prepared to leave.

The general education examination certificate system has been fully implemented in Edo, Nara, and North Korea.

All the local residents have all obtained the simultaneous examination certificate.

All administrative and civil affairs in the three places are based on the general education examination certificate, and no other identity information will be consulted.

This is a very exaggerated score.

Two years is definitely not a long time for administrative reform. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to do so thoroughly.

Because Zhu Jingyuan made the request at the beginning, the difficulty can be reduced for those who fail the exam many times, and those who do not cooperate with the exam are forcibly sent to Mozhou to open up wasteland.

So the reason for this result is that those who failed the test were cleared.

Of course, there are reasons for deliberately making political achievements, but Zhu Jingyuan feels that in this case, some tough measures are also needed.

Nowadays, among the folks in Edo, Nara, and North Korea, the phrase "if you fail the exam, I will send you to Mozhou to mine" has even become a buzzword to coax and scare children.

After the Lantern Festival in the ninth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan received a new appointment from the court, as well as letters from his father and mother.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the appointment of the court first.

"Shaanxi's chief envoy participates in politics, and the governors of Western Regions, Xueyu, Anxi, Mongolia, Xianbei, etc. are in charge of local military, political and foreign affairs."

The position of Shaanxi Chief Envoy to participate in politics is nothing in itself. Although this is Zhu Jingyuan's first real post in the inland, Zhu Jingyuan has long been prepared in his heart.

This is a necessary link in governance training. Those who have worked in the interior for a long time should be transferred to the coast, those who have worked in the coast for a long time should be transferred to the inland, those who have been in the south for a long time should be transferred to the north, and those who have been in the north for a long time should be transferred to the north. To be transferred to the South.

The Shaanxi chief envoy participated in politics, and was nominally the second official of the chief envoy.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy of the Ming Dynasty included most of the later provinces of Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, as well as parts of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia.

It is already quite large for a province.

But compared to the scope of his job, the area of ​​follow-up supervision is even more ridiculously large.

Appointment itself is just a general term, and there are specific places of actual responsibility below.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the list of place names, gestured at the map, and found that the actual area was larger than he thought.

To the west of the [-] mm iso-precipitation line, to the east of the mainland of the Dashi Kingdom, to the north of the Tianzhu region, and all the spheres of influence belonging to Ming on the Shenou continent, all were handed over to him for supervision.

Compared with the original three provinces of Edo, Nara, and Korea, the area of ​​these areas has been enlarged by an unknown number of times.

My father's heart is really big, and all the military and political affairs in such a large area are entrusted to a prince.

But the problem is also very big, the internal components of these regions are very complex.

There are the provinces directly under the central government, the former inner vassals that have been abolished, and the outer vassals that still exist today.

The Principality of Western Xianbei, the Principality of Kazakhstan, the Principality of Khiva, and the Principality of Persia are all included in this scope.

The situation in these areas is infinitely more complicated than that of Edo, Nara, and North Korea.

The biggest question is, should the various reforms that I have implemented at home should be implemented in these foreign vassals?

The original treaties with these foreign vassal monarchs guaranteed that the vassals would not be withdrawn and established.

However, there is no requirement that Ming Dynasty will not interfere in internal affairs, and it even clearly requires that local laws must not violate the laws of Ming Dynasty, and the local monarch must be loyal to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and cooperate with the jurisdiction of the Ming court.

However, before that, for the foreign vassal states such as Kazakhs, Khiva, and Persia who voluntarily joined, the central court of the Ming Dynasty almost did not interfere with local daily affairs except for garrisoning troops and collecting taxes.

For the vassal states that joined the Ming Dynasty due to war treaties, such as the Western Xianbei Principality and the Egyptian Principality, some supervisory officials were only arranged on the basis of the voluntary joining of the vassal states to supervise the local monarchs to actively integrate into the Ming system.

There will be no coercive interference in actual administration, and the actual daily affairs are still handled by the local monarch.

In fact, many customary traditional systems in these foreign vassals violated the laws of Ming Dynasty, especially the beliefs and marriage-related customs in remote areas, but the central court did not really intervene.

Could it be that this time I let myself go to the Northwest just to let myself deal with these things?
With these in mind, Zhu Jingyuan opened the letter his father wrote to him alone, and immediately confirmed his guess.

Dad is going to try to reform the "tradition" of these feudal states and places by himself.

Moreover, the old man's original intention was to let him go directly to Yili, so that he could have a better understanding of the local situation and deal with local affairs more conveniently as soon as possible.

But a place like Yili is too far away, and my father hesitated a little to send a prince to such a place.

Coupled with my mother's strong opposition, it was changed to work in Shaanxi.

Shaanxi is the west gate of the core area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and it is reasonable to be responsible for the management of Northwest affairs here.

(End of this chapter)