Daming 1805

Chapter 502 New Calendar and Vacation Program
After Zhu Jingyuan read the report of Qin Tianjian, he was very surprised that the Dahu District could enter the preliminary selection plan.

When Zhu Jingyuan began to consider building a dedicated rocket launch site, he did not consider the situation in the inland areas at all.

Zhu Jingyuan instinctively felt that the reason for building the launch site inland was that he did not have enough control over the sea.

If you can control the ocean, it must be more convenient to build launch sites in coastal areas, from transportation to construction to observation.

At the same time, it can also prevent the rocket from falling and affecting inland cities and residential areas.

After screening twice now, I found that to build a launch site in Lion City, in addition to the convenience of transportation and construction, it still has to bear the fact that there are land and residential areas in the main launch direction.

After thinking about it in this way, the reverse screening, if the inland conditions are suitable, then it is not impossible.

After putting aside external factors, the environmental comfort of the Great Lakes region is indeed unparalleled in the world.

Except that the sun is bigger, other conditions are unique in the world.

However, Zhu Jingyuan considered the situation carefully, and discussed and consulted with Qi Yanhuai for more details.

In the end, it was decided to build the first official dedicated rocket launch site, which may be the most important launch site in the future, on the island south of Lion City.

The high-latitude launch site that followed was built in the west of the Laga Province, which is later known as the west of Alaska and the islands north of the Aleutian Islands.

The latitude here is close to sixty degrees, but the climate is not extremely cold, and the conditions are much better than Nuer Gandusi.

These two launch sites, as the official launch sites of the Ming Dynasty, have been built into the largest launch sites.

If nothing else, most of the launch missions are carried out in these two places.

However, in order to collect data for experiments in different regions, it is also to have a backup launch base available in case of unexpected situations.

At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan decided to choose several other places to build several small-scale launch sites.

The first is the missile test base in Ningbo. According to the original plan, two groups of rocket launch pads will be built.

In addition, in the interior of the Bohai Sea, which belongs to the northern coastal area of ​​Liaodong, another emergency backup launch site will be built.

The launch sites in these two real core areas will also take into account the experimental tasks of strategic missiles and serve as launch sites for purely military purposes.

Finally, the Mozhou Great Lakes and Xintianfu also each built an experiment and launch site.

The last two bases can be built to be open and placed directly where local residential areas can see them.

The launch site of Xintianfu is placed directly by the sea outside Xintianfu City.

With the development of the times and science and technology, after the social and environmental conditions are suitable, it will be gradually opened to the outside world on a regular basis.

Bureaucrats and scribes at all levels of a specific imperial court, managers and workers at all levels of consortiums, and even ordinary local people and students are allowed.

When invited, enter the launch site to visit and watch the scene of the rocket launch.

Even, when the time is ripe, open the right to use to the private sector.

These two overseas space launch bases, plus the Yingzhou (Hawaii) Naval Base in the center of Daming Ocean, and the local Ningbo base.

These four bases, which are relatively evenly distributed around the world, will serve as overseas observation and space-earth communication centers for aerospace engineering.

The Ming Dynasty occupies two-thirds of the land in the world, and it is not too much to build two major space centers, two military missile and rocket test bases, and two semi-open military and civilian launch bases.

Of course, it is impossible to start construction at the same time. Early rocket experiments continue to be done in Ningbo, where there are ready-made facilities available.

In fact, the Ningbo base has already started experiments.

The first to start construction and put forward the highest standards is the official base on the island in the south of the Lion City.

Several other bases were built as observatories first.

After Zhu Jingyuan basically considered it properly, he formally approved Qi Yanhuai's plan and asked him to contact various departments to start implementing it.

A few days later, another task that Qin Tianjian was responsible for, the implementation plan of the new calendar, was also completed.

Ruan Yuan, the young minister in charge of the Qin Tianjian, and Shen Fu, the eldest uncle in charge of the Ministry of Rites, submitted it to Zhu Jingyuan for review.

The content of the calendar was detailed according to the plan drawn up by Zhu Jingyuan himself, and some minor repair suggestions were also put forward.

The general idea is still to split the lunar and solar calendars.

The solar calendar takes the year as the cycle, the orbit of the sun as the standard, and the beginning of spring as the first day of the new year.

There are 360 ​​five days in a year, which are divided into four quarters, twelve months, and 36 ten days.

95 days in each of the first three quarters, and [-] days in the last quarter.

Each quarter is divided into three months, a total of twelve months throughout the year.

30 days per month in the first eleven months, 12 days per month in No.35.

Each month is divided into three ten days, and the whole year is 36 ten days.

The first 35 ten days are ten days each, and the last ten days are fifteen days.

There is a leap every four years, and one day is added to the last quarter, the last month, and the last ten days of the leap year.

Every 120 years, it should be regarded as a leap year but not once.

Every 600 years, a leap year is made up for a non-leap year.

The official name of the solar calendar is: "Emperor Gregorian Calendar Era", referred to as the Imperial Calendar or Gregorian Calendar.

Taking the year when the prince swept Liuhe as the first year of the emperor's kilometer era, this year will be [-] in the imperial calendar, and next year will be [-] in the Gregorian calendar.

The lunar calendar takes the month as the cycle and the orbit of the moon as the standard.

The new moon is the first day of the new year, and the time between the two new moons is January.

If there are 30 days, it is approximately, and if there are 29 days, it is Xiaoyue.

Usually, the cycle interval between the big month and the small month is forward, and a big month is added every 64 months to make up the difference.

Every three thousand and seventy-two months, this big month is not added again to reduce the difference.

The solar calendar keeps the month, and the lunar calendar also keeps the year.

But the chronology is based on the solar calendar, and the first new moon after the new year in the solar calendar is regarded as the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar.

If there are thirteen lunar first days in a solar calendar year, then the year is thirteen months, otherwise it is twelve months.

Official documents and government-run manufacturers, government-run and government-run curriculum arrangements, history teaching textbooks and documents are all based on the Gregorian calendar year, ten days, and day.

After the proposed new calendar, the more important thing is how to arrange the holidays in the future.

Shen Fu and Ruan Yuan drew up several plans and asked Zhu Jingyuan to make the final decision.

The new vacation plan first divides vacations into two types: routine vacations and special vacations.

The routine holidays were specifically requested by Zhu Jingyuan, and according to the new calendar, one to two days of routine holidays are given every ten days.

Special holidays are special holidays specially arranged according to traditions and festivals in addition to the regular holidays of the new calendar.

First of all, it is also the year-end leave that Zhu Jingyuan directly requested in his plan.

The last quarter, the last month, and the last ten days of each year are five days more than other times.

These five days should be listed separately as the fixed year-end holiday time at the end of each year.

Then there are the previous ancestor-approved holidays.

The Hongwu holidays set by Emperor Taizu Gao: three days off for the winter solstice, five days off for New Year’s Day (Spring Festival), and five days off for routine every month.

Emperor Cheng Zuwen's Yongle holiday: before and after the Lantern Festival, from the [-]th to the [-]th of the first lunar month, ten consecutive days off.

The Renwu holidays set by Emperor Shizu Guangwu: Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang Festival, three days off respectively.

The special holidays stipulated by the three ancestors were originally implemented according to the lunar calendar, and the new calendar should be based on the solar calendar.

So now it is necessary to make appropriate adjustments according to the calendar.

But the most critical question is how to adjust.

The ancestor's regulations did not actually affect the stability of the court. Of course, it is impossible to cut them off directly, and can only be adjusted in details.

The special holidays of the three ancestors, regardless of whether the lunar calendar continues to be implemented, will conflict with the regular holidays of each ten days.

If routine holidays and special holidays overlap in time, should the vacation time be superimposed or covered?

More critical new year-end holidays, old annual holidays, and old Lantern Festival holidays add up to a total of 23 days.

They are all concentrated in one or two months after the year and year.

If these holidays are not reduced and the regular ten-day holidays are all superimposed, it may be a month of intermittent holidays.

The first plan that Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu came up with was the most lenient holiday plan with no coverage at all and all vacation time superimposed.

During the Hongwu holiday, the officials originally followed the five-day monthly vacation of the lunar calendar, but changed it to the six-day monthly vacation of the new solar calendar.

Of course, the winter solstice holiday and annual leave are all retained. The winter solstice holiday is originally a solar calendar, and now the annual leave is also changed to a solar calendar.

During the Yongle holiday, the original ten-day holiday before and after the Lantern Festival was changed to seven days, according to the lunar calendar, and the other three days were moved to after the Spring Festival.

All the holidays in the Renwu holiday are reserved. Among them, the Qingming Festival is originally a solar calendar, and the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongqiu, and Chongyang continue to follow the lunar calendar.

The ten-day routine holidays and year-end holidays of the new solar calendar conflict with the lunar calendar holidays in Hongwu, Yongle, and Renwu holidays.

Then the routine vacation time of every ten days will be postponed or advanced, and the total vacation time will be superimposed.

In this way, before the Chinese New Year, there are two days of routine vacation in the last ten days, and five days of year-end vacation, and a total of seven days of vacation just happen to be connected.

After the Chinese New Year, five days of Hongwu leave plus three days of Yongle leave, plus two days of routine leave in the first ten days, a total of ten days just happened to be connected.

In this way, there will be a complete seventeen-day holiday for the new year, which is very close to the winter vacation for the students of later generations.

What's more, there are still seven days left for the Yongle holiday of the Lantern Festival. Combined with the recent two-day routine holiday every ten days, there are still nine days left in total.

The Lantern Festival follows the lunar calendar, so it should often be connected with the [-] days of the Chinese New Year, so there will be nearly a month of holidays.

Adding up all the holidays, there are [-] days off in the whole year, and [-] days in leap years.

And then there's the strict, low-standard approach in the complete opposite direction.

The first is a routine day off every ten days, and holiday time conflicts override each other.

The five-day annual leave in the Hongwu holiday is combined with the five-day year-end holiday in the new calendar, for a total of five days off.

If the three-day holiday of Qingming happens to cover the one-day routine holiday of that day, then there will only be a total of three days off.

In this way, the total vacation time per year is not fixed, and it is about [-] days.

In the middle of the two extreme solutions, of course, there is a relatively compromise solution.

There are two routine holidays every ten days, but they are covered with special holidays, and the two five-day holidays during the Chinese New Year are all holidays, but the two routine holidays before and after are not holidays.

In this way, the annual holiday time is about [-] days.

On the basis of such a plan, the way of vacation and the scope of implementation can also be combined with each other.

One is only for official officials of the court.

The second is to target all institutions and personnel with official backgrounds, including imperial officials, employees of the royal family and government-run manufacturers, all personnel directly managed by Huangzhuang, and employees of all government-run schools and hospitals.

The third is to target all personnel under the management of any force in Daming, including private and overseas manufacturers and institutions controlled by Daming people.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at these plans and options, thinking and calculating very seriously for a long time.

If Zhu Jingyuan's vacation time in his previous life was calculated on the basis of two days off per week, plus the extra holidays stipulated by law, then the annual vacation time would be about 120 four days.

Therefore, even the most lenient plan proposed by Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu did not meet the ideal standards of later generations.

Not to mention the remaining most stringent low-standard plans and compromise plans.

However, two days off a week does not seem to be a mandatory requirement of the law, but an idealized standard of "recommended" nature.

It is mandatory to have one and a half days a week, or a big or small week, with two days off in the previous week and one day off in the next week.

Calculated in this way, the annual vacation time is about [-] days, which is close to the compromise plan proposed by Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu.

It's just that the holidays in the previous life were more even, and there were not many holidays during the Chinese New Year. Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu's plans were obviously focused on the Chinese New Year.

This kind of compromise solution is already a high standard in this era.

Prior to this, in most parts of the world, ordinary workers only had one or two days off each month.

Zhu Jingyuan's Dashiguo, Dashi Petrochemical System, Dashi Clothing Firm, and Daming Airlines System in his own family increased the monthly rest time to four days on their own.

Even the compromise plan further increases the holiday time on this basis.

The routine vacation plan of six days a month is definitely a very leading and even radical choice in this world.

When thinking of this, Zhu Jingyuan understood.

The officials headed by Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu made suggestions based on their own preferences as the emperor.

Both Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu are relatively familiar with themselves, and they both know that they "like" vacations all the time.

The holiday time of his own industry is more than that stipulated by the previous court.

If this report is for my father, then the compromise plan I see now is probably the most relaxed radical plan.

The conservative plan should be to take three days off every month, and the other aspects will remain the same, and no year-end leave will be added.

The improvement of taking an extra day off each month is certainly the least impactful.

No matter how you look at it, it is indeed too exciting to increase the vacation from two days a month to six days at once.

Even if it is possible to issue an imperial decree, requiring the people not to lower wages for this reason, at the same time, they can continue to raise the rigid minimum wage standard.

Let government-run manufacturers and imperial consortium manufacturers take the lead in implementing large-scale expansion of factories and commercial firms and recruiting more workers.

Let the official and imperial manufacturers counteract and suppress the resistance of private manufacturers.

But it's also sure to send markets into turmoil...

Even if many private manufacturers are willing to accept it, they may not be able to quickly adapt to the sudden rise in costs.

Then came a massive wave of closures...

Even government-run manufacturers and royal manufacturers may not be able to withstand such leapfrog adjustments.

Moreover, the situation in Taixi seems to be not very good now.

If the collapse of private manufacturers in Daming triggers some kind of uncontrollable chain reaction, it will be too late to regret.

It is definitely a great feat to get it right in one step.

If you think about it the other way around, are the old gentlemen Ruan Yuan and Shen Fu also observing their own preferences and policies?

Zhu Jingyuan glanced at the two of them, their expressions were very serious, they were serious and waiting for him to make a decision.

Zhu Jingyuan laughed dryly in his heart, you have the idea of ​​testing me, why should I let you test it?
I choose the most radical plan, and the one with such a big system is me, the emperor.

Then, do you, the courtiers, have the guts to really recommend a suggestion to the monarch to bake on a shelf?
So Zhu Jingyuan asked the two of them directly:
"You two gentlemen think, how should I arrange these new holidays?"

Ruan Gang and Shen Fu did not greet each other, and Shen Fu, who was more familiar with Zhu Jingyuan, spoke first:

"My Majesty, I believe that if the imperial court requests a substantial increase in the number of vacation days, private manufacturers may secretly increase the daily working hours of workers.

"At the same time, it is possible to come up with various reasons to reduce the monthly wages of workers...

"For many workers, it's likely that they'd rather work more if more rest means lower income.

"If the new mandatory regulations introduced by the imperial court indirectly lead to a reduction in the monthly income of these workers, they may feel resentful.

"If the new rules bind the new calendar, it may even lead them to resist the new calendar.

"So, if the number of vacation days is greatly increased, you must be prepared to deal with this change.

"On this basis, Weichen's suggestion is to adopt a relatively conservative solution.

"Take one day off every ten days, and at the same time increase the year-end leave by five days, and require government-run manufacturers and royal manufacturers to take the lead in implementing it."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded secretly in his heart when he heard this, they really didn't dare to put themselves on the fire.

That wouldn't do him any good...

Zhu Jingyuan also stopped playing games with the two, and directly stated his decision:
"Announce the most conservative vacation adjustment plan, starting from the first year after the implementation of the new calendar.

"But the scope of implementation is maximum.

"Including the yamen and government-run manufacturers in Daming, all Daming Huangzhuang and consortium institutions, as well as all government-run schools and official institutions.

"There are also all non-governmental manufacturers and school institutions, including overseas manufacturers and institutions that are controlled by Daming people, and they are all implemented as a whole.

"On this basis, imperial officials, government-run manufacturers, royal manufacturers, and the Huangzhuang system add additional vacation regulations.

"Another day of routine vacation is added every month, and the holiday of the third ten days of each month is adjusted to two days.

"That is to say, the current four-day vacation time per month for major food manufacturers.

"At the same time, a ten-year mid-term and long-term adjustment plan will be announced.

"Aiming at the most lenient plan in this document, the imperial court promised and reminded that it will be gradually implemented in the next ten years.

"In the imperial court, the official camp, and the royal family system, from the third year after the announcement of the plan, that is, from the third year of the Grand Duke, one day of holiday will be added every month.

"From the fourth year of the Grand Duke, a complete [-]-day annual leave will be realized, and the new vacation plan will be fully realized in the fifth year of the Grand Duke.

"For all other private manufacturers and institutions, one day of vacation will be added every month starting from three years ago, and the [-]-day annual leave plan will be implemented starting from five years ago.

"From the seventh year of the Grand Duke, one additional day of vacation is added every month, and the tenth year of the Grand Duke has realized a complete new vacation plan.

"The routine vacation time of every ten days is fixed on the last day or two of every ten days.

"Unless the imperial court requests, it cannot be adjusted and split at will.

"All types of holidays must not be offset by each other, and all vacation time is superimposed.

"Public service organizations facing the common people, institutions and manufacturers that need to keep people on duty on rest days, and those who take turns on duty on rest days must take early rest in the adjacent ten days or immediately make up time off after on duty.

"Qin Tianjian calculates the annual fixed vacation time in advance, and advances, postpones or splits the conflicting vacation time.

"The Ministry of Rites distributes the new year's imperial calendar to the people through official channels before the last month of the solar calendar.

"All the holiday standards and requirements are printed on the official imperial calendar of the year.

"The regulations of the imperial calendar are regarded as imperial decrees, and all personnel obey them as a whole.

"In addition, an imperial decree was promulgated at the same time that no manufacturer shall reduce or deduct wages due to holiday adjustments, and government-owned and royal manufacturers will take the lead in implementing it.

"All government-run manufacturers and royal manufacturers are preparing to expand and expand their recruitment to cope with the reduction in labor force per unit of time."

Zhu Jingyuan must be very happy, but he will resist the impulse a little bit, and put the goal in a relatively long period of time to complete.

Leave room for buffering for the imperial court, royal family, and manufacturers.

(End of this chapter)