Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 484 The Beginning of Disintegration
Grandpa Mao once said that the strength of the working people is inexhaustible, which is true!
The organization of capitalists and the contribution of labor, in just over two months, the construction of one prefecture and three counties in Xinzhou has been quite prosperous. In the past, the Dutch East India Company was a predatory business, taking all the wealth from the local area as much as possible, and then transporting it back to the Netherlands , enriched Western capitalism, and impoverished the local Southeast Asia, but now it is at his own doorstep, Song Qingshu still regards it as a retreat base to build, and naturally spent a lot of money.

Moreover, the climate here is so hot that even the farmlands in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have just thawed, but there is not even a trace of ice seal here. It took a month to open up wasteland and sow seeds. By April, Zhang Huangyan had successively received more than 50 laborers, reclaimed [-] mu of land, and built several shipyards in preparation on the map.

However, this time the farming in Taiwan is also unprecedented in the history of Chinese farming. For the first time, farmers’ harvest is no longer the output of the field, but a fixed salary that guarantees the income from drought and flood every month. In the era of Song Qingshu, it was established after the founding of Taizu. Large-scale state-owned enterprises have closed down one after another because of the inertia formed by long-term iron rice bowls. From leaders to employees, the long-term waiting, relying, and demanding, have ruined the huge enterprises.

Even the British East India Company collapsed suddenly because of internal ossification and corruption. Therefore, Song Qingshu, the West India Company, had already focused on this aspect at the beginning.

Next to the lush green farm, Li Laobai, who had been promoted to production director because he used to be a grain officer, swallowed his saliva, and led a village worker under him, guarding there anxiously, while a few of them held small Benben, the firm's clerk dispatched from the mainland, and now the commercial commissioner of the West India Company, is critically patrolling the 500-mu Laobai Village's farm and sugarcane fields.

"There are three weeds in the field, if they are not cleaned up in time, three points will be deducted! There are yellow leaves in the east area of ​​the sugarcane field, and too much fertilizer has been released, ten points will be deducted! The drainage ditch in the north area of ​​rice is silted up, if it is not cleaned up in time, ten points will be deducted!"

Typical layer-by-layer supervision, a regional manager is in charge of ten such farms, and several business commissioners under him will assist in the management. If one farm fails to be investigated and dealt with, all workers’ wages for the month will be goodbye. If they fail three times in a row, Zhuangzi The leader said, "Go to the sky and beg for food. If you fail five times, the whole village will be thrown back to Lianghuai to pick up food, so Li Laobai's heart skipped a beat every time a few young Shanxi guys made a record.

Seven cuts and eight cuts, and finally the regional manager, the young man from Cao's family in Shanxi, shouted angrily: "67 points, barely qualified! Don't think about this month's bonus! If you do it again next month, the whole district will report it." criticize!"

This is also a more severe punishment. Ninety percent of the farm can receive half of the salary as a bonus that month, but if it is on the verge of passing three times in a row and is criticized by the notice, the bonus for this year will be forgotten. Last time During the construction period, this Zhuangzi was careless and sloppy, and failed several firefighting stations in a row. He took out the taels of silver and quietly stuffed them into the hands of the general manager.

"Mr. Manager, we country people are rough and don't know the rules. Please, please mention it later..."

Who knew that before the words were finished, that Manager Cao was already there, and dropped the silver on the ground in a rage.

"The commander-in-chief kindly took you poor people in and gave everyone a bowl of food. You are good, you don't want to make progress, you just want to go wrong! This time, the manager will write it down. If you do it again next time, you don't have to be a production director!"

Seeing Manager Cao get angry, Li Laobai was so frightened that his pants almost fell off, and he hurriedly bowed to him with a mournful face.

"Master Manager, the young ones are not directors, your lord has a lot!"

"Humph!"

The nose is not the nose, the face is not the face, the manager flung his sleeves and left to inspect the next field.

At any rate, this month's salary has been paid. For the convenience of calculation, Song Qingshu also minted silver coins. The two West India Company silver coins mixed with some solid metal are just half taels. Even though each of them got two silver coins again, the big guys were obviously not in a good mood.

"How is it possible that there are no cats stealing fish? Next time everyone donates a silver coin and send it to Manager Cao, I don't believe he won't accept it!" Blowing on the buzzing silver coins, the village accountant Zhang Xiaoyu was aggrieved Humming, Li Laobai who heard it quickly shook his head with lingering fear.

"Forget it, don't think about it, doing a good job is better than anything else, Lao Zhang, your team weeds and checks frequently, Xiao Zhao, your team cleans up the silt, and you should also be diligent, we can't embarrass the Yingtian team! Manager Cao also said Yes, down-to-earth work is more important than anything else, let's leave!"

Except for Zhang Xiaoyu who was still a little unconvinced, a large group of workers suffocated and dispersed in the field, starting their day's work.

Li Laobai didn't know, but fortunately he rejected Zhang Xiaoyu, otherwise, he would really have been fucked!
No one is perfect, and this corruption and bribery situation even exists in Jiaduobao Company, so Song Qingshu also formulated two-tiered rules. This manager doesn't have to do it anymore, go back to Shanxi to plant corn, and since then his reputation has been zero, and the firm and Shanxi merchants will not hire him again.

Both kindness and strength, each region's annual summary also has a bonus, a few percent of the total sales profit of sucrose, deerskin, tobacco, etc. each year, the higher the ranking, the higher the bonus amount, and the better the promotion of the regional manager First, even if Zhang Xiaoguo gave Manager Cao all the wages of the entire village workers for the whole year, he would not ask for it, and he would not dare to ask for it.

Under this system, Taiwan, a new colony, is guaranteed to be efficient, fast and clean.

If Daming could use this kind of management, maybe the building would not be so collapsed!

On this side, in the efforts of Li Laobai and others gnashing their teeth, when the new colony is becoming more and more prosperous, a new storm is blowing in the distant Liaodong.

Taking advantage of the spring breeze in Liaodong to finally bring some warmth, in Xinyi Village outside Jinzhou City, hundreds of old farmers are also slowly digging the ground with hoes, sowing this year's early wheat.

It's not that compared to Li Laobai's energetic work, these old farmers are obviously a little listless, and even procrastinate on purpose. The Liaodong War has spread year after year, and the generalization has become more and more serious. In that way, control all the land in the defense zone, and the Liao people have to rely on them. More than [-]% of the grain cultivated in a year has to be turned over into rent and military supplies. I hope that these Liao tenants also have little motivation to work.

But even making a living like this seems to be a luxury in this era. Just when the big guy was doing lazily, a soldier on a horse suddenly came running from the north, sweating profusely.

"Jianu is coming, everyone stay away! Jianu is coming, everyone stay away!"

The sound was like a big stone dropped from a pond, which stirred up thousands of waves. Those tenants of the Liao people dropped their hoes and fled in all directions screaming.

In less than half an hour, carrying the White Dragon banner, the mighty Eight Banners cavalry was like a dark cloud in the sky, quickly trampling on the entire field, and the leader of the army, Gu Shan Ezhen, was still Dorgon.

The last big defeat in the pass made Dorgon and Zhengbai Qi the target of public criticism in the Jurchen Eight Banners. Many Baylors wrote a letter of impeachment together, demanding that Dorgon be imprisoned in the same way as Amin, and deprived of the land. Once, Huang Taiji actually supported Dorgon so resolutely that he forced him to rely on fines of money and food, and lost four cattle records to survive this test.

In fact, it is no wonder that Amin is one of the Four Great Baylors, and he poses a great threat to Huang Taiji's throne. If he can be killed, he must be killed, but the Dorgon brothers, Huang Taiji became the throne by wooing them. Once Dorgon's reputation was discredited, the two white flags needed to be attached to the two yellow flags even more. Although the loss did make Huang Taiji a toothache, it consolidated his position after all.

But even so, how could someone as arrogant as Dorgon swallow this breath?Leading Zhengbai Qi as the vanguard this time, he came with a vengeful anger.

Looking coldly at the Tuntian Zhuangzi of the Liaodong Army who had already escaped, Dorgon waved his hand fiercely like a hungry wolf.

"burn!"

Billowing black smoke quickly drifted across half the sky, and dozens of farms in a row were all ablaze. This is not over yet. In Dongguan, Jinzhou, the fierce shouts and killings spread for several miles. There is no Han Eight Banners as cannon fodder, and I have not personally attacked the city for several years The Jurchen soldiers were still brave and fierce, and in less than half a day, the eastern barrier of Jinzhou had been broken.

Standing on the top of the towering city of Jinzhou, the gray-white eyebrows of Zu Dashou, the current Liaodong general who is over half a century old, trembled to the extreme. Back then, Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Dushi, built the city every step of the way. These Jurchens learned and used it. It was the Ming army who built Linghe City to threaten Shenyang. However, half a year ago, the Qing army built Yizhou and cultivated it there, directly threatening Jinzhou, an important city in the Guanning Jin defense line.

Moreover, the Jurchen sent out all their forces back then to break the Dalinghe City, igniting the Ming army's strategic intentions, but now, Zu Dashou has marched into Yizhou several times, but was all beaten back.

Now imitating the battle of the Daling River, the Qing army built slaves and dug layers of trenches outside Jinzhou City, trying to trap Jinzhou to death again!
The Daling River ran out of water and food, and the tragic scene of cannibalism seemed to vaguely reverberate in Zu Dashou's mind. The muscles on his face twitched violently. After a long time, he turned around anxiously.

"Hurry up and send a report to the imperial court, Jinzhou is in a hurry! Jinzhou is in a hurry!"

(End of this chapter)