The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 126 Demographic Dividend
After Jia Min came out from Mrs. Wang's place, she went back to the East Flower Hall.At this time, Ping'er, Fenghua and Xueyue should all be here.However, only Fenghua and Xueyue were chatting in the room, but Ping'er was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's your sister Ping'er?"

"Tell Qingwen to talk to the Farming and Reading Institute, and tell us to stay here and call her if Fourth Master has something to do."

Alas, this girl is off her post again.

You Qingwen, you have nothing to do all day, always looking for someone to talk to?If you don't dare to come out, just ask Ping'er to come to your place, it's really worrying.

In the past few days, the Shunzi project has been launched. When the time comes, others will be busy making money. I see who has the time to talk to you.

"Has everything been arranged for the lock?"

"Sister Ping'er has made all the arrangements, just wait for Sanniang to come back, and they will distribute them."

"You have prepared the forms and accounts. When the time comes, who gets what materials, how much, what is edited, and how much is edited, you have to record clearly. This matter is related to other people's money making. But don't make a mistake."

"Don't worry, fourth master. You've taught us this way, and you won't be ashamed."

Ping'er, Fenghua and Xueyue, after several months of training, have already known more than 1000 characters, learned basic arithmetic skills, and can also deal with the affairs of the lock.Now that Jia Min is promoting this project, they are just in use.The training for them has paid off.

"In normal times, don't be lazy, and don't forget about literacy. Learn more skills, and it will be useful sooner or later. Don't learn from some people. They have high eyesight and low abilities, and they have a big temper all day, but they can't do much. business."

"Fourth Master, sister Ping'er is not such a person."

Feng Hua said bluntly.

"I'm not talking about Ping'er, I'm talking about someone else."

"Oh, I see, fourth master meant Qingwen, right?"

Xueyue spoke.This little girl is also very smart.

Naturally, Jia Min wasn't talking about Ping'er, but about Qingwen.

"Yes, I'm talking about her. Don't learn from her, but keep a distance from her. "

"We don't want to associate with her either, she seems to despise us."

"You are redeemed, and your current identities are earned by yourself. She is a servant, what right does she have to look down on you? She just can't get her position right, and she doesn't know who she is. After a while, she gradually understands. gone."

Qingwen is proud and arrogant, seeing that Fenghua and Xueyue, who were originally inconspicuous in the mansion, have redeemed themselves, she is unconvinced in her heart.From time to time, they even used words to run on Fenghua and Xueyue, sarcastically.

That is, she, a person with zero EQ, would do this.If someone else knew that Fenghua and Xueyue had redeemed their lives and came out with Jia Min, they are now Jia Min's direct descendants, so why would they do such a nonchalant thing?

Jia Min gave a few words of advice, saying that you are all going to do great things in the future, don't be as knowledgeable as Qingwen.Then I went back to the Institute of Farming and Reading, and prepared to change my clothes.

Walking on the road, I saw many maids and women running towards the kitchen.I happened to meet Zijuan, Daiyu's maid, and asked her what happened, she was so flustered.

Zijuan told Jia Min that it was Xichun's big maid who played chess, and brought two young maids to destroy the kitchen.

"Oh, it's because you didn't make egg custard, right?"

"How did fourth master know?"

Zijuan was very surprised, and thought that fourth master's ears were really good, and he knew what just happened here.

"I just heard that too. Who's in charge?"

"Second Grandma Lian just passed by."

"Okay, you go."

In the original novel of the Red Chamber, because the kitchen didn't make egg custard for Xichun in time, Siqi, the foreman of Xichun's maid, led two young maids and smashed the kitchen.

Among the girls, Xichun was relatively weak.One is that she is relatively young, and the other is that she is relatively introverted and cowardly.In Jia Mu's place, she may have been neglected, but it is not discriminatory.

However, the maids below her may not necessarily think so.It is also possible that the other servants were snobbish and favored one another.

However, smashing up the kitchen just like that is not a proper behavior after all.

Hearing that Wang Xifeng had gone, Jia Min ignored it.Thinking about it in my heart, the kitchen also has a lot of problems, shoddy purchases, kickbacks, and people stealing things home are all regular problems.

It's just that he's only been back for a short time now, the matter of the bus and carriage has not been dealt with yet, and the Shuzi plan is about to be pushed forward.

When these two things are settled, the internal affairs of the Jia Mansion will be rectified and reformed.

The current plan is a sub-plan of this reform.

Judging from the current population structure of Rongning Second Prefecture, it is quite reasonable.Overall, it is a pyramid-shaped structure.

There are only a dozen or twenty masters at the top.The management in the middle, that is, those who are housekeepers and managers, although there are a lot of people, but the number is basically within a reasonable range.

The rest are at the bottom, with a huge base of servants. There are more than 2000 people in the two prefectures combined.

On the surface, among the more than 2000 people, there is indeed a large number of redundant staff, and many people are in a state of doing nothing and being overstaffed.

The cause of this state is actually more complicated.There are practical reasons, such as greed for vanity and pursuit of appearance.

Like Mother Jia, she has eight maidservants, and they all hug her wherever she goes.She sat there to eat, and there were several maidservants standing beside her, one with water, another with tea, some with towels, or hand warmers, etc.

There are also eight maidservants in Baoyu's room.Jia She, Jia Zheng, etc., in addition to maids, also have concubines, and concubines must also be accompanied by maids and so on.

Another reason is seasonality.In winter in the north, agricultural production activities basically stopped, and the servants in the village outside were basically idle.This also caused a lot of waste of personnel.

Besides, there are historical reasons.The main problem is that there are more and more descendants of these descendants as time goes on.In fact, these people are all attached to the Jia family to survive.

In fact, no matter whether it is the maids and women in the mansion, the accompanying servants, the shop assistants outside, or the servants in the village, there is not so much work to do.From the perspective of labor load, it is far from full load.

Although the master has the right to dispose of the servants, but he can't be free every day, always find troubles for the people, beat them today, and kill them tomorrow.In addition to the family law, there is still the king's law.

Therefore, the slave's personal attachment to the master has often become a double-edged sword.The slave is attached to the master, but the master must also provide the slave with a basic living condition.

Compared with many other big families, the Jia family is actually more tolerant towards servants.In addition to food, housing, and clothing, monthly bills are also issued.Even if it is not considered a salary, it can be considered a subsidy, and the level is not even low.

In fact, for slaves, even if monthly bills are not issued, it is still possible.That's exactly what many families do.From this point of view, it is reasonable for Jia's mother to often claim that the Jia family is kind to the servants.

In order to deal with this crisis, Jia Amnesty, Wang Xifeng and others once proposed to reduce the number of subordinates, or stop issuing monthly cases to subordinates, or at least reduce the monthly cases.

When Jia's mother invited Jia Min back to the mansion at Yeduju, she also said this.However, this suggestion was rejected by Jia Min.

Even in Jia Min's previous life, the first choice of many companies in a crisis was to cut salaries and lay off employees.Although these measures can play a role in relieving temporary pressure, in fact, the effect is quite limited.Not only will it cause low morale and panic, but it will also cause the loss of some talents and skilled labor.

In fact, the key to these so-called redundant staff depends on how you look at them.

If you see them as a burden, you are a burden.If it is regarded as a resource, it is a fortune.

For Jia Min, the large population of Jia Mansion is a very cheap labor force. This is a human resource, and if it is well utilized, it will be a huge demographic dividend.

It was only because the masters were short-sighted and did nothing that they wasted this very precious human resource.

What is waste?Useful things that are not fully utilized or used in the wrong place are waste.

These servants were limited to the status of servants only because of their origins.In fact, no matter in terms of intelligence and talent, they are not necessarily inferior to the masters.Some are even better than the masters.

For example, Yuanyang and Hepinger, no matter in terms of IQ, EQ, appearance, and talent, compared with the girl in the Red Chamber, how is it worse?Even if it is not as good as Baochai, it is even better than Daiyu, Yingchun and Xichun.

It's just due to the limitation of identity and the lack of a platform to display one's talents.

This platform, when implemented in reality, consists of factors such as skills, capital, and connections.

On the premise of not violating the basic system and mainstream values ​​of this society, providing them with a platform to display their talents is a way to release the energy of these people.

Jia Min's plan is a product of this logic of behavior.

In this way, allowing them to master certain skills and gain some personal wealth can gradually improve their living environment and expand their living space.

At this time, it is necessary to properly handle the relationship between them and the master, and find the greatest common divisor between the two parties, so that the interests of both parties can reach a balance and achieve a win-win situation.

The reason why Jia Min would rather spend 5000 taels of silver to redeem Ping'er and the others was not only because they were his own, but also to show them as an example to the servants.

Ping'er, Jiao Li and others are inspirational role models for other servants.Pinger and the others can do it, so can they.

Of course, in order to achieve this goal, only a small plan is not enough.

However, the current plan is indispensable.It is a powerful wedge for Jia Min to break through the current ice in Jia's mansion!
(End of this chapter)