It was already the second day when we arrived in Wannian County. After seeing the Huayang Smelting Department and Chang'an Textile City, it was already a bit late, so Liu Tong sent the group of people back to their homes after giving them a banquet in Weiyang Palace. .
The banquet in the evening consisted of regular dishes, but everything was rich in the essence of heaven and earth. Masinde and Rangarajan had a somewhat complicated mentality when eating, but they had already seen the power of the Han Dynasty, and they were still worried about this level. Acceptable.
Chang'an is considered the most beautiful place at the foot of the emperor, and it is naturally built very well. As for Wannian County, it is a rather strange county. It is a legacy of history in the entire Yongzhou. Liu Tong's complete title is Wannian County. The eldest princess, Fan Chou's full title is Wannian Hou.
To put it simply, legally Wannian County belongs to both Liu Tong's Tangmuyi and Fan Chou's fiefdom. Of course, both of them regard Wannian County as non-existent due to historical issues.
"Is this Wannian County?" Liu Tong looked at the people who were harvesting cabbage and asked curiously. Although it was her Tang Muyi, she had never received money from here. According to the treatment of princesses in the Han Dynasty, analogies in this place The princes, however, never came.
"Well, Wannian County is the largest cabbage processing base in Chang'an. The pickles, pickles, and sauerkraut in Chang'an are all produced here. Most of the villages here are engaged in this." Chen Xi nodded and said, "Many vendors also purchase here."
"There are very standard township workshops here. You two can find out on your own. If I take you to a place like this, it won't be interesting. You can just see it for yourselves." Chen Xi smiled at Masinde and Langa Rajan said.
The two looked at each other and left together without asking any questions.
"Ordinarily, this is my Tangmuyi." Liu Tong looked at the cabbages and said with some nostalgia, "Back then, my father actually wanted to entrust me to this place. There is water and plains here, and it is still in Guanzhong. It's a pity that I can't live here for a long time." None of them have ever been here.”
"Fortunately, you didn't say that I haven't received a penny here in all these years." Chen Xi interrupted Liu Tong's memory with a smile.
When Liu Tong heard this, he cut off the rest of the sentence with a sad remembrance, and looked at Chen Xi angrily, "Am I such an unknown person in Chen Hou's eyes?"
"No, it's just emotion." Chen Xi said with a smile.
"I won't take the people's food money without collecting it for thousands of years. I, the princess, won't lose my status like this." Liu Tong said with a bit of pride.
"I thought you loved money." Chen Xi said with a smile.
"I really love money." Liu Tong glanced at Chen Xi and said quietly, "But I know whose money I can take and whose money I can't take."
"If this were not the case, I should have laid off workers in that large garment factory near Chang'an." Before Chen Xi could speak, Liu Tong looked into the distance and said.
Chen Xi laughed dryly that some things cannot be hidden, and for things that can be hidden, sometimes people pretend not to know, but Liu Tong knew it, but pretended not to know.
"Just like what you told me before, "The water that overturned the boat is the tears of the people. I don't know it until Mr. Hengliu." Do you really don't know, or are you just suffering again?" Liu Tong looked sideways at Chen Xi and asked.
"It's better to suffer just a little longer." Chen Xi sighed and said, "But sometimes it's just that straw that breaks down and the whole world turns against him."
"I don't care about that. The money I received from Tang Muyi after racking my brains is not as good as going to someone during the Chinese New Year to ask for lucky money." Liu Tong looked at Chen Xi with a faint smile, and Chen Xi turned his head and pretended to be dead.
"Can Masinde and Langarajan be trusted?" Seeing Chen Xi pretending to be dead, Liu Tong sneered twice and changed the subject.
"It doesn't matter whether we can trust them or not. What we need is their abilities. As long as they are here, they will show their abilities." Chen Xi said calmly, "There is no way to lie about their situation, and there is no need to lie about it. .”
While Chen Xi was explaining the situation of Masinde and Rangarajan, the two men had already gone deep into the villages and towns under Wannian County.
Different from the villages that Masinde and Rangarajan had seen before, the big villages here have a huge structure outside.
When Masinde and Rangarajan arrived at the workshop, they saw these people drying washed Chinese cabbage.
The two of them did not go over to disturb them, they just watched from a distance, and then watched the process of drying the vegetable leaves, gathering the vegetable leaves, cooking them, draining them, etc., as people gradually appeared, and people kept coming out of the village, and then there were people. I left due to something, but the overall process moved forward in an orderly manner.
Masinde and Rangarajan watched like this for half the morning, and then changed to another village to watch again. They looked at the process that was not complicated to say the least, and looked at the busy people, sometimes coming and sometimes passing. The people were amazed.
After eating pickled cabbage noodles at the local village at noon, Masinde and Rangarajan moved to another place to look around. When they came back in the afternoon, they found that Chen Xi and Liu Tong had returned to Chang'an, leaving only their guards behind. Wait for the two of them to come back.
"Do you understand?" On the morning of the third day, Chen Xi looked tiredly at the excited Masinde and Rangarajan and asked.
"I don't understand, but as an ordinary person, an ordinary person with no ambition, I am willing to work in a local workshop in a town. Even if the salary is not as good as in the city, the benefits are far behind, and there are no cheap supplies, but there are local The benefits." Masinde said with a wry smile.
"The day before yesterday, we all felt that this was an artificial barrier, but now we feel that if the opening is not so high, local people may not be willing to come. They can eat and drink at home, go to work when they go out, and take care of the whole family. The annual income According to the piece rate, there is no precise working time." Rangarajan also lamented, it's not that the city offers such a high salary, but it's not that it won't work if the city doesn't offer such a high salary!
"The wages in local township workshops are not low." Masinde thought for a while and said.
"How did you get the salary data?" Chen Xi asked curiously.
"My farewell letter is not fake. I just said that I am here for inspection. I want to replicate this model in our Zangzhou. How could those officials refuse?" Masinde said flatly, "Not even mentioning the bureaucracy. The problem is, this is a matter of mutual benefit."
"There are only a handful of lazy people. Most people's monthly salary is no less than five hundred cash. This is calculated after taking into account the time they spend farming, weeding, and harvesting." Rangarajan looked at Chen Xi and said, " These people are equivalent to taking care of their families, land output, wage income, and more importantly, their attitude towards life.”
Masinde and Rangarajan actually noticed the life attitude of the female workers in the textile factory, and even though they were optimistic about the future, under that kind of management system, these female workers were destined to be somewhat tired after being controlled, even if they showed it very lightly. But compared to the group of people he met yesterday, there was a big gap. That group of people didn't even feel like the bottom of society to Masinde.
Chen Xi nodded and expressed his understanding. The problem was that Wannian County was an exception. As a well-known pickle processing place in the Gyeonggi region, its advantages were too obvious.
Again, with the same income of 10,000 yuan, even if you work nine to five, as long as you have a mortgage and a car loan, it takes two or three hours to commute, and the company has complete rules and regulations, you will still be exhausted. If I switch to a company across the road in front of my ancestral home, I can freely arrange my working hours, and I can go to and from get off work at any time. I will be paid according to my workload, and I can basically guarantee a monthly income of 10,000 yuan. I still have a vineyard to take care of, so in the future The latter will definitely kill the former.
The salary at Chang'an Textile Factory is actually not low. Including the benefits that can be obtained from large supply and marketing cooperatives, it can basically reach more than 800 yuan. However, this 800 yuan is completely incomparable to the 500 yuan job in Wannian County, or even If you really want to compare it, it's a bit heart-wrenching.
"Wannian County is considered a relatively high-end local township." Chen Xi scratched his head and said, "Most township enterprises actually only earn living expenses, which is two or three hundred yuan a month. In fact, this kind of The workshops mostly absorb leisure labor, but Wannian County adapts to local conditions and does relatively well."
"Is there anything better than this?" Masinde thought for a moment, not knowing what to ask.
"Taishan, Langya in Xuzhou, and Donglai in Qingzhou all have workshops in local towns that can ensure that the people working in the villages can earn a monthly income of more than 1,000." Chen Xi replied calmly.
When they first crossed Mount Tai, those old people from Mount Tai listened to what Chen Xi said
He said that they quickly gave up their livestock business without even asking for compensation. These people were already wealthy households and would have definitely become the landlord class in the past.
In that kind of village, there may be more than one large-scale workshop in each village, some owned by the village and some privately owned, and the income is naturally very good.
When Chen Xi talked about helping local people at the Great Court Meeting, he was able to convince the major families. In addition to Chen Xi being right enough and having enough benefits in the future, a large part of the reason was that some places really did what Chen Xi did. The level mentioned is even more than that. More importantly, it is possible to replicate this level, it just requires investment.
"However, based on my judgment, most, or even the vast majority, of local township industries are more focused on absorbing wealthy local labor and improving overall output. Villages that can truly create huge benefits basically have their own Advantage." Chen Xi saw the horrified expressions of Masinde and two people and immediately explained.
"In that case, we can understand." Masinde nodded.
"Now I think you all know what kind of talents I need." Chen Xi looked at Masinde and said.
"Among the people who come and go, there are always a few people who remain stationary. Those people are the backbone of these village workshops, the technical staff, financial managers who maintain the workshops, and the organizational staff who must be from the village." Ma. Cinder quickly gave the answer.
"Yes, technology and finance can be parachuted in, but the organizing staff must come from this village, otherwise it will not be organized, and even if it is organized, the money will be easily distributed unevenly." Chen Xi nodded and said, "So in the end At least three people are needed.”
"I'll find the technical staff, and I can rely on Rangarajan to give them to them. I can't guarantee the level of the financial staff, but I can guarantee the level of the organizational staff, because the conditions are very clear, and they are directly selected from the villages, and there are clear screening conditions." Ma Cinder raised her eyebrows slightly.
"For financial personnel, there are schools in every county. You can find the right one there." Chen Xi thought for a moment and gave the answer. Of course, Chen Xi knew that this was not a good answer, but sometimes, it would be good to have an answer. .
"In this way, the framework can at least be set up." Masinde nodded cautiously, "Speaking of which, before I came here, I really never thought that I would receive such an important job, and it was voluntary. Acceptable."
"People actually want to do something. Failure is just the result of being forced by society and having no choice. As long as there is an opportunity, who doesn't want to be looked down upon by others? And after this level, who doesn't want to be mentioned in the history books? There are thick and colorful strokes on it." Chen Xi smiled and said to Masinde, "It's just human nature, no one wants to be ruined, and no one wants to lie flat, but there is no choice."
Masinde nodded. He agreed with this. He really didn't want to fight for Kushan's situation because he had no reason and no suitable partner.
"Then I hope we can have a happy cooperation." Chen Xi sat upright solemnly, and then bowed to Masinde.
"I dare not accept it, but I will try my best to do it." Masinde did not shy away from this gift. He knew very well that since he accepted to do this, he was qualified to receive this gift.
"I will try my best here, but how much the technicians can understand does not depend on my talent, but on their accumulation." After receiving the gift, Rangarajan replied to Chen Xi.
"Just try your best. It will be faster with you at least. Without you, we still have to face many problems, so you can relax and just take care of your own affairs." Chen Xi said very freely. As far as Chen Xi was concerned, these two people were an unexpected surprise. It would be great if they could do their best. Didn't they have to do these jobs when they didn't have them?
"In that case, over there in Zangzhou..." Masinde asked, flexing his knuckles and knocking on the table, "My absence for a long time will inevitably arouse suspicion. It seems that we have to deal with it in advance."
"No, just send a letter saying that you are investigating in the Han Dynasty, trying to find a way to attack Chang'an, and then find an opportunity to send it to him. When the time comes, he will rush down from Zangzhou and the army will surround him. What? It's all solved," Rangarajan said casually.
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"Somewhat cruel," Masinde replied.
"Don't say Assam is not the manpower you arranged." Rangarajan mocked.
