"To put workers first, to make our factory employees rich and prosperous, is the fundamental appeal of this factory construction experiment, rather than just to make shareholders rich and prosperous like private enterprises! I hope you can allow such a factory to survive in this world, and even To become the most powerful industrial presence and then influence the entire business civilization, you must do your best!"
"The area south of the Yangtze River is rich and prosperous, the most populous, the first to develop the world's customs, and has the largest number of overseas workers. It is a place where business travelers from all over the world gather. It is most suitable to experiment with setting up employee-owned government enterprises here, and it can also be used in the fastest time. It affects the whole world, so you’d better go to Jiangnan to find a place to test it.”
"Based on your report, I think that the production of new steam vehicles should be the main business first! Manufacturing is the foundation of the country, and steam vehicles are the future trend, and they are expensive. Industrial products and handicrafts can also be integrated to make the rich It is better to pay for it and let the wealthy spend money like water on it than to let them spend money like water in casinos. In this way, surplus private funds can be attracted and used as research and development capital to improve the corresponding manufacturing technology."
"What Your Majesty said is that in order to introduce steam locomotives that are more suitable for making handicrafts, I went to the Ming Academy of Sciences, the Ming Academy of Engineering, and the Ordnance Manufacturing General Administration to discuss it with scholars and senior craftsmen in those places. Based on the current Ming Dynasty's latest Technology, we decided to directly use gas engines to provide power, changing the process of burning gas outside to burning inside, so that civilian steam locomotives do not need to see tall chimneys, which make people think the car is ugly."
"In terms of manufacturing equipment, we decided to directly use steam-hydraulic presses for forging, steam boring machines, etc., and also mobilized more than a dozen university researchers and craftsmen to go south together, and they will also serve as employees of the new government-run manufacturing factory. This is the list. Please give your Majesty a royal visit! In addition, please also ask Your Majesty to give this factory a name."
"This factory is called Datong Machinery Factory to show that the establishment of this factory adheres to the concept of the world being for the common good!"
"Datong Machinery..."
Looking at the rapidly receding trees outside the window and the Yangtze River getting farther and farther away from him, Bi Ziyan seemed to feel that the conversation he had with His Majesty before leaving Beijing would still appear in his ears from time to time.
In the early days of the Tianqi Dynasty, he became the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. With the support of the emperor, he established a large-scale government-run industry to feed hundreds of thousands of refugees, and also changed the economic situation of the country, where people had to live in poverty.
When he later served as the chief minister of the Tianqi Dynasty, with the support of the emperor, he started the Ming Dynasty's external expansion in one fell swoop, and vigorously developed the commodity economy and colonial economy, so that the Ming Empire did not fall into the crisis of financial collapse due to constant internal natural disasters. Due to the migration of a large number of internal people, the economy inside and outside the Ming Dynasty developed rapidly, and the national funds were so abundant that it could carry out several conquests at the same time.
Now that he is no longer the chief minister, he took advantage of the increased free time. Soon after he returned to his hometown to establish a university of finance and economics, he went to the private sector to inspect the socio-economic situation in person, and he was once again ordered to prepare to do something that no one else could do. Great things done.
Although he is now gray-haired, when he thinks of his purpose of going south at this moment, he only feels that he is still the same person who went to Beijing to take the exam in the past, full of vigor and energy, and always feels that life is unlimited and everything is going well.
What Emperor Zhu Youxiao wants Bi Ziyan to do this time is indeed a major event that no one has done in this era.
Although there are many workers in the Jiangnan area, they are basically service workers and textile workers. On the contrary, there are very few workers in the machinery manufacturing industry, especially skilled machinery manufacturing workers.
Therefore, when Bi Ziyan and others went south this time, they not only brought with them senior academics, that is, research talents in the field of machinery manufacturing, and highly skilled senior craftsmen, but all craftsmen at other levels were recruited from factories in Tianjin. And took them and their relatives south together.
In addition, because there are currently no corresponding machinery and equipment manufacturers in the Jiangnan area, even the equipment is purchased and then moved south.
Therefore, when the special train that Bi Ziyan and others took arrived in Nanjing, then took an official ship to Suzhou, and finally arrived in Kunshan, what the local residents saw was that many workers came to their world with their families, and some Because of his frugal nature, he even brought pots and pans with him.
The reason why Bi Ziyan and others chose to build Datong Machinery Factory in Kunshan was because of the convenient transportation here, with access to the sea via Songjiang and from the north to the south via Suzhou.
In addition, and more importantly, Gu Yanwu, as the main participant in this experiment, actively donated his family's land as factory land in order to realize the ideal of making everyone rich.
Gu Yanwu was from Kunshan, and his family was a big landowner in Kunshan, so he naturally had no shortage of land.
Historically, most of his real estate would be sold off in large quantities because of his luxurious life, but in this life, he used all of it as a test base for the ideal factory of Datong society in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, it was much better than in his previous life when he sold it off to maintain his luxurious life. And it makes more sense.
"Although Datong Machinery Factory has internal funds and state funds as shareholders, they will not send officials to manage us. Moreover, internal funds and state funds only account for a small part of the equity. This is so that the machinery factory can have a start-up fund, so that it can start from Internal funds and state funds contribute! Most of the shares belong to all employees of this factory, and they vary according to their skills, length of service, and position in the factory."
"Datong Machinery Factory has a workers' meeting, which is the only leadership body of the machinery factory. However, there are too many employees, and they may not be in the factory due to business trips or other reasons. Therefore, it is impossible to hold a workers' meeting when all matters need to be decided. Therefore, the workers’ conference needs to regularly elect a number of workers’ committee members to form a workers’ committee, which then decides on daily affairs.”
"Before going south, our factory has elected a workers' committee represented by workers Cheng, Yu, and Qian. Then we will ask workers such as workers Cheng, Yu, and Qian to stay, and the rest will first proceed according to their respective You will get the room number drawn by lottery, go back to your new home here, arrange your next life, and then wait for the factory to announce working hours and corresponding arrangements."
As the employee committee member in charge of the daily work and life arrangements of employees, Gu Yanwu, after convening all the employees who came to Kunshan, first continued to loudly tell the employees the corresponding information about the Datong factory, and then talked about the corresponding measures for the workers. arrange.
And the employees all went to their new homes.
Before they arrived, Gu Yanwu recruited Suzhou builders in the name of building employee residences for Datong Machinery Factory and built a number of townhouses imitating Suzhou gardens as employee residences.
Datong Machinery Factory is employee-oriented, so it naturally has to solve the housing problem of the relocated employees, and the goal is to make all employees prosperous. Naturally, it cannot let the employee housing be too low-standard.
However, the property rights of these employee residences belong to the factory, and employees only have the right to use them and cannot buy or sell them.
Therefore, after these employees move in, they will sign relevant agreements.
And for this reason, when the employees of Datong Machinery Factory saw the houses assigned to them by the factory, they were naturally shocked.
"This, this, this house is too nice. Isn't it just for officials?"
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