Increasing residents' deposits is not a difficult thing to do in the Phoenix Kingdom. Even if there are too many methods, it can be confusing.
The simplest thing to do is to adjust the Obsidian Bank rate.
Obviously, this method will be cheaper for the rich. This group can easily make money in their own industrial and commercial environment, so there is no need to give more money.
Then increase the basic salary?
Basic wages are adjusted every three to five years, and this power has long been delegated to various cities. Untimely forced increases will cause other problems, such as industrial relocation.
The advantage of the company is that it has completed universal education, the average quality of its workers is high, and it has relatively complete supporting facilities in chemical industry, metallurgy, and machining, so businessmen can tolerate higher labor costs.
But if the cost reaches a certain level, some industries that are not that profitable will definitely consider relocating. Especially in the trade circle, many places are affected by the kingdom, which has lowered the threshold of civilian education to a certain extent. If it is well organized, it can still be achieved. To produce something.
The basic salary can be raised a little bit, but it cannot be raised hard. What is left?
have.
Push up overseas basic income!
As long as the gap between overseas basic income and one's own is narrowed, the systemic risk of industrial transfer will become smaller.
Under the lord system, since the means of production were almost completely controlled by large households, ordinary people could not get enough money to make ends meet without doing heavy work.
If there was a way to make ends meet without doing heavy work, the pay for hard work would rise, which would have a chain reaction of making pay for less physically strenuous work rise as well.
What Wang Qi had to do was determine the labor force required to satisfy his hunger, and then prepare a sacred tree plant.
Using the divine tree ability can effectively avoid direct conflicts of interest - this is food that appears in nature, can big families control it?
To ensure that large households cannot control the food source, this time the fruits are required to be sufficiently dispersed, preferably growing like weeds.
The large-scale use of Solaris organisms would lead to the risk of large-scale biological contamination similar to that of Demon Arrival. However, such risks are not necessarily so bizarre in the penal colony, and there are not many humanoids in the first place.
And as long as a suitable method is found and the editing ability of the sacred tree seeds is used, the plant can completely lose its dependence on the parasite after a certain generation and become a normal wild plant. The initial iteration can be completed under controlled conditions, and the overall risk Not particularly high.
In addition to using sacred trees to boost overseas income, it can also be achieved by promoting industrial upgrading, just like the previous promotion of pot camel machines and wood gas power.
New industries mean more labor demand, and the labor supply and demand relationship is artificially adjusted to achieve the purpose of rising labor prices.
However, due to the strong power of overseas vested interests, the change cycle will be lengthened.
For example, before promoting the pot camel machine, the Kingdom also held an investment fair to share industrial technologies and equipment such as iron-making, steel-making, and textiles. These technologies are indeed playing their role, but the benefits are concentrated in cross-island trade. The increase in people's income is very limited.
Therefore, even if the technology is further opened up, the results will most likely not be as expected, and the time required to achieve the expected goals will be worse than taking the sacred tree route.
After analyzing the pros and cons and knowing that the Sacred Tree route is more controllable, the next step is to make a specific plan.
The frame of reference must of course be agriculture.
In the earliest days of agriculture, Phoenix Coin was considered a positive factor when evaluating the purchasing power. At that time, ordinary laborers could only earn less than 30 yuan after deducting a month's rest, and the average monthly income of the agricultural population could reach 60 yuan.
Unfortunately, we do not have a strong and comprehensive cross-breeding team. Open-air farming is greatly affected by the climate, and the upper limit is too low. Gradually, we can no longer keep up with the basic salary.
Afterwards, farmers were gradually eliminated and transformed into agricultural workers who mainly cultivated in glass greenhouses.
Agricultural workers are corporate employees and enjoy the same minimum wage protection.
However, not everyone likes to work for others. In addition to the agricultural enterprise form, there is still a certain amount of farmer cooperation and small farmer farming in the territory.
Both of these are not guaranteed by the minimum wage. When converted into average monthly income, it is between 60 and 90 yuan. The standard dosage of nitrogen fertilizer is fully subsidized by the official. The average monthly labor time is 120 hours, which is far lower than the monthly salary of industrial workers. The average working time is 156 hours.
It can be seen from this that at this stage, manual workers do not enjoy the extra income brought by the scissor difference between workers and farmers, and their income per unit time is no different from that of farmers.
This situation is difficult to identify as high exploitation, but is actually the price paid for the accumulation of original production means. Take Caihong Group, the most important private enterprise, as an example. It includes Caihong Metal, Caihong Chemical, Caihong Tire, and Gold Chemical, and has invested more than 100 million yuan in total equipment. This does not even include factory buildings, site preparation, etc. The purchasing power of a gram of gold for six yuan in Phoenix coins cannot be raised even if the land of Fenggu before naturalization is turned over with more than 100 million yuan. It can only be achieved through production and reinvestment.
Now these manufacturers are affected by the market size, hardware investment has stabilized, and dividends are increasing year by year. This is also one of the basis for Wang Qi to increase residents' income. The distribution should be more inclined to labor value rather than the previous industrial formation.
Back to agriculture, the labor required to obtain low-cost food from sacred trees overseas should be somewhere between farming and chewing tree bark.
Taking into account the higher food prices abroad and the labor differences in gathering and farming, Wang Qi finally set an effective working time of 3 to 4 hours.
In other words, in the wild, an adult can spend 3 to 4 hours collecting food to meet his or her nutritional and caloric needs for the day.
The food should be in the form of grass, and the edible parts should preferably be rhizomes. On the one hand, it is easier to control the amount of labor required, and on the other hand, it is also helpful to avoid the control of its production area by big players and bad breeders.
The conclusion is drawn, it should be a wild potato or wild sweet potato, and if the hiding and storage needs are further considered, wild peanuts are the best.
Potatoes... do you have them at home?
It really is.
There are some differences between the potatoes in Li Xiang's hometown and the world in Wang Qi's previous life. However, apart from the differences in skin thickness and color, the taste, composition, and yield are all very similar. The varieties brought to the exile by the Night Clan have been wildened to a certain extent. It may be that the peacetime version was attacked by some disease during the tuber propagation process.
The yield of this version of potatoes is only 3.5 tons per hectare so far, which is not much higher than the 3.2 tons of soybeans. Of course, this has something to do with the nitrogen-fixing ability of soybeans themselves, which can reduce fertility requirements.
Wang Qi took the opportunity to take a vacation with Li Xiang and took Bai Xiaojiao to find a circle of wild potatoes near the man-made farmland in the west of the city.
It is difficult to find, probably in the form of potatoes, and is difficult to scatter outside farmland. In addition, the degree of wildness is not enough, and its own wild competitiveness is relatively weak.
The farmland in the west of the city is relatively close to the Ice Forest. There may be certain special circumstances. In order to ensure the applicability, Wang Qi sent a group of inner court guards to Elte, Montenegro, Pangxun and other places to try to find it.
The conclusions reached are similar. Although this type of potato is not particularly small in the wild environment, it lacks the ability to self-diffusion. Finding one plant at a certain point does not prove that a second plant can be found dozens of meters away from the farmland. It’s almost impossible to find it beyond one kilometer.
This level of rewilding ability does not meet the requirement of "avoiding control by large households".
Potatoes lack advantages in preservation. Since the existing varieties cannot meet the requirements and their form has average potential for wild spread, we decided to go back and develop a brand new peanut-like crop ourselves.
