After the Great Revolution, Su Yonglin wiped out most of the upper class people in the city.
The upper class people have been wiped out, and the main consumer groups in the city have also disappeared.
After these people were eliminated, a large number of citizens who kept wandering around them had no livelihood, no source of income, and no way to live in the city.
So they had to drag their families and leave the city, trying to return to the countryside to settle down and return to a life where men farmed and women weaved.
This resulted in a large-scale wave of urban residents returning home.
It was precisely because of this wave of the Great Revolution that a large amount of rural land was regained by the imperial court. It was exactly when the imperial court needed the agricultural population to fill the gap and expand the agricultural production area.
Therefore, this wave of "reversing the wheels of history" made a successful transition without any danger.
Large numbers of "citizens" returned from cities to settle in rural areas, returned to the fields, obtained rural household registration, land and houses, farm tools and preferential agricultural policies, began to cultivate fields, and restarted food production.
A wave of "counter-urbanization" is taking place within the borders of the Ming Empire.
As the center of the Great Revolution, the cleanest area where the upper classes were purged, and the area where counter-urbanization occurred most intensely, Laiwu County in Tai'an Prefecture naturally had a large number of "citizens" who returned to the countryside to settle down. .
Their appearance has made the settlement quotas in various villages somewhat tense.
Families of urban residents who returned to their hometowns to work in agriculture were eager to obtain household registration and land, which was a considerable test for the grassroots government of the Ming Empire.
At this time, the rural peasant association organization set up by Su Yonglin played an incomparable role. County and state officials were all grateful for the current situation of imperial grassroots organizations below the county level.
Village farmers' associations, township farmers' associations and county officials often get together to discuss solutions. This village will claim a few families, and that village will claim a few families. Anyway, this wave of population return must be solved within three months.
This wave of return migration has brought about a shortage of rural settlement quotas, but it has also brought about a large-scale reduction in the urban population.
In the context of the entire Great Revolution, the original landowning gentry class in the city was purged on a large scale, and their entire families were physically wiped out by the court. Coupled with the loss of citizens, some cities were almost completely empty. An empty city.
The gentlemen sent it, and the citizens took the buckets and ran away, leaving a large number of empty houses in the county, becoming ownerless houses.
In addition to the original citizens' houses, a large number of gentleman's houses were confiscated by the court and became state-owned property.
It is a pity that the imperial court has a large number of registered properties, but they cannot be converted into wealth and re-entered circulation.
But in this era, after killing the old men, there really is no takeover person who can take over the house in the city.
Except for the locations of government offices at all levels and some traditional commercial towns, cities throughout the Ming Dynasty were experiencing a wave of population loss. If there was a real estate market these days, the Ming Dynasty's real estate market must have completely collapsed, and the entire society began to Violent turmoil.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty still had a huge economic base in the countryside, and it successfully achieved a soft landing of the economy without causing any major troubles.
Nowadays, in most cities of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to officials, clerks and some handymen hired by the government, there are only a few small merchants and hawkers left who specialize in their business. The remaining people are almost empty, and they have all returned to the countryside. So the city looks a little "deserted".
In this context, Fang Zhiqiang's persuasion to Xiao Cui is natural. Of course, he doesn't think there is anything good about living in the city. He can't see many living people, and there is no one to talk to when living together. , not lively at all, what’s so good about it?
But when Xiao Cui heard this, his heart moved.
Should she say it or not, she really thinks the city is very good. If possible, she is willing to move to the city, buy a small house, and bring her mother and younger brother to live in the city.
Because there are such people in her workplace.
In her factory, some male and female workers who liked each other got married. Such cases were not uncommon in factories in recent years.
Xiao Cui knew a couple of married male and female workers.
Because most factories are closer to the city, couples also need private space after getting married. It is not suitable to continue living in the factory's dormitory.
So the parents of the two families worked together to buy a property in the county as their new house.
Due to the sparse population in the county and a large number of people returning to live in rural areas, many properties are vacant, but there are relatively few buyers.
Therefore, some very good properties only need to be sold at a relatively low price, which can even be called a fire sale. It is not difficult for them to buy a property.
The young couple used their saved wages, and the two families also took some money from agricultural production, and together they made up the house payment. After getting married, the young couple left the factory dormitory and lived in a new house in the county town.
When they got married, they invited some of the workers who were close friends in the factory to have a wedding banquet. Xiao Cui also went along and saw the new house in the city, and then witnessed how they lived happily together at work and off work every day after getting married.
Such a young couple is not a pair in the factory.
Almost all families of married male and female workers chose to buy real estate in the county and then moved to the county. From then on, they lived a stable life in the county's factories.
Their lifestyle is completely different from that of their ancestors. They do not live in the fields and rely on cultivating the land to eat from the ground. They like working in the factory, so their choice is to rely on the wage income from the factory to work in the county town. Life.
They became new citizens.
Therefore, in Xiao Cui's view, although there are relatively few people in the county and it is relatively "deserted", it is precisely because of this that houses are cheaper.
Some small houses that were used by civilians were cheaper. As long as she worked hard and lived frugally, relying on the wages paid by the factory, she could save enough money to buy a house in a few years.
Xiao Cui clenched her fists and made up her mind.
She will rely on her own efforts to save money to buy a house, and then take her mother and younger brother to live in the county town to get rid of her hateful alcoholic father.
As for their future life, it would be better to use the factory wages to support them, or ask the instructor to find a cooking job for my mother.
When the younger brother grows up, he can also work in a factory. Then all three members of the family will work in the factory and receive three wages, which will definitely be enough to live on.
Xiao Cui happily planned a happy life for her family of three in the future, then gritted her teeth and began to work hard to save money.
She didn't just say it, she actually made a plan and started working hard.
The original form of wages in textile factories was hourly wages, which meant wages were calculated based on attendance time and paid to workers on a daily basis to gain people's support.
After running for a while, because it was too cumbersome and the demand for manpower was too great, the salary was changed to once every ten days, and then to twenty days. Finally, the rule of salary payment was formed once a month, which has never changed.
By the first year of Hongwu, because he was dissatisfied with the production efficiency of a large number of public factories and the huge demand gap in the military and some markets, Su Yonglin took the lead in formulating the workers' wage reform bill and changed the hourly wage system to a semi-piece wage system.
That is to say, workers' wages are divided into two halves, one half is the original hourly wage, which is received according to the attendance time, and the other half is the piece rate wage, which is received according to the production efficiency. It pays attention to the more work, the more reward.
Su Yonglin hopes to increase workers' production enthusiasm, improve work efficiency, and reduce the "fishing" behavior of working hours on the premise of ensuring the most basic fairness of distribution and not causing a large income gap between workers.
Sure enough, after the change to the half-piece wage system, the work efficiency of factory workers was greatly improved. The productivity of workers in Hongwu in the three years when the half-piece wage system was fully popularized was much higher than that in any previous year.
The Laiwu County National Textile Factory where Xiao Cui works is one of the first factories to implement the semi-piece rate wage system.
Under such circumstances, Xiao Cui is ready to give full play to his subjective initiative and obtain a higher salary.
