"Hey, what are you afraid of? It's only a matter of time." Li Ke said with a smile. It was so funny to see Li Yan lowering her head shyly, and then looking around like a quail to see if anyone else was around. .
Yang Anning and the others had just brought chairs to Li Yan and then left voluntarily, leaving them alone space, so there was no one else around at the moment.
"But...but..." Li Yan didn't even dare to raise her head.
"Haha, okay, let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about work?" Li Ke said with a smile, not teasing Li Yan anymore. Li Yan has a tender face, but it's not like Yang Anning and the others have become veteran drivers now.
Oh no, they have always been experienced drivers. What does it mean to become experienced drivers? It's as if I have changed them.
"Well, there happens to be something that I heard Shangshu Duan Lun say before that I want to discuss it with you, Your Highness." Li Yan said quickly.
"What's going on?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
"It's about some things about the current factories. Many factories have established Datang State-owned Commercial Banks in the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce. The operations of these commercial banks currently want to speed up the recruitment of some permanent workers, mainly for policy reasons. Support, I want the court to provide some excellent policies to attract some people to become permanent workers." Li Yan said.
Hearing this, Li Ke was slightly stunned. This was indeed a problem.
In fact, there was no shortage of employees in the Tang Dynasty. For example, various restaurants and businesses in Chang'an City had some employees. However, originally these employees were all composed of non-registered households, that is, they were all contract households directly purchased by the owner. As a hired hand.
In addition, there are some temporary employees. The land complex in the Chinese people's bones is difficult to let go. The Tang Dynasty court distributed Yongye fields to the people and other means, so that the people would not give up their own fields and become professional employees.
This is also the reason why these commercial banks are desperately buying Kunlun slaves or non-registered households.
In fact, this is also the reason why the business in the Tang Dynasty was not as prosperous as that in the Song Dynasty. The first reason is naturally because the Tang Dynasty was founded in the early days, and the second reason is naturally because the population of the Tang Dynasty was small, and the people all had land, and no one was willing to give up the land.
Therefore, it is very difficult for almost all factories in Chang'an City's industrial zone to recruit permanent employees. Let's not talk about permanent employees. It is just difficult to recruit professional workers.
They are all part-time jobs, and the people will not give up their land.
But now that the Tang Dynasty has developed to this point, in fact, if the industry wants to continue to expand and develop, professional workers are necessary. If nothing else, because of the emergence of steam engines, the restructuring of various factories is necessary. So if these factories want to develop , there must be qualified workers.
These factories also have a certain level of technical content and require long-term training of workers. In this case, some temporary employees are not suitable.
Duan Lun is right, this is indeed a problem.
"Shang Shu Sheng has been discussing this matter?" Li Ke asked.
"Yes, Liang Guogong discussed it with several ministers. They considered the issue of the labor security law that your highness mentioned before, and thought that if it was introduced, it should be able to alleviate some workers' anxiety, but they felt that it was not enough. But How to make people believe that long-term work can support themselves, they don't have an idea now." Li Yan nodded, and when talking about work, Li Yan became serious.
"Just let these state-owned enterprises provide welfare guarantees." Li Ke thought for a while and said. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is social security more than a thousand years later. It seems that introducing social security at this time is a bit nonsense, but the problem is that if Datang wants to have a group of mature professional workers, it can only do this.
Otherwise, no one would want it.
Workers and craftsmen are different. Although craftsmen are now very attractive to ordinary people because they are given titles, etc., they all know that craftsmen who reach that level are not something ordinary people can achieve, and the Tang Dynasty also needs them. Not that level of craftsman, not that much anyway.
The industry in the early Tang Dynasty was able to sustain itself because of the people cultivated and cultivated by Yuelai Trading Company over the years. The people of Yuelai Trading Company cannot be regarded as ordinary people.
After all, their thoughts are different from ordinary people.
But now there are definitely not enough people in Yuelai Trading Company, and a large number of Datang workers must be trained.
In fact, there is a group of people who can use it, such as those in mountainous areas, because these people lack a lot of arable land around them, and they are not willing to leave their hometowns too far, but there is not enough arable land under their mountainous areas, so these places It is definitely impossible to allocate enough 100 acres of cultivated land.
If there are factories in these places, the possibility of them being willing to work will be greatly increased.
Still the same problem, it is impossible to build these factories here for the time being, it is too difficult.
"Welfare protection?" Li Yan asked with some confusion.
"Roughly calculate the average life span of the Tang Dynasty population without war, and then work out a reasonable retirement age. After retirement, even if they do not have a job and enjoy happiness at home, they will still be paid by the country or this factory. Welfare treatment.”
"It means giving them monthly money every month. If they are guaranteed, there is a great possibility of attracting a group of people to come and work."
"There are two ways to do this. For example, a worker deducts 10% of his monthly salary and pays it to the state every month. If this number is 30 Wen, then the commercial bank will help pay another 70 Wen, making up 100 Wen. A separate account will be set up, and Datang Central Bank will operate and invest it. When these people get old, the money will be distributed to them based on Datang's average monthly payment."
"Another way is for workers to sign a labor contract when they enter the factory. The contract can be signed for twenty or even thirty years. It is signed in the name of the state to ensure that these state-owned commercial banks will not fire them or even retire when they are old. When the time comes, their children can inherit their positions and continue to work in the factory." Li Ke proposed another way.
Speaking of this, Li Ke really didn't understand why employees of state-owned enterprises in the early days of the country more than a thousand years later had an iron rice bowl. He had never considered the real reason, but now thinking about it based on the situation of Datang, was it possible that it was also the case back then? Part of this reason? After all, not giving up the land must have been the idea in the minds of the people of the newly founded Republic at that time.
However, if this policy is really implemented, then the first batch of real working class may be born in the Tang Dynasty.
