Zhu Jingyuan assigned tasks to the two maids. After eating the dinner prepared separately, he took a bath and went to bed directly.
I got up the next morning, had breakfast as usual and went for morning exercises outside the city. When I came back, my parents were already waiting in the living room.
Mrs. Liang took her personal maid, plus Zhu Jingyuan's two personal maids, to go out by carriage to handle business for Zhu Jingyuan.
Liang Yunying's original identity security needs, plus carrying a huge sum of 10,000 gold notes, plus having to go to the new city for business, and the new city environment is not as stable as the old city.
Zhu Jianyan selected the stronger, more capable and clever ones among his servants, and arranged more than thirty guards to follow him.
In ancient times, when the female relatives of wealthy families went out, they would usually be greeted by the crowd, and the number of servants at most varied.
Those who only bring one personal maid are usually not girls from wealthy families, but "young ladies" for romantic occasions.
Zhu Jingyuan immediately went to take a bath, changed into court clothes and came out to say goodbye to his mother, and went to the morning court with his father.
This time, the morning court was held in the Wenhua Hall as usual, and the number of participants was reduced by more than half. Only the chief officials of each yamen came.
Zhu Jingyuan thought that the specific policy plan for this reform could never be decided in a day or two, so most of the morning meetings in the past few days would be okay.
After a formality and progress report, everyone should go about their work.
I will also go directly to the Ministry of Industry and start conceiving the battleship design.
As a result, as soon as the morning court started today, the ninth son of the emperor Zhu Jianfeng, Zhu Jingyuan’s ninth uncle, took the initiative to stand up and report:
"I would like to inform my father that the issue of minimum labor remuneration has been basically determined. I would like to ask my father to make a decision."
Zhu Jianfeng is thirty-six years old this year. He was transferred back to the capital from the local area eight years ago. He first served as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Personnel six years ago. He still holds this position now.
Starting from Emperor Renwu, when the successor was basically determined, the successor would mostly be placed in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel before abdicating the throne.
This period is usually two years, mainly for the heir to study in the Ministry of Personnel and become familiar with the overall personnel management of the court.
Then, after officially succeeding to the throne, you can directly appoint your own capable subordinates to take over the most important position of Minister of Staff in the court that you have released.
At the same time, the positions given up by the emperor's brothers when they quit the court can also be used to reward the new emperor's ministers, quickly consolidating the new emperor's authority.
When Zhu Jianfeng was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Personnel five years ago, Zhu Jianfeng himself and most of the ministers were basically certain that Zhu Jianfeng was the successor chosen by the old emperor.
After all, everything was arranged according to tradition.
Under normal circumstances, the official minister should be appointed to the throne in less than three years, and most of them take one to two years.
But now that the empire is in a state of war, the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang did not dare to abdicate rashly, so Zhu Jianfeng stayed in this position for six years.
Over the past six years, the semi-public crown prince gradually felt anxious, and strange pressures formed inside and outside the court.
What happened in the past two days was mainly due to Zhu Jingyuan's presence in front of the old emperor, which gave Zhu Jianfeng, who was already anxious, a strong sense of crisis.
Zhu Jianfeng was eager to show off his work ability to his father.
So yesterday, he focused on the big and let go of the small, let go of the unimportant things first, picked one thing to track specifically, and personally took the initiative to promote and deal with it.
As quickly as possible, I produced a minimum remuneration investigation report and presented it to the court this morning.
After Zhu Jianfeng spoke, a suppressed buzz suddenly sounded in the court.
All those who were not directly involved in matters related to labor remuneration did not expect that this matter would progress so quickly.
The old emperor was obviously a little surprised and asked directly about the situation:
"Oh, then Lao Jiu, please tell me roughly how the Ministry of Personnel formulated this minimum labor remuneration plan?"
Zhu Jianfeng took a deep breath, spoke at a steady pace and spoke clearly:
“The imperial court established a comprehensive minimum remuneration standard based on data submitted by engineering and commercial-related yamen.
"Currently, it is tentatively determined that each month is a copper note, which is a one-dollar silver note.
“Next, the standards will be issued, allowing each chief envoy to determine the local minimum remuneration amount within a certain range based on local conditions.
“The upper limit of the floating range of each chief envoy should be given by the court in advance, and it is currently tentatively determined that it should not exceed 20%.
"The specific floating range of each region should also be reported to the court for approval and determination."
The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang nodded slightly after hearing this, and seemed not to think there was any big problem.
Seeing his father's reaction, Zhu Jianfeng felt a little relieved and felt that he had done the right thing today.
Although it is a trivial matter, it can make his father notice him. He is the one who can really do things, and he is the rightful heir.
Then he sighed inwardly, wondering if he was a little too sensitive. His throne was originally stable.
Zhu Jingyuan was just of the right age, so he happened to be in time for the peace talks, and he said a few right words to please his grandfathers.
But he had no chance to influence him. After all, he was just a grandson of the emperor, and his father could not succeed to the throne.
Thinking of this, Zhu Jianfeng glanced at Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously, only to find that Zhu Jingyuan was looking at him with a very ugly expression.
Zhu Jianfeng was immediately surprised.
Why are you so angry now? Do you feel bad if I show off?
As expected, he was still a child, and this was too unbearable.
Zhu Jingyuan is indeed a little angry, because this uncle who used to perform almost perfectly is now doing things that make people feel very... unreasonable...
Traditional money is a one-dollar banknote. According to the average purchasing power of current society, it is almost one hundred dollars in later generations.
The purchasing power at the bottom of life in this world is higher than one hundred yuan in later generations.
The same amount of money has different actual purchasing power in the hands of different classes.
As class increases, the actual purchasing power of money will slowly decrease.
Of course, in fact, it is not that it has been reduced, but that the lower the class, the more services other than the necessary guarantees of life will be excluded, which in turn appears to increase purchasing power.
Modern people simply cannot imagine how low the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the industrial revolution could be.
This dollar bill is the lowest wage that the lowest-level workers, most likely underage child laborers, apprentices, and temporary workers, will actually receive.
All the money is used to buy the cheapest food, which can only keep a thin person from starving to death, which is almost a death line.
Adult workers in society have at least three yuan of money for normal work, which is three yuan of silver notes. A little bit of skill can lead to higher wages.
A three-yuan banknote can allow a single man to live a relatively normal life and live in a dormitory with several people, but forget about getting married and having children.
If you want to have a normal family and be able to give birth to a living child, you must have a monthly income of at least six yuan, excluding schooling.
If you want to rent a house for your own family and raise two children, you need an income of more than 12 yuan.
Zhu Jingyuan plans to open a business bank by himself. The remuneration for workers will start at fifteen yuan per month, and will continue to increase if they perform well.
Fifteen yuan banknotes can enable a family to have basic food and clothing, rent a house to live in, raise two children, and save a few years to buy a bicycle.
This can give them hope in life, then they can stabilize, then society can stabilize, and then the country can develop.
If possible, Zhu Jingyuan hopes to use the minimum salary in his firm as the minimum salary standard in Ming Dynasty, but this is obviously unrealistic.
But no matter what, it can't be the money Zhu Jianfeng mentioned.
This actually existing lower limit of salary has no practical significance when the court investigates it, formulates it, and publishes it.
This uncle, had he really not thought about the true purpose and significance of his request to the court to establish a "minimum labor remuneration standard"?
