The PA system first announced the contents of the new calendar and new vacation plan.
Then officials from the Ministry of Rites began to come out and explain the new regulations in the calendar in detail one by one.
Includes straightforward answers to a variety of questions that are likely to arise.
Young people such as Wei Yuan and Gong Zizhen were very quiet when listening to the content broadcast, mainly because they wanted to hear what was said.
When the officials came forward to explain, the young people at the scene quickly started talking.
After all, they are all men of letters. While listening to others' explanations, they also like to express their own understanding and ideas.
"Solar calendar, four seasons in each year, March in each quarter, thirty days in each month, ten days in each tenth day, 365 days in the whole year, the remaining five days are all made up in the last tenth day, there is a leap day every four years Also in the last ten days, this new calendar is extremely neat and concise, which is indeed the trend nowadays..."
"It is indeed neat and concise, but the dates of each month from now on cannot correspond to the phases of the moon..."
"The solar calendar originally does not follow the phases of the moon, but is based on the year as a cycle. The year of the new calendar is directly divided into thirty-six days. Didn't I mention it when I introduced it? The division of months is retained just for convenience. The lunar calendar only It follows the phases of the moon.”
"Yes, the focus of Your Majesty's new calendar is to separate the lunar and solar calendars. From now on, the solar calendar will be used for official business to facilitate the calculation of calendar solar terms, and the lunar calendar will completely follow the moon phases and be used to follow traditions."
"The previous New Year's Day is still there, but it will be called the New Year's Day in the lunar calendar from now on. Now there will be an additional New Year's Day in the solar calendar. From now on, there will be two New Year's Days every year. Is this a good sign... "
“The beginning of the year and the beginning of spring are only one day apart this year, so there won’t be any confusion, but it won’t be such a coincidence in the future.
"It's easy to get confused between two yuan days. Since the beginning of the new solar calendar is chosen at the beginning of spring, let's just call it the Spring Festival."
"It is said that His Majesty Emperor Guangwu always called the first day of the old calendar the Spring Festival."
"His Majesty Sejo just lived as usual and did not request that Yuan Day be officially changed to Spring Festival. It is appropriate to use the title of Emperor Sejo in the new calendar.
"His Majesty will officially hold the enthronement ceremony on the first Spring Festival.
“The first year of the new solar calendar will be when the First Emperor unified the world.
"His Majesty's reign name has not been announced yet... I really want to know what the reign name will be in the next thirty years..."
Wei Yuan listened to the discussions around him and said to Gong Zizhen beside him:
"In my opinion, the key points of Your Majesty's new calendar are, firstly, the simplification of the calendar that everyone can see, and secondly, the vacation system..."
Gong Zizhen nodded slightly after hearing this judgment, but she didn't seem to take this matter too seriously:
"The imperial court, official business, and royal industry are just equal to the food department during the holidays. This is a reasonable thing...
"Jin Xia used to be the King of Dashi, but now he has become the majesty of everyone in the world. Of course, he must promote the system of Dashi.
"The more important question is whether the old diehards of the previous generation can separate the lunisolar calendar..."
Wei Yuan wanted to say that what he wanted to discuss was not actually this, but more about the impact of holidays on people and industries.
However, through previous exchanges, Wei Yuan already basically knew that Gong Zizhen came from a family of professional bureaucrats.
The affairs of private manufacturers are almost another field for him.
He doesn't have enough knowledge to understand.
When Wei Yuan thought of this, he also looked back at the young people discussing enthusiastically.
These idle literati who are not involved in industrial management and young people from professional bureaucratic families basically focus on the calendar itself.
The key is that most of them don't seem to object to this experience at all, and are more curious and discussing.
However, Gong Zizhen also mentioned just now that it depends on whether the old stubbornness of the previous generation can accept it.
Even people with similar identities may show completely different attitudes when facing the same things if they are of different ages.
In fact, on another floor of the same restaurant, there was a gathering of middle-aged and elderly people who looked like successful people.
They also heard the court's broadcast, and the state they showed was completely different from that of Wei Yuan and Gong Zizhen.
When the broadcast began to explain the main contents of the new calendar, the scene fell completely silent.
But not just to listen carefully, but also because many people were stunned.
When it came to the detailed explanation later, no one was eager to discuss it.
Until the first round of explanations was over, the scene was still quiet.
Then there was a rather sudden cry of praise:
"The country's chief minister, the ancients are sincere and I can't deceive them..."
There was an exclamation all around:
"Be careful what you say! Be careful what you say!"
If Zhu Jingyuan was at the scene and heard such a sigh, it would be difficult to understand the brain circuits of these people at once.
Because the person who made the emotion was still brewing emotions, and had already gone through several turning points in his mind.
I felt that Zhu Jingyuan was causing trouble, then I thought that Zhu Jingyuan was young, and then I compared myself to Zhu Jingyuan's father.
Zhu Jianyan ascended the throne at the age of forty-six, and of course he was the real eldest king.
However, in the normal classical era, Zhu Jingyuan, who was thirty years old, was already the eldest prince.
The key is that they feel that if Zhu Jingyuan is causing trouble, Zhu Jianyan is actually doing something bigger in name.
Inheritance tax, gift tax, and tax returns to Tianfu are definitely big things.
However, in the eyes of relatively traditional literati, the calendar is more important than these things.
Before the Chongzhen Dynasty, even minor adjustments to the calendar could be considered a major event.
Even if the calculations for solar and lunar eclipses are incorrect, they will probably continue to make do.
Now the calendar that Zhu Jingyuan wants to revise is directly subverted.
So after being cautious, the scene finally began to discuss, or criticize.
"Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first lunar month has been designated as the beginning of the year. It has lasted for nearly two thousand years. This should be a fixed number!"
"The first day of spring in the new calendar today happens to be the second day after the first day of this year. There is not a big difference..."
"It's just this year! The radio said that from now on, the solar calendar will prevail, and the first day of the first lunar month will be the first new day after the beginning of the solar calendar!"
"This rule is the most arbitrary. From now on, the two new years of each year may differ by up to one month from each other!"
"More than just two years? In the future, each date will have two days, which will inevitably cause a lot of confusion.
“For example, if the government informs you that a certain registration will be carried out from February 1st to February 4th, the government may use the new calendar as the standard, but some people will definitely remember the dates according to the traditional calendar.
"This will most likely miss the stipulated time."
"The more important thing is the contract. If the two parties agree on the contract, they require delivery on a certain year, month and day, otherwise they will have to pay liquidated damages. In the past, as long as the negotiation date was fixed, in the future only the date will not work, someone will definitely deliberately Bullshit."
“The most important thing is that we no longer record the day, month, and year in terms of stems and branches, but purely in numbers, which is too crude.
“The key is to use it in schools and to rewrite history books!
"This year is 2046. Isn't this the way to pick up the usage of the barbarians in Taixi!"
At the same time, outside Yingtianfu City, in the center of Jiangbei New District.
On a very lively street, the various shops and pubs on both sides of the street are full of people.
A large crowd has now gathered in a square at the end of the street.
They include owners and managers of private manufacturers, as well as stewards and managers of government-owned manufacturers and royal manufacturers.
But most of them are ordinary workers with or without skills.
They were also listening to the court broadcast.
Their focus is slightly different from that of most people in the restaurant by the Qinhuai River.
What they instinctively considered was the last thing Wei Yuan cared about.
"Today's broadcast is about next year's new imperial calendar?"
"It seems very different from before."
"What's the difference? The new calendar formulated by our Majesty just moves the first day back by one day."
"In the past, the New Year's Day was not fixed every year."
"Sometimes the twelfth lunar month has thirty days, and sometimes it only has twenty-nine days."
"It will be settled in the future. Each month of the new 'Imperial Calendar' will have thirty days, and five days will be added to the last month for holidays and New Year."
"Yes, yes, we will have five more days of year-end leave every New Year, and we will have ten days of leave every New Year!"
"The imperial workers will have two more days off every month!"
"The imperial court guarantees that wages will not be reduced. It is simply more holidays, in line with His Majesty's industry in Dashi."
"The plan for the next five years is to gradually add two days of vacation per month."
"After five years, the court and royal family's properties will have six days off per month, and after ten years, everyone will have six days off per month!"
"Your Majesty is really considerate of us people..."
"In the past, the emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the whole world, but now our Majesty is giving us a holiday!"
The workers at the Ming Dynasty Imperial Mansion, the royal consortium, and the government-run manufacturers were all beaming with joy.
In their opinion, this is the new benefit of the new emperor's accession to the throne!
In fact, they were all waiting for similar news. Most of them knew the rules of major food manufacturers.
Zhu Jingyuan's reputation for generosity can be said to be well-known throughout the world.
The vast majority of workers in government camps and royal factories are very satisfied with the new vacation regulations that come with the new calendar.
Their focus is on vacation.
For ordinary people, the calendar is the imperial calendar issued by the court every year. They will buy a copy and put it at home before the Chinese New Year.
Anyway, I used to live according to the imperial calendar.
In their eyes, every month is not fixed, and every year is not fixed.
Now the new emperor has fixed these days and also wants to give them more holidays. Ordinary workers feel that this is the emperor's grace.
As for the workers of the private manufacturers in Ming Dynasty, they were looking forward to it but also a little anxious.
"In ten years, everyone will have six days off every month? How is this possible?"
"If it can really come true, of course we will be very happy."
"You have to do less work, but you still get the same amount of money. Anyone who doesn't like it is a fool."
"The key is, can the owners accept it? Will they accept it superficially and then ask us to do more work every day?"
"What are you afraid of? The working hours are fixed. If the boss and shopkeeper want to work extra time, then they have to pay extra time."
"Then what if they reduce wages? Say they have less time to work?"
"Didn't it say on the radio that we are not allowed to lower wages or increase the workload? If the boss violates the rules, we can report it."
"You said it nicely, but what happens after you report it? Will your employer give you processing money? Will you continue to work in the factory?"
"Do you think he will find a reason to fire you?"
"The government and royal industries are better treated, and they will definitely strictly implement this new standard."
"Yes, next year you will be able to have four days off every month. After five years, you will have six days off every month. During the Chinese New Year, you will have 17 days off!"
"Of course the government and royal properties are good, but it's a pity that they are not so easy to get into."
"The royal industry has the best treatment, but it is also the most difficult to enter. You must at least have a high school diploma, or master the skills in your own industry, and you must pass the elementary school-level cultural examination before you have the opportunity to enter. must go."
"I don't seek to enter the royal industry. I would be grateful if I could enter an official factory."
"Government industries are much lower than the royal standard. They do not require a high school diploma. All they need is ability and sufficient work experience."
"But it is impossible for the government to incorporate all industries. Not all restaurants, teahouses, and shops on this street are privately owned."
"How can the government take care of the small shops on the streets? The government mainly focuses on mining and building factories.
"The government factory is constantly expanding. Anyone who is willing to join the factory will have a chance to join the government factory if they work hard in a private factory for three to five years."
Ordinary workers, faced with the gap between government-run and royal industries and private industries, originally wanted to work in government-run and royal industries.
Now that the new calendar has come out, their yearning for the treatment of the royal family and government-owned manufacturers, coupled with concerns about the credibility of private owners, has made their hopes even stronger.
The royal family's industry is something that ordinary workers don't dare to think about. Only the top talents in the industry have the opportunity to work.
But the difficulty of entering a government-run factory is much lower.
The coverage of government-owned manufacturers in the Ming Dynasty was much larger than that of state-owned enterprises in later generations.
In addition to township factories and street shops, basically everything is involved.
Moreover, government-run factories have been expanding, and as long as workers are down-to-earth and willing to work, as long as they master a certain skill, they will have the opportunity to join.
Government-owned manufacturers of this scale are also the biggest mountain that puts pressure on private owners.
This group, which was only established for a few years, is now a more terrifying threat than the previous royal consortium.
The royal consortium is like a god in the sky. It rarely deals directly with ordinary private manufacturers and rarely competes directly with them.
Government-owned manufacturers are the "parent officials" and "local snakes" around them, and they really don't care about anything.
Therefore, the owners and shopkeepers of private manufacturers in the Ming Dynasty felt very depressed when listening to the court's broadcast content.
They often feel that they are the most miserable people in the world and that industrial management is too difficult.
In the next ten years, the holidays given to workers will be tripled, and wages are not allowed to be lowered!
In the restaurant next to the square, there was a group of people complaining to each other.
"Six days off every month! We only work twenty-four days a month, but we are paid a month's wages!"
"I don't work for one-fifth of the time every month! Your Majesty is really too 'generous'——"
"No more than ten hours of work per day! That works out to only 240 hours per month! It's only equivalent to ten days!"
"In other words, when we pay wages for a month, workers spend two-thirds of the time resting..."
"No, this factory can't be opened. We should sell it to the government as soon as possible."
"I have thought of it for a long time. Jinshang turned out to be the king of Dashi. This is how the industry of Dashi is run. He has at least four days off every month..."
"Why don't you go to Taixi? I heard that Taixi's management is loose."
"It's indeed loose. The wages required by Xiyi workers are already low, and they can still work for more than twelve hours a day.
"The key is that we can still use child labor and female workers, and they can also pay lower wages."
"Thinking too much, the radio said that as long as it is a factory owned by the Ming Dynasty, even if it is in the country of Xiyi, it will be governed by the laws of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Our Majesty is so domineering, can the Taixi people really cooperate?"
"Why don't you cooperate? The only daughter of the new King of England, the Crown Princess and the King of America, is our Majesty's concubine!"
"I heard that two children have been born. These two children will inherit the British throne in the future. Sooner or later, Britain will be our vassal state of the Ming Dynasty."
"It's the same in France. The King of France also obeys our Majesty's words. Now it is the Kingdom of Taixi and Xiaoming."
"Although other countries have different intentions, they do not dare to confront our Ming Dynasty, especially on such a minor matter."
"If nothing else, the kings and courts in Taixi will not have any doubts about His Majesty's request."
"Hey... these Xiyi guys are too incompetent, can't they be tougher?"
"Except for not signing a contract, these Thais are actually emperors and kings..."
"You are not well-informed enough. Now it is not just a question of whether the European and American countries are willing to cooperate, but also a question of whether the markets of the European and American countries still have any meaning.
"In the past two years, the markets in various countries in Europe and the West have been very bleak. They are mainly supported by the joint venture between our Majesty and their king. Otherwise, we don't know when trouble will occur..."
"Speaking of this matter, I really don't understand why the countries in Thailand and Spain are very tolerant to the private sector, allowing private manufacturers to operate a variety of industries, and there are no requirements for management, but the markets in the countries in Thailand and Spain are Slowly getting worse.
"Our Ming Dynasty...has been...the country is advancing and the people are retreating. Why is the market always prosperous?"
"I don't understand it either, and I can't understand it..."
"Maybe it's just for a while, maybe it will be bleak at some point..."
"Yes, Your Majesty has been controlling his bosses so strictly, and is becoming more and more lenient towards those ordinary people. Sooner or later, he will reap the consequences..."
"Be careful with your words, be careful with your words——"
"Be careful, the walls have ears..."
"Hey... I don't want to do it anymore. This business is really out of business now. I'd better let the government take a stake."
