In fact, there is a way to solve the labor problem, which is to sign a contract and hire professional workers. Of course, the word "major" here is different from before he time traveled. The current era is the Ming Dynasty, not the society under the modern education system of later generations. The "first career" of many people, whether they have land or not, should be considered Farmers, but sometimes being a farmer alone cannot support a family, so many people also learn a craft, some learn to be a carpenter, some learn to burn brick kilns, some learn to be a bamboo craftsman, some learn to be a mason...etc. And so on and so forth.
But one problem is that most of the time, these craftsmen only regard their craft as a second job, and they only do it during the slack time of farming. This makes it difficult to continue to work for a long time - they leave when the farming is busy. . Generally speaking, this type of workers is called day laborers, but among actual workers, day laborers are the largest group.
For someone who is accustomed to the high pragmatism of various enterprises in the later industrial system, he dislikes this model very much. Because you are an "enterprise". If there are no workers during the busy farming season, wouldn't you have to stop production? Who should bear the losses caused by the suspension of production? Also, a group of day laborers went home to work during the busy farming season this time. Will the day laborers recruited by the company be the same as before during the next slack farming season? If not, these new part-time workers will have to spend a certain amount of time understanding the company's production and living system, and they may have to be trained on work skills first... This will seriously damage industrial efficiency.
Therefore, in his opinion, for a stable enterprise, it is best to reduce such short-term employment as much as possible, turn short-term employment into long-term employment, or even simply let them only do the job of "workers".
Only those who meet this standard are professional workers in his mind, and production efficiency will be improved. Otherwise, even if it is changed to a long-term employment, but while you are working here during the day, you are also worried about not getting enough fertilizer in your vegetable garden, can your work efficiency be improved?
But this problem is very difficult to solve. Many companies in later generations have employee dormitories, but it is impossible for Gaowu Shi to build them now - these days, everyone is the boss of the family. If you arrange accommodation for everyone, how much will the family get? Only a flat dormitory is enough to live in? It would be a completely new experience if only employees were allowed to live there. How many people these days are willing to leave their wives and children alone to come to work at your place?
Of course, according to the words of Mr. Ma, a world-famous person in later generations, theoretically speaking, as long as the money is sufficient, companies can recruit people no matter what. But here’s the problem now: Gao Pragmatic doesn’t have enough money right now!
After much deliberation, we can only compromise with reality: We will deal with the future later. For now, the first batch of people can only be recruited as part-time workers. As for how to change the system in the future, that can only be considered after we have money.
This is the only solution to the problem of soap factory workers for the time being, but transportation issues also need to be considered. Although according to Gao's pragmatic plan, at least the early soap products must be high-end products, they do not take up much space, and transportation cannot be said to be too troublesome.
But no matter how troublesome it is, with the current traffic conditions in Ming Dynasty, it is not easy to drag goods so far - don't look at the distance from Mentougou to Beijing, which is only about a hundred miles (not kilometers), in future generations it will not be easy. It's less than a two-hour drive, but nowadays, you can't get there in a day, and you have to stay overnight in between.
Although soap is a small and expensive product in the early stages of sales, it is a small and expensive product in high pragmatic plans. However, because it is expensive, security must also be paid attention to. Mentougou's proximity to the capital is of course a major guarantee for the public security environment. Generally speaking, the horse bandits with some knowledge will not directly make plans to come near the capital. But what about those who are seeking death if the protection is not complete? The Ming Dynasty was not the later Red Dynasty, and the gap in public security levels between the two was huge. It was a world of difference. It has been seven or eight years since Gao Qingshi traveled to the Ming Dynasty. Although it is difficult for him to go out at a young age, he can still feel it even if he listens to the chatter of people around him. In this era, if you go far away, you will be dressed in rich clothes but not many rich and powerful servants will follow you. In later generations, the danger is estimated to be comparable only to climbing the outer walls of high-rise buildings with bare hands and without protection, and to rival Ethan Hunt's climb of the Burj Khalifa. So even if we just hire dozens of stronger workers from the soap factory to escort them, there has to be an arrangement, right?
The location of this manor is near Wangping Town in Mentougou, not far from the Yongding River. Logically speaking, the transportation is quite convenient - because you can walk about half of the waterway to the capital. However, although the waterway is relatively convenient, it is not enough to travel in one day. When we arrived, assuming we set off from the manor early in the morning, we could basically rest after walking on the waterway and landing. We would have to catch up early the next day to enter the capital in the evening. In this case, both boats and carriages are needed, and it is best to build two own warehouses on the upper and lower banks of the Yongding River.
Alas, all these incidents and encounters cost money!
Otherwise, it's the same as the labor issue. You have to compromise with reality first. Whether it's a boat or a carriage, you'll have to hire people first, and then you can build your own one-stop system when you have money in the future.
But even if these two items are dealt with first according to this compromise idea, there will still be problems. The scheduled location of the soap factory is in Mentougou, which is two days away from Beijing. Since Gao Gong wants to personally supervise Gao Pragmatic's studies, he will definitely not let him go to Mentougou alone, so the soap factory must at least arrange for one person to take charge of the affairs. , maybe even one person is not enough, a team is needed to carry out the work.
In other words, there is still a shortage of people, and what is more, there is a shortage of confidants.
How could an eight-year-old have so many cronies? The four around me were arranged by my mother, Mrs. Zhang.
No, I still have to ask for help from my family, and I can only ask for help from my hometown in Xinzheng, not Gao Gong.
Thinking of this, he sat back at his desk, told Tingqin to study ink, and wrote a letter home seriously, preparing to send it to his mother who stayed in Xinzheng.
But at the end of the day, I thought of one thing. Should I also give my mother two pieces of soap to prove that I was not lying and that I really had a product and was not a pyramid scheme...
Thinking about it again, these two soaps really need to be given away. Apart from anything else, the four people I have are all assigned by my mother. Maybe they are also responsible for supervising me? After all, he is just an underage young master now, and his mother is the mistress to them, the real master.
Thinking of this, he called Shang Yue in again, and asked her to choose the best one from the two fragrances of mint and laurel among the soap test products, wrap it in good oil paper, and then took two small sandalwoods. It was packed in a box and sent to Xinzheng together with the letter from home.
