Zhu Yijun and Gao Pragmatic were indeed mutual confidants. His guess about Gao Pragmatic was absolutely correct. Gao Bingxian was not worried at all about accepting these salt dings and their families.
Although according to Jinghua’s internal investigation and understanding of various salt fields in Yingkou during this period, as well as the calculation of Jinghua’s new salt-making method’s employment requirements, it is actually not necessary for all of the 178 salt workers to be used for salt production, and Gao Pragmatic is not worried. What burden will I bear?
In his plan to build Liaonan, there are many places where people are needed and there are plenty of them. How can he worry about having too many people and nothing to do?
First of all, this batch of salt men can be screened, and 3,000 of them with the best physical fitness can be selected and trained into a force. They can be used as a force directly under the Military Constitution Yamen. Of course, the name must be clever, such as "anti-smuggling" ——It would be no problem under the Ming Dynasty’s system to compile and train in the name of investigating smuggled salt.
Moreover, this force is not a highly pragmatic personal armed force, but is affiliated with the Military Constitution Yamen. Its military pay and ordnance are fully borne by the Jinghua Salt Farm. The only requirement is to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the salt farm, and is responsible for anti-smuggling, protecting the safety of the salt farm, etc. matter.
In order to ensure that the nature of this force would change after he left office in the future, Gao Pragmatic even signed a contract with his left and right hands.
The Jinghua Salt Farm and the Bingxian Yamen agreed in black and white: As long as the interests of the salt farm are ensured, the salt farm will provide military pay and ordnance to anti-smuggling agents every year at a standard that is no less than the average military pay for the Liaodong border army. However, if the salt farm encounters the impact of arbitrary military disasters or smuggling, , but if the anti-private agents do nothing and shirk their responsibilities, the salt farm can refuse to pay military pay.
As for individual cases where the anti-smuggling operation requires an increase in military pay or the purchase of additional ordnance, the decision will be made through consultation between the Military Military Administration and the Jinghua Salt Farm, and the salt farm may not accept unilateral additional levies.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic's approach is a bit too cautious, because as long as he Gao does not fall, under the Ming Dynasty's system, it is impossible for the next or any military commander in the future to impose inexplicable levies on a civil servant's property. That would be regarded as an act of banditry by the whole world.
After training and training to seize the private sector, the remaining saltmen accepted the arrangements of the Jinghua Salt Farm according to their physical conditions and entered various salt production links to begin the division of labor. There is no need to elaborate on this point.
It was their family arrangements that made some people who were waiting to see Gao Pragmatic's joke dumbfounded.
In the name of the Bingxian Yamen, Gao pragmatically ordered the establishment of the "Tsasi Female Worker Camp". All the female dependents of Yanding who are over fifteen and under forty can join as female workers.
After female workers join the camp, they need to undergo three months of training in advance to learn the various steps of making tussah silk. The training is free and all meals are included. After completing the training, the benefits are divided into two parts: the basic salary is one or two silver taels per month; Performance pay is distributed according to work. Those who do more and have excellent quality can get up to six taels of silver! Even if estimated based on ordinary circumstances, about twenty taels of silver would be accounted for.
At the same time, the Bingxian Yamen was responsible for the security of the Tusi Women's Work Camp, ensuring that there were only women in the camp. Not only the escorting soldiers, but even Gao Bingxian himself was not allowed to enter without the request of the supervisor of the women's work camp, workshop director, etc. None are allowed inside.
Moreover, any male who is allowed to enter the female worker camp must always be under the supervision of the female worker guards sent by the female worker camp and must not wander around at will. Violators will be severely punished. Punishments were severe, ranging from twenty lashes to beheading in public. Moreover, there is a unique punishment here called "eye killing" - gouging out the eyes.
Obviously, Gao Bingxian was still very worried about the Ming Dynasty's ethics and ethics, so he had to do something special and clearly displayed corporal punishment to scare Xiao Xiao.
When the news came out, the entire Gaizhou was dumbfounded.
The first one was dumbfounded because the future income of the female workers' camp would be so high that even men could not compare with it. The second one was dumbfounded because Gao Bingxian's protection of the female workers' camp was so strict that it was almost like he was guarding a palace.
Do you want to let your female family members try to go to the female workers’ camp? This problem has caused many saltmen to lose sleep.
In later generations, it may not be shocking that a wife's income is higher than that of her husband, but that is after all, and this is not popular in the Ming Dynasty. Except for a few saltmen who are indifferent to the accusation of "eating soft rice", they are obviously worried about losing their husband's rights as a result.
Therefore, the news was shocking. Three days later, only about 200 female workers signed up for the female worker camp.
Gao Pragmatic sent someone to investigate and found that almost all of the more than 200 people had special circumstances, such as the husband was sick or the husband had passed away, the son was now making salt, and there were several children at home who needed to be raised, etc. .
This situation obviously did not satisfy Gao Pragmatic, but his consistent thinking was "don't act recklessly", so after much deliberation, he summoned the person in charge of the salt field to discuss it for a long time, and finally released another news the next day.
Jinghua Saltworks also implements a "double-salary system", that is, basic salary plus performance-based pay. According to this salary standard, if salt workers work hard, their income will not be lower than that of the female workers' camp, or even slightly higher than that of the female workers.
This is Gao Pragmatic's greatest effort and greatest goodwill. If he still struggles with this, he plans to directly recruit female workers from "the whole society."
Fortunately, his efforts were not in vain. Within ten days after this news was released, more than 4,000 female preparatory workers went to the female worker camp to sign up, which finally made him relieved.
This is a small step, but also a big step.
If society wants to develop, how can it be done by men alone? After all, God created men and women. Men have things that men are good at, and women have things that women are good at. He, Gao Bingxian, did not intend to launch a suicidal move like gender equality in one go.
Women must be better than men at work like reeling and weaving. Why shouldn't we admit this? Otherwise, should we let men weave and women fight?
Speaking of which, in later generations there were even many female workers in the salt works! It’s just that Gao Bingxian was very cautious. The reason why he dared to set up a women’s worker camp was because there were already “textile factories” that employed female workers in the south at this time—there were many in Suzhou, and later generations often referred to them as “Ming Dynasty Capital”. "The germ of socialism", many people start their judgment from this matter.
However, after all, it was the southern Zhili region with a developed commodity economy, while Liaodong was relatively conservative, and Gao Bingxian did not dare to "make big strides forward" for fear of breaking the bank.
But Gao Pragmatic didn't expect that his actions quickly attracted the attention of several women he knew, and thus involved some other things.
After finishing these things, his attention was once again attracted to Yanjing.
On the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Wanli, which was the Bingshen day, at noon, the emperor Yuanzi was born, and the concubine Wang was born.
The next day, when the prince was born, he gave the three assistant ministers and lecturers various silver coins.
The next day, Zhu Yijun issued an order to the Ministry of Rites: I have been entrusted with the ancestral home, and it has been five years since my wedding in the tenth year of this year. I admire the great kindness of the Queen Mother Yi'an and the Queen Mother Xuanwen, and always think of Yinzhen. I am blessed by the Emperor, and my ancestors are in the same family. The Yuanzi was born. I have a kind face and a kind heart, and I will always be virtuous... It is advisable to add the emblem to express your dignity, and the Ministry of Etiquette will choose a day to carry out the ceremony with etiquette.
Yisi, the great scholar Zhang Siwei and others proposed the emblem of the Holy Mother of the two palaces, adding two characters to each, and accepted it.
In Xinyou, Zhu Yijun came to the Huangji Palace, gave birth to a prince, and issued an edict to the world. The edict said: I have heard that since ancient times, emperors have worshiped saints and prayed to heaven. Nothing greater than this. With my humble bow, I succeeded to the great treasure. In the past ten years, I am fortunate to be at peace in my country, and the people from all over the world are in submission...
Then there was a series of rewards, preferential edicts, mercy, reduced sentences, exemptions, etc. The entire edict was three thousand words long.
Gao Pingshi unexpectedly discovered that he was actually mentioned in a short paragraph, to the effect that he had defeated Tumen in the previous series, and a prince would be born soon. It was God's will to restore the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yijun mentioned the python suit that was rewarded to him. Click on the grade and upgrade from "walking the python" to "sitting on the python".
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and thought to himself: This is good, my clothes will be worn out at the age of twenty, and I will probably be planning to wear these clothes until I die.
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