dognovel Chapter 551 Let's see who dares to bully us for being uncultured!
Chapter 551 Let's see who dares to bully us for being uncultured!
The iron mine in Ningyang County is not very large. Even if Lao Deng toured the entire mine, it only took him less than two hours.
But as the old saying goes, though the sparrow is small, it has all the vital organs.
Although the iron mine is not large in scale and does not employ too many workers, and these workers have to go home to do farm work during the busy farming season, the management and facilities of the entire coal mine are very well done.
There's a labor relations department specifically responsible for contracts and wages, a labor union specifically responsible for distributing benefits, a safety supervision department specifically responsible for worker safety, and a production department specifically responsible for production. Basically, anything Yang Shaofeng can think of has a corresponding management.
Emperor Zhu flipped through a so-called labor contract and finally couldn't help but purse his lips.
"Tell me, what exactly is wrong with you?"
"Why didn't you bring out these good things sooner? What's the point of hiding them away?"
Yang Shaofeng also pursed his lips.
"Is this something that will be useful as soon as my son-in-law takes it out?"
"Even if I had brought this out from the beginning, would those local gentry and elders have been willing to work like me, from 8 am to 6 pm?"
Yang Shaofeng deliberately emphasized the words "local worthies and gentry," and said sarcastically, "If those local worthies and gentry really had such a conscience, why did they try so hard to annex the land of ordinary people before?"
Emperor Zhu glared angrily at Yang Shaofeng and snorted coldly, "If they can't do it, can't we use it?"
This thing is so great.
Sign an employment contract with Li Shanchang, appointing him as the Left Chancellor of the Secretariat, specifying the term of office, monthly salary, and corresponding benefits.
Why the hell do we need to worry about all those other messy issues?
Fortunately, it's not too late to get this now.
From now on, official positions will be official positions, and rewards will be rewards; the two can be completely distinguished.
And what about re-employment? It seems like we could use this thing too?
While pondering this matter haphazardly, Emperor Zhu asked, "Tell me, if we were to remove this, would it be more beneficial or harmful to those illegal coal mines and the people working there?"
Yang Shaofeng felt that Lao Deng's question was a bit unnecessary.
Because contracts shouldn't be judged by their usefulness to ordinary people, but rather by their usefulness to illegal coal mines and legitimate mines.
To put it bluntly, what good are perfect contracts, 965 work hours, and various benefits for a group of powerless and impoverished people?
The profession of litigator is not a new thing that appeared in later generations. It had already appeared as early as the Hongwu period. Emperor Deng even issued an edict to forbid scholars from getting involved in litigation.
Later, the same farce of "I hired a scholar to beat you" still occurred.
Therefore, promoting the contract system is actually completely useless.
The illegal coal mines that dare to kidnap beggars to work illegally will continue to kidnap them.
Mines that dare to make their workers work 997 (9am-9pm, 7 days a week) will definitely find ways to make their workers willingly work 997.
Any benefits that can be withheld will certainly not be distributed to the workers.
While mentally ranting, Yang Shaofeng said, "Is Father-in-law planning to completely abolish the slave system?"
Emperor Zhu nodded and said, "We have already sent a message back to the capital."
The abolition of slavery is a certainty.
However, how to abolish it is a very delicate matter.
The idea that Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to abolish the slave system is completely different from the petitions submitted by the Secretariat and the Censorate to abolish the slave system.
Emperor Zhu continued, "This time, we will not only abolish slavery, but also thoroughly investigate the mineral resources in various parts of the country, as well as the forestry and fishery resources you mentioned."
At this point, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but mentally rant and rave.
Damn it, they always bullied us because we were uneducated, so no one ever told us these things.
We've never heard of terms like forestry, fisheries, and marine resources before.
Things are different now than before.
I haven't read many books, but I have a good son-in-law who understands these things.
Our good son-in-law understands, which is roughly equivalent to Biao'er and me understanding.
Let's see who dares to bully us for being uneducated!
Well, it would be perfect if this bastard could cause us less trouble.
No.
The contract must be put into practice in the imperial court as soon as possible.
The re-employment system was launched along with the contract.
Emperor Zhu was preoccupied with these messy thoughts until a group of workers walked by and brought him back to his senses.
"What are those things they're wearing on their faces?"
Emperor Zhu asked with great curiosity, "It looks like the same thing Yang Qing and the others wore at the medical school?"
Yang Shaofeng followed the Emperor Zhu's gaze and then cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, replying, "The masks they are wearing are the same ones that Physician Yang and the others wore at the medical school."
hiss~
Emperor Zhu gasped and asked, "Even the iron mine workers wear masks?"
Yang Shaofeng said in a matter-of-fact manner, "It's not just iron mines, but also quarry and coal mine workers who have to wear masks while working."
Although Yang Shaofeng couldn't make N95 protective masks, he didn't even know how to make the simplest medical masks.
But it doesn't matter.
As the son-in-law of the emperor, Yang Shaofeng only needed to put forward a general idea, and the rest would naturally be left to others to figure out.
As for whether these extremely rudimentary masks, which are also very stuffy to wear, are actually effective, and whether the workers are willing to wear them while working, these are not things that Yang Shaofeng is concerned about.
We'll take whatever precautions we can.
It's better than ordinary workers getting pneumoconiosis.
Emperor Zhu was even more shocked by Yang Shaofeng's matter-of-fact attitude.
When Emperor Zhu was in Dengzhou Prefecture, he heard Yang Shaofeng talk about how to make face masks.
"What's so special about this thing? It's just two layers of fine cloth with a layer of cotton stuffed in between, and then tied on your head with a few straps."
Although Yang Shaofeng made it sound simple, Emperor Zhu knew exactly how high the manufacturing cost of this thing was.
Two layers of fine cloth, one hundred coins per foot, could only yield eight small pieces of cloth the size of a palm. On average, each small piece cost about thirteen coins, so two pieces would cost twenty-six coins.
Twenty-six coins were enough to buy several kilograms of rice or several kilograms of flour, and a few more coins would be enough to buy a fat chicken.
Not to mention there's a layer of cotton filling in the middle.
All things considered, the cost of this mask is about thirty coins.
According to this scoundrel, workers in iron mines, coal mines, and quarries in Ningyang County have to wear masks while working, which means each person has one.
How much the hell does this cost?
Based on a price of thirty wen per mask, even if only five hundred people in Ningyang County worked in iron mines, coal mines, and quarries, these masks would still cost fifteen taels of silver.
If masks were widely used in Dengzhou Prefecture, or in other large mining areas, how much money would that cost?