At the gate of Jinling City, the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, was the first to post a recruitment notice. At first, there were very few candidates. However, when they learned that they could pay a month's wages in advance as soon as they signed up, and the wages were twice as high as the wages in the weaving workshop, more and more people came to apply for the project. Three days later, the entire city gate was already full of people, and the team was even lined up on the riverside.

The most difficult thing in building a national highway between the two capitals is the erection of bridges and the compaction of soft soil layers, but the others do not require high technical content, as long as you have enough strength.

Therefore, it is not difficult to recruit people. Soon, only recruiting 50,000 strong men in Jinling City.

At the same time, a total of 50,000 strong men were recruited in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

The management of 100,000 strong men and such a huge project is a big problem, but this is not a problem for the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, who has his own set of backbone and management experience since he was in charge of large and large water conservancy projects across the country.

Instead of gathering the strong men recruited from various places, he directly sent his subordinates to various places, and then was responsible for the construction of various sections of the national highway through multi-point operations.

Before this, he had already determined the necessary routes for the national highways of the two capitals after considering various factors, and had directly issued the instructions to the person in charge of each section, and ordered the person in charge of each section to bear the construction problems on the sections.

For a time, from the south of the Yangtze River to the north, it was like flowers blooming everywhere. Every hundred miles you could see the construction team of the Ming Dynasty wearing special iron hats and carrying engineer shovels to work in some bushes or streets.

The tycoons carrying earthworks were rushing to the sides of the national highway, and they were working hard one by one. Because the wages were calculated based on the number of vehicles carried, if they were more diligent, they could even earn one silver dollar a day, so they rushed to work, and hundreds of kilograms of earthworks were trotting back.

In the Ming Dynasty, although it was in Jiangnan, the population density was still not high, so there was no need to pay much money for demolishing residential houses or other buildings when building the national highways of the two capitals.

However, the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, still prepared a certain amount to deal with demolition and occupation of land, and the compensation amount was not small. Therefore, the smart people now want the court to occupy his house or land when building a road.

Of course, the people in the Ministry of Works are not stupid. If you bargain for a higher price, you will change your route directly. In addition, Ho Weihua also ordered the heads of various sections of the work to avoid interference to the people as much as possible.

In addition to the construction of Liangjing Avenue, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have been recruited, the Royal Industries and the Royal Weaving Bureau have also begun to recruit apprentices.

But these two companies are different from Hovey's choices. You can get in with the strength. Royal Industries prefers all kinds of handicraftsmen or young people with certain literacy abilities or at least good intelligence.

Young people are good at learning new things, and the craftsmanship and people can get better can get started in short-term training.

The Royal Weaver Bureau only recruits weaver and does not limit men and women, which caused an uproar in public opinion. However, although countless people criticized the Royal Weaver Bureau for making money, doing their best, and having bad women's chastity and being insulted.

But there are still many poor girls who are good at female workers who have entered the Royal Weaver Bureau because the treatment of the Royal Weaver Bureau is too generous.

The recruitment of Royal Industrial Corporation and Royal Weaving Bureau and the Ministry of Industry is different. These two companies recruit employees who need to be used for a long time. Each employee has a complete welfare system. In addition to the high salary, there are also various holiday expenses, group tourism, housing and meal compensation, and even directly included in the internal promotion system. Once the assessment is passed, you can obtain the qualification to supervise students. This means that there is a staffing in modern times.

In this way, a large number of craftsmen who were originally looked down upon were naturally tempted to sign up for interviews and become employees of the Royal Industries and the Royal Weaving Bureau.

When watching representative employees of the Royal Industries and the Royal Weaving Bureau wear neat, clean and beautiful employee uniforms and confident temperament at the interview, countless people want to come to work in these two companies.

In fact, although many unemployed people in Jiangnan hate the Royal Weaver Bureau this time, the Anti-Royal Weaver Bureau also couldn't eat grapes and said that the grapes were sour. They saw with their own eyes that some people working in the Royal Weaver Bureau could buy a house on the ground of Jinling not long after, and they worked hard in the weaver workshop for a year and were only able to have enough food and clothing after being bit by bit by bit by bit. This led to many people jealous of the workers' treatment of the Royal Weaver Bureau.

But the Royal Weaving Bureau has always had strict requirements and limits for recruiting new employees, and the assessment is very difficult, sometimes no less than that of a scholar.

Now the Royal Weaver Bureau and Royal Industrial Company have expanded their enrollment, and once they expand their enrollment, they have expanded their enrollment by tens of thousands of people, and are specifically targeted at the people of Jiangnan. This is a good thing like a pie falling from the sky for the people of Jiangnan.

What's more, today's Majesty Zhu Youjiao also specially established a Federation of Trade Unions, with Duke of Wei Xu Hongji as the Minister of the Ming Dynasty, while Cabinet Grand Secretary Li Mingrui and Nanjing Supervisor Wei Zhongxian as the Minister of the Federation of Trade Unions. For example, Zhang Dai, Wen Zhengming's great-grandson Wen Zhenmeng and other famous folk figures who have not been arranged to teach in the western mountainous areas are arranged to be members of the Federation of Trade Unions.

The purpose is to safeguard the rights and interests of craftsmen across the Ming Dynasty. However, when the commodity economy is not yet sufficient, the Federation of Trade Unions is also considered a decoration. However, Zhu Youxiao believes that in the future, it may become a bridge of communication between the Ming Dynasty court and the new class.

While establishing the Federation of Trade Unions, Zhu Youxiao also directly ordered the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau to take the lead in following the ten-hour working system and the ten-day vacation system.

As the largest capitalist in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao also had the potential of a profiteer, and was eager to allow the Ming Dynasty to gain strong national strength in the short term, so he did not directly use the eight-hour working system and the weekly holiday system.

But it is already hard to find a day off for ten hours and ten days a day, and to have such high wages and benefits and futures, which is a rare thing for the workers of the Ming Dynasty.

You should know that in the past, the various private workshops in the Ming Dynasty had a more or less primitive flavor, and they always worked from morning to late at night. So now, there are naturally many people coming here, and many of them even came from other provinces such as Jiangxi and Fujian, many of them were still children who were studying and even scholars.

These days, no one can be sure to pass the imperial examination and become an official. There are also people who have wasted their time and delayed their whole body because of their study. It just so happened that the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are the third way to enter the official career besides taking the imperial examination and conducting scientific research, which has attracted many scholars who are frustrated with the imperial examination and interviews.

Royal Bank also began to recruit people, but the requirements for the people he recruited were higher. Many times, he also required that he could learn arithmetic or have a child or above status. This was simply a very high requirement, just like in the top 500 people in the later generations, he had to be a bachelor's degree or even a 211 or above.

However, after the Royal Bank recruitment advertisement was published in the Daming Daily and government offices at all levels, as well as city gate notices or other prominent places, the recruitment of children or scholars was still crowded.

The ancients were not stupid, until they entered the financial system like banks, which was a good job. Not only did they have money, but they also directly obtained the position of General Shilang and the Ministry of Revenue to be a government official as soon as they came in.

However, there are very few people who can successfully pass the interview. Once they pass the exam, they even have special reports of good news.

The people in major cities and towns in Jiangnan have their roots in survival, and the entire Jiangnan has become active again. Due to the ten-day holiday and ten-hour working system, and the high wages, many cultural industries have also achieved success.

Although the most popular ones are the attics and pleasure boats on the banks of the Qinhuai River, countless workers leave their hard work, their billions of descendants and their fatigue and fatigue here on the woman's belly.

But the sales of Daming Daily also doubled, the business of storytellers also increased sharply, and the value of famous storytellers Liu Jingting increased dozens of times.

Other novels and operas have also become popular. In order to earn more money, many writers and drama actors have begun to deliberately cater to the needs of these lower-level people. Although there are many pornographic and violent things, many of them have actually reflected the lives of the working people. Many works have begun to learn to be down-to-earth and show the warmth and warmth among ordinary people, and no longer blindly show the kings, princes, generals and ministers.

There are more and more cultural carriers to praise Zhu Youxiao, and of course, many bad social phenomena in the Ming Dynasty have begun to ruthlessly expose.

Zhu Youxiao did not deliberately stop the exhibition in the Jiangnan cultural circle. In addition to being loyal to the emperor and the people, caring for the country, respecting China, etc., Zhu Youxiao could not even care about which bold creator even made a joke.

In the rural areas of Jiangnan, for the farmers in this area or migrant workers stranded in towns, what is most worthy of their happiness is that the imperial village can undoubtedly be distributed to them.

In Huating, Songjiang, Huating County Magistrate Wu Derong and Nanjing Inner Palace Supervisor Lai Dekai, who was sent to Huating by Huangzhuang, were leading Nanjing Public Safety Forces to conduct on-site contracting and delivery of Dongjiayuan property at the Dongjiayuan compound.

The landless people from the ten prefectures in Jiangnan will accept the contract responsibility system of the imperial village here, and the 300,000 acres of land collected by the imperial court from the Dong family.

Among them, there are many people who made justice for Dong Qichang during the march. But now, they are the same as what the court said and published in the Daming Daily, and they all agree that Dong Qichang is worthy of death!

In addition to the Daming Daily using a large amount of evidence to characterize Dong Qichang, the more reason is that since the people want to legally contract more than 300,000 acres of fertile land for the Dong family, they must follow the court and think that Dong Qichang is wrong!

"Zhao Laosi, a native of Xiashui Village, Huating Village, has five people and three laborers. He contracts ten acres of paddy fields and four acres of dry land, right?"

Hu Zenghui, the Huating County Household Library and Library Office, was temporarily pulled to assist in the work, read a few words to a young man who looked a little capable, and handed him the contract agreement.

Zhao Laosi went to a private school for half a year and recognized a few words. After roughly seeing the words written on it, he smiled and said, "That's right, Mr. Hu, my father, my brother and I have all the strength. It's not a problem to contract four or five acres, you see."

"When the imperial court assigned us the indicators to us, we can meet the land contract of no less than 30,000 people. If you give you more contracts, how can we still pay? Didn't we see that there are all people behind me? People from Dongchang! If I dare to be foolish, I will move my head immediately!"

Hu Zenghui and Zhao Laosi were from the same village and said a few more words, but although they were fellow villagers and young, he did not dare to open the back door and put the official seal on them and let Zhao Laosi leave.

In addition to the 300,000 mu of land in the Dong family were divided and contracted by the people, a total of millions of mu of land in other major criminal officials and gentry families in Jiangnan were also divided one after another.

It is difficult to spit out the meat that is eaten into your mouth. Although countless scholars lamented that they could no longer deceive the people in Jiangnan from then on, they had to admit that Zhu Youxiao's move completely cracked down on land annexation.

Once a farmer has his own land, he will cherish it even more as if he has children.

According to a report from the Dongchang to Zhu Youxiao, after a large amount of landlords contracted to farmers, many farmers took the initiative to go to their newly divided land to loosen the soil and sow seeds before dawn.

Zhu Youxiao only asked the imperial village to contract the land they had to the people as soon as possible, but did not encourage the people to vigorously promote the planting of new crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, although letting the people vigorously promote new crops can solve the hunger crisis, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to rely on these two things to become staple food before obtaining enough nutrition, because this will reduce the quality of the people.

Everyone knows that the main ingredient of potatoes and sweet potatoes is polysaccharide starch, and there is no starch at all. As a traditional Chinese staple food, both rice and wheat are rich in several essential amino acids.

Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to use the reason to resolve the food crisis to reduce the genetic level of the entire Han people due to long-term use of nutritionally deficient potatoes and sweet potatoes, which in turn affected the IQ of the entire nation.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao simply did not ask the people to plant anything, and gave them great freedom.

In this way, some began to consciously overcome the laziness and bad habits of living by begging for food in the city and became diligent.

Of course, potatoes and sweet potatoes, as the most easiest crops to grow and grow in barren lands, were still used by farmers on barren lands without realizing it, which also compensated for the famine that often brought about during the unharvest of rice and wheat.

Because of this, the farmers in Jiangnan also admired Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, more. With the intentional promotion of the Daming Daily and the Imperial Village, Zhu Youxiao's prestige gradually increased among the people.

I don’t know who started to rise, but some people actually started to grow opium, which is beyond Zhu Youxiao’s imagination.

However, Zhu Youxiao also immediately made a clear decree, requiring restrictions on tobacco farmers and strictly ordered that they should not be sold or sucked in China. Once they are now, they are directly executed, but they are allowed to be sold to Japan, South China and even Zhu Youxiao issued an order. If they can be sold to Great Britain, they can also receive rewards from the court.
Chapter completed!