Chapter 67: King Qin's Government Decree (Part 2)
In mid-December, the orphans of the soldiers under the age of fourteen were taken into the newly built orphanage.
At the same time, Ying Zheng issued three political decrees in a row.
The corresponding main bodies of these three decrees are soldiers, workers, and land.
The first decree is: All Qin people who serve in the military can obtain monthly salary paid by the court in accordance with the Qin law, and all the soldiers' expenses in the army shall be borne entirely by the court.
The second order is: admitting that the management of copper and iron furnaces was wrong in the past, and new regulations were formulated, including but not limited to the provision of labor hours and overtime pay, workers have the freedom to resign and take leave, etc.
The third government order is the government order and local system reform that the court officials and landlords from all over the Qin State are most anticipated.
In the past, under the provisions of Qin Law, the ownership of all Qin land belonged to the "King of Qin".
Even the nobles who were military meritorious and nobles were granted land, in fact, they obtained the right to use the land.
The real owner of the land is still the "King of Qin".
This trick is of course to learn from Zong Zhou.
Because of this ownership, although the area of arable land in Qin is very limited and the King of Qin always likes to give generous rewards, the arable land in Qin has never been lacking - because the divided land can be recovered!
Because of this, the "landlords" of Qin have always been disgusted with taking the initiative to reclaim wasteland or clean up some land that is not easy to cultivate.
Because it was in vain to clean up, it was all about making wedding dresses for the King of Qin.
And now, the local system has opened a hole.
Although Ying Zheng's first batch of land privatization only set up a pilot around Xianyang, giving the Farmers' Association a hundred thousand acres of land to participate in the war, this move made most people in the court overjoyed.
One hundred thousand acres, saying too much is not too much, but saying too little is actually not a lot.
The most important thing is that this order from King Qin Zheng can well show the determination of this little King Qin to reform the local system!
Everyone happily praised the King of Qin for his intelligence and wisdom and extraordinary determination.
Among them, several Confucian scholars and doctors who were interested in the Zhou Dynasty and the etiquette and law shouted loudly, "Etiquette should not be messed up, and system should not be changed."
Then these doctors were casually exposed by Wei Jian, Wang Wan, Wang Yan, Bai Ji, Qin Xi and others, as they casually "confidence with the Wei people during the war" and they were dealt with.
After that, the first three formal decrees of the new king of Qin took office were implemented with great expectations and support.
When Wang Ling was sent to the copper and iron furnace construction site, it was already the evening of December 17, and the workers sat around the large furnace where the remaining heat had not dissipated, talking and laughing.
The Mo people gathered workers to gather, and then Zhao Gao, the envoy of King Zheng of Qin, preached the Qin Wangzheng's orders to the workers in quite easy-to-understand words.
"The King of Qin decree said: In the past, when the former king was there, he destroyed the covenant with the workers, changed the working hours without authorization, cut workers' wages, and caused the workers to be punished and owed wages. The crime of this matter is that the current Qin King Qin King Zheng was the King of Qin. It was because Qin King Zheng who failed to persuade the former king to change his ideas, which caused the workers to be punished. Qin King Zheng should apologize to the workers."
"Now that the Qin King's government is in power, new laws should be formulated to ensure that the rights and interests of workers are not damaged, and the sufferings and losses suffered by workers should be compensated, and more specific and legal requirements should be made for the work of workers."
"After that, in non-war times, workers only work for three and a half hours a day. If overtime is required, double wages should be paid. At the same time, workers should have the right to refuse overtime. The managers at the construction site shall not retaliate against workers who refuse overtime in any form."
"At the same time, according to the skilled work experience, the daily wages of workers should be appropriately increased. For skilled workers for more than one year, the daily wages should be added to fifteen cents as appropriate. For skilled workers for more than three years, the daily wages should be twenty-five cents, and for workers for more than ten years, the daily wages should be fifty cents. At the same time, workers can retire at the age of forty-five. After retirement, the construction site and the court should pay retirement wages to workers every month to support workers. The retirement wage level should be one-third of the maximum wages of the workers."
A lot of rights, obligations, and wage regulations have made the workers excited.
For the time being, this is of course just a big cake drawn.
But even painting cakes is better than not at all!
Some workers who heard that they could quit their jobs and didn't work were muttering when they heard the subsequent generous treatment.
It’s all a lie to say that you want to continue working on the construction site!
Especially, the group of workers who entered the factory when the copper and iron furnaces were first built, they suffered for three years intact!
The suffering of these three years has caused people torture not to be like human beings.
They survived and they were numb.
But, they couldn't leave this sad place.
Three years have passed, and now they have a way to leave, but they are a little worried.
After three years, they no longer can’t farm, and most people don’t have the skills other than iron smelting to ensure survival, and there is no land in their hands...
It's easy to go out at this time, but what about after going out?
They were confused.
In conjunction with each other, some consensus was reached.
"Or why don't you stay here first?" Qi said in a negotiated tone.
The side of Sue was silent. Next to Sue, Yue, who had been at the construction site for three years, rubbed his palms against each other.
They were not at ease.
If they have never had the chance to leave, they will not be nervous, will not be so uneasy, and will always live here.
Anyway, it's not that difficult anymore.
But now, there is a way to leave.
They can't continue to numb themselves like that.
But leaving becomes easier, what should I do after leaving?
They discussed, with such uneasiness and uneasiness, they had supper and slept.
On December 20, after the afternoon work, Ju Zizhou summoned the workers and began to pay all the unpaid wages owed by the workers, and began to pay rewards.
The name of the reward is the development of the "steel filling method".
The distribution targets are those old workers who have been in the factory for three years.
This part of the reward is quite generous.
"Let's save some money?" Jie said calmly as he looked at Ju Zizhou who could not see clearly on the platform and some Qin officials who were paying money.
The more he looked at Xiang Jie, he looked at Ju Zizhou and Qin officials, "Okay, we should save money. Our situation should be considered twenty-five cents a day among the Qin Wangzheng's decrees, right?"
"Probably..." Qi sighed.
In my tone, I don’t know whether it’s expectation or ridicule.
Chapter completed!