The autumn is clear and the air is cool, and the labor market is crowded with people. On the high platform lined up, the recruits from various businesses shouted loudly with electric speakers, offering various preferential treatments to recruit young and strong laborers who came to work.

These young and strong laborers are basically farmers in the surrounding areas. After the autumn harvest and during the slack season before the New Year, they flocked to Yingyang to work short-term workers to make money.

Labor market staff held electric speakers and kept shouting loudly, "Looking in line" and "Don't squeeze". There were also policemen who ensured adult walls to maintain order on the scene.

Xingyang is a hub port on the Tongji Canal and an important transit station on the railway line. Therefore, the transportation is very convenient. Not only is there a large number of trading companies, but there are also countless workshops and workshops, and there is a great demand for employment.

A large number of farmers brought some dry food and spent some money to Xingyang to find a job by steamship or train, which crowded Xingyang in a short period of time. The formal labor market for recruitment has become the best occasion for employers and employees to reach employment relationships.

Among the crowd, two young people were following the crowd, and they couldn't help but be pushed forward by the crowd, approaching the platform ahead.

These two young men dressed in casual clothes, one is the crown prince Sun Yu and Wen Xu, and the other is his uncle Yuwen Weiping.

Yuwen Xu is older than Yuwen Weiping, but Yuwen Weiping is higher in seniority than Yuwen Xu. Because he is the prince (ranked eighth) and is brother to the crown prince Yuwen Weiqian, Yuwen Xu must call Yuwen Weiping, who is younger than him, "Eighth Uncle".

The two were dressed in a commonplace dress, like young people from the countryside who had just put down their farm work and went to the city to find a job. They looked around and looked at the hot recruitment scene, full of curiosity, as if they were the first time they entered the city.

The prince and grandson, who were born in the royal family, should have been spoiled and tender, but because he was in the military academy, he was in the sun and rain with other students, trekking in the trenches, and sleeping in the open in the wilderness, so his skin was dark and full of earthy flavor.

He was wearing a cloth garment and mixed in the crowd, and he could not tell that he was the son of a daughter.

On the second floor of the shop not far away, Yu Wen Wen held a thousand-mile mirror and observed the backs of his son and grandson, looked at the casual guards secretly protected around him, and then looked at the crowded labor market, which was quite satisfied.

Autumn is a season of harvest, with sufficient raw materials to feed hungry workshops and workshops, and a large number of slack farmers who poured into the city just provided sufficient labor for the industry.

Convenient transportation allows farmers along the canal and railway to easily reach Xingyang, a city with prosperous industrial and commercial development, to find jobs. The strong employment demand and the generous price offered by the owners temporarily invalidate the land's attractiveness to farmers.

This is true in Xingyang, and so in many other areas.

Seasonal short-term workers and long-term workers with several years of contract have gathered in major metropolis and commercial ports. The ticket prices of steamships and fourth-class seats on trains are very low, and many people can afford tickets, so more and more people leave their hometowns and go out to work.

This is a battle for labor between real estate owners and landlords. Because domestic and overseas market demand is strong, a large number of orders have made workshops and workshops in coastal and inland convenient transportation areas active, so the demand for labor is also increasing.

For real owners, paying more wages is not a problem. Recruiting enough people as soon as possible and starting work as soon as possible is the most important thing. Therefore, in order to attract labor for a price, many businesses would rather offer high prices (relatively) than recruiting enough people as soon as possible.

For landlords, during the slack farming period, it was a good time for tenants to do miscellaneous work, and they didn’t need to pay more for it, but now it’s different. Farmers can’t stop them from working.

Those who went to the city to work saw the prosperity of industry and commerce. After working in workshops and workshops, they found that workmanship was more cost-effective than farming, and their souls were "checked".

Therefore, in order to retain tenant farmers, landlords of all sizes had to make concessions, reduce land rents, and eliminate all kinds of "additional labor" of tenant farmers to retain manpower.

This has significantly reduced the profits of landlords, and the profitability of workshops and workshops is very strong. For example, in three years, the wealth obtained by workshop owners and workshop owners is several times that of traditional landlords.

Real estate owners who are getting rich quickly can let their children study with peace of mind, prepare for the imperial examination, or fund the best of their tribesmen to study, or even fund promising poor children to study, which will greatly increase the chances of the next generation changing class.

The landlords who guard the land and live in the countryside obviously cannot compete.

The low grain prices and low distribution prices that have lasted for nearly 30 years have made life difficult for manors in major areas of the country, and a large number of manors are going bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy.

Without the economic foundation, the large families who have lived in the past few years have begun to have a fluctuating heart. More and more tribesmen left their hometowns and took trains and ships to settle in other places, but they were able to contact each other through postal and telegrams.

Yuwen Wen worked hard for nearly thirty years and finally won a preliminary victory in the different civil war he provoked. He wanted his children and grandchildren to experience such victory in person.

Xingyang is not far from Luoyang, and there is also a train, so Yuwen Wen takes his children and grandchildren to Xingyang to experience the autumn employment craze.

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"Now the salary level in Xingyang City has reached 1,200 yuan a month! This is still a short-term worker. If you sign a three-year long-term worker contract, your wages will increase, which is much more cost-effective than farming!"

"It's definitely a good deal. Nowadays, the price of grain is so low. The income from farming is not as high as that of working. It's better to go to the city to work when staying at home during the slack season. From now until before the New Year, I have been working for two months and earned money. I just bought New Year's goods and went home to have a good New Year."

In the inn, Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu took many recruitment notices and told Yuwen Wen about their experiences. They have been eye-opening in Xingyang these days. Whether in the labor market, futures exchanges, or spot exchanges, what they saw and heard made them very shocked.

Then you have to write your thoughts.

This is the homework assigned by my father (grandfather). Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu did not neglect at all. Now, Yuwen Wen did not wait for his son and grandson to write his experience. Ask the question first: Is industry important to the court?

This question is not difficult to answer. Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu carefully read the newspapers and various statistical data, and found that for the court, after the booming industry and commerce, it not only absorbed a large amount of landless labor, but also increased a lot of commercial taxes.

Anyway, there are many benefits, and industry is of course important to the court.

Seeing that his children and grandchildren realized the benefits of industry, Yuwen Wen asked again: "What are the conditions for recruiting workers in workshops and workshops?"

Yuwen Weiping replied: "The limbs are sound, you can look at the clock, you can distinguish left and right, but it doesn't matter whether you know or not."

Yuwen Wen asked: "Why should we 'can see the clock' and 'can distinguish left and right'?"

Yuwen Weiping continued to answer: "Being able to look at the clock means having a concept of time. Factory production attaches great importance to timeliness, and workers can distinguish left and right, and at least learn to operate machines as soon as possible. After all, for many people, it is easy to distinguish right and left, but difficult to distinguish left and right."

When Yu Wenxu saw his grandfather looking at him, he added: "These two points seem simple, but they are very difficult for many farmers, because they don't need to be accurate to minutes when they go to the field to work. Everyone works from sunrise to sunset for generations."

"As for the difference between left and right, when the army recruits new recruits, it takes a month to distinguish the left and right. There is not so much time for the workshops that are rushing to work in the autumn waiting for workers to figure it out."

Yuwen Wen nodded and said, "Then, the difference between workers hired by real estate developers and tenant farmers hired by landlords is these two points? Can you summarize a characteristic, the fundamental difference between a factory worker and a tenant farmers?"

Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu thought about it, and thought of it, and then replied: "It is discipline. Workers in the factory must abide by discipline. This is the premise of machine production. Without discipline, the factory will be in chaos."

Yuwen Wen asked again: "So, think about it, what else do you think about it?"

This question is a bit strange, but Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu, who were studying in the military academy, quickly remembered the "discipline" that the instructors emphasized all the time, so the answer was obvious: it was the new army.

To be precise, it is a hot weapon army, because musket soldiers must line up and fire volleys to maximize the power of muskets and ensure hit rate, which requires emphasis on discipline.

This kind of discipline is ruthless. Even when the enemy approaches twenty steps away, the musket soldiers on his side are not allowed to shoot until they get the order.

Moreover, when the musket soldiers on their own lineup, even if their soldiers on their own continue to fall during the journey, the others are not allowed to disperse and run away without orders. They must maintain their squad and continue to move forward with muskets in their hands.

When the shooting is about to be done, the first row of soldiers raise their guns and aim, then squat down, the second row of soldiers raise their guns and aim, shoot, then squat down, and the third row of soldiers is next.

During the whole process, there will be comrades falling down constantly, but others still have to complete various loading actions just like operating the machine and carry out a new round of "three-stage shooting".

If the enemy approaches and has no time to load ammunition, then use a bayonet and launch a white-blade charge.

Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu, who studied in the military academy, understood what discipline means to the new army, and knew that the implementation of various tactics must be followed by the "operation regulations", just as workers must comply with the "operation regulations" when working and operating machines in a workshop.

But they couldn't figure out why their father (grandfather) would connect the new army with the workers.

"Think about it." Yuwen Wen began to 'point the topic', "If the landlords and real owners go to war, which side will win?"

This question is a bit terrifying. Yu Wen Weiping and Yu Wen Xu were shocked and wondered while thinking about the questions raised by their father (grandfather).

Yuwen Wen analyzed the "preparation ability" of the two classes for his children and grandchildren.

Muskets, cannons, gunpowder, explosives, trains, steamships, all rely on industrial provisions. The mass production of these weapons, ammunition and machines is not something that traditional handicraft workshops can do.

The soldiers who form the new army are also disciplined and are more suitable for workers who are used to collaborating with each other, because the workers are used to queuing, have basic understanding, know the difference between left and right, and know to act uniformly according to the order.

If the recruits are farmers, the training takes a long time, and just a queue change is enough to drive the officers who train the recruits crazy.

It is hard to imagine that those farmers who are inseparable from the left and right can become qualified musketeers in the short term. Because they are marching forward in line with arrow rain, queuing and volleying have very high requirements for discipline. The shooting, loading, and shooting of musketeers is a series of strict action processes, which have certain requirements for the quality of soldiers.

Workers who are familiar with large-scale production in factories can quickly become qualified musketeers. They are disciplined and adapt faster. Reloading musketeers is as ordinary as operating machines.

There is no doubt that if the landlords and the real owners go to war, due to the differences in the main soldiers, the time of the army on both sides is different, and the combat effectiveness gap is obvious (warning between hot weapons).

If it extends to a larger level, the landlord class and the real owners of the country will go to war. The real owners who control the real owners can continuously produce weapons, ammunition, trains, steamships, and recruit a large number of high-quality soldiers to quickly form an army to join the war.

Even if the recruited soldiers are from farmers, real owners with rich experience in factory management can train farmers as they train workers and quickly transform farmers into qualified soldiers.

Learn to line up and operate muskets, just like the worker's on-the-job training.

As for the landlords, they are nothing more than traditional routines, raising well-equipped private soldiers, providing them with delicious food and drink, and then carrying miscellaneous soldiers to fight. The core of their combat effectiveness is private soldiers.

Such an army may be able to do a lot on the battlefield of cold weapons, but it is difficult to fight against a disciplined and well-equipped hot weapons army, and it is also an army that can be formed in large quantities.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the landlords' army is probably not good. If the two sides fight, unless there is a miracle, the real owner will most likely be laughing to the end.

Yuwen Wen's analysis was understood by Yuwen Weiping and Yuwen Xu, but they felt that this kind of problem seemed meaningless.

Seeing that his children and grandchildren were a little confused, Yuwen Wen smiled and said, "Emperor Guangwu of Han achieved great things with a powerful force, so the later Han tyrants became bigger and evolved into aristocratic families and gentry. When the central authority declined, no one could control the rise of the gentry."

"Now, the real owners are new powerful people, and their financial capabilities are many times stronger than those of the powerful people back then, and their desire for power is also many times stronger."

"Now that industry and commerce are booming, the real owners will inevitably claim more rights and interests in the future. Will the court give it?"

"The real owners need more labor and population mobility, which is contrary to the needs of the landlords. So, when the two sides conflict, which side do you think the court should stand on?"

These two questions were too exciting, and neither Yuwen Weiping nor Yuwen Xu knew how to answer them. They could not imagine that the dynasty would fall into a civil war.

Moreover, it was a civil war based on class division rather than geographical division. I don’t know whether the court would give more rights to the real owners.

If tax incentives and policies are tilted, this can be understood and the court can handle it as appropriate.

However, what would the court do if the emerging real owner class, like the aristocratic family, required the implementation of a system that was suitable for the interests of this class, such as the "Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System"?

Isn’t the imperial examination system implemented now very appropriate? Can the owners make more special requests?

The two were confused, Yuwen Wen continued to ask:

"The court cannot do without industry. Only when the industry prospers can it absorb more idle labor, support telegraph lines, railway transportation and shipping, and support a wider territory. In contrast, can the landlords do it?"

"The emperor is the military commander. The army he wants to lead must be an army that can win battles. So, which side do you think the emperor should stand on when the local master and the real owner confronted him?"
Chapter completed!