Chapter 121: The Ming Dynasty Pork Price Increase Event
The first year of the Apocalypse, late September.&1t;/p>
Emperor Zhu Youjiao issued an order to establish the "Sanitation Bureau", where workers of the sanitation bureau are responsible for cleaning urban streets, as well as cleaning and manure removal of public toilets.&1t;/p>
Compared with the cheap labor costs of sanitation workers in later generations, Zhu Youxiao offered sanitation workers a standard wage of 2.5 yuan per month.&1t;/p>
At this time, ordinary workers in Beijing were basically divided into two levels. One was a formally appointed worker under Royal Capital, with a monthly salary of 2.5 yuan, and a year-end bonus, as well as housing, medical and other benefits.&1t;/p>
The other one is zero-hour worker, and the monthly salary is only 1.8 yuan.&1t;/p>
The wages of temporary workers still seem to be lower, but now the employment relationship is like this. There are people everywhere, and there are still people who do it.&1t;/p>
If the labor volume is relatively tight, the wages will go up quickly.&1t;/p>
So as long as there are more jobs, the wages of these temporary workers will naturally increase. However, when the wages of temporary workers are still relatively low, and the benefits of formal ordinary workers under Royal Capital are more attractive, the quota of formal workers under Royal Capital has made many people envious.&1t;/p>
As long as the company under Royal Capital recruits long-term formal workers, a bunch of people can be dazzling. For example, Royal Mining Company recruits miners, and the underground operating environment is not very good, but because the basic salary of miners in mining companies reaches 3 silver dollars per month, and housing and other welfare guarantees, a lot of people are competing to be miners.&1t;/p>
Many of the young people have entered the Royal Military Factory as apprentices and workers. The Royal Military Factory is still recruiting the most formal workers. Recently, the Honeycomb Coal Processing Factory is the Honeycomb Coal Processing Factory, and the Royal Infrastructure Company. Another one is the Environmental Sanitation Bureau.&1t;/p>
The formal staffing of Royal Infrastructure Company and Environmental Sanitation Bureau is also very popular.&1t;/p>
Since the new king ascended the throne, the opportunities for the lower-level people have become more and more, and joining the army is also a very good choice. The new king has greatly improved the treatment of soldiers in the Beijing camp.&1t;/p>
Unfortunately, the Beijing camp does not recruit soldiers from outside at all.&1t;/p>
After all, Beijing camp is a professional soldier, not a conscript. Professional soldier costs are high, so Zhu Youxiao obviously does not intend to recruit foreign troops, but instead uses border troops as the target of reorganization.&1t;/p>
After the border army is rectified, the army formed in the future will be mainly conscripts. It can be discharged from the army in three to five years. There is no military pay at normal times, and it will only be paid when it goes to the battlefield.&1t;/p>
The Royal Infrastructure Company immediately followed the emperor's instructions and began to build public toilets and public bathhouses in the capital, and unblocked and renovated the drainage system in the capital.&1t;/p>
This turned the streets and alleys everywhere in the capital into construction sites, and a large number of workers began to get busy and carried out construction under the command of technicians.&1t;/p>
There were construction technology from the Ming Dynasty, and this did not require Zhu Youxiao, a time traveler, to worry too much.&1t;/p>
Other cities in Northern Zhili also started to carry out the construction of these projects, and large amounts of copper coins were spilled. Because the mint mints a lot of copper coins, the settlement of wages on the construction site is made of copper coins. Anyway, it is settled every day, so it is more convenient for ordinary people to go to some construction sites to do things.&1t;/p>
A large number of copper coins poured into the market did not cause the copper coins to depreciate, because the currency value was recognized by the Royal Bank and you can get the bank to exchange silver dollars.&1t;/p>
100 million copper coins are minted to 625,000 kilograms of copper materials. The mint under the Royal Bank has a great demand for copper materials. At present, Royal Mint is exploring and mining copper mines everywhere, and it is not even very concerned about the cost. Even if the mining cost is higher, it can increase jobs.&1t;/p>
After the implementation of urban infrastructure projects, the economic results were immediately achieved, and soon the businessmen in Beijing felt that their business was easy to do.&1t;/p>
The consumption volume increased first, because the workers got money and made various consumptions, which quickly led many industries.&1t;/p>
Although Royal Capital is engaged in monopoly everywhere, it will not interfere in general business. At this time, the business of small and medium-sized merchants has improved a lot due to the improvement of the economy. Especially those mid- and low-end catering industries, it feels the most obvious. In addition, in terms of food sales, the market is also better.&1t;/p>
At this moment, the meat prices in Beijing suddenly soared.&1t;/p>
The pork that was originally sold for 18 cents per pound suddenly soared to 25 cents per pound, which made the people who had just received their wages complain again.&1t;/p>
This pork is really unaffordable!&1t;/p>
The wages of a day are almost enough to eat a pound of pork, which is really expensive.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao has been focusing on economic issues recently and is very concerned about this price. Tian Ergeng quickly reported the abnormal price of pork to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
"It is unlikely that the meat price will suddenly surge! Even if demand increases and inventory decreases, it will not rise so quickly. You can send someone to investigate immediately." Zhu You proofread the Tian Ergeng and ordered.&1t;/p>
"I obey the order." Tian Ergeng left the palace and immediately sent someone to investigate the problem of the surge in meat prices.&1t;/p>
Nowadays, most of the grain sales in Beizhili are monopolized by Jimin Grain Bank, so the price of grain cannot rise again. However, this pork is obviously not within the monopoly range, which means that it will change your face. This is naturally something that Zhu Youjiao does not allow. After all, ordinary people earn a little wage a day. If someone cheats them, the original intention of carrying out urban infrastructure will fail half of it.&1t;/p>
Recently, Zhu Youxiao has not been to the morning court for a long time. Queen Zhang Yan advised her several times, but it was not effective. Recently, Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to complain to the Donglin Party again, and has decided to take action against the Donglin Party.&1t;/p>
That morning Wei Zhongxian entered the Yangxin Palace and reported to Zhu Youxiao about the progress of his work.&1t;/p>
"Your Majesty, this is the first batch of arrests planned. Please see if it is appropriate." Wei Zhongxian presented a list to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao took over the list and saw that the first batch of people were Zhou Jiamo, the Minister of Personnel. The Ministry of Personnel was among the six ministries. Whoever controlled the Ministry of Personnel would control the promotion and demotion of officials, which was an extremely critical department in the party struggle.&1t;/p>
"Are you too anxious to rub Zhou Jiamo first?" Zhu Youxiao asked.&1t;/p>
"I think that Zhou Jiamo is committing personal gains, and Li Sancai's confession is already as ironclad as a mountain. Now that Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Xuan Party has surrendered, it must first take down the Ministry of Personnel to replace the vacant." Wei Zhongxian explained.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao nodded and carefully looked at the list. There were more than 30 Donglin Party officials on this list. Among them, the highest position in the Donglin Party was Zhou Jiamo, the Minister of Personnel, and Sun Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, was also on the list.&1t;/p>
"Just follow this list! What's the current officials of the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party?" Zhu Youxiao thought about it carefully, but there was no big mistake, so he agreed.&1t;/p>
"Your Majesty, those minions are now obedient, and they are all united in the enemy, and they are full of enthusiasm." Wei Zhongxian replied.&1t;/p>
These Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party officials surrendered to Zhu Youxiao at this time, so they are no longer the background of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party. After all, the bosses of these parties have all fallen and returned home, and the pyramid structure inside them has collapsed.&1t;/p>
They were taken off their hats by the Donglin Party. Now they can share different hatreds with the enemy!&1t;/p>
"That's good, you should keep an eye on it and be careful of these people being scattered." Zhu Youchao was not completely relieved to check the minions who defected to him.&1t;/p>
After solving the Donglin Party, there will definitely be a few more guys who want to join forces to sing against the emperor. After all, it is better to poach the country's fences quickly!&1t;/p>
"I know." Wei Zhongxian responded quickly.&1t;/p>
"Go! Be more neat when arresting people." Zhu Youxiao gave in and asked Wei Zhongxian to leave.&1t;/p>
On the other hand, Tian Ergeng sent someone to conduct an investigation and soon found out the reason for the soaring pork prices in Beijing, so he went to the palace to report.&1t;/p>
"Your Majesty, the empress sent someone to investigate and found that the butchers in various vegetable markets in the capital must go to designated slaughterhouses to pick up goods, and these slaughterhouses have been controlled by a group of gangsters. If the butchers do not go to their place to get goods, they will be retaliated by gangsters." Tian Ergeng reported.&1t;/p>
"These gangsters are very smart!" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh. Obviously, he was not the only one who knew how to monopolize. The Ming Dynasty also had many monopolistic phenomena, and there were all levels.&1t;/p>
"The leader of this group of people is a gangster named Qinglang, who seems to have some background." Tian Ergeng continued. Zhu Youxiao said: "You go and arrest the person first."&1t;/p>
"Yes, the emperor." Tian Ergeng immediately took the order and took the Jinyiwei to set up arrest activities.&1t;/p>
At this time, Zhu Youxiao was thinking about a question: Should these gangsters be incorporated? Or should they be directly cracked down and shot?&1t;/p>
As a force in a gray area, gangsters can often become a supplement to official power. Whether it is the United States, Japan, or even the Celestial Empire in later generations, these gangsters basically have a semi-official nature.&1t;/p>
These gangsters can do a lot of things, they can do even kill and set fire. For example, in history, the Rockefeller Consortium was good at using these gang forces to burn competitors' factories everywhere when facing competitors. Then it was valued by the Rothschild Consortium. It believed that Rockefeller had a good monopoly execution ability, so it supported it to check and balance the Morgan Consortium it had supported before.&1t;/p>
Incorporating some gangsters and some things that are not convenient for the official to come forward can let these gangsters come forward.&1t;/p>
However, after Zhu Youxiao thought about it for a long time, he was obviously unsure of his mind. After all, the crackdown was also very effective! If he arrested and shot the gangsters, public security will be directly improved.&1t;/p>
Both have advantages, but the first one is more in line with Zhu Youxiao's interests, while the second one is more in line with the interests of the people.&1t;/p>
Another thing is that the monopoly of food supply obviously needs to be strengthened. Even the gangsters are monopolizing the supply of pork, which is easier for the Royal Capital to do.&1t;/p>
Royal Capital personally involved in the breeding, slaughtering and supply of live pigs, which are obviously also effective measures to stabilize urban meat prices.&1t;/p>
Of course, these links are not necessarily monopolized. In fact, it is enough to monopolize the slaughtering link. However, the breeding industry is obviously promising. Royal Capital can jointly open a breeding farm with private capital. It is naturally nothing when the scale is small, but it is very considerable when the scale is large. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
ps: The third update is here, this chapter is a monthly ticket update. Now it has 13o tickets, only two more chapters have been added, and I still owe two chapters.&1t;/p>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!