A large number of manpower flocked to the Zhenguo Mansion, but what made everyone and even Sun Qi couldn't help but be dumbfounded happened.
The manpower recruited by the Zhenguo government is like quenching thirst with seawater, and the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
The influx of hundreds or thousands of people every day has not alleviated the manpower problem, but has a tendency to intensify.
It's like living a ghost.
In fact, in essence, the prosperity of the town and the country, in addition to the monopoly workshop of the town and the country, can continue to develop, but in essence, it comes from internal demand.
The greater the demand was beyond all expectations, and the more craftsmen and apprentices there were, the way of life of these people changed dramatically, and with salaries, they had the ability to buy, and they had purchasing power; Because the pace of life is accelerating, they can't solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation by themselves, in the past, people farmed by themselves, cooked by themselves, sewed and mended clothes by themselves, and traveled on foot, in the final analysis, one is no money, and the other is that their time is not precious, so they can spend a few hours to go to the east of the city to the west of the city, they can let their mother-in-law spend a few months, to cut a new clothes, they can be leisurely, but they are doing all kinds of useless work.
In the past, no one can say why life was good or bad, but for generations, everyone lived like this, so even if it was a rich and noble family, they only took a sedan chair leisurely, but now, time began to become expensive, and the workshop had to start from the morning, day and night, so that tens of thousands of craftsmen and apprentices also flowed into the market.
So they turned their salaries, that is, nearly three million taels of silver a year, into clothing, food, housing, and transportation, three million taels of silver, which is such a big market, and because of this, all kinds of shops came into being, shops need manpower, they need countless men, so that the small town government is no longer just tens of thousands of craftsmen and apprentices, including foot labor, coolies, coachmen, bartenders, men, merchants and even tricksters and all kinds of dependents, as well as muddy water and other craftsmen, and even all kinds of boatmen at the docks, There are hundreds of thousands, a place that gathers such a large number of people, and most of them, the standard of living is higher than that of nearby places, many people have a stable income, and if you want to supply these people, you need countless cloths, countless rice and white flour, and countless kinds of daily necessities.
As a result, many small workshops have sprung up, some weaving, some dyeing, these people are no longer just ordinary farmers, but they are by no means rich and noble, so that the extended industry is completely different.
Ordinary peasants, or the poor people in the city, hardly consume any goods, while the rich and noble, the things they use are often finely crafted, so most of the people who supply such people are skilled craftsmen, who may spend months making a table of eight immortals, or a year and a half to make a screen, or a month to carve a jade pendant.
The newly born artisan class is completely different, they have the need to consume, but they can't afford those extremely expensive consumer goods, so they tend to retreat to the second, but if they make this kind of consumer goods by hand, the price is often high, which leads to whose goods are cheaper, and who can maintain the price to the lowest while ensuring that they can be used, who can become favored.
This is the power of the birth of a small workshop, large-scale production, even if the machinery can not be improved, but can also gather labor for the division of labor, the production division of the town government allows the imitator to get a lot of inspiration, the production process is divided into a number of details, each craftsman only needs to do a simple thing, this assembly line of production, for today's greatly improved production efficiency.
Then, the problem arises again, small workshops are erected, but more labor is needed, the more labor, the more population, the more consumption power is exuberant, so they have to produce more goods to meet the needs of the population, expand production, and need manpower, those shops are probably the same, business is good, naturally need to recruit more hired workers, more hired workers promote the prosperity of industry and commerce, so It's a cycle.
Sun Qi was at China Merchants Bureau, looking at some of the recently born theories of industry and commerce, these so-called theories, what so-called commodity colonization theories, etc., were mostly written by some scholars who were full of food, and it seemed that this special phenomenon was also introduced.
In fact, the whole town and the country, for this phenomenon, there is a feeling of confusion, everyone only knows, it seems that there is money to earn, the days are beginning to get better and better, the business is getting bigger and bigger, there is a lack of manpower everywhere, but no one knows the principle behind it, as if in a dream, watching countless buildings rise from the ground.
As for those workshops, under normal circumstances, they will not appear in other states and counties, because in addition to the town and state government, there are too many uncertainties in other states and counties, at least the local magistrates, they may not welcome them, if they encounter the difficulties of the errand soldiers, the merchants have to deal with it, and the cost is higher.
Sun Qi began to feel more and more difficult, the scale of China Merchants Bureau is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things to manage, at this time, he, the big shopkeeper of China Merchants Bureau, ordinary people can no longer easily see it, and only some extremely important people can meet him for a time or two of incense.
However, early this morning, Sun Qi put down all the official duties in his hand and rushed to the Zhenguo Mansion.
Sitting in a crane car, he came to the Zhenguo Mansion Building, and when he saw his nephew, Sun Qi couldn't help but have mixed feelings.
It can be said that now Sun Qi is in the noisy China Merchants Bureau every day, and he has to see a lot of people every day, and he is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, but when he comes to the town and the government building, the noise outside seems to be isolated, which can't help but reflect the quietness here, and the Sun family suddenly understands that he is also a nephew who is always busy running around, and when he has no special needs, he doesn't like to socialize with others, but loves to stay at home.
For people like them, who are busy every day, peace is rare.
But what made him even more emotional was that even though they were both in the Zhenguo Mansion, now the two uncles and nephews couldn't see each other a few times a year because they were busy with each other.
He walked into the Zhenguo Mansion building, and Ye Chunqiu saluted and said, "Uncle." ” Sun Qi smiled, but still said: "I've seen Zhenguo Gong." ” The two busy people gathered together at this time, and while walking towards the Zhenguo Mansion, Ye Chunqiu had already said: "Uncle, how is the general of the Wa Kingdom negotiating with his uncle?"
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