Chapter 1335: Small-scale Peasant Economy

Furthermore, because it is contract-based work, once you finish this job and receive your pay, you can immediately take on the next one; therefore, the master does not need to worry about you dragging your feet and not working. As long as the Worker wants to earn more, they must finish the work quickly to move on to the next task.

The group of people who benefit most from such an Engineering Team should be the tenant farmers, because for those tenant farmers, the most common types of work are only two: one is farming, and the other is working at a construction site.

After working at a construction site for two or three years, as long as one is not too dull, they can gradually master the work of a skilled laborer. If they have a bit of talent and someone willing to mentor them, this speed can be even faster. As for a good master and good craftsmanship, that depends on their own later talent and experience.

Among the tenant farmers of Huaxia, there is a considerable scale of Workers. Because they do not have fixed household registrations, it is naturally impossible for them to obtain an Establishment System position. Even if they remain at the Ministry of Works, they can only wait for the Ministry of Works to arrange work for them; they have no choice. Moreover, the wage is relatively low, and compared to those with official household registrations, the wages are much lower.

But now that professional freedom exists, tenant farmers also have a choice. By going directly into an Engineering Team, their wage and treatment are as high as those with household registrations, because everyone's craftsmanship is the same and will not change due to your status. In this way, tenant farmers earn more, and they are more willing to work as casual laborers and join an Engineering Team.

Everything is pushed by Baifeng from behind. If Baifeng did not point the way for them, it would be impossible for them to have such a perfect plan so quickly. Baifeng doing this is also to let everyone have less trial-and-error time, develop faster, and make everything more orderly, which is also easier to manage.

The Ministry of Works also needs to hire these Engineering Teams; now it counts as outsourcing, and they cannot be directly governed. The Ministry of Works will outsource its own work to these Construction Team members, and the price will be slightly higher than when they were arranged to do it uniformly before.

The main thing is that when they are working for themselves, they will work harder and will not say they want to rest every few days or want to go home; they all think about finishing quickly so they can earn the next paycheck.

In this way, for the Ministry of Works, there is no major loss. Although the expenditure is a bit higher, the construction speed will be faster.

Because it is only the beginning of the year, no changes have manifested yet. It is all the people in the Ministry of Works complaining, saying that so-and-so under them resigned to go work for themselves, showing no consideration, and that they are short-handed. After all, everything is a strange beginning, and it is normal for everyone to have complaints.

And another change is the complete transformation of men farming and women weaving. Huaxia's cloth and Silk were all uniformly planted with raw materials, harvested, and woven. Now that it has been liberalized, including the Wax Seed, it has all been liberalized.

Therefore, some people have already planned out land belonging to hemp on their own property, and there is also the planting of more mulberry trees to prepare in advance for sericulture.

In the next few years, Huaxia will soon be able to achieve self-sufficiency in food and Cloth with each household as a unit; it can be considered a pure Small-scale Peasant Economy.

As for the Fangzhi Chang, some female Workers have already resigned. They were fed up with the repetitive Weaving Department work every day; their eyes could not take it, and their waists could not take it either, so they were more willing to go home to farm.

Only some high-end talents remained. Baifeng also thinks that in the future, the Fangzhi Chang will do high-end work. The cloth woven must be the best, and the Silk must also be the best. It must be the vanguard of technological reform and development, and machinery must also be constantly promoted.

The clothes worn by Nobles and the cloth and Silk used must be made by the Fangzhi Chang. It is best to use the Fangzhi Chang for the Silk used to trade with other tribes. As for the common people, the control over cloth trading was not very strict to begin with, and now it is also liberalized, letting them weave it themselves. However, it is estimated that just achieving self-sufficiency will take many years, not to mention bringing it to the market to sell.

This can also gradually allow the Cloth Coupon to gradually disappear from Huaxia. As long as the market supply is sufficient, things like coupons that restrict trading volume will naturally be abolished.

Reform is necessary and essential. As for the impact it brings, let everyone slowly adapt and slowly get used to it.

The construction site can start work, which also means that farming will not take too long to begin. Ce, leading the group of selected talents who participated in the study in Huaxia, prepared to return to the Western Development Group.

It counts as policy-based assistance. For the examinations of these people in the Western Development Group, the standards were relatively loose, the difficulty was very low, and the pass rate of the assessment was extremely high. These people, whose levels were quite low and who could only read and write some common characters at the beginning, had their abilities significantly increased after more than half a Winter of education.

Literacy was basically not a problem, and simple official document writing was also no problem. It was just that their common sense was too poor and their comprehensive ability was too poor, but there was no way; after all, their foundation was too thin. In such a short time, how much could be taught to them?

Fortunately, the Western Development Group does not need much, and it does not need people with too high knowledge. Just like the leaders of towns in later generations must at least be college graduates, and for the leadership team of a Village, high school is enough. Now these people are enough to assist the Regimental Headquarters team headed by Ce.

Among the people brought, two did not pass. This was already after much relaxation, and they still did not pass, which shows that their talent is indeed not good. Ma is here for the second time; this time he can be said to be more serious than anyone else because this is his last chance. This time it is because of Ce; next time Ce might not help him, and it is also possible that such a thing will not have a next time.

So he studied with all his might, and finally, during the assessment, he got first place, passed steadily, and also steadily achieved his goal.

After Baifeng learned of this, he was still quite happy because at least it shows that this Ma has a certain wisdom and is not a mediocre person. Giving such a person a chance is naturally no problem at all; as for an official position, it can naturally be given.

Finally, for all those who passed, according to the position arrangement and assessment results, officials were officials and Clerks were Clerks, and a simple arrangement was made. In the future, if there are any personnel changes, it will require the collective of their Western Development Group to vote, and the process must be recorded, why it is being changed, and other such reasons must be recorded, which will need to be handed over to the Ministry of Personnel for assessment in the future.

The Western Development Group is too remote; it is impossible to station a Ministry of Personnel there for them, so they need a certain degree of autonomy. What Huaxia can do is only supervision.