Luo Jing and Shisanlang were sorting out all kinds of local products in the yard. Among them are a large number of pastries, made by the family of the iron supervisor, with a variety of flavors, wrapped in oiled paper. There are not only jujube paste, chestnut, walnut as the filling, but also caramel and ghee traditional filling. These are gifts for the New Year, which were brought to Qingtai Town by Luo Jing, and Han Yueniang went home with her family. Du Zhongxiao is in his position and can't go back together.

In this era, there were already similar pastries, but most of them were freshly made and eaten, and they could not be stored for a long time. The pastries made by the iron supervisor are characterized by heavy oil and sugar, which are baked in a special oven and can be stored for a long time without decay. Pastries in an agricultural society are a veritable luxury and expensive, even for a wealthy family like Du Zhongxiao, it is very face-saving to give gifts.

I used to eat too much, and Du Zhongxiao psychologically rejected this food. Although he came up with the idea, put forward his opinions, and guided the invention of many flavors of pastries, Du Zhongxiao basically didn't eat it himself. Other people are not like this, Han Yueniang and her parents like it, and the family is there all the year round as a snack in their spare time.

In the era of overnutrition, foods heavy in oil and sugar are unhealthy, but this is not the case in this era of widespread nutritional deficiencies. Even if the substitution of the workers in the iron prison is higher, it is not a special day, and no one is willing to eat a piece of pastry. Eat a piece and it should be used as a nutritional supplement.

In addition to the large number of workers, there are also a large number of their families, and they cannot all be idle there. No matter how high the salary of workers is, they rely on the money earned by one person to support their families, and their living standards cannot go up. In addition to building a pastry-making workshop, there is also a sugar spinning thread, etc., all of which adopt the club system. The initial capital was lent to them by the iron supervisor, and a part of the money earned by the workers was not paid every month, and in addition to repaying the principal, it was also used to expand reproduction and purchase production tools. At the end of the year, dividends are distributed based on the profits earned. Essentially, it is a collective economy.

Now there are many such small clubs in the barracks, and recently the iron supervisor has stepped forward to organize guilds. The people of the club take turns to work in the company, checking the quality, hygiene, etc., and also do the unified procurement of raw materials and sales to the outside world.

This kind of opportunity to join the club is not available to everyone, and more of them are common jobs such as sewing and mending, pulping and washing clothes, and most of them have learned to join the club, which is just as prosperous. In recent days, there have even been a few companies that have recruited work from the iron prison, such as taking the iron nails made by the iron supervisor, and picking out the unqualified ones after returning home, and counting the money according to the number of catties.

Guarding such a large iron prison and having so many workers, the family is not worried about having no work to do. As long as you have the consciousness of labor and are willing to participate in labor, you will have the opportunity to make money. The transformation of society by industry is evident at this time. Some people start to do it, and some people learn to do it, and the workers do not have those rules and precepts in their consciousness, and they are faced with the problem of taking money for work and buying everything with money.

The social atmosphere is such that people laugh at doing nothing at home, and women try to find a job. A few days ago, a few people and women even set up a stall in the barracks, and because the taste was better than that of the canteen, the price was cheaper, and the business was very good. The people in the canteen complained, robbed their business, and demanded that the iron supervisor ban it. Du Zhongxiao not only did not ban it, but rewarded those people and asked them to set up sheds and fix stalls. With so many people guarding the iron prison, the market is bigger, the procurement is more convenient, and they can't do it, what qualifications do they have to complain?

In the face of the market, competition is inevitable to ensure production efficiency and quality. Recently, the railway supervisor is planning to divide the entire railway supervisor into several districts according to their respective concentration places, and operate independently and account independently. From supervisors to workers, income is linked to business performance.

This was a common system for government-run industry and commerce at this time, and in order to pursue more profits, they did everything they could. In the most common restaurant industry in various places, once the profit exceeds a certain value, it is taken as a government business. When profits fall, they contract out, and this is the case everywhere. Local officials were familiar with this system, and later even introduced it into the officialdom, and officials were promoted according to the level of economic development, and the last position was eliminated.

Most of the systems of later generations appeared at this time, and the same was true of the drawbacks. For example, the elimination of the last position led to a large number of problems, and officials exhausted their means in order to promote officials, killing chickens and taking eggs, and ignoring people's livelihood, which was later canceled, which is exactly the same as the fart theory of chickens. However, in this era, the assessment is on households and taxes, and there is no ability to count the social economy.

In order to raise the army, the financial pressure of the Song Dynasty was very great, and the political and economic measures taken made people feel brain-opening, and many made future generations feel familiar. In such an era, not only can many of the economic measures in Du Zhongxiao's memory be directly used, but also economic theories. Does anyone think it's deviant? does not exist. If you can do it, you can say that the stars and the sea can be done.

It has been ten years since he arrived in this world, Du Zhongxiao has slowly adapted and is becoming more and more bold in doing things.

The ancient times learned in the previous life were actually based on the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the Qing Dynasty, which was very different from the Song Dynasty and before the Song Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, the political culture did not inherit the Song Dynasty, and it was mainly based on one set on the grassland. The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and inherited a large number of the political culture of the Yuan Dynasty, although it intended to rebuild the Han culture, but it was more politically coarse and culturally more conservative, and compared with the Song Dynasty, it was like a world away. In the Qing Dynasty, it went further, on the one hand, it became more and more conservative in thought, and on the other hand, it became more and more reactionary politically.

The most typical is personal relations, from the Tang to the Song Dynasty, the general trend is that the slave division is becoming less and less, and the employment relationship is becoming more and more common. In the stories of the Song Dynasty, the brotherhood and friendship that were often talked about were also righteous servants in the Ming Dynasty, and the personal affiliation was very weak. In the Qing Dynasty, the story was full of loyal servants and lackeys, and it was rarely seen in the stories of the Song and Ming dynasties. The relationship between master and servant friends, to righteous servants, to loyal servants, has a clear context. I didn't think I read it before, but if I really experienced it, I would feel it, the master and servant in the three words and two beats, and the master and servant in the later Qing Dynasty stories, are completely two flavors.

Just like Tao Seventeen, Luo Jing and Chen Qin, according to the ancient times in their impressions, they should all be their servants and loyal to themselves. Actually, that's not the case at all, they don't have a little bit of that awareness. To be precise, these three people are more similar to the ancient doormen, relying on their own skills to do things under Du Zhongxiao. Du Zhongxiao can't give them enough benefits and prospects, don't look for a home, there won't be any psychological embarrassment. Just like Chen Qin, he felt that it was more promising to stay in the Volcano Army, so he stayed there.

In fact, it is normal that when the Ming Dynasty was established, it had been nearly a hundred years since the fall of the Song Dynasty, and the tradition could not be picked up if it wanted to. Just like Du Zhongxiao in his previous life, when he said that he wanted to restore the tradition, what he brought out was the tradition of the Qing Dynasty. said that it was necessary to pay attention to traditional etiquette, and what was taken out was the set of flag people, even if the traditional Chinese etiquette was written in the book, no one paid attention to it. Inviting a master and apprentice is to kowtow to the teacher, but there is no teaching and mutual respect, and there is no preaching and teaching to solve doubts. To talk about family is to be obedient to the elders, and to say that if you are small, you will be accepted by the big one, and if you leave, it will be considered abnormal.

As an official at this time, whether it is empirical measures or theories in later generations, as long as you can systematically explain it and have reason and evidence, someone will support you. If you can achieve economic prosperity, national peace and security, and military prosperity, you can say anything, and someone will summarize the theory for you and seal it for everyone.

As the iron supervisor got on the right track, under Du Zhongxiao, it became less and less like a political division and more like an enterprise. The next thing Du Zhongxiao has to do is to straighten out the relationship inside, form a system, and even carry out some reforms.

As long as there is money to be made here, and the steel needed to make weapons can be provided for the imperial court, you can do anything. As long as he doesn't make economic mistakes and gets caught by political opponents, he can do whatever he wants. If he is willing, he will change the iron prison into a steel city, and there will be people in the court and the middle of the country applauding.