Chapter Seventy-Two: Women Workers
Zhang Chao's expansion plan is to reach at least seventy or eighty percent a day in the future, and to complete this task, it is estimated that there will be at least three or four hundred people from production to distribution and in-store sales. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After all, Zhang Chao's pasta has to be almost all handmade, and the grain has to be processed by himself, and he has to distribute and sell it himself after it is done. If you just make pastry, it is estimated that one person can make about 500 steamed buns a day. However, with the addition of grain processing, distribution and sales, a lot of manpower will have to be added.
Zhang Chao has 11 stores, in addition to many retailers, as well as many delivery workers, plus some salesmen, these are sales personnel outside of production, in addition to many management personnel in each link, plus warehousing and other departments.
Zhangjia's labor demand has increased significantly.
If the sapony department and the engineering agency are also included, the Zhang Group will need at least 500 people after its expansion.
If it is in the future generations, 500 workers, such a labor demand is not worth mentioning, and a casual advertisement will soon be full. But this is not the case, this is the era of agriculture, everyone is rooted in the land, and they are also bound by the land.
Even if it is a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, it is only a soldier in wartime, and he has to be a farmer in his spare time. The same is true for craftsmen, who work part-time as craftsmen when they are not working, and their main business is agriculture.
Now Zhang Chao's workers are mainly villagers in Zhangjiagou, and it is also because it happens to be the winter farming slack time, and everyone is idle and idle to come to Zhang's house to do things, if it is after the beginning of spring, who has the time to make yellow buns with you all day long, and the fields are still cultivated, even women have to raise silkworms and weave cloth at home, cook and wash, and there is no other work at all.
Zhang Chao suddenly realized that his Zhang company had encountered a big problem.
These workers can only do temporary work, and once spring comes, everything recovers, and spring ploughing begins, they will have no time to work for themselves.
At that time, is it difficult for your own company to stop production?
That's not going to work.
Zhang Chao suddenly envied the Song and Ming dynasties, the Song Dynasty did not suppress annexation, and a large number of people lost their land, so they had to flow into the city and work in the workshop. The same was true in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when industry and commerce developed, capital sprouted, and a large number of peasants lost their land and became workers.
Not now, the imperial court is still granting land equally, and many tenant farmers who were originally landless are now more or less allocated a lot of land.
In the future, we can't recruit those men anymore, they are the main force of agricultural production, and many of them are still government soldiers, so they have to spend a lot of time every year to train and fight, and they may even have to fight in case of war. Even if they don't fight, when it's time for the farms to be idle, they may be called up by the government to do labor, to build walls and roads, or something.
The tune of the Tang Dynasty is that every Ding needs to serve for the imperial court for free for twenty days every year. Even if he is a middle-aged man, he doesn't have to pay rent, but he still has to serve.
With these people to work, one day they suddenly have to go to war, suddenly they have to go to Fanshang, suddenly they have to go to training, suddenly they have to do labor, Nima, and they go for as little as 20 days, as long as a month or two, or even half a year, where do they go to find someone to fill for a while?
Tossing like this, isn't his own Zhang's enterprise eating jujube pills?
Zhang Chao couldn't help but think of later generations, there was a labor shortage for a while, and those bosses drove Ferrari Porsches to the streets to sign signs to recruit workers.
I didn't expect that I had just started my development and encountered such a serious problem.
If this problem is not solved, Zhang's enterprise can only be a small handicraft workshop, and it will not develop and grow at all.
It seems that historically, the British relied on child labor.
Wow, that's cruel.
But it seems like a solution.
In the Tang Dynasty, all the people were born as yellow, four years old as young, sixteen as middle, twenty-one as Ding, and sixty as old.
Men began to teach land at the age of sixteen, and at the age of twenty-one, they began to take on the burden of rent, until they reached sixty. The women were neither given fields nor paid for service.
This is also very different from the Sui system, since the Northern Wei Dynasty, women are given land, slaves and cattle can also be given land, so women, slaves, and cattle are also part of the service.
Later, in the Sui Dynasty, the slaves and ploughing cattle were no longer taught to pay for the field, but for one husband and one woman for one bed, and the husband and wife were taught the same field, and at the same time according to the same bed. The couple's one-bed class was heavier than that of a single man's dinna, because the woman gave only half of the man's land, but the tax on one bed was almost equal to the tax for two men.
This led to the fact that there were many men in the Sui period, but when they reached the age of marriage, they refused to marry and preferred to fight singles, just to avoid heavy burdens.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, this system was changed, and women no longer gave land and no longer paid taxes.
In some places, the land is wide, and the middle men are also reduced by half, but the middle men do not pay rent before they become Ding, and only serve some forced labor.
Zhang Chao seems to see a little opportunity to strengthen his Zhang business from this.
Men have to farm, fight, train, and work, women have to cook, wash, raise silkworms and weave cloth, and there is little free time in a year except for the bleak winter days.
Even a woman is very busy.
The peasant people have to raise pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. Even the clothes worn by his family are woven by raising silkworms and growing hemp.
In all townships and villages, in front of the village and behind the house, there are mulberry hemp everywhere. A family of dozens of acres of land may have to take out several acres of land to grow mulberry and hemp, and in addition to paying grain to the government every year, paying silk and cloth is also an important task.
It is not easy to weave some silk cloth in these years, you have to plant mulberry and silkworms, plant hemp and hemp, get silk and hemp, and spin it into yarn, and finally weave it into silk cloth. It was all hand-woven day and night, little by little.
Many women even finished weaving during the day, and at night had to nod their heads and weave dim lamps until the middle of the night.
Expecting these men and women to be useless, Zhang Chao hit the idea on those young boys and girls.
Those under the age of 21 and over the age of 16 are called middle-aged men. They can divide half of the land, but they don't have to pay rent for the time being, but they get about two months of hard labor from the county every year, and the men who are not yet mature will not pick up the government soldiers, so they don't have to train to fight.
And those teenage girls don't have the burden of this, they don't have the power to equalize, and they don't have to pay for military service. The girl from the peasant family doesn't have so many rules that she can't show her face. They often have to help bring their younger siblings at a young age, and when they are older, they have to raise pigweed, and they have to go down to the fields to help with work, water and food.
Even if he is only eleven or twelve years old, he is already quite sensible, and he is still very good at doing things, whether it is playing pigs or chopping wood, or weaving, cooking, and laundry, which is not already proficient.
In addition to being thinner and smaller, they are actually capable women. Usually at this time, they have already begun to come to the geranium, and then in a year or two they can start looking for people, and they can marry at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
If the Zhang Group recruits more such middle-aged men and girls to work in the future, wouldn't there be no worries. Teenagers under the age of sixteen come to work, and they don't have to worry about anything. When the middle man comes, he has to take two months off a year to do forced labor, but as long as there is a good arrangement in advance, it will not be affected, no more than those who are Chengding, they have too many things a year, and they can't do things in the Zhang family for a long time.
Girls are better, they don't even have to take two months of forced labor a year, and they can go from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
In addition, if these child laborers are used, even the wages can be reduced even more.
Made, the capitalists are really kind and ruthless, Zhang Chao himself is a little ashamed, how can he exploit the people so much. But if you think about it, you can't help it.
Unless Zhang Chao can have a large number of slaves, otherwise, the employment problem will always be a big bottleneck restricting Zhang's enterprise.
"San Lang, why don't you let my little six do things, that child is also fifteen years old today, just like the strong guy, he has a lot of strength and is honest. Anyway, if you are idle at home, you are idle, so it is better to let him do things, eat three meals a day, and give him a little salary. ”
The third sister spoke.
There was some selfishness in those words.
Xiao Liu is Ke Wu's son, and he is actually only thirteen years old this year, and fifteen is a virtual age. Xiao Liu ranked sixth in his generation, so he was called Xiao Liu, and he still hasn't had a big name.
Now Ke Wu's family is working in Zhang Chao's house, Ke Wu is Zhang Chao's eldest disciple, and he has just been selected by Zhang Chao as the captain of the kang team, and the third sister was also selected by Zhang Chao as the captain of the steaming room team in the catering department. The third sister's father-in-law, Uncle Zhengke, is also the director of the Agency. Ke Wu's younger brother, Ke Xiaoba, is also an errand boy in the General Affairs Office.
In addition, the three younger sisters of the third sister, seven daughters, eight daughters and nine daughters, are now also working in the production team of the catering department.
However, women always love to calculate, and seeing that the income in the Zhang family is so good, she only thinks about bringing her son in. As she said, even if she can't earn a few wages, she can at least eat three meals a day.
Zhang Chao smiled.
When I was sleeping, someone brought me a pillow.
He was just thinking about how to open this mouth.
Now the third sister is like singing a double reed, and she took the initiative to open this mouth for him first.
Zhang Chao deliberately didn't pick up the stubble immediately.
Sure enough, there were some other women and men in the house who had been selected as team leaders, and they were all moved when they heard that someone had made this recommendation. Hurriedly said that his brothers and children could also come over to help.
In these years, every family is a big family, just look at Zhangjiagou only about 50 households but there are more than 400 people, you know that basically they are three or even four generations in the same house, and many brothers live together, and they do not split up immediately. The custom here is that the parents are there, and there is no separation of the family.
If the parents are not dead and the brothers are separated, it is unfilial, even if there are many bumps and conflicts in the family, they cannot be separated.
At the same time, there were no family planning in these years, and women often had to give birth from their teens to their forties and fifties. A woman can often be divided into a dozen, and if she gets rid of those who die in the middle, six or seven will grow up in the end.
There are many children, and it looks lively, but it does add to the burden of life.
If you have the opportunity to let your older children come to Zhang's house to do things, you can also reduce some of your burden and earn some money back.