Chapter 17 Old Parents Don't Go
Kunshan County, like Suzhou City, is also the sound of thousands of households.
With the strong support of Zhao Erye and the strong support of Jiangnan Bank and Jiangnan Textile, more than 200 new textile factory buildings have been opened in the county in recent years... In addition to weaving silk, there are also many upstream and downstream industries such as weaving, shaving silk, pulling warp joints, and picking flowers and flowers.
Kunshan is adjacent to Suzhou City in the west, Jiading Prefecture in the east, Taicang Changshu in the north, and Songjiang Prefecture in the south, and is located in the heart of the Susong area. The Wusong River and Lou River run through the entire area, and the river network is crisscrossed with various prefectures and counties, making transportation extremely convenient. When Zhao Erye built the Zhaogong Dike, which solved the century-old flooding that plagued Kunshan and controlled schistosomiasis, Kunshan County, which had escaped its chronic diseases, could finally realize its strong potential.
In order to encourage the development of industry and commerce in the county, Zhao Erye strictly prohibited clerks from harassing merchants, and erected monuments to ensure that the county will never charge a penny or a penny in addition to the industrial and commercial tax revenue of the court! It is also strictly prohibited for locals to bully foreigners, and clerks are not allowed to harass refugees to attract foreigners to work.
Jiangnan Bank also actively issues low-interest loans to weaving households. In addition to providing turnover for purchasing raw silk, it also encourages weaving households to purchase more looms and expand production scale.
Jiangnan Textile not only signed underwriting contracts with the weaver households, but also provided them with business guidance - mainly in accordance with the scientific management methods taught by Mr. Zhao in the executive class, it carried out comprehensive management reforms such as production standardization, piece-based salary system, and functional foreman system.
This reform has particularly outstanding results in the highly technical and professional industry of silk weaving. It can summarize and combine the experience and knowledge accumulated by weavers over the years with traditional techniques, analyze and compare, and find common and regular things from them.
Simply put, it is to replace experience with science, standardize tools, operations, labor actions, and labor environment. Because only by implementing standardization can weaving workers adopt more effective working methods, thereby improving labor productivity and making fair and reasonable measurements of their work performance.
At first, the weaver owners who have no education naturally refused such cumbersome rules and regulations. However, Jiangnan Textile regards scientific management as a hard condition for production and sales. Jiangnan Bank also stated that weaver owners who do not complete scientific management reform within one year will stop issuing loans. They have to bite the bullet and learn how to collect records of traditional production experiences under the guidance of counselors, compile them into tables, and then summarize them into rules and codes, and then implement them in the entire factory.
As a result, a few months later, the appearance of those factories with complete management reform was completely renewed. Not only did the production of each worker greatly increase, but the production quality also greatly improved. Not only did weavers get higher income, but their enthusiasm for production and improvement of technology was also greatly improved.
Of course, the biggest benefit is the weaver who owns the means of production... Oh yes, now the factory owners are called, and they find that the income brought by each loom is doubled. Although the weaver has to double the wages every eight days and the wages are doubled, they also make double the profits!
The power of role models is endless, let alone examples for making money. After seeing the power of scientific management, spinning mills, weaving factories, silk weaving factories, printing and dyeing factories, jacquard factories in the county this year have all imitated them. Although there is no professional guidance, most of them are like a lot, but there are more or less effective. At least the labor-management relations are not so tense, and the workers are in the mood to talk and laugh.
When the boss saw the workers laughing and going to the toilet, he thought he was a waste of time and would scold loudly or even punch and kick. Now the factory owners don’t care about these things. Anyway, just finish the standard tasks every day...
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In the south of Kunshan County, in a small silk factory with twenty looms in the west of Jiufang Bridge.
Each loom is one meter long and seven feet tall, and the structure is also very complex. Under the control of skilled weavers, countless warp threads are rhythmically shuttled between the machines, weaving silks of different colors.
On weekdays, you can hear the sound of the loom in the workshop from afar.
But today, the workshop was quiet, and twenty looms stopped at once. The weavers put down their work and gathered together in a bleak cloud, discussing the matter that made them panic.
"Boss, are the old parents really leaving?" The weavers were looking forward to the factory owner who brought this bad news.
"It's 80% true, and it's spreading on the street. Why isn't my brother-in-law in Kunkaisi? I heard their manager say that the meeting has been held and discussing how to send off my parents." The factory owner sighed with red eyes and said, "Oh, after hearing this, I haven't fallen asleep all night. It's a good thing for my parents to be promoted, but I just can't bear to leave..."
"Isn't this nonsense? The old parents are our reborn parents, how can they let him go!" The weavers immediately felt like they were losing their parents and were extremely frustrated.
Although Mr. Zhao ordered someone to hide his appointment, there is no airtight wall in the world? The news that his parents are about to leave office still spread like wildfire.
When the gentry heard the news, they tried every possible way to inquire, but it turned out to be true. As soon as the Ministry of Personnel’s article arrived next month, the old parents were about to set off to head south.
The gentry knew it, and the whole county would know it soon.
Now the people of Kunshan could not sit still, and they all threw down their work in panic, rushed to the streets from various spinning mills, weaving factories, silk weaving factories, printing and dyeing factories, and jacquard factories to gather on the streets.
Looking at the crowds of people outside the gate, they were about to rush into the yamen at any time. The little boy Yu Xu was so scared that he almost urinated his pants and was about to beat the gong and summon the yamen runners to come out to suppress them.
"You are blind!" The doorman Yu was still calm, snatching the stick from his cousin's hand, glaring at him, "Isn't this here to make trouble? Haven't you heard the people shouting to see their parents?"
"What does that have to do with blindness?" Yu Xu murmured in a low voice.
"I just don't see them excited, but I didn't throw away the garbage?" Yu Man said as if he was a person who came here: "Yes, the garbage has not landed on the ground in the past two years, and those things can no longer be seen on the street. Looking back on the back of the past, Su Song inspector Lin Pingzhi was almost buried alive by the stenched eggs of the elders of Kunshan."
"There is still this part..." Yu Xu couldn't help but exclaim. He came to Kunshan too late, and what he saw was the house and the road was neat.
"Uncle Yu, are your parents really going to abandon us?" At this time, a neighbor saw Yu Xu and hurriedly shouted... The uncle's 'master' made a second sound, not a sound of leaving.
"Ah, is there any?" Yu Men dared not talk nonsense, and said with a haha: "I am just a trivial guard, but I don't know what the master is doing."
"Then please ask your parents to come out and tell us clearly!" A young man whispered: "If the court really wants him to leave, we will go to Suzhou and go to Nanjing to petition, and we must leave our parents behind!"
"Yes, we can't live without our parents. Life has only been better for a few days. If you change a dog official, you will be back to beggar Kunshan again!" The people beat their chests and stamped their feet, and their screams went straight into the sky and spread to the yamen.
"That's right, we only recognize our old parents. Whoever dares to steal his seat will break his legs and drive him out of Kunshan!"
Zhao Shouzheng and He Wenwei and others listened behind the screen.
"The officials are not that bad, right?" Old He was deeply shocked and tears were about to fall.
"I'm talking about dog officials, why are you in a hurry to get up?" Zhao Erye laughed and scolded.
"But the subordinate takes over the position of the master." Wei Wei He felt aggrieved.
"Pretty, people may not know it's you." Zhao Shouzheng glanced at him, dressed in a straight face, and was about to walk out of the screen wall.
"Where are you going, sir?" The three of them quickly grabbed him.
"Didn't you listen to the people calling me? I'll go out and tell them clearly." Zhao Shouzheng said for granted.
"No." Xiong Xiasheng hurriedly advised in a low voice: "The people are too excited. They can't listen to what the master said at this time, unless the master expresses his opinion and stays."
"How is that possible?" He Wenwei said anxiously: "Uh, I mean, the adults came to Kunshan and were demoted, could they still be trapped here forever?"
"Yeah." Bai Shouli blinked, hesitated and nodded. In fact, he wanted to say that it would be good for the adults to stay. Everyone can also play mahjong together. Anyway, for him, there is no difference between the chief clerk and the county magistrate.
But the difference between He Wenwei was greatly different. In order not to offend the future master, Lao Bai still had to symbolically agree. However, he should not be too enthusiastic, so as not to leave a bad impression on the current master.
"Well, what should I do?" No surprise, Mr. Zhao lost his constitution.
"It's better to let the officials stabilize them first and persuade them to go back. Then call on the security chiefs and chiefs to do the work of those people first, and then let those people help comfort the citizens." Xiong Xiasheng was very smart and capable, otherwise Zhao Hao would not have chosen him to accompany his father to take office.
"To be honest, don't be upset, so the reason why citizens are so excited is mainly because they are worried that good days that have not been very real in the past few years will be vain. As long as the right medicine is prescribed and their fear is eliminated, they will naturally not stop the future of adults."
"Well said it, the officials will help you persuade me!" He Wenwei cheered up and fought for his dignity. "I promised them that Kunshan will never deviate from the master's plan. There is no problem now, right?"
"Go, but your mouth is too smelly, so it's better to say a few less words." Mr. Zhao nodded and asked He Wenwei with concern.
"Uh, alas..." Old He nodded helplessly. In fact, he knew his fault, but he just couldn't change it. What can he do?
The two of them turned around the screen wall and came to the county government office. Xiong Xiasheng, the county public security director, was still very intimidating. As soon as he showed up, his voice immediately lowered three points.
Chapter completed!