Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Hey, what are you afraid of? Isn't it a matter of time?" Li Ke said with a smile, watching Li Yan lower her head shyly, and then look around like a quail to see if anyone else is in front of her is really fun up.

Yang Anning and the others just sent Li Yan a chair and left automatically, leaving them a space to get along alone, so there is no one else around at the moment.

"But...but..." Li Yan didn't even dare to raise her head.

"Haha, okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about work?" Li Ke smiled and said, stop teasing Li Yan, Li Yan's face is tender, it doesn't look like Yang Anning and the others have become old drivers now.

Oh no, they have always been old drivers. What does it mean to become old drivers? It's as if I changed them.

"Well, there just happened to be something. I heard from Shangshu Duan Lun that I wanted to discuss it with Your Highness." Li Yan hurriedly said.

"What's the matter?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"It's about the current factories. Many factories have established Datang state-owned firms in the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce. The operations of these firms want to speed up the recruitment of some permanent workers, mainly because of policies. Support, I want the court to give some excellent policies to attract some people to become permanent workers." Li Yan said.

Hearing this, Li Ke was slightly taken aback, this is indeed a problem.

In fact, there is no shortage of hired workers in Datang. For example, there are some hired workers in various restaurants and commercial firms in Chang'an City, but originally these hired workers were composed of non-registered households, that is, the main family directly purchased some contracted households who sold their bodies. as a hired worker.

In addition, there are some temporary employees. The land complex in the bones of the Chinese people is difficult to let go. The Tang Dynasty government granted the people permanent land and other means, which made the people not give up their fields to become professional employees.

This is why these firms are desperately buying Kunlun slaves or non-registered households.

In fact, it is also the reason why the business of the Tang Dynasty is not as prosperous as that of the Song Dynasty. One is naturally because the Tang Dynasty was established at the beginning, and the second reason is naturally because the population of the Tang Dynasty is small, and the people have land, and no one is willing to give up the land.

So now in the industrial zone of Chang'an City, it is very difficult for almost all factories to recruit permanent employees, not to mention permanent employees, but to recruit professional workers.

They are all part-time jobs, and the common people will not give up their land.

But now that Datang has developed to the present, in fact, if the industry wants to continue to expand and develop, professional workers are necessary, not to mention anything else, because of the emergence of the steam engine, the restructuring of various factories is necessary, so if these factories want to develop , there must be qualified workers.

And these factories also have a certain technical content, and they all need to train workers for a long time. In this case, some temporary workers are not suitable.

Duan Lun is right, this is indeed a problem.

"Shang Shusheng has been discussing this matter?" Li Ke asked.

"Yes, Liang Guogong discussed with several ministers. They considered the issue of the labor security law that your Highness mentioned before, and thought that if it was introduced, it should relieve the anxiety of some workers, but they felt that it was not enough. But How to make the people believe that continuous long-term work can support themselves, they have no idea now." Li Yan nodded, and when talking about work, Li Yan became serious.

"Just let these state-owned enterprises provide welfare guarantees." Li Ke thought for a while and said.In fact, to put it bluntly, it is social security after more than 1000 years.It seems that the introduction of social security at this time seems a bit nonsense, but the problem is that if Datang has a group of mature professional workers, this is the only way.

Otherwise, no one wants to.

Workers and craftsmen are different. Of course, craftsmen are very attractive to ordinary people because they want to give titles, etc., but they also know that craftsmen who have reached that level cannot be achieved by ordinary people, and Datang also needs it. Not that level of craftsman, and there aren't that many after all.

The industry of the Tang Dynasty in the early days was able to support it entirely because the people trained by Yuelai Trading Company over the years...have dominated the position, and the people of Yuelai Trading Company cannot be regarded as ordinary people.

After all, their thinking is different from that of ordinary people.

But now there are definitely not enough people in Yuelai Commercial Bank. It is necessary to train a large number of Datang workers.

In fact, there are a group of people who can be used, such as those in mountainous areas, because there is a lack of arable land around these people, and they are unwilling to leave their hometowns too far, but there is not enough arable land under their mountainous areas, so these places It must be impossible to allocate enough [-] acres of arable land.

If there are factories in these places, the possibility of them being willing to work will be greatly increased.

That's the problem again, it's impossible to build these factories here for the time being, it's too difficult.

"Welfare guarantee?" Li Yan asked with some doubts.

"Calculate roughly the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty population without war, and then formulate a reasonable retirement age. After retirement, even if they don't have a job and enjoy life at home, they will still be paid by the state or by this factory. Welfare treatment."

"It is to give them monthly money every month, so that if they have security, there is a great possibility to attract a group of people to come to work."

"There are two ways to do this. For example, a worker deducts 30% of his monthly salary and submits it to the state. If the figure is 70 cash, then the commercial bank will help to pay 100 cash to make up [-] cash. Set up a separate account, which will be operated and invested by Datang Central Bank, and when these people are old, the money will be distributed to them according to the average monthly money of Datang every month."

"Another way is to sign a labor contract when workers enter the factory. The contract can be signed for 20 or even 30 years, signed in the name of the state, to ensure that these state-owned firms will not fire them, even when they are old and retire. Their children can inherit their positions and continue to work in the factory." Li Ke proposed another method.

Speaking of this, Li Ke really didn't understand why the early state-owned enterprise employees in the country more than 1000 years later had iron rice bowls. He hadn't considered the real reason, but now considering the situation in Datang, is it true that there were some The reason?After all, the idea of ​​not giving up the land must have been in the minds of the people of the newly founded republic at that time.

However, if this policy is really implemented, then Datang may have the first real working class.