Three hundred and seventy-ninth chapter construction (2)
"Then how do you plan to appease the emotions of those refugees who are 'hired'?" From owning their own land to transforming into long-term workers to work for the Aixue Chamber of Commerce, those refugees will definitely have dissatisfaction and even anger.
But Philis asked not Danica, but Aishi.
"This..." Ai Xue glanced at Danica, not knowing how to answer.
"Don't worry about her." Phyllis waved his hand and said without hesitation, "That guy is just going to do whatever he wants. You have to solve the specific troubles. Let me tell you, how do you plan to appease the refugees."
I just knew about this problem! Ai Xue shouted in her heart, but she still tried hard to solve it: "Maybe... we can give them some rewards... For example, what the master said just now, the excellent seeds selected by the Druid Sect, as farmers, it should be a great temptation to cultivate good seeds!"
Phyllis was not very satisfied with Aishi's answer. She was about to continue asking when she heard Danica say dissatisfiedly: "Why am I just going to do anything?"
"Isn't it?" Phyllis said tit-for-tat.
"Of course not, things are not as bad as you think." Danica pointed to the refugees who were scattered around and said, "Do you think they had land before? You imagined it was so beautiful. I can say that among the four intelligent races, the living environment of human civilians is the worst. Even in the 'sanctuary' eastern region, land annexation has reached the extreme, let alone in the central region of war. The land in the entire central region never belonged to them, but to those warlords and city lords who owned the army. Now they are just changing their masters, and there is nothing to complain about. And compared to those brutal warlords, the Aishi Chamber of Commerce is always gentle in the management of these employed farmers, at least not so exhausted."
In this world, or in any war-torn area, strength is the most important thing, and big fists are the hard truth. The farmers in the central region do not have swords, guns and armor. What do they use to protect the land they own? In fact, they have turned upwards and no longer owned land, and they rented the land of those warlords to plant it.
"Uh..." Phyllis was speechless and didn't know what to say.
Danica didn't pay attention to Phyllis anymore, turned to Ai Xue and said, "Preparing the management of those refugees is a little more standardized. Don't just collect rent like those landlords. I'll discuss seed matters with Tailan, such as water conservancy facilities and agricultural tools purchases. You should also worry about these things. Buy them when you need to build them, buy them when you need to make full use of the land in the Gemini Kingdom."
In Danica's opinion, the land in the central region is very good, but the grain output is extremely low due to the brutal warlords. Not to mention water conservancy facilities, farmers in the central region may even be snatched away by warlords and melted into weapons. Many farmers use wooden farm tools, which is called torture. How many seedlings can grow in the land in this case? Danica had specially invited Telan to come and inspected it before. According to the soil in the central plains, as long as the water conservancy facilities are complete and standardized planting, they can achieve self-sufficiency in food and even export. At that time, Telan also joked that the Gemini Kingdom would not need food from the Druid Sect in the future. Of course, that was just a joke.
"Yes, master." Ai Xue lowered her head and responded, feeling embarrassed. She thought Danica had come up with an idea temporarily, and it was a very unreliable idea. But she didn't expect that this was actually a careful consideration. After careful investigation and deduction and analysis plan, she was a little shallow.
Danica looked at the refugees, frowned slightly, and said, "Aixu, you have to understand that most of these refugees were farmers before, and they were agricultural populations, not industrial populations in cities along the coastal areas of the south. You have to convert them into industrial populations as soon as possible."
"Ah?" A question mark appeared on Ai Xue's forehead. In fact, she really didn't understand very much.
Danica said with some dissatisfaction: "Look at the book more if you have nothing to do. Some of Delisi's works have already explained what is agricultural population and what is industrial population."
"Who is Delisy?" Phyllis asked curiously. Her miscellaneous knowledge was very profound, but she had never heard of this person.
Danica casually said: "Delixi is a scholar in the southern coastal areas, mainly studying social relations."
The world's civilization history lasts tens of thousands of years, and the prosperous and free commercial civilization in the southern coastal areas has a history of nearly five thousand years. Over such a long time, even if knowledge has not been popularized, the research of aristocratic scholars on various social aspects has reached a very high level. However, these are collectively called miscellaneous studies and have received no universal attention, especially the learning and training of magic and martial arts of major forces can already occupy most of a person's time and energy.
It also needs to take time to deal with the complicated government affairs within the power, and there is no time to read the "useless" miscellaneous studies. As far as Danica knows, among the younger generations of major forces, she and Philis are some research on miscellaneous studies. Philis is purely out of curiosity, and because of interest, he looks at the miscellaneous studies in geography, history, literature, art, etc. recently, he doesn't read it much. Compared to Danica is more purposeful, she will take the initiative to squeeze out time to read some miscellaneous studies that she thinks are useful.
"What is the agricultural population and what is the industrial population?" Philis has always been curious about the knowledge she didn't know.
Danica explained: "Agricultural population is actually what we usually call farmers. They face the loess and backs facing the sky, work and sunrise, and rest in the spring and autumn. The industrial population refers to people who work in factories and use the salary paid by the factory owner as their source of living. You have never been to the southern coastal areas and have not carefully observed how the factories there operate. It is still troublesome to explain it. Generally speaking, the industrial population has better discipline and a stronger concept of time. It is generally a simple task to follow orders. In comparison, the agricultural population is a little more "scattered", not lazy, but scattered. After all, there is no difference between going to the ground a few minutes earlier and a few minutes later."
"These two living conditions have a profound impact on the operation of the entire society..." Danica chuckled, "To give a typical example, among us, only I have the habit of carrying a pocket watch with me, which shows that I am the only one who has been influenced by the industrial and commercial civilization of the southern coastal areas to a certain extent."
"That's true," said Phyllis. "Only you of us have a very strong concern for time. At best, we are just on time when we make an appointment."
Any well-educated nobleman can go on time to make an appointment on time, but that is out of politeness, but Danica is different. She will take time into consideration when doing anything, even if it is just casual things, such as reading a travel notes, eating a meal, or even spreading after meals, she will pay attention to how much time it took to do these things. Phyllis and Danica have lived together for several years and are very clear about her living habits.
"Is the industrial population better?" asked Phyllis, "Why do you want to convert them into the industrial population?"
"Industrial population..." Danica breathed a little relievedly, "Phyris, you have never seen it. You can't imagine how the factory owners in the coastal areas of the south 'maintained' a labor force. They have really studied this aspect thoroughly. Threats and temptations are to stimulate the subjective initiative of workers. Through the arrangement of systems and the distribution of work content, they are objective efforts. In short, they use all means and wisdom to enable a worker to complete as much work as possible in the twelve hours of work every day... Do you know the machine? Those factory owners train those workers into machines, orderly, orderly, and extremely efficient."
Phyllis frowned and said, "Following your description, this will cause great damage to the human nature of the workers, but you seem to highly recommend this approach."
"Yes." Danica said without hesitation, "because this is a method of fully utilizing human resources... or directly, fully utilizing it. Factory owners in coastal areas in the south have spent thousands of years summing up a set of methods that can limit human power. This is also the most efficient way. Shouldn't they be fully utilizing it?"
"Yes, you really don't care about human nature or something!" Phyllis said with a slight sarcastic look.
"You know what kind of person I am." Danica simply accepted it. She said to Ai Xue, "Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce also has several factories in the southern coastal areas. You should be familiar with this management method, right? I just let you manage these farmers who are used to living casually into qualified workers. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Ai Xue said immediately. Through the conversation between Danica and Philis, she had fully understood what Danica meant. She was indeed quite familiar with this. However, she had never thought of managing millions or even tens of millions of "workers". Although the main job of these workers is to cultivate land, there is a problem...
"This still requires the cooperation of the administrative department..." Ai Xue said carefully.
The division of power in the entire Gemini Kingdom can be briefly considered as: Aishe Chamber of Commerce is in charge of finance, Catherine's military department is in charge of the military, and Lemil's administrative department is in charge of government affairs, which is actually to manage civilians. If tens of millions of refugees become "workers" hired by the Aishe Chamber of Commerce, then objectively, it has caused almost more than half of the population of the entire Gemini Kingdom to be under the jurisdiction of Aishe Chamber of Commerce. This may not be a good thing. There is a strong queen with a strong desire for power and control over it. Any expansion of power is risky. Once Danica believes that Aishe Chamber of Commerce is too powerful and there is a little possibility of threatening her rule, Aishe will be in trouble.
"You can coordinate with Lemir and come up with a plan." Danica said casually.
"Yes." Ai Xue replied, and sighed in her heart. It was another complicated and arduous task!
Danica and Philis chatted casually. When lunch started, the refugee workers scattered everywhere stood up and lined up to get the meal. Danica walked towards the order to receive the meal. She needed to see in person how the food provided by these workers was.
Today's lunch is coarse grain porridge and pickles, a standard disaster relief meal.
"Is this porridge?" Phyllis asked, looking at the dark stuff in the pot.
Ai Xue replied: "Yes, this is coarse grain porridge, mainly corn, and some sweet potatoes and potatoes were cooked. The reason why it was black is because some wild vegetables were added to it for balanced nutrition." After a pause, Ai Xue added: "This recipe is provided by Miss Elizabeth. It can be eaten with fullness, the ingredients are cheap, and it is very convenient to make."
For disaster relief, including providing food on large construction sites, it is quite important to make it convenient. This food recipe was summarized by Elizabeth during the disaster relief process over the years. In addition, even if the so-called coarse grains are ground into powder, they are not well-adhesive, which means that they cannot make steamed buns, noodles, etc., and they cannot be formed. The easiest way to cook is to cook, which can also replenish enough water for refugees to avoid them looking for water everywhere to drink - drinking raw water, especially the naturally accumulated raw water, which is easy to get sick, and it will be terrible when the plague occurs.
"... Because of this, the porridge is cooked relatively thin." In order to avoid Danica's misunderstanding that Aishi Chamber of Commerce deducted labor food, Aishi also specifically explained, "These refugees can drink a few more bowls, so they can always eat enough."
In fact, there is another point. Porridge is easier to provide a sense of fullness under the limited supply of food. After all, most of the drinking of a bowl of porridge is water. This can comfort the refugees' psychology. No matter what they eat, eating fullness is a luxury for most civilians in the world. They can make their stomachs full. The resentment after working hard for a long time will disappear. In addition, there is a small experience in disaster relief. When Elizabeth brought disaster relief supplies to the disaster area, several days have passed.
Yes, a considerable number of victims have been hungry for several days. If the porridge is made too thick and even directly provided dry food, the victims may be unable to control themselves and die. Strict restrictions may easily cause chaos. The victims who are already hungry will not be allowed to eat food when they see it, and they will work hard. At this time, the benefits of the porridge are reflected. If they are full after a few bowls, most victims will not eat it again. Moreover, in this case, the restrictions will not allow them to eat it again.
"That's it." Phyllis suddenly realized that the world was full of knowledge. If the elves were not affected by disasters, she would probably make a mess if she asked her to go to provide disaster relief.
Chapter completed!