Zhu Jingyuan assigned tasks to the two maids. After eating the dinner prepared separately, he took a bath and went to bed directly.

I got up the next morning, had breakfast as usual and went for morning exercises outside the city. When I came back, my parents were already waiting in the living room.

Mrs. Liang took her personal maid, plus Zhu Jingyuan's two personal maids, to go out by carriage to handle business for Zhu Jingyuan.

Liang Yunying's original identity security needs, coupled with the fact that she carried a huge sum of 10,000 gold notes, plus she had to go to the new city for business, and the environment in the new city was not as stable as the old city.

Zhu Jianyan selected those who were stronger, more capable of fighting, and more clever among his servants, and arranged for more than thirty guards to follow him.

In ancient times, when a woman from a wealthy family went out, she would usually be greeted by a crowd of people. The number of servants at most varied.

Those who only bring one personal maid are usually not girls from wealthy families, but "young ladies" for romantic occasions.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately went to take a bath, changed into court clothes, came out to say goodbye to his mother, and went to the morning court with his father.

This time, the morning court was held in the Wenhua Hall as usual, and the number of participants was reduced by more than half. Only the chief officials of each yamen came.

Zhu Jingyuan thought that the specific policy plan for this reform could never be decided in a day or two, so there would probably be nothing going on in the morning meetings these days.

After going through the motions and reporting on the progress, everyone should go about their work.

I would also go directly to the Ministry of Engineering and start conceiving the battleship design.

As a result, as soon as the morning session started today, Zhu Jianfeng, the ninth son of the emperor, Zhu Jingyuan’s ninth uncle, took the initiative to report:

"I would like to inform my father that the issue of minimum labor remuneration has been basically determined. I would like to ask my father to make a decision."

Zhu Jianfeng is thirty-six years old this year. He was transferred back to the capital from the local area eight years ago. He first served as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Personnel six years ago. He still holds this position now.

Starting from Emperor Renwu, when the successor was basically determined, the successor would mostly be placed in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs before abdicating the throne.

This period is usually two years, and is mainly for the heir to study in the Ministry of Civil Affairs and become familiar with the overall personnel management of the court.

Then, after officially succeeding to the throne, you can directly appoint your own capable subordinates to take over the most important position of Minister of Civil Service in the court that you have released.

At the same time, when the emperor's brothers quit the court and gave up their positions, they could reward the new emperor's ministers and quickly consolidate the new emperor's authority.

When Zhu Jianfeng was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs five years ago, Zhu Jianfeng himself and most of the ministers were basically certain that Zhu Jianfeng was the successor chosen by the old emperor.

After all, everything has been arranged according to tradition.

Under normal circumstances, the official minister should be appointed to the throne in less than three years, and most of the time it takes one to two years.

But now that the empire is in a state of war, the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang did not dare to abdicate rashly, so he allowed Zhu Jianfeng to stay in this position for six years.

Over the past six years, the semi-public crown prince gradually felt anxious, and strange pressures formed inside and outside the court.

What happened in the past two days was mainly due to Zhu Jingyuan's presence in front of the old emperor, which made Zhu Jianfeng, who was already anxious, feel a strong sense of crisis.

Zhu Jianfeng was eager to show off his work ability to his father.

So yesterday he focused on the big and let go of the small, let go of the unimportant things first, picked one thing to track specifically, and personally took the initiative to promote and deal with it.

As quickly as possible, I produced a minimum remuneration investigation report and presented it to the court this morning.

After Zhu Jianfeng spoke, a suppressed buzz suddenly sounded in the court hall.

All those who were not directly involved in matters related to labor remuneration did not expect that this matter would progress so quickly.

The old emperor was obviously a little surprised and asked directly about the situation:

"Oh, then Lao Jiu, please tell me roughly how the Ministry of Personnel formulated this minimum labor remuneration plan?"

Zhu Jianfeng took a deep breath, spoke at a steady pace and spoke clearly:

"The imperial court established a comprehensive minimum remuneration standard based on data submitted by engineering and commercial-related yamen.

"Currently, it is tentatively determined that each month is a copper note, which is a one-dollar silver note.

"Next, the standards will be issued and each chief envoy will be able to determine the local minimum remuneration amount within a certain range based on local conditions.

"The upper limit of the floating range of each chief envoy should be given by the court in advance, and it is currently tentatively determined that it should not exceed 20%.

"The specific floating range in each region should also be reported to the court for approval and determination."

The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang nodded slightly after hearing this, as if he didn't think there was any big problem.

When Zhu Jianfeng saw his father's reaction, he felt a little relieved and felt that he had done the right thing today.

Although it is a trivial matter, it can make the father notice that he is the one who can really get things done, and he is the rightful heir.

Then I secretly sighed in my heart, maybe I was a little too sensitive. My throne was originally stable.

Zhu Jingyuan was just of the right age, so he happened to catch up with the peace talks, said a few words correctly, and won the favor of his grandfathers.

But he had no chance to influence him. After all, he was just the grandson of the emperor, and his father could not succeed to the throne.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jianfeng glanced at Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously, only to find that Zhu Jingyuan was looking at him with a very ugly expression.

Zhu Jianfeng was immediately surprised.

Why are you so angry now? Do you feel bad if I show off?

As expected, he was still a child, and this was too frustrating.

Zhu Jingyuan is indeed a little angry, because this uncle who used to perform almost perfectly is now doing things that make people feel very... unreasonable...

Traditional money is a one-dollar banknote. Based on the average purchasing power of current society, it is almost one hundred dollars in later generations.

The purchasing power of people at the lowest level of life in this world is higher than one hundred yuan in later generations.

The same amount of money has different actual purchasing power in the hands of different classes.

As class increases, the actual purchasing power of money will slowly decrease.

Of course, in fact, it is not that it has been reduced, but that the lower the class, the more services other than the necessary guarantees of life will be excluded, which in turn appears to increase purchasing power.

Modern people simply cannot imagine how low the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the industrial revolution era could be.

This one dollar bill is the lowest wage that the lowest-level workers, most likely underage child laborers, apprentices and temporary workers, will actually receive.

Spending all the money on buying the cheapest food can only keep a thin person from starving to death, which is almost a death line.

Adult workers in society have at least three yuan of money for normal work, which is three yuan in banknotes. A little bit of skill can lead to higher wages.

A three-yuan banknote can allow a single man to live a relatively normal life and live in a dormitory with several people, but forget about getting married and having children.

If you want to have a normal family and be able to have children that you can support, of course not including going to school, you must have at least a monthly income of six yuan or more.

If you want to rent a house for your own family and raise two children, you need an income of more than 12 yuan.

Zhu Jingyuan plans to open a business firm, and the remuneration for workers will start at fifteen yuan per month, and will continue to increase if they perform well.

Fifteen yuan banknotes can enable a family to have basic food and clothing, afford to rent a house, raise two children, and save a few years to buy a bicycle.

This can give them hope in life, then they can stabilize, then society can stabilize, and then the country can develop.

If possible, Zhu Jingyuan hopes to use the minimum salary in his own firm as the minimum salary standard in Ming Dynasty, but this is obviously unrealistic.

But no matter what, it can't be the money Zhu Jianfeng mentioned.

This actually existing lower limit of salary has no practical significance when the court investigates it, formulates it, and publishes it.
Chapter completed!