Valley Emperor

  Forty-one years after Xuanping, the Datang Empire generally raised the minimum wage income in accordance with economic development, and issued the latest version of the labor law in the summer.

   The new version of the labor law further protects the rights and interests of workers.

   For the first time, the minimum working hours are set at 28 days a month from the legal level, and it is stipulated that the 1st and 15th of each month are statutory holidays, and the maximum working hours of each working day shall not exceed 12 hours.

   At the same time, overtime pay is also stipulated at the legal level. If overtime is required, the overtime pay is 1.5 times the regular pay, the statutory holiday pay is three times the regular pay, and the statutory holiday overtime pay is five times the regular pay.

   In addition to the regular holiday arrangements, the Datang Empire will legally stipulate the Spring Festival, Qingming, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, and Christmas as statutory holidays, and statutory holidays are three days each.

   At the same time, a new agency, the Department of Labor Services, was established under the Ministry of Households. The responsibility of this department is to study and protect the rights and interests of employees.

   Forty-one years after Xuanping, the Datang Empire passed a series of laws and regulations to effectively protect the interests of ordinary working people, and to promote food and clothing for the whole people in many ways, and even rush towards the goal of prosperity for the whole people.

   This series of policies of the Datang Measures, although at the legal level, already stipulates the minimum wage income and stipulates statutory holidays, but more of them are still guided.

   In practice, it is difficult for all bosses to pay laborers in strict accordance with labor laws and the latest salary standards. This is the nature of capital seeking profit.

   There will always be various violations, but Li Xuan is not in a hurry. Let’s set the rules first, and then do it slowly. I can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. Li Xuan has a lot of time to push it slowly.

   With the development of the economy, many things are logical. What Li Xuan has to do is to prepare and plan in advance, and the next things will be logical.

For example, when the minimum wage was issued in the early years, the implementation was not perfect. Many companies were unwilling to implement it. Even the workers themselves did not know how to ask for the minimum wage, because they did not know there was such a thing. .

   But now, the concept of minimum wage has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even people who just came to Songjiang Prefecture from their hometown to find a job know that there are minimum monthly wages, minimum daily wages, and even minimum hourly wages.

  If the salary of the other party is lower than this figure, go out and report to the labor service department, and the labor service department will come to the door in minutes and fine, and then the reporter will get a bonus!

   In the early years, many people went to work in various places that did not give minimum wage income. As soon as the front foot went to work, the back foot went to report it. It would take a long time to get a bonus.

  A lot of people who have concepts for a while and don't know it's okay, just take it slow, Li Xuan has never been in a hurry about this kind of thing.

Of course, Li Xuan never played with boiled frogs in warm water, because frogs are not stupid, let alone the water is hot or not, you haven't lit the fire yet, people will jump and run away, and the fool will stay and let you Slowly stewed, those are all silly frogs...

  Li Xuan's favorite thing to do is to cook frogs in a pressure cooker. The lid of this thing is very tight. No matter how much frogs jump in it, they can't escape, and then simmering on a low fire would not be nice...

   Many policies of the Tang Empire can reflect this.

  The implementation of many policies of the Datang Empire has been consistent for decades, with great policy coherence. It will not be said that this year's rural subsidies will not be played next year.

   If nothing else, the Datang Empire will continue to play like this next year.

   For example, the Tang Empire engaged in the construction of large-scale water conservancy facilities, especially the management projects of the Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and other rivers. Since the end of the reunification war that year, it has not stopped until now...

   In order to completely control the Huaihe River, the Datang Empire built a large-scale Hongze Lake embankment.

   Countless boulders, cement and steel bars and other materials were used. The main dam is tens of kilometers long, plus the auxiliary dams, flood discharge channels, navigation, etc., the whole project can be said to be the largest flood control and benefit project since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

  In addition to flood control, it also has functions such as irrigation and navigation.

  The flood control and benefit project of Hongze Lake has not stopped since then, so the more it is repaired, the bigger the scale is.

   This is also the reason why there was only one flood in the Huaihe River area in the early years after the Tang Empire unified China, and no large-scale floods occurred in the subsequent years.

  According to the words of the Ministry of Industry, the current flood control project of the Huai River is enough to resist the once-in-50-year flood, and is currently moving towards the goal of resisting the once-in-a-century flood.

   Even if we encounter a once-in-a-century flood, we can actively discharge the flood through the flood discharge area that has been planned and prepared, actively control the damage of the flood, and reduce the loss to an acceptable level.

   At the same time, the Yellow River diversion project under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry has not stopped, and has been conducting surveys and various preparations.

   When the time is right, the Datang Empire will artificially divert the Yellow River and completely tame the beast of the Yellow River, so that people in the vast Huaihe River Basin and Shandong, Hebei and other regions no longer have to worry about the flooding of the Yellow River every year.

   More importantly, the Ministry of Industry has already made plans to build a large-scale dam in some areas of the Yangtze River and Yellow River for protection, irrigation and navigation.

   As for power generation, what the heck, Datang is not so advanced these days, so there is no need for such a huge hydropower station for the time being.

   It can be seen from these infrastructure projects that the policy coherence of the Tang Empire is very strong.

This also led to the construction of various infrastructures in various parts of the country by the Datang Empire, especially various water conservancy projects for flood control and drought relief. In addition to the Hongze Lake project directly funded from Gyeonggi, in fact, more of them are local Minor works.

   Otherwise, why haven't large-scale natural and man-made disasters occurred in the Datang Empire in the past two decades? Even if there is a temporary drought in some places, it will not be a thousand miles away, and there will be occasional rainstorms in some places. It will not cause floods.

   is because of the numerous flood control and drought relief water conservancy facilities built by the Tang Dynasty.

  According to the current scale of the Tang Empire’s water conservancy infrastructure, unless it is a large-scale long-term lack of rainfall, or it is continuously encountering a once-in-a-hundred-year flood, otherwise it will be slag...

   Even if we meet, it doesn't matter...

   Even if the local food production suddenly plummeted, the Datang Empire has enough confidence to keep the people fed and clothed!

   After all, the whole earth can be said to be the granary of the Tang Dynasty.

  For example, the Tang Dynasty spent a lot of energy and did not hesitate to come up with a move to move the country, so that it completely occupied the Nanyang region.

The huge Nanyang region can only be regarded as preliminary development at most. It is mainly concentrated in coastal areas such as Annan and Siam. About a few million people have immigrated before and after, but with its superior climatic conditions, its The grain output is no worse than that of Hubei, which has a population of over 10 million.

   It is estimated that within a few years, the food production in the Nanyang region will surpass that in the Huguang region.

   The Huguang area is currently the largest granary of the Tang Empire.

   There are also overseas regions such as India and the Americas, especially North America, where mechanized agriculture is now launched, and food production will skyrocket in the future.

   Of course, the Datang Empire has granaries all over the world, not to prepare for large-scale droughts and floods in the local area.

  Datang's purpose of increasing grain production is to make the whole people rich and reduce the grain index.

   Together, this is also for global economic integration.

   As for the prevention of large-scale local food production reduction, that is only incidental.

   After all, the various water conservancy facilities in the Datang Empire's homeland are already very complete, and the empire is still investing money in construction. Ordinary natural disasters cannot endanger the survival of the Datang Empire's homeland.

   However, the Tang Empire is still constantly pursuing various infrastructure constructions, trying to continuously increase food production!

   After all, food is not too much.

   Just in terms of the current grain planting technology, it is difficult to increase the yield per mu, and we can only simply develop more arable land.

   And the area of ​​arable land is also limited, so Li Xuan pays more attention to the improvement of grain output.

   In the 41st year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty established the country for decades, and after allocating countless research and development funds, it finally made a historic breakthrough in increasing grain production!

  Professors from the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Institute of Technology have successfully used ammonia, a by-product of the coking industry, to make nitrogen fertilizer.

   The key point is to not invent nitrogen fertilizer, but to find and manufacture nitrogen fertilizer from the by-products of the coking industry.

  Because of the chemical fertilizer, the Datang Empire began to use it on a small scale many years ago, but the reason why it is said to be used on a small scale rather than on a large scale is because the cost of chemical fertilizers is still relatively high.

For example, phosphate fertilizer, the Royal Institute of Technology of the Tang Dynasty has long discovered that it uses sulfuric acid to directly treat phosphate rock. However, this method is relatively expensive and the output is not large. It is fine for small-scale use. For the Datang Empire, which has countless cultivated land, it is basically useless.

   There are also potash fertilizers, synthetic urea, and even ammonia fertilizers, which have been invented long ago.

   Those guys in the Chemistry Department of the Royal Institute of Technology have even researched compound fertilizers!

   But of course there are no eggs!

   Invented and can be prepared in the laboratory, does not mean that it can be mass-produced.

   Even if it can be mass-produced, it does not mean that the cost is low enough to be used on a large scale.

   In recent years, the fertilizer industry of the Datang Empire has been in such an embarrassing state.

  All kinds of synthetic fertilizers are actually available in the market and are also produced in factories, but there are problems of high price and low output, which are difficult to popularize on a large scale.

   This also led to the current chemical fertilizers of the Tang Dynasty, mainly derived from nitrogen fertilizers produced by natural sodium nitrate mines.

   In other words, it is mainly from the sodium nitrate ore in the Principality of Chile!

   This is the only large-scale sodium nitrate mine in the world, and there is no semicolon. This directly led to the fact that the Principality of Chile, a vassal state directly belonging to the Tang Empire, was rich and oily only by relying on such a mineral.

  The Grand Duchess Elizabeth of the Principality of Chile, with the dowry of the Principality of Chile, has become the woman with the most private property in the Tang harem. It is said that her net worth is at least several million Tang Yuan...

   There is no way, people's private money is a whole vassal state, and this vassal state is also very rich in resources.

   However, even if there is such a large saltpeter mine, it is still not enough for the huge Tang Empire.

   And the distance is always a problem, not to mention the trouble and expensive to transport it back.

   Inside the Datang Empire, there has always been an attempt to artificially synthesize chemical fertilizers, especially nitrogen fertilizers, in a cheaper way.

   Now, I finally found a solution.

   Nitrogen fertilizers are prepared directly from by-products in the coking industry. The cost is not high, and the yield is acceptable.

   When Li Xuan learned about this, he immediately ordered the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to build a number of ammonia fertilizer factories to guide the production of ammonia fertilizer.

   After all, this production method is to directly extract nitrogen fertilizer from the by-products of coking, and the coking industry of the Datang Empire is very developed, and the by-product of the coking industry is quite a lot of ammonia.

  The iron and steel industry of the Datang Empire needs to consume at least tens of millions of tons of coke every year.

  The steel industry has always been a large consumer of coal. A lot of coal produced by the Datang Empire is actually used for iron and steel making.

  The coking industry consumes a huge amount of coal every year. In addition to the main product of coke, it can also obtain by-products such as gas, ammonia, benzene, coal tar and so on.

   These are important raw materials for the chemical industry, and they are also the largest industry that promotes the progress of the chemical industry in the Datang Empire. Even the petrochemical industry that has emerged now has not been able to shake the status of the coking industry in the chemical industry for the time being.

   Therefore, in a short period of time, it can effectively solve the problem of the source of chemical fertilizer raw materials, reduce costs, and also allow the coking industry to obtain more additional benefits.

  This is a good thing that kills multiple birds with one stone. Naturally, Li Xuan will not delay, and immediately ordered to go to prepare the ammonia fertilizer factory.

   Strive for farmers to use affordable nitrogen fertilizer as soon as possible.

   Of course, it can only be said to be cheap, not cheap!

  Because even the nitrogen fertilizer produced in this way is affordable, it is definitely not cheap.

   And the output~www.wuxiaspot.com~ seems to be a lot, but for a global empire with hundreds of millions of people and countless arable lands around the world, this output is actually not enough.

   But things are going step by step, let the Royal Institute of Technology continue to research, and there will always be a cheaper way to produce fertilizers on a large scale.

  The officials of the State-owned Enterprises Department were all very politically conscious people, and they started to act as soon as Li Xuan ordered them.

The funds were directly in place. At the same time, the Anmin Fertilizer Company was established by recruiting talents from some chemical and machinery enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. Under the guidance of the professors from the Royal Institute of Technology, the plan for industrialized mass production was completed in a short period of time. came out.

   Then it is to find several major domestic machinery companies to customize production equipment. As for workshops and skilled workers, it is even simpler. There are a lot of workshops, and technicians are directly transferred from other related companies.

  According to the estimates of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, small-scale trial production can be carried out within three months, and mass production can be carried out within half a year.

  Once Anmin Fertilizer Company's fertilizers are put into the market half a year later, it will mean that the Datang Empire finally has a fertilizer that can be artificially synthesized on a large scale, at an acceptable cost, and can be used on a large scale!

   The strategic significance of this to the Tang Empire will be enormous!

  Because of the large-scale application of chemical fertilizers, it is the only hope for the Tang Empire to realize the prosperity of the whole people!