"To put workers first and to make our factory employees rich is the fundamental demand of this factory building experiment, not just for the wealth of shareholders, just for the wealth of shareholders! I hope you can make such a factory survive in this world and even become the most powerful industrial existence, and thus affect the entire commercial civilization. We must do our best!"

"The Jiangnan area is rich and prosperous, with the most populous people, and the world's customs is the first, and the overseas Chinese workers are the most numerous. It is a place where business and travelers gather. It is the most suitable to test and start an official and enterprise with employee shareholdings here, and it can also influence the whole world in the fastest time. Therefore, you'd better go to Jiangnan to find a place to experiment."

"According to your report, I think it is better to make new steam cars first! Manufacturing is the foundation of the country, and steam cars are the future trend and are expensive. It can also integrate industrial products and handicrafts to make the wealthy pay for it, and let the wealthy spend money on it is better than let them spend money like soil in the casino and the moon. In this way, the surplus funds of the people can be absorbed as research and development capital to improve the corresponding manufacturing technology."

"What Your Majesty said is that in order to launch a steam locomotive that is more suitable for making handicrafts, Chen and others went to the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Daming Academy of Engineering and the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing to discuss with scholars and senior craftsmen in those places. Based on the latest technology of the Ming Dynasty, they decided to directly use gas engines to provide power to turn the process of gas burning outside into internal combustion, so that civilian steam locomotives do not need to see the high chimneys, but make people feel that the car is ugly and ugly."

"In terms of manufacturing equipment, we decided to directly use steam water press for forging and steam boring machines, etc., and mobilized more than a dozen university researchers to go south with great craftsmen, and then they will also serve as employees of the new official manufacturing factory. This is a list, so please read it yourself! In addition, please give this factory a name."

"This factory is called Datong Machinery Factory, which means that opening this factory is adhering to the concept of the whole world for public service!"

"Datong Machinery..."

Looking at the trees that were rapidly retreating outside the window and the Yangtze River that was getting farther and farther away from him, Bi Ziyan seemed to feel that before leaving Beijing, his conversation with His Majesty would still appear in his ears from time to time.

In the early days of the Tianqi Dynasty, he became the Minister of Revenue. With the support of the emperor, he promoted official industries and supported hundreds of thousands of refugees, which also changed the economic situation of the national treasury and the food for the first time.

During his later tenure as the chief minister of the Tianqi Dynasty, with the support of the emperor, the Ming Dynasty opened up the path of external expansion, and promoted the commodity economy and colonial economy, so that the Ming Empire did not fall into a crisis of fiscal collapse due to constant internal natural disasters. Instead, due to the migration of a large number of internal populations, the internal and external economy of the Ming Dynasty developed rapidly, and the national treasury was abundant so that it could carry out several conquests at the same time.

Now, he is no longer the prime minister. He took advantage of the opportunity of increasing his spare time and soon after returning to his hometown to establish a university of finance and economics, he was ordered to do something that no one had done before after personally inspecting the social and economic situation.

Although he is now gray-haired, when he thinks of his purpose of going south at this moment, he only feels that he is still the former candidate who went to Beijing to take the exam. He is full of vitality and energy, and always feels that his life is infinite and everything is going well.

This time, what Emperor Zhu Youxiao asked Bi Ziyan to do was indeed a major thing that no one had done in this era.

Because although there are many workers in the Jiangnan area, they are basically service workers and textile workers. On the contrary, there are very few workers in the machinery manufacturing industry, especially those with skilled machinery manufacturing industry.

Therefore, this time Bi Ziyan and his team went south, not only brought high-level scholars, but also researchers in the field of mechanical manufacturing, and senior craftsmen with superb skills. Even all craftsmen at other levels were recruited from factories in Tianjin, and led them and their relatives south together.

In addition, because there are currently no corresponding machinery and equipment manufacturers in the Jiangnan area, even the equipment was purchased and followed them to the south.

Therefore, when the special train that Bi Ziyan and others took arrived in Nanjing, then took the official boat to Suzhou, and finally arrived in Kunshan, what the local residents saw was that many workers brought their families to their world, and some were frugal by nature, even pots and pans.

The reason why Bi Ziyan and others chose to build Datong Machinery Factory in Kunshan was because the transportation here is convenient, and they can go to sea through Songjiang and through Suzhou to reach the north and south.

In addition, more importantly, as the main participant in this experiment, Gu Yanwu took the initiative to contribute his own land as factory land in order to realize the ideal of everyone being rich.

Gu Yanwu is from Kunshan and his family is a Kunshan landlord, so he naturally has no shortage of land.

Historically, most of his real estate was sold in large quantities because of his luxurious life. In this life, he used all of them as the experimental base of the ideal factory in Datong, Daming. It is naturally more meaningful than selling them in his previous life to maintain a luxurious life.

"Although Datong Machinery Factory has treasury and state treasury, it will not send officials to manage us. The treasury and state treasury only account for a small part of the equity, so that the machinery factory can have a start-up payment before it is invested by the treasury and state treasury! Most of the shares belong to the employees of this factory and vary according to their respective skills, service years, and positions in the factory."

"Datong Machinery Factory has a staff meeting, which is the only leading body of the machinery factory. However, there are too many employees and they are not in the factory due to business trips or other reasons. Therefore, it is impossible to hold a staff meeting when all matters need to be decided. Therefore, the staff meeting needs to regularly select several staff members to form a staff committee, and then the staff committee decides every day's affairs."

"Before going south, our factory selected a staff committee represented by Chenggong, Yugong and Qiangong, then we will ask Chenggong, Yugong and Qiangong to stay. The rest will first go back to their new home here according to the house numbers they draw and arrange their next life, and then wait for the factory to announce the working hours and corresponding arrangements."

As the employee committee member in charge of the daily work and life arrangements of employees, Gu Yanwu continued to tell the employees the corresponding information about the Datong factory loudly, and then talked about the corresponding arrangements for the workers.

And the employees all went to their new homes.

Before they came, Gu Yanwu recruited Suzhou builders in the name of Datong Machinery Factory to build a batch of townhouses imitating Suzhou gardens as employees' residences.

Datong Machinery Factory is based on employees, so it naturally needs to solve the housing problems of the relocated employees. Moreover, the goal is to achieve wealth and honor among all employees, so naturally, the employees' residences cannot be too standardized.

However, the property rights of these employees' residential properties belong to the factory, and employees only have the right to use and cannot buy or sell.

Therefore, after these employees move in, relevant agreements will be signed.

And so, when the employees of Datong Machinery Factory saw the house distributed to them, they were naturally extremely shocked.

"This, this, this house is so good. It's not for the officials to live in, right?"
Chapter completed!