Goryeo's agriculture was unable to provide stable employment and food to Goryeo, and Goryeo workers worked on railroads on their salaries. In an agrarian country, having to work as a long-term worker because you don't have a livelihood is a very hard thing and will be considered a job with no status. The Korean railway workers finally got married in recent years, because they were paid every month for several years, and in a few years, the local people knew that the railway boss was Chinese and not Korean.

If you deduct your salary now, let alone marry a wife, even your own life will become a problem. There was no need for Secretary Yuan Weiting's deliberate agitation, and all the representatives of the Korean trade unions were excited. Their first reaction was not to fight Secretary Yuan Weiting, but to begin to fall to their knees and cry loudly, and begged not to reduce their wages while crying.

Secretary Yuan Weiting looked condescendingly at these Goryeo trade union representatives, they were not elected because they dared to fight. Being able to become a union representative is entirely because these people are obedient. After everyone cried for a while, Yuan Weiting shouted: "Don't cry! Is it okay for you to cry? ”

This has little effect, what can everyone do but beg bitterly?

Yuan Weiting first asked the workers' representatives to get up and sit back in their seats, and he asked: "If we don't lose anything on the railway, do you think we will still deduct everyone's wages?" ”

This question immediately opened the minds of the Korean trade union representatives. That's right! If you don't lose anything anymore, you won't deduct your salary.

Yuan Weiting then shouted: "So what everyone has to do now is to organize to come and beat those who steal our things." Defeat these bad guys, and we can make money. ”

The reason is very clear, and it is completely within the acceptable range of everyone. The Goryeo delegates quickly united their minds and now needed to defend the fruits of the workers' labor by force.

When Yuan Weiting began to take the mass line and organize the workers' armed forces, Hou Renjie, the representative of the Ministry of Commerce in Goryeo, and Wang Shizhen were chattering, "Xiao Wang, I heard that you are still the champion of Beijing junior high school and high school, why did you not go to high school and go to a railway school?" ”

Twenty-three-year-old Wang Shizhen couldn't help but sigh slightly, "My family is poor, and I can work as soon as I go to a railway school." ”

Wang Shizhen's father is a showman, proficient in medical and martial arts. It's just that his father and uncle died early, and Wang Shizhen and his widowed mother depended on each other, living in his aunt's house in Ximenli in Zhengding City, and relying on his mother to work in a textile factory alone to survive. Wang Shizhen has been smart and studious since she was a child, and she has excelled in her studies. Although the background is not very good, Wei Ze's "Political Untouchability Regulations" clause adds that Xiucai's family background already belongs to the ranks of political untouchables, but orphans and widows do not belong to this list. So Wang Shizhen was also able to get rid of this blow.

After listening to Wang Shizhen's story, Hou Renjie also sighed, "Life is like this, with your grades, it is not difficult to be admitted to university." By the way, Xiao Wang, do you want to work in our Ministry of Commerce? ”

Wang Shizhen was not the slightest surprised, he said calmly: "I have eaten railway rice for so many years, and I want to continue to work on the railway." ”

Hou Renjie didn't believe this, Wang Shizhen graduated from the Beijing Railway School at the age of 17, and has been working on the railway for six years now. He has worked in Goryeo for five of the past six years, and now he has taken on a very important responsibility in Goryeo at a young age. As long as Wang Shizhen is willing, he has the opportunity to go to university for further study. Hou Renjie is now recruiting Wang Shizhen, not because of Wang Shizhen's academic qualifications, but because of the young man's unusual ability.

While the two were talking, the telegraph operator sent the telegram, Wang Shizhen opened the telegram and read it, and then handed the telegram to Hou Renjie. A simple sentence was written on the telegram, "Agree to the application for the export of capital." ”

Hou Renjie's face was expressionless, but his eyes were unusually bright. The Min Dynasty has always been an exporter of commodities, and if it exports troops, it will occupy land. However, this time Goryeo made an abnormality, and the original Li Hongzhang put forward the idea of engaging in a joint-stock enterprise with the Ministry of Commerce because he wanted to stop the turmoil in Goryeo. This so-called joint-stock system is actually the cooperation and struggle between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce for the right to speak in Korea. Since it is impossible for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get rid of the Ministry of Commerce, it simply cooperates with the Ministry of Commerce, fights in the course of cooperation, and promotes cooperation in the course of struggle.

However, the young people of the Korea Railway and Telegraph Company, which was affiliated with the Ministry of Commerce, came up with a new idea, and they came up with the idea of exporting capital. The term "capital export" sounds like a big one, but in fact it is quite simple: to invest in industry in Goryeo and gradually control Goryeo through the expansion of industrial enterprises. There is an economic crisis in the industrial countries, and the economic crisis corresponds to the economic prosperity. Agrarian countries are not even qualified for economic crises, because agrarian countries are in crisis every day.

Floods and droughts and expropriation are the most common problems in purely agrarian countries, and this is not the worst. When commercialism began to rise in the agrarian countries, an even greater tragedy struck. When the feudal landlords still undertook their social obligations, they had no choice but to pay for the grain. When the feudal landlords began to make money faster by trading large quantities, the feudal landlords began to refuse to accept the obligation to pay grain for their own interests. The general feudal obligation was divided into paying money and paying grain, and after choosing the feudal obligation of paying money, the potential obligation of the landlords to provide grain to the domestic market was ruthlessly abandoned. After participating in the export of grain, the landlords were not short of money. The state does not lose anything, in fact, the country loses an important pillar.

Now that Goryeo is pregnant with a huge crisis, Hou Renjie, a representative of the Ministry of Commerce, admires the patience of the Goryeo people. If it weren't for the low salary, how could the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company take on the salary of a Goryeo railroad worker when the Goryeo royal court was in arrears. The annual profits of the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company were enough to feed the workers. For the landlords who sold grain overseas, the railroad and the telegraph were their helpers. With these big customers alone, the Korea Railway and Telegraph Company would not lose money.

For Chinese capital, such a cheap labor force and relatively abundant underground mineral deposits in Goryeo were extremely profitable. In Japan, the idea of using Goryeo as a dumping ground was also considered, but when the accounts were settled, it was found that the simple export of goods was not necessarily cost-effective. The profits of local investment are not small, and the economic development brought about by the development of local industries is a benefit. On top of that, Goryeo was too poor to have much purchasing power. Rather than making trouble to the point where the Koreans rebelled against China, it is better to release the water to raise fish, so that China can make long-term profits.

Wang Shizhen has a lot of contributions in this report, and Yuan Weiting also gave a lot of additions in it. Now that the report has been approved by the central government, although it is not known whether the future will really be as everyone wishes, at least the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Korea need to promote the development of the whole plan on their own.

Wang Shizhen got up and said to Hou Renjie: "I'll go to do something." ”