For a whole afternoon, both sides were arguing, and they were going back and forth, to no avail. But that's to be expected.

"Until the last moment, they will never make concessions on interests." On the way back, Fagin and a few other workers' representatives said as they walked, "Actually, they still make us anxious, hehe, every day of work stoppage, their losses are in the tens of thousands." Moreover, they are getting closer and closer to the 'Pakistan Trade Fair', and they are still carrying bank loans and all kinds of money involved, these people are in a hurry, and they will not allow them to continue to drag this matter on. So don't be frightened by their deliberate composure today, they don't have much time left, continue to drag on, because of the problem of the capital chain, they can no longer let the factory run, then the crisis will spread to other areas. This is something that neither they, nor anyone else behind them, can tolerate. So, as long as we can hold on, they will definitely compromise. ”

A few people said this, encouraging each other, cheering each other on, and walking back.

"Boss Fagin." Bill suddenly spoke, "Those guys have suffered such a big loss, will they be willing?" After the Pakistan fair, will they change the contract back? ”

This is indeed a big problem. Even Fagin must admit that this possibility exists. Even, if you are confident, you can directly remove the two words possible.

"They were never willing to compromise, but why do they have to do it now? The reason is simple, because the workers have united and shown strength. Fagin said, "Wren, they're the most realistic people. You see, today, we are sarcastic about him and sarcastic about him, almost directly slapping him in the face. If it's me, hehe, I'm afraid I'll be angry immediately. ”

At this point, Fagin laughed at himself twice, and then continued, "But you see, is that guy angry? ”

"I don't see it." Bill shook his head, and then he added, "So I'm more and more worried that this kind of old silver coin that you slap him in the face and still laugh is the most terrifying." Grandma's I really want to stab him to death, otherwise I won't be able to sleep when I think of his smiling face......"

"Bill, do you think this old silver coin hates us?" Fagin asked.

"Of course, of course I hate!" Another representative of the workers, George, interjected, "We're in his way to riches." Blocking people from getting rich, can people not hate us? ”

"Killing his parents and playing with his wife, for him, it doesn't have to be so hateful as preventing him from getting rich."

"If he hates us so much, why doesn't he turn his face on us?" Fagin asked again.

But this time, he didn't wait for everyone to answer, so he replied directly: "Because he doesn't dare, he knows that it is not worth the loss to turn against us." If he concedes to us, he will lose a pound, and if he comes into direct conflict with us, he will lose a pound and a penny, and he will not choose to conflict with us. Therefore, as long as we show our strength and make them feel that the loss of turning against us is greater than not turning against us, then they will not dare to turn against us. So, if we want to prevent them from turning around and not admitting it in the future, we need to further strengthen the unity, so that if they make any moves, we can immediately use solidarity to make them suffer losses that they cannot bear. ”

Fagin's words gave everyone some courage. But Fagin himself knew that it was not that simple. Because the stakes go far beyond the workers and textile mill owners. There are a lot of more fatal stakes that he doesn't mention. For example, benefits are also divided into short-term and long-term benefits.

A direct confrontation with the trade unions, which led to a general strike, was of course detrimental to the short-term interests of Rennes, as the factory owner. But if you can destroy the union and push the new contract forward, it will be more beneficial in the long run. Moreover, if Ren and the others decide to provoke this fight, then he will prepare in advance, which will further reduce their short-term losses. Under such circumstances, it will naturally be very difficult to win the battle against them.

And that's not even the worst thing, what's the worst thing? The worst thing is that it is not only the textile merchants who want to trouble them, they want to destroy, they want to suppress them, but even all the factory owners. Because if the textile workers rely on the strike struggle today to gain their own interests, will the workers there follow suit tomorrow? Will they also use this form to fight for their own financial benefits?

Therefore, it was not just Wren who wanted to destroy them, or even the textile mill owners, but the whole of the "rich men", and this whole, which he had learned in Toulon told him, also had a name, and it was called: "The United Kingdom".

So, the enemy of the London Textile Workers' Union was not just the textile mill owners, but a much bigger and more terrible behemoth – the United Kingdom.

Fagin, and the London Textile Workers' Federation's fight against this opponent is like a child, holding an embroidery needle, against an ancient red dragon that challenges level 26.

However, there are some things that you can not face because you don't have to look at the big gap in the power ratio. It's like a child can not grab his embroidery needle, but even if he doesn't grab his embroidery needle, the red dragon will not eat him very gently because of this.

Many times, no matter how strong our opponents are, we can only grab our embroidery needles and fight against them, not for glory and justice, but just for survival.

As an individual worker, if he had the opportunity to become a representative of the workers, he might have the opportunity to act as a thief and sell other workers to get himself thirty silver coins, but for the textile workers as a whole, they had only one way to go, revolt.

To be honest, Wren and the other rich people don't hate the workers, they just see them as a tool, a tool for their benefit. How could they hate such a tool? Although some people are not willing to go from a living person to a tool. But for capital: what does it have to do with you to alienate you?

Therefore, for those who do not want to be alienated into the tool man depicted by Chaplin in "The Gilded Age", there is only one way to resist, even if the opponent is as strong as the "Trisolaran Man" and we are "just bugs".

It's just that these words can't be said to you yet. The enemy is too strong, and if you say this now, you might freak them out. So Fagin thought about it and said:

"After this incident, we want to further strengthen the solidarity among the textile workers. And textile workers alone are not enough. Those rich people, they may usually have a lot of contradictions, and they can't wait for you to eat me, and I eat you. But when it comes to bullying the poor, they can agree without discussion. So, we have to fight them, and if we want to survive, we have to organize more poor people. Textile workers, steelworkers, shipyard workers, all workers, should be united. The rich people of the world have long been united, and the poor people of the world must also unite in order to compete with them, to suffer less, or even not to be bullied. ”

The group walked and chatted, and some talked about how to strengthen the union between textile workers; Some people talk about how to get in touch with workers in other industries, while others are looking forward to the future, how to go to the New World and start a new life after saving enough money. People cannot be without hope, and in such a painful life, it is such an ethereal hope that supports these workers not to fall and not to finish.

On the other side, the textile mill owners also gathered to discuss what to do next.

"These deputies are really difficult to deal with." Said a factory owner.

"Yes. But it's not really impossible. "They're alert, but no one's alertness can be maintained for long." There will always be times for slackness. So it's not really that there is no way, it's just that they caught us off guard and we don't have time to react now. ”

"So what do you say?" Another factory owner asked.

"Take a step back for the moment and reinstate most of the old contract." "At the same time, find a way to divide them." ”

"They're together all the time, how do you divide them?"

"We can bypass them and go straight to their base, the workers. The workers were already starving, and we only had to give in a little bit, or even to the starting point, to make them feel as if they could barely get by. And then these people will go into the factory, or at least want to go into the factory, and then, how much of this can be used? When this time is over, they will have nothing to threaten us. By then, hehe......"

Wren sneered and said, "At that time, whoever of them took mine will send me back; If you eat mine, you will spit it out for me! In fact, if it weren't for the Pakistani Fair, not only us, but many big people would have wanted to teach them a good lesson! Are you still worried that they will not recognize our new contract in the future? ”

So the "decent people" who were present at the meeting laughed like jackals. At this moment, a breeze blew, and the candlesticks in the room swayed, distorting the shadows of those "decent people", like ghosts.