Yang Siyu and the others were busy rescuing the victims, while Chen Yumo took advantage of this time to take a good walk around the living area around the mine, and at the same time did not forget to pay attention to the progress of the rescue.

Walking in the place where the slaves lived, you can truly appreciate their life and environment.

Fortunately for Chen Yumo, at least it was not as bad as the rumors described, although the slaves lived in a simple place, but the environment was not very bad. Of course, there are many slaves who are still wearing heavy shackles, but more of them are free, and when facing Chen Yumo and his party, they will not be as numb and hopeless as those refugees in the Ming Dynasty.

This is also thanks to Hongmen's insistence on the concept over the years, although there are reservations about slavery here, but it is not as good as the Westerners who treat slaves like animals, or even worse than livestock.

At least here, the slaves were able to have a relatively clean and comfortable environment, and even have a room of their own if they had a family and children.

In the matter of children, Hongmen and its affiliated teams also have the same philosophy, that is, they are not forbidden to learn knowledge, cultivate new skills, and let them change from a family that sells their labor to a future with a better future, which is why the slaves in Luzon have so far rarely resisted.

At least, in the eyes of these slaves, their future is not bleak, and their descendants do not have to be like them, to be a slave with no future.

The only thing that made people a little heavy was the environment in which the slaves worked, and Chen Yumo, who originally wanted to inspect the mine, was finally stopped by a group of people, including the members of his entourage.

There was a collapse accident just now, and no one dared to risk being buried alive, so that Chen Yumo could only take a few glances around the mine to inspect.

And in the smelting field, the crushing yard and other places, a group of slaves whose bodies were covered with a thin layer of lime, soot and other dust, showing only two black eyes, diligently and painstakingly wielded the tools in their hands to complete the work at hand.

Before leaving Dayuan Island, just in time for the Bengang cement trade union to strike and demand an increase in the welfare of cement workers, the first protest organized by the workers themselves will naturally attract the attention of Chen Yumo, who is the president of the drama club.

With Chen Yumo's status, it is only a matter of a few words to find out the real reason why the workers launched a strike and protest, so she still knows a thing or two about the harm caused by dust.

It is precisely because of her understanding that at this moment, when she sees the dusty hard laborers, working hard without any protective tools, her heart is filled with pity and apology.

Hongmen accounts for the majority of the shares in the Medan gold mine, and in the final analysis, a large part of the workers here work for Hongmen.

"Can't you just turn the exhaust system or put a mask on the workers or something?"

Chen Yumu raised his head, found Yang Siyu who was in a hurry, and questioned him.

"Where do you need an exhaust here?"

Yang Siyu looked at the crushing site without any cover, felt the touch of the sea breeze blowing on his face, and muttered in his heart, but said apologetically on his face: "It's not that they didn't give them masks, but they sweated seriously when they were working with their hands, and they quickly couldn't breathe when they wore masks, but it delayed their progress in a day's work, and they didn't wear them themselves for a long time." ”

“……”

As long as it is not too much expenditure, in fact, the mine directors are not so stingy, this is where the humanity of the managers under Hongmen lies, and Yang Siyu is very confident that he will not wear it, after all, they have really done it, but the slaves below are not willing to wear it.

"Can't you force them to wear it?"

Chen Yumo asked this sentence, and he already regretted it a little, and he could figure it out with his thighs that the group of slaves from Africa and India at the bottom were born poor and had no culture, and it was not easy for them to understand the problems that dust might bring, not to mention that the mines used slaves as laborers, because they didn't need pensions and could be consumed at any time like numbers.

"It's useless, we've done all these things, and they finally tried their best to choose unprotected operations, and we couldn't help it."

Yang Siyu shook his head again and again, in fact, even his supervisor didn't understand the fact that dust may bring hidden diseases to the body, let alone the group of hard-working laborers at the bottom.

In the eyes of all of them, this mask on the tip of the mouth and nose is really not very useful except for making them uncomfortable, at least now they all look healthy!

The more she patrolled around the mine, the more depressed and lost Chen Yumo and the others became, in her mind, there would be a certain gap between the people in the territory under the jurisdiction of Hongmen, but as long as they worked hard enough, life should not be bad, because this is the future that Li Tianyang has depicted for all of them, and it is also the goal that everyone has been striving for.

But it was in their Hongmen's territory that there was a regression of civilization, and they began to allow the existence of slaves, which was completely contrary to the concept that Li Tianyang told them.

Of course, many people in the Hongmen also exonerated Li Tianyang, such as these black slaves and Indian slaves are not of our Chinese nobles, and the Hongmen concept does not include them, at least in the short term.

These reasons were supported by many people in the Hongmen, most of whom had vested interests in slavery, the proprietors of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the administrators of Qixintang, and even the employees of the government's financial department.

Just like those problems that Li Tianyang once said, this society has always had strata, and the source of strata comes from the main body of interests on both sides. The exploiters and the exploited can never be eradicated, nor will they die.

But Chen Yumo still hopes that among them, the exploiters' methods can be more sophisticated, and the lives of the exploited can be better, so that they can be worthy of the beautiful vision that Li Tianyang once built for her and them.

To this end, Chen Yumo tries to contribute to this vision through her own efforts and contribute her own meager strength.

(End of chapter)