The martial law in Hankow has brought great confusion to the lives of the common people. In the grain store, rice, flour, glutinous rice, millet, and even rice cakes and rice crackers were sold out. The restaurants are all closed, and fresh vegetables and meat are not available at all. In those days, a lot of grain could still be transported in from outside the city, but in the end, the people who transported the grain could not get out of the city, and a large amount of grain was backlogged outside the city and could not be transported in, and many people's grain stocks were almost exhausted.

On the Fujian side, Sun Dashuai's telegram was almost a day, constantly asking about the situation in the city of Hankou. Although the strength of Sun's army was stronger, the enemy's new force kept forcing the Qing River, and the will to fight also weakened. Lu Yongxiang in the north also exchanged fire with Xu Hu's troops, and Xu's men occupied a favorable terrain and dug trenches to fight a positional battle with Lu's army, and the two sides quickly entered a stalemate stage. The front line is tight, and the situation in Hankou City is unclear, which makes Xu Hu worried.

Xu Hu pouted and looked pitifully at the dinner table, he was a typical carnivore, the porridge in front of him was crystal clear, and only a few scattered millets floated on it. I hadn't seen meat for two days, and the plate of crumpled and withered green vegetables made him not interested at all. "Hey, the life of a monk is not so miserable, you have to die a good death if you are surnamed Liang! If this Wu Xiucai really negotiated with the Soviets, then would our Fujian army be eaten by the Zhejiang army and the Guangdong army in vain? ”

Zhang Zidong happily walked into the house with the director, "General Xu, good news!" ”

Xu Hu saw the director coming, and ran over excitedly to grab the director's arm, "What good news?" ”

"The workers at the Hankow station all ran away while the envoy was speaking, and now all the reporters are rushing to report on it." The director said proudly.

"Hahaha." Xu Hu laughed, "Now this old master can be regarded as throwing people to grandma's house." Xu Hu grabbed Zhang Zidong's arm, "Great, now Wu Xiucai is going to talk to the Soviets." ”

Zhang Zidong's arm was caught, he broke free of Xu Hu's hand and said, "Although this is good news, it is still one step away from the result we want." When the workers went to their enlarged meeting, the authorities did not clash with them. If Beijing acquiesces to the situation, things will still turn around. We now need to add another fire to an already tense situation. ”

Xu Hu nodded, "I listen to you, what do you say now?" ”

Zhang Zidong said, "Send your subordinates to pretend to be workers with guns to do the patrol police outside the theater, and in addition," Zhang Zidong looked at the director, "What is the name of the subordinate who called you, Zhang Damin took a few patrol officers into the movie theater and set a fire to kill several of his workers." What do you think will happen to them? ”

Xu Hu praised again and again, "Okay, just use this method." ”

The director also thinks this method is good, "Originally, Zhang Damin was killed today after the assassination of the special envoy, but I didn't expect the workers to leave." After a while, I asked him to go in and set fire, and then someone tracked down and pushed all this matter on his head, anyway, Director Liang wanted to use him, and neither of these two people could run away at that time. ”

Xu Hu gathered a few henchmen and soldiers to change into workers' clothes, and after explaining the task, they rode to the textile theater in the director's car. The chief of the car said to the soldiers, "Before you shoot in a while, you must reveal your identity, and when the time comes, you will shout to protect the interests of the workers and oppose exploitation and oppression." ”

The meeting in the textile theater was very fruitful, and several workers' representatives under Wang Fubao made speeches, and they respectively accused the capitalists of doing things that hurt nature and reason, and the workers recognized the unequal treatment they faced under everyone's propaganda, and established the belief of unity, cooperation, and common struggle. At the meeting, Wang Fubao was re-elected as chairman of the workers' organization, Lu Shuzhang was appointed vice chairman, and the remaining key representatives were elected as committee members.

After reading the resolution on the appointment and dismissal of the relevant leaders, Shi Sanlang asked the workers, "Do you all agree with the above-mentioned personnel arrangements?" ”

"Agreed."

"Okay, since you have agreed, you must resolutely obey the instructions and orders of the upper leaders, and only when you work together can you achieve great things. Next, we have another important part of the conference, which is the specific content of the workers' rights that we are asking for from the authorities, which I will give you a second thought. First, we want to establish the Kawaguchi Railway Union, and the authorities must recognize our legal status. In the future, the remuneration and work content of all workers must be negotiated with our trade unions. Second, severely punish the officials involved in the Hankow authorities, who are responsible for the exploitation of the workers. Third, railway workers should have one day off per week, and the specific working hours should be eight hours, and the work exceeding the prescribed time should be paid twice the salary in time units. Fourth, workers have the right to take a week off during the Lunar New Year, and if they have to go to work because of the high pressure of transportation, they have the right to compensate for the leave. ”

"Great, it's long overdue. Now it's so much money to do more and less every day, who has the heart to sell their lives. ”

"I can take a week's vacation for the Chinese New Year, then I can take my wife and children home to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly. I haven't been home in years. ”

"Double pay, can they agree?"

"If they can really agree to double the pay for overtime, I'll give them their life!"

Shi San saw that everyone was interested in his draft proposal, so he struck while the iron was hot and said, "If you have no opinion, all the workers here today, you are all representatives of the Kawaguchi Railway Union, everyone sign my proposal, tomorrow I will go to their special envoy with several leaders of our union to put forward our demands, if they can't meet them, we will start an indefinite strike and fight them to the end." ”

The workers waved their fists, "Okay, let's sign, we have a lot of strength, I'm not afraid that they won't bow their heads." ”

Everyone lined up in the cinema, and those who could write would be given a brush to write their names in person, and those who could not write would be written by Shi San on his behalf, and then the workers would press a fingerprint.

The chief's car stopped before reaching the cinema and he said to the soldiers, "Cover up for a while, and when you can't see me anymore, you shoot into the crowd of patrolmen." ”

One soldier pulled a grenade out of his arms and checked that the insurance was in good condition.

The director said angrily, "Who told you to take the grenade!" The director snatched the grenade and put it in his pocket, "If the workers even have grenades, they will still have a strike, and the direct rebellion will not be over." The chief took out a bunch of red armbands for the soldiers to wear, and the red armbands read, "Kawaguchi Railway Workers' Pickets."