Workers......

What else can the workers do?

Her Majesty the Protector and Her Majesty the Empress have been so tolerant and generous, and they are so considerate of them, what else can they be dissatisfied with? At the end of the day, they didn't want much, they just wanted a life of abundance and food.

And the Lord Protector has already given it to them.

All that remained was the negotiation between the representatives of the workers in the city and the factory owners, which would have taken some time, since the latter were not so easy to yield, and in fact even the generals of the military did not like this method of treatment, and in their opinion it was the least possible to hang a few hundred workers. However, those generals certainly did not have the courage to oppose Yang Qing, in short, the Guangzhou Revolution came to an end, and as Yang Qing personally opened the gate of the Great South Gate Urn City surrounded by those workers, the city finally ended its previous closed state and resumed free access.

But King Gui and the officials he appointed ......

Especially the Consultative Bureau.

They were no longer qualified to continue administering the city, and until the new Canton Commune Committee formally assumed its duties, the Protector of the Protectors, with the Gui Wangfu as his command, personally exercised military control over Guangdong.

And then......

"Guys, I'm not biased against anyone!"

Yang Qing said to a group of factory owners who had gathered.

He also had to communicate with these people.

After all, as a ruler, he can't just take care of those workers, these capitalists are also the people of the Ming Dynasty.

"But take a look at the statistics of Jinyiwei over the years, and tell me, are you worthy of your conscience? You are all reading the books of the sages, some of you believe in Buddhism, and some of you believe in Yawei, so please tell me what you have done over the years......

He lay down in front of an old countryman, and in the latter's very uncomfortable dodge, he kept a distance of less than half a foot and continued: "Benevolence, compassion, and fraternity, what two words do your actions match? The mortality rate for children under the age of five in Guangzhou is 50 percent, five out of 10 children do not live to be five years old, and the mortality rate for adults who enter factories is 40 percent within three years. The minimum age for child labor is eight years old, eight years old, and if you let a group of eight-year-old children work for you, won't your conscience hurt? ”

"It's not like we don't give money!"

The fellow protested weakly.

"Ah, you are giving money, the minimum salary of a child laborer is fifteen wen a day, the price of rice in Guangzhou is two taels, and the imperial court has set a thousand wen and one tael, one or two halves of stone brown rice, seventy-five catties multiplied by 0.015, more than one catty. You let a child live on more than a pound of brown rice every day, and you have to work for up to fifteen hours, and if you don't do well, you have to hang up and beat, and you still have the face to tell me to give money? ”

Yang Qing slapped the table and shouted.

The old countryman quickly closed his mouth and accompanied the smiling face.

The wages of child laborers in Guangzhou are indeed a bit low, in 1803, the average price of child labor in the British Empire in 1803 can still reach three shillings a week, according to the current price of the Ming Dynasty, that is, six coins of silver, at this time one British kroner is five shillings of silver is thirty-four grams. Then in 1803, the average child labor in Britain was more than two taels a month, and their wages were based on age, and eight-year-olds were paid one-eighth of the adult wage......

Do you think that the Ming capitalists and the British capitalists are the same as the British capitalists, and take eight years old as the minimum age standard for child labor?

Wrong!

At the beginning of the 19th century, the minimum age for child labor in Britain was actually four years old.

Four years old!

The British Empire was not only cruel to the people of the colonies, but they were also cruel to their own people!

Of course, the price level is not the same.

In England in 1803, a pound of bread mixed with sawdust and sand was worth one and a half pennies, which was equivalent to more than twenty cents, which was more expensive than the brown rice in Canton at that time, and that ghost thing was probably only half of the grain, after all, it was normal for black bread to be mixed with half sawdust. That is to say, a week's salary can buy twenty-four pounds of this bread, but that is also twelve pounds of grain, while the child labor of the Ming Dynasty is ten and a half pounds a week......

Capitalists are all the same!

However, many child laborers in Britain have to pay rent, usually 1.5p a day, and the capitalists of the Ming Dynasty are in charge......

After all, this is very easy to solve in Guangzhou.

And the fog capital has to get a house that really won't freeze to death.

However, the salary of fifteen wen a day is still a little outrageously low, if you live in Nandu, this salary is enough to eat, with Yang Qing's continuous efforts, the current price of rice in Nandu has reached six yuan, that is to say, you can exchange most of the stone rice in a month. Although most of the stone rice is still not much, but an eight-year-old child is enough, but under the price of rice in Guangzhou, this money can only be eaten sweet potatoes, and eating sweet potatoes can only be half starved and half full. But not only do these child laborers have to work fifteen hours, but they are also the most likely to be beaten if they don't do a good job, that is, they are hung up and burned with charcoal like our British Empire, and these village sages are not unable to do it.

In addition, there are diseases.

Tuberculosis is almost a common disease in the textile industry, especially child labor, which has poor immunity, coupled with long-term malnutrition, and is almost certain to die.

"It's good if the apprentice has a salary, but if you want to rush over, you have to pay the master's money! We still have a meal at noon, fifteen wen is a lot, and it's not all fifteen wen, and there is one or two silver a month for a good job! We are not a good church, of course we have to make money in business, and it is not easy for us! ”

Another villager whispered.

Although the other villagers did not speak, they all had expressions on their faces that were deeply convinced.

"And then?"

Yang Qing sneered: "Then a quarter of the factory owners in Guangzhou were killed by the workers. ”

"These Diao people!"

A factory owner said through gritted teeth.

"That is, a good life, but it has to be so troublesome, if it weren't for the kindness of Her Majesty the Empress and the Lord Protector, this time I would have to cut off a bunch of his heads, so that they would all know the fate of the rebellion. Isn't it just that the work is tiring, the food is almost eaten, and they are all working hard to make ends meet, how can it be so delicate, and working in the fields is not the same sweat beads and eight petals? They are all landless homeless people, and if we hadn't given them jobs, they would have to go to the streets to ask for food, and they are all ungrateful dogs! ”

Another village sage also gnashed his teeth.

Then there was a gang of village sages who denounced the crimes of the workers with the same hatred.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you something that may not be very pleasant to you."

Yang Qing said.

The sages looked up at him.

"I decided to merge the two counties of Nanhai and Panyu in the capital city of Guangzhou, and the name will continue to be the Guangzhou Commune, and the imperial court will not send officials to the Guangzhou Commune to administer the place. Instead, they continued to use the Four People's Congress of the Canton Commune to elect the Commune Committee, and elected a leader, so as to replace the imperial court in managing the local affairs of the Canton Commune, so ......"

With a happy smile, Yang Qing looked at these unrepentant guys.

"You will be in the hands of the people in the future!"

He said in a state of dumbness.

After saying that, he didn't waste any more time with these guys, and then stood up and walked away, and the moment he went out, there was a wail and angry roar behind him......

The protector didn't have the time to talk nonsense with them.

It is impossible to get them to change their minds, and the nature of the capitalists dictates that they will always do whatever it takes to pursue more profits, so they cannot be expected to find out in their conscience, and they must be restrained and regulated by force. Without strong constraints, they are completely hungry wolves who let go of their cages, and then, driven by greed, challenge the bottom line of morality again and again, although it is undeniable that they represent the real future of what was originally history. But Yang Qing represents the future after the future, whether it is personal aesthetics or the prevention of the consequences of the barbaric growth of liberal capitalism, he must close this cage door for these guys.

There are still many things to do in Yang Qing next.

Guangzhou was pacified, but other places were not.

In particular, several major iron ore mining areas.

The composition of Foshan's iron smelting industry is very primitive, Foshan is only the smelting of wrought iron and steel, in addition to the processing of various ironware, and the smelting of pig iron is responsible for the pig iron furnaces in the mountain iron mines. The pig iron furnaces set up by these gentry from all over the country used nearby mines and charcoal produced in the same vicinity as raw materials, smelted pig iron, and then transported to Foshan by water. These iron-smelting furnaces are mainly distributed in Lianzhou, Shaozhou, Huizhou and other places in northern Guangdong, but the largest concentration is in Luoding, which has almost nothing to do with iron ore in modern times. So when the news of Yang Qing's request for King Gui to cut off Luoding and the workers of Canton to riot reached this area, the iron-smelting and mining workers did not hesitate to rebel in the same way, and started a scuffle with the gentry's militias.

And the same is true of Lianzhou and Huizhou.

That is, Shaozhou did not dare to do it because the Second Army was stationed in Shaoguan, after all, it was 20,000 elites.

In addition, there are farmers everywhere who do it.

In short, in the past month or so, almost all the provinces of Guangdong have been moved, and there are more and more of them, and the gentry's militia is naturally desperately suppressed, so the fighting between the two sides has not subsided to this day.

But it's all trivial.

The order of the protector was issued from Guangzhou, and the First Marine Corps quickly separated and controlled the surrounding areas of Guangzhou, and Liu Zhaoji, the commander of Ganzhou on the northern front, led two armies south to take over Shaoguan, and at the same time pacified the war in northern Guangdong. A brigade of Zheng Hongkui, the commander of Nanning, quickly took over Luoding, and the Leizhou militia brigade marched into Gaozhou and forcibly disarmed both sides of the war. Then he took the military management team ordered by the Protector to go to the prefectures and counties to take over, and the original local officials were all transferred to Nanjing to be re-elected by the Ministry of Officials, and all the village sages in various places were abolished, and the representatives of the four people were re-elected in the form of the imperial court.

It just so happened that the Four People's Congress was about to be replaced.

In just over half a month, the whole of Guangdong was pacified.

Then, under the strong pressure of Yang Qing himself, the factory owners had to give up their illusions and began to negotiate with the workers.

It's a long process.