Four days later.

Nanking.

"This wind can't last long!"

Chen Zilong, the head of the household, said firmly.

The ministers nodded.

The news of the Canton Incident was sent to Hong Kong on the same day, because at this time it was still under the control of the northward coastal current, and the three-masted shear schooner communication ship sent the report of the Nanyang Naval Division to Xiamen on the third day. Then the relay communication tower was transmitted to Nanjing in less than two days, and the report immediately sparked a great discussion in the cabinet. Obviously, these guys in the cabinet are on the side of the village sages on this issue, although they also know that this is to send Guangdong directly back to the imperial court, and they will definitely use this to defeat King Gui, but ......

That doesn't support the workers either.

It's a matter of the ass.

"No matter how King Gui governs the people, and no matter how the factory owners in Guangzhou treat the workers, this kind of behavior of the workers forming their own parties to disrupt order by means of strikes, demonstrations, and even chaos must be severely cracked down on to set an example!"

Yang Yi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said.

"So how should workers fight for their rights?"

Yang Qing asked.

"They can negotiate with the factory owners through peaceful means, for example, if the factory owners don't agree to their big deal, the factory owners will definitely not want them to leave, and their wealth will have to be exchanged for the work of the workers, and if the workers do not give them jobs, they will not be able to obtain wealth either." The two sides can negotiate a mutually satisfactory outcome, why do you have to do it in such an extreme way, the country has its own laws, everyone must obey the law, if the workers are like this, the country will not be in chaos? ”

The secretary of the military department said to Yinxi.

"What if the factory owner just doesn't agree?"

Yang Qing said.

"Then it's not good, there is not only one factory in Guangzhou, even if the factories are the same, there are those plantations that can make a living, and if you can't do it, you can go to the colony."

Chen Zilong said.

"But what if you can't go?"

Yang Qing said.

In fact, the Guangdong Consultative Bureau forbade those workers to go to sea at will.

It's not that they are afraid that they will go to the colony, in fact, they also encourage the workers to go to the colony in Ha Xian, but the workers are reluctant to go, and the villagers are afraid that the workers will run to the area controlled by the imperial court.

Those village sages already knew the preciousness of labor, and they engaged in silkworm cannibalism in order to expand the cultivation area of cash crops and to drive as many laborers as possible into their factories. After all, raw materials are not the most scarce, the silk industry is limited, and the most important thing that can be said to be unlimited is cotton cloth, and cotton can be imported from India in large quantities. But there is no place for workers to import, especially the smart, capable, hard-working and kind workers in the locals, and the biggest threat to Yang Qing's land reform around them is to take the workers away. Therefore, the only people who went to the Hexian colony were the Zhenla Company they organized, and without official permission, the ordinary people of the Gui Domain were not allowed to leave the country, and those local militias were just like the slave catching teams of the Confederacy, which specialized in arresting homeless people. Sea smuggling is also strictly guarded, and the fishing industry is controlled by those fishing tyrants anyway, and even on the opposite side of Hong Kong Island, there are vigilante groups patrolling to prevent people from running there.

As for resignation......

If there were no colonies to go to, where would the workers go even if they quit?

Returning home?

Originally, they were unable to make a living in Guangzhou because their land in their hometown was repossessed by the landlords.

Then the only thing left is to go into the mountains as an escape.

But the fugitives were caught by the militias and sold as slaves to coal kilns and iron mines.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the village sages, they are always full of talent in exploitation, and the little cleverness of the people is completely insufficient in front of the wisdom of the village sages. What's more, it is not easy to quit in Guangzhou, and you have to compensate the factory owners for their losses, and the factory owners have taught the workers to work and let them have a skill, but they will stop doing it after learning it, right? What's more, if a worker resigns from the union, there is a shortage of people in a position, at least for a short period of time, and the output is delayed, and the factory owners also have to bear the loss, so those who quit not only cannot get their wages, but also have to give the factory owners money to compensate for the losses.

Do you dare to give?

The guns of the factory protection team are vegetarians?

Floating corpses can be seen every day in the Pearl River, although they are all suicides, but being killed is not a big deal for Guangzhou, which is controlled by Xiangxian.

But......

"Then you can't ignore the law!"

Chen Zilong said.

"Don't be An An starving, but still be a praying mantis?"

Yang Qing said.

"Ugh!"

Chen Zilong shut up.

"Honestly, everyone! In fact, you are afraid, you are afraid that one day in your factories, the workers will also go on strike, carry out demonstrations, and even simply rebel against you! But please remember that where there is oppression, there is resistance, and some people shouted that they would not be An An and starve, but they were like praying mantises, and the result was that Li Zicheng pinched them all out of their brains. It's the same thing that happened in Canton now, since those factory owners treat the workers as livestock, then don't blame the workers for throwing them under their feet and trampling them to death, in the final analysis, there is no hatred for no reason. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Why does the Protector defend the rebellious people?"

Yang He asked very dryly.

Of course, they all knew very well that Yang Qing was supporting those workers this time.

But they don't want to compromise either.

Because there will be no danger in this kind of political dispute, Yang Qing does not care about others opposing him within the legal scope, and the affairs of Guangzhou really cannot be connived at, if they are really like those workers in Guangzhou, then how can they run factories in the future? In the final analysis, everyone is a factory person, if the workers in Guangzhou are not severely punished, and the workers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also learn to use strikes and demonstrations to speak, then ......

That's ridiculous!

The factory in Guangzhou works for 18 hours, which is well known, otherwise how low is the cost of people!

But Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not less than twelve hours!

Yang Qing's factory is ten hours, but Yang Qing's factory is all Huangzhuang system, he and the people are not the same system, his factory usually only recruits Huangzhuang workers. But the other new capitalists, their factories are just as hard as they can, and their factories are basically all in two shifts, usually rotating once every ten days, and one rotation is directly 24 hours a day. Their factories were also inspected by overseers with whips, and there were a lot of tricks to quit their jobs, the only difference being that their wages were not enough to make the workers eat sweet potatoes, but they were only slightly better than the tenants.

If it is said that the heart of the Guangzhou factory owner is black.

Then their hearts are not red!

The capitalists are all the same, and one of them cannot be expected to be a good man, and their principle is to exploit the workers as much as the conditions permit.

So......

This is a matter that cannot be compromised.

"I can't talk about maintenance, I'm just talking about things, but for now, the most important thing is how to calm down the matter as soon as possible."

Yang Qing said.

The ministers agreed.

"First of all, the Gui domain has to be withdrawn, and the duty of King Gui is to protect the territory and the people, and now it is obviously a serious dereliction of duty, he has been expelled from his own domain by the people, what qualifications do he have to govern the people again? The Gui clan withdrew and summoned King Gui to Beijing, and now that the Jianzhou Wei departments have begun to return to their lands, Liaodong will be vacated next, and he will be transferred to Liaodong by dividing a piece of land. He was the same as King Fu as His Majesty's cousin, and he was also given the same as King Fu, so he took Guangning as his vassal city, north of the Daling River, east of Yiwulu Mountain, west of the Liao River, and south of the border wall of Liaodong, and this piece was assigned to him as a domain. ”

Yang Qing said.

The ministers said they were satisfied with the disposition.

In this way, King Gui was sent from the bustling city of Guangzhou to the distant west of Liaoxi by these unscrupulous guys, and poor Guangning can basically say that there is no living person at present!

He couldn't resist yet.

In fact, Yang Qing didn't know that at this time, the first counterattack on Guangzhou by the Gui Guard's guards had been defeated, and there was almost no hope of victory.

After all, there is food in the city.

It's no problem to last a year.

Moreover, there is also an arsenal, the ammunition and raw materials in the warehouse are no less than those of the Shaoguan fortress, which was originally the logistics base of the latter, and the standard of King Gui and the sages of Guangdong is that Shaoguan hoards war materials for no less than one year, while Guangzhou hoards all kinds of raw materials for no less than two years, and now those workers only need to process these raw materials......

This is what they do best.

Therefore, if you can't beat King Gui in Guangzhou, you really can't deal with Yang Qing's downfall.

As long as he's not stupid, he'll be obedient.

Then he can be thrown to Liaoxi to open up wasteland.

At this time, the Ming army only arrived in Jinzhou, leaving the vast land outside the Daling River, to the minions of Jianzhou Wei and the Mongolian cavalry of the Horqin Department, responsible for hunting the remnants of the divine army for them, it is estimated that it will be cleaned up in another half a year, and then the minions of Jianzhou Wei will retreat to the mountains and forests, and then King Gui will go north to open up the wasteland, but it is not good for the protector to let him go alone......

"The subordinates of the Gui domain were derelict in their duties, and they all followed King Gui to the domain!"

He said.

"What about the guards?"

Plug Yinxi asked.

"The Gui Domain's guards were incorporated into the army, and the original generals were all forced to retire, let the First Army of the Marine War go to Guangzhou first, but don't attack Guangzhou, separate the two sides, and no matter how it is handled, it will be said that the war will be truce. I'll go south to deal with it myself. ”

Yang Qing said.

This kind of thing has to be done by him himself.

No matter which of the other ministers, even his generals, are likely to take tough measures to suppress them, and these guys are the same thing for the sages of the Canton towns, but they certainly have no essential difference in their attitude towards the workers. In the eyes of these new capitalists, who are completely in the same vein, this move by the workers in Guangzhou is tantamount to a great rebellion, and if this unhealthy trend is not vigorously struck, the workers in Guangzhou today will be able to rebel against the capitalists in Guangzhou because of the issue of treatment, and tomorrow the workers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will also take to the streets to rebel against them because of the issue of treatment.

It is useless to have his orders, these people have a way to deliberately exacerbate the contradictions, and then put those workers in rebellion, and then they go to the happy suppression and killing of people.

Let the workers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang be honest!