Since the establishment of the trade unions, the impact on the workers has been far-reaching.

Hongmen allowed a reasonable and legal contest between trade union organizers, workers and businessmen in the industry, and the workers began to understand a truth: if they want to protect their legitimate rights and interests, they must fight for it themselves.

The merchants, as the losers, made all kinds of promises to the Hongmen government on the surface after the implementation of Hongmen, but secretly they were unwilling to give too much profit to the workers and were unwilling to make too many changes.

The struggle between the two sides began with the workers forming trade unions, and the workers after having a leader no longer had to go against the grain as before, without any right to speak or choose.

After the first confrontation with the manufacturers and the first strike were held by the trade unions of the Bengang Cement Factory, the workers suddenly found that when they were united, they showed strength enough to make outsiders look sideways and make the businessmen compromise.

This led to more activism by workers' unions, which in turn gave workers a lot of their rights: no more than 10 hours a day, at least two days off a month, and so on.

Of course, it is impossible to take a step forward to reach the power of the workers of later generations, and even in the land under the jurisdiction of Hongmen, to the Jiangnan region across the sea, the same merchants are as always exploiting their workers and squeezing their labor power.

Fortunately, most of the factories established on the land of Hongmen have strong advanced products, or unique raw materials, etc., and other businessmen want to relocate the factories to other regions, but there are also many difficulties, so the rights protection of the heating people, the Hongmen government's intentional or unintentional favoritism, has not been able to drive away the shrewd businessmen, the two sides have been in compromise and struggle, looking for each other's balance.

"When one person is a soldier, the whole family is glorious!"

"Dear folks, brothers and sisters, our military department has begun to recruit soldiers again, if you are interested, if you want to join the army to defend your relatives' homeland and expel the Tartars, please come to us to register a note!"

"Our military department has excellent welfare benefits, and as long as you retire in the future, you will be a small landlord, what are you hesitating about?"

Keelung Town has always been a flow of people, as the window of Hongmen to the outside world, traders and laborers seeking jobs shuttle in between, bringing a vigorous flow of people here.

Save this lively street, a unique recruiting office, attracted many people to watch, but few people stepped forward to register.

The losses of the Hongtang military department have not eased up after half a year, so in order to make the military department feel relieved, Li Tianyang did not prevent the military department from continuing to recruit new soldiers within the Hongmen forces.

However, Li Tianyang also did not allow the military department to force recruitment, and in order to support their war in the northeast, Li Tianyang had already set a precedent by forcibly conscripting tens of thousands of middle-aged men from eligible families in times of crisis.

Now that the military department wants to recruit, it has to be the adult men under the command of Hongmen who are willing to enlist in the army, and they must also comply with the army's enlistment requirements.

This is the scene where the military department sends recruiters to the streets to recruit new recruits.

Of course, in addition, most of the men recruited by Qi Hu of the Foreign Affairs Bureau from Daming, Ryukyu and other places were given priority to the military department, and at the same time, together with their families, they were sent to Liaoyang, Phoenix and other places in the northeast for resettlement.

"Alas, this big brother, let's take a look at the treatment and benefits of our military department, right? It's okay to know! Don't go, big brother! ”

There were a lot of onlookers at the recruitment office, but there were not many who were really willing to leave their names, and the reason was actually very simple, they were still frightened by the death notices that were as dense as invitations last year.

Originally, the people who migrated from the Ming Dynasty had an instinctive fear and aversion to joining the army, but now after arriving at Dayuan Island, although everyone understands more truths and understands more about rights and obligations, it is still difficult to hide everyone's attitude of respecting and staying away from joining the army.

Even if the treatment and benefits of the Hongtang army are among the top five good jobs on this street, the high risks and inherent concepts that are unfriendly to it make it extremely difficult to recruit the Hongtang army.

"I—Can I join the army?"

A man with a somewhat bloated figure and a small age crossed the crowd and came to the recruitment office of the Hongtang Military Headquarters and asked inarticulately.

"Yes, no problem!"

The recruiter's face was happy, and he shouted for more than half an hour, and finally someone came to apply, for fear that the other party would regret it.

"Please register your name and place of origin."

"By the way, there are a few more questions I would like to ask you, and please answer them truthfully."

"Just ask!"

"Do you have any medical conditions, or any genetic diseases?"

"This, this mouth, stuttering, counting?"

“……”

The first question almost means that this guy who finally took the initiative to sign up does not meet the requirements for enlistment in the Hongtang army.

"I'm sorry, you don't meet our enlistment requirements!"

"Oh, that's a shame!"

The fat man shook his head with some regret and walked out, leaving behind the dozen or so staff members of the recruitment office, everyone smiled bitterly and was very uncomfortable.

In these days, the applicants who came to apply for the initiative either suffered from any problems themselves, or they had other problems, such as avoiding other people's debts, violating the rules of the Hongmen, etc., and almost more than half of the applicants could not even pass the simple questions of the first recruitment office.

Not to mention the members who were eliminated in the subsequent physical examination and practical exercises, in the end, the number of people recruited by these recruitment offices can reach the standard, which is already considered a blessing from God.

However, this is better than nothing, after all, the treatment of the Hongtang army is there, there are always those outsiders who have just set foot on Dayuan Island, or those local young people who have just come of age, come to enlist, and after passing many tests, they become a member of the Hongtang army, supplementing the strength of the Hongtang army.

In the more distant Northeast Phoenix City, the same recruitment work is also in full swing, but compared to the scale of recruitment on Dayuan Island and the free choice, the recruitment work outside the Northeast Pass is often not decided and chosen by these ordinary people.

In order to quickly replenish the strength of the Liaodong Peninsula, Wu Jie forcibly recruited one-third of the strong laborers in the territory and carried out active training.