Zhou Lang's worries became a fact.

More favourably, the workers' movements in Canton and Fujian began to subside, the local workers' forces accepted the fruits of the victory of the parliament and the constitution, they stopped working, and production began to resume. But it is difficult to recover from the previous ones, mainly because the textile industry suffered during the economic crisis, but the textile workers are not the leaders of the movement, the main leaders are those industries that are easy to cohesion, large in number, and mainly male workers, such industries are nothing more than dock workers in the transport industry, railway workers, miners in the mining industry, skilled workers in the machinery industry.

After the parliament was convened and the constitution was formulated, the old cabinet announced the general resignation, and the six ministers and prime ministers collectively withdrew from the cabinet.

The National Assembly recommended to the emperor a number of candidates for officials who served at the provincial level, had good official reputations, and could deal well with all forces, and the emperor approved them one by one.

A new cabinet came to power.

The new cabinet was different from the old cabinet in that it took tacit measures against the workers' movement in Songjiang Province.

In the past, the government always hoped for this kind of thing, hoping that both sides would make a concession, but now there is no way to make concessions.

In the past, the workers fought against the capitalists for nothing more than wage increases and time cuts, but this time they are fighting against the whole apparatus of power, and they are not convinced by the parliament they have been asking for, and they think that the parliamentary elections are unfair.

is also as Zhou Lang guessed, after the establishment of the parliament, the contradiction instantly shifted to the parliament and the opposition forces.

In the past, organizations such as trade unions could also target the government, but now that the government has expressed its obedience to the parliament, they can only oppose the parliament.

The emperor and the entire bureaucracy remained silent, not wanting to let the flames of revolution come upon them.

Any struggle is to injure 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 themselves, and the workers' behavior of arranging for their own interests is admittedly for their own interests, but when they and their leaders are still immature, they do not know how to exercise moderation, and in the end they may lose 20,000 if they injure 10,000 enemies.

At the very beginning, the main strugglers were still the capitalists and the workers, and the trade unions were mainly opposed to the capitalists dismissing the workers, mobilizing the workers and taking control of the factories. At this time, the capitalists were not in a hurry, they began to wait for the opportunity, wanted to get through with the workers, after three months, they found that they could not survive the workers, because at this time the full-scale crisis broke out, the government began to help, porridge shacks were placed everywhere, the workers worked in the factory, they could only make a living, there was a bite to eat, they could hold on for a long time. But the capitalists could not hold on, they opened factories to make money, and the economic crisis made it difficult to do business, otherwise there would not have been a large-scale dismissal of workers. If they don't start work for a long time, what will happen to their loans? They're going to go bankrupt.

They turned to the government for help, not to ask the government to let the workers start work, they hoped that the government would help them take back the factory, the factory was theirs, the workers occupied it, and they took care of it. But the government has never been willing to confront the public, so it has been lobbying and negotiating with the union leaders. It has not been successful, but it has led various movements to point the finger at the government, and a political campaign has begun to demand a parliament and a constitution.

At this time, it was no longer a matter for the workers and capitalists, but for the trade union politicians and the government, and the emperor made a compromise, even forcing the cabinet to accept parliamentary supervision and constitutional constraints, but after that the trade union politicians were still not satisfied, they thought that the election was unreasonable, and they demanded a new election. They are not willing to fight within the platform of the parliament they have won and continue to fight the parliament in the way they are good at fighting.

At this time, it was no longer a matter for the government and trade union politicians, but a matter for trade union politicians and parliament.

At this time, Songjiang Mansion was very chaotic. Some factories have resumed operation, and these factories are all related to the chamber of commerce and gang forces.

Needless to say, the chamber of commerce has a group of factory owners in the chamber of commerce, and these factory owners, with the help of the guild hall, have allowed their factories to resume work, and what these guilds can control is often strangers, and strangers are more dependent on fellow villagers; The situation of the gang is very complicated, there are its own industries, such as Tiandihui directly operating Qinglou, car shop and other industries, but also other people's industries, but the workers are their members, for example, the dock is the industry of a shipping company, but some of the dock workers have joined the Green Gang, and some of the textile workers have joined the Little Knife Club.

After the establishment of the council, these gangs became the most powerful in the council, and they entered the house, and their status was greatly improved, and they were extremely satisfied. It also allows their identities to go out of the gray area of the past into the sun. After the convening of the Congress, various organizations were quickly given a legal status, whether it was the Heaven and Earth Society, the Chamber of Commerce, or the trade union.

As a result, the gang's power openly recruited members, published newspapers, advertised, and promised various benefits of joining the gang, and the gang's power expanded rapidly. The low-level members of the gang are mainly locals.

Trade unions that persisted in the struggle, such as the Songjiang Provincial Union, were severely weakened. Some of these workers began to move to other organizations because they simply could not support the long-term work. They have to live, the government doesn't have enough to eat, and they have rent to pay, and these unions as poor as they can't help them.

Gradually, the union members slowly left the place where they were set up and quietly joined the factories that resumed production and began to flourish, and to join these factories, they had to join gangs or guilds.

At this time, the most unfortunate were those capitalists who did not want to compromise, but later found that there was no chance of compromise, and when the work was carried out for six months, most of the capitalists who had occupied the factories became insolvent and declared bankruptcy. At this point, even if these workers are willing to resume production, their factories will not be able to pull up. On the contrary, these factories that resumed production earlier seized a small market and became prosperous.

This is also normal, the total number of factories occupied by the union is as high as one-third in Songjiang Province, and the economic crisis is caused by overproduction, and one-third of the factories are shut down, which fills the surplus and gives the remaining factories a way to survive. It indirectly solves the problem of overproduction.

The union, which has not yet learned how to compromise and retreat, and how to fight correctly, is a little embarrassed at this time. If they continue to force their work, they will find themselves dead, because their members keep withdrawing, or they have no formal members, and only a small number of cadres are considered long-term members, and they rely on the prestige among the workers that these cadres have accumulated over a long period of time. But now, under the pressure of reality, those unofficial members have joined other gangs and hometown associations one by one, and the number of workers who went on strike with them has rapidly dropped from hundreds of thousands at the beginning to less than 100,000.

At the same time, after the adoption of the Constitution, the Extraordinary National Assembly quickly passed a bill for formal elections.

The chambers of commerce, the gangs, and the gentry were already involved in the intensive elections, but the Songjiang trade unions were busy putting up their work, which seriously affected their election work, and they were not unified internally, because they did not intend to participate in the elections because they denied the constitution.

As a result, Songjiang lost even the only seat in the National Assembly, and in the local council elections, their non-participation resulted in two-thirds of the representatives of the village gentry and the other third of the chambers of commerce and gangs in the Jiangsu Provincial Council.

Matsue Prefecture and the prefectural councils are basically the same ratio.

This is also in line with the fact that two-thirds of the population lives in rural areas. At the same time, it also means that the mobilization ability of the rural scholar class is actually no worse than that of the urban industrial and commercial organizations. Thanks to the traditional rural culture, the influence of landlords and clans on the countryside is greater than that of the government. And because of China's strict armor protection system and the militarization of the countryside, the mobilization capacity of the countryside is actually stronger than that of the cities. The reason why the rural gentry in Jiangsu Province only received two-thirds of the votes was not only because of the proportion of the population, but also because a considerable number of peasants went to the cities to work and were not in their hometowns. Otherwise their proportion will be higher. For example, in Hunan and Hubei in the central region, the number of votes for the rural gentry is as high as 80%, while in the western provinces such as Shaanxi and Sichuan, the votes for the rural gentry are as high as 90%. Basically, the Chinese parliament has become an institution composed of gentry, and in Guangdong, the locals even call the local council the gentry public bureau according to their own customs.

Due to the resistance of the Songjiang Prefecture Trade Union, the Songjiang Prefecture Labor Union did not have any say in the local area. This has to be said to be a big mistake they made politically.

But the impact on the entire region is enormous.

After the formation of the local council, the first resolution was to reject the budget proposed by the local government, because the budget included the expenditure on the continuation of the soup kitchen. The gentry, chambers of commerce, and gangs saw the unions as vexatious, and they thought that encouraging the workers not to work, and that the government was spending money to support the workers, was tantamount to continuing to break the law.

Breaking the law refers to the forcible occupation of factories by these trade union forces. Then they began to crack down on this kind of behavior, and most of the factory owners of the factories occupied by the workers had been appointed and abandoned, and the factories were declared bankrupt and the assets of the factories were taken over by a group of banking forces, and the banks, no doubt also members of the Chamber of Commerce.

They filed a lawsuit in court, asking the court to rule against the union for breach and help them recover their assets.

Everything was a normal process, and their actions were not legal under the current law, or even under any legal system that only protects private property, so the court ruled that they had violated it, sent a ruling and demanded that the union withdraw from the factory.

The trade unions, which had been fighting for a year, found themselves embattled in an embattled situation, and public opinion was already overwhelmingly criticizing them. Even the law does not support them, and if they continue to fight forcibly, it will become more and more disadvantageous.

At this time, someone suddenly extended an olive branch to them.

The emperor sent men to tell the unions that he was willing to lend them a large sum of money to buy the occupied factories and then run them themselves.