After listening to Niu Jinxing's intentions, Xia Yunyi replied directly without thinking about it: "What else is there to consider, what position did we stand on at the beginning, we should continue to insist on it today."

I don't think the demands of the dock workers are excessive. Today in the capital, an ordinary female textile worker is paid a dime and two cents a day, the daily working hours are nine hours, and the overtime wages for the excess working hours are twice the overtime wage, and they can also get a day off every seven days.

The wages of a dock worker are also one dime and two cents a day, but they can get no more than 8 cents, work 10 hours a day, and there is no extra pay for overtime, and only the minimum ration is given during the winter break.

If we don't support these dockers, do we have to support the gentry, merchants, and gangsters who oppress the workers? ”

Niu Jinxing suddenly said with some anxiety: "However, those workers are now uniting to make trouble, and it is said that there are even conflicts with the yamen servants in some places. If we speak out in support of the workers now, we will be attacked by the gentry and officials as the people behind the workers' rebellion. ”

If he hadn't read the article "On the Rights and Obligations of the People" in the Daming Times before, Xia Yunyi would naturally want to maintain the current order first, but now his thoughts are a little different.

He felt that he should take advantage of the opportunity of the canal dock workers' strike to discuss the rights of the people with the imperial court. Otherwise, when the strike subsides, who will care about what the rights of the people are.

Xia Yunyi lifted the hat that was a little crooked on his head, and then said firmly: "How can the disorderly behavior of a small group of people be pushed to the entire group of dock workers.

If these dock workers were really deliberately causing rebellion, Cui Wensheng should have sent a report asking the imperial court to send troops to quell the rebellion, rather than a report asking the imperial court now on how to respond to the workers' demands for strike.

Besides, since we, the Youth Society, have already expressed our sympathy for the workers, and now that we are about to change the door at the slightest fuss, who will take our Youth Society's statement seriously in the future?

After all, we are not court officials, and if we say the wrong thing, we will be scolded at most, if others think that we are just some wall grass that blows down on both sides, how can the Youth Society gain a foothold in Shilin?

If something goes wrong this time, I, as the president of the Youth Society, will take responsibility from the meeting, and I will not make it difficult for you to resign in public. ”

Niu Jinxing and Du Yinxi immediately spoke out and said: "Why should Brother Yu be like this, we young people learn to speak together, and naturally we have to take responsibility together, how can we let my brother take responsibility alone..."

Xia Yunyi also did not entangle with the two, and continued to speak: "Juming, you will gather all the executive members of the society in Beijing, and I will discuss with you how to continue to support the workers, and try your best to make a plea to the imperial court, so that this strike will end peacefully..."

After Du Yinxi and Niu Jinxing left Xia Yunyi's dormitory, they went their separate ways. Du Yinxi, who walked out of the school gate, thought about it for a while, but called a car to go to the apartment of the teacher Ma Shiqi.

Ma Shiqi is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, and is a protégé of Ye Maocai, the eighth gentleman of Donglin, in fact, Ye Maocai is not a real member of the Donglin Party, otherwise the knowledge of the party struggle will not allow him to die safely at home. However, Ye Maocai funded the rebuilding of Donglin Academy, and his friend Gao Panlong was an out-and-out member of the Donglin Party, so he was included in the list of Donglin Party members.

Ye Maocai claimed: "The affairs of the world are not a private discussion. He Donglin party members demanded that the Qing Dynasty be purged, and shouted: "If you are not the same way, you are an enemy." Portal's view. Obviously not the same thing.

Ma Shiqi was promoted in the spring of this year and was named a gentleman. Although after the reform of the official system, today's Shu Jishi is no longer as expensive as before, but it is still an extremely noble identity.

It's just that Ma Shiqi, under the persuasion of his fellow villager Hua Yuncheng, and 43 officials jointly wrote to the imperial court, saying that the canal strike incident should be appeased, and the people should go to the sea to collect grain.

After listening to Xia Yunyi's words, Du Yinxi felt that it was really reasonable, but he was a little unsure, so he naturally went to the teacher to ask one or two, and by the way, he also revealed the reaction of the Youth Society to the teacher, so that the teacher could have a reference object.

After Ma Shiqi listened to Du Yinxi's inform, he didn't say anything, but just asked the protégé to do what Xia Yunyi said.

After Du Yinxi left, he also fell into deep thought when he returned to the study. As Ye Maocai's protégé, coupled with the background of Wuxi, where Donglin Academy is located, Ma Shiqi was labeled as a member of the Donglin Party, which is obviously unavoidable.

However, as far as Ma Shiqi's own political leanings are concerned, although he does not agree with most of the reform policies promoted by Huang Liji and others, because most of these policies harm the interests of the gentry.

But it does not mean that he agrees with the political views of the Donglin Party, and like his teacher, Ma Shiqi is also a moderate conservative in politics. He opposed overly radical reform policies, believing that the wealth of the gentry and merchants came from their own legitimate income, and should not be taken away by a piece of paper from the imperial court.

As for the turmoil in the world, this is the result of natural disasters. The imperial court should find a way to alleviate the discontent of the common people at the bottom and reduce taxes in the affected areas, instead of thinking about eating the gentry.

For example, the emperor proposed to negotiate peace with Hou Jin and give up the land of Liaodong; developing overseas trade; Policies such as confiscating the clan's land were in favor of him with both hands.

In short, throwing away those lands that can't be defended, appeasing the civilians who can't survive in the country, not letting the interests of the gentry suffer, and everyone living a good life behind closed doors is Ma Shiqi's expectation for the imperial court.

There are not a few scholars and doctors who are similar to Ma Shiqi's thoughts, but in the tide of reform in full swing in the Ming Dynasty, they also dare not come forward to confront the imperial court, and can only pin their hopes on those ultra-conservatives who are not afraid of the imperial court.

For example, Ma Shiqi's friend Hua Yuncheng is such a character, this protégé of Gao Panlong, a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse. Because of the teacher's death, he was very hostile to Huang Liji, and naturally he didn't want to see the reform presided over by Huang Liji.

In the first year of Chongzhen, he was recalled to the imperial court to serve as the head of the camp, and was promoted to the rank of a member of the Ministry of Industry because of his meritorious service in water control. At the instigation of some people, Hua Yuncheng took the lead in contacting his colleagues and initiated a petition to remove the shipping company.

When Cui Wensheng's detailed report came, I heard that the dock workers did not go to the yamen to plead, but surrounded the yamen to coerce the officials, and the demands were not directed at shipping. Hua Yuncheng was naturally furious, he did not want to be in the company of rebellion, so he contacted everyone again to write a letter, preparing to ask the imperial court to suppress these lawless traitors.

Before Ma Shiqi could decide whether to agree to Hua Yuncheng's request, his protégé had already come to the door to tell Xia Yunyi's opinion on this matter.

Xia Yunyi's sympathetic attitude towards the workers did not impress Ma Shiqi, but only made him feel that Xia Yunyi had some womanly kindness. But Xia Yunyi had a sentence that made him think about it for a long time, that is, the grass on the wall is not valued by others.

Others said this just to make Ma Shiqi nod in agreement, but Xia Yunyi, who was deeply loved by Chongzhen, said such a thing, which immediately made Ma Shiqi realize that this may also be the emperor's opinion.

is looked down upon by others, and there will be a day to turn over after all, but if Chongzhen is kept in mind, I am afraid that he will be put into another book forever. Ma Shiqi has just stepped into the official career, and it is when he wants to be promising, how can he jump into such a fire pit.

That night, Ma Shiqi went to Hua Yuncheng's mansion to attend the meeting, first, he personally refused to jointly write a letter again to demand the suppression of workers; The second is to persuade Hua Yuncheng and others to stick to their original pro-worker attitude, but downplay the proposal to remove shipping.

However, Hua Yuncheng and most of his colleagues were unwilling to listen to his opinion, after all, Ma Shiqi was just an unknown person in the capital. In their opinion, inviting Ma Shiqi to sign his name has already given him the opportunity to become famous in the world, and now this new science and technology scholar who has just stepped into the official career actually wants to be anti-guest and point fingers at the content of the book, which is a bit ignorant.

The next day, the cabinet again received a letter from 36 people headed by Hua Yuncheng, and Huang Liji only flipped through it slightly and threw it aside as to how quickly these officials changed their positions.

The reason why Huang Liji has such a sneering mentality is because Cui Wensheng and Shen Tingyang also have a secret letter, which shows that Huai Anwei found out that the workers' strike initiated by Qingjiangpu still has an inside story.

Because of the loss of interests, the local gentry deliberately incited the workers to make trouble with the help of the boat gang on the canal and the local evil youth, and as a result, there was infighting because of the issue of remuneration. Huai Anwei therefore dispatched and arrested the four gentry, three landlords and some merchants.

With the human and physical evidence captured by Huai Anwei, whoever is still calling for the recall of the shipping under the pretext of a workers' strike will naturally become an accomplice in the rebellion.

If Hua Yuncheng and the others quietly wait for the workers' strike to subside, then maybe Huang Liji can still punish them lightly. But now they can't wait to jump out and want to suppress the workers, no matter how you look at it, they are suspected of killing the aftermath.

Huang Liji has already made up his mind to use the methods of these officials who continue to jump out to make an example of chickens and monkeys, lest there still be people who are obsessed with maritime affairs.

After putting down the book of Hua Yuncheng and others, Huang Liji, who picked up the Daming Times, felt a headache again. Su Changqing's "On the Rights and Duties of the People" finally made some people unbearable, and asked the cabinet to summon Sun Zhiqi, the chief writer of the Daming Times, to question.

Zhang Ruitu held the newspaper in front of him and roared for a long time, saying that if Sun Zhiqi did not hand over Su Changqing this time, he should be relieved of his position as the chief writer of the Ming Times, and this villain could not be allowed to continue to control the Times and attack the words of the monarch and the sage.