The workers' movement and social thought are also in the early stages of their infancy in the West, and many ideas have just emerged, and there is no fixed model.

In the simple minds of the workers, they longed to see a future in which everyone had enough wealth and food and clothing without hard work.

They believe that the poor workers are because of the exploitation of the capitalists, so there is a consensus that in order to change the status quo of the workers, the future world of Datong must not be the capitalists who control the wealth and assets, so who will control these assets, including the factories, the thinkers have made a lot of ideas.

Some believe that all assets in the future should be in the hands of the government, and everyone should work together, share the fruits of labor equally, distribute according to needs, and there is no gap between the rich and the poor.

However, because the vast majority of workers' organizations felt the government's repression against them, the Ma sect leader was wanted by many countries in the West, which made everyone generally distrust the government. So there was a more popular trend of thought in which the trade unions took control of the assets on behalf of the workers, and the workers produced and operated themselves, so that there was no exploitation. Although there is still a gap between it and the ideal state of the whole people controlling assets, as a kind of transition, it must be much better than the current capitalists controlling assets.

So when the Songjiang Prefecture Labor Union received the news from the emperor, Mr. Li himself was moved, but he was very hesitant, he thought that this could not be passed in dignity, and he did not want to accept the emperor's favor.

But the rest of the union was very excited, and saw it as a good opportunity for everyone to get rid of the exploitation of the capitalists.

"If you borrow money, it's not that you don't pay it back, and we won't get interest on him."

The third child thought about it.

"That's right, why don't you want the emperor's money. It's all the people's fat and people's ointment, and it's not all scraped from us. ”

Mr. Li suddenly rounded the bay and nodded.

"Okay, we agreed! I want to talk to the emperor in person, we don't want this money in vain, although he is the people's fat and people's anointing, but we are frank! ”

Mr. Li said to the intermediary.

The middleman smiled and said: "Mr. Li, forgive me, the emperor said, there is no need to meet." He is looking at the fact that tens of thousands of workers are forced to make a living and have no food and clothing, and the emperor and Mr. Li are not all the way, so there is no need to meet! ”

The intermediary was very relieved to say this, because he was Boss Wang, who had been despised by Mr. Li with this sentence.

Mr. Li snorted coldly in the atmosphere in his heart: "It's okay." I also don't want to see the emperor's arrogant face. But the money, we will definitely pay it back. It is calculated according to the interest rate of the loan. ”

The middleman said: "The emperor also said that you just need to remember the matter of repaying the money." He said that he was not in a hurry, and the emperor told him. It is still necessary to focus on management, do a good job of financial balance, and it is best to invite some specialized talents, in terms of operation, you have to do it according to the market conditions, and you must not do what you want. ”

Mr. Li sneered: "Don't say anything else, when it comes to production, it's not the emperor's turn to teach us." ”

The intermediary shrugged: "In that case, there is nothing more to say, since you agree, then sign it." ”

He took out an agreement, which was the amount of the loan, totaling 30 million taels of gold.

"The emperor has reached an agreement with various banks and other debtors, of which 20 million taels are bank debts, and 10 million taels will be left to you for liquidity. This money needs to be spent to resume production as soon as possible, but don't use it for other things! ”

Mr. Li sneered as he signed: "Don't worry, although we are poor, we are not shameless enough to take everyone's money to fill our pockets." The money was borrowed by the unions, that is, by all the workers, and belonged to all the workers. ”

The news that the union had agreed to borrow money was quickly replied to the palace by telegram.

The crown prince replied to the emperor: "Dad, they took the money. ”

Zhou Lang nodded and sighed: "It's good to borrow it, I'm still worried that they won't borrow it because of their dignity." ”

The crown prince said: "They are not physicists, where would they pay attention to such things as starvation and death, small and big things." ”

Zhou Lang said: "I hope they can do a good job." ”

The crown prince said, "Doesn't my father believe them? ”

Zhou Lang said: "I'm worried. The trade unions will probably not be able to defeat the factories run by the capitalists. ”

The crown prince gloated: "Wouldn't it be better that way, so that they can recognize what they are." ”

Zhou Lang reprimanded: "You are not the open-mindedness that an emperor should have. As an emperor, you can't have any position, you're not a minions of the capitalists, you're not the backstage of the bureaucrats, you're the representative of all, the workers, the workers in the unions, and your subjects! ”

The crown prince admits his mistake: "The son knows that he is wrong. ”

The reason why Zhou Lang is worried is not that he is afraid of the workers' movement, he can make any compromise, but the big deal is that he rolls up the bed and leaves, so that everyone can go to the republic, what he is worried about is civil strife. The failure of political forces to strike a balance in the industrial age will inevitably lead to repeated civil strife. If it is a trade union that can mature and manage itself, Zhou Langda can transfer power to them, and then let the trade union power become one of the forces to balance the social structure of the new era, but the problem is that he has not seen the mature operation of the trade union, they are still very immature, the means of struggle are very simple, and the ideas are too radical.

In China, and even in most countries in the world, we are faced with such a dilemma, the most daring to resist are not the people who need to change their destiny the most, but those who dare to resist the most, these people are often idealists, and it is not a bad thing to have ideals, the problem is that they put their ideals into radical action, engage in politics with feelings, and are often divorced from reality. The opportunity cost of the French in this state of constant revolution is too high. The Nazification of the Germans in this state, the whole world paid the cost.

Zhou Lang found that China's problems are far more complex than those of Western countries. In Western countries, there is only one trade union, and the workers' forces in China are divided into fellow townspeople's associations, gangs, and trade unions, and the villagers' associations have always been dependent on the chamber of commerce, mainly the business groups provide financial support, and the gangs are too accustomed to the rivers and lakes. Trade unions are not mature enough, and it is difficult for such political forces to be part of the balance of power.

In fact, what Zhou Lang prefers to see is a mature and stable trade union leader with considerable political talent, who stands up to negotiate with other forces, unites fellow townsmen and gangs, and leads them, rather than fighting with them.

To complicate matters further, the townspeople's associations are attached to the chamber of commerce, which in turn is an organization of capitalists, with the result that capitalists and workers are united under the relationship of fellow villagers. The gang and its members are linked together with the righteousness of the rivers and lakes; They all have their own industries and their own workers, which is more similar to the traditional rural society, where the landlord is both the opinion leader and the asset owner of the rural society.

Now that Zhou Lang has helped the trade unions to control the assets, the trade union organizations and trade union members, both capitalists and laborers, can not predict what kind of results can occur under this relationship, because there has never been a situation in human history.

To his surprise, this syndicalism, with the help of China's current influence, quickly attracted the attention of the world and was highly praised.