Cheng Qi and the others used the next five or six days to run through the middle and lower layers of the entire Luoyang City. They visited not only the foundries and machine factories of heavy industry, but also the textile factories and garment factories of light industry, the carriage shops that drove the carriages in the city and the rickshaw drivers' associations, the manual workers who unloaded goods from the railway station to the newspaper boys selling newspapers along the streets, and almost the middle and lower classes of society came into contact with them.

On the train back to Bianjing, Cheng Qi wrote down a few words "The Condition of the Working Class in Luoyang", and he planned to sort out what he had seen and heard in the past few days and form an investigation report.

The worker, despite his name, is nothing more than a hairless bipedal walking machine, a cheap consumable for the business owner. Not to mention the huge difference between the workers' income and their output, where the surplus value goes, just looking at the poor working conditions, the benefits that are about equal to zero, and the non-existent work-related injury insurance, although Cheng Qi does not quite agree with many of the specific propositions of Mohism, he cannot turn a blind eye to the plight of the tens of millions of workers who also existed in the Great Song Dynasty.

"The idea that workers are consumables that can be discarded when they run out is completely wrong and deeply inhumane." He wrote in his report: "Mencius Zeng Yun, the king makes the ministers courteous, and the ministers are loyal. How the court treats the people, the people will treat the court as well. ”

He didn't know why he remembered another time and space, 1644, that is, the year 2215 of the Confucian calendar. At that time, a person in a high position faced a dying peasant and asked, "Why don't you be an an'an starvation, but follow the example of the praying mantis." Such a conscience-destroying questioning can only be mocked by history in the end. Since he has come to this new era of singing and dancing, he doesn't want to see the scene that turned upside down again.

If in that time and space, the dying and struggling peasants dealt a fatal blow to the decaying feudal dynasty, then Cheng Qi was equally afraid that in this time and space, the countless organized workers would not break the dream of this constitutional monarchical industrial empire.

If he could, he hoped that such a thing would best happen in another country, and if he had to make a choice, he would like it to be Liao.

When you arrive in Tokyo, you don't have time to rest for a moment. He was dragged to a restaurant by Peng Youzhi's sister-in-law and sister-in-law.

"Oh, my little brother." Peng Youzhi has been drinking with a middle-aged man for a long time: "Looking forward to the stars and the moon has finally brought you back...... You're going to be surprised. This time there was a lot of limelight in Luoyang. ”

Cheng Qi hurriedly confessed, saying that he would definitely make up for the updates that had collapsed these days, but Peng Youzhi waved his hand: "Novelist, game ear." The little brother is young but has extraordinary academic opinions, and he will not be in the pool in the future-come, come, let me introduce you to Mr. Hong Hengjiu of Fujian, the representative of the public opinion of the fourth-level council. You've seen him soon. ”

Cheng Qi shook it to the end, and said: "Mr. Hengjiu ......" Suddenly, he suddenly woke up: This - is not the famous traitor in history, it is said that the Ming Dynasty supervisor who brought a green hat to Huang Taiji, Hong Chengchou Hong Da traitor who was the first in the Qing Dynasty!

Hong Chengchou, who seems to have made outstanding contributions to national unity in this life, said with a smile: "The future is terrible, the future is terrible." It's only 18 years this year...... It is also the age of breaking into a career. Good, good, sit. ”

Cheng Qi sat down close to Peng Youzhi before he seriously looked at this model of "national unity", and saw that he was about forty or fifty years old, dressed in gorgeous clothes, obviously very well maintained. Hong Chengchou spoke with a southern accent, but it may have been carried in the Central Plains for a long time, and it is not easy to distinguish it very carefully.

"Youzhi has been an old friend of mine for many years, and he has repeatedly mentioned you in front of me, but he uses the word Kuang Shiyi. I've also read the novel you wrote, and it's really refreshing, and there is something wrong with the article, obviously there is something else in the chest. Hong Chengchou said slowly: "I also heard that the first thing you did after you came to Beijing was to offend the Donglin Party, right?" ”

"It's all the juniors who are reckless."

Hong Chengchou smiled: "Those hypocrites in Donglin, if you offend, you will be offended." If you want to do something practical in this Great Song Dynasty, you must not offend the Donglin Party? That's impossible. ”

Peng Youzhi explained: "The Donglin Party people call themselves gentlemen, but they will only fight against the same party, as long as they are not members of the party, they will oppose everything they do. In the year of the Emperor's reign, the Huaihe Gaoyou Hongze Lake embankment has shown signs of disrepair. The Cabinet of Ministers submitted a special grant to Parliament for repairs. However, under the pretext that the Ministry of Water already has relevant funds, the Donglin Party will hold the parliament and refuse to pass it, and wait for the floods in the summer of the next year, but then attack the cabinet to sit idly by. ”

"According to the meaning of the Donglin Party, the imperial court does not collect a dime in taxes, but it still has to raise an army of millions and hundreds of thousands of imperial court officials for them to send, and it is best for these officials to bring their own dry food and not take a penny. Of course, if the gentlemen of Donglin enter the court as officials, they must be high-ranking officials to show the attention of the court - ordinary people have to feed a dog more meat to avoid running away. These Donglin gentlemen, their minds are all used to harm the court and deceive the people. The people were ignorant, thinking that the Donglin gentlemen were speaking righteously, and the court saw that the Donglin gentlemen were powerful among the people and had to pinch their noses and endure them...... Hey, it's hard to put into words. ”

As he spoke, Peng You straightened up his wine glass: "Come, let's toast the newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers." ”

After a glass of water and wine in a sincere panic, Peng Youzhi said again: "Mr. Hengjiu has always been a practical person, and he also likes to make friends with people who do practical things. Cheng Xiaoyou, you should give Mr. Hengjiu a drink, everyone will be friends in the future. ”

Cheng Qi chuckled in his heart: "Do you want me to toast this big traitor with a glass of wine?" But he thought about it, even Wu Sangui, the pioneer of unity, had beaten himself, so why not toast this glass of wine? However, he also has something to say.

"Mr. Hengjiu, students have always admired your industrial style. Today's students have a matter related to the future and fate of our Great Song Dynasty, and I have to say something to Mr. Heng Jiu. ”

After that, Cheng Qi drank all the wine in the cup, Hong Hengjiu stared at him, slowly sipped off the small wine in the cup and said, "What is the matter?" If there is a monster named King Kong on an overseas island, it goes without saying. ”

After that, Hong Hengjiu himself laughed: "Just kidding, just kidding." I'm the most fond of joking with you young people. ”

Cheng Qi took out a few pieces of paper from his arms: "So that Mr. knows, I have a few friends who have recently done some research in Luoyang and wrote a report, which is the outline of this report." Sir, let's take a look at it first, and then the students will tell you one by one. ”

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