Cheng Qi's internal strategy is actually very simple: give them all the economic benefits that the workers want, of course, they must slowly give it little by little like squeezing toothpaste.

Cheng Qi believes that the maximum working hours, the minimum wage system, the restriction or prohibition of the use of child labor, equal pay for men and women for equal work, and work-related injury welfare insurance, etc., can all be used in later generations. Of course, he also knows that capitalists may have a conscience, but capital has no conscience. No capitalist will voluntarily bear these expenses until there is no evidence that spending more of them will bring more benefits to the enterprise – you know, the market is so competitive that increasing these labor costs in a fair way will only lead conscientious capitalists to bankruptcy more quickly.

And what if Parliament was allowed to pass these bills compulsorily? That's just a joke, the fourth-level council of the Risnong businessmen, where is the place of the mud legs. I can't get along with anyone, and I can't get along with money.

Although Hong Chengchou is smart, he is not a saint. He knew that this was a good thing for the wealthy people in the Fourth Council as a whole, but no one wanted to come out and be the first bird. And if you don't act in unison, it won't help you by relying on the power of one family.

Cheng Qi also expected it a long time ago - in fact, they are all lessons summed up in history - he said; "Mr. Hengjiu's doubts have already been thought of in his later life. All he was worried about was that the princes in the court were short-sighted and unwilling to plan for the long term. In fact, it is no wonder that they are the power of the new era, they are different from the republican people of the Zhou Dynasty, nor are they the peasants and warlords who rebelled in the past dynasties. The power of the workers was only shown in the small things of smashing machines and demanding higher wages on a few occasions. Short-sighted people are willing to wait until the flood comes to build dikes and dredge rivers, while smart people are willing to plan ahead. ”

"In fact, the students have already thought of a beggar-thy-neighbor strategy for Mr. Hengjiu. It can not only let the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty see how powerful the united workers are, but also make the giant bear in our north suffer a little. ”

Cheng Qi's so-called external strategy is actually not complicated. There are only two sentences: unite the workers of Liaoguo and lead the labor movement of Liaoguo. There are countless such strategies in the "Warring States Policy", but the older the strategy, the better it is to use. Hong Chengchou pondered for a long time, and the more he pondered, the more he felt that it tasted, and finally slapped his thigh excitedly; "Oh, my little brother, you're such a character!"

Speaking of which, the Zhao Song Empire and the Yelu Khitan Dynasty are really a love-hate relationship between love and killing for 800 years. Song Taizong's northern expedition to the Liao Dynasty resulted in a donkey and fled, but Empress Dowager Xiao's southern expedition kicked on the iron door board, and there is no need to say much about this embarrassment. When the republican revolution just broke out, the first thought of the Zhao official family who fled in makeup was to ask for help from the fraternal states in the north, and the Liao people were also very righteous to send troops south to save the big brothers of the Song Dynasty - of course, the Liao cavalry fought all the way in Hebei and made the people's grievances boil, and the volunteers spontaneously organized to support the new government, which is also written into the history books.

At the peak of the republican revolution, the republican army's northern expedition went all the way to the outskirts of Shangjing, and the monarch of the Liao State almost burned down the palace and prepared to go back to the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas in order to make a comeback.

Therefore, the two countries love and kill each other so much that as soon as Cheng Qigang proposed a beggar-thy-neighbor strategy to lead the water to the north, Hong Chengchou immediately keenly felt that his opportunity had come.

"It's a good idea to make the Liao people mess up. If the workers who are organized can really form a flood. Then there would be a lot less resistance to the implementation of the social welfare bill. "Hong Chengchou is not only a shrewd businessman, but also a seasoned politician. From Cheng Qi's introduction of the situation of workers in Luoyang, he immediately understood that if he could promote the passage of that series of bills in the fourth-level parliament. Then future generations will inevitably give themselves the title of a reformer with the same name as Wang Anshi, Lu Junrui, and Zhang Taiyue.

Cheng Qi said: "Regarding how to make this flood break the embankment in the north, I already have a draft in my heart, and I also ask Mr. Hengjiu for some advice." ”

The industry and population distribution of the Liao State are very distinctive, and they are basically concentrated in a few large cities in the Liao River Valley. Therefore, although the total number of workers in Liao is not large, it has the characteristics of a special concentration. Moreover, Liao's industry is also very distinctive, heavy industry and military industry, which require strong labor, are relatively developed, while other industrial categories are either relatively weak or have limited production capacity. And compared with the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State has another special feature: in its vast territory, there are nearly 100 princely territories scattered large and small.

These princely domains were generally distributed in areas with a large number of foreign races, and a small number of feudal lords (so-called nations such as Han, Khitan, Bohai, etc.) ruled over a large number of conquered peoples (such as Slavs, Rakshasas, Chuvashi, etc.). The alien peoples, who rule the majority with a minority, have to implement some more brutal policies. Therefore, when the Liaodong Valley was already full of chimneys and railroad tracks, serfdom was still widespread in the vast area from Simberia to the Eastern European Plain. The conquered were bound to the land demarcated by the feudal patriarchal system, and could neither abandon the land into the city like the farmers of the Song Kingdom, nor integrate into the free market to participate in the distribution like the free people. Their life, old age, sickness and death are all in the hands of the lord, so to speak, they are isolated from the world, and what happens outside has nothing to do with them.

Therefore, the Great Liao State is a very strange country, in its eastern elite territory, there is an industry that is not lost to the prosperous capital of the Great Song Dynasty, but in the vast inland area, it is still the same serfdom as in the feudal era of Zhou Gong more than 2,000 years ago.

The workers' movement in such a country would only affect a few cities in the Liao River valley, but not the feudal fortresses that were intertwined. The more Cheng Qi sometimes thinks about it, the more he feels that Emperor Gaozong and the empress, who designed this system for Da Liao, are really a genius couple. The city is in chaos, and there are feudal lords who can lead their troops to serve the king. If the lords rebelled, they were ruthlessly suppressed by the various governors and governors sent by the central court. This system combines the expansiveness of the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty with the advantages of the control of the county system of the Qin and Han dynasties, and can be said to be the pinnacle of the political system of the classical era.

Cheng Qi did not expect the students full of humanitarian sympathy and concern to start the workers' movement smoothly, he only needed to show the bureaucrats and the propertied classes of the Song State how terrible it was for the proletariat to roar out, and it was enough to persuade them to carry out reforms in their own country.

Hong Chengchou was thrilled by his idea, and the three of them chatted for a long time in the private room of the restaurant, until the next day when the sky turned white.

After returning to school, after sleeping groggily for a long time, when night fell, Cheng Qi went out again energetically, and dragged Huang Yang, who had made up for a day's homework: "Sleep, you are paralyzed!" ”

"Hey, you're paralyzed, I'm going to sleep!" Huang Yang yawned: "Where did you spend the night last night?" I guess I didn't hand it over to me after drinking flower wine. ”

Cheng Qi drank a big pot of tea before going out: "Of course, I want to take you to find the greatest fun...... What about Guo Shan? Call him up, and the first pragmatic action of our self-help association will be ready to begin! ”