Boss Fei Jianren, who had been silent for several days, finally reappeared with his advisers. Whether it was the "malicious seizure" of the transfer envoy or the "shameless collusion" between the prefect's yamen and the workers who committed the rebellion, it made this former majestic boss feel heartache.

At this moment, he came to the Yamen of the Transit Envoy, and the documents he was about to sign made him even more sad.

Sky-high fines and huge late fees, just to avoid criminal prosecution. The transshipment envoy shamelessly issued a staggering 100 million guan (1 million taels of official silver) settlement fine - not counting the tax itself that needs to be recovered.

Although the Fei family is wealthy, this knife is cut down fiercely, and the Fei family will also be greatly injured.

And just yesterday, news came from the arrest hall of the Jiangdong Political Envoy Department that the guy in Chang Bancheng who had more than enough success and more than enough defeat was caught on the spot when Jiangning boarded the ship and was about to abscond overseas from Songjiang, and is now on his way back to Shouzhou.

It's a total loss. Fei Jianren pestle his cane, looking at the new shoots and tender flowers in the backyard of the transfer envoy Si Yamen, but his mood was as dark as late autumn.

"At the moment, Dong Weng can only accept it, in order to make a comeback in the future." His mastermind has not left him until now, and he is much stronger than Zhu Ming. But saying too much like this can only make Fei Jianren even more depressed.

And this is just the beginning, after signing a very unequal agreement here, in the afternoon he will go to the Yamen of Shouzhou Governor to sign an even more unequal agreement.

According to the tripartite agreement, for the next 15 years, Fei Jianren will still have ownership of Shouzhou Iron and Steel Works and other enterprises, but he will lose the right to manage them.

He only enjoys the right to dividends and dividends as a shareholder. The operation and development of the steel plant is entrusted to an organization called the "Shouzhou Public Welfare Asset Management Bureau". The asset management bureau is led by the Shouzhou Governor's Yamen, with one-third of the management and workers' representatives, and the other one-third elected by local elites. The Asset Management Bureau has two roles, one is to coordinate the contradictions and disputes between labor and management; The other is to extract a certain amount of profits from the enterprises it manages and distribute them to landless peasants, workers injured at work, and family members of those who have died at work, so as to maintain social stability.

The creation was the invention of a pair of Mohist fanatics in the Liao state, who believed that by setting up such an institution, the interests of the factories and the workers would be aligned, and that the owners of the enterprises would not take all of their profits—in Cheng Qi's words———— surplus value, some of which would be set aside to improve the accepted working environment, and some to compensate the peasants who had lost their land.

As soon as this decree was published, it was greatly embraced by the workers and peasants. They happily dressed up the factory in the spring - although they were not yet legally the owners of the factory, they were already quite happy that they would have a share of the profits of the company in the future. Many workers have said that from now on the factory will be their home, and they will work harder to do a good job – and that in the event of a work-related injury, they can receive benefits and relief from the Authority, which also makes the workers feel that the future seems more secure and everything is stable.

The only obstacle is Master Fei, although according to this decree, he and his family can obtain a steady stream of wealth through a stable trust in the future, and live a far more luxurious life, but he still angrily expressed his dissatisfaction through his secretary, and has already set off to Xuzhou, where the fourth-level meeting of Lianghuai Road is located, vowing to overturn this decree.

Although the dust had not yet settled, the workers were already singing happily and carrying the tools of their work to work. Each of them paid ten cents and scraped together 300 yuan to Li Xi, and asked him to go to Xuzhou as his lawyer to fight a lawsuit for himself.

And Cheng Qi is also ready to return to Bianliang first, and the night school here is also looking for a new teacher to take over - Ma Zhan and Yuan Xue will continue to stay here and test their Mohist Datongist ideals, and the organization of the Self-Improvement Association is growing day by day, with new members participating every day - even the prefect Yuxing and the magistrate Ai Fan have also become members.

Seeing that the signboard of the "Unified Action Committee" at the door was replaced by the "Solidarity Conference of the Workers' and Peasants' Alliance", Cheng Qi sighed that Brother Ma Zhan was really a good name, and at the same time hooked up with Huang Yang: "I really didn't expect that it would end like this in the end." ”

"I guessed the beginning, but I couldn't guess the end." Huang Yang and Guo Shan picked up their luggage: "It is better to read thousands of books, than to travel thousands of miles." ”

"Sometimes, it feels like I'm in a dream." Cheng Qi looked at the children of the workers in the yard running around: "I didn't expect us to really get things done." ”

He casually looked over, but happened to see a little girl playing games with some younger siblings, and suddenly thought of their somewhat awkward first meeting: "What makes me happiest is that there are some people who have changed their fate and lived a better life because of our efforts." Every time I think about this, I feel that even if the road ahead is full of thorns and cliffs, we will keep walking. ”

The three strangers quietly left Shouzhou, a place full of legends.

The steam locomotive rumbled, galloping on the vast wilderness of the motherland, rolling the quiet countryside into the track of modernization, making the distance between the city and the town insignificant.

When the three strangers came out of Bianjing Station with a large bag and a small bag, they happened to see that a stage seemed to be set up in the square in front of the station.

Far away, Guo Shan pointed to the signboard and shouted: "Hurry up!" It's a song and dance troupe that sells war bonds in Liao! ”

But the two friends from the south of the Yangtze River have not seen this northern characteristic, regardless of the advice of the good man Guo Shan, or because of the move forward, squeezed all the way to the billboard, and finally saw the gouache poster, there are a few tables, behind the table sat some blonde beauties dressed in Yidi, looking at their very national characteristics, Cheng Qi guessed at once, they are the so-called East Slavs - the White Dirosa people.

These blonde girls are selling a stack of colorful paper in Liao-style Chinese. Huang Yang looked curiously at the Chinese characters on those signboards: "It is the obligation of every descendant of Yan and Huang to let the glory of the Han Dynasty shine all over the world!" ”

"Support the glorious expeditionary force today for a hundred dollars, and tomorrow you will get a family property for your children and grandchildren!"

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl noticed these two little Langjun, and smiled at them with a thick pile of bonds: "Venerable Langjun, are you interested in learning about the ...... of the Great Liao Expeditionary Force?"

Guo Shan pulled them back: "No interest, no interest." ”

The girl with long golden hair chased after her: "Langjun Langjun, please find out!" The glory of the empire in the west needed the support of every Chinese citizen. Let's spread the doctrine of Confucius and Mencius to Rome...... There's a stage play coming soon, don't you want to see it? ”

Huang Yang and Cheng Qi said that they wanted to see it, but Guo Shan was helpless. The girl immediately gave each of them a promotional material and a seat ticket, opened the fence door and let them in and sit and wait for the start of the play.

After sitting down, Guo Shan was still complaining: "If you come in, you have to spend money, don't blame me for not saying it...... If you want to see a show, you can watch it from outside. ”

Huang Yang said: "Isn't this a taste of freshness?" You see, how beautiful this printed propaganda paper is. ”

The title of the propaganda paper shows a majestic Liao cavalry riding at an intersection with a wooden signboard that reads, "To Wealth, Beauty and Land." ”

In the place where the cavalry was facing away, a group of nongists and merchants looked at him expectantly with eager eyes.

The propaganda paper reads:

Do you crave wealth?

Do you crave beautiful women?

Do you want to own a piece of land, castle and slaves of your own?

Support the Great Liao Expeditionary Force, the invincible Great Liao Expeditionary Force will bring you everything!

Cheng Qi understood, this is the so-called collective sharing of spoils. Military operations are expensive, but the wealth brought by plunder is coveted by everyone. The Great Liao Military Department came up with an absolutely good idea to issue war bonds to raise military expenses before each military operation, and then repay the principal and interest after the war ended.

Before each expedition, the military department would calculate how many taels of silver was needed, and then package and sell them to the big nobles and big bankers in China, and these bankers and financial aristocrats would sell them to domestic and foreign banking groups, and the bank groups would then resell them to ordinary enterprises or ordinary people.

It's a foolproof deal for both the military department and the big bankers. What the military department needs is war exploits, and what the big bankers need is the start of war -- as soon as the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels, and as long as the war machine is in motion, then the arms factories and logistics factories are running at a high speed, and the enterprises they invest in will be profitable. For a group of small and medium-sized banks, their profit lies in the difference in the price of the resale. And ordinary people, although they are far away from the war, can get a stable income.

As long as the cost of war is less than the value of the loot obtained from plundering, then it is a good deal.

To be able to turn such a state act as war into a business in which the whole people participate, the smart people of the Daliao Military Department are really endless.