"Your Majesty, this proposal of yours can make our hair gray, in principle, it is indeed very convenient for the people of the empire, but it is a big killer for the government. If the workers in the factories are not satisfied with the total strike, and the government cannot take the necessary measures reasonably and legally, then the empire will be doomed! Uncle, I beg you, can you stop giving your little nephew a problem for the sake of me calling you a master since I was a child. You don't seem to have made me comfortable since I took office. I now very much doubt the purpose of your resignation, is it that my aunt has offended you, and you are not willing to bully my aunt, and then get me back and torture me to play? I also lack the heart, how good it is to be the governor of the port of Calamba, why should I come back and suffer this sin! ”

Hong Tao did not have the right to propose to the parliament, so this proposal had to be proposed by the imperial government led by Bo Jiao. This time, Hong Tao didn't directly break into the imperial government to slap the table and stare at Bo Jiao to agree, some tricks can't be used for the rest of the year, and if you use them too much, they won't be easy to use. This time, Hong Tao strictly followed the government's work process, first submitted his proposal to the government through normal procedures, and after they deliberated, he had to give himself an answer, which was the emperor's right. So, when he received an invitation from the imperial government to a special meeting to discuss this proposal, he saw Bo Jiao's crying face as soon as he entered the door. If it weren't for the presence of several ministers, he, the Prime Minister of the Empire, would have almost knelt down and pleaded.

"This deserves it, when I was prime minister, you could also mention it, who made you not have this ability. Now that you've seen it, I'd like to hear your opinions. The government is the governing body of the country, don't think about saving trouble. If a few of you hired a housekeeper at home, thinking about how to be lazy and not working all day, would you be happy? To put it bluntly, you are the housekeepers hired by the state, and to put it mildly, the wages of your group of housekeepers are still very high. The money was made up by the people of the empire, and mine was among them, because I paid my taxes! So don't be lazy, don't be lazy, I'm not happy if you don't work enough. Tomorrow you will see these words of mine in the newspapers, and it is still serialized, and I will explain this issue clearly and thoroughly to the people of the Empire, so that they can all understand that you must not spend money to hire a bunch of lazy people, you need to keep an eye on you every day, and whoever is lazy will fire him. "Bo Jiao's family card didn't work at all, and the current Emperor Hong is a mad dog, catching whoever bites whom. The proverb that the old should be rampant and the young should be stable is vividly reflected in him.

"Your Majesty, in which newspaper did you publish it?" As the head of propaganda, Huang Sha is very sensitive to the problems of the newspaper.

"What, you're still planning to ban me?" Hong Tao's little eyes began to look at people slanted again, and even his brother and daughter-in-law, who had always been very tolerant, no longer gave face.

"No, no...... I mean, send someone to get a few copies and circulate them. Hong Tao's expression made Huang Sha a little stunned. Although she has never given Hong Tao a good face after Chen Qihong's death, it does not mean that she really does not treat Hong Tao as a green onion. The closer people are to this emperor, the more clear it is that this is a bastard who doesn't recognize his six relatives. He has several faces, and most of the time he is harmless to humans and animals, but don't mess with him, he will not let go of people and animals after he is in a hurry. The most hateful thing is that you don't know when he's going to be in a hurry, and most of his measures are different from others.

"That's another thing, I'm very busy, I have to go to the hydropower station in the afternoon, let's make a long story short. I think the union is necessary, and this is also thanks to your blessings, privatization, you have talked about it, privatization, have you ever thought about what will become of the people of the empire after privatization? In fact, you don't have to think about it, just look at the little guy hired by the Great Song Maritime Merchants to understand. Although the Empire was more legally sound than theirs, the end result was similar. I heard that now those maritime merchants, not only the Great Song maritime merchants, but even the imperial maritime merchants have begun to recruit sailors from Malacca and Kalamba ports. Can anyone tell me why? As soon as he came up, he sprayed a lot of venom, Hong Tao felt much more comfortable, don't spray it next, venom is very valuable, spraying too much will make others resistant, and it must be used sparingly.

"Cheap wages! The sailors of the maritime merchants do not need to be as elite as the Royal Navy, and some cheaper sailors are mixed in, the ship can still go, and the cost will be reduced. Li Niang didn't think about it, she answered the emperor's question directly, and she answered it very accurately, for no other reason, just one word, money!

Minister Li's answer is why. This illustrates the problem that anyone who does business is after one word, and that is money! It is natural to make money in business, and it is not uncommon to earn a little more than a penny, which is a good businessman. But the question is, in order to make more money, is it enough to rely on good goods? Obviously not enough, but also to control the cost, cost and profit are always a pair of enemies, if you want to make more profits, you have to find a way to reduce costs, high costs and low profits. ”

"I don't need to dwell on how to reduce costs, labor costs are a large part of the cost, and what the maritime merchants are doing now is to reduce labor costs, and the rest of the money will go into their pockets." I have no objection to the maritime merchants, and if it were me, I would go to the Governor of Marina in the port of Cape Town, and buy him a large number of black slaves, whether it be for a man of face or for a gift, and train him to be my sailors. Then you will find that I can sell the same silk cheaper than you, but the profit may be more than yours. You know why? Because my sailors only need to be fed, and they are not paid at all, or very little. After a long time, let me ask you, what should other maritime chambers of commerce do? Hong Tao stopped spraying poison, and he began to ask questions, one question after another.

"If the other maritime merchants don't want to sell other things, they don't have the power of Your Majesty. Otherwise, don't mix up on this route, unless you find a bigger market, and everyone's goods can be sold, no matter how expensive or cheap. As long as the market tends to be saturated, there will inevitably be price competition, as long as there is price competition, whoever has low costs and high profits will have the last laugh. The person who answered was still Li Niang, this girl was a natural economist, no one had ever told her about these things, and Hong Tao didn't talk much, basically she summed it up by herself.

"Minister Li is wrong this time, the businessmen are not so easy to retreat, they are very resilient. I think they will do everything in their power to find out the origin of my sailors, and then go to the Governor of Medini, and by all means they will have to buy equally cheap slaves to compete with me, and for this reason they will not hesitate to break the law and commit crimes. Do you think that Governor Medini is a man who does not open his mouth when the meat reaches his mouth? I think he'll swallow it in one gulp, then wipe his mouth clean and pretend nothing happened. "If you don't squeeze people, you can't speak, this is also a bad problem of Emperor Hong, Maitini is tens of thousands of miles away, and he has not escaped his poisonous tongue.

"Hey, hey, hey...... When Your Majesty talks about Governor Mak, I really miss him a little. I agree with Your Majesty that it is not that Governor Mak is greedy, but that everyone is such a person. Kong Pei let Hong Tao talk about fun, he has long been accustomed to Hong Tao's speaking characteristics, he doesn't think it is awkward at all, and he enjoys it very much.

"See, if this continues, all the people of the empire will be unemployed, and not only will the sailors need cheaper slaves, but most of the other jobs will be replaced by slaves and immigrants, for only one reason, their costs will be cheaper. Don't tell me that the legislation is not in accordance with the Imperial Constitution, the state has no right to dictate who can and cannot be hired by the people's private enterprises, and the law cannot be so detailed. Since it is private ownership, it is necessary to give every inhabitant of the empire the same rights, so that they can live a different life from others through their own abilities, otherwise what is the use of private ownership? How good would it be to go back and divide it evenly? ”

Is there a way to solve this problem? I have given a solution, and I think it is the only way to go, and that is the trade union law! We must give the people of the Empire the right to work, so that they can justifiably demand that their employers hire them at a higher price, at least within the Empire! Isn't this a deprivation of employers' rights? ”

"That's right, it's deprivation! But I don't call it that, I call it compromise. Although the nature is the same, the effect is different. Trade unions are not government departments, they are established by the people on their own initiative, as long as within the framework of the trade union law, everyone has the right to set up trade union organizations, and then use this organization to bargain with employers, to digest this huge contradiction in the popular class, and not to transfer it to the government. In this way, you save a lot of trouble, and at the same time, it will give the people a way to vent their grievances and a tool to negotiate on an equal footing with the powerful. I can tell you that this trick is called transferring the conflict, and it is very, very shameless, but it works. ”

"Li Niang, don't pout, as the administrator of the country, we don't expect to become saints, but to effectively manage this big family. What is beneficial to the long-term development of the family, there is no shameless, righteous and bright, just look at the results. This is our duty, if you want to take care of your feathers, you might as well be a justice for life. Let Hong Tao describe it this way, the trade union has become a good helper of the government. In fact, in a sense, Hong Tao really didn't lie. On the surface, the unions are always causing trouble for the government, but if you think about it on a deeper level, it is really helping the government solve problems. Without trade unions as a buffer zone, many of the contradictions would be concentrated between the people and the government.

(To be continued.) )