Chapter 575: The Most Poisonous Is the Literati's Heart
Crowds outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange are surging. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info Thousands of people come and go in and out of this tall building every day. The surrounding shops, restaurants, and even hotels are overcrowded every day. Many people who are not short of money have set up long-term housing in the surrounding area, just to be able to understand the changes in the stock market as quickly and conveniently as possible. However, the stock exchange has really become a huge driving force for Shanghai's economic prosperity, and the chain reaction brought by it does not know how many business opportunities have brought to Shanghai.
But in Chen Ming's eyes, in the eyes of many, many Chinese people, this is a cornucopia of treasures, but in the eyes of another group of people, it is the source of sin of red fruits. Don't underestimate people's beliefs!
Some people who can continue to maintain their 'philosophy of life' in the great changes of the revolution of heaven and earth and the change of dynasties will not change anything because of the development of productive forces that they can see with their own eyes. As the saying goes, you can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. Put it on the many conservative schools in the Chen and Han dynasties, that is, you can never let a blind person really see reality.
At the edge of the square, Liu Wenwei, who is famous for his uprightness and squareness, and who also has a label of 'old-fashioned' on his body, looked at the scene in front of him and frowned deeply. These endless streams of people have only one goal in mind – the stock exchange. As a traditional literati, he was very disgusted by these people's pursuit of profits. The dignified state of Chinese etiquette is now full of stinky copper, where there is etiquette and shame, as well as the simple folk customs inherited for thousands of years! The world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient!
And what is the so-called "stock market"? Making something out of nothing is pure deception. In Liu Wenwei's eyes, it is a hunting ground for businessmen to circle money, and use the hard-earned money of hundreds of people to develop their own industries. Most of the success was owned by merchants, and only some soup was given to the people to drink; If it fails, the businessman loses a lot, but the loss is even greater than that of ordinary shareholders. Look at those examples in the West, once the economic bubble bursts, how many ordinary people lose their money?
An obvious example, if Liu Wenwei had to pass by the construction site of SF Real Estate on his way to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on his way to the Shanghai Stock Exchange these two times, if it weren't for the millions of shareholders who bought a pile of waste paper without rights, would SF Real Estate have the ability to spend 3 million to build that commercial area?
Although he has been here more than once, Liu Wenwei is still very disgusted and disgusted.
"Master, the stock of the textile and silk reeling company has risen again! The stock of Yuan's Hongchang Textile Company has risen to 15 yuan! The entourage turned back to Liu Wenwei and said. There was a faint sigh in his tone. When the Hongchang Textile Company issued shares, one share was only 7 Chinese yuan. Now it's all up to more than 15 Chinese dollars. If someone buys it from the beginning, then it won't be sent? It's like grabbing money.
"Mistreating weavers, delaying wages, exploiting the good, and being unkind to the rich. This Yuan family should have been bulldozed in the first place! ”
Liu Wenwei said disdainfully, his eyes were full of cold light. When he first entered the office, he took the path of Peng Yuanrui, Peng Yuanrui and Jiang Shizhuan were friends, Jiang Shizhuan and Yuan Mei were also friends, Liu Wenwei was originally an official in Chen Han, and he was faintly regarded as Yuan Mei's person. But no matter how deep the friendship is, it can't compare to the difference in ideas. As Yuan Mei and Qin Dacheng's upside down Confucianism became more and more famous, Peng Yuanrui, Liu Wenwei and others finally parted ways with Yuan Mei, and they soon came together with Peng Zhongrui and Chen Gang. Became the backbone of the old Confucian Party!
It's still the same old saying, heretics are more credible than infidels, and traitors are more damned than devils.
In the eyes of the old school, the so-called neo-Confucianism is a traitor to Confucianism.
Liu Wenwei took a step closer in the Supervision Yuan last year, and sat on the supervision of the imperial history from the third grade, and his power was much greater. His eyes naturally focused on Yuan Mei and the Yuan family behind him.
Yuan Mei has been relieved of real power, but Yuan Mei is good friends with Zhao Yi, has a good deal with Qin Da, and Shen Guozhen, these people are still in power. Moreover, the Yuan family's local reputation in Jiangnan is quite good.
Liu Wenwei is also from Jiangnan, he knows that Yuan Mei is not short of money, Yuan Mei is a rare smart person, and he will never leave a handle on accepting bribes. At the beginning, he was unsatisfactory in the officialdom, so he retreated to Linxia. This man is impatient to learn, and his handwriting is terrible; If you are not tolerant of making words, you must fill in according to the score; Impatient to learn Manchu, Qianlong seven years of Shu Ji Shi disbanded, Xi Manchu unqualified to let the county know. In the choice of life path, Yuan Mei has a very clear mind. He knows that the impression he gave to the above is not good, and if he continues to mix in the officialdom, what can he do if he treats the magistrate as an old man? If you go to the official career, you can't mix it with a provincial or ministerial level, and you are all sesame officials. Maybe there will be a change, and there will be a prison sentence. Later generations said that Yuan Mei's longevity lies in his freedom and casualness, he doesn't have to be a man, he doesn't have to go against his conscience, he doesn't have to use his conscience to bully his subordinates, he doesn't have to use his scheming to engage in conspiracy, and he is nervous all day long, so it is better to say that he has a smart brain. bid farewell to Yuan County's order in the officialdom, and only then did he have Yuan Caizi in the literary world.
When the smart brain melon is put from officialdom to life, Yuan Mei's series of operation methods have been selected into the teaching materials of the business school. He can be called the number one master of commercial speculation in contemporary China, and he has made a lot of money through continuous speculation. Yuan Mei's business planning is step-by-step, and his thinking is extremely clear. First of all, he spent a lot of money to renovate the garden, and did not enclose it for his family to enjoy after repairing, but deliberately demolished the wall and let tourists play in the garden at will, in order to let people know that there is such a beautiful place in Nanjing. As the garden began to become famous and attracted a certain number of visitors, he immediately wrote a book called "Sui Yuan Food List", which vigorously exaggerated the subtlety of the food in his private garden and the high standard of the cooking of his home chefs, and aroused the interest of those who were keen on appetite. Yuan Mei is also very good at studying the food atmosphere, every time a guest comes, he has to ask someone to set the table to some pavilions with beautiful scenery, and also arrange for self-raised beauties to sing and dance for it, and the food business in Suiyuan is very hot. When Suiyuan was hot and his personal popularity rose dramatically, Yuan Mei began to expand his business scope, selling works such as "The Complete Works of Suiyuan" and "Suiyuan Food List" in the garden. Selling books alone, Yuan Mei could earn three or four thousand taels of silver a year.
When his name was loud and everyone knew about it, people from all walks of life rushed to ask Yuan Mei to write an entertainment article, and Yuan Mei did not refuse to come.
Now Chen Han is full of business opportunities, how can Yuan Mei be indifferent to watching others make money? The Yuan family's textile factory was set up a long time ago, and when the steam engine was produced, he used his prestige to gather many people to participate in the shares, creating the current Hongchang textile company, which is the top first-class textile company in the whole of China.
The entourage was immediately silent, bowed his head, and only secretly felt sorry for the Yuan family in his heart, and was too harsh on the workers, compared with the textile enterprises under the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, the treatment of workers was too different. And the most important thing is that Yuan Mei was targeted by his own master, and Yuan Mei himself had nothing to say, but Hongchang, headed by the Yuan family, made a big move and became the first target of his own master.
Liu Wenwei is not weak at all, he wants to poke open the hornet's nest of Hongchang, which is also where the duty and righteousness lie.
Since the introduction of steam looms by Hongchang Textile Company, in more than a year, six workers have been killed and 52 workers have been injured, of which 35 have been disabled and 15 have moderate disabilities. Even if this kind of thing is not the target of the Yuan family, Liu Wenwei will poke it out.
The disabled weavers were dismissed from their employment by the factory, and the victims received only a pitiful amount of compensation, but the impact of the disabled on their families was indisputably enormous. Especially those who are male weavers. Liu Wenwei sent people to investigate the lives of many disabled workers after they were dismissed, and the situation of many families made him cry.
If he could stay in Nanjing City with peace of mind, he would not be Liu Wenwei.
Since the beginning of the investigation of the Hongchang textile company in the spring of this year, Liu Wenwei has collected enough materials. He also specially found a special lawyer, this kind of litigant Liu Wenwei looked down on before, but compared to the importance of this case, Liu Wenwei could only endure it. Let the lawyer inspect the materials he found to find the Hongchang Textile Company. As a result, for a whole month, the lawyer did not find out the obvious illegal acts of Hongchang Textile Company. It's not that this lawyer is incompetent, but he is a genuine legal scholar, if he hadn't slapped the victim at the beginning and was given a major demerit, there would be no future in the mixed officialdom, and now he is still a beautiful judge.
He did not identify the phenomenon of 'lawlessness', which only proved the fact that the national law was still flawed, and that there was no proper protection for the injured workers for this inhumane 'outcome'.
This is a "big case", and 'unkindness' may not be harmful to ordinary merchants, because businessmen do not need 'benevolence' in the first place. However, this Hongchang Textile Company was led by the Yuan family, and Yuan Mei himself is one of the most famous people in contemporary times and one of the representatives of Neo-Confucianism. That's the end of the story.
Hehe, if this crime can be covered on Yuan Mei's head in one fell swoop, not only Hongchang's reputation will stink, but Yuan Mei's reputation and Xinru's reputation will also plummet in society. And the battle of ideas is one after another, the new Confucianism is defeated, and the old Confucianism is prosperous. All in the investigation, although Liu Wenwei found that such a phenomenon is not only Hongchang's family. There are many such tragic things in large and small textile factories in the south of the Yangtze River, but he still firmly holds on to Hongchang. Who made Hongchang's chairman surnamed Yuan?
The Yuan family definitely didn't think that they had become Liu Wenwei's prey. After several months of exploration and exploration, Liu Wenwei has a large amount of real information in his hands. Although Hongchang Textile Company does not constitute any kind of crime in law, in fact, there are also delays and deductions of workers' wages, and the other is that the pension for disabled workers is too low and too low, and it is below the average. Moreover, when the factory signed a labor contract with the workers, it played a literal game and deceived the workers.
In the past, Hongchang Textile Company was not without workers making trouble, but they were all suppressed.
Whether it is the official face or the comparison of interests, the local government will not stand on the side of the powerless and powerless ordinary people. Liu Wenwei is not ignorant of the development of the relationship between factories and workers in the West, and he has also learned a certain amount about it.
From the simple destruction of machines to the destruction of factories by strike, Europe has developed at this time, including workers' uprisings, everything that should have existed. Liu Wenwei feels that this is completely caused by the greed and meanness of capital. In line with the traditional concept of Chinese literati, in line with the traditional concept of many Chinese 'blue sky's, suppressing the rich and promoting the poor, Liu Wenwei's ass unceremoniously sat on the side of the workers.
Suppressing the rich and businessmen and ensuring the interests of the common people and the poor is a method used by many Chinese officials to 'rob the rich and help the poor'. It's just that this time Liu Wenwei prefers to be able to get things done, and at the same time, he ruthlessly stirs up the new Confucianism and stinks Yuan Mei's reputation.
As for whether he will put himself on the opposite side of capital after doing this, Liu Wenwei doesn't care. When in China, when are the officials afraid of business?
When Liu Wenwei left the Stock Exchange Square and returned to a private residence in Shanghai, he did not know that all his whereabouts in Shanghai had been reported.
Xiao Changchun, the person in charge of Shanghai Guoan, looked at the report in his hand and frowned slightly, this Liu Wenwei really wants to do something big.
This is the third time in a month that he has secretly come to Shanghai.
"Send this news to Nanjing quickly, and tell Chen Beihai." Chen Jigong is still in charge of the Jiangnan Shipyard, but for him personally, the Beihai company seems to be more famous.
Today, Chen Jigong was at home, and after dinner, he was sorting out some materials of the Second Overseas Exploration Bureau in his study. It has been more than two years since the establishment of their bureau, and they have set out from the Ryukyus to explore the ocean again and again, but all in vain. Compare the route from the Far East to North America in one game, and occupy Alaska; The former had just been cut off by the British and established the so-called New South Wales, and the west coast was marked by the Third Bureau of Exploration, and named Nanmingzhou, which was declared to be owned by China, and even the two small islands in the southeast of the New World had a new name -- the large and small New Ryukyu Island.
The Fourth Bureau of Exploration also crossed Ceylon and India and entered the Celestial World.
Only their second game, backed by the big Buddha of Jiangnan Shipyard, has a forward base like Ryukyu, and the conditions in all aspects can be said to be unique, but they just didn't find anything, and they returned again and again in vain.
"Second master, Lord Xiao of Guoan ordered someone to send a letter."
Chen Jigong doesn't have much contact with Guoan now, but the relationship has not been broken, and he will not break it. It's just that Xiao Changchun suddenly handed over a letter, not something else, which made Chen Jigong subconsciously pay attention to it.
"Liu Wenwei Cha Hongchang Textile Company?" That's awesome.
The scale of Hongchang Textile Company is now one of the top five large-scale textile companies in China, and Yuan Mei instructed the younger generations to buy steam engines for the first time, with a unique vision. And they are no longer satisfied with being a supplier, but also raising foreign fleets and preparing to go out in great strides.
The order for two of the ships is at the Jiangnan Shipyard.
"But this Hongchang didn't hear anything?"
Chen Jigong recalled the Hongchang Textile Company in his mind, and there was indeed no scandal or anything. It's just that Liu Wenwei's time is very poisonous, Hongchang Textile Company has placed orders in Jiangnan and other shipyards, and has signed agreements one after another, if he is not mistaken, Hongchang will announce the establishment of a foreign trade company in August, and will also enter the field of ready-to-wear. If he had any weaknesses that Liu Wenwei had at that time, it would have been fun. "This literati's heart is really a vicious." (To be continued.) )