Mine owners and hired laborers are of course opposed, but hired laborers often have to fight against the enemy of their enemies before capital is united all over the world because of technology and transportation, because their survival is closely related to the enemy's profits. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The reverse is also true, there is also cooperation at the same time as opposites.

Employers and employees in A sometimes unite against their counterparts in B, producers in A sometimes oppose merchants in A, and merchants in A support the employees in A for their own benefit.

As the hired workers, who are still very weak, they can make reasonable use of the contradictions of these enemies, and at the same time keenly seize every opportunity to win a small profit, and at the same time open their minds.

The wind collector saw the strangeness and incomprehension, and that was because he didn't know the huge benefits in it. But the mine owner understood, so when he received Chen Jian's invitation, he smiled, maybe secretly vigilant but mainly happy.

Inside the house, the six mine owners who hooked up with Chen Jian from the beginning were playing haha, and there was no unpleasant thing that happened a few days in advance, and Chen Jian did not mention it.

The canal has been built to accommodate specially made flat-bottomed coal barges, and the height difference has been carefully measured, and the slow downhill from the coal mine to the Minhe wharf allows fully loaded boats to go down the river.

One of the mines he first hooked up with Chen Jian was a railroad with cast iron rails, which was not very long, but it could transport coal to the freight yards of the canal.

Loading there can be a quick trip to Mincheng. After the intervention of the Yuanshan, the Employees' Association also fulfilled its original promise, and within a few days stabilized the coal supply of Mincheng through the canal, which won a huge reputation for the Yuanshan.

The miners sitting here today are no longer satisfied with just reducing transportation costs and increasing profits, but under the instigation of Chen Jian, they want to completely monopolize the coal supply in Mincheng and the seaborne coal to neighboring counties.

Originally constrained by balance, they had to adopt the method of internal consultation. However, once the gap widens and the balance is broken, the original internal negotiation is meaningless, which is an important factor for the six mine owners to express their sympathy for the employees alone, regardless of the original trade union.

Previously, Mr. Chen had suggested to these people that a new coal monopoly would be set up with six people's funding.

According to the capital dividends, unified management, unified control, is no longer an independent internal consultation, but twisted into a rope. There is no need to have a gap with each other about the distribution of shares, and they only need to pay dividends at the end of the year according to their contributions. Discuss what is to be done according to the amount of capital contribution, select professional management personnel, and form a unified whole.

On the one hand, it can be profitable, and on the other hand, it is not through a fragile alliance of a few words, but the interests of all are one, and it can also be united.

This is not without precedent, Chen Jian's glass factory is a typical example, through internal integration to reduce internal friction, the formation of a monopoly group centered on Mincheng.

Recently, the cost of glass has been reduced a lot through price reduction, canal construction, cheap fuel, development of alkali industry, and monopoly introduction of salt, and the rest of the country is relying on its own price advantage and quality advantage to frantically squeeze the glass industry in the rest of the counties.

The glass workshops that were operated with Chen Jian with equity capital have all grown and expanded, and those original workshop owners have also made a lot of money in recent years.

These miners knew very well that with the help of the transportation costs of the canal, which Chen Jian had spent a year and a half planning, as long as they united and relied on strong capital to fight a price reduction war, it would not be long before they could monopolize the coal market in Minjun.

To fight the price reduction war, it is necessary to unite, not just an alliance of verbal agreements, but to give up the independence of the individual and form a joint enterprise.

Chen Jian also gave them an analysis from the perspective of development.

Once this joint coal group is reached, the price of coal in Mincheng will be able to fall, along with the various industries related to it. There are still a large number of displaced people in the north, and although the restrictions on relocation have not been relaxed, the workshop owners here can take advantage of the shipping advantages to develop their industries in the form of cross-county employment by non-displaced people.

If the coal freight rate falls, Mincheng will develop; Mincheng has developed, and coal is used just as much.

As for the possible Age of Steam and the Age of Discovery, important ports to Europe, Africa, and the West Coast in the next few decades, these are too many of these things, but these reasons alone are enough to make these people excited.

These six people have already fornicated with each other before, so there is no need to hide it today.

They want to bring Chen Jian on board as a shareholder of this newly formed coal group, and that is what they want to say most today.

"Mr. Chen, what did you think about the things you discussed last time?"

Jian Chen shook his head with a smile and said, "It's better to be exempt." You say that I have just engaged in the miners' movement, how did I become a shareholder of the coal mining group? Besides, I don't have much money to spare now......"

Mr. Chen laughed, if Mr. Chen had no money, then Min County would be poor. Besides, we also have a conscience, and we were the first mine owners to sympathize with their petition last time the hired workers petitioned, so Mr. Chen doesn't have to say as if we were opposed to each other. Besides, even if he didn't have any money, Mr. Chen's canal right of way, barges, and those slender boatmen could all be shared. ”

Another mine owner also said: "Yes, Mr. Chen, we can cooperate completely." If it's just mining, the profit is a little smaller. We can form a consortium of mining, transportation and sales......"

Jian Chen looked at these mine owners who had a sharp appetite and said with a smile: "Are you afraid that we will continue the labor campaign in the future and want to pull me into the board of directors?" If that's what I think, then I don't have to, my head and ass are sometimes separated, and it's useless to pull in. ”

The mine owners smiled awkwardly, knowing that Jian Chen had always spoken straightforwardly, so they said, "Doesn't Mr. Chen himself have an industry?" Speaking of which, isn't everyone the same? We can't help it, Mr. Chen's industry is monopolistic, there is no competition. We are living and dying with each other, and if Mr. Chen is involved in some other industries, he understands that it is difficult for you to gain a foothold. ”

Jian Chen laughed and said, "You are so right, so we have been discussing internally how to solve this problem at the root recently. You can look forward to this, maybe there will be a way to solve it in more than ten years. ”

The mine owners thought it was a joke and were helpless about such a conversation, in addition to what Jian Chen said they were worried about, and the fact that Jian Chen was in complete control of the canal.

They are worried that although they have a good conversation with Chen Jian now, and Chen Jian also said that he will support them to squeeze through the rest of the mines, but if something happens in the future, it will be difficult at that time.

Dig another canal and their money will be drained, and they may not be able to find so many people. Chen Jian's oil field and oil refining workshop were short of personnel, and the cost of building a new canal was too high to be necessary, but Chen Jian was stuck in the canal. Even if they have money and people, it will take a year and a half to two years for a new canal to be built.

If you can pull Chen Jian into the shares, it is really the best choice. Not to mention that the canal matter is solved, it can also dismantle the hired workers' association.

These miners also knew that now that Chen Jian had controlled the cotton in Minjun, once the kerosene began to be sold on a large scale in the future, it would only take a few years for the miners to unite and not be able to resist Chen Jian's capital.

The reason why the game of big fish eating small fish was not so bloody before was because of the balance of forces between all parties, and now this balance has been broken, and Chen Jian has the canal and rail road in his hands - when the canal was first built, the mine owners woke up halfway through the construction and wanted to invest but Chen Jian refused.

Although Chen Jian said that he did not want to get involved in the mining industry now, once he turned around and got involved in it in the future, he would instigate the struggle of the rest of the mines with his high capital and control of the employees' association...... With a two-pronged approach, the mine owners knew that their lives would not be easy at that time.

This is their idea, but Jian Chen's thinking is simpler.

On the one hand, the upcoming period of stability and the great development of seaborne trade in Fujian will inevitably bring about an increase in coal consumption. The advantages brought by the price reduction of coal can make Mincheng a handicraft center, attracting more capital and population to set up workshops here. There are more workshops, more workers, and the capitalists are stronger, and all kinds of ideas are easy to appear, and the power will be stronger.

On the other hand, he is a troublesome person. There are disputes and competitions between different mines, and the result is that it is difficult for the employees of the various mines to be closely united for a long time, and it is easy to divide and disintegrate, and fight against each other. After the formation of monopolies by the coal syndicates, the employees of the different mines lost their reasons for fighting among themselves, and were left with only the struggle for their own interests, which could be more united and easier to develop partisan activities.

The mine owner meant to let him give up the right of way of the canal in the form of shares, which was his bottom line and would never give up. With the canal in your hand, you will have more strength in the future.

When everyone saw that Chen Jian was dead, they didn't let go, so they no longer insisted on it, and could only retreat to the next best, hoping that Chen Jian would cooperate with them temporarily.

Using canal barges and control over the canal's transportation, they helped them achieve a monopoly on the coal market in Mincheng, and hoped that Chen Jian would not cooperate with the rest of the miners.

The condition given by Chen Jian is that in the future, when the rest of the mines cannot make ends meet, they must give priority to hiring unemployed employees in the remaining mining areas, and the specific list is controlled by the employees' federation.

Although the mine owners do not like the backbone of the workers' associations, now is the time to cooperate, and they can only accept this condition.

Anyway, once the market monopoly is reached, the mine still needs more miners, and the shortage of people is inevitable, and the miners from other mines are all doing this business, and there is no problem in working, the main thing is that the backbone of the employee association is not among them.

There is both confrontation and cooperation between each other, and a delicate balance has been reached at this moment.

Soon after, the Minjun Coal Industry Federation was officially dissolved, and a new coal group was established, which was mainly based on six mines in Nan'an. It is no longer a verbal union of the past, but the independence of each is abolished, which is completely different from the previous federation.

Subsequently, the Minjun Miners' Union Union, with this new coal group as the main body, was formally established, and the employees' associations of the six mines were the first to reorganize and unite.

At this point, this miners' petition movement in Minjun has really come to an end.

The subsequent problems surrounding the price reduction of the canal, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, capital flow to Mincheng caused by the price reduction of raw materials, the flow of displaced people from other counties to work in Mincheng, the migration of miners, the rise of new towns, the decay of old mining towns, the shortage of housing in Nan'an mining area, the inflow of funds from bankrupt mine owners into Mincheng, the scarcity of housing in Mincheng, etc., will be carried out slowly, influencing and changing over a long period of time.