Although the sky has just cleared, the Hetian area of Nanhai County, which is adjacent to the provincial capital of Guangzhou and Xiguan, has become the first choice for setting up factories because of its proximity to the Beijiang River, the proximity to railways and coal mines, convenient transportation and abundant coal. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, more importantly, its proximity to the city of Guangzhou.

Although the sky has turned bright at this time, the electric lights are still on in the workshop of Tianjintang Silk Factory. Although the electric light was invented only last year, it is now widely used in Guangzhou -- not only have all the street lights in Guangzhou been changed to electric lights, but the factories in Guangzhou have also realized the role of electric lights in production and have installed electric lights. Tianjintang, Guangzhou's largest machine silk factory, is no exception – six months ago, electric lights were installed in all its factories. It was also from that time that Tianjin Hall slowly produced in two shifts during the peak season, twelve hours during the day shift and ten hours at night.

Although this is a night shift production, the work in the workshop of Tianjin Hall is very intense, and the whole workshop is a fast wheel. The electric lights on the roof of the factory are also yellowed in the thick water vapor, and the light is a little dizzy, but fortunately there is a lampshade outside the lamp, otherwise it is really worrying about whether there will be leakage.

The female workers, whose ears were struck by the noise of the silk carts, were constantly working, but this did not prevent them from chatting and talking in the middle, and in fact, it was their only amusement. Their faces were flushed with steam, and their mouths and hands were busy.

Here, the steam-cooked cocoons are poured into the front of the silk reeling machine, and the silk head of each cocoon is swept out by the straw under the moisture of the steam. Next to the multi-meter-long silk reeling machine, two silk reeling women are busy in an orderly manner, drawing wire leads, and their movements are familiar. The women soaked their hands in hot water for 11 hours a day, and in order to cut off the threads, they had to bite it off with their teeth and reattach it. Without exception, the hands of these women are very rough, but even so, they still work hard.

After all, in the factory, they can earn four and a half yuan a month "Hanyang", and the factory also manages three meals, eight taels of Nanyang rice per person per day, although the dishes they eat are usually the cheapest vegetables, pumpkins and other simplest meals, and they can only eat pork offal soup every two days, but for these female workers, it is still enough for women in the countryside to rush to sign up for the factory, because of this, they will cherish this job, work hard every day, for fear that they will be fired from the factory and lose this good job.

Suddenly, the whistle whined, resounding throughout the factory. It's the whistle of the off-shift.

The more than 20 workshops of the factory were suddenly disturbed with the whistle, and the sound of the silk car was lowered, and the voice prevailed. The female workers left the workshop one after another and went to the canteen with lunch boxes to eat. When the workshop is shut down, there will be an accountant who will calculate their workload, and someone will also check the machine.

An hour later, the factory will roar again, and then it will be the day shift personnel working there. Female workers on the night shift go home or rest in the factory dormitory, although only female workers who are not in the vicinity live in the dormitory.

After a busy night's work in the factory, there was complete silence at this time, and the lights in the workshop were turned off. The light shining from the row of houses in the management department over there seemed to be extra energetic. Wang Yueshan sat in his office with his head bowed; Overhead was an electric lamp of thirty-two lights, illuminating his face slightly blue, as calm as a stone statue.

As the manager of the factory, he is the only one of the 76 machine silk factories in Guangdong who has studied Wuchang Commercial School and studied business management. As a result, his factory's profit margins have been much higher than those of other factories. Because of this, Tianjintang, which has been in operation for less than a year, has developed into the largest silk factory in Guangdong, with more than 2,000 workers.

Now he is not calculating the production situation of the factory, but there is a summary of some problems encountered in production management, and he finds that there are still some management problems that need to be improved in production.

"If we solve this problem, we should be able to increase profits by another four percentage points."

Suddenly, the door opened

"Manager, manager is not good, not good......"

It was Zhao Mingliang who broke in, he was over fifty years old, although he didn't know the new accounting method, but he was still the bookkeeper and accountant in the factory.

"What's going on?"

"Manager, my nephew just came to deliver a message, saying that thousands of machine owners have broken in with sticks, and they have already smashed several factories!"

"What!"

As soon as he heard the news, Wang Yueshan stood up violently.

"How is this possible? What about the government? ”

Feudal official!

At this time, Wang Yueshan thought of the government, but he just forgot the reason why everyone chose to set up a factory here in the first place - the silk weaving guild would be beyond the reach of this place, and although the government supported them, it was far away from the city.

"I've already sent someone to report to the official, but when the people from the government come, it will always take time! Manager, now, what now? ”

"Call Wang Dapeng to come over, let him call the male workers in the factory, take the guys, don't let those people break into the factory......"

Wang Yueshan said as he thought of the nearby officers and soldiers.

"And immediately send someone to Guanshan to inform the officers and soldiers stationed there, that it is close to us, bring silver, be sure to invite them over, and tell the chief there that as long as the factory is saved, Wang will be grateful!"

Just when Wang Yueshan wanted to protect the factory in every possible way, on the gravel road leading to Tianjintang, thousands of handmade silk reeling machine owners with resentful faces rushed towards the Tianjintang Silk Factory with knives, sticks and spears, and the nearby shops that were prosperous because of the factory closed their doors one after another.

"Fight fake foreign devils!"

"Beat the traitor......"

"Han people don't need foreign goods!"

"Han people are traitors when they use a machine......"

Thousands of people armed with knives and guns would shout slogans as they walked, and they looked very patriotic, and the leader even carried a red flag in his hand - in fact, it was a piece of red cloth, but the Governor's Office kept raising this flag, and the rebels also used this flag, and it seemed that playing this flag would make everything sound.

The angry crowd shouted like summer thunder. Thousands of handmade mechanics filled the entire street, getting closer and closer to Tianjintang.

This is the foreign factory that took away their livelihood! It's the traitor's dependence! They're going to smash this traitor's factory!

"Kill the traitor!"

The crowd shouted haphazardly, a little more untidy than the first slogan. Finally, they came to Tianjintang, but saw that the big iron gate of Tianjintang was closed, and in front of them was Wang Dapeng and the men in the factory with him and him, who were holding iron rods, shovels, and coal poles.

"Dog traitor, open the door!"

"We only beat the dog traitor surnamed Wang!"

", scolding who......"

Both sides were shouting and swearing, trying to intimidate each other into giving in.

In the crowd, one person frequently asks the other person with his eyes. But the other person didn't receive an order what to do, and at this moment, Wang Yueshan's thin figure appeared behind the big iron gate! He straightened up, still sneering on his face.

"Why do you say that Wang is a traitor!"

Those "masses" were all stunned, they didn't expect Wang Yueshan to stand here.

How bold!

"If you use a foreigner's machine to corrupt feng shui, you are a traitor......"

Suddenly, a man jumped out, and only to hear him shout:

"Brethren! Hit! Crashed open the iron gate, beat the traitor to death, and burned down the foreign factory that corrupted feng shui...... Hit! ”

Seeing that someone was taking the lead, the excited people over there immediately shouted, and kept banging on the iron gate, although the wrought iron gate seemed to be strong, but it was quickly knocked open.

"Brothers, protect the factory!"

Wang Dapeng, who was the nephew of the manager Tongzong, immediately shouted, and hit the people who rushed up with the iron rod in his hand, and the male workers in the factory also carried sticks and tore up with the people who rushed into the factory.

For a while, the gate of the factory suddenly fell into a scuffle, because the number of male workers in the factory was small, they kept retreating, and when they saw that the factory could not be defended, there was a sudden shrill whistle in the distance.

But anyone who passed through the city knew what the whistle meant, it was the whistle of the patrolling gendarmes. But in the midst of the chaos, no one seemed to take this shrill whistle even inside and out, and just as the scuffle in the factory continued, dozens of gun-wielding gendarmes appeared behind the owners, their rifles loaded with bayonets.

The officer leading a group of gendarmes looked at the chaotic situation in front of him, almost a soldier's instinct, and immediately ordered the gendarmes to line up dozens of meters away. However, a platoon of more than forty gendarmes immediately lined up in three rows on the street.

"Reload!"

When the order came from the mouth of the platoon commander, the gendarmes had no doubts, they raised their rifles in their hands, took out the bullets from the magazines, loaded them, loaded their caps, and wrenched their hammers.

"Gun on the shoulder, walk in unison......"

At the sound of the officer's command, a platoon of gendarmes lined up and walked towards the chaotic crowd, which made some sharp-eyed gendarmes try to escape from the nearby streets after seeing the gendarmes appear, but they saw the gendarmes rushing in the streets.

"Grab them all, don't let one go!"

The officer leading a group of soldiers held a revolver in his hand, and while directing the soldiers to open the way with bayonets and gun butts, he shouted, he didn't expect that there would be so many people, there were tens of thousands of people in Xiguan, and including the recruits from the Guanshan barracks, there were only more than 1,000 people. Just as he was directing the group of recruits to line up to block the machine owners, a young man with a spear in his hand rushed out of the alley next to him, and the man was holding the spear flat and rushed towards the officer with an angry face on his face.

"Dog traitor! Minion! ”

The sudden danger made the gendarmerie officer instinctively raise his pistol and pull the trigger......

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