Although it was already the end of June, what was even more intense than the heat of the furnace was the construction boom of Nanjing, the capital of the East. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ。。 However, in the eyes of those who are interested, what is hidden behind this kind of construction scene in full swing is precisely the exploitation and ruthlessness of capitalist China and the germ of a vigorous workers' movement in the future.

Since the day the Ming Empire regained Nanjing, the imperial capital has been a large construction site, and it has not stopped construction for 16 years. From this point alone, it can be seen that the Ming Empire has really embarked on the road of no return to capitalism, and it is quite good. Compared with 16 years ago, the current city of Nanjing has almost completely changed, except that the city walls and gates of Nanjing are still roughly there, and the Xuanwu Lake, Qinhuai River, and Purple Mountain have not been moved, which is really nothing in common with Jiangning City under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Nanjing has been completely transformed into an industrial and commercial metropolis, the area of the urban area has increased four or five times, from the original Nanjing city, has been extended to the east to Qixia Mountain, Liyu Mountain, Tanjia Mountain and Guishan line, to the southwest to the west bank of the Qinhuai River Meishan, Niushou Mountain, Jinglong Mountain area. The Purple Mountain, which was originally located on the outskirts of the city, has now become a quiet city center, and together with the Imperial City in Nanjing and the Xuanwu District around Xuanwu Lake, it constitutes the core area of Nanjing at this time. It is both an administrative center and a business center. The offices of the main subordinate organs of the Ming Cabinet, the Parliament, and the Generalissimo's Office are located here. The largest consortia and companies in the Ming Dynasty have also built buildings around Xuanwu Lake, either as headquarters or as their offices in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The embassies of the world in the Ming Empire were concentrated in the area south of the Purple Mountain. Hence this area. Naturally, there are many high-rise buildings. Extraordinary. Even the roads are spacious and tidy.

To the west of the Purple Mountain is the educational center of Nanjing, including Yingtian Jishi University, Royal Army Military Academy, Army University, Army Medical College, Jinling University, Yingtian Normal University, New Oriental College, Jiangnan University, Nanjing Imperial University, China Catholic University Nanjing Branch, Sino-French University of Science and Technology, Maria University, Da Ming Shilin University and a series of other institutions of higher learning.

At this time, Nanjing was already one of the four major education capitals in the Orient, along with Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai. There are not only students from all over the Ming Dynasty, but also many students from Japan, Korea, India and Nanyang countries, studying in this world-class institution of higher learning. And there are thousands of proud children who come out of these universities every year! In 1862 alone, the total number of university graduates in the Ming Empire exceeded 40,000. Although there is no way to compare it with the millions of college graduates a year in later generations. But at present, it is also among the best in the world.

To the north of the Purple Mountains, between the Beijing-Shanghai railway and the Yangtze River, is Nanjing's growing industrial zone. The convenience of rail and water transportation greatly reduced the cost of logistics, coupled with the low land price and the planning and guidance of the Tianfu authorities, this place named Jiangnan District is now full of chimneys and factories, and has become one of the four industrial zones with the highest concentration of factories and the highest industrial output value in the entire Greater China Customs Union (the other three are the banks of Suzhou Creek in Shanghai Prefecture, Foshan County in Guangzhou Prefecture and Nanfen County in Liaoyang Prefecture).

Go without saying. It is also the place with the worst air quality and the highest concentration of poor people in the whole of Yingtianfu...... There are so many chimneys that are discharging untreated exhaust gases, and industrial and domestic sewage flows directly to the Yangtze River through newly built sewer pipes without treatment. If you look here from the Purple Mountain in the distance. The whole area is a gray patch. If the north wind blows, even Fort Maria will be shrouded in smoke. So now the wealthy people in Nanjing are buying land and building villas on the west bank of the Qinhuai River, far away from this industrial area, in order to avoid these pesky smoke and dust. It is even rumored that the Ming Emperor was preparing to build a new Daming Palace on the banks of the Qinhuai River south of Nanjing to prevent harmful smoke from harming his health.

And Friedrich. Engels's carriage was now driving on the streets of Jiangnan District, where the most harmful smoke and dust were located, with a letter of resignation in his pocket. Yes, he was ready to quit his position as the world's highest-paid manager and start a new business in Red Poland, thousands of miles away. Now it is his last time as the general manager of the royal consortium to inspect the Chung Hwa Pharmaceutical Company's factory, and then cross the road in Gangnam to the palatial Fort Maria.

Chung Hwa Pharmaceutical, a spin-off from the Royal Consortium (purchased by the Royal Consortium for cash), has a large chemical manufacturing plant in Jiangnan District, covering an area of 30,000 acres alone, with railroad tracks that connect to the Beijing-Shanghai railway, its own dedicated wharf, and large areas of dilapidated dormitories. Although the Chung Hwa Pharmaceutical Company (which produced not only medicines, but also other chemicals and medical supplies, including sulfuric acid, nitric acid, oil explosives, starch explosives, gunpowder, oil oil, alcohol, gauze, syringes, etc.) was one of the most profitable industrial enterprises in the entire Ming Dynasty, the net profit in 1862 had exceeded 20 million silver dollars, taking advantage of the huge demand brought about by the North American war. But the company paid the average male worker only 2 silver dollars a month, plus a tattered dormitory, two very bad meals (the standard is to have a full meat pipe), and a double salary at the end of the year. Of course, such wages and benefits are enough to make most of the factory workers in Gangnam District red-eyed. Compared with when Engels first arrived in China more than a decade ago, the wage level of Chinese workers has hardly increased......

"The capitalists in China, like those in the rest of the world, keep the wages of their workers as low as possible...... Unless the workers unite in the struggle, they will never expect to be paid wages that are outside the competition or significantly higher than the cost of production for the workers! ”

Sitting in a luxurious carriage, the GCIST mentor thought that in the past ten years in China, he has completely understood the process of primitive accumulation of capital and has a clearer understanding of the nature of capital. At the same time, he also firmly believed that the working class could only change its own destiny if it united in struggle, and that on the wharf in Jiangnan District, the workers there could pay 20 to 30 yuan a month, 10 times that of the workers in the Chung Hwa Pharmaceutical Factory.

The profit of Zhonghua Pharmaceutical is several times more than that of the whole Nanjing wharf added together. Obviously, it is not because the wharf bosses make better money that they pay high wages to the workers, but the only reason is because the wharf trade unions in Nanjing are all controlled by the Qinghong Gang, which is strong and powerful. However, there are few strong trade unions in the factories in Gangnam. Because there was an agreement between Zhu Jishi and the Qinghong Gang, their influence could only be limited to the docks, Oriental car dealers, carriage dealers, and ship dealers...... However, Engels did not object to such an agreement, because he knew that allowing the gang forces to enter big industry would not help the development of the workers' movement. Because the gangs can be on the side of the workers, they will also be bought by the capitalists. And those industries that have improved the treatment of workers because of gang activities have certain particularities, such as the practitioners are strong men with strong martial arts, these industries have traditionally been controlled by gangs, and all workers are gang disciples, etc. It is not comparable to ordinary industries, so the struggle of the Chinese working class cannot rely on gangs, but only on the improvement of their own consciousness.

At this moment, the sound of children beating came from outside the carriage, and Engels looked over, and it turned out that there was a primary school nearby, and it was time for school to end. The poor children, barefoot, wearing patched ragged clothes and carrying canvas school bags, chased after me and poured out of the school gate. Engels suddenly laughed, they are the future Chinese workers, the new generation of educated and civic-minded Chinese working class! Now that capitalism in the Ming Dynasty is on track, the educated working class, with a stronger fighting spirit, is being created from generation to generation. My mission in China has been accomplished, and it's time to leave...... (To be continued.) )