"Xinghua, is it worth it? I mean, this matter can be solved with a single order from the Metropolitan Governor, so why do we have to pay such a big price? ”

Although the workers of the glass factory won the final victory with the support of Luo Jian and Liu Lan and the Yangzhou government, Shi Kefa was not happy.

"Why isn't it worth it? Although Yangzhou has suffered a lot of losses, this incident has played an exemplary and guiding role, and if there are any more factories that mistreat workers, I think they will also rise up and resist. Luo Jian said.

"Brother Luo, Inspector, this is actually just an expedient measure, there will be more and more factories in the future, if it is up to the government to come forward to solve the problem, it will definitely not work, we must legislate to protect the rights and interests of workers from the legal level." Liu Lan said.

"Legislation? Isn't the current "Da Ming Law" useless? Shi Kefa asked casually.

"Hehe, Brother Xian, you know a lot about the "Da Ming Law", do you think you can solve the problems in the glass factory by relying on the "Da Ming Law"?" Luo Jian said with a smile.

"Brother Shi, after the emergence of new things, we must think with new eyes, the "Da Ming Law" appeared more than 200 years ago, and it may have a positive meaning in that era, but now the situation has changed a lot, and it is obviously inappropriate to use it to solve many problems now, so we are required to reformulate the law according to new things and new circumstances to adapt to the current situation." Liu Lan explained slowly.

"Hearing you say this, I think it is also necessary, but the law has always been promulgated by the imperial court, and our Yangzhou government currently does not have this power, if it is forcibly promulgated, it will be criticized by many people, can you use a compromise way?" Shi Kefa said.

When Luo Jian and Liu Lan heard it, they felt that Shi Kefa was right, although the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion had the power to manage several prefectures, it was still nominally obeying the Southern Ming Dynasty, and if it was rashly legislated, it would indeed be a little troublesome.

"No, how about we promulgate and implement it in the form of regulations?" Liu Lan pondered for a moment and said.

"That's the only way to do it at the moment." Luo Jian thought for a moment and said.

The following issue of Yangzhou Semi-Monthly made a special comment on the strike of workers in the glass factory, pointed out several factors for the victory of the workers' strike, and believed that it was not enough to protect the rights and interests of workers in this way, and that the rights and interests of workers must be protected at a higher level.

What happened in Yangzhou had already reached Nanjing, which made Li Zhan and others laugh shamefully for a long time, and Kupilon, who had been staying in Nanjing, naturally heard about it, and soon sent it to Beijing by fast horses, along with the "Yangzhou Semi-Monthly" that was not lacking in one issue and the whole process of this incident.

It has been half a month since the strike incident, and the discussion about this incident has slowly subsided, and at this time, the "Interim Regulations on the Protection of Workers' Rights and Interests" is still in the making, and it was finally revised and finalized by Liu Lan, and Luo Jian did not ask too much.

Luo Jian learned the lessons of the last New Deal vote this time, and did not solicit opinions from many parties, and issued a decree to the governor, and the regulations were promulgated and issued to start implementation.

Many factories have expressed dissatisfaction with the Regulations, especially one of them, which stipulates that workers must have one day off for every six days of work, and this day's salary is indispensable.

Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but all the factories do not dare to perfunctory the regulations, and if they violate the regulations, they will have to pay huge fines to improve the production and living environment of the workers.

During this time, Luo Jian was a lot more leisurely, almost every few days he had to go to Guazhou, mainly to see the progress of the construction of the "Wei Qing", of course, it is also essential to make a cameo appearance, Luo Jian's class is also the most popular in Guazhou.

Today, Luo Jian also went to the shipyard to see the construction of the battleship first, and then gave a lesson to everyone, and when he was preparing to return to Yangzhou with Zhao Quan and others, a person standing on the side of the road attracted Luo Jian's attention.

This person was wearing a straw hat on his head, and the clothes on his body were the workers' clothes that were now popular in Yangzhou, and at first glance he was a worker in a factory in Guazhou, but Luo Jian felt a very familiar feeling.

Seeing that this person wanted to get close to the Metropolitan Governor, Zhao Quan turned over and dismounted, and greeted this person, and just approached, he heard this person whisper: "Commander Zhao, I am Lai Fu." ”

Zhao Quan reacted very quickly, stepped forward and said loudly: "I said brother, why did you come to work in the factory, go, go to Yangzhou with my brother, and my brother will invite you to have a glass of wine." After saying that, he beckoned a few guards to protect Lai Fu in the middle and got on a guard's horse.

"The Grand Duke, he is Laifu." Zhao Quan approached Luo Jian and said softly.

"Well, I know, take him back to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and be careful not to attract the attention of others." Luo Jian commanded softly.

Lai Fu is one of the people that Kong Youde has long selected to be sent to Yangzhou to steal artillery technology, and he is also the person in charge.

But the trouble is that Lai Fu and others have already shaved their hair at that time, if they go to Yangzhou, it will be self-defeating, Kong Youde has no other suitable candidates for a while, so he has to wait for Lai Fu and others to grow their hair before they can send them to Yangzhou.

During the time when the hair grew, Kong Youde did not let Lai Fu and others be idle, he asked Duoduo to write a letter to Beijing City, and asked Lai Fu and others to go back to Beijing City to learn the manufacturing technology of guns and artillery, so that they could easily enter these factories in Yangzhou when they arrived in Yangzhou, and it was much easier to learn secretly.

In the city of Beijing, with the personal intervention of Dolgon, even John Tong personally taught them, which is why Lai Fu did not arrive in Yangzhou until today.

Listening to Lai Fu's slow narration, when he heard Lai Fu say that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had invited Tang Ruowang to the West to specially invite craftsmen, Luo Jian couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Luo Jian is not worried that Guazhou's technology will be stolen by the Manchu Qing, these technologies are all interlocking, and no link can be missing.

For example, artillery technology, which seems very simple, is to add rifling to the breech. But even if there is rifled artillery, there is no flowering shell, but it is not as powerful as a smoothbore solid shell, and the key to flowering shells is the detonator on the fuse, which does not have a certain basic knowledge of chemistry, and it is impossible for soldiers who have learned some techniques to understand the key to it.

Luo Jian thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very superstitious about its horse riding and archery kung fu in history, and now that the situation forced him to attach importance to technology, Luo Jian really couldn't figure out whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Metropolitan Governor, most of the people who came this time are literate, and they have learned the technology of making guns and cannons in Beijing, we can't be careless, if they let them steal these technologies, our advantage will be gone."

Lai Fu was a little worried that not all of these people were brought by him, Kong Youde divided them into four or five groups, and Lai Fu was only in charge of one of them.

Lai Fu knew that this was not because Kong Youde did not trust him, but out of an instinctive precaution.

"That means that you can't master all the people sent by the Manchus this time?" Luo Jian was a little surprised by Kong Youde's shrewdness.

"Metropolitan Governor, I only know four or five people in my group, I don't know the others, and they are all separated when they are studying technology in Beijing." Lai Fu said.

There are almost new workers entering the factories in Yangzhou every day, and it is really difficult to screen these people, and Luo Jian has a headache.

"Governor, it's not difficult to find them." Seeing that Luo Jian's expression was a little embarrassed, Lai Fu took the initiative to say.

"Oh, tell me?"

"The Metropolitan Governor, the purpose of their coming is to steal technology, I have been in Guazhou for a few days, there are too many new technologies in Guazhou, it is impossible to learn all of them in a few days, you can only steal some of them and send out some of them, then there must be a transmission channel, as long as we keep an eye on these, they can't run."

When Luo Jian heard Lai Fu's words, he really felt a little impressed with Lai Fu.

"Lai Fu, don't go back to the Manchu Dynasty, just stay in Yangzhou, I want to set up a new department, called the Ministry of Security, and you will be in charge of this department." Luo Jian thought for a moment before he said.

"Governor, what is this department for?" Reifu asked.

"The Ministry of Security is responsible for security affairs and the collection of internal and external intelligence, and is currently only responsible for me and the supervisor." Luo Jian said succinctly.

"Grand Duke, this... It's too important, Lai Fu can't afford it. Hearing Luo Jian's words, Lai Fu stood up, bowed down and said to Luo Jian.

Lai Fu directly thought of Jinyiwei, and the Metropolitan Governor actually made himself the "Jinyiwei Commander History", which made Lai Fucheng too frightened.

"Don't say more, it's you, I still have to discuss this matter with the Overseer before it can be finalized, but you have to be mentally prepared first. But what I want to tell you is that you don't think of the Ministry of Security as the brocade guard of the imperial court, those are two different things, the Ministry of Security has no law enforcement power internally, only the right to collect intelligence. ”

Luo Jian knew that the functions of the Ministry of Security were somewhat similar to those of the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei, but the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei was under the connivance of the emperor, and its power was too great, so he specially explained to Lai Fu.

"Well, you wait here first, I'll go and discuss it with the Overseer, and I'll tell you how to decide when I come back."

After Luo Jian finished speaking, he immediately went out to Shi Kefa's mansion.

When Luo Jian told Lai Fu about the situation, Shi Kefa suddenly became anxious.

Guazhou's various technologies are Yangzhou's biggest reliance on defeating the Manchus in the future, if these technologies are stolen by the Manchus, Yangzhou's advantage will no longer exist, so what's the point?

"Xinghua, send someone to investigate immediately, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find them out." Shi Kefa said anxiously.

"Brother Xian, these things can't be investigated openly, if we make a big fanfare, not only can't we find these people, but also make everyone in Guazhou panic."

"What then?"

"They are not afraid of stealing technology, these techniques can not be learned in a day or two, even if they learn one or two things, they can't solve the problem, but I thought from this incident that we must set up a special department."

Only then did Luo Jian express his idea of establishing a Ministry of Security, and explained in detail the functions and powers of the Ministry of Security.

Listening to Luo Jian's words, Shi Kefa pondered for a long time and did not speak, and the functions of the Ministry of Security couldn't help but remind people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

These two institutions of the Ming Dynasty were the most disgusted by the scholars, and under the strong opposition of almost all officials, Emperor Chongzhen abolished them all, and now although Emperor Hongguang has restored the Jinyiwei, it is no longer the same as the Jinyiwei of the past.

"You have this security department there, too?" Shi Kefa thought for a long time before asking.

"Yes." Luo Jian replied simply.

"Do they have an impact on people's lives?" Shi Kefa then asked.

"Usually people hardly feel their presence, they only appear when there is a major espionage case, they have some privileges, but these privileges can only be used under certain conditions, and generally they do not have the power to enforce the law." Luo Jian saw that Shi Kefa was moved, so he explained in detail.

"They are staring at their own officials too?" Shi Kefa was still a little worried.

"Generally, no, but when they find something abnormal, they will secretly monitor these officials, and when they do find a problem, it is also law enforcement that comes forward to deal with it."

Hearing Luo Jian say this, Shi Kefa was basically relieved, but letting Lai Fu be in charge of this security department, Shi Kefa felt a little uneasy.