Chapter 551: The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea and Show Their Magical Powers
It's like a firework bursting in the night. When Weng Tonggong kicked out of Zhang's house, and when "Ta Kung Pao" and many other newspapers around Shanghai followed up and reported on Hongda Silk Reeling Factory, the whole China was boiling!
In the blink of an eye, the workers became the brightest stars. Their lives, their treatment, and their treatment have been exposed to countless people under the pen.
Compared with the peasants, the income is not low, but the environment is too poor and the work is too hard. I don't know how many workers in textile factories and silk reeling factories have their hands scalded by hot water. Wages are still in arrears, disability pensions are being denied in every possible way, people have to work even if they are sick, and corporal punishment is widespread in factories......
Hongda Silk Reeling Factory was the first to suffer a catastrophe, and the stocks that were originally flying up quickly fell back. Profiteers, inhumane, and hats are firmly worn on Zhang's head.
The Cabinet is paying close attention to this matter. Naturally, Liu Xian also received detailed reports again and again. From Shanghai Prefecture, from Weng Tongxiao, from Shanghai State Security Bureau. No one knew that the seat of the newly established Shanghai State Security Bureau had been replaced by a new person.
Weng Tonggong's mention yì was not communicated by the cabinet. There is a lot of resistance. It can be said that the implementation of the workers' union and the formulation of the "Labor Protection Law" have been opposed by the two major factions of the cabinet.
Vanderbang has not taken a stand. In fact, this is the biggest statement - he supports Weng Tongyi. Otherwise, Weng Tongyi's mention would not have been in the cabinet for half a month and still undecided, and he would have been beaten back a long time ago.
And why Fan Debang resolutely supported Weng Tonggong in the face of the Taotao's opposition, this is a very strange thing.
For the whole country's gushing talk. It is impossible for the cabinet to say that it was not affected, but contrast their concerns. As well as the troubles and threats that these two passages will form in the future, many cabinet members feel that the gains outweigh the losses!
Only two in the Cabinet were in favour. One is Fan Debang, and the other is Yan Jingming. As for why, only they themselves know.
"Add another fire. Sue sΓΉ Shanghai Bureau, this time there can be no difference at all. β
"Please rest assured. The ministers must get things done. β
After the people from the Ministry of State Security retreated, Liu Xian immediately asked the people in the chamberlain to send a signal to someone in Shanghai. In the past half month, Ta Kung Pao has made a lot of efforts, but it has definitely not gone all out. At least there are no special issues.
In a secret telegram from Wang Qing to Liu Xian, he reported that Ta Kung Pao had obtained first-hand information about a number of textile factories in Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, among which the income level of the workers was not mentioned and the working environment was poor. The arrears of wages, the delay of disability pensions, the harshness of the factory, etc., are no better than those of Hongda Silk Reeling Factory. The information and evidence of a special issue, Ta Kung Pao already has.
The reason why I don't break the news now is that I don't trigger it. Listen to the orders from above!
Liu Xian said hello to Wang Qing and asked him to go all out.
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Shanghai, Zhangfu.
Sixty-four-year-old Zhang Songxian was lying on a couch with atrophy. Half a month of tossing made him and the Zhang family was greatly injured. The stock plummeted, and the silver that had been put in his pocket was returned by him in both hands. Not yet! Because the timing is too delicate, if Zhang Songxian doesn't want to provoke public anger. Attracting black hands who don't know where to fly from, he must use the money to buy back the shares of Hongda Silk Reeling Factory that were sold in the market. It's something that can only be understood and cannot be spoken!
As for settling the wages of the workers, it is not a trivial matter to settle all the arrears of pensions. That little money was too small and insignificant for the loss of the entire Zhang family.
Now. Zhang Baoqing, the son of the Zhang family, was scolding at the manager of the silk reeling factory, and the joy of having just established a relationship with the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Huangpu Daily" was washed away: "Niang Xipi, what is the trouble of a group of deflated three? Really don't think you have enough money? Lao Tzu's wages were paid to them. Nine dollars a day is too little? It's three or four hundred yuan a month for overtime. Is this kind of salary still called less? Fifteen dollars a day. How fucking dare to speak, when Lao Tzu's money is blown by the wind? β
The workers at the Hongda silk reeling factory are not idiots either. Don't take advantage of this great time to benefit yourself. I'm so sorry for all the suffering I suffered in the past!
So they demanded a wage increase, to fifteen yuan a day. This condition is too impossible. Fifteen Chinese dollars a day. Four hundred and fifty pieces a month. What is this concept?
That's the equivalent of four dollars and five silver dollars!
And the Beiyang Army in the original time and space, in the case of several major silver devaluations in the late Qing Dynasty, only a few silver dollars a month? Seven or eight or ten? And such a military salary also includes their food expenses and other expenses. [The salary of the soldiers in the Beiyang Army is actually divided into three parts, one part is directly mailed to the families of the soldiers by the army logistics department, one part is distributed to the soldiers themselves, and one part is deducted as the living expenses of the soldiers.
In addition, there is also a rule that in the event of a change of guard, combat, exercise, etc., there is no need to deduct the cost of the soldier's rations, and the army is directly responsible. In other words, if you want your soldiers to march and fight, you have to provide them with free food first, which may not cost much for one person to eat, but it is more than for tens of thousands of people to eat.
And this is the source of the Beiyang Army's opening fee! γ
Therefore, under the present circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for the Zhang family to tolerate the demands of the workers.
Know that there is a rule for one line. If the Zhang family raises wages, it will affect not only the Zhang family, but also other textile factories. This is completely pulling hatred and pushing the Zhang family into the fire pit.
"A group of little deflated three. In another month, the recruiters from the north came back and fired them all. This class of cheap bones, just thinking about pies falling from the sky, going to be a turtle and selling the mother-in-law for meat, the money is fast. β
After Zhang Baoqing finished venting his anger, he said to the steward again, "Mind the technicians, see that those people are honest, and leave a few people down when the time comes." It is up to them to operate these machines. Besides, the foreman in the factory doesn't need to have any skills. As long as you are obedient, as long as you listen to my uncle! β
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"Burn it! Burn it! β
In the night. A middle-aged man muttered to himself as he stood in front of a burning warehouse.
He was rickety and hunched. If there's a lot of pressure on your shoulders. The raging fire illuminated his countenance, and his usually honest face showed a hideousness that was completely out of proportion to his appearance.
The middle-aged man's right hand was broken with half of his palm, and the wound had healed, but the others were obviously very unsatisfactory. The ephedra shirt on his body has long been stained by various stains so that he can't see the original color, and a pair of shoes on his feet also shows three toes.
The raging heat had bent his hair, and the flames from the warehouse door almost touched his face, but the middle-aged man still didn't move, staring at the place in front of him with wide eyes that had devoured his hope.
From coming to Shanghai from his hometown in northern Jiangsu to work because of his greed for high wages, to being disabled due to work-related injuries one year after entering the factory. Then the fate of the whole person changed. Without half of his palm, it is of course impossible to continue working, but if he can't get a disability pension, he has to stay in Shanghai and spend time with the factory.
Although after the outbreak of the Hongda silk reeling factory last month, the original factory quickly found itself to settle the arrears, but the depression, anger, and anger in the past six months can be settled with a sentence of 'sorry'?
Besides, how much can a disability pension do?
Middle-aged people don't look haggard as if he is forty or fifty years old, in fact, he is only in his early thirties. Even if there are still 20 years to live in the future, the moderate disability pension of 2,000 yuan is a fart. So when someone found him, when a huge sum of 30,000 yuan was placed in front of him. The middle-aged man did not hesitate to obey his fate.
It's just a bad life. Now it is 30,000 yuan, and the family can receive another 20,000 yuan in the future. 50,000 yuan, even if you don't eat or drink, you have to save ten years of money to compare.
The middle-aged man died laughing. Burn it, it's worth it! Burn all the qiΔ to your own funeral!
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"Burn! Burn! β
A young man in his early twenties carries an empty oil drum in his left hand. In his right hand, he had just smashed an air death lamp on the ground. The crisp cracking sound was accompanied by a scorching flame.
The young man's face was hideous, and the figure swaying not far away made him nervous and frightened. But man is like a wild beast. When cornered and unable to turn back, the courage that erupts is unimaginable.
Willing to dare to pull the emperor off the horse!
When people have no scruples. He's at his strongest.
The gloomy warehouse grew bright, and the fire erupted. Flames erupted through the gaps in the doors and windows. The young man was engulfed in the fire, he struggled in the fire, but just like the middle-aged man, he was laughing until he died!
In just two years, he lost his father and his family business was confiscated, and his originally wealthy family was in ruins, and now he can only rely on short-term work to make ends meet.
When the young man thinks of his parents who committed suicide, his separated brothers and sisters, and the fact that he has no future without a future, the fire in his heart begins to burn fiercely.
Burn, all of them are burned! Add another fire to the buzzing 'news'! That's all he can do to retaliate against Qin.
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Outside a fire.
"Burn it! Burn them all! A middle-aged man held a telescope and looked at the factory in the distance with a smile on his face.
Well burned! Burn wonderful!
Liu Xian worked hard to promote the factory, set up foreign affairs, and transfer to Westerners, and now this fire is like a slap in the face, hitting him in the face.
No matter how many benefits there are in foreign affairs, one 'remnant' is enough for him to stink home.
Qin Rebellion, Liu Thief -
Don't think that if you sit in the world, you will be able to be stable and peaceful. There are still a long way to go.
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Outside the other group, a strong man with a strong expression looked at his subordinates with satisfaction.
The job is beautifully done. It is better for people to die inside, otherwise it will take their own hands and feet. Now Beijing's instructions have been successfully completed, and the seat of the bureau should be firmly seated.
As a henchman who came to Shanghai with the new director of the Shanghai State Security Bureau, the strong man's purpose and ideas are very clear! (To be continued......)