With inexplicable thoughts, Li Banghua and others went to the edge of the Yanghe River, where the original traffic on both sides of the river was a small stone bridge, and there were some pontoon bridges, ferries, etc., and now the main official road has been replaced by some large stone bridges. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This kind of land and water point is often the place where merchants come and go, and the two banks from the Acropolis to the state city are no exception, and all kinds of cars and horses come and go, forming a rather prosperous town on the riverside.

Li Banghua looked at it, the commercial goods can be described as diverse, from the other side, most of them are cloth, ready-to-wear, iron nails, honeycomb coal, furs, all kinds of ironware, all kinds of meat food, local called meat porcelain jars, etc., and even all kinds of waterwheels, handlooms, spinning wheels, twisting machines and other kinds of things are transported.

And those that are transported to the shore are more raw materials such as fur, ore, cotton, tea, cane sugar, salt, tung oil, lacquer, coal, bamboo and wood.

Li Banghua had heard more or less that Wang Douguan called the kind of things on the other side of the strait called "industrial products", all of which were processed and manufactured by various factories and workshops, and these commercial goods on the other side of the river were called "raw materials".

For example, Shunxiang Fort, Huiyao Fort, and Black Mountain Fort in Baoan Prefecture are famous gathering places for eggs, poultry, meat, and meat porcelain jars. In the area of the state city, all kinds of factories gathered, mostly processing-based. Near the Acropolis, Podomi Town, Yongning City, is a famous fur gathering place.

Around the town, there are many iron works, coal factories, iron nail factories, and more and more factories related to coal and iron. Mining teams and iron teams gathered in the surrounding area, and related towns were formed, and peddlers and merchants resold to other counties.

These towns are basically not equipped with walls and forts, and there is no need for this kind of protection in the town, which also shows the peaceful scene of Xuanfu Town.

But Li Banghua always had a sense of anxiety, and the able-bodied workers gathered more and more in Xuanfu Town. What if one day they riot?

Especially if this scene spreads to the rest of the Ming Dynasty. It's really a disaster, for thousands of years, under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums, the realm of leisurely seeing Nanshan will no longer exist.

He and Ma Guoxi waited before crossing the river to the state city. Along the way, you will pass several towns where ironware is made. Making ploughs, hoes, kitchen knives, and hammers is just a matter of leisure. Broadswords, axes, and so on, are also in a truckload, and even there are a lot of shackles, handcuffs, and iron collars. I don't know what to do.

There are countless metal utensils of all kinds, and many Li Banghua can't name them, so he hears the sound of Ding Ding Dangdang endlessly, and the noise is overwhelming.

It seems that iron nails are very popular, Li Banghua heard about it, and now the official of Xuanfu Town is the largest procurement object, and the annual demand for iron nails is astronomical.

Seeing that it was profitable, many businessmen engaged in this industry, and even the residents of the original Baoan Prefecture also bought iron materials to start work.

Some of them use the family decentralized management method, that is, the iron bars are distributed to the nail makers, processed by them at home, and then taken back and shipped out for sale, this method Li Banghua feels very familiar, think about the current textile industry in Jiangnan, many people do not use this way?

However, more people set up factories and concentrated labor, and they hired more than 100 people casually, and there were many young and strong men among them, which made Li Banghua even more frightened.

Before he reached the foot of the state city, he was tired of it.

As far as the eye can see, it is all copper smell, and when you hear it, it is all business. Someone, someone, sent it again, someone, someone, invested another thousand taels of silver, what kind of factory to open, and how much money did you make, I am really envious.

Many people read the business newspaper, and there is a smell of impetuousness in the air, and the bustling towns are like a nest of devils gathered.

Li Banghua knew that everyone in Baoan Prefecture was rich, so he had spare money to run commercial factories, although he hired a lot of people and solved the problem of eating for many people, but he always felt that in the long run, these people were very likely to bring demons.

According to Ma Guoxi, although Wang Dou repeatedly ordered that the owner of the factory must guarantee the salary of the workers, the dangerous industry, the number of casualties must be controlled, and the daily work and hours must be the number of hours.

But after repeated prohibitions, there are always people who violate them, and brutally squeeze workers for more profits.

The government's requirement is that you must rest on time and punctuality, and you don't work overtime at night, but there are always "smart people" who find loopholes, and it's okay not to work overtime at night, so can I start work early? It's not dawn yet, but it's actually daylight, right?

Also, in fact, I didn't force the workers, they consciously and voluntarily worked overtime in order to make more money, how can you blame me?

How much do you ask for a guaranteed salary, but the more people you have to work, the higher the pay, isn't it less recruiting? Do you just watch others starve and have nothing to eat? This is contrary to the teachings of the saints!

What is the mortality rate that must be controlled? How can this mining and iron strike be avoided, it is really difficult for our family.

Many people also prefer to hire women and children, because they require lower wages, Xuanfu Town requires this and that, the cost rises again and again, come on, let's go to the town to set up a factory, the homeless and hungry people want as much as they want, and they don't even have to pay for their wages, just give them food.

There are also people who secretly abduct and buy people from outside the Seychelles to work in factories and mines, and these people don't know when they die inside, and they are even exempted from pensions.

and so on, all of which made Li Banghua hate more and more, which is very different from the benevolent spirit of the saint.

In fact, he didn't know that the matter of Xuanfu Town was the result of Wang Dou's great efforts to control it, if you look at the world.

During the Industrial Revolution, the average working day in Western countries was 16 hours, and the 12-hour working day was already the result of Jesus' blessing. In 1812, the British House of Parliament investigated and was shocked to find that thousands of child laborers worked 18 hours a day at the spinning machines.

Plantation labourers have been described as "resurrected slavery", and coolie mortality rates average 4.6% per year, so why are British goods rampant around the world? Because the average life expectancy of their workers is the lowest, and the artificial exploitation has reached the extreme, the rest of the countries cannot compete with them in terms of cost.

According to a London economic magazine, in the 30s and 40s of the 19th century. 1,400 miners die every year in the UK, and the average life expectancy for workers in Liverpool is just 15 years. In the 40s of the 19th century, the average life expectancy of factory workers in France did not exceed 30 years.

In addition, the harsh working environment has caused all kinds of occupational diseases and infectious diseases to be prevalent among workers, such as silicosis, scrofula, rickets, typhoid fever, cholera, etc., because of long-term monotonous mechanical operation, many people's physical development is deformed, and their physical health is seriously damaged.

They are also very poorly paid, adult male workers in France. A month's income is not enough to buy a dress. Child labourers earn only enough to buy bread every day.

In this case, in order not to be deducted from wages or dismissed, female workers work in factories after pregnancy until the eve of childbirth, which often leads to miscarriages. Even giving birth next to the machine. A week or even three or four days after giving birth, I have to return to the factory to work all day.

Child laborers crawl in tunnels to push coal carts. Because of work-related injuries, they often have incomplete limbs, but they endure a filthy and dirty environment, and work hard day and night. As a result, they all look skinny and pale.

So capitalism is by no means beautiful, every piece of money earned is bleeding dirty blood, Wang Dou comes from later generations, and is already trying his best to protect the rights and interests of workers, and let them have the right to choose with their feet, but in the eyes of Li Banghua and others, they can't stand it anymore, and if they know the details of the future generations, they will go crazy.

As a child of Confucianism, Li Banghua and others advocate a simple life, working at sunrise, resting at sunset, smelling chickens and dogs, beautiful mountains and rivers, and idyllic scenery, how beautiful is all this?

At present, it is only a rudimentary form, and Li Banghua can imagine that in the long run, everything he hears will be swept away by the smell, and all kinds of evil deeds of businessmen, monopoly profits, treachery, bribery and deception, and other ugly phenomena will permeate this town, and morality will be degraded in the face of money.

What's particularly terrible is that what should I do if the matter in Xuanfu Town spreads? The teachings of the saints through the ages will be destroyed.

In addition, the establishment of factories will inevitably bring pollution, Li Banghua saw that some places are full of gray stones, coal dust everywhere, and he also sensitively noticed that some streams and rivers have a tendency to become sewage and stinky water.

At present, there is a great drought everywhere, and these water sources are not enough to drink livestock and drink, so Wang Dou is used for waste like this?

This is the productive businessman that Wang Dou said? What does it bring is filth all over the place, and people's hearts are distorted?

"It's the devil!"

Li Banghua could no longer hold back the anger in his chest and shouted.

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Sitting all the way to a restaurant, Li Banghua was still angry, and Ma Guoxi beside him was silent.

To be honest, he also felt that the situation in the state of security was wrong, but he didn't know how to deal with it.

At that time, he had also heard the class theory that Wang Dou said, as Wang Dou said, more industries, more classes, to feed more people, he also felt reasonable, it was a good thing.

But I also know that things are far from simple, for example, it brings management difficulties and a series of chaos, such as iron works, mines, etc., like volcanoes.

The special miners, all of whom are good and bad, and they are brave and ruthless, and the Qi family army, which was famous all over the world, recruited miners. There have always been endless things about the miners' fights, and the more these strong guys are in Xuanfu Town, the more trouble arises one day, Ma Guoxi has a headache when he thinks about it.

Many factories are also getting bigger and bigger, and there are hundreds of workers at every turn, which is also one of the sources of turmoil.

Wang Dou's method is to strengthen management, such as the use of employment permits, the use of shelters, etc., Ma Guoxi still feels a headache, he is also a Confucian disciple, believes in the idea of quiet and inaction, and the most desired is that the territory is peaceful.

Just like Yanqing City and Huailai City, Ma Guoxi is quite satisfied, the people here can live well, and at the same time, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the homeland is still beautiful, and there are not so many complicated personnel.

In short, he doesn't like everything in Baoan Prefecture either.

It's just that these factories can indeed solve the problem of eating for many people, because these factories exist, the more businesses that all parties rely on, the more towns appear, and then bring more prosperity to business, and let more people find jobs, the faster the development of Xuanfu Town, and then ......

The ideas of all parties conflict, and Ma Guoxi has always been in contradiction. (To be continued.) )