Since the third year of the Longhan Dynasty, the imperial court has implemented the separation of powers in the imperial version of the Han Dynasty, and the House of Representatives has legislative power, but both the Cabinet and the Parliament have the right to submit bills, which are submitted to the Senate, and a special committee conducts hearings to study and improve the debate, and finally votes in the Senate in a unanimous vote.

If the bill is passed in the Senate, it will eventually go to the Cabinet. If the first assistant of the cabinet signs the bill, and the emperor does not veto it, the bill has the force of law and becomes the law of the Han Dynasty. If both the House of Representatives and the Cabinet are passed, but the Emperor vetoes it, then the bill needs to be amended, and if it is not approved by the Emperor after the amendment, it can only be shelved, but it can be reintroduced next time.

Under this system, the Cabinet also had the power to propose bills, and the Cabinet Leader personally introduced the Dahan Labor Bill to the Diet, which immediately attracted the attention of the House of Councillors.

With the emperor's visit to Tongzhou with a group of ministers, and that speech, the Senate acted quickly and immediately set up a labor bill committee to study and debate the bill.

According to the rules and procedures of the House, the bill is submitted to the Senate, and there is a standard process, which requires a hearing.

"Your Excellency Senators, the Labor Act stipulates that workers work five days a day, eight hours a day, a minimum salary of four silver dollars a month, overtime pay for extra hours, double overtime pay on weekends, and three times overtime if it is a holiday. If this law is implemented, then many of our manufacturers will not be able to pay such high labor costs, and factories may not be able to open! ”

A representative of a businessman spoke outright against the bill at the hearing.

"yes, it's only eight hours a day, and that's too easy. Working eight hours a day, with a basic salary of four yuan a month, we small factory owners don't have to open a factory, we all go to work. ”

This Labor Act. In the eyes of many merchants, it is entirely aimed at merchants. This is simply suppressing business, is the direction of the court going to change? The whole bill is completely to protect those workers, the establishment of labor bureaus, the establishment of trade unions, and every letter of the law is to protect the laborers, who will guarantee the rights and interests of these factory owners?

"Your Excellency, it is appropriate for workers to be paid overtime for overtime, but it is too much to pay twice or three times for overtime work on weekends and holidays."

"yes. yes, isn't that going to make us all shut down and go home? ”

A group of businessmen couldn't help but get excited.

Whether it is out of profit maximization, or indeed some businesses have small profits, this labor bill of the imperial court has greatly stimulated the sensitive nerves of many businessmen. The monthly minimum wage of four yuan, as well as the normal working hours of 40 hours a week, the rest of the time must be counted as overtime, and overtime pay must be paid separately, etc., all of which make them miserable.

Not to mention in this bill. There are many other clauses that make them feel so sad.

For example, child labor is not allowed, and female workers are entitled to paid leave for childbirth and breastfeeding. In this way, wouldn't it become the master of those who work? They have become the wrongdoers.

Then what kind of labor bureaus and trade unions are even more obviously aimed at them, the factory owners.

What will I do with this business in the future?

Based on this minimum salary and standard working hours, they will have to pay a lot more in the future, and they will have to pay a large amount of overtime pay in addition.

But no matter how much the merchants complained. The hearing doesn't just listen to their grievances. What's more, this hearing is actually a passing motion.

But it's not exactly a formality, after all, many workers are represented. But there is a lot of support for this bill.

As the first bill after the new system, the labor bill made rapid progress in the Senate, and it took less than half a month to complete a series of procedures and finally start a plenary vote.

One hundred senators voted eighty-seven in favor, three against, and ten abstentions. According to the regulations, a two-thirds vote in favor of the Senate is passed.

The bill was passed by the Senate, submitted to the Cabinet for deliberation, and signed by the first assistant.

The bill was originally proposed by Shousuke himself, and of course the cabinet had no reason to oppose it, so it was unanimously passed and finally submitted to the emperor's imperial bill.

Liu Jun is very satisfied with the whole bill, although it is not yet exhaustive, but the rights and obligations of workers and employers have been clearly stated, including some of the most critical provisions, such as the minimum wage standard, standard working hours, freedom to quit work, etc., these provisions that Liu Jun is most concerned about are listed one by one.

"Take the jade seal!"

Liu Jun signed his name and stamped the national seal, and this labor bill officially became a labor law, a written law, and was accepted all over the world.

On the same day, the Cabinet issued an official document to establish a new labor department in the cabinet, a new labor department in each province, a labor bureau in each province, a labor branch in the county, and a labor union in preparation. The law came into effect on the date of promulgation, and employers in all regions must set salary standards in accordance with the new law.

The new law was implemented quickly, and some people were happy and some were worried.

Many of the merchants complained and the workers rejoiced.

Tianjin Xiangtai Wood Headquarters.

Chen Yi, chairman and general manager, received a notice from the Tianjin Labor Bureau and immediately convened a meeting of the company's directors after returning from attending a meeting.

"Since June, the company has officially implemented the provisions of the labor law."

A director shouted, "According to the new law, in the future, our company will have to increase by at least 20% just by manpower." ”

"Of course I know this, but this is the law of the imperial court. In addition, if we raise the wages of our workers, we will increase their motivation to work. On the other hand, we can fully implement piecework pay in the future, pay by piece, and get more for more work. ”

Piecework pay is also a new method that many businessmen have come up with now, a good way to bypass the minimum wage and overtime pay in labor laws.

If piece-rate pay is used instead of hourly pay, in this way, even if you work overtime, you don't actually need to pay overtime, because more work is more, and it is a piece-rate salary. It is enough as long as the wages of the last workers exceed the minimum wage.

"In the past few days, the company's financial department has rushed to work and calculate the salaries of workers this year, and at the end of the month, all the salaries before April will be paid. In the future, we will pay salaries on a monthly basis, and only deduct one month's salary. The financial manager said hello to the bank in advance, prepared the cash, and since we are going to do it, we will strive to do our best. ”

Xiangtai company is now doing well. The reputation is good, the stock price is good, the company has a lot of money in its hands, and there is no shortage of money at all. It's just that everyone used to press wages before, and of course they will not be an exception. Now that there is a new law, Chen Yi believes that he should take the lead as a listed company to do a good job, which will also be better for the company's image.

However, there are not many bosses who want to open like Chen Yi, and there are still many bosses, especially the owners of some small-scale factories, who are reluctant to raise their wages. I am reluctant to pay overtime, and I am even reluctant to pay my salary on a monthly basis, because if I pay my salary once or twice a year, I can put my salary in the bank, and I can have a lot of interest a year, and if I keep it for turnover, it can also make my finances much easier.

Many people are ready to commit crimes against the wind, the court will make your law, and I will open my factory. Each has nothing to do with it.

For this kind of person, Liu Jun has communicated with the cabinet for a long time, and he has long expected that there will be such a person. There has long been a consensus that a few chickens must be killed to make an example of the monkeys.

Labor law this time. For the imperial court, just like the rent reduction and interest reduction implemented by Liu Jun at the beginning, the fundamental consideration is to reduce rent and interest for the long-term consideration of the empire. The resettlement of immigrants has stabilized the vast peasant stratum and enabled them to live and work in peace and contentment. And now this labor law. It was for the sake of the growing working class, and also for the sake of stabilizing the foundations of the empire.

Annam, Hue.

Hue, also known as Phu Xuan, is located in the southern part of Annam, and was the territory of the Nguyen clan of the Later Lê Dynasty.

In 428, Li Li drove out the Ming army and established the Li Dynasty. 100 years of Chengping, Vietnam. In 1527, Mo Dengyong overthrew the Li Dynasty and established the Mo Dynasty. A hundred years of war began in Vietnam.

Soon after the Mo usurpation of the country, Ruan Gan, the general of the Li Dynasty, gathered all the anti-Mo forces, occupied the area of Thanh Hoa and Nghe An, and established another political power, nominally "Zhongxing Li Dynasty", after Ruan Gan was poisoned, and the power fell into the hands of his son-in-law Zheng Zhen.

The Mo continued to rule the northern region, known as the Northern Dynasty, while the Zheng took control of the region south of Thanh Hoa, known as the Southern Dynasty, and the two rival forces were locked in a long civil war against each other.

After Nguyen Gan's death, his son-in-law Zheng Jian was in power within the Southern Dynasty, and he conspired to deprive Nguyen of his power, so he sent Nguyen Gan's son Nguyen Huang to remote southern Xinjiang to guard Hue and Quang Nam.

At that time, Hue Quang Nam area bordered Champa and belonged to a sparsely populated wild land.

However, Nguyen Huang was very much like his father, raised troops in Hue Tuntian, established his own separatist forces, and eventually formed a north-south confrontation force with the Zheng clan in the Southern Dynasties.

After that, the Nguyen clan continued to invade the south, devouring the land of the Champa state, and conquering the Chinese and British states of the Champa city, and established Phu An Province in the occupied area.

At present, the Ruan family is headed by Ruan Fulan, who is already the fourth generation of the Ruan family and the grandson of Ruan Huang.

His father, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen, had already established the commercial port of Pheu Phuc, later known as Hoi An, with the Portuguese, who bought cannons from the Portuguese, learned European ship construction methods, and bought muskets. Fei Fu became an important trading port in southwest China, attracting a large number of Chinese, Japanese, Europeans and Southeast Asians to trade, and the Ruan family developed sugar industry, exported grain, etc., and did entrepot trade, which developed rapidly.

The Zheng clan had marched south three times, raising more than 100,000 troops several times, but in the end, they were repelled by the weaker Ruan clan.

After withstanding Truan's first offensive, Nguyen established two fortified defenses in Quang Binh province between the two sides, spanning several miles of flat land between mountains and seas. These castles stretch for more than 20 miles from the sea to the mountains, and the walls are more than two zhang high. These two lines of defense are impregnable, among which the fortress located in Rili is more than 3,000 zhang long, each zhang is equipped with an artillery, every three to five zhang there is a heavy artillery, and the ammunition is mountainous.

There were thousands of artillery pieces on this defensive line, and Nguyen also used Portuguese mercenaries to train a group of excellent gunners. Nguyen even had his own cannon casting and shipbuilding workshop in Hue.

With these advanced firearms and sailors, the Nguyen clan thwarted the Trung clan's large-scale southern expeditions three times.

But now, in Hue City, Nguyen Phuc Lan, the fourth-generation head of the Nguyen family, has a gloomy and ugly face.

Not long ago, a powerful fleet of the Han army suddenly broke into the Hue area, and they first tried to raid Hue, but when they saw the fierce fire of the Hue coastal defense battery, they retreated in vain. After retreating, he did not give up, and turned to attack Pheu Phuoc, a heavy port less than 200 miles south of Hue.

Pheu Phuoc was the most prosperous commercial port of the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam, so the Nguyen clan was also heavily guarded here, with many forts and strong fortresses, and the Han fleet tentatively attacked several rounds and was repulsed again.

The Nguyen were not happy to come, but soon the Han fleet reappeared on the coast. This time, they chose the port between Hue and Pheu Phuoc.

Located less than 50 miles from Pheu Phuoc, Da Nang is a natural harbor with a fleet of Nguyen Thi's sailors. But the defense was far inferior to Hue and Phefoc, and the Han army was killed, bombarded the port for half a day with fierce naval artillery, and finally landed and captured the port.

After the Han fleet seized the port, it immediately established a defensive line on the shore, and the Nguyen clan sent land and water soldiers to fight for it, but it was repulsed several times. Up to now, day by day, the Han army has built forts, fortresses, ports, and wharves in the shipport.

These Han Chinese are mainly anti-guest, and they have firmly controlled Da Nang in their hands, and even used it as their fleet station.

The Nguyen clan now had a great headache, and the Han fleet directly captured Da Nang and nailed it between Hue, the Nguyen family's base camp, and Phhu Phuoc, the most prosperous commercial port, which was only one hundred and fifty miles away from Hue, and only fifty miles away from Phy Phuoc.

It's like a sharp knife in their hearts.

The terrain of Da Nang is unique, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The port is on the left bank of the Han River, bordering Da Nang Bay in the north, backed by the Marble Mountains, and the Son Tra Peninsula in the northeast as a barrier.

After the first few failed seizures and reconquests, the Han army had completely established itself here, ports, docks, batteries, fortresses, fortresses, and fortresses, the Nguyen family once boasted of artillery guns and European-style warships, but they had no advantage in front of the Han army in Da Nang.

The Han army even used Da Nang as a base, and during this time, the fleet moved south and seized Cam Ranh Bay off the coast of Champong in the south, where a naval base was also built.

Now those Han people not only occupied Da Nang and did not leave, but even openly sent envoys to come, and actually sent a letter of surrender, asking the Quang Nam Nguyen clan to join the Han and call them ministers.

"Too much deception!"

Although Ruan Fulan tried his best to restrain himself, he still couldn't help but throw the trick to the ground in the end.

He really wanted to kill the messenger at once, and send the head back with the letter of surrender. But he didn't dare, because the envoy did not come alone, not far from the mouth of the Thuan An River, there were dozens of warships escorting the envoy to come, if he dared to kill the Han envoy, he was afraid that the Han warships would bombard Hue. (To be continued.) )

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