Zhou Fu's subtext is that the Qin consortium system is clear, labor and management are settled on time, there is no arrears, and his subordinate schools, hospitals, and department stores still have patronage for his own workers. In a word - good treatment. The factory gives more profits.

Therefore, what happened in Shanghai will never happen in Qin. Compared with the two, it is also more popular!

The commercial atmosphere in the south of the Yangtze River is already strong, although it is not as good as Guangdong, but never overestimate the conscience of the capitalists. After Liu Xian took the initiative to release the beast of 'capital', the idea of 'profit-seeking' here became more confessional and unconcealed. Only pursue profits, never care about human life. Black-hearted, greedy, and treating people like mustard, this is the standard portrayal of many factory owners and mine owners in China today.

But to be honest, although these people are black-hearted, deducting wages, delaying wages, and doing everything possible to shirk and compensate, they are really not the opponents of the Qin consortium when they compete on both sides under the same technical conditions today.

The latter treats the workers well, and the food in the factory at noon is still eaten with meat, and the centripetal force and sense of responsibility of the workers are far stronger than those of the former workers. The reward is high work efficiency, care for machinery, high product yield, high product quality, and stability.

This is a very simple question. However, 'capital' is born with an inextricable profit-seeking nature, and the exploitation of workers as an 'asset' is its innate talent, which has become inevitable.

For Liu Xian, this kind of development is even more familiar. The memories of his past life made him smile wryly at it.

Therefore, the implementation of workers' unions and the enactment of the Labor Protection Law are very necessary, and they will win a considerable part of the rights and interests of workers. At the same time, it was also recognized by 'capital' early. Because Liu Xian didn't want the 'red' to flood the land of China twenty or thirty years later.

Rather than waiting for the 'capital' to have a big development. Or after the 'red' has a big explosion, it will force capital to compromise. It's better to do a good job now while the capital is still weak.

Liu Xian is not a villain. He vigorously developed industry and promoted capital development, not only thinking about the rich class, but also hoping that the people of the whole country would benefit from it. China does not yet have the strength to open up to the outside world, and his original idea was to use the 'rich peasants' to force the 'big capitalists' to raise the wages of the workers, and if the former wants to succeed, it means a foreign war, and the road to using the war to obtain more and broader fields for the Chinese peasants is very difficult, arduous and long. Liu Xian didn't have a score in his heart. I don't know when I'll be able to make this point! Therefore, it is entirely a matter of prevention to let the workers get a place in the game of 'capital' first.

It's just that this thought is only clear to Liu Xian himself, how can outsiders understand his hard work. As for the 'red', a few of the Manchu civil and military forces may have heard of it, after all, the 'Paris Commune' is still very famous. But when it comes to the rejection of 'red', there is no such thing as a sincere one.

In the general perception of Chinese, the implementation of workers' associations and the formulation of the "Labor Protection Law", as well as the formulation of the "Child Labor Protection Law" extended from the "Labor Protection Law". That is completely the court's love for the 'people'.

In the traditional perception of the Chinese, the emperor Lao'er is mostly good, and if there are bad things, he is also deceived by his traitors. And the traitors extend down to the corrupt officials and local tyrants and gentry, that is, the current black-hearted factory owners. Of course, the imperial court must love and protect the 'people' who are in a vulnerable position.

That's what the vast majority of officials think. It does not think of 'restricting' commercial rights. 'Red' or something.

The Shanghai State Security Bureau and the Shanghai government both mentioned the mastermind behind the scenes, and the State Security Bureau even detected some clues, and initially judged that they were some Manchu remnants. It is now being investigated and dealt with with in an all-out way. Liu Xian didn't take it to heart, and when Manchu Huanghuang was alive, he was knocked into the dust step by step. Now that there are only a few remnants left, what can be done?

This is the same as when the Red Dynasty was first built in the previous life. The general trend is on the other side, so many hidden agents of the Guo Party, so many 'survival and national salvation army', what a fart? Didn't Taizu still sit steadily?

As long as the military and government in the hands are not declining, as long as the righteousness is still there, and the people are willing, no matter how much sin there is, it will be rootless duckweed.

In the middle of summer, Liu Xian left Beijing with the royal family and went to the summer resort in Chengde, where he met with Yuanbian Gaozhao, the chief of staff of the Southwest Domain Army who came to China.

Liu Xian's more than 20,000 troops had been used in Japan, Fukuoka was broken by the Southwest Domain, and the entire territory of Kyushu Island was included in the hands of the Southwest Domain. Although the overall situation of the government army still has a strong advantage, the total strength of the army in Tokyo has reached more than 130,000 troops. If we count the soldiers killed and wounded in previous battles, the Japanese government in Tokyo has mobilized more than 170,000 troops.

And what about the Southwestern Army? That is, the so-called Southwest Military Government, the commander Saigo Takamori had 62,000 men under his command, and it was reorganized into five towns, plus Saigo Takamori's own personal army.

At present, the fighting between the two sides is mainly focused on Shimonoseki, which is separated from Honshu Island, and the Bungo Waterway, which is separated from Shikoku Island.

The Japanese government in Tokyo had absolute superiority on the water, and the Japanese naval commanders were almost entirely loyal to Tokyo.

In the case of Togo Heihachiro, his younger brother was in the army of the Southwest Domain, but after the damaged battleship was repaired by the British, Togo Heihachiro threw himself into the arms of the Tokyo government without hesitation with two warships. Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, the fleet suffered such a huge loss, and Heihachiro Togo must be responsible. He has now been transferred out of the fleet to the rank of captain civilian in the Ministry of the Navy. The ranks have also been demoted!

And the Tokyo government of Japan, which was already completely in control of the remaining warships of the Japanese Navy, after the return of a Kongo-class ironclad ship and an iron-ribbed wood-hulled warship, its strength was even more absolutely overwhelming. The Southwest Domain Army only has a few small gunboats of two or three hundred tons purchased this year, and they have no say in the sea. As early as before the war, Liu Xian had transported a batch of shore defense guns of more than 150 caliber to Kagoshima, and now the ports of Kyushu Island, including Nagasaki, have been completely wiped out by the naval guns of the government army.

It was precisely because of the storage of Liu Xianam's large-caliber coastal defense artillery that the Southwest Army was able to keep several ports on Kyushu Island, especially Nagasaki Port, where foreigners gathered, and Kagoshima Bay, where Chinese businessmen gathered. Even the latter is ten or a hundred times more important than the former. The vast Kagoshima Bay is surrounded by the Osumi Peninsula and Minamisatsuma Peninsula, and hundreds of Chinese merchant and cargo ships have stayed on the vast sea.

This is where the lifeblood of the Southwest Army is maintained. A gate shore defense cannon is much more equipped than the port of Nagasaki.

After nearly two years of war, the financial and material reserves of the southwestern feudal domains were depleted early, and now the southwestern army is dependent on China's support. Saigo Takamori and others have long since lost the arrogance they originally insisted on in front of China. Completely bowed down under Liu Xian's dragon chair.

"You must launch an offensive, invade the state as much as possible, take the territory at any cost, and expand your control. The British had already sent a note to me that they were going to officially intervene in the Japanese Civil War.

I can guarantee that your interests will not be greatly lost, but the Japanese Civil War is coming to an end. The territory you get now may not all be yours, but I can leave at least half of it for you! ”

Liu Xian said to Yuanbian Gaozhao. His eyes swept around Russia, Britain, the Middle East, Central Asia and other territories.

The international situation has changed a lot in the past two years, both last year and this year. The British Prime Minister has changed, and the new Prime Minister William. Yurt. Gladstone's successful campaign under the banner of anti-war, blaming the atrocities of the Turkish Sultan and the reactionary policies of Disraeli, has funnily earned a reputation as a 'Friend of the Balkans'. But Gladstone inherited the aggressive policies of his predecessor, Disraeri, after taking office. And he was not good at diplomacy in the first place, and soon made a mess of the form.

The assassination of the Russian Tsar in St. Petersburg this spring by members of the Narodya Narodnik Party (Narodnaya Narodnaya Narodnaya Narodnik) shook the already definite situation in Afghanistan again. The British have the momentum and opportunity to return to Afghanistan, but unfortunately the turmoil in Egypt has caused the British to suffer nervous pain.

Egypt itself is a strategic location, and after the opening of the Suez Canal, its strategic significance has risen even further, even more so than the Strait of Gibraltar.

In 1875, taking advantage of the financial difficulties of the Egyptian government, Britain bought all the shares of Egypt and obtained 44% of the shares of the Suez Canal Company, and obtained control of the canal. In 1876, the Egyptian government declared financial bankruptcy, Britain and France took the opportunity to grasp the financial power of Egypt, and implemented "double supervision" over Egypt, Britain managed Egypt's revenue, France managed expenditures, and British and French capital also flocked in, opening banks, factories, public utilities and shipping in Egypt, and quickly controlling Egypt's economic lifeline. In August 1878, under the planning of Britain and France, Egypt established a "European Cabinet", Britain and France became the emperor of Egypt, and the governor of Egypt became their puppet. In 1879, Egyptian intellectuals and patriotic officers founded the "Fatherland Party" under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed. Arabi Pasha as the leader. The Fatherland Party put forward ideas such as Egyptian independence and opposition to the "European Cabinet", and used the power of the people's struggle to force Governor Ismail to reorganize the government, dismiss foreign officials, adopt the constitution, and strengthen the power of the parliament. The British instigated Turkey to depose Ismail and appointed his son Dufik as the new governor. Dufik was at the mercy of the British, dissolved Parliament, and arrested the Fatherlanders.

Egypt today is a big, explosive bag ready to explode at any moment. The British could not afford to lose Egypt, and their energies were then diverted from Central Asia to the Middle East. Without the support of Whitehall, it would have been impossible for them to return to Afghanistan in a short period of time with the colonial government of India and the Anglo-Indian army alone.

The British were unable to take care of Central Asia, and because of the new prime minister, Turkey's intimacy with Britain plummeted. But the British did not want to see the turbulent Tsarist Russia easily swallow Central Asia into its mouth. They hope that China will fulfill its obligations as an ally and deal with the Russians first. (To be continued......)