Chapter 74: Reform (2)
Looking at the female worker sitting on the stool, Ke Fu, who was pale, seemed to be angry, but he also heard Yan Shao's words, so after taking a few breaths, he pointed at the female worker and said angrily.
"This woman is so unruly, she actually gave birth to a child in the workshop..."
Seeing that Yan Shao and the others were a little puzzled, the middle class just now came over and explained to Yan Shao.
The greatest difficulty for women workers was childbirth, and most of the textile and yarn mills at that time stipulated that women workers could only take one month off when giving birth. There is no salary for this month, but the factory will give a one-time subsidy, for example, 5 yuan for a boy and 3 to 4 yuan for a girl, and many female workers are willing to rest until the end of the labor in order to work for a few more days, so if there is a premature birth or the date is not calculated, then the child has to be born in the factory.
In the past, there was a traditional belief called "borrowing death not life", that is, you can borrow a place to park the dead or handle funerals, but you must not borrow a place to give birth to a child, because the blood shed by a woman when giving birth to a child is considered unclean and filthy.
Most of the people who will work in factories these years are from poor families, no, it should be said that they are basically from poor families. In such a patriarchal era, she just gave birth to a baby girl, and if she has to be fined, the attitude of her mother-in-law can be imagined.
The women's union forced herself to stand after giving birth, because according to the rules of the time, Ke Fu had the right to punish her. Originally, the female worker thought that standing there and being scolded would make Ke Fu's anger disappear, but looking at his remaining anger, the female worker felt a burst of despair in her heart. Now she only hopes that Ke Fu will be fined less money for a while, so that her mother-in-law can scold less when she goes home.
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After listening to the explanation of the middle class, Yan Shao frowned.
As a later generation, he didn't mind these things very much, after all, these were already classified as feudal superstitions in his time.
What he cares about now is not for the workers who will give birth in the factory, but for the workers who will work in the factory when they are about to give birth.
Not only Yan Shao, but also Elaline and Caterina behind him, after all, they are also women. After seeing Cofu scolding there again, Elaline was able to restrain herself, but Caterina looked like she was about to turn her face.
Yan Shao, who noticed this, waved her hand, signaling her not to be impulsive for now, and then turned her head to look at the middle class just now. "And what's going on with these?" he said, gesturing to the female workers who were working with babies in their arms.
If he can understand that these workers have to continue working while pregnant in order to earn more money, it is somewhat incomprehensible to have to work with a child after giving birth. It is important to know that factories like this are not safe places, and it is not impossible for accidents to happen accidentally.
Hearing Yan Shao ask this, he glanced at Ke Fu, who was still there and scolding angrily, and the middle class explained.
For female workers, in addition to childbearing, there is another difficulty, that is, to raise children.
At that time, the female workers had to go to work a month after giving birth, and in order to feed the children, they had to carry the children into the factory and put them in the yarn basket next to the machine. Faced with a crying baby and a fast-spinning machine, the female workers stared at the machine while feeding, and as soon as the yarn was twisted in the machine, they immediately put down the child's yarn and let the child cry. In that production workshop where flying flowers are fluttering, babies inhaling flying flowers is quite harmful to the growth of children. Worst of all, some children have even been caught up in fast-spinning machines because of accidents...
"This hasn't happened to us here, has it..."Hearing that this kind of thing had happened before, Yan Shao hurriedly asked. However, he also knew that he was talking nonsense, although he had handed over a lot of things to the following in recent times, but if such a thing really happened in the factory, it was impossible that no one would tell him.
Sure enough, hearing Yan Shao's question, the middle class hurriedly shook his head and said. "No, no, the workers in the factory are all trained, so it hasn't happened yet..."
"For the time being..."Hearing this word, Yan Shao frowned.
At the beginning, it was not that Yan Shao had not read the factory rules that Kefu and they had ordered, but at that time, Yan Shao only took a general glance, and after thinking that there was no problem, he handed it over to Kefu and them to do, and he didn't expect things to become like this at all.
"I thought it would be a good thing for them to open a factory..."
In the crowd, Ke Fu was still pointing at the female worker's nose and scolding, and the female workers around him watched this scene, some lowered their heads and didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking, and some were angry, but more were numb...
Facing everything in front of him, Yan Shao suddenly felt a little sad.
Aside from the identity of a traverser, Yan Shao is just an ordinary 20-year-old young man, why did he want to return to China to do revolution? On the one hand, she wants to fulfill her promise to Elinor, and after creating a fame, she can return to Marseille in style, and by the way, let the old bastard of Bertrand know that she didn't choose the wrong person, and on the other hand, she wants to change the country as much as she can, help more people, and set up a factory...
If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world, this is Yan Shao's idea.
In fact, according to Yan Shao's character, he wanted to carry out the revolution by funding a certain organization, but unfortunately the alliance would not be successful, but Yuan Shikai was bent on becoming the emperor, and Yan Shao had no choice but to do it alone.
However, he also knew very well that if he recklessly returned to China for revolution without a little foundation, it would be no different from looking for death. In his opinion, the factory can improve the lives of many people, and can also help more people, and when the time comes, the people in the factory will also help him and support him.
However, he forgot one thing, and that was that, despite his good ideas, the factory used the laws of the times. Long hours of manual labor combined with harsh treatment made the workers see him as an enemy rather than a man to follow.
If Yan Shao invited them to board the ship, I am afraid that the first thing they would do when they got on the ship would be to scuttle the ship.
"Could it be that I traveled back from more than a hundred years to be a vampire who exploited workers..."Thinking that he had traveled back from more than a hundred years later, and what he did was no different from the 'vampire' who had been criticized for more than a hundred years, Yan Shao, who was disheartened, suddenly didn't want to do anything.
Seeing Yan Shao's depressed face and a hopeless look, Caterina raised her thin eyebrows and raised her right hand lightly, wanting to wake him up. It's just that Elinor is a little faster than her.
"Smack"
Holding the bright red palm print with his hand, Yan Shao, who was depressed, looked at the angry Elano in surprise, and Caterina on the side was also a little stunned by her movements.
"Yan..."Walking quickly in front of Yan Shao, Elaline looked directly at him with a pair of charming eyes, and then said in French. I remember when you went to the United States by boat, you said that you wanted to start a revolution in this decaying country, and make it completely strong......... Then he took me back to Marseille to meet my father, and let him know that I had chosen the wrong person, but when you look at the way I am now, it's really disappointing...", Elano gestured to the numb women and the weeping babies around her. "And them, do you think that if you treat them like this, they and their relatives will really be willing to follow you and help you..."
Standing side by side with Elanon, Caterina also nodded and looked directly at Yan Shao together.
Covering his reddened cheeks, Yan Shao, who had already sobered up a lot, spoke. "So what do I do now..."
"Reform!" Elaine's answer was categorical. "Carry out a reform in this factory, take back what has been lost, as long as it can be corrected in time, then it is not too late!"
Seeing that the two of them were really for themselves, Yan Shao's heart warmed. "Anyway, at least they are still caring about me" Thinking of this, Yan Shao didn't care how shocking his actions were to the people around him, he directly kissed each of them on the red lips, and then stepped forward and patted Ke Fu, who was still scolding.
"Let's stop for a moment..."
Because he was facing away from Yan Shao, Ke Fu didn't see Yan Shao's amazing actions just now, and after scolding for so long, his voice was a little hoarse, so he stopped after hearing Yan Shao's words. It's just that what makes him feel a little strange is why Yan Shao's face suddenly has an extra palm print?
Ignoring Ke Fu, who looked strange, and walked in front of the female worker, Yan Shao looked at her handsome face that looked too pale because of childbirth.
"What's your name?"
“…… Ran Jinyu..."Ran Jinyu also knew that it was very unfortunate to give birth to a child in the factory, so he looked at Yan Shao with a hint of pleading, and only hoped that this young boss who looked kind but behaved very badly, and was slapped by his wife just now, would not be angry with himself later...
"It's a good name..."Yan Shao was a little surprised, he originally wanted to pat the other party's shoulder to make her feel at ease or something, but thinking about it, it was easy for people to misunderstand that he was molesting a woman from a good family, so he nodded. Don't talk about the superfluous words, you can take the children home to rest for two months in a while, and you don't need to worry about money, just take paid leave..."
Hearing Yan Shao say this, not only Ran Jinyu, but even Ke Fu and the others were stunned.
"Boss..."Hearing Yan Shao's decision, Ke Fu couldn't help but speak, after all, he violated the factory rules by doing so.
However, Yan Shao waved his hand and signaled him not to say anything.
Although Ke Fu's actions just now made people frown a little, Yan Shao didn't really blame him much in his heart, because this is the habit of people in this era, it's useless for you to change someone, so what's there to blame...
"Have a good rest, and I'll have someone bring some condolences to your house to visit you later...", Yan Shao said to the workers in the workshop. Today's work will be here first, and the two of you will send the Ran family girl home, and by the way, you can clean up the workshop..."
Hearing Yan Shao say this, the old ones were nothing, but the younger ones all cheered.
In these years, the factory is all day long, day or night, and at most it is a shift shift. It's great news for them to have a day off.
If he said that he would not punish Ran Jinyu, Ke Fu still had no opinion, but after hearing that he was going to stop work, he couldn't help but come over. "But boss, it's only afternoon, and it's not even dark yet..."
"None of this is important...", motioning for Ke Fu to come with him, and after the group came out of the workshop, Yan Shao said to Ke Fu and Elaino. I think it's time to reform the system of this factory..."
The factory is used by Yan Shao to tie the workers to himself, rather than turning the workers into his enemies, so this reform is imminent for Yan Shao, fortunately, everything was discovered early, and it is not too late to make amends...
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It's not a doctrine, but if you only know about exploitation and don't treat the workers well at all, then forget about anything else, rebellion, as soon as you say it here, I'm afraid people will send you to the government...
In other words, the workers of that era were really miserable
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