"The moon is dark and the wind is high, be careful of the candles."

In the factory area of the outer city of Xuanzhu County, the smelting factory of the Jing family, and in the whistle around the high wall of the factory, the old man Lu, who was dozing off, was suddenly awakened by the sound from below.

It was quiet, the street lights were blazing, and there seemed to be a dog barking in the distance. Old man Lu stretched out his head to look at the two security guards who were patrolling, yawned and said, "Xiangrui Imperial Exemption, Xiangrui Imperial Exemption...... Alas, Lao Li, do you have any alcohol, and suddenly became addicted. ”

"You can pee, I'll pee you when you come down." An old security guard sneered, didn't bother to pay attention to the drunkard Old Man Lu, and continued to patrol around the factory with the young security guard.

The five major chambers of commerce of silver and blood almost all monopolize a certain industry, listening to the family's military industry, the Quan's light textile, and the Luo's land transportation...... The Jing family monopolizes the steel industry. In addition to the Red Moon Fortress, the Jing family also has three minerals in Dongyang District, and there are a total of eight smelting factories under its command, five of which are near Xuanzhu County, and for a long time, 'Jing Gang' was the spokesperson of 'Dongyang Iron and Steel'.

Steelmaking requires large sites, large equipment, and is very prone to safety accidents – many workers die in the factory every year – so the Jing family attaches great importance to plant safety. While other factories have at most a guard over the door, the smelter has built four sentry posts around the walls, arranged four night guard guards, and the factory is very close to the patrol guard branch, so that anything can be quickly supported.

The 'Outer City Half City' where the factory area is located belongs to a special place, firstly because it is actually outside the outer city and is not protected by the city wall, and secondly because it is surrounded by the Xuanjiang River Branch, which not only facilitates the factory to use water, but also allows the factory to build the proposed defense facilities along the river, so it is called the 'Semi-City'.

The vigil guards are divided into two teams, one team guards the door, and the other team patrols the surroundings and inside the factory, which rotate every 15 minutes and is quite frequent. When the patrol security guards pass by the sentry, they should talk to the watchman to ask if anything has happened, and second, to remind the watchman not to doze off - the capitalists are not sleeping when they ask you to come back.

Because the patrol security guards themselves don't have to sleep, they are naturally willing to wake up the watchmen who can sit in the whistle all night.

However, human sleep will not end. Even though he was woken up every 15 minutes, Old Man Lu still fell asleep again quickly.

In fact, he doesn't sleep during the day, but sleeping at work always gives him an inexplicable sense of security.

But the sleep of the elderly is always very shallow, and Old Man Lu was soon awakened by a strange noise. He rubbed his eyes, and found that it was the sound of killing coming from the front gate of the factory, and he couldn't help but be shocked and frightened.

What's going on?

Is there another worker coming to ask for wages?

Old man Lu had also been a worker of the Jing family before, so he naturally knew the doorways inside. In the factory for long-term work, the salary is generally paid once a year, but not everyone can get it, after all, the worker's salary is the most abundant place of oil and water, and the Jing family cadres will touch it up and down.

Generally speaking, workers can get two-thirds of their wages, even if they are extremely lucky, and they can thank God; If you only get half of it, it means that you don't have a good relationship with the cadres, and you don't usually help the cadres run errands and pat the ass; If you only get one-third, it means that you usually offend the cadres, and maybe you are lazy and caught.

The worst workers, of course, did not get their money - they were not necessarily lazy, and they may even be the most diligent, but they were unlucky: they were found to be bullied by the cadres.

Yes, if you are owed wages in Xuan Zhu County, it's not because you offended people, it's not because you're lazy at work, and it's not because of any messy reason - it's just because you're a bully.

Cadres are not stupid, how can they not know that if they don't give any money, they will let the workers die? But the fact that they dared to do so proved that they were sure that the workers would not resist and were powerless to resist. And there are not many workers in this part, it can't be a climate, and other workers who get paid won't help them, so there will be many workers who are owed wages every year.

Gangs in the outer cities also exist because of various demands, and the workers' unpaid wages are one of them. Of course, the gangsters will not help the workers to ask for wages to offend the capitalists, but they have the ability to threaten the factory cadres - the cadres are just the dogs of the Chamber of Commerce, and they are not silver-blooded people, they are beaten, they can only solve it themselves, and no one gives them a head.

Therefore, if a worker joins a gang, the cadres generally do not engage in such workers, which can be regarded as a tacit understanding of balance.

Of course, joining a gang also has to pay a 'protection fee'. If you're unlucky enough to pay the protection money, but the gang is swallowed up by another gang – such as the now-wiped Etisky gang – you'll have to pay the money again to join the other gang.

Under such a heavy "income redistribution" and "value-added service tax", most of the workers' annual salary is naturally taken away by them, but if the workers save a little, they can still barely survive.

And the worst group of workers, because they didn't get the money, could almost only wait for death.

Sometimes, they will obediently wait for death, but sometimes they won't.

Rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry, and people will naturally muster up the courage to gather dozens of people to make trouble at the gate of the factory to ask for wages.

As for whether it will succeed or not, it depends on the mood of the supervisor. If the supervisor feels that the factory will be short of people next year and needs to give the workers a little sweetness, then he may be merciful and pay some wages; If the supervisor thinks that the factory can recruit people at will, then he naturally doesn't bother to pay attention to the group of poor ghosts, and directly orders the security guards to beat them out.

Old man Lu felt that if they were going to come to ask for wages this time, they would really hit the iron plate - the skyline homeless people outside the city were stubble, and they could be honeycombs with a casual shout of recruitment packages to eat, and they were not afraid of not being able to recruit people at all.

And Old Man Lu heard that the factory plans to recruit fewer people next year, after all, there are wars everywhere these years, and the freight can't go out. On the one hand, there are fewer recruits, and on the other hand, there are homeless people who are willing to work hard just to eat, how the factory will choose, and you can think about it with the nail fungus on your toes.

Because Old Man Lu is an old worker, he doesn't have much salary as a watchman, so the cadres didn't deduct him much, at least gave him a little salary to buy a cigarette to smoke. However, he was ready to leave behind even if the cadres deducted his wages—he couldn't find a job outside, and at least there was food to eat here.

As for going home to find my son...... Oh, he doesn't have such a good face, and his daughter-in-law is very spicy, rather than going back to make trouble for his son, it is better to raise the elderly here.

Just when Old Man Lu was thinking wildly, he found that the sound on the side of the main gate was getting noisier and louder, until a piercing sound pierced the night sky-

Bang!

It's the sound of a bell!

Old man Lu was so frightened that he sat down in the whistle and shivered. This sound seemed to be a trumpet, and when the first sound sounded, the entire half of the city also resounded in all directions!

Shouting and scolding, the whole half of the city began to be chaotic!

Rumble!

There was a sudden loud bang in the direction of the main gate, and Old Man Lu immediately realized what had happened - it was the factory gate that was blasted open!

"Fire! Fire! ”

"Someone put out the fire!"

"Rebellion! They rebelled! ”

"Where's the Patrol Guard!? What about the Patrol Guards? Where's the Patrol Guard!? ”

Old man Lu hid inside the sentry and heard the explosion of thunder and fire outside, so he didn't dare to come out at all, he just wanted to wait quietly for the arrival of the patrol guard brigade - similar things had happened before, the workers collectively bargained for wages, and someone accidentally killed one of the workers to cause a violent conflict, but the patrol guard team stationed in the outer city quickly arrived and quickly suppressed the lawbreakers.

And this group of rebels will definitely not dare to stay long, and they will definitely withdraw after killing people and setting fires!

Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, Old Man Lu heard the shouting and killing sound outside gradually weakening, and the saboteurs seemed to be withdrawing from the factory, but there was a fierce sound of gunfire from the direction of the outer city - the patrol guard brigade rushed over!

That's great!

How could those thieves outcompete the Patrol Guards?

Old man Lu's mind floated - should I go out and shout twice? If other people find out I've been in the whistle, they'll call me lazy, but if I go down now, I'll prove that I've fought back, and maybe there's a reward......

Just as he was about to leave the sentry, a majestic voice came from the main road in the factory area:

"Everyone, everyone, give up chasing the thief, give up chasing the thief!"

"Heal the wounded first, put out the fire! Heal the wounded and extinguish the fire! ”

"I am Jing Zhengwei of the Jing family, everyone listens to my orders, gives up the pursuit, and gives priority to fighting fires!"

"Medical officer, go and save people!"

Old man Lu stood up in astonishment, and saw several light trucks passing through the factory street, and a young man was standing on the back seat of the truck at the front with a megaphone and shouting loudly, followed by dozens of heavily armed guards. The stunned security guards of the various factories seem to have found the backbone and began to methodically carry the wounded and extinguish the fires under the command of this outsider.

"There are too many wounded, send someone to patrol the guards, in the name of the Jing family, let them send some medical officers over, and let them come over in a group, fighting fires is more important than pursuing!"

"Save the near fire first, then the far fire!"

Old man Lu left the whistle and ran down, and when he saw that the young man actually rolled up his sleeves and went to carry the bucket together, he couldn't help but go over and say, "Young master, I, I'm from your factory......"

"Huh? I've worked hard for you tonight, uncle, let's sit on the side first. ”

Old man Lu was flattered: "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just that our factory over there is also on fire, young master, go and put out the fire!" ”

The young man followed his finger and shook his head: "It's a little far away from the water source over there, save the near fire here first, and then save the far fire over there!" ”

"This, this ......"

"Don't be afraid, tonight's losses won't count on your heads!" The young man's voice suddenly raised an octave: "Everyone listen, participate in the firefighting and treatment of the wounded tonight, and you can find me Jing Zhengwei to receive a reward later!" ”

"Save people first, put out fires first!"

When everyone heard that the eldest young master of the Jing family was actually willing to throw coins for this, their eyes changed.

When the first rays of sunlight shone on the land of Dongyang in the morning, the name Jing Zhengwei was already known to everyone in Xuanzhu County.

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Le Yu pushed open the heavy mahogany door of the main hall of Jingyuan and walked into the conference hall with a gloomy face.

Jing Qingfu sat on the main seat, several clan elders sat on the right side, and Jing Zhengwu, Jing Zhengfeng, and Jing Zhengtang sat on the left side.

When Leyu walked in, everyone looked at him.

Le Yu was not polite, and directly pointed at the noses of Jing Zhengwu and the three of them and scolded:

"It's all a good thing you have done, and now it not only affects our Jing family, but also other chambers of commerce...... Our Jing family is dying! ”