468th Charian-European Conflict (1)

Taking the real world of China as an example, if a child is particularly proficient in the imperial examination, he can quickly pass the academy examination, the township examination, the guild examination, and the palace examination, and smash the shackles of the three yuan and the first class. And when it comes to the university system of the Republic, how can you be proficient in exam-oriented education? At most, skipping a grade is just a few years less. Even if you get a doctorate, you still have to climb the officialdom honestly and slowly, don't think that you can carp jump the dragon gate in just three or four years.

The universalization of education is certainly social progress, but it has abolished the shortcut for a few geniuses in the imperial examinations.

Similar to the impact of university education on the imperial examination system, Wei Dongsheng's shortcut to Guozijian has also been completely cut off, don't think about expecting another four years to quickly change the class attributes. Taking the real world as an example, no matter how smart Wei Dongsheng is, the social attributes after four years of college are only equivalent to "Tsinghua undergraduate graduates from migrant worker families". How much can Tsinghua undergraduate graduates improve migrant families? In a short period of time, it has climbed up to the seventh class, which is the mainstream middle class.

That's all.

Of course, even so, it is necessary to read.

At the very least, the value of the alumni network of colleges and universities is far greater than that of migrant workers.

The camera returns to Wei Dongsheng IX.

Lu Fan has not implemented compulsory education so far, and many children from poor families are unwilling to waste time and money to support their children's education. Affected by the environment, the nominal parents also slacked off the education of the ninth Wei Dongsheng, and at the age of twelve or thirteen, he began to let Wei Dongsheng do an apprenticeship to learn to make shoes, and when he was a little older, he was sent to work in a textile factory.

At this moment, Wei Dongsheng is a glorious textile worker, dedicating his youth to the capitalists.

Looking around, men and women, they are all repeating their work with numb faces.

Memories tell Wei Dongsheng that the work in the textile factory was very hard, and he often had to work 14 hours a day when he was in a hurry. What is the concept of 14 hours? Twenty-four hours a day, deducting eight hours of sleep, only two hours of time to eat and breathe, eat breakfast to go to work, work for half a day for lunch, work for half a day for dinner, and continue to rotate under the dim light at the end of dinner, and finally have no strength to speak when he finally lies down on the bed.

Is it okay not to work overtime?

The answer is no.

It is customary for textile mills to withhold wages, ruthless capitalists for March, and good-hearted capitalists for January. If you are not willing to work 14 hours of overtime, not only will you have worked in vain for the month, but your wages will also be confiscated. If you want to get a full salary, you must be honest and obedient to work enough hours.

Can black-hearted capitalists be sued?

The answer is also no.

First of all, the Lu Domain's official mansion didn't pay any attention to your revelations. The conservative faction, one of the ruling cabinets, believes that "food is hard, and Lu is meritorious": if you want to get a salary, you must work for others, if you are not satisfied with the salary, you can choose not to do it, and the Pacific Ocean is not covered, if you are not satisfied, get out of the textile factory, get out of the Lu Domain; Another faction, the Wuwei faction, believes that "if the king can keep it, all things will be self-serving" and "people can be self-governing, and they will not stop at prohibition": without the king's indiscriminate intervention, the cabinet can calmly rule the world, since the cabinet benefits from the king's inaction, why can't it be believed that without the cabinet's brutal interference, the textile factory can also be calmly governed? To put it simply, the government now cares whether the capitalists are black or not, and has no intention of providing labor security for the workers.

Second, the capitalists have a certain amount of power, and they may not be as powerful as the local bureaucrats, but they are certainly stronger than the ordinary workers. If ordinary textile workers dared to make trouble, the factory owner could call a group of security guards armed with bayonets at any time to suppress everything with an iron fist. All these and so on, the workers who remained to work in the textile factory were a group of honest people who accepted their fate.

Contrary to hard work, the remuneration of textile workers is very low, even if they work obediently for 14 hours, the monthly salary is only 1270 Wen. In addition, during the cold winter of the market, the textile factories will also close down from time to time, and the textile workers will either have nowhere to ask for wages, or carry their luggage to find a home, and life is hopeless.

However, where there is oppression, there is resistance. As the Industrial Revolution set sail and the working population grew in size, some leaders were trying to gather strength to negotiate with the cabinet or the ruling class. Of course, different leaders have different ideas about how much power the working group should have, and how to fight for the rights and interests of the working group, and the difference in ideas leads to a hostile line struggle.

Gossip aside.

Staying in the textile mill is hopeless.

Even if you have the subjective consciousness to be motivated and spend 14 hours of heavy work, do you still have the energy to learn and improve? Don't waste time on low-end work, can't eat, don't have warm clothes, and don't live well; Wasting time in low-end positions, how can you have the time and energy to study?

Experiencing the miserable life of textile workers firsthand, you must be able to understand that those remarks that criticize the low-end population for not knowing how to improve their self-worth are definitely spectators who stand and talk without backache, or they are all jokes about the self-deception of some middle class.

The Ninth Generations told Wei Dongsheng that the context of hard work may be exclusive to the mainstream middle class.

The poor class has no chance to work hard, not because their efforts are ineffective, but because they do not have the energy to work hard. Taking learning as an example, education can change destiny to a certain extent, but what if you are so poor that you don't have the conditions for education? For example, if you can't pay the tuition at all, how can you study hard? Even if education is free, what about the money for three meals a day? Further, even if education is free and there is a living allowance, what if the syllabus of exam-oriented education changes: if the quality of exam-oriented education suddenly increases, if you don't take the table tennis test, the golf test, the running test, the horse walk, and the math, physics, chemistry, and death knowledge test, and the flexible experience, poverty will still greatly weaken your hard work. The middle class can get 60 if they try 100, and the poor class can only get 10 if they try 100. Over time, the poor will no longer be intoxicated with inefficient step-by-step efforts.

The ruling class also has no chance to work hard, not because the effort is ineffective, but because the effort is too little and too weak. Is it true that the emperor and nobles will have results if they work hard, and the duke can work hard to become the emperor? The answer is definitely no, the emperor inherits by blood, without the identity of a prince, the end point of your hard work is anti-thief. For example, the children of the family or the second and third generations of officials are not earned by hard work, and it is difficult to reach a higher level through hard work. As a member of the ruling class, hard work is certainly valuable or indispensable, but what is more important is the opportunity and the stage.

Hard work is not a panacea, it has a certain range of application.

In general, perhaps all good words have their range of application.

Specific to the textile factory where the ninth Wei Dongsheng worked, the atmosphere was lifeless and hopeless. Wei Dongsheng had no intention of leading the struggle between the workers and the capitalists for the time being, nor was he willing to waste his energy working 14 hours, so he simply resigned and left the next day. Considering that he had nothing when he was first reincarnated, if he insisted on asking the factory owner for the month's salary and withholding wages, it would definitely be a waste of time and ineffective, Wei Dongsheng simply gave up the salary he deserved, rolled up the bedding and left.

As for the old debt of the seizure of wages, wait for Wei Dongsheng to come out and settle accounts with this textile factory.

Life is still difficult without the textile factory.

Because some political leaders are gathering the power of the working group to play with the ruling class, the air in every city of Lu Fan has been tense in recent years. The local yamen not only deliberately intensified regional conflicts and encouraged citizens to discriminate against the low-end working population, but also allowed those officials with handcuffs stuck in their waists, patrolmen armed with batons, and arbitrarily arrested suspicious people. An unemployed person like Wei Dongsheng, the ninth, was beaten up when he was caught on patrol, and then randomly repatriated to a certain place.

The local aborigines discriminated against and the government drove them away with sticks, this is the embarrassing situation Wei Dongsheng faced.

Don't say that the seventh generation pretends to use the reputation endorsement of the Xiao Printing Workshop to quickly resell it for huge profits, and the eighth generation's peaceful and stable life can be met but not sought.

Of course, this still can't stump Wei Dongsheng, who first fled to a small city with a relatively relaxed atmosphere, walking through the streets and alleys and even walking in the gray area to try to accumulate the first pot of gold.

It took two years, and Wei Dongsheng finally worked hard to save enough gold-plated tuition.

In 1785, Wei Dongsheng bribed to obtain a student status in a certain school, and was successfully admitted to Weihe College the following year. Back to the familiar Weihe College, the trivial matters of the small citizens suddenly disappeared, and what they saw and heard was the latest international news.

For example, the first battle of the Lu Fan in Europe, which was unknown in the news newspapers, and the social circle of Wei He Academy had more detailed materials.

However, in order to alleviate domestic contradictions, the Lu Cabinet authorized the Lu West Kunlun Colony and the Lu Penglai Colony (which currently have only a few islands in the Caribbean Sea Islands) to launch a trade war against European countries at the right time. In 1785, Lu Fan was the first to declare war on Française (France). Before long, the Netherlands, Brussia (Prussia), Alemania (in the broad sense of the word, referring to the Holy Roman Empire in a narrow sense, and Austria in the narrow sense) and the small states of the Holy Roman Empire took sides one after another, setting off a huge anti-Xia alliance between Europe.

However, the European nations of this time and space are far inferior to the European nations of the same period in the real world.

First of all, without the massive gold and silver stimulus of the great geographical discoveries of the Americas, and without the stimulus of the profits of the great maritime trade that sailed from all over the world, the national finances of the European countries were very embarrassed. Although the European nations were far more aggressive than the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the real world, forbidding the spread of Zhuxia culture and ideology while actively introducing military technology, these advances were still unable to resist the Lu forces who had already entered the era of the Industrial Revolution.

In just over 30 months from 1785 to 1787, the Lu clan defeated the Four-Power Alliance, forcing France, the Netherlands, Prussia, Austria and other countries to recognize the trade privileges of the Lu domain, and demanding that France cede half of the province of Finistere (Finistere) in Brittania along the uplifted heights to the Lu domain. In the real world, the coastal diagonal line from Brest to Morlaix in the province of Nistel in France became a colony of the Lu Domain in an instant.