On May 1, 1864, the concept of Labor Day did not yet exist.

As early as half a month ago, Zhu Fugui's article on protecting the rights and interests of workers and establishing May Day for the New England News under the pseudonym of Zhong Sheng was also rejected.

This is one of the few manuscripts in the bell series of editorials to be rejected, and the reason is self-evident.

Although the external propaganda was frustrated, at the third enlarged cabinet meeting of the first Ming Dynasty, this first-ever festival belonging to the working people was still established.

It's just that in this fire-like era, the laborers of the Ming Dynasty decided to commemorate this festival with labor.

To put it simply, on May 1, instead of resting, everyone worked overtime.

Moreover, all this was not officially led by the imperial court, but was led by the three workers' representatives who participated in the third enlarged cabinet meeting of the first session, with the slogan "Work hard for the re-greatness of the Ming Dynasty for a day of overtime".

This is something that Zhu Fugui did not expect.

Maybe it's still the old saying, there is no harm without comparison, and the people do not suffer from inequality.

In this era, industrial workers in Europe and the United States are really living an inhuman life, and the so-called 996 is really a great blessing for them.

But this is the kind of life that the peasants and laborers of the Far East envy.

Compared to them, in Daming, even as a slave, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

And as long as you have the nationality of the Ming Dynasty, you can enjoy the prescribed rest in accordance with the law.

Specifically, the daily working hours do not exceed 10 hours, and the 2nd day of the month is ensured, and the traditional festivals such as Shangyuan, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang, and Mid-Autumn Festival each have one day of rest, the Spring Festival is five days off, and the Son of Heaven is born for three days.

Of course, such working hours are still high, but they have basically reached the level of small factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in later generations.

In this cannibalistic era, this is simply the existence of Avalokiteshvara and Mary coming into the world together.

There are many reasons why Daming was able to achieve all this.

First of all, it is naturally because the Ming Dynasty is in, and will be, in the status quo of imperial power training and military control for a long time.

Since Zhu Fugui established the country, his internal treasury and the Ming treasury have been inseparable and indistinguishable.

You can even say that everything in this Ming Dynasty was built by His Majesty Zhu Fugui out of his own pocket, and he is the only capital oligarch and giant landlord in the Ming Dynasty.

So far, the ownership of almost all industries in the Ming Dynasty belongs to Zhu Fugui personally, and he is a real family in the world, Ma Er, Mao Afu and others are just Zhu Fugui's professional managers, and they are supervised by Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

In this way, at least when the country is still small, Zhu Fugui's industrial policy can be issued unimpeded, and there is basically no resistance.

Secondly, the industry itself is invisibly subsidized by the trade of time and space, and has a strong competitive advantage, and there is no need to rise rapidly by excessively squeezing the labor output of workers.

In fact, the US imperialists of later generations also had this kind of intangible subsidy, but it was not a subsidy for space-time trade, but a dollar hegemony derived from military hegemony, so as to obtain an astronomical seigniorage subsidy.

But instead of turning these subsidies into a boost to the real economy, the greedy nation has allowed it to become the nourishment of Wall Street, further compressing the living space of the real economy and forming a vicious circle.

Of course, at least in this era, Wall Street is still a progressive force, and finance plays a positive role in promoting industry.

The last reason, and the most important, is that the Ming Dynasty itself is in a state of serious "outward volume".

The scarcity of human resources, the more valuable human lives become.

Every improvement in the welfare of industrial workers in the West is often followed by special events such as the Black Death and large-scale wars that lead to the reduction of the labor force.

There is even a precedent that because of the sharp decline in the population caused by the Black Death, industrial workers gained bargaining power, and their wages rose by three or four percent.

In later generations, all countries in East Asia did not escape the fate of involution, on the one hand, because of the problem of preemptive industrial strikes by Europe and the United States, and on the other hand, it was also inseparable from the reality that China, Japan, and South Korea had few people and poor per capita natural resources.

Just imagine, even if Greater China has a population of 2 billion in the future, as long as it can obtain the land of the New World like the Europeans, the so-called involution will be cured.

In addition, in addition to the above objective factors, all this is also the result of Zhu Fugui's initiative.

As an emperor in the mid-nineteenth century, Zhu Fugui also had to consider the pulse of the times.

Although Zhu Fugui never considered self-revolution, he even spent a lot of time studying the survival methods of the monarchs of Britain, Thailand, Japan, Denmark, Sweden and other countries.

But who knows what the future holds, and it's always right to prepare early.

As a super capitalist, he put on a pair of pants with the working class, and he understands that Wang is an expert.

Zhu Fugui once again learned from an unlucky thing, which is really good.

On May 1, there was another good news, the Daming River Hydropower Project, which attracted Zhu Fugui's attention, was officially approved.

As soon as the "Daming Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Production Steering Committee Office" brand that shone in April was changed, it became the "Daming River Fugui Dam Project Steering Committee Office", but the members of the Household Agriculture Department, which was originally dominant, were replaced by comrades from the Hydropower Bureau of the Electric Power Department of the Ministry of Industry.

Xinfeng's urban positioning is an industrial city, and the development of industry is inseparable from water and electricity, and a reliable hydropower station is indispensable.

Since last summer, Zhu Fugui has given relevant tasks to the Ministry of Industry.

But hydropower stations are still completely new in the world, and the first hydropower station in history will not be built by the French until ten years later.

The young men from the Ministry of Industry thought of a lot of ways, and Zhu Fugui also followed him up the mountain several times, and then finally formulated a plan.

It's a pity that a series of large-scale projects such as Giulcino were launched, which caused the Fugui Dam project to be postponed and shelved.

Now, the agricultural battle in April has been successfully concluded, so under the leadership of His Majesty Zhu Fugui, Daming will continue to give full play to the advantages of concentrating on major affairs, and concentrate on tackling the hydropower station project in May.

In addition, due to the arrival of new immigrants, the manpower available to the Ministry of Industry has increased again, so the storage capacity and installed power generation capacity of Fuguiba have also increased.

According to the plan drawn up by the steering committee, in order to build the Fugui Dam, in addition to the original 400-person professional backbone team of the Ministry of Industry, it is also necessary to call on the general banner of the engineering corps of each regiment of the Royal Army to participate in the construction of the project in stages, involving a total of more than 2,000 people.

The main project of the reservoir will be composed of a variety of homogeneous earth dams with clay core walls, homogeneous soil auxiliary dams, flood discharge tunnels, spillways, water conveyance tunnels, and power stations behind the dam.

After completion, the dam height is about 13.75 meters, the dam crest elevation is 22 meters, the main dam is 117.5 meters long and 5.3 meters wide, and the auxiliary dam is 7.5 meters high, 94 meters long and 4.0 meters wide, and the installed capacity of the power station behind the dam is tentatively planned to be two 800 kilowatt generators.

Once the Fugui Hydropower Station is put into use, it will not only greatly alleviate the problem of electricity shortage in Fengdu Industrial Zone, save precious diesel, but also prevent floods and improve the navigability of the Daming River.

Moreover, Zhu Fugui also specially suggested that a fish passage should be set aside for the migration of returning fish on the Fugui Dam, as for whether it is useful in the end, it depends on the will of God.