Chapter 423: Ten Lives
The large iron factories and small workshops in Shandong are working almost day and night to forge the rails, and there is no cutting corners and counterfeiting and shoddy, because this is basic common sense.
The railroad tracks that are not built according to the requirements of any engineer from Tongzhou will not pass the acceptance even if they are laid on the railway, and even if they pass the acceptance by luck, the rails are going to run the train, fake and shoddy? It's hard to get along with yourself.
Kong Hongning got all the rails produced by an iron factory through the power of the Kong family, and the one that was under construction and had not yet been put into production was also taken, as for the emperor's suggestion to build an iron factory by himself, hehe, he couldn't afford to play and didn't have the energy and time.
As for recruiting laborers, Daming lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of people, let alone poor people, give them three melons and two dates, and then take care of a meal, there are more people who are willing to work hard in this world.
In fact, it is true that as soon as the notice of the Confucian family recruiting workers came out, there were too many people to sign up for work during the slack season.
The Son of Heaven built a large iron plant, repaired official roads, opened mines, contracted salt, and other projects all limited the wages of laborers, and the minimum monthly salary could not be less than one or two or five, otherwise they would face heavy fines!
However, the private sector independently builds railways to recruit laborers, and naturally there is no need to abide by such regulations, and the face of capitalists is to squeeze, and it is the true nature of capital to obtain the maximum profit at the minimum cost.
The 3,000 laborers were like busy ants, tampling the foundation, laying the skids, transporting the railroad tracks, and laying the railroad tracks......
The treatment is a full meal without meat at noon every day, and then one or two silver per month, but it is still because five dollars of silver can't recruit people, and eight dollars of silver is not enough, and the price is finally set.
Nowadays, the land of Shandong can be seen everywhere with the figure of laborers laying railways, and the working people have laid one section of the railway after another for the capitalists with their hard work.
There is no work-related injury or even work-related death, and even the workers themselves do not take any casualties seriously, if something really happens, they only blame their own bad lives.
If you don't take it seriously, the capitalists don't take it seriously, the government will naturally not take it seriously, and even those Tianyan members who are full of people will not take it seriously.
Zhu Houwei does have a good reputation among the people who love the people like a son and a generation of saints, but it is naturally impossible for the people to take things seriously to reach his ears, unless it is a major event!
Something big is happening!
The reason for the accident is simple, the peasants are called farmers because their first priority is farming, which is farming!
There is farming, there is farming, but there are not a few landless farmers among the laborers, even if they do not lose their land, there are only a few thin fields in the family, so the real impact of farming for laborers will not be too great, but in addition to labor, there are sacrifices!
Sacrifice! Honor our ancestors! This is the belief of the Chinese people!
The memorial is not only to remember the ancestors, but also to remember, such as asking for a fortune, such as bless the safety of the family, bless the wind and rain next year, and so on.
It is the most simple thoughts of the people!
Qingming sacrifice, winter solstice ancestor sacrifice, another year of winter solstice.
The winter solstice itself is the coldest time of the year, and the laborers who do not have thick cotton clothes to wear are still shivering in the cold wind, although they are doing manual work, and many of them are even directly frostbitten.
On the day of the winter solstice, more than ninety percent of the laborers did not go to the construction site, and almost all of them stayed at home to prepare for sacrifices, so the project came to a standstill.
After the winter solstice, the laborers continued to work against the cold wind, but because of the shutdown yesterday, the overseers were severely reprimanded by the head of the house.
As a wealthy family, it was customary to be powerful and good in the past, because the laborers were reprimanded, resulting in the winter solstice reward money not being received, who didn't hold back the anger in their hearts!
So the family unceremoniously poured out his anger on the laborers, threatening not to pay them monthly money, and flogging them.
The laborers were accustomed to being obedient, and they did not dare to resist when they were whipped and rolled on the ground, and in the end they were knocked out alive by seventeen or eighteen, six of whom died of their injuries after being sent home!
Immediately, the railway construction of the Jinan-Qufu line came to a complete standstill because the workers went on strike!
In fact, having said that, the workers did not have the concept of a strike, mainly because of the killing of people and the threat of the overseer not to pay the monthly money, so the workers felt that there was no hope, so they simply did not want to do it.
Then the family members of the people who were killed carried the body to Jining Mansion and sued Yan Sheng Gong for arson......
Jining Mansion is just a small mansion, and the prefect is from Wupin for the rest of his time, where did he dare to arrest the people from the Yansheng Mansion, so he ordered the officials to beat the family out!
The poor people don't understand the fact that the Ming official system has been reformed at all, and they only know that if they know this kind of thing, they should find the county yamen and the county...... It is a Yan Shenggong in itself......
So they can only skip the level to go to Jining Mansion, but they don't know that the current Ming judiciary has become independent, and the prefect's yamen doesn't care about judicial affairs at all, and the people can go to the patrol, the procuratorate and even the court if they want to complain!
However, it was obvious that Yu Shi didn't bother to pay attention to these small people at all, or the officials didn't want to make trouble for their colleagues in the Third Department of Inspection and Inspection, so they directly coaxed the matter away......
So the family of the deceased held on to the last glimmer of hope and carried the coffin straight to Jinan!
I didn't want to find the Jinan government to administer justice for them, but to find the military region!
Nowadays, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, although a catastrophe has greatly changed the people's impression of being a soldier, but they can completely accept the concept that soldiers are the people's soldiers, and there is still a long way to go.
It's a pity that the family of the deceased didn't arrive in Jinan at all, and even just returned to Qufu from Jining, and was blocked by the servants of the Hao Shen Ma family before they had time to set off!
Ma Jiazu also has a few second and third grade members, belonging to the first class of a wealthy gentleman in Jinan, Shandong, this time to build the railway, the Ma family is also one of the shareholders, the railway construction is stagnant, the loss is silver, and after learning the cause and effect of the matter, I was going to spend a little money to do it, but I didn't expect to learn that the family of the deceased went to Jining to complain!
Diao Min dared to sue the gentry!
It was really the opposite, so the family members of the deceased who were blocked were beaten hard, and four died on the spot.
That's 10 lives!
For the wealthy gentleman clan, such a thing is not a big deal, not to mention that there is the Yansheng Mansion as a backer, and it will be fine to spend a little silver at most, who would have thought that this kind of thing would still be reported by Tianyan!
So he went straight to the Holy Hearing, and the Son of Heaven was furious!
The Son of Heaven was furious, and the blood flowed and drifted!
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