On the evening of August 5, Shaoliang Mansion, Xunyang County (now Jinpi City, Australia).

Chen Genmin stood on the side of the street, looking at the closed factory gate in the distance, half silent.

"This owner...... It's really not going to work! ”

With a long sigh, he dragged his tired figure in the direction of home under the slanting light of the setting sun.

After a day of running around in the county, that is, in the afternoon, I found a job carrying bags at the wharf by the river.

A flat-bottomed cargo ship hauled more than 30 tons of wheat and more than 10 tons of general cargo, and Chen Genmin and his three companions worked for four hours to unload the goods, and each of them received only a dime.

To put aside the past, this kind of work of selling coolies, as well as this kind of wages, Chen Genmin is not rare to do.

In the county's woolen products factory, as a journeyman, he can earn more than 12 yuan a month, which is more than four dimes a day.

Although the hours of labor in the factory were long, more than twelve hours, the labor intensity was far less than that of the dock coolies.

His grandmother's, this job is usually done by those new immigrants or natives of Hanzhou, where will it be in the eyes of our masters!

However, most of the factories in the county announced the closure of their doors one by one because of tax inspections, saying that they were to deal with the investigation and accountability of tax officials.

This is strange, you say that the national tax yamen inspects the tax situation of the factory, then it only needs the accounting personnel in the factory to connect with it, why does the owner want to close the entire factory?

Yes, the owners of these factories may be trying to demonstrate to the tax inspectors, or indirectly to the government to express their strong dissatisfaction!

A few months ago, a fire at the Fortune Hotel killed several tax inspectors, causing the entire Shaoliang Mansion to shake.

Many police officers and secret agents were sent to investigate the case, saying that someone had plotted to kill these government officials in an attempt to cover up the results of the tax inspection.

Later, after checking and investigating, many suspects were also mentioned to go for questioning, but there was no result, let alone the real culprit behind the scenes.

It may be that the people above felt angry, and they were also a little impatient with the procrastination and incompetence of the Shaoliang Mansion, and even said that the polling office sent a group of good hands to investigate the case thoroughly.

Good guys, it took less than seven days for the polling office to get to the bottom of the case.

The most well-known proprietor of the county's "Li Sheng Xing" was actually the mastermind behind this case, because the tax collector found out that he had evaded taxes for nearly 10 years, so he had evil thoughts and brazenly did such a frenzied thing, hired murderers, broke into the hotel at night, killed the relevant tax inspectors, and tried to destroy the confiscated account books.

What else can I say, after the truth of the matter was revealed, "Li Shengxing" was seized, and its owner and several murderers were also caught in Daxing by the extremely vicious investigators of the polling office.

If nothing else, most of these murderers will be sentenced to death by hanging in Dali Temple in Fucheng, and other relevant personnel will also be sentenced to exile overseas.

As for the once prosperous "Li Shengxing" trading company, it is estimated that most of them will fail, not only the owner and several children of the family were arrested in the case, but also a large fine was recovered for tax evasion. In addition, because he killed several government officials, he also needs to bear a huge amount of compensation for this.

If the matter ends here, Xunyang County will only have a big case, and with the passage of time, it will eventually be buried in the long years, and occasionally become a topic of conversation after dinner.

However, this case involved a tax inspection, which was related to the collection of government finance and taxes, coupled with the negative response of the governments of Shaoliang Mansion and Xunyang County to this case, which made the authorities feel a trace of contempt.

As a result, not long after this case, not only were the officials of Shaoliang Prefecture Yin and Xunyang County transferred, but also the General Department of Taxation sent a large number of tax officials to Shaoliang Prefecture and Xunyang County to check the tax situation of all local trading companies and industrial and mining enterprises.

For a time, the local industrial and commercial enterprises were in turmoil, and everyone was in danger.

Speaking of which, it is also that these trading companies and industrial and mining enterprises are not very clean.

On weekdays, there are not too few things to underpay or omit taxes!

For the tax inspection, Chen Genmin, who was overly squeezed by capital, and all the workers were naturally happy to watch the excitement, and they would feel an inexplicable darkness in their hearts.

deserve it, those owners who opened factories and mines are too black-hearted and will be investigated!

On weekdays, we workers are desperately oppressed, from dawn to late at night, and when there is a slight mistake in the work, the light ones are scolded and scolded, the heavy ones are fined and deducted wages, and even corporal punishment and beatings are carried out, and we workers are not regarded as human beings at all.

If they are injured or sick at work, the black-hearted owners not only do not take care of them, but also kick them out of the factory and leave them to fend for themselves.

Even if someone gets into trouble with the government in the name of the "Labor Protection Law", the factory owner will throw away a few tens of hundreds of dollars at most, and he will not care about the workers' living conditions and the support of their families.

Just when the workers gloated and watched the factory owners and mine owners in the county fall into the tax inspection turmoil, and they were all anxious, they did not expect that they directly closed the factories and mines, leaving all the workers without livelihoods.

At this moment, all the workers suddenly sat on the wax.

If there is no livelihood, there will be no income, and if there is no income, this will not be a northwest wind!

The city is no better than the countryside, there is grain in the field, vegetables in the yard, and chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised in front of the house and behind the house, and there will never be less food.

But everything in the city needs money to buy, rice, noodles, vegetables, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and even daily water.

If there is no income, sitting and eating empty, and the time has been long, then you can't go hungry?

I thought that the shutdown of the factory was only temporary, and it would reopen in a few days, and everyone happily returned to the factory to be squeezed by the black-hearted owner.

But who would have thought that those industrial and mining enterprises in the county claimed that in order to smoothly cooperate with the government's tax inspection, all factories and mines would stop production indefinitely until the tax inspection was over.

This stop took more than half a month, which made all the workers panic.

I heard that this is also the case in Shaoliang Fucheng and several surrounding counties, and tens of thousands of factory and miners have lost their livelihoods and have fallen into a situation of lack of food and clothing.

Otherwise, why do you think Chen Genmin had to fight with former immigrants and indigenous coolies at the dock just to earn a dime, and he was so tired that he was like a dog to carry a big bag.

"You're back! Today...... What do you think? ”

As soon as they entered the house, his wife Yu Dongmei stood up from the stove with her stomach up, looking at Chen Genmin expectantly, and carrying their one-year-old child in the bib behind her.

"The factory is still not open." Chen Genmin shook his head with a bitter face and said, "Your body is inconvenient, let's go to the house and rest first." …… I'll make dinner. ”

As he spoke, he walked up to his wife, first looked at the child behind her, then took out a dime of money from his trouser pocket, tried to squeeze out a smile, and said softly: "I went to the dock today to work for half a day, and I got some cash, so why can I last two more days." ”

“…… There is no carbon in the house. Yu Dongmei's expression darkened, and she said in a low voice: "Just now, I went to Brother Zhang's house next door to borrow a few yuan." ”

"Oh......" Chen Genmin was stunned for a moment, and then patted his wife's arm, "I know." Tomorrow I'll go to the charcoal shop and buy some and come back. ”

"Otherwise, I will go outside the city with Sister-in-law Zhang tomorrow to pick up some firewood and grass, which can save some charcoal."

"You are holding a child and holding a big belly, how can you go to the suburbs to pick up firewood and grass?" Chen Genmin shook his head and said, "Don't worry, everything will be fine." …… Didn't we still have thirty or fifty yuan in the bank, and we could last more than half a year. ”

"And what about half a year later?" Yu Dongmei asked in a low voice.

"After more than half a year...... Chen Genmin felt bored for a while, "Holy shit, the factory owner won't stop working for most of the year!" Don't worry, in our Qi country, you can't starve to death! ”

"We adults are easy to say, but I'm worried about children." Yu Dongmei sighed slightly, sat down slowly on the chair, and stroked the bulging lower abdomen with her right hand, "This big girl hasn't been weaned yet, and this second child will come out in a few months." I'm ......, I'm afraid I'm going to suffer them......"

"What's there to be afraid of, everything will be fine." Chen Genmin was a little impatient, and said in a rough voice: "My five brothers and sisters are still well raised by their parents, and they haven't suffered much?" Rest assured, our days will only get better and better, and the children will naturally enjoy more happiness than our generation! ”

"......" Yu Dongmei looked at her husband with a confident face, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

As a second-generation Qin immigrant, Yu Dongmei may have been influenced by her parents since she was a child, and she has always had a sense of insecurity about the environment around her, lest she fall into the life of being without food and clothing as her parents said.

Xunyang County is a county that was established more than 40 years ago, and the population has reached more than 40,000 people so far, before it was just a pure agriculture and animal husbandry county, with average economic development, and the people of the county belong to the ordinary county that does not worry about eating and drinking, but there is absolutely not much money in the pocket.

However, five years ago, someone discovered a rich gold mine in a valley more than ten kilometers southwest of Xunyang County, which immediately detonated the local economy and population.

After hearing the news, people from the surrounding prefectures and counties flocked to Xunyang County, preparing to take advantage of the government's lack of gold mining to come to Xunyang County to dig for gold on a large scale, in order to get rich overnight.

It was at that time that Chen Genmin came to Xunyang County with his third brother from Daxingcheng to join the surging gold rush.

It was also during the gold panning period that I unexpectedly met Yu Dongmei's family who also came here to pan for gold. Back and forth, after the two got acquainted, they secretly fell in love, and then got married.

Soon after, the government sealed off the gold mining area, prohibiting ordinary people from mining gold at will, thus artificially halting the gold rush in the area.

Fortunately, with this noisy gold rush, Xunyang County has also attracted investment in many industries, and has successively established dozens of industrial and mining enterprises such as woollen, cotton spinning, leather, building materials, food processing, sugar refining, ceramics, minerals, metal processing, etc., coupled with a variety of emerging service industries, attracting many gold diggers to settle and work in the local area.

Yu Dongmei and Chen Genmin also stayed here, rented a two-bedroom house, and soon had their first child.

On weekdays, Chen Genmin works in the "Lishengxing" woolen factory in the county, and Yu Dongmei stays at home with children and housework, and lives a happy life.

The two are also planning to work hard for a few years, save some money, buy a house of their own in the county, have a few more children, and live their own small life in harmony, everything is so promising.

Who would have thought that a good job would be cut off, thinking of a happy life in the future, and the two children who need to be born, Chen Genmin had a deep sense of crisis for the first time.

Back then, when the house in Daxing was hit by an accidental fire, and the entire family's property was reduced to ashes, he did not panic so much.

Now, he suddenly felt all the difficulties of being a family member.

It turns out that raising a family is not easy!

"Sangen, don't be busy here." Chen Genmin was making dinner with self-pity, and Hou Zeguang, who was not far from his house, ran into the house and shouted loudly: "Brother Zhang's side is setting up wine in the courtyard, let me come over and call you to come over for a gathering." …… Yo, Sangen daughter-in-law, don't sit still, let's go over and be lively together. ”

"Drinking?" Chen Genmin was stunned for a moment, "Brother Zhang's family has a happy event?" ”

Shall you call us to come with a gift in the past?

"Nothing to be happy about." Hou Zeguang shook his head and said; "It's said that the big guys sit together and discuss how to deal with things that don't have a livelihood at the moment."

"What's the matter, Brother Zhang has a way to find a new job?" Chen Genmin's eyes lit up.

"Brother Zhang is a poor worker like us, how can there be any way!" Hou Zeguang said: "There was a factory director in the courtyard over there, and he said that he would convene a meeting to discuss how to resume production of the factory that had been suspended. ”

"The factory resumes production, why do you still discuss it with us?" Chen Genmin was a little puzzled, "Whether this factory can start or not is not a matter of the owner's words." We work, and only honest into the factory to produce, what to discuss? ”

"Sangen, I'm afraid you don't understand." Hou Zeguang said: "The factory manager said that the factory shutdown was not because the owners wanted it, but because the government coerced it too much, and sent many tax collectors to inspect the tax revenue, so that the owners of the factories and mines had no intention of starting production. So, in order to cope with the tax audit, they had to close the factory, so that we had no livelihood and cut off our income. said a thousand things and ten thousand, this matter is not all the tax yamen acting recklessly and indiscriminately interfering with the normal production of the factory! ”

"Huh?" When Chen Genmin heard this, his eyes suddenly widened, "Isn't this nonsense!" The government audits taxes, and if the owners of industrial and mining industries are short of taxes, they only need to pay back the taxes, so why do they need to shut down their factories and close their doors? Don't listen to that factory boss and bite the government indiscriminately! ”

Lao Tzu is also a person who has lived in a big city like Daxing, but he is not a countryman who doesn't know anything, and he lets these people bewitch and spread rumors.

You must know that in their compound back then, there was a senior school teacher who preached some current affairs and politics to them on weekdays, and knew a lot of rational affairs.

As long as you have a little brain, you can figure out the reason for this matter, which is clearly the fucking thing is that the local industrial and mining business owners want to stop work and suspend business to cause a wide range of people's livelihood problems, so as to force the government to make concessions, remove the tax inspectors, or let the tax officials turn a blind eye and pass so-so, hello, I am good, everyone is better.

"What does the factory owner want you to do?"

Chen Genmin doesn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, and if he goes against the government with such a black-hearted factory owner, there is absolutely no good fruit to eat. But he couldn't help it, and asked casually what he would do after the discussion over there.

"We are ready to gather all the workers who have lost their livelihoods and go to the county government to petition for all industrial and mining enterprises to start production as soon as possible."

"Then why don't you go to the owners of the industry and mine to petition?"

"It was the government's strict tax inspection that forced those industrial and mining owners to stop working." Hou Zeguang said assumedly; "Therefore, we workers have joined forces and petitioned the county officials to stop the tax inspection."

Crowd protests and petitions?

It's not about to make a big deal!

(End of chapter)