Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1515, People and dogs can't be fed too much
Scenes similar to the Jinling Cement Factory were staged here in the factory area of ​​Nanjing.

The workers who couldn't get their wages clashed fiercely with some thugs and hooligans hired by the factory. Some people were beaten bloody, and some were even killed directly.

In some factories, the workers are too weak and ununited, and are bullied by hooligans to death. Some people continue to work obediently in the factory, enduring this unfair experience, and some are directly kicked out of the factory. I can only return to my hometown helplessly in the cold wind, and I plan not to come to work again next year.

There are also people who are unwilling to be beaten for not being paid, and are going to the government to report to the government. They want to find the government for a review, but who knows that they will be severely beaten by the government A meal, tell them not to make trouble, if they make trouble again, they will be arrested directly on charges of mobilizing a crowd to make trouble, rebellion and so on.

The whole of Jinling should have been bustling and bustling, preparing for the new year, and the workers should be happy to return home with their wages for the new year.

However, at this very moment, billowing smoke was burning everywhere in Jinling. In the streets and alleys, workers who could not get paid were wandering everywhere, gathered together, and kept crying to others about their miserable experiences.

"Not only did they not pay us wages, we went to the factory to ask for money, and were beaten by a group of hooligans. Several of us, some of them had their hands and feet broken, and we will all become useless in the future."

"Those hooligans are really abominable, they only bully honest people like us."

"There are still people like this in the world. We honestly did things for them for a year, but we didn't pay them. If we want us to continue working for them for another year, God knows if we won't be paid by then. , Let us work for nothing for two years."

"Is the business not doing well?"

"You don't know. The business in the factory is so good. The orders can't be filled. No matter how much cement is produced, it won't be enough to sell. How can it be not profitable."

"Who is your boss, the Jinling Zhang family~ who else can you be?"

"Then you have to be careful. This family is not an ordinary big family. Their family is deeply rooted, and there are many people in the court. If this continues, they may really let the people of the government arrest you. Catch them all."

"Catch it and grab it. I don't believe that there is no reason in this world."

"That's right, that's right, we've worked hard for a year, and now we don't have any money, and we can't even eat. It's cold and there is no place to live. This is forcing us to think .”

"Isn't it~"

"We workers, we should unite and unite, so that those black-hearted bosses can know how powerful we workers are."

"Yes, yes, it's time to unite. I heard that the Jinling Cement Factory has taken over the cement factory. At least, they have a place to live."

"Let's go, let's go, I'll go to Jinling Textile Factory, you go to Zeng's Textile Factory, everyone should unite and get the wages."

The workers who wandered in the streets gathered together and discussed with each other. They learned that the workers in some factories united as one, not only defeated the hooligans, but also occupied the factories. This immediately boosted the confidence of many workers. Start connecting and unite.

On the other side, on the Qinhuai River, on a luxurious flower boat, singing and dancing, wine pools and meat forests, many big factory owners, big gentry, big families, and big businessmen of Jinling City gathered together to enjoy a luxurious life.

"Are we going too far?"

Zeng Qing took a sip of fine wine, touched the beautiful woman in his arms, looked in the direction of Jinling City, and said worriedly.

His family is a merchant family, and they have opened several large factories in Jinling City, such as cement factories, textile factories, carriage factories, etc., employing tens of thousands of workers, and the business is very good.

To be honest, he didn't really want to be with everyone to cause such a thing during the Chinese New Year.

The workers have worked hard for a year, and they have earned a lot. It is time to pay the wages to the workers, and give them some bonuses, so that everyone can go back and have a good New Year.

But these big businessmen, big gentry, and big families in the Jiangnan area got together, and after discussion, they decided not to pay the workers wages during the Chinese New Year.

On the one hand, they want to use this method to lose the wages. Daming's labor is not cheap. A worker earns at least five taels of silver a month, and it costs more than sixty taels of silver a year.

There are [-] to [-] workers under his hand, and it will cost millions of taels of silver. If he can rely on the money here, it will undoubtedly be a huge sum of money.

Now most of the factories don’t pay wages on a monthly basis, usually once a year, better ones pay quarterly, of course there are some factories and businesses run by the Yankees, they pay once a month .

But most of the factories in the south of the Yangtze River are issued once a year.

In this regard, most of the workers have no opinion, because they usually eat and live in the factory, and there are relatively few places to spend money. If they need money, they can withdraw some money.

If it is issued once a year, the money is still in the account, and I am not afraid of being stolen, and I will take it home together during the Chinese New Year.

Of course, losing wages is only one of everyone's goals. The real goal is to find a way to drive away Wang Shouren, the chief envoy of Nanzhili.

Wang Shouren was originally in charge of tax collection here in Nanzhili when the imperial court started to levy business taxes, which made the merchants, factory owners, and business owners in Jiangnan very uncomfortable.

The Jiangnan area has always been the most opposed to the collection of commercial taxes. Since Liu Jin reformed the tax system and started to levy commercial taxes, the tax collection work in Jiangnan has been very difficult.

They have always disliked paying taxes, and what they like most is to engage in monopoly business. In the past, salt, grain, cloth, and tea were almost monopolized by them, and they made money beyond imagination. Business tax, very contradictory and resistant.

Later, when Wang Shouren was dispatched to Jiangnan, the tax collection work became orderly, but it also offended the big businessmen, gentry, and big families in the Jiangnan area.

Originally, everyone was trying to get Wang Shouren away, but who knew that not only was Wang Shouren not taken away, but he also became the chief envoy of Nanzhili.

All of a sudden, Wang Shouren, who held great power, vigorously supported the tax collection work of the tax office in the Jiangnan area, and at the same time vigorously rectified the official circles in the Jiangnan area.

This greatly stimulated the officials, big businessmen, big gentry and big families in the Jiangnan area. They thought hard, so they came up with such a way to get Wang Shouren away.

"Excessive?"

"We are not going too far. He Wang Shouren is really going too far. The money levied by the court does not go into his own pocket. What is he doing so desperately against us?"

"Hmph, we just want to find something for him to do. As long as something happens, he won't be able to stay here in Nanzhili any longer."

Next to Zeng Qing, Zhang Yuanting, the owner of the Jinling Cement Factory, said indifferently.

"That's right, that's right~"

"When have we been so aggrieved like now?"

"In the past, when we traded salt, a lot of money came in every year, and we didn't need to pay any taxes. Give them some points for the officials and lords, hello, hello, hello everyone."

"It's good now. We have a small business and have to pay taxes. After a year of hard work, we have handed over a lot, a lot of money to the top for nothing."

Jiang Cheng also followed up and said that he is the initiator of this time, and there are several large factories in his family, with tens of thousands of workers under him.

"There are also those muddy legs. In the past, as long as they had a bite to eat, I don't know how many people begged grandpa to tell grandma to do things for us."

"It's good now. We have to feed us and give them shelter. At the end of the year, we still have to pay them wages. Why?"

"Why do they take away our vain silver?"

"It's good, it's good, why pay them wages, give them food, and give them a place to live. If you want wages, go ahead and dream."

"It's just the idiots of the Yankees who treat these workers like uncles and feed them vegetables and meat. Is this what mud legs eat?"

"The muddy legs are spoiled by them, we should treat these muddy legs a little harder, let them clink poorly, so that they will really work hard for us, feed them too much, and still have some food in their hands." Money is gone, their demands will only increase, and people’s hearts will not be satisfied.”

"I don't understand this at all. I really don't know how they make money by opening a factory."

Zhang Yuanting also followed suit.

"What do those Yankees know? This dog can't be fed too much, or it won't be obedient. It's the same with this person. It's the same from the top to the bottom. food, so that we can easily control them with the least cost."

Jiang Cheng also showed his support with a smile, and pointed to the sky when he spoke, and immediately everyone understood what he meant, and nodded along, applauding one after another.

"Come on, come on, drink, drink, and after drinking, fight with beauties for [-] rounds, this is life~"

Seeing that everyone laughed knowingly, Jiang Cheng shouted even more happily.

But they don't know that at this moment in Jinling, the workers who were beaten for not being paid have become completely angry. The gathered workers are like a flame of anger, and wherever they go, they burn quickly, like a raging flame. , Let the whole cold dynamic become dry and hot.

(End of this chapter)