Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 770

Ellie realized her mistake and no longer used her power to influence the shipyard workers. Soon their work efficiency began to decline.

Moreover, the workers' morale is no longer as high as before, and their work enthusiasm has declined significantly.

Obviously, the new policy can achieve good results and feedback in the shipyard, which is inseparable from Ellie's power.

Perfect ordered people to collect a large amount of information and actual feedback from workers, and then took these data and Ellie to the cabinet again to hold a cabinet meeting.

This was the first time that Ellie came to the cabinet and saw how the power center of the Victoria Empire operated.

Although she had good relations with many high-level officials before, and even had a close personal relationship with Karen, it was obviously impossible for Karen to bring Ellie into the cabinet.

After all, this is the highest power center of the Victoria Empire. Even if Karen is the deputy prime minister, he can only take her to his office at most, and it is impossible for her to enter the cabinet meeting.

However, Kallen can't do it, but Perfect can.

For the imperial regent, there is nothing she cannot do in the Victoria Empire, only things she does not want to do.

Even at serious cabinet meetings, Perfecto could bring people to sit in.

From this point alone, Ellie fully felt the power of Perfectcot, which made her feel very resentful about why she didn't investigate more.

During this period of time, she also learned more information, such as the gap between the migrating Langdon people and the northerners, and the subtle differences in their attitudes towards Perfectcot.

This subtle difference may not be noticeable to others, but since Ellie's power can affect a person's mood, she can naturally notice more subtle things.

The reason why there was such a big deviation before was mainly because the things the people she met told her were believed by the other party themselves, which affected Ellie's judgment.

She also didn't expect that someone could even deceive herself.

And now, she sat behind the Imperial Regent, listening in on her meetings with the Imperial Cabinet.

"This is my investigation report on the policies issued by the previous cabinet. You can all take a look at it. Although some problems are not serious yet, the consequences are already apparent. I hope the cabinet will pay attention to it." Perfect didn't say anything, but gave the investigation report he brought to everyone in the cabinet and asked them to circulate it.

After everyone in the cabinet circulated it, their expressions changed a little.

Some people took this very seriously. After all, this matter prompted Perfecto to convene a cabinet meeting.

But some people don't care about this, thinking that it's just some workers' complaints and resentment and it won't have much impact on the country.

Although the voices of workers are now increasingly valued by the country, it is not yet to the point where a few complaints from workers can affect national policies.

Even the representatives of the Workers' Union were only discussing why this result had occurred and did not think the matter was serious.

However, since Perfecto has spoken, the cabinet naturally needs to take a stance on the matter.

Kallen, who proposed this policy, spoke first: "From the feedback collected by the Regent, the workers are indeed dissatisfied with the long working hours. But the improvement in productivity brought about by long working hours is also real. If we want to adjust the policy, I think we should find a balance between the two."

This makes sense, but it is essentially nonsense that does not solve any problem.

Since Karen could say such words, Perfectcot not only did not think that she was incompetent or derelict in her duty, but instead felt that she had matured a lot.

Because for a qualified politician, especially one like her who holds the position of Deputy Prime Minister, this way of speaking is often necessary.

Just like now, she spoke like this, giving others room for discussion instead of setting the tone for things right from the start.

With Karen's suggestion, others also spoke up: "I think we can appropriately shorten the working hours by two hours. The previous ten-hour working hours were a relatively reasonable working time. The workers can complete enough work without being too tired."

This is the conservative view, which believes that the previous policy is good enough and there is no need to replace it with a new one.

But some radicals said: "The workers are just not used to it. Didn't they work 16 hours a day before? Although the workers complained, they still completed the work.

The reason for adjusting the working hours to ten hours is mainly because too long working hours can easily cause safety accidents, but twelve hours are not included!
The North has just experienced a snowstorm, and we need to increase production investment to restore the economy. This is our current focus!

Workers should work harder and harder as a contribution to the country. They cannot just enjoy the benefits brought by the country without paying any price! "

Ellie frowned when she heard this. She could feel that what the other person said was just a nonsense excuse and his heart was filled with contempt.

But Ellie was only there to listen, and Perfect didn't let her speak.

However, she still obviously puffed up her face, expressing her dissatisfaction like a round pufferfish.

"The workers are really tired, and we can empathize with them. After all, working continuously for twelve hours will make your butt hurt even if you just sit in the office, not to mention the high-intensity labor." Some people have different opinions and put forward new suggestions: "But the country cannot give up the improvement in production efficiency brought by the two-shift system. I think we can change the two-shift system to a three-shift system.

This will shorten the workers' working hours to eight hours, but arrange three shifts of workers to take turns to work, so that both production efficiency and workers' enthusiasm can be guaranteed. "

At this point, the other party glanced at Perfect, and then continued: "This is also a policy that the Regent once used. I think we can now bring it out and promote it to the entire North."

As this suggestion involves Perfect, many people have seriously discussed its feasibility.

This also opened Ellie's eyes. She had never seen someone not say a word and all the topics and things revolved around her.

"By the way, what do you think about this matter? Are the workers' working hours really too long?" Ellie curiously moved closer to Perfecto and asked her in a low voice.

Perfect glanced at Ellie, then said, "Eight to ten hours of work a day is a reasonable arrangement. If it exceeds twelve hours, there will be various problems.

But let’s see what they say about this matter first.”

(End of this chapter)