For the time being, Yang Feng doesn't want to provoke the British. Anyway, Brother Pao is still under his control no matter how he plays. Now Lin Zhongying has become a right-hand figure beside Brother Pao. Especially when he sacrifices his life to protect the Lord in times of crisis, Brother Pao is extremely moved.
, I didn’t forget to take him with me even when I went into exile in Singapore.
But the United States needs to take action immediately. Sitting there sifting through all the conspiracies in its mind, this guy suddenly thought of a damaging move.
"Are you crazy?" Catherine couldn't believe her ears. The little girl who was pulled back from death by Yang Feng had grown into a blonde beauty with a classic British temperament, and even more so when paired with a long skirt.
Like Knightley, three years of university study has allowed her to completely get rid of the submissiveness of that little maid, and is currently making strides towards becoming a queen. Unlike the insidious Ye Zi, who is mainly involved in Yang Feng's conspiracy, she is mainly responsible for Yang Feng's conspiracy.
The management of the consortium.
The reason why she was so surprised was that Prince Yang suddenly told her to inform Alice, the head of the American consortium, that from now on all companies in the United States would adopt an eight-hour work system, work five days a week, and purchase pension insurance for workers.
But their wages won't go down.
This is indeed a very crushing order. You must know that the economic development of the United States at this time was completely based on the exploitation of workers. Of course, it was the same in Europe. Black coal kilns and sweatshops were all normal things. Every day
It is necessary to work for more than ten hours without any labor protection. The treatment Yang Feng gives to workers is actually very good in the United States. Of course, it is based on a monopoly. If we continue to do what he just said
At this point, it can be said to be absolutely insane.
"How can you say that? Don't you sympathize with those poor workers at all? They work extremely hard. They use their blood and sweat on the assembly line in exchange for meager wages to support their families, and they have to always worry about losing their lives due to illness and injury.
They work, live on the streets in their later years, and die like wild dogs from hunger and cold. As a businessman full of compassion, he should always give them some help within his ability." Yang Feng said with a straight face.
His words made Catherine sigh. As someone who grew up in a slum, she obviously understood the miserable situation of the working class at this time. Not to mention the United States, even British workers were also struggling in the quagmire of poverty at this time.
In particular, the treatment of female workers and child workers is appallingly low. But these are not enough reasons for her to support Yang Feng's decision. Although she was born in the working class, when the working class became capitalists, they became even more brutal than
Those capitalists, in her opinion, the Yang Group's treatment of its workers has been very up to their conscience.
Yang Feng turned a deaf ear to the various comparative data she listed, like a foolish king who did not listen to the advice of his loyal ministers. He also threatened that if he continued to struggle with this issue, he would personally punish her with some kind of brutal method that he liked.
"So are European companies like this too?" Catherine, whose face turned red because of him, looked at Yang Feng who had already reached into her skirt, glared at him and said angrily.
"No, it's not necessary for the time being. We can only try it out in the United States. In addition, we will inform the Tomorrow Daily and People's Radio in the United States to publicize this matter to the greatest extent possible, and at the same time call on companies across the United States to pay attention to the issue of worker treatment."
Yang Feng stroked her little butt and said with a wicked smile.
"This will significantly increase the cost of our products." Catherine refused to give up and wanted to persuade him again.
"Then raise the price!" Yang Feng said nonchalantly. Monopolies all have this confidence. If I want to raise the price, I can raise the price whether I want to buy it or not! The purpose of this product is of course not to improve the lives of American workers.
Live a better life, those Americans live and die is none of his business. This era is the era when the American labor movement is surging. In pursuit of higher wages, strikes and demonstrations continue all day long, and the scale can reach hundreds of thousands. Capitalists
Sometimes private mercenaries have to be used to deal with it. Umbrella's main business in the United States is to do this. You can imagine what effect his adding fuel to the fire will achieve. To deal with the United States, you need to go all out. After all, this
The enemy is too powerful.
Of course, this is not enough. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, internal conflicts in the United States also intensified, especially among monopolies and farmers. This can be seen from the fact that last year’s People’s Party candidate almost ascended to the presidency with the support of farmers.
However, the capitalists strongly opposed a president who represented the interests of farmers. They even threatened their workers that anyone who voted for Bryan would not have to go back to work.
In the end, the social conflicts in the United States were alleviated thanks to the election of a president who was regarded as a traitor by the consortium, Theodore Roosevelt and later Wilson. These two guys spent nearly two decades fighting against the monopoly consortium, and finally came close.
It brought the United States out of danger, but then Coolidge, Hoover and others once again turned to the monopoly consortium. It was not until the Great Depression destroyed the foundation of the consortium that Franklin Roosevelt took advantage of it and finally led the United States to struggle from the abyss of the monopoly consortium.
come out.
Therefore, the best way to attack the United States now is to prevent Theodore Roosevelt from coming to power, or simply take the opportunity to kill him during the Spanish-American War. Doesn’t he like to go to the battlefield? Isn’t it very simple for an officer to die on the battlefield?
Just as this guy was deliberately studying how to harm the United States, a small-scale battle was going on in the distant jungles of Cuba. What was different from the original history was that the Cuban revolutionaries at this time were struggling painfully in desperate situations.
.With the end of the Philippine War, Yang Feng also opened the poison gas ban on Spain. Pola Vicia, who replaced Weiler as governor, brought rich experience in the use of poison gas bombs, and the wave of independence that had already swept the entire Cuba,
In an instant, he was hit hard, and yellow poisonous fog filled the island covered with sugar cane. Countless revolutionaries fell in pieces on the land of their motherland.
As the elite Spanish troops who had been trained in the Philippines advanced step by step under the poison gas, the Cuban revolutionaries were no longer able to organize a large-scale attack and had to hide in the depths of the jungle. The battle turned into a campaign of suppression and suppression.
Guerrilla, this is one of those battles.
More than 300 Cuban revolutionaries were cornered by more than 1,000 Spanish colonists. Among them were Cubans, volunteers from South America, and even dozens of overseas Chinese. There were originally more than 500 people, but they were
The Spanish gas bombs killed almost two hundred people, and the remaining ones had to retreat to the sugar cane plantation to avoid the Spaniards by relying on the dense sugar cane forests.
There is a villa on the hillside not far away, and there are some wooden houses around it. This is the residence of the plantation owner from the United States and his family. As for those wooden houses, their workers, mainly black people, live there.
There are impoverished Irish and some Cubans.
"Lieutenant Colonel, I protest, you cannot bombard my plantation. This is the property of an American citizen!" At this time, the plantation owner Mr. Thomas was waving his fists and making an angry protest at the Spanish officer. His sugar cane had another
The harvest is about to be harvested in Yue. If these more than a thousand people are bombarded with machine guns and then rush in, his harvest this season will basically be wasted. His status as an American citizen makes him qualified to safeguard his power.
.
"Mr. Thomas, you should go to those bandits about this problem. If you really want to keep your sugar cane, just tell them to come out of it?" the lieutenant colonel said with a sneer. During the recent period, the Spaniards have strengthened their troops in Cuba.
A huge increase, especially since the Navy has successively commissioned one 7,000-ton class and two 4,000-ton class latest high-speed cruisers, as well as twelve destroyers equipped with long-range steam gas torpedoes, and the overall strength has suddenly increased dramatically.
Moreover, the sale of the Philippines also allowed the Spanish government to obtain a large amount of funds. It not only purchased a large number of poison gas bombs to reserve, but also completely replaced the equipment of the army. Even machine gun grenades have become standard equipment of the army. Prime Minister Canovas is no longer timid before.
What's more, Yang Feng also promised that if there was a war between Spain and the United States, the People's Bank of China could provide him with a low-interest loan of no less than 10 million pounds. Of course, in return, he would need to give Guam in the Pacific to Yang Feng.
This small island and some of the coral islands around it were not included in the last Philippine transaction. They still belong to Spanish territory, but they are worthless territories. In exchange for a loan, it is a very good deal.
So at this time, the Spaniards were not afraid of going to war with the United States. After all, in the eyes of these old-fashioned European aristocrats, the United States was no more than an upstart with a smell of copper. However, the sugar cane industry in Cuba was the main source of Spain's finances. For the sugar cane here,
, they are not willing to fight a war, and this attitude of the Spanish government has also infected the officers on the front line. These officers no longer want to tolerate the Americans who always cause them trouble.
Thomas was choked by the lieutenant colonel's words. How could he dare to go in? Besides, those Cuban revolutionaries couldn't be stupid enough to run out and commit suicide for his sugar cane.
Looking at his expression, the lieutenant colonel sneered, and then waved to the artilleryman beside him. Six 82 mortars purchased from the Bofors Company immediately opened fire on the hiding place of the Cubans in the sugar cane garden. One
The shells roared down and exploded. Seeing his harvest being shattered into pieces in the explosion, Thomas' face became more and more ugly. At this time, on the balcony of the villa in the distance, a woman appeared with four children of different sizes. It was a bit strange.
Not afraid, they all watched the explosion of fire with great interest.