With the salary of an adult male worker, two female workers can be hired, and seven or eight child workers can be hired. The younger the workers, the more vulnerable they are, and the lower the wages that factory owners need to pay.
In order to save costs, unscrupulous and black-hearted capitalists naturally choose to employ a large number of female workers and child labor. Farmers who lost their land during the sheep-eating movement had to join factories and become workers in order to survive.
Compared with adults, child labor is obviously easier to manage. There are no strikes or demonstrations and other behaviors that are most disgusting to capitalists, and there is no need to talk about forceful suppression.
Different worlds also have the same phenomenon.
The bloody factory is the most realistic portrayal of society in this era of the world. When he was studying in the East, John also learned about it from newspapers. It is just because the development of the Federation is now on the rise, and all of this has been suppressed by the government representing the capitalists.
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At this time, combined with the memories of his previous life, John could already imagine that there must be a large number of female workers and child workers in factories that do not require high labor intensity.
Among the most pitiable child laborers, apart from the people at the bottom who send their children to factories due to their livelihood, there are also those who are bought from the trading market.
Yes, even though the White Eagle Federation claims to be a free country in the civilized world, although the slogan of abolition is shouted loudly, the people who can enslave others the most are those capitalists and people who keep saying they want to abolish slavery.
Politicians who represent their interests.
In this era, child labor is also a commodity. Orphanages, church almshouses, and the most hateful human traffickers are the largest sources of goods, and a very small part of them are sold by their parents.
While shouting about abolition and humanitarianism, those capitalists created an image of gentlemen in the outside world. They also donated money to churches and schools, claiming to be funding the education of poor children.
In fact, the other side is seeking bloody profits by frantically exploiting the working class, including female workers and child workers.
Countries with a capitalist system in this era are definitely more exploitative than feudal aristocrats. If bankers are vampires, then these capitalists who invest in industry are basically man-eating devils. At least nine out of ten are completely qualified to go to hell.
Qualifications.
If it were a previous life, perhaps this situation would lead to a revolution sooner or later, but in a world with extraordinary power, this situation might not just be as simple as a revolution.
The factory area, filled with negative emotions such as pain, fear and despair, seemed to John to be a breeding ground for evil, a breeding ground for evil spirits, demons and even evil gods.
This is true for western cities like Jinsha Port where aristocrats are in power. So what terrible scenes will there be in the sweatshops in the eastern federation, where the capitalists are based?
John has seen some gloomy dark auras throughout the factory area through his spiritual vision. This should be a change caused by excessive accumulation of negative emotions and pollutants. If left unchecked, terrifying existences will definitely be born one day in the future.
, a terrible incident occurred.
It's just that he is not the ruler of this city, and he has a humble position, so he can't change anything.
Don't look at the big capitalists in the Federation who desperately advocate the progress and beauty of capitalism. In John's view, this system and every doctrine are all the same routine, but the exploiting class has changed from emperors and nobles to wealthy businessmen and wealthy families. In capitalist countries,
Capitalists who have lost their checks and balances have become more exploitative.
Therefore, when it is impossible to achieve the conditions of the harmonious world imagined by the ancients, any system is exploitative. The difference is only in the amount.
In this regard, John, who has received more than 20 years of aristocratic education in his life, feels that the feudal monarchy may be more suitable for this world in this era. At least the great powers of the Old World, except for the weird Franz, are basically royal powers.
Coupled with his position, he is naturally an enemy of the bourgeoisie.
He was confident that if he could govern a city like Jinsha Port or become the king and emperor himself, he would definitely be able to keep most of the people under his rule fed and clothed.
This is not only his own wisdom and experience, but also the knowledge learned from the one or two hundred years of modern social development history summarized from the experiences and lessons of later generations. As a time traveler, if becoming a king cannot make the country rich, then it will It's so embarrassing to our fellow travelers.
What's more, as a world with extraordinary beings, as long as you are strong and have the power to make a comeback, you can just physically destroy anyone who disobeys. At worst, it will be like Da Qingguo, who can kill and bring about a prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong. .
Then John suddenly thought of the scene he saw on his first day back at Sands Harbor.
Suddenly I thought to myself:
"No wonder the Church of Steam and Machinery is developing well in Jinsha Port. It turns out it has such a missionary foundation."
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The group of people crossed the factory area in silence, and after entering the dock, the environment became much better.
Although the houses and streets on both sides are inevitably dilapidated, there is no sewage and garbage everywhere like in the factory area.
When John saw the "sanitation workers" dressed in gray and holding brooms and garbage baskets on the streets of the dock area, he couldn't help but feel a certain fondness for the gangsters in charge of the dock area.
This is obviously imitating those in Mid-Levels and wealthy areas who hire sweepers to keep the streets clean. Maybe those gangsters are criminals who can go to jail and be hanged, but they can't count on being able to spontaneously maintain their own neighborhoods. Bad to the core.
After all, gangsters are also human beings, and they also want a good living environment. Especially behind the gangs in Jinsha Port, there are shadows of nobles, and each of them imitates the elegant gentleman's posture. Naturally, they cannot stand the dirty environment.
If he were to judge the sins of two people on both sides of the scale, a black-hearted capitalist on one side and a gangster on the other, then it would definitely be the former who died.
"Lord John, we are just ahead."
Arthur pointed to an ordinary alley in the dock area ahead and said.
Except for two strong men with unknown tattoos and sailor uniforms standing at the entrance of the alley, they were no different from other alleys.
Arthur got out of the car and went up to communicate with the two unfriendly-looking gang members, and then the other party let the carriage pass.
Soon, the carriage entering the alley could no longer move forward because the alley ahead began to become narrow.
John and the others got off the carriage, leaving Sam behind to guard them. The four of them continued walking deeper into the alley under the leadership of Arthur.
"Dang Dang Dang!"
Arthur stopped in front of an ordinary house and knocked on the half-open wooden door.
John's keen vision noticed a triangle and snake-shaped pattern painted on the wall of this residence.
After a while, an old man who looked like an ordinary civilian, about forty or fifty years old, appeared.
Arthur stepped forward and told him the secret code he had just received from the two gatekeepers.
The old man said in a hoarse voice:
"Go in, don't run around. The cloak is over there. If you need a mask, each person needs twenty cents."
John looked at the rows of cloaks and masks on the wooden frame in the corner of the house. They were just masks carved from ordinary wood. They were not beautiful at all. They probably wouldn't sell for a few coppers at the street stalls, but here they were.
The price is as high as twenty cents of silver.
However, people who could come to this underground black market didn't have that much money, so John still paid to buy a mask for everyone.
After all, hiding one's identity is much more important than that little money.
Klaus, who put on his cloak and mask, felt a little excited. It was his first time to participate in such an adventure. He couldn't wait to see what the extraordinary world looked like.
Soon the group of people entered the secret underground passage through the secret door, then turned around a wooden door, and their eyes suddenly became clear.
“I didn’t expect there to be such a vast space underground in Jinsha Harbor!”