Just thinking about that time made him feel terrible.
"We orphans will be sent to the charity home run by the church, but there..."
Biting his lower lip, he calmed down before continuing: "The people who are forcibly sent to the workhouse must be poor people who are admitted to the workhouse for hard labor. People there have to do hard labor and have no money to eat.
A thin soup of grains of rice will generally die within a year.
"Of course, children's treatment is better, because the almshouse uses children to make money."
"Make money?" Wang Quan continued to ask, "How to make money?"
"When the children reach the age of eight, they force them to be sent to factories as apprentices. Each apprentice factory has to pay a sum of money to the workhouse. These orphans are not paid when they enter the factory, and only have two meals a day. Then every day
It takes about seventeen hours of work."
Wang Quan fell silent.
He always thought that this kind of thing only happened in India.
But thinking about what Ichiro Kenike once told him, he probably understood.
The Cult of the Dead God... is so deceptive, it's really a classic villain template.
"Then if I destroy the church and tear down the almshouse, will it help them?"
"Useless sir."
Oakley shook his head, "There are almshouses in every city in the country, and inside the almshouses... they can still survive, but where can they go when they get out? There is no land for them to farm, and they can't even get out.
It’s just a matter of changing to a factory job.”
Wang Quan had nothing to do.
At any rate, his history class in middle school wasn't just about being in a daze. He still knew about the enclosure movement, although he only knew a little bit about it.
In this way, he remembered a program he had watched before that interviewed an American worker and asked him why the country gave financial subsidies to large companies.
He actually said... "Because of the subsidies given to the boss, his company will not go bankrupt, he will continue to work for us, and we can continue to support our family."
???
Wang Quan's forehead was filled with questions.
This is someone who has been brainwashed by capitalism.
It’s even better when combined with another piece of news.
"Those companies used the money from government subsidies to maintain the basic wages of their workers to buy machinery and equipment and update their production lines. As a result, the factory could produce around the clock, and there was no need for workers. Then that company fired more workers.
"
It's so darkly humorous.
However, the operation of sending apprentices to the workhouse reminded Wang Quan of bad things.
When I was a junior or senior in college, for the sake of employment rate, of course, the school may have collected money, and then forced their students to go to the factory to work on the assembly line, otherwise they would not be given a diploma.
Tsk, damn, it’s the same operation.
Wang Quan took out a wallet from his pocket, which contained about twenty Elizabethan gold coins, as well as more silver coins and copper coins.
Then he put the wallet into Oakley's hand and said, "You are a smart and kind boy. I can't help you with anything else. Just keep the money."
Oakley quickly refused, "Sir, I can't have it."
"What I give you depends on whether I give it to you. My child, you have no right to refuse."
Oakley couldn't control his body and opened his hands.
He completely put the wallet in his hand, but the wallet was so big that Oakley needed two hands to hold it.
"If you think gold coins are too ostentatious, use silver coins and copper coins, or you can take them to the bank and exchange them for banknotes."
Wang Quan paused, feeling that someone had entered the residence Elizabeth had prepared for him.
"It's time for me to go." He stood up and put on his hat, "See you later."
"Sir!" Oakley quickly called him, "Sir! Can I follow you?"
"Of course not." Wang Quan turned around and smiled, "But if you want to have extraordinary strength, you have to find a way to exercise it yourself."
When he was helping Oakley treat his old illness just now, he was running the exercise route of the secret book obtained by Da Zhou.
So as long as Oakley works hard, he can easily develop Qi.
And there is nothing dangerous. Wang Quan left a little bit of black and red mist on his body, which is the kind that will naturally escape regardless. And after Wang Quan's filtering, there is basically no mental pollution effect within thirty years. At most, it will cause
The person becomes a little gloomier, but it does not affect the other person's character.
As for thirty years from now...this power will have long since dissipated.
He saw Oakley still looking at him with pleading eyes, like a pitiful little puppy.
Wang Quan sighed and suddenly pointed behind Oakley with a frightened expression, "The monk in the almshouse!"
Oakley subconsciously turned around.
But nothing.
When he turned around again, Wang Quan had disappeared.
He lowered his head and looked at the wallet in his hand, solemnly put it away close to his body, then gritted his teeth and turned around and ran away.
After he ran away, Wang Quan emerged from where he was.
He smiled slightly, hummed a tune, turned his cane and walked towards where he lived.
............
When Wang Quan returned to his residence, he felt something was wrong.
That dark coat and that Sherlock Holmes-like hat, are they from Scotland Yard?
Scotland Yard was probably similar to the police of this era.
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There are also a few shining silver knights, who seem to be the remnants of the Knights of the Shining Sun.
"What are you looking at!"
Someone noticed that Wang Quan was paying attention over there, so two policemen came over.
When they got closer, they saw Wang Quan's attire and temperament, and their originally fierce tone immediately softened.
Two people even took off their hats and took them away.
Among them, the older policeman with a mustache adjusted his gray hair and said warmly: "Sir, it is temporarily impossible to pass here. I'm sorry."
"It's okay." Wang Quan smiled, "Excuse me, what happened here?"
A trace of depression flashed in the policeman's gray eyes, and he sighed and explained: "I heard that it was the intention of the big shots above, saying that there are fugitives here, and then let us seal the place. Look, all the knights are here."
The dissatisfaction with the big shots above and the Knights of the Sun in his tone was clear to everyone.
"Sir, you'd better take a detour. Those knights all have eyes on their foreheads. They don't care about the law."
That's why these Scotland Yard cops are upset.
The status of these knights here is the same as that of the Lighthouse Army in Korea and Japan.
So-called extraterritoriality.
"Thank you." Wang Quan shook hands with the two policemen, then walked around them towards the surrounded house.
"gentlemen?"
The police wanted to come over and stop him again, but Wang Quan smiled and said, "That's where I live. It's better for you two to stay away."
The two policemen were stunned for a moment, and a flash of scarlet flashed deep in their eyes.
Then, as if nothing happened, the two nodded, "Okay, I wish you a good time."
Taking off their hats again to salute, the two stood there with their backs turned and continued to stand guard, as if Wang Quan did not exist.
"stop!"
Seeing Wang Quan approaching slowly, two knights blocked the way.
Wang Quan smiled slightly and raised his head slightly, his scarlet eyes looming in the shadow under the brim of his hat.
............
Elizabeth was hiding in a cupboard wearing all her armor.
She was now in a miserable state, her armor was dirty, one arm was drooped, and the other hand was holding a giant sword.
Suddenly, she heard the door opening and footsteps.
She held her breath for a moment and held the giant sword tightly in her right hand.
The next moment, the footsteps disappeared.
Then, the cabinet door was opened.
She subconsciously struck with the sword, but it hit an index finger wearing a white glove.
The man flicked his fingers, and a huge force was transmitted back, and the giant sword in Elizabeth's hand was released.
"What's going on?" Wang Quan pulled Elizabeth out of the cabinet, "The princess is being hunted by people from her own country? Did you kill your own mother?"
Elizabeth's chapped lips opened slightly, her spirit suddenly relaxed, and she fainted with a roll of her eyes.