Chapter 155 Qinglan still needs to continue to transform
That night, everyone in Xuanzhu County did not get enough sleep.
Even if you sleep like a dead pig, you will be called out to watch the fun, no, it's to watch the fireworks, no, hey, anyway, just come out to watch the big bosses being unlucky!
Half of the city was full of fireworks, and the entire Xuanzhu County could be seen. Fortunately, the half of the city was located outside the county and blocked by a city wall. Otherwise, it was hard to say whether the fire would spread to the city. The wall facing the half of the city could not be seen.
Blackened.
The sound of running water to put out the fire resounded in the night sky. Patrol guards, various chambers of commerce, and the county governor's office all sent people to fight the fire. Even the gangs asked for help. Fortunately, they worked together to fight the fire and rescue the disaster. If the court could still control it,
In Dongyang District, maybe the Xuanzhu County Sheriff's Office will issue a report on "National Fire Fighting" to claim credit.
But in fact, ordinary people are relatively calm about this.
If someone wants to help, someone will stop him:
"Oh, why are you so anxious? No one lives in half of the city. They are all factories owned by rich people. There is no need for you to put out fires."
"But they seem to be short of people..."
"Oh, have you read the Youth Daily? Rich people all have faucets in their homes, and there is plenty of clean water in them. We drink water from wells that others don't want. They can fill a pool with water and swim. You can just move it.
What's the use of this little water? Sit here and watch carefully. When the rich people turn on the faucet, the fire will be extinguished."
Then the fire burned until the next day and couldn't be extinguished.
But daybreak means that the warriors are out of the weak state at night, and the fire-fighting efficiency has increased by dozens of percentage points. Moreover, half of the city is surrounded by water on three sides. Although the river water is a bit smelly due to industrial pollution, it is usable at least, and the water is quickly put out.
Most open flames.
Then half of the city became smelly and scorched, as if a garbage dump was burning.
However, since some people are gloating about the burning of the factory area, it is natural that some people are also filled with indignation.
"Boss Zhou! Boss Zhou, please open the door!"
"If the factory is gone, will we still have jobs, and will our wages be paid?"
“Let’s give out this half month’s money first!”
"Mr. Zhou, our family is waiting for the rice to be cooked. Please give us the half month's money first."
"Why the hell did those people blow up the factory!"
Vehicles drove slowly through the streets, and the doors of many chambers of commerce and shops in the outer city were closed. Workers gathered outside and shouted loudly - they were all supposed to go to the factory early in the morning, but now that they have gone there, they may only be able to move things.
Brick reconstruction live.
"It's too awful……"
Hearing Qing Lan's sigh, Le Yu rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
"With so many factories gone, many workers will definitely be unemployed." Qinglan looked outside and said: "How are these people who rely on working in the factories to survive now? How are their families going to survive?
I don’t know how many people want to sell their sons and daughters and become homeless..."
Unknowingly, Qing Lan clenched her fists: "The backlight elements are indeed a group of thugs who are afraid of the world being in chaos! Why do they want to attack half of the city, why do they want to smash everyone's jobs, why do they choose to
When the young master is on duty..."
Le Yu is not angry at all. He is not a Bai Ye Walker. Qing Lan scolds Bai Ye and it has nothing to do with him?
But at least this plan came from Le Yu, so he defended himself: "But don't you think that the fundamental reason for these things happening is that the silver-blood society wants to lower wages and exploit workers? The resistance of the anti-light elements is actually for
The workers rebelled against the factory and let the Silver Bloods know that they could not do whatever they wanted."
Qing Lan shook his head: "But the Silver Blood Association just wants to get more money from them, while the anti-light elements are doing this to smash the plates and make everyone unable to eat!"
Le Yu shrugged: "If Yin Xue continues to behave like this, the workers will not be able to eat sooner or later."
Qinglan didn't believe it: "How is it possible? If the workers don't have food to eat, wouldn't there be no one working in the factory?"
"Then set a threshold." Le Yu said calmly: "Assuming that Huiyao men begin to lose physical strength and work efficiency when they reach the age of 34, then only hire young men and pay them a salary that only allows them to fill their stomachs or
Buy a bottle of wine to numb yourself, and then fire him when he gets old. Although the previous young people have grown old, new young people have grown up. One generation after another, there will never be a shortage of workers in the factory."
"If we use a machine metaphor, then workers are the parts and gears of the machine in the factory. As long as the machine can move, as for whether the parts and gears will be broken...if they are broken, just replace them with new ones."
Qing Lan subconsciously covered her mouth and shook her head to reject the speculation: "How is it possible..."
"How is it impossible?" Le Yu asked back: "In the past, when the world was not in chaos, the imperial court could still intervene in Dongyang, so the Silver Blood Association did not dare to do anything. But now that the districts are in chaos and the imperial court is weak, the Silver Blood Association has long been ready to move."
"My brothers may have just been scapegoats for the Silver Blood Society... Isn't the reason why workers often riot is because they can have enough to eat? The Silver Blood Society has long wanted to prevent the workers from having enough to eat.
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"If this attack by the Backlight elements can really make the Silver Blood Convergence a little bit, then it will already be a victory."
There is actually not much evidence for what Le Yu said, it is more just his guess.
But when he was looking through Jing Zhengwei's memories over the years, he suddenly discovered something very interesting: the year when the old emperor was assassinated and died suddenly, many chambers of commerce in the Silver Blood Association were hoarding supplies at the same time, causing prices to skyrocket, and there were widespread complaints among the people, but soon the county
Shoufu and Yinxue will reach an agreement, goods will circulate normally, and prices will drop slightly - but they are still more expensive than before.
The tentative price increase was successful.
Then the Silver Blood Association asked each chamber of commerce with a large number of factories to take care of their workers and slaves and prevent worker riots from happening again, which put heavy pressure on the Jing family. However, this request essentially requires the Jing family to make a choice: you cut the flesh.
Feed the workers, or cut them off so that they can't cause trouble.
There is almost no doubt what choice the Jing family will make.
So Jing Zhengwu and others stepped on the thunder for the Silver-Blooded Club and began to tentatively lower wages, but this time they hit a steel plate.
Even if the Jing family does not take the lead, the Silver Blood Association will introduce similar measures sooner or later - the impact of the war in various districts, the influx of refugees from Tianji, and the real environment are forcing them to increase their efforts to squeeze the bottom class. How can they cut themselves off?
Meat to feed the belly of the bottom class?
The real purpose of the Silver Blood Association is readily apparent: they know in their hearts that the basis for their struggle for power and profit is actually their own means of production, factories and workers, so they do everything possible to stabilize this basis, create a broad system of slavery, and collude with the government.
The joint efforts between the military and the military to suppress the riots are normal operations based on this reason.
But because of the existence of the Backlight Organization White Night, the internal suppression of the Silver Blood Society has not achieved much results. There are either riots here or protests there, burning like weeds. The world is in chaos, and at the same time, it is also a member of the Silver Blood Society.
Opportunity - the court has no control over them, and they can test the bottom line of the workers as much as they like.
The best situation is to lower the bottom line of workers to the lowest level, just enough to keep workers alive, but make them tired of work, unable to resist and unable to think, turning them into gear parts that only know how to live and work, completely cutting off the silver lining.
The hidden dangers of the blood club’s basic market.
The class contradictions in Dongyang District have long been so great that they may break out at any time, and the outbreak of conflicts is often caused by the dissatisfied people shaking their fists at those with vested interests. There are two ways to resolve class conflicts: easing the contradictions and asking the dissatisfied people to put down their fists;
Or instead of resolving the conflict, resolve the dissatisfied ones - making the dissatisfied unable to raise their fists.
The silver-blooded one will take the latter path.
In fact, Le Yu has always been quite pessimistic about Xuan Zhu Bai Ye. If Hui Yao was still in the feudal era of swords, guns, swords and halberds, then they would have the hope of overthrowing the Silver Blood Society with pitchforks, but the problem is now the hot weapon era of gunfire and gunfire -
- Facing the Silver Blood Society with the support of the Heyang Army, as long as Bai Ye does not have equally powerful violent armed forces, their many uprisings will only lead to bloody suppression.
Le Yu didn't think of a way to break the situation, so he just took it one step at a time.
"But, but..." Qinglan faltered with an uneasy look on her face. When she saw the noisy workers outside, she was as happy as a candidate who had spotted the correct answer in an exam and said: "But the backlight elements attack the factory, even if they have another chance."
There are many reasons, but it is these poor people who pay the price! They have lost their jobs and stopped talking, how can they survive?"
"There will be work." Le Yu said calmly: "If the factory burns down, it is natural to rebuild the factory's production machinery. If nothing else, they can at least move bricks. Before I went out, I asked the housekeeper to notify the person in charge of the factory to start the reconstruction work.
"
Qing Lan pointed out the loophole: "But other people may not rebuild the factory! With such back-light elements coming in and out and attacking at any time, will other chambers of commerce be willing to build factories here?"
"Of course I do."
"Why?"
"If there are cockroaches in your home, would you throw your home somewhere else?" Le Yu said with a smile: "What's more, Xuanzhu County is a more important place than home to the Silver Blood Chamber of Commerce - in other places,
The Chamber of Commerce is just a money bag for the political and military circles, a pig that takes whatever it wants. Only in Xuanzhu County can they form a three-legged alliance with the other two parties."
"Compared to the attitude of other places towards the Chamber of Commerce, the anti-light elements are not a big trouble to the Silver Blood Association at all. They will not only build factories, but also build more and bigger ones, and use them to coerce workers to fight against the county magistrate's office and the
He Yangjun!"
"Speaking of which," Le Yu looked at Qing Lan in confusion: "Do you have a big grudge against the anti-light elements? I see that you have been trying every means to scold them. I thought you would secretly applaud them."
Qinglan's eyes evaded: "I...I don't think as much as Young Master, so when I saw them ruining so many people's jobs, I felt very angry. And..."
She lowered her head and played with her fingers, and said casually: "Aren't the anti-light elements your enemies, Master? It's them who have harmed you..."
Le Yu suddenly realized - it turns out that Qing Lan said bad things about Bai Ye just to please me.
Alas, even Qinglan, a miserable person, has learned this ability to talk nonsense to others.
He is clearly a proletarian, but he still stands on the standpoint of his capitalist class, duplicitously criticizing anti-faithful elements, just to increase his favorability.
The Silver Blood Society really turns people into ghosts!
Le Yu originally thought that by promoting Qing Lan to the position of editor-in-chief and allowing her to regain confidence and happiness from her work, she would be almost transformed.
When Le Yu got tired of playing around - he meant tired of playing with Jing Zhengwei's identity - before he ran away, he gave Qing Lan a large amount of money and let her go wherever she wanted to start a new life.
But now it seems that Qinglan's road to transformation still has a long way to go, and Leyu must continue to eradicate the inferiority thoughts in her heart!
Le Yu touched Qing Lan's head and said: "Oh... don't worry about me when you speak from now on. Speak your thoughts boldly. Look at how casual I am when I scold Yin Xue. Learn more. Even if you scold me in front of me,
Silver Blood Club, if you scold anyone, I won’t blame you, there’s no need to say such words to please me deliberately.”
Qing Lan glanced at him and moved her lips: "...stinky idiot."
"ah?"
"I didn't say anything."
After the car drove into the inner city, it slowly stopped. Mi Die, who was driving, said: "Sir, we're here."
Le Yu stood up and said, "Li Sang gets off the bus with me. Mi Die, please continue sending her to the newspaper office."
"Master." Qinglan took his hand: "Can I go with you?"
"This is not the Jing family. Of course you can't go." Le Yu waved his hand: "Go, go, don't think about not going to work. You are already late when you come to the inner city with me. Go to the newspaper office honestly."
Qinglan said worriedly: "Master... you have to come back."
"I wasn't in any danger, but I felt like I was going to die because of what you said. What's there to care about? Just care more about yourself." Le Yu closed the car door angrily: "Goodbye!"
Watching the car turn around and drive towards the outer city, Le Yu turned to Li Sang and said, "What's there to worry about? Am I still in danger in the inner city?"
"...Yes." Lisang nodded.
In front of Le Yu is an unremarkable courtyard. A vulgar plaque that reads "Wealth and Treasures" hangs high at the door. The street sign here hangs on the wall next to the door: No. A 88.
He went up and picked up the brass bell at the door and knocked on the door. Soon a well-dressed middle-aged man opened the door: "Is this Young Master Zhengjing of the patrol team?"
"yes."
"Please come in, everyone is in the main hall."
The middle-aged man led Le Yu, and Li Sang was also taken away by others. Where he is going now, he does not bring bodyguards.
When he walked to the door of the main hall, the middle-aged man did not go in. He stretched out his hand towards Le Yu: "Please."
Le Yu calmly stepped across the threshold, carrying the early morning sunshine, and walked into this overly large hall that was slightly dark inside——
Eighty-eight pairs of eyes looked at Le Yu who walked in the door at the same time.
In front of Le Yu is a large main hall the size of an auditorium. Four large round tables are placed in the four directions of the main hall. The sunlight from the only skylight shines in the middle of the four round tables. There are people beside each round table.
Twenty-two people were seated, a total of eighty-eight people.
They are representatives of the Eighty-Eight Chamber of Commerce.
This is the Silver Blood Society.
Le Yu scanned the whole place and quickly found his target. He went over to stand with them and said, "The scapegoating team assembles!"
Qin Leyin: "?(^?^*)Wei Shao, you are here."
Quan Xin: “(°ー°〃)What kind of taking the blame?”
Luo Zhen: “(○｀3′○) It’s none of my business.”
Lan Jianbo: “≡ω≡I don’t know if I want to take the blame, but I know that one of us must take the blame.”
Ting Chaowao: "(′Д`) I shouldn't play Monopoly with you..."
