If we want to order the moral standards of each faction within the legion, the civil service group that stays by His Majesty the Marshal can undoubtedly be ranked first.
While the Eastern Legion was still thinking about how to squeeze out the last drop of oil from the indentured slaves, the civil service group had already figured out a set of ways to systematically convert indentured slaves into debt slaves.
Don’t think that this is an evil thing. Combined with the background of the wasteland, turning people from animals into goods can definitely be considered a good act.
The poor people in Bugra Free State at most complain that the advertisements for refrigerators are too long and the iris detection devices are too anti-human. The slaves in the Bharat Province may not only not sympathize after hearing their troubles, but will instead ask in a daze what refrigerators and advertisements are. Why do you waste 75 seconds of your life without spending money?
In short, although the civil servants of Triumph City did not let the survivors of Xifan Port use the refrigerator, they at least opened a window for their hopeless life.
These civil servants first cooperated with the nobles of Shizhou to rent the slaves in the hands of the nobles with a rent of 50 dinar a month, and then they would give the slaves an additional 50 to 150 dinars at the end of each month.
How much you can get depends purely on your performance at work.
Of course, this money will not be stuffed into the slaves' pockets, but it will be recorded in their accounts. Once you save enough money, you can redeem yourself and your family.
After these slaves redeem themselves, they became skilled workers. They not only had rich work experience, but also had higher enthusiasm for work.
The Legion will continue to hire them to work, and the original reward is their monthly wages.
For the Willant people, the wages they paid to these people did not change, but instead saved the 50 dinar monthly rent to the nobles, which was equivalent to hiring a group of more skilled workers at a lower cost.
For the nobles, the amount of slaves did not affect their income. Although it was a pity to sell the skilled worker, the redemption fee of a thousand dinar was not a loss, which was equivalent to a 20-month income bought out at one time.
Moreover, they can make a fortune by relying on the packaged labor agency, the labor registration office.
The only ones who lose are those free people.
It turned out that they were all in the noble real estate, but now everything depends on themselves...
……
Xifan Port.
Unlike the busyness of sweating and raining in the past, the atmosphere on the dock today is a bit strange.
The black crowd squeezed into the port, blocking the entire road from the dock to the warehouse, and his face was filled with depression.
They were the first batch of workers to arrive at Xifan Port, and every brick in this port is filled with their blood and sweat. However, these people are not only satisfied with trampling those bricks under their feet, but also trampling their only dignity and hope.
Orissa was not the first coolie to die in Xifan Port, nor even the first free people to die at work. However, his death was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, which completely angered the free people in the entire port!
Why are they living hard like donkeys?
Isn’t it just to get the paper coupon that proves that they are free people?
Humans are animals that live for food by hope. They can live even if they eat soil when they have hope.
As long as you work diligently, you can gain freedom. Just like a radish hanging in front of them. For this radish and for their families to eat this radish, they will not hesitate to endure the whip and spitting of the supervisor, and they will fall into trouble and even break their backbone...
However, the men of Xifan Port pulled off the radish that was hanging in front of them and threw the only hope they had to the ground.
So what if I get it?
Can't you hold on to that piece of paper?
In the end, the only real free people in Xifan Port are those who do not need paper coupons to prove themselves.
No one would ask the Willant people to ask that thing, no one would ask the nobles to ask that thing, and even the priests of Silver Moon Bay and merchants in the southern waters did not need it, as if it was because of some agreements of the Muscle Community.
Orissa spent 1,000 dinars for his redeem, and he spent countless amounts on his redeem for his family. He might have borrowed a little from the Willant people.
However, his death compensation is only 800 dinars!
Eight hundred!
At the worst and worst exchange rate of 1:5, you can't even exchange 200 silver coins!
This money cannot repay the debt, nor can it maintain the family's expenses for too long.
Once he was buried in the soil, his family would either repeat his mistakes or go to the same fate as him.
Or
I can only sell myself and start the next cycle of despair.
If the new wind on the wasteland can never blow here, the people here may be able to endure all this with great effort, and they will not suddenly wake up until the moment they enter the soil, and the pain in a moment is not a kind of happiness.
Unfortunately, the merchant ships from the east brought more than just wealth and technology.
There is also the idea of enlightening all this.
The free people standing here may not recognize many words, but from the priests from Silver Moon Bay, they already knew that there was a settlement called the Rock City and an awakened man named Bohr thousands of kilometers away.
A person's power is insignificant, but when 500,000 survivors unite, even the huge walls hundreds of meters high will tremble, and buildings thousands of meters high will collapse!
There are more than 500,000 survivors in Xifan Port, but a million!
Inspired by the power of role models, the people who had originally dispersed as the gunshots rang out and united again...
They have had enough of those lies.
They have to rely on their own hands to fight for their own rights.
Facing the crowd that was getting more and more gathering, Najib started to sweat, but he still plucked up the courage to yell at them.
What are you doing here?Why don't you go to work soon... I'm itchy again, right?
People did not speak, nor did they come forward to provoke the Willant soldiers like they did last time, just standing there silently and looking at him with their eyes.
As he was so panicked by those eyes, Najib swallowed nervously, and his right hand holding the whip kept trembling, as if he had muscle weakness, he couldn't even take action.
There were at least 20,000 to 30,000 people gathered here, and the number was more than ten times that of the day before yesterday.
Not only do these people not work themselves, but they also blocked the road to the warehouse.
Now the entire port is like an alarm clock that has been broken, and the loading and unloading work has completely stopped.
If he could not unload all the goods on the dock before dark, the owner of the Wirants and the local nobles would come to him for trouble!
When he thought of the scene, cold sweat suddenly oozed out of Najib's forehead and he looked at the port guard next to him with help.
The guards were also whispering to each other, as if discussing countermeasures.
How about exorcising these people first?
But the dock still needs them to work.
But they are just in the way of staying here now.
But what if they are gone?I can't finish it even if I rely on those slaves who work hard until tomorrow.
The Governor explained that our work was to ensure the production order here... we had to find ways to get them back to their jobs, and we had to make them work honestly.
The guard captain glanced at the workers and frowned tightly.
He had underestimated these guys before. Although they were as timid as mice, they were not useless.
Like enough cunning.
There have also been free people strikes in other colonies of the Willant, but that usually occurs when the interest rate and income of debt is completely unbalanced, and rarely occurs in the early stages of the transition from indentured slaves to debt slaves.
This should have been a honeymoon period for both sides.
However, it was as if someone had told them what step the scam would develop next, and they suddenly woke up from their illusory dreams.
And I also learned the worst and worst bad habit of strike.
They can use guns to drive these people from one cage to another, but they can't force them to show their enthusiasm for work.
And when this comes, even the Willant can only make some compromises by weighing the pros and cons.
Unfortunately, the governor returned to Triumph City for the New Year and is probably still floating on the sea.
The guard captain walked to Najib with great strides and said in the tone of the pale-faced latter.
...It is not a solution to continue this stalemate. You can talk to them to see how they can get back to work.
Najib hurriedly returned to the crowd, trying to pick up his usual arrogant expression, but he couldn't show his vicious confidence. In the end, he could only lower his posture and said with great sincerity.
What's the use of standing here just?What do you want, you have to give me a word!
With the support of his companions, a laborer stood up and stared at him with his eyes tightly.
We died an Orissa.
Naji said gritting his teeth.
We have already given compensation, what else do you want to do!
The labor said angrily.
...Too few!Eight hundred dinars are not enough for his family to survive in Xifan Port!
Then go back to the countryside. As soon as Naji opened his mouth to refute, he was interrupted by the other party in anger.
Don’t pretend to be stupid there. The fertile land of Shizhou is covered with plantations, so where can there be land that will make them live!
This sentence resonated with many people, especially those who originally worked in the plantation.
If there are really choices, they don’t want to work hard in this ghost place.
They have the ability to farm, but they have no land they can grow at all.
That's right!They have no home they can go back to!
Could it be that Odisa's wife and daughter will return to his original master's plantation!
Then why do we redeem ourselves!In the end it's not the same!
The noise became louder and louder, and people were more and more excited.
Naji suddenly panicked and shouted desperately.
Then what do you want?Could we support them for the rest of our lives?Why!
The moment they heard this, everyone was in an uproar and their eyes became even more angry.
Why!
Just because Orissa died while working for you!
We have shed blood and sweat for this port, why is there no place here?
That's right!We don’t just seek justice for Odisa!We must also seek justice!
The wages for working must increase!
Or give us at least 10 dinars a day!Or allow us to organize ourselves to contract the dock!Everyone competes fairly, we can eat as much as we do, and it is not up to you!
The entire dock was filled with the roar of laborers, and even the slaves who wanted to squeeze through the crowd couldn't help but stop.
Listening to the increasingly excessive demands, Najib felt his scalp numb.
These guys who are asking for a lot of money!
10 dinars a day!
It will cost 300 in a month!It's equivalent to double the previous maximum salary!
It costs so much money to move a few boxes, why don’t they grab them!
As for letting them organize themselves to contract the dock, it is absolutely absolutely necessary.
This is not just a matter of interest, but other more difficult issues are there.
Neither the Willant nor the nobles would agree to let these inferior people organize.
They dared to ask to contract the dock today, and tomorrow they would ask to contract the city hall bank post office together!
Whose name is there in Xifan Port then?Are the names of these rats?
Naji's brow twitched violently, and he shouted at the crowd with all his strength.
Are you crazy?Do you know what you are asking for?You might as well let us give you this port!
Then you give us Ah!
The laborers standing in front of the crowd did not show weakness at all, and they did not intend to give in.
As if he heard something funny, Najib sneered.
Give it to you?You will destroy everything here in less than a day!
The dock worker stared at him tightly.
That's ruined, anyway, everything here never belongs to us!
Seeing the crowd's emotions becoming more and more excited, the Willant guards standing aside finally couldn't stand it anymore.
The guard captain walked to Najib's side, pulled him aside, staring at his eyes and said word by word.
Are you a pig?I asked you to negotiate terms with them and coax them back to their posts, but I didn't let you quarrel with them!Do you still need me to teach you what to do?
Seeing that Willant was angry, Najib quickly explained.
Big, sir, you don’t understand... You can’t give them a good look!Once they taste the sweetness, they will immediately climb up the baton in your hand like a snake.
I don't understand?The guard captain sneered and patted his head with a smile. How many colonies have you been to?I have been a foreman for a few days, but I dare to talk to me like this?
Naji was sweating profusely and his head was lowered with a pale face.
I don't dare...
The guard captain looked at the helpless guy with contempt, and the expression on his face became increasingly disgusted.
He doesn't reject obedient dogs, but this dog has to be useful at least, right?
He served as a guard in the Southern Legion for more than ten years and had a lot of dealing with local natives around the colony.
Although he did not directly participate in the game between those big shots, he still understood some basic consensus.
Whether it is the Southern Army, the Civil Service Group, or the local native chiefs or nobles, they are more inclined to feed the cows before milking them.
This is good for everyone.
And these guys, like they had never seen money, wished they could use a knife to cut the cow's neck, skip the milking process, and lie on it and drink blood.
There was no time to wait for this guy to get out of his way, the guard captain said in an unquestionable tone.
Raise the standard of death compensation and increase their wages, but you can't give them all at once. You can bargain with them... You can take this into account.I only have one requirement, to resume work as soon as possible and not to make things worse, otherwise let the Governor know, you will not have any good results!
When he heard this, Naji immediately cried and begged.
But sir, our profit is only a little bit. After raising their wages, how can we make money...
Don’t behave like me!
Seeing that this guy was still pretending to be a fool, the guard captain couldn't help but squirt and pointed at his nose and cursed.
You collect money according to the weight of the goods!The wages you give them are less than one-tenth of what you earn!What if you take out one tenth of it?The time and money you have wasted here are far more than this!Do you still need me to teach you how to do business?
Looking at the foreman who was scolded and did not dare to take a breath, the guard captain sighed and said in a gentle tone.
... Be slightly better to your compatriots, don't force them too much, don't always think about winning the last dinar, otherwise it will be good for no one.
yes……
Naji responded reluctantly, although he didn't think that these snakes, rats, insects and birds were his compatriots.
He is a member of the Lion tribe after all.
Even if he is not a noble, he is much nobler than these guys.
Under the urging of the guard captain, he had to return to the crowd again.
...Thank you, the kind Governor!We can raise your wages!But don’t go too far. What about eight dinars a day?There are 240 pieces per month!Damn, I envy your salary. You can buy a little wife after working for 5 months!
Hearing that the wages have increased to eight gold coins a day, the originally angry crowd gradually showed a trace of differentiation, and some people's eyes re-expressed their expectations for life.
As Najib said, 240 dinars a month are a lot!
However, not everyone is so easy to buy.
There were still many people staring at the foreman who was pushed to the front stage with a look of righteous indignation.
What about Orissa?
Naji gritted his teeth, thinking that he had spent a lot of money anyway, and it was not that bad, so he said with a heart.
The Labor Registration Office will give his family an additional 3,000 dinars... But this money is not compensation, but a donation of goodwill and kindness!People who have worked hard and sweat for Xifan Port cannot be disappointed. His family should be supported by Xifan Port!
3000 dinars is already good!
Even if the wages after the increase are calculated, it will be a year's salary!
There was finally a light of expectation in everyone's eyes. Unexpectedly, these nobles also had good people. Some of them couldn't help but whistle and clapped their hands with praise.
This time, even those who were originally indignant gradually had a slight difference, and only a small group of people were still glaring at them.
Naji continued in a soothing tone as he looked at the already shaken crowd.
Okay, it’s all gone. If you still want to get the salary you have today, then go back to work quickly, or do you expect the gold coins to fall from the sky by themselves?
The crowd gradually dispersed, and Najib finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought of the spent money, he still felt ache in his heart.
I hope the master doesn't blame him...
If he blamed him, he could only use the Willant people as a shield.
Just say that he had stick to the bottom line, and it was the group of Willant guards who forced him to raise his wages.
When they saw the troublemakers going back to work, the Willant guards who were marching in front of the port also disbanded and went to work on their own.
The New Year is coming soon, and after the New Year is the birthday, they actually have no intention of working, and they don’t want to find things for themselves. Their thoughts have long since floated back to their homes.
The guard captain returned to the police station, first sent a telegram to Yongyegang using a dedicated line to resolve the crisis, and then reported the incident to the secretary of the Governor's Office.
Governor Huye returned to Triumph City and took half of the guards of the Governor's Office. General McCross and other instructors also went to Yongye Harbor to take a boat some time ago. The only army in Xifan Port was left with the port guards and the city defense force composed of locals, with unprecedented emptiness in the garrison.
If possible, he hopes that the Governor's Office can borrow a team of people from the Southern Corps.
Even the minion army is good.
However, the trouble is that there is no ship on the entire route now, and all the useful ships have been sent to the east by the civil service group. It is probably not easy to transfer people...
On the other hand, Najib, who finally settled the matter, returned to the labor registration office, and reported on the situation at the port and the increase in wages one by one with several major shareholders.
After being scolded, he had not yet stopped breathing, but saw his subordinates running in a hurry, shouting while running.
Sir, something big is wrong!
Before his butt could warm up the chair, Najib felt his heart skip and stood up from the chair and cursed.
What happened again?Didn’t I give them a raise??
His men were so anxious that their faces were pale and said in a hurry.
This is not the dock, but the steel plant... and the cement plant.When the workers in the factory heard that the wages had increased, one or two of them had stopped working, they also yelled to raise their wages.
As soon as he heard this, Najib almost vomited an old blood and cursed.
These greedy vultures!
It was indeed not as expected by him.
He knew it would turn out like this in the end!
Those Willant people were too unaware of the situation in the Bharat Province, and those mud legs could not be spoiled. Once their lives were comfortable, they would be smeared.
When the wages at the factory increased, the workers at the docks would be noisy again, saying that the work of moving goods would be even more tiring, how could they pay the same wage as the people in the steel mill?
After a while, they won’t make money, so they can simply lock up all the factories in the port!
Naji was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, but the director of the Labor Department, who was standing beside him, frowned and muttered in a low voice.
I always think about this matter not as if someone is fanning the flames.
Naji was shocked.
You mean alliance?
The director shook his head.
It doesn't look like that, it's completely inconsistent.
The alliance's merchant ships will also come here to buy steel and cement. The Jingalun Port and the French Fries Port have a large demand for building materials, as well as the rebuilt southern waters and Haiya Province, etc.
It would not do them to make a mess of Xifan Port, and at most it would give Legion and Empire a headache.
At this moment, the servant who came to report the news suddenly felt aroused in his heart and quickly spoke.
By the way, I heard that the few who were leading the trouble seemed to be the believers of the Silver Moon Church!There are also the most noisy ones just now!
Najib became angry when he heard this and cursed.
Are those charlatans crazy?
The director of the Labor Registration Office said thoughtfully, with a flash of eyes.
The Yinyue Sect’s doctrine contains the creed of mutual help. The reason why this matter is so big... Maybe it really has something to do with them.
The servant continued quickly.
Yes!I always think that those charlatans are not good people. By the way, I heard that Odisha is a believer of the Silver Moon Sect. The ones who took the lead in making fun often worship with him.
Naji's eyes gradually narrowed, and a trace of imperceptible evil light flashed in the cracks.
I've been doing it for a long time because of this...
He was indeed negligent about this matter.
He almost forgot that the church is also an organization.
Not to mention that the Yinyue Sect is not honest, not only teaches the believers to read, but also runs some newspapers.
As if he had grasped the root of the problem, he immediately started to think about it in his mind.
...I have to find a way to get rid of that church.
The director shook his head after hearing this.
This matter is difficult to deal with... We cannot touch the people of Silver Moon Bay, they are residents of the Camel Kingdom and are protected by the relevant treaties of the Mud Community.If we don’t have a reason to attack them, it’s hard to say whether there will be any big problems.
Why do it yourself...
Naji suddenly smiled sinisterly and said slowly in the surprised eyes of the two.
It was the residents of Xifan Port who drove them away as charlatans themselves. This cannot be attributed to us, right?
……
Although there are quite a lot of orders for the steel mill, the work is not as urgent as the port.
Before the guards raised by the Wirant men in the port took action, Najib formed a long stick team with more than a hundred slaves borrowed from the labor department, which not only promised their freedom and the rewards of Dinar, but also promised not to treat them unfairly in the future.
When these slaves heard that they had money and could be valued by the master, they carried sticks without saying a word and broke up the group of workers who were gathered together and did not work.
Looking at the mobs running away with their heads in their arms, Najib showed a grim smile on his face.
If you don’t do it, don’t do it!
At worst, the steel plant will be closed for two days, and it will be clear who will starve to death first!
With the lesson from the port, he understood that he must be hesitant to this matter. He must be tough when he should be tough, and must be decisive when he should take action.
It will definitely be better to take action first and then take action!
Even if you die a little, it will be better than being beaten by the Willant men.
After getting through the troubles of the steel plant, Najib took people to the cement plant in the same way, directing the sticks that were loyal to him, and also giving the troublemaker a lesson.
After his thunderous and decisive struggle, Xifan Port, filled with powder barrels, seemed to have finally returned to its former peace, but it seemed that a greater crisis was brewing in the endless greed...
In three days, with the hard handling of dock workers, all the cargo ships blocked the port were finally unloaded, and the dock finally became empty.
The caravans who were lightly equipped with authorization letters from the Governor's Office rushed to the legendary dreamland of Haiya Province in the far east!
At the same time, Najib, who was forced to death by the group of porters, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The most difficult days have passed, and he can finally free up his hands to do something.
Whether it is the workers who strike, or the Silver Moon Sect that instigates workers to be lazy...
He swears he will make them pay!
As time passed day by day, Xifan Port seemed to be silent for a while.
At the same time, the caravans that first set out from Xifan Port to the Death Coast finally arrived at the coast in their dreams one after another.
After floating on the sea for a whole eleven days, looking at the port that appeared on the coastline, Yarman, who was standing on the deck, finally showed an excited expression on his face.
It's a port!
They finally arrived!
The nearest unit of the Eastern Legion is stationed in Haibei City, 100 kilometers away from the coastline. As long as you give the letter issued by the Governor's Office to those people, they can get the arms sold by pounds!
quick!Push the boat over!
Yarman shouted to the crew behind him, while excitedly pulling out his telescope.
However, the moment he took out his telescope and looked at the coastline, he was stunned.
I saw painted black tanks parked neatly next to the container, waiting for professional suspension equipment to load them on the ship.
The models of those
Why do you look so familiar?
While the Eastern Legion was still thinking about how to squeeze out the last drop of oil from the indentured slaves, the civil service group had already figured out a set of ways to systematically convert indentured slaves into debt slaves.
Don’t think that this is an evil thing. Combined with the background of the wasteland, turning people from animals into goods can definitely be considered a good act.
The poor people in Bugra Free State at most complain that the advertisements for refrigerators are too long and the iris detection devices are too anti-human. The slaves in the Bharat Province may not only not sympathize after hearing their troubles, but will instead ask in a daze what refrigerators and advertisements are. Why do you waste 75 seconds of your life without spending money?
In short, although the civil servants of Triumph City did not let the survivors of Xifan Port use the refrigerator, they at least opened a window for their hopeless life.
These civil servants first cooperated with the nobles of Shizhou to rent the slaves in the hands of the nobles with a rent of 50 dinar a month, and then they would give the slaves an additional 50 to 150 dinars at the end of each month.
How much you can get depends purely on your performance at work.
Of course, this money will not be stuffed into the slaves' pockets, but it will be recorded in their accounts. Once you save enough money, you can redeem yourself and your family.
After these slaves redeem themselves, they became skilled workers. They not only had rich work experience, but also had higher enthusiasm for work.
The Legion will continue to hire them to work, and the original reward is their monthly wages.
For the Willant people, the wages they paid to these people did not change, but instead saved the 50 dinar monthly rent to the nobles, which was equivalent to hiring a group of more skilled workers at a lower cost.
For the nobles, the amount of slaves did not affect their income. Although it was a pity to sell the skilled worker, the redemption fee of a thousand dinar was not a loss, which was equivalent to a 20-month income bought out at one time.
Moreover, they can make a fortune by relying on the packaged labor agency, the labor registration office.
The only ones who lose are those free people.
It turned out that they were all in the noble real estate, but now everything depends on themselves...
……
Xifan Port.
Unlike the busyness of sweating and raining in the past, the atmosphere on the dock today is a bit strange.
The black crowd squeezed into the port, blocking the entire road from the dock to the warehouse, and his face was filled with depression.
They were the first batch of workers to arrive at Xifan Port, and every brick in this port is filled with their blood and sweat. However, these people are not only satisfied with trampling those bricks under their feet, but also trampling their only dignity and hope.
Orissa was not the first coolie to die in Xifan Port, nor even the first free people to die at work. However, his death was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, which completely angered the free people in the entire port!
Why are they living hard like donkeys?
Isn’t it just to get the paper coupon that proves that they are free people?
Humans are animals that live for food by hope. They can live even if they eat soil when they have hope.
As long as you work diligently, you can gain freedom. Just like a radish hanging in front of them. For this radish and for their families to eat this radish, they will not hesitate to endure the whip and spitting of the supervisor, and they will fall into trouble and even break their backbone...
However, the men of Xifan Port pulled off the radish that was hanging in front of them and threw the only hope they had to the ground.
So what if I get it?
Can't you hold on to that piece of paper?
In the end, the only real free people in Xifan Port are those who do not need paper coupons to prove themselves.
No one would ask the Willant people to ask that thing, no one would ask the nobles to ask that thing, and even the priests of Silver Moon Bay and merchants in the southern waters did not need it, as if it was because of some agreements of the Muscle Community.
Orissa spent 1,000 dinars for his redeem, and he spent countless amounts on his redeem for his family. He might have borrowed a little from the Willant people.
However, his death compensation is only 800 dinars!
Eight hundred!
At the worst and worst exchange rate of 1:5, you can't even exchange 200 silver coins!
This money cannot repay the debt, nor can it maintain the family's expenses for too long.
Once he was buried in the soil, his family would either repeat his mistakes or go to the same fate as him.
Or
I can only sell myself and start the next cycle of despair.
If the new wind on the wasteland can never blow here, the people here may be able to endure all this with great effort, and they will not suddenly wake up until the moment they enter the soil, and the pain in a moment is not a kind of happiness.
Unfortunately, the merchant ships from the east brought more than just wealth and technology.
There is also the idea of enlightening all this.
The free people standing here may not recognize many words, but from the priests from Silver Moon Bay, they already knew that there was a settlement called the Rock City and an awakened man named Bohr thousands of kilometers away.
A person's power is insignificant, but when 500,000 survivors unite, even the huge walls hundreds of meters high will tremble, and buildings thousands of meters high will collapse!
There are more than 500,000 survivors in Xifan Port, but a million!
Inspired by the power of role models, the people who had originally dispersed as the gunshots rang out and united again...
They have had enough of those lies.
They have to rely on their own hands to fight for their own rights.
Facing the crowd that was getting more and more gathering, Najib started to sweat, but he still plucked up the courage to yell at them.
What are you doing here?Why don't you go to work soon... I'm itchy again, right?
People did not speak, nor did they come forward to provoke the Willant soldiers like they did last time, just standing there silently and looking at him with their eyes.
As he was so panicked by those eyes, Najib swallowed nervously, and his right hand holding the whip kept trembling, as if he had muscle weakness, he couldn't even take action.
There were at least 20,000 to 30,000 people gathered here, and the number was more than ten times that of the day before yesterday.
Not only do these people not work themselves, but they also blocked the road to the warehouse.
Now the entire port is like an alarm clock that has been broken, and the loading and unloading work has completely stopped.
If he could not unload all the goods on the dock before dark, the owner of the Wirants and the local nobles would come to him for trouble!
When he thought of the scene, cold sweat suddenly oozed out of Najib's forehead and he looked at the port guard next to him with help.
The guards were also whispering to each other, as if discussing countermeasures.
How about exorcising these people first?
But the dock still needs them to work.
But they are just in the way of staying here now.
But what if they are gone?I can't finish it even if I rely on those slaves who work hard until tomorrow.
The Governor explained that our work was to ensure the production order here... we had to find ways to get them back to their jobs, and we had to make them work honestly.
The guard captain glanced at the workers and frowned tightly.
He had underestimated these guys before. Although they were as timid as mice, they were not useless.
Like enough cunning.
There have also been free people strikes in other colonies of the Willant, but that usually occurs when the interest rate and income of debt is completely unbalanced, and rarely occurs in the early stages of the transition from indentured slaves to debt slaves.
This should have been a honeymoon period for both sides.
However, it was as if someone had told them what step the scam would develop next, and they suddenly woke up from their illusory dreams.
And I also learned the worst and worst bad habit of strike.
They can use guns to drive these people from one cage to another, but they can't force them to show their enthusiasm for work.
And when this comes, even the Willant can only make some compromises by weighing the pros and cons.
Unfortunately, the governor returned to Triumph City for the New Year and is probably still floating on the sea.
The guard captain walked to Najib with great strides and said in the tone of the pale-faced latter.
...It is not a solution to continue this stalemate. You can talk to them to see how they can get back to work.
Najib hurriedly returned to the crowd, trying to pick up his usual arrogant expression, but he couldn't show his vicious confidence. In the end, he could only lower his posture and said with great sincerity.
What's the use of standing here just?What do you want, you have to give me a word!
With the support of his companions, a laborer stood up and stared at him with his eyes tightly.
We died an Orissa.
Naji said gritting his teeth.
We have already given compensation, what else do you want to do!
The labor said angrily.
...Too few!Eight hundred dinars are not enough for his family to survive in Xifan Port!
Then go back to the countryside. As soon as Naji opened his mouth to refute, he was interrupted by the other party in anger.
Don’t pretend to be stupid there. The fertile land of Shizhou is covered with plantations, so where can there be land that will make them live!
This sentence resonated with many people, especially those who originally worked in the plantation.
If there are really choices, they don’t want to work hard in this ghost place.
They have the ability to farm, but they have no land they can grow at all.
That's right!They have no home they can go back to!
Could it be that Odisa's wife and daughter will return to his original master's plantation!
Then why do we redeem ourselves!In the end it's not the same!
The noise became louder and louder, and people were more and more excited.
Naji suddenly panicked and shouted desperately.
Then what do you want?Could we support them for the rest of our lives?Why!
The moment they heard this, everyone was in an uproar and their eyes became even more angry.
Why!
Just because Orissa died while working for you!
We have shed blood and sweat for this port, why is there no place here?
That's right!We don’t just seek justice for Odisa!We must also seek justice!
The wages for working must increase!
Or give us at least 10 dinars a day!Or allow us to organize ourselves to contract the dock!Everyone competes fairly, we can eat as much as we do, and it is not up to you!
The entire dock was filled with the roar of laborers, and even the slaves who wanted to squeeze through the crowd couldn't help but stop.
Listening to the increasingly excessive demands, Najib felt his scalp numb.
These guys who are asking for a lot of money!
10 dinars a day!
It will cost 300 in a month!It's equivalent to double the previous maximum salary!
It costs so much money to move a few boxes, why don’t they grab them!
As for letting them organize themselves to contract the dock, it is absolutely absolutely necessary.
This is not just a matter of interest, but other more difficult issues are there.
Neither the Willant nor the nobles would agree to let these inferior people organize.
They dared to ask to contract the dock today, and tomorrow they would ask to contract the city hall bank post office together!
Whose name is there in Xifan Port then?Are the names of these rats?
Naji's brow twitched violently, and he shouted at the crowd with all his strength.
Are you crazy?Do you know what you are asking for?You might as well let us give you this port!
Then you give us Ah!
The laborers standing in front of the crowd did not show weakness at all, and they did not intend to give in.
As if he heard something funny, Najib sneered.
Give it to you?You will destroy everything here in less than a day!
The dock worker stared at him tightly.
That's ruined, anyway, everything here never belongs to us!
Seeing the crowd's emotions becoming more and more excited, the Willant guards standing aside finally couldn't stand it anymore.
The guard captain walked to Najib's side, pulled him aside, staring at his eyes and said word by word.
Are you a pig?I asked you to negotiate terms with them and coax them back to their posts, but I didn't let you quarrel with them!Do you still need me to teach you what to do?
Seeing that Willant was angry, Najib quickly explained.
Big, sir, you don’t understand... You can’t give them a good look!Once they taste the sweetness, they will immediately climb up the baton in your hand like a snake.
I don't understand?The guard captain sneered and patted his head with a smile. How many colonies have you been to?I have been a foreman for a few days, but I dare to talk to me like this?
Naji was sweating profusely and his head was lowered with a pale face.
I don't dare...
The guard captain looked at the helpless guy with contempt, and the expression on his face became increasingly disgusted.
He doesn't reject obedient dogs, but this dog has to be useful at least, right?
He served as a guard in the Southern Legion for more than ten years and had a lot of dealing with local natives around the colony.
Although he did not directly participate in the game between those big shots, he still understood some basic consensus.
Whether it is the Southern Army, the Civil Service Group, or the local native chiefs or nobles, they are more inclined to feed the cows before milking them.
This is good for everyone.
And these guys, like they had never seen money, wished they could use a knife to cut the cow's neck, skip the milking process, and lie on it and drink blood.
There was no time to wait for this guy to get out of his way, the guard captain said in an unquestionable tone.
Raise the standard of death compensation and increase their wages, but you can't give them all at once. You can bargain with them... You can take this into account.I only have one requirement, to resume work as soon as possible and not to make things worse, otherwise let the Governor know, you will not have any good results!
When he heard this, Naji immediately cried and begged.
But sir, our profit is only a little bit. After raising their wages, how can we make money...
Don’t behave like me!
Seeing that this guy was still pretending to be a fool, the guard captain couldn't help but squirt and pointed at his nose and cursed.
You collect money according to the weight of the goods!The wages you give them are less than one-tenth of what you earn!What if you take out one tenth of it?The time and money you have wasted here are far more than this!Do you still need me to teach you how to do business?
Looking at the foreman who was scolded and did not dare to take a breath, the guard captain sighed and said in a gentle tone.
... Be slightly better to your compatriots, don't force them too much, don't always think about winning the last dinar, otherwise it will be good for no one.
yes……
Naji responded reluctantly, although he didn't think that these snakes, rats, insects and birds were his compatriots.
He is a member of the Lion tribe after all.
Even if he is not a noble, he is much nobler than these guys.
Under the urging of the guard captain, he had to return to the crowd again.
...Thank you, the kind Governor!We can raise your wages!But don’t go too far. What about eight dinars a day?There are 240 pieces per month!Damn, I envy your salary. You can buy a little wife after working for 5 months!
Hearing that the wages have increased to eight gold coins a day, the originally angry crowd gradually showed a trace of differentiation, and some people's eyes re-expressed their expectations for life.
As Najib said, 240 dinars a month are a lot!
However, not everyone is so easy to buy.
There were still many people staring at the foreman who was pushed to the front stage with a look of righteous indignation.
What about Orissa?
Naji gritted his teeth, thinking that he had spent a lot of money anyway, and it was not that bad, so he said with a heart.
The Labor Registration Office will give his family an additional 3,000 dinars... But this money is not compensation, but a donation of goodwill and kindness!People who have worked hard and sweat for Xifan Port cannot be disappointed. His family should be supported by Xifan Port!
3000 dinars is already good!
Even if the wages after the increase are calculated, it will be a year's salary!
There was finally a light of expectation in everyone's eyes. Unexpectedly, these nobles also had good people. Some of them couldn't help but whistle and clapped their hands with praise.
This time, even those who were originally indignant gradually had a slight difference, and only a small group of people were still glaring at them.
Naji continued in a soothing tone as he looked at the already shaken crowd.
Okay, it’s all gone. If you still want to get the salary you have today, then go back to work quickly, or do you expect the gold coins to fall from the sky by themselves?
The crowd gradually dispersed, and Najib finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought of the spent money, he still felt ache in his heart.
I hope the master doesn't blame him...
If he blamed him, he could only use the Willant people as a shield.
Just say that he had stick to the bottom line, and it was the group of Willant guards who forced him to raise his wages.
When they saw the troublemakers going back to work, the Willant guards who were marching in front of the port also disbanded and went to work on their own.
The New Year is coming soon, and after the New Year is the birthday, they actually have no intention of working, and they don’t want to find things for themselves. Their thoughts have long since floated back to their homes.
The guard captain returned to the police station, first sent a telegram to Yongyegang using a dedicated line to resolve the crisis, and then reported the incident to the secretary of the Governor's Office.
Governor Huye returned to Triumph City and took half of the guards of the Governor's Office. General McCross and other instructors also went to Yongye Harbor to take a boat some time ago. The only army in Xifan Port was left with the port guards and the city defense force composed of locals, with unprecedented emptiness in the garrison.
If possible, he hopes that the Governor's Office can borrow a team of people from the Southern Corps.
Even the minion army is good.
However, the trouble is that there is no ship on the entire route now, and all the useful ships have been sent to the east by the civil service group. It is probably not easy to transfer people...
On the other hand, Najib, who finally settled the matter, returned to the labor registration office, and reported on the situation at the port and the increase in wages one by one with several major shareholders.
After being scolded, he had not yet stopped breathing, but saw his subordinates running in a hurry, shouting while running.
Sir, something big is wrong!
Before his butt could warm up the chair, Najib felt his heart skip and stood up from the chair and cursed.
What happened again?Didn’t I give them a raise??
His men were so anxious that their faces were pale and said in a hurry.
This is not the dock, but the steel plant... and the cement plant.When the workers in the factory heard that the wages had increased, one or two of them had stopped working, they also yelled to raise their wages.
As soon as he heard this, Najib almost vomited an old blood and cursed.
These greedy vultures!
It was indeed not as expected by him.
He knew it would turn out like this in the end!
Those Willant people were too unaware of the situation in the Bharat Province, and those mud legs could not be spoiled. Once their lives were comfortable, they would be smeared.
When the wages at the factory increased, the workers at the docks would be noisy again, saying that the work of moving goods would be even more tiring, how could they pay the same wage as the people in the steel mill?
After a while, they won’t make money, so they can simply lock up all the factories in the port!
Naji was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, but the director of the Labor Department, who was standing beside him, frowned and muttered in a low voice.
I always think about this matter not as if someone is fanning the flames.
Naji was shocked.
You mean alliance?
The director shook his head.
It doesn't look like that, it's completely inconsistent.
The alliance's merchant ships will also come here to buy steel and cement. The Jingalun Port and the French Fries Port have a large demand for building materials, as well as the rebuilt southern waters and Haiya Province, etc.
It would not do them to make a mess of Xifan Port, and at most it would give Legion and Empire a headache.
At this moment, the servant who came to report the news suddenly felt aroused in his heart and quickly spoke.
By the way, I heard that the few who were leading the trouble seemed to be the believers of the Silver Moon Church!There are also the most noisy ones just now!
Najib became angry when he heard this and cursed.
Are those charlatans crazy?
The director of the Labor Registration Office said thoughtfully, with a flash of eyes.
The Yinyue Sect’s doctrine contains the creed of mutual help. The reason why this matter is so big... Maybe it really has something to do with them.
The servant continued quickly.
Yes!I always think that those charlatans are not good people. By the way, I heard that Odisha is a believer of the Silver Moon Sect. The ones who took the lead in making fun often worship with him.
Naji's eyes gradually narrowed, and a trace of imperceptible evil light flashed in the cracks.
I've been doing it for a long time because of this...
He was indeed negligent about this matter.
He almost forgot that the church is also an organization.
Not to mention that the Yinyue Sect is not honest, not only teaches the believers to read, but also runs some newspapers.
As if he had grasped the root of the problem, he immediately started to think about it in his mind.
...I have to find a way to get rid of that church.
The director shook his head after hearing this.
This matter is difficult to deal with... We cannot touch the people of Silver Moon Bay, they are residents of the Camel Kingdom and are protected by the relevant treaties of the Mud Community.If we don’t have a reason to attack them, it’s hard to say whether there will be any big problems.
Why do it yourself...
Naji suddenly smiled sinisterly and said slowly in the surprised eyes of the two.
It was the residents of Xifan Port who drove them away as charlatans themselves. This cannot be attributed to us, right?
……
Although there are quite a lot of orders for the steel mill, the work is not as urgent as the port.
Before the guards raised by the Wirant men in the port took action, Najib formed a long stick team with more than a hundred slaves borrowed from the labor department, which not only promised their freedom and the rewards of Dinar, but also promised not to treat them unfairly in the future.
When these slaves heard that they had money and could be valued by the master, they carried sticks without saying a word and broke up the group of workers who were gathered together and did not work.
Looking at the mobs running away with their heads in their arms, Najib showed a grim smile on his face.
If you don’t do it, don’t do it!
At worst, the steel plant will be closed for two days, and it will be clear who will starve to death first!
With the lesson from the port, he understood that he must be hesitant to this matter. He must be tough when he should be tough, and must be decisive when he should take action.
It will definitely be better to take action first and then take action!
Even if you die a little, it will be better than being beaten by the Willant men.
After getting through the troubles of the steel plant, Najib took people to the cement plant in the same way, directing the sticks that were loyal to him, and also giving the troublemaker a lesson.
After his thunderous and decisive struggle, Xifan Port, filled with powder barrels, seemed to have finally returned to its former peace, but it seemed that a greater crisis was brewing in the endless greed...
In three days, with the hard handling of dock workers, all the cargo ships blocked the port were finally unloaded, and the dock finally became empty.
The caravans who were lightly equipped with authorization letters from the Governor's Office rushed to the legendary dreamland of Haiya Province in the far east!
At the same time, Najib, who was forced to death by the group of porters, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The most difficult days have passed, and he can finally free up his hands to do something.
Whether it is the workers who strike, or the Silver Moon Sect that instigates workers to be lazy...
He swears he will make them pay!
As time passed day by day, Xifan Port seemed to be silent for a while.
At the same time, the caravans that first set out from Xifan Port to the Death Coast finally arrived at the coast in their dreams one after another.
After floating on the sea for a whole eleven days, looking at the port that appeared on the coastline, Yarman, who was standing on the deck, finally showed an excited expression on his face.
It's a port!
They finally arrived!
The nearest unit of the Eastern Legion is stationed in Haibei City, 100 kilometers away from the coastline. As long as you give the letter issued by the Governor's Office to those people, they can get the arms sold by pounds!
quick!Push the boat over!
Yarman shouted to the crew behind him, while excitedly pulling out his telescope.
However, the moment he took out his telescope and looked at the coastline, he was stunned.
I saw painted black tanks parked neatly next to the container, waiting for professional suspension equipment to load them on the ship.
The models of those
Why do you look so familiar?
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