Under the premise of the same occupation, the salary offered by the Junma Group is the highest in the United States, and an ordinary worker can only get forty or fifty dollars a month in other factories, but in the Junma Weapons Factory, the salary of seventy or eighty dollars abounds, and as for the security personnel whose work is slightly dangerous, the salary offered by the Junma Group is higher, and the average salary of the Springfield Company is one hundred dollars, which is considered a high salary even in New York.

A penny of price is a penny, the salary of the Junma Group is high, and the requirements for employees are naturally high, even if it is just a handyman, the Junma Group also has a corresponding workflow to follow, so the employees of the Junma Group are either Chinese or white, it is not that there are no blacks to apply, but they cannot meet the requirements of the Junma Group, so there is no black person in the Junma Group.

This is really not racial discrimination, and the Chinese are considered a vulnerable group in the United States, and it is impossible to discriminate against others.

But it is still the same sentence, medicine and medicine do not die of disease, and Buddha is destined to be a person, if he is a vulnerable group, and he is idle all day long without repentance, and he is unwilling to fight to change his life status, then even if he starves to death, he deserves it, and Li Mu will never sympathize with them.

Blacks are a representative group in this regard, they did not receive enough education when they were young because of the environment, personal, family or other factors, and then when they grew up, they naturally had no job, and most of the blacks had a problematic attitude towards work, their personalities were too loose and not suitable for discipline, and the most suitable job for blacks was to find an island and throw them on it, let them eat and wait for death.

Ah, it doesn't seem right to say this, because blacks in these years have no chance to get an education at all, well, we can understand that after the end of the Civil War, most blacks were finally emancipated from slavery, which was originally a good thing, and should be celebrated by the whole world, but the first thing blacks were liberated from was not to work hard to change their living conditions, but to hope that the U.S. government would continue to carry forward the "democratic" style, and since they were liberated from slavery, then simply help them solve the problem of eating, So the blacks in the Knights of Labor were the most active.

At the beginning, the basic requirement of the Labor Knights was equal pay for equal work, that is, if the capitalist hired workers, then if it was the same type of work, everyone should be paid the same salary, and there should be no favoritism.

Doesn't sound like a problem, does it?

In fact, the problem is big, many old workers have worked all their lives, whether they are work attitude, proficiency, or even sense of responsibility, compared with those new workers in the factory, why do those new workers in the factory demand the same pay for equal work as the old workers?

It's just nonsense, and only those who spend all day thinking about getting something for nothing will think so.

This truth is applicable everywhere, Li Mu has known a lot of such people in his last life, he lives at the bottom of the society, but he doesn't want to work hard to get to the next level, and he doesn't want to go to a training class or something to enrich himself, where to complain all day long as if the whole world is sorry for him, such a person can't even make friends in the end, no one wants to make friends with such people, because all I feel with them is negative emotions, nothing positive.

Bad luck is also contagious, so everyone is willing to make friends with the rich, regardless of the ability of those rich people, whether they are traitors or not, whether they have noble people to help, at least their luck is better, and then they can get out of the way.

Really, even if you are a very capable person, you have to be lucky to get ahead, Nikola Tesla is recognized as a master, but when he dies he is penniless, this is the best example of Huai Cai.

Speaking of Nikola Tesla, Li Mu has sent someone to find this god-man, unfortunately, this god-man is only sixteen years old this year, and is currently studying in Karlovac, Croatia, without Li Mu's intervention, by next year, Nikola Tesla will go to the Graz University of Technology in Austria to study physics, mathematics and mechanics.

Nikola Tesla's college career lasted only one year, and in 1876, when the Austrian Military Border Agency was abolished, Nikola Tesla lost his bursary and was forced to drop out because he could not pay his tuition.

Nikola Tesla is still not famous, so Li Mu is not worried that this big man will be abducted, so he will not make a move now, and Li Mu will pull Nikola Tesla when Nikola Tesla is cornered, and then Li Mu will gain Nikola Tesla's loyalty to the greatest extent.

In mid-August, after nearly half a year of contact, Junma Group and Krupp AG finally reached a cooperation intention.

In mid-September, Alfred Krupp, President of Krupp Germany, personally led a team to New York and officially started negotiations on cooperation between Junma Group and Krupp with Henry, the representative of ZAMA Group.

Although Li Mu did not participate in the negotiations, Li Mu attended the dinner to welcome Alfred Krupp.

Alfred Krupp was born in 1812 and is over sixty years old this year, but the old man has been left with not only gray hair but also a wise mind, and he is a man worthy of respect.

In 1811, just a year before Alfred Krupp was born, Alfred's father, Friedrich Krupp, founded the Krupp factory, and in 1826, Friedrich died, leaving Alfred with the secret of making high-quality cast steel and a small factory whose production almost came to a standstill, when Alfred was only 14 years old.

Well, from then on, Alfred began to be a legendary doctor, and his experience was almost as legendary as Li Mu's.

When Alfred took over the Krupp factory, many people asserted that Krupp would go bankrupt in a short time, but Alfred refused to admit defeat, and soon after taking over Krupp, Alfred went bankrupt to expand production and manufacture steel rollers, in order to make Krupp more competitive, Alfred designed and developed some machinery, invented the spoon press machine for making spoons and forks, and also cooperated with the government at the time to produce machinery used in the mint.

At the first Universal Industrial Exposition in 1851, the London World's Fair, Alfred displayed the largest steel ingot of his time, weighing £4,300, the pinnacle of steelmaking technology at the time.

Initially, Krupp only produced cast steel axles and springs, but in 1852 Alfred made the first seamless steel train wheels, which were exported to Europe and the United States along with the rails, making a lot of money for Krupp.

Krupp's three-ring logo comes from the three overlapping hoops.

At this time, Alfred was not satisfied, in 1862 and 1869, Alfred first introduced the Bessemer steelmaking method and the open furnace steelmaking method into Europe, Krupp began to get involved in the military industry, at first, Krupp's products were not cared for in Prussia, but luck was again on Alfred's side, after the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Krupp guns shined in the war, and since then, Krupp has the reputation of "Imperial Arsenal".

In addition to his commercial achievements, Alfred paid great attention to humanity in business management, Alfred recognized the problems of various people in industrialization early on, and established a complete welfare plan for his workers, as early as 1836, Alfred set up a sickness and funeral fund; In 1855, Alfred built dormitories, hospitals, schools, and churches for Krupp's employees, and these welfare measures won the loyalty of the workers, all of whom were loyal.

For such a person, Li Mu has respect, so when he saw Alfred Krupp, Li Mu rarely kept a low profile.

Alfred's posture was not high, and if he said that he would not come to New York in person, at the welcome dinner, Frederick III and Li Mu had a good conversation.

In fact, the change in Germany's attitude towards the Chinese began with Kaiser Wilhelm II, after the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Wilhelm II was worried that the Qing Empire would rise under the leadership of Westernized Japan and threaten the security of the whole world, so Wilhelm II put forward the notorious "Yellow Peril Theory".

It seems that the Qing Empire under the leadership of Japan will hurt the self-esteem of some Chinese, but this is the case at that time, during the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan declared war on the Qing Empire under the banner of "supporting justice and expelling the Manchus", so although the Qing Empire was defeated, the Chinese in the Qing Empire really did not hate the Japanese very much, and many people even pinned their hopes on the Japanese for "expelling the Manchus".

It sounds a bit ironic, well, you can blame this situation on the fact that the Japanese were too treacherous, but the problem is that the Japanese did succeed at that time, and throughout the modern history of China, before the establishment of the Republic, the largest number of Chinese went to Japan to study.

After the death of Wilhelm I in 1888, Wilhelm II's father was crowned Emperor Frederick III, but 99 days later, Frederick III died of throat cancer, and in June of the same year, the 29-year-old Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne as emperor.

Since Frederick III was misdiagnosed by quacks and died, William once said angrily: "The English doctor killed my father!" ”

It can be seen that Wilhelm II hated his English cousin for a reason.

After the dinner, Li Mu placed Alfred Krupp and his party in Clinton Castle, and he returned to Governor's Island to gather relevant personnel to emphasize the discipline of negotiation.

The cooperation with the Germans has been in contact since half a year ago, so Li Mu does not have to worry about the bottom line of the negotiation and the negotiation team, which is in charge of Henry, Li Mu is in charge of the general direction, as long as the general direction remains unchanged, the negotiation will not go wrong.

Although Li Mu wanted to be lazy, Alfred Krupp disagreed, and after the negotiations began, Henry unexpectedly discovered that Alfred Krupp was not in Krupp's negotiation team, and Krupp's negotiation team was in charge of Alfred Krupp's son Friedrich Krupp.