"What reason?" Meng Xiang kept speculating about the reason behind the march and strike.

"They protested against the unearned gains of the capitalists and demanded higher wages. At least equal pay for equal work. At present, the wage level in the theater is lower than that in Chongqing and Shanghai. Zhou Bai frowned.

"They didn't consider the subsistence allowance, did they? Compulsory education is not considered, is it? The cost of this piece is not counted? With this slogan, Meng Xiang knew that there were people behind it, not just a matter of salary. New elections in the war zone are about to begin, and that's what they're for. All other loopholes have been almost closed by the labor protection law introduced by the Vanguard.

Workers are required to take a day off, one day off a week, work no more than 48 hours a week, and must have a salary increase for the excess. Even with a salary increase, the number of consecutive hours worked in a day must not exceed 12 hours. Statutory holidays are also entitled to rest, overtime and salary increases. Industries such as mines with large dangerous surnames need to have safety measures, and industries with large dust require labor protection measures. Child labourers under the age of 16 may not be employed, and guardians of children who have not completed compulsory education are subject to legal sanctions.

At this time, many countries in the world did not reach it. Even in Soviet Russia, there were various claims of voluntary overtime.

The war zone is not just about talking, but actually doing. After the subsistence allowance, a large number of labor forces were liberated, and after the subsistence allowance, although the tax was appropriately raised, the wages were reduced by a cut, and the messy taxes were exempted, which greatly reduced the burden of industry and commerce. It is not only strictly managed and demanding, but also more cost-effective than other regions.

Capital is always chasing the shadow of maximum profits.

The workers were guaranteed, and the capitalists in the industrial and commercial industries had to benefit, and the difference was subsidized by Meng Xianglai. The large volume of arms sales became the main source of this start-up capital. Before cutting wool, it needs to invest in costs, but Huaxia urgently needs to exchange fluff for money at this time, so it has not been able to develop a normal order.

And Meng Xiang used this large amount of capital investment to create a starting point for the cycle of good surnames and build this sheepfold, which made the industry and commerce in the war zone accumulate more and more.

Only after the industry and commerce in the war zone have slowly developed will the income from taxation and other aspects become more and more, far exceeding the minimum guaranteed investment. Perhaps, at that time, the people will no longer be satisfied with the minimum guarantee of food and clothing, but will start talking about high social welfare.

In this era, there is no shortage of propaganda from enthusiastic young people, there is no shortage of provocative supervisors, and there are also clones who strictly enforce the law, coupled with the temptation of profits, which makes the various measures of the labor law in the war zone constantly improve and implement.

This makes many people unable to grasp too many excuses and find no reason to take advantage of the situation.

"Such an excuse is a bit too forceful." An eye-eyed literati hesitated.

"It's always a way!" Another capable middle-aged man said, "The organization has weakened so much lately that not only is no one participating, but people are quitting all the time." ”

"It's just right that the weak-willed are gone." The thin-eyed literati interjected indignantly, "They are willing to be a docile lamb rather than resist exploitation." to gain the right to turn over and be the master. ”

When the middle-aged man heard the lamb, he couldn't help but be stunned, and thought of a joke that came out of nowhere.

A group of lambs were unwilling to be sheared all the time, which made the winter particularly cold. Then a man came and said to them, "Come to us!" We've opened a new ranch where you can get your rights as human beings. We will be your faithful stewards and your diligent servants. ”

In the blueprint he presented, a flock of lambs is enjoying the steward's service on the beautiful grassland while tasting the delicious green grass.

"Being human? Wouldn't we be able to be 'foreigners'? The lambs nodded happily and followed the man.

When they arrived at the man's pasture, they found that they were still going to be sheared.

"Didn't you say we have the right to be human beings? Why are we still being sheared? ”

"Of course, you've now been given the title of human. You are no longer lambs, you are now 'human'! ”

Although this joke is circulated, people only listen to it as a joke. Even the middle-aged man was just stunned for a moment, and then ignored the past.

He waved his arm and said: "We need to make more workers aware of our important surname, we are the ones who will always fight the capitalists to the end, and we can defend more of their rights and interests." ”

Meng Xiang looked at the application and couldn't help laughing: "They also seem to have forgotten to consider the price factor, right?" This wage gap is not enough to be smoothed out by the price index. ”

Although the SAR is besieged by itself, the prices of major commodities have not fluctuated much, mainly because the supply is relatively timely, and the stability of the currency value of metal military stamps has also played a role in fixing the needle of the sea. Therefore, many prices are much cheaper than those in Yucheng and other places.

"The drunkard doesn't mean to drink!" Zhou Bai nodded and said. He already knew the cause and effect of this kind of thing.

"Apply through the parade! Let them go! As long as it doesn't violate the law, we don't care. Meng Xiang chuckled, "Increase publicity efforts and explain the salary matter to the people clearly." Strikes are the responsibility of each factory, and the political axe does not interfere in whether it is recorded as a vacation, absenteeism, or even how to settle the strike. They talk about their own conditions.

I mainly wanted to see how many people they could organize. Strikes must not force others to participate, and those who go to work must not be obstructed, and police officers should be sent to keep an eye on them. We will only intervene when there is an illegal and violent incident.

Another thing is that the next step is to introduce regulations on the management of trade unions, in which the election of trade unions must be regulated, and trade unions must be universal and direct suffrage for all workers. Truly shoulder the responsibility for the benefit of the workers. If we want to let go, let's let go of all the transparency and openness. ”

Meng Xiang allowed the trade unions to be made public in order to curb the greed of the industrial and commercial sectors. At the same time, it is also to restrain future political axe behavior. When capital develops to a certain extent, the collusion between the interests of the political axe and the interests of capital can easily lead to an imbalance of power. At the very least, third-party supervision and restraint are needed, and no matter who holds the union, the trade union that is directly elected by all workers by universal suffrage is a weight that cannot be ignored.

The trade union is the worker's own spontaneous organization, and the political axe does not interfere in its management. They are financed by the workers' dues, which they supervise themselves, and if the workers do not invest even this small amount of money, they should not be expected to help themselves. The reason for this is that in order to consider that the trade unions will also become political axes or toys of capital, regardless of the cost of reading.

In this way, even if other forces are dominant, their supervision will make it easier for the political axe. The pressure of the political axe in the future is not only from one side, but also the huge capital is the object of the political axe's defense. Grasping the balance between them, and eliminating those excesses that exceed the legal limits can stabilize in the long run.

At this time, Meng Xiang was too strong to hold the base, but the future managers may not have such power, so Meng Xiang had to consider the balance in the future at the beginning. Otherwise, there will be a problem with the foundation, and the cracks in the customary surname will collapse the entire superstructure.

"It's not that simple! I said that I have a lot of actions behind the scenes! Pharmacist Tang suddenly said beside him.

"Is there a Han Jian?" Meng Xiang said unexpectedly.

"No, it's the actions of some people who are said to have been used as guns." Pharmacist Tang shook his fan and said.

"He said that he was coming to attack us, so naturally the more chaotic the war zone, the better. They've started to make waves everywhere now. "A lot of domestic intelligence, Tang Yaoshi has to judge and analyze, and he has found some clues early on some abnormal movements, "Therefore, these demonstrations and strikes need special attention, and they may be used by himself, and there will be turmoil." ”

"And those women marching, be careful. There was some chaos, but there were a lot of people waiting to see the joke. ”

"In addition, some money banks in the Beijing-Tianjin area have some changes. There are also many small groups that resist the Japanese and want to be less disciplined. Pharmacist Tang said it in one go, and Meng Xiang knew that he was reminding him of the internal crisis situation at this time. But what even Pharmacist Tang didn't know was that Meng Xiang had more information than him. It's just not time to clean up yet. A lot of what is hidden in the shadows needs to come out and have a better way to clean it up.

"The issue of prices has fluctuated a little bit some time ago. At first, I just thought that the market was normalizing near the end of the year, but now it seems that someone may be playing tricks. Zhou Bai also frowned and said, at this time, it is approaching the end of the year, once there is a big fluctuation, but it will have a great impact.

"Fortunately, we have accumulated a lot of grain, as long as the price of grain is stable, we can live a stable year." The subsistence allowance for the entire theater of operations has been almost distributed. In order to stabilize the order more quickly, as soon as the subsistence allowance registration was completed, the first quarter of grain distribution began. Only when people see real food will they feel at ease. When the grain was distributed, their attitude was biased towards the vanguard.

This time, it's not just those who don't have land. Even those peasant households who have been allocated land have grain, but this grain is this year's special interest-free loan grain, and one person is only allowed to borrow 10 catties of grain, which will be repaid after the summer harvest next year, and the interest will be deferred. The vanguard army did not expect this to make money, but only hoped to settle those peasant households who also had no food to eat, who had just divided their land or paid taxes for a short time, and had no surplus food at home.

"Don't worry about food, as long as there is no major natural disaster, we will not be short of food next year." Meng Xiang said confidently.

The umbrella is on the land occupied by Brazil and Argentina, where more than 10,000 farmers from war zones are already working on it. There is no shortage of people in Huaxia, especially there is no shortage of people who can't survive and leave their hometowns. In addition to free food and housing, the agricultural reclamation company there promised to give away 100 acres of land for free after five years of work, which is heartwarming. Coupled with the enthusiastic recruitment of Chinese labor companies, many people left their hometowns and came to Brazil and Argentina in the middle of summer.

At this time, the umbrella company already had tens of millions of acres of land in the two countries, and the more than one million acres of land allocated were only a small part. In the future, there will be more people who come to work, 100,000, or even millions. A hundred acres of land tied them up here. The collective labor of the Chinese people will not lose the foundation of their Chinese culture, and this will become a new China town in the future.

This bit of land is not too much for Brazil and Argentina. Brazil alone has 5 million square kilometers of agricultural land, but because of resources such as rainforests and grasslands, as well as the lack of people and the abundance of land, their utilization rate was only 15% by the end of the century. The Umbrella Company has mostly encircled the savannahs of the Midwest, which have not yet been developed and are all wasteland.

Even Brasilia, the future capital of Brazil, only began to rise in the fifties in the central part of the country, and there is no shadow of it at this time. Of course, that wasteland was also taken away by the umbrella company. A new large farm was built there.

The iron ore in the four corners of the iron has also been circled, but Meng Xiang has no plans to develop it. At this time, China could not be used for the time being, it was close to the Atlantic Ocean, and it could only be developed cheaply in Europe and the United States.

Also delineated is the Karayas Iron Mine, which was later known as the world's largest iron mine, where the vicinity is desolate land, although Meng Xiang does not know the specific location, but a large circle is just to encircle the surroundings.

The problem there is the difficulty of development, there are no roads. made Meng Xiang regret again and again in his heart. It's a pity that it has exceeded the command range of 10,000 kilometers of the main base, otherwise the base will drive over, and the crazy mining will make the base's account even richer. However, thinking of the huge demand for steel in Huaxia in later generations, it is better to keep it for its own use, and it has fallen into his pocket anyway.

Argentina also has a small population, and Meng Xiang does not know much about minerals, but Meng Xiang's original purpose is to be on those large amounts of wasteland and idle land.

Cultivated land needs to be cultivated, and 10,000 people are limited.

Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult for a person to plant more than a dozen acres of land. However, with the use of some tractors and combine harvesters, the cultivated area of this 10,000 people has expanded dramatically. Three million acres have been reclaimed at once, and many of the places can be harvested twice a year, or even three times a year, but that is too much land grabbing and is not conducive to long-term farming.

It is precisely with this subsidy, together with the hundreds of thousands of tons of grain that Brazilians and Argentines are lacking this year, it is enough to make up for the shortfall in the subsistence allowance. Not to mention the millions of acres of land directly controlled by the domestic vanguard army.

Even so, Meng Xiang is not satisfied, and when those in Brazil and Argentina gain a foothold, 50,000 people will come over to reclaim new farmland. World War II is about to break out, and in addition to energy, food prices are also soaring, and taking the opportunity to develop food products can also make a lot of money.

"That's fine, if you have food, you can stabilize the situation. I'm not afraid to say that I'm playing tricks. Zhou Bai nodded and said, at this time, the first thing the people need is to fill their stomachs.

"Now it's going to stir up chaos within the vanguard army!" Kenji Dohihara was also a little proud in his heart, and a series of actions that had been arranged for a long time finally began to ignite within the vanguard army.

"Change the copper round! One ocean for 9 copper circles. ”

"Boss, pure gold bars, for copper rounds. Don't fool me with those things from the past. Remember it's the Pioneer Copper Circle! Brass! ”

"Buy and sell for a small amount of copper!"

"Give me change. If you don't want paper, you want copper. ”

"Boss Tian, let me tell you, we only accept Pioneer Copper Yuan for this batch of goods. Ocean? Neither can the ocean. There is no copper yuan, let's go to Boss Zhu. ”

All of a sudden, all over the country was buying copper yuan. The actions of the people are still poor, and the copper round sweep in the banks and money banks everywhere is the main flow channel, even if the exchange fee is increased, it is still swept away.

"If it's paper money, we should slowly absorb it, and then release it together with the counterfeit money, which will immediately depreciate the banknote and make the price rise." Kobayashi Koji, who has been in the London financial community for more than ten years, knelt down in front of Kenji Dohihara and calmly analyzed. If Meng Xiang was here, he would definitely be shocked, and the Soviet Russia of later generations suffered a big loss in this move. However, Kobayashi Koji's analysis is only here, and there is no follow-up plan, so the blow is naturally smaller.

"But the vanguard military used metal money. Although it is a military ticket, it is about the same as currency. Although the value of the metal currency itself is much smaller than the value of the currency indicated, the value of the metal is limited due to its value holding. Moreover, the vanguard army that we synthesized has a high credit rating, and it is impossible to deal with them in a way that devalues them. But one disadvantage of metal currencies is that they are available in limited quantities. In particular, the value of the metal copper tickets of the Vanguard Army has now exceeded their original value as the price of brass has risen. It would be more cost-effective to exchange silver coins for those copper coins.

We can exchange hard currency such as gold and silver foreign exchange for copper or copper for the vanguard army, which will definitely reduce their number below the minimum circulating quantity, leaving them with no money to use. The silver dollar alone cannot support so many transactions, which will inevitably make their transactions chaotic, forcing them to use only the original fiat currency. At that time, we can go straight to their market with a large amount of fiat money we have accumulated, and our technology to counterfeit fiat currency is about to succeed. When the time comes, their wealth will slowly flow into our hands. Even if we don't occupy their territory, we can still let them give us free labor. And we just have to pay for the grass paper with the pattern printed on it. The more Kobayashi Koji spoke, the more excited he became, and his waving arm was about to poke Kenji Dohihara's nose.

He has been looking for financial loopholes in the vanguard, but the trick of metal currency has brought many hidden dangers to a low point. A few small hidden dangers are not enough to become fatal roots. As long as there is no sudden discovery of large quantities of copper in the world, the metal copper currency of the vanguard army will be able to maintain a stable range for a long time. His group tried fiat money, but fiat currency was not popular on the territory of the Vanguard. The fiat currency of the vanguard army was exchanged and then went to the national control area to consume and shop. This avoids the rampant occurrence of fiat counterfeit money. Besides, because fiat currency is the technology of the British and American countries, it makes it difficult to counterfeit. So the way of fiat currency is also not working.

He thought hard for a long time before he came up with such a way to use monetary tightening to affect the economy of the vanguard army. The outbreak of the war made copper even more scarce, and even he had to scavenge for copper tools and re-smelt them to produce bullets and shells.

In this way, a lot of gold and silver foreign exchange can also be exchanged for a lot of brass, although it is a lot different from the actual value, but it is also a bit of a bottom.

Kenji Dohihara didn't care about Kobayashi's actions on the side, still smiling, the first series of his three plans has been launched first, and it depends on how the vanguard army will take over.

At this time, in the headquarters of the vanguard army, Zhou Bai was saying indignantly:

"Sure enough, something went wrong. Three naked women suddenly appeared in the women's march, chanting for women's liberation. If it weren't for the policewoman next to her to stop it in time, I was afraid that it would become a big joke, and what would I talk about the improvement of women's status in the future? ”

"Fruit girl?" Meng Xiang sighed that this era is also an era of openness. But only a handful of people are at the forefront of the trend.

"They are also innocent women, who were bribed and cannot find each other's whereabouts. In this way, they intend to discredit the reform of the status of women in the vanguard army and hope to cause unrest. The camera and reporter next to him were in a pose. Zhou Bai smiled bitterly.

Meng Xiang smiled silently, he at least knew that in the later stage of the civil war a few years later, there had been such a scene. In order to survive, what can people who are struggling in troubled times not do?

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, everyone. Who are you? The middle-aged man who was still standing at the front of the line and chanting slogans shouted loudly at this time. They were marching when suddenly a group of people with sticks came out and smashed them down with their heads and faces. He had been hit with a stick on the head, and the blood that flowed blurred one eye, but he still saw a group of people rushing out of his ranks, smashing and burning in all directions. He couldn't help but be surprised.

In the beginning, the number of people participating in the march was just over 1,000. But then the number of people in the ranks grew, expanding to more than three thousand.

At this time, it was the people who joined later who were wreaking havoc.

"What's going on?" At first, he thought that the factory owner was doing, but at this time, the procession began to come out of the line, and he already felt that he had fallen into a trap.

At the same time, in the square in front of the office building of the War Zone Management Committee, a group of students were also gathering. As soon as they received the news of the reconquest of Datong, they poured over, one to celebrate, the other to call on the vanguard army to continue the attack and regain more land.

But a gunshot suddenly echoed through the square.