Beiyang reactionaries

The Chinese government really deserves to be damned.

So stomped away from Song Hanzhang's side.But as soon as he walked out of the door, he saw the staff under him anxiously waiting for him.

"Mr. Minister, something big has happened."

"what happened?"

"Salary demands have also taken place at Qingdao and Tianjin spinning mills. Up to now, 41 spinning mills have been involved."

"Damn it, let's go back quickly."

What Yoshizawa Kenkichi was most worried about finally happened.

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"This time something like this happened, we have to take it to heart."

Japanese mills.

In China's spinning mills, basically all of them have been affected by the campaign to ask for wages.

It started as a spinning mill.

Soon spread to other companies in Japan.Japan began to develop in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Later, when the Beiyang Army came to power, it basically maintained a close relationship with Japan.Including Duan Xun's rise from the Southwest until he became the prime minister of the cabinet, he has a "very good" relationship with Japan.He has always been very supportive of Japan's opening of factories in China, and killed many British and French companies of the same type.

This is not a joke.

Over the past few decades, there have been many Japanese companies in China, and not so many.It is not a joke that Japan controls the Chinese economy and the Chinese market.Japan has great influence in many industries.

But China and Japan turned their faces.

China's sudden explosive "anti-imperialist" wave is directed at Japan.The people are anti-Japanese and boycotting "Japanese goods" one after another, and behind them are the national capitalists who are fueling the flames.

The living environment for Japanese companies in China is very bad.

But now suddenly there is such a large-scale salary demand movement, and the influence is very large.

Of course, after the start of anything, the sequelae are also great.

At present, the living conditions of Chinese workers are still very poor.This is a gust of wind, and other industries will follow after it is launched.At present, there is a sudden nationwide movement to ask for wages.

So Duan Xun held a cabinet committee meeting.

"Our country currently does not have provisions for worker protection. This is a mistake in our work. Of course, mistakes are not terrible. As long as we make up for our mistakes as soon as possible, then things will be fine."

Duan Xun actually didn't care much about the Ministry of Light Industry cooperating with local governments such as Shanghai, Qingdao, and Tianjin to swallow up Japanese property.

Duan Xun is the prime minister of the cabinet and has many things to be responsible for.Such matters are the affairs of the ministries and local governments below, and Duan Xun does not have so much energy to directly manage these matters.

Of course, this action once again dealt a heavy blow to Japanese businessmen.

In particular, it swallowed a large amount of Japanese property.

In the textile industry, this time Japanese businessmen almost retreated across the board.They really don't have the liquidity in their hands to solve the current crisis.When it comes to loans from banks in China, no bank takes care of them at all.I want to borrow from Japanese banks, but this time there are too many companies in crisis, and it is impossible for Japanese banks to rescue them all.

Japan's foreign exchange is also limited.

So the Bank of Japan originally wanted to rescue a few important factories, but then Japan's match factories, flour mills, paper mills, oil mills, and even textile machinery factories in China were all affected by the turmoil.The Bank of Japan didn't even know how to save it.

But the attitude of the Chinese government is clear.China welcomes any enterprises to invest in China and guarantee their normal business.But these companies cannot afford to pay in arrears, especially if they are in arrears for a long time.If wages are delayed for a long time and the workers' problems cannot be solved, the government will take over the company.In order to avoid being forced to go bankrupt by the government, they can only choose to accept low-priced acquisitions by other textile companies.The purchase price is almost one fifth of the original price.

In a few moments, the Ministry of Light Industry almost completed the localization of the textile industry, and few Japanese textile companies survived.Only a few textile companies that were able to get domestic orders in Japan survived.But their current situation is still very serious.

The Ministry of Light Industry and the local government joined forces to help Chinese private textile factories annex Japanese textile factories, and the Ministry of Light Industry and the local government also took a large stake.

In fact, it is a carve-up feast.

Swallowed hundreds of millions of assets of Japanese businessmen in China.The textile factories invested and constructed by Japanese businessmen in China for decades basically fell into the hands of the Chinese government and Chinese businessmen this time.

For example, Zhang Jian’s Dasheng Spinning Factory, a Chinese light industry tycoon, this time jointly swallowed 1000 Japanese spinning mills with banks and the government, and its total assets jumped from 5000 million to more than [-] million, and its scale increased by more than five times.It has become the giant company of China's textile enterprises, and it is even the top textile factory in Asia.

Including Liu Guojun's Dacheng Textile Factory, the scale has also jumped from about 500 million to more than 3000 million.

But this is a matter of the Ministry of Light Industry, Duan Xun really doesn't care much.What Duan Xun cares about is that he did not expect that the living conditions of workers in China are so serious.

If this problem is not solved, the problem is not small.

Especially the Soviet Union in the north, that is not easy to mess with.Revolutionary output is not a joke.Industrial workers were the most vulnerable to Soviet influence.

"Yes."

Liang Huankui nodded.

Said: "Prime Minister, after this incident, our Ministry of Industry has also briefly investigated the current situation. At present, the working hours of many factories are too long, generally more than [-] hours, and the wages are very low. If we say that in order to survive If these things can still be tolerated, then the salary problem will be serious. One of the biggest problems in many factories now is that their wages are not paid on time at all. And they stop paying wages at every turn, and there are various under-the-name wage deductions .Salaries are not paid on time, which is common in factories in our country, and the problem is serious."

Liang Huankui immediately reported the investigation report of their Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Industry also discovered this during the workers' wage demand movement.From the beginning of the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty to the current vigorous development of industry, the number of workers in China has also expanded dramatically.

At present, there are more than 800 million industrial workers nationwide, mainly referring to factory workers, mining workers, transportation workers, and construction workers.Other handicraft workers and rural migrant workers, of course, there are many differences between these people and industrial workers.Especially the migrant workers in towns and villages come to work in towns and villages during the slack season, which is different from industrial workers.But they also already have the characteristics of workers.There are nearly 5000 million people in this group.

The number of workers is huge.

If the workers' affairs are not handled well, then the problem will be serious.Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also conducted a survey on the living conditions of the workers.

Withholding wages is very serious.

In fact, why workers are said to be the proletariat is because of this.In China today, most of the bottom workers have nothing but strength.

If you don't go to work in the factory, you will starve to death.

Therefore, even if many factories deduct wages at every turn, they can only swallow their anger.Because if they want to live, they can only continue to work.

"Compared to these, of course, a more serious problem is that there are too many cases of whipping workers in factories. In many factories, workers are often beaten, scolded and physically punished. The body was dug up. It was beaten to death, and this happened not once or twice. This kind of thing happened in the Shanghai cotton mill a long time ago. So it happened in Shanghai that the workers set fire to the factory.”

Listening to Liang Huankui's words, Duan Xun's face became more and more ugly.

Human endurance is limited.

The same is true of the Chinese.

It is said that the endurance of the Chinese people is astonishing. As long as they can survive, nothing major will happen.But again, once they are not allowed to live, once their bottom line is really touched, the anger that erupts from the Chinese can destroy all blocking forces.

"This situation cannot continue, otherwise something very serious will happen. I think everyone knows how the Soviet Union was established in the north of us. It was because of the workers' uprising, which occupied the big cities and overthrew Tsarist Russia. .If our government doesn’t solve the workers’ situation, our workers will rise up against us in the future. Workers’ rights must be taken into consideration.”

"Prime Minister, this is the advice given to us by some experts."

Liang Huankui distributed a document to everyone while talking.