Chapter 216 Promoting the eight-hour work day during wartime

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The distribution of grain and sugar does not count.

Wei Wu immediately announced the second measure, that is, all enterprises must strictly implement the eight-hour work system.

The reason why Japanese civilians are so poor is entirely because the capitalists took away all the profits.

The Supreme Cabinet is considerate of the people and requires all companies to pay salaries in accordance with the standards approved by the Supreme Cabinet, without arrears, and to fully implement the eight-hour work system.

If you work overtime, you must pay more than three times the overtime pay, and you must obtain the worker's written consent.

Otherwise it will be deemed illegal.

The Supreme Cabinet will send inspection teams from time to time to conduct inspections.

If an enterprise is found to have violated the law, a fine of half of the current year's turnover will be imposed for the first time.

If found for the second time, a fine of one year's turnover will be imposed.

The third time it was discovered, the company was confiscated as state-owned, the holding family confiscated all property, and was exiled to the frontier desert island to reclaim wasteland.

With the introduction of the decree, there are also the first batch of salary assessment standards.

According to the approved standards, the wages of even the lowest level workers have increased three times compared to before.

The price of skilled workers basically exceeds 1,000 yen, which is more than five times higher than before.

Spurred by two decrees on food distribution and salary increases, ordinary civilians rejoiced.

People took to the streets to show their support for the top cabinet.

Looking at the parade on the street, Wei Wu smiled.

The reason why he implemented the eight-hour work day was not for the sake of ordinary civilians.

On the contrary, he used this method to weaken Japan's war potential.

Originally, Japanese workers had low wages and long working hours.

The base camp requires only a small amount of money to circulate the economy.

All remaining profits can be invested in expanding production.

Under this kind of snowball, it can quickly become an industrial country and produce massive amounts of weapons and equipment for war.

But Wei Wu single-handedly increased wages, which immediately increased labor costs by three to five times.

And if you want the machine to run continuously for 24 hours, the labor cost will more than triple.

This suddenly caused Japan's weapons production prices to soar.

The original advantages are gone.

Originally, the production scale was not as good as that of the Allies, and now that the price advantage is gone, it is definitely unbeatable.

Of course, companies can also choose to let the machines rest to reduce labor costs.

But this will reduce weapons production and also weaken Japan's weapons production speed.

No matter what the business owners choose, it will be beneficial to Wei Wu.

Moreover, the most important thing is that once the salary is raised, it will be difficult to lower it.

Historically, post-war Japan relied on the advantage of cheap labor to obtain the transfer of some low-end manufacturing industries from the United States and began to take off.

But now, Wei Wu has directly improved the workers' treatment.

Without the advantage of cheap labor, it will be much more difficult for Japan to take off.

After stabilizing the situation, Wei Wu began to gradually dismantle the troops stationed around Tokyo, disperse them to various islands on the front line, and use the American artillery fire to eliminate them.

Never suffer from future troubles.

As for the city, Wei Wu used the regiment he brought as the core to form a military police force directly under the supreme cabinet.

The total strength is more than 30,000.

The ultimate goal is to expand to 100,000 people.

The members of the Gendarmerie Corps come from those workers.

In addition to maintaining military discipline and maintaining public order, the main job of the Gendarmerie Corps is to keep an eye on the major nobles and factories in the city.

As long as a mistake is discovered, he will be punished immediately and will never be lenient.

In this way, Wei Wu successfully gave civilians the power to fight and even suppress capital.

Based on the previous contradiction between civilians and capital in Japan, one can imagine what will happen after civilians are given the power to resist or even suppress.

But this is Wei Wu's purpose.

Hiding behind the scenes, fanning the flames and encouraging civilians to attack these capitalists.

Then, he intervened at the end to smooth things over and ultimately pocketed the ownerless capital directly.

How perfect.

Those big capitals were transformed from the local nobles.

Inherited for hundreds of years, the ties of interest are intertwined and the network of relationships is complex.

If they are determined to cause trouble, the invisible power they can use is extremely powerful.

With just a few tricks, you can defy Wei Wu's decrees overtly and covertly.

If they decide to join forces for a confrontation.

Maybe it would really bring a lot of losses to Wei Wu.

Especially in this extremely unstable and precarious era.

These big aristocrats and big capitalists are the biggest uncertainty.

It is the source of unrest.

The most important thing is that these people have extremely deep local roots. If they decisively switch to the United States, there will be many more candidates to choose from after the American army lands.

In vain, it has added many competitors to itself.

Therefore, Wei Wu launched the direct gendarmerie composed of civilians.

The purpose is to clean up these obstructive guys before the American troops land.

At that time, the only suitable candidate the Mi Army can find is himself.

Even if they pinch their noses, they have to recognize this fact.

Under Wei Wu's instruction, the directly affiliated military police force was quickly established.

When selecting candidates, those who had family members who died in capitalist factories were specially selected.

There are not too many people like this in Japan.

These people had no ability before and could only help their relatives with funeral arrangements.

It's different now.

After gaining the ability, their eyes were all fixed on the factories of capitalists.

I want to find an opportunity to overturn it.

This sentiment in the team was quickly reported to Wei Wu by the backbone.

"Very good. People's hearts can be used. Since their intentions are so high, it's better not to let them down and help them."

Wei Wu whispered a few words to several key members.

Those backbones responded and made arrangements.

Under the influence of a series of policies, Toyota Motor is the company that has suffered the most.

This company had been severely pitted when Wei Wu was still the commander of the transportation division in the southeast theater.

A large number of production equipment, skilled workers, and engineers were sent to the mainland.

Then, under Wei Wu's plan to build a mainland industrial base and provide supplies nearby, a large number of factories and equipment were taken away and supported to several bases in Tianjin and Northeast China.

This series of divisions has made Toyota, which was already not wealthy, even worse.

The number of local factories has shrunk to a quarter of its original size.

This is beyond description.

It's just like skin cramps.

Now, Wei Wu's limited-time salary increase order immediately doubled his pressure.

Since the start of the Pacific War, the base camp policy has tilted towards the Navy. Coupled with a series of failures by the Army, the Army's financial allocation has been reduced to half of its original value, and Toyota's orders have also fallen sharply.

Reduced to one-tenth of its original size.

Now that the new policy is coming, his cash flow is immediately in jeopardy.

In this case, the current head of Toyota couldn't help but think wrongly.