This is the first time, and probably the last time in this civil war, that the capitalists and the poor have an unavoidable face-to-face dialogue, or confrontation.
History seems to be constantly reincarnating. Before the capitalist revolution, who among the feudal nobles would deal with Chen Qing, a stinky businessman? Conflicts always accumulate until they are on the verge of revolution before they are forced to be resolved.
So a hundred years later, these victorious capitalists occupied the court, and their actions were no different from the feudal nobles back then.
From the beginning to the end, these capital forces do not want to listen to the demands of these workers. Do you want a salary increase? Go dream!
Do you want a disability pension? impossible!
Do you want to shorten your working hours? Then fire you!
If you don’t do it, there are plenty of people in this world who have to work. What does it have to do with me whether you survive or not?
It was this attitude of refusing dialogue that intensified the conflicts and made the workers who could not survive began to choose to stay together for warmth. This was the fundamental reason why Blanqui and others began to expand.
The conflicts became more and more intensified, and in the end there were even demonstrations and violent acts, but even this did not lead to sincere dialogue between capitalists and workers.
Some can only be deceived, and those who cannot be deceived are directly suppressed. In the later period of Napoleon III's rule, basically half of his energy was devoted to suppressing the revolutionary fire in the country.
Until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, even when the empire fell, the capitalist forces did not consider direct dialogue and negotiations with the labor movement.
Thiers even banned these representatives from participating in the elections to the Bordeaux National Assembly, directly eliminating them from the political arena.
When the door of communication is merely closed, the fence of war slowly opens!
But today, this bizarre fate actually threw two prestigious capitalists in Paris into a refugee camp, and allowed Raoul Rigaud to stir up the emotions of the crowd.
This is the first time that capitalists have nowhere to escape. They must face the people's anger face to face. If they are not careful, someone may lose their head.
If it weren't for the Chinese army controlling the situation at this moment, Eugene and Andrew would have been too frightened to say a word. However, it was precisely because of the presence of Xiao Letian, who was cooperating closely, that the two timid and fearful two The miser changed his previous temperament and actually dared to rebut in front of hundreds of citizens.
"Ten francs? Are you going crazy? Do you know what ten francs is?" Andrew roared loudly.
How could Raoul Rigault allow him to argue, "Haha... Ten francs certainly means nothing to you. A dinner in the Ninth Street neighborhood is just enough. A bottle of red wine for you probably costs a hundred francs, right?"
"But ten francs may be a week's worth of food for these suffering people!"
"Yes! That's right... Ten francs is enough for my child to go to school for half a year, and enough to buy a lot of pencils and notebooks..."
"Fart!" Eugene was furious. "Did you see us eating meat? Who saw it when we were beaten? Do we eat in high-end restaurants every day?"
"Indeed... as you said, the monthly living expenses for us businessmen may be as high as seven to eight hundred francs or more!"
"But we can't afford the ten francs you want!"
"God! Please lend me a good eloquence. Why can't I understand it?" Eugene was worried about his stupid mouth and slapped his own mouth in anger.
Andrew took a deep breath to suppress his excitement, "I don't know if you can understand, but there are some things I have to say... Doing business is not as simple as you think, and it is not so easy to get a higher salary. of!"
"Yes, we do have a medium-sized steel plant as a joint venture, but in terms of scale, it can only be considered a medium-sized one in France. In Prussia, our scale can only be considered a small one..."
"Steel factories, machinery processing plants... I can tell you that at its peak, I employed nearly 3,000 workers!"
"Gentlemen! Ladies! Do you know how much pressure it is to be responsible for paying salaries to three thousand people? Everyone needs a salary increase of ten francs, and for three thousand people, that's thirty thousand!"
"How much profit can I make in a month? After paying an additional cost of 30,000 yuan, can I still survive? Have you done the math..."
"Bah... liar, sophistry!" The crowd began to angrily retort to him, "You are the most profitable people in the world, otherwise you would buy a farmhouse and villa in the countryside? Would you eat steak dinners every day?"
"Did that eye of yours see me buying a villa? Did that eye see me eating big meals every day? I have to deal with customers and suppliers every day, and I also have to coordinate various interest rates for loan sharks..."
“Can’t you all see the hard work I put into tearing down the east wall and repairing the west wall?”
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly in his heart, isn't this nonsense? Of course they can't see what you do, because you are not from the same world at all.
The head of state suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it in mid-air. As if a magician waved his staff, the chaotic people suddenly became quiet.
"Eugene, Andrew...can't the steel industry even afford the profit expenditure of 30,000 francs a month? Don't lie to me, because I know the data in this industry..."
As soon as the two of them heard the head of state speak, they cried aggrievedly, "Head of State, didn't you say that we can't afford 30,000 yuan? Do you mean that if you give it, everything will be fine?"
"If you want 30,000 yuan today, will you want 60,000 yuan next month? It's hard to satisfy your desires..."
"I'll tell the truth to the head of state. If we really increase the expenditure by 30,000 yuan, we won't lose money and at least we can keep our accounts balanced. But for business, this situation is very dangerous!"
"Without profits or insufficient profits, our business's ability to resist risk will become very low!"
"The last point, and the most important thing is that our current industry business is really difficult, and the risks we face are getting bigger and bigger..."
"We don't know what happened. In the past few years, Prussian manufacturers have been selling prices like crazy. For example, the price of railroad tracks has plummeted by 30% in four years..."
"Führer, the price has plummeted by 30%. How much profit do you think we can have left?"
"To tell you the truth, in the past four years, at least fifteen of our peers have gone bankrupt... My debt ratio is too high now. If your business hadn't saved us, I'm afraid we would have gone bankrupt after the war. Become a beggar!”
At this point, Eugene and Andrew cried loudly, "Citizens! Gentlemen! It's not that we are greedy, it's that we really don't have any extra money to give you now..."
"All your demands, such as increased wages, reduced working hours, disability pensions, etc., all cost money, but we don't have that much profit to give you!"
"Raoul Rigault! If you are so capable, why don't you invest in a big factory and raise all the citizens you have coerced?"
"Can you afford the benefits you are advocating?"
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