When Xin Jian said the second thing, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly exploded like a volcano. Xin Jian actually wanted to sue!
"Your Majesty! The second thing I said is to complain!"
"Sue? Who are you going to sue?" Zai Chun was stunned for a moment.
"The first person I want to sue is Guang Liang, the general manager of Nanliu Road. I sue him for bullying and monopolizing the charcoal business of the iron factory. The workers are suffering unspeakably!"
"He also abused lynching and brutally suppressed anyone who resisted! It's Guang Liang! It's him!"
Guang Liang jumped up from the ground with a scratch like a dog whose tail was stepped on. "You are talking nonsense! Your Majesty is wronged. He is making a false accusation!"
Xin Jian didn't even bother to look at him, but just stared at Zai Chun calmly: "Your Majesty! Do you know how much a pound of coal costs in the capital city? How much money does it cost in this iron factory?"
Zai Chun shook his head, how could he know such a thing!
"Your Majesty, the price of coal in the capital has been increased by merchants. The price sold to the common people is four cents per catty. Ordinary families have to burn eight hundred to one thousand catties that year. This calculates the cost of heating coal for a winter. It’s about four ounces of money!”
"Nowadays, prices in the capital have skyrocketed, but people's incomes have also increased a lot, so they can still live a good life!"
"But how much does the coal that these ordinary workers in the Capital Iron Works buy cost per pound? It's forty cents! It's a full forty cents!"
ah! There was a commotion among the people around, "So much difference? Ten times?"
"That's right, it's ten times that. The Qinghe construction site is only twenty or thirty miles away from the capital. Why is the coal for heating so expensive?"
"My lords, please take a closer look. This Capital Iron Works is in the early stage of its establishment. The workers do not have good houses to live in. They are all shacks. In the summer, it is hot and rainy and there are mosquitoes. In the winter, it is cold and biting and the snow is crushing countless!"
"This kind of shack house is not as warm as a brick house, so it burns more coal. A family weighing one thousand pounds in the city cannot survive without two to three thousand coal here!"
"How does this compare? The people in the capital can solve the heating problem with four dans of money a winter, but the workers here need 120 thousand dans of money to barely keep warm!"
Xin Jian said that he was excited and rushed directly to the nearby shack and grabbed a tin bucket with dark coal in it.
"But the quality of coal at such a sky-high price cannot be guaranteed. Your Majesty, please come and see..." Xin Jian picked up the pliers on the ground and knocked down a piece of dark coal.
With a bang, the black coal broke into pieces, and it turned out to be white inside!
"Your Majesty, sirs, look, this is white, this is coal gangue, and some of it is even ordinary stone... There is even adulteration in this coal!"
"After spending such a high price, what we end up buying is fake coal. How can the workers survive the winter? What a bully!"
Zai Chun was very smart and knew the reason immediately. He pointed at the coal and said coldly, "Who is it? Who did these things?"
"It's him!" Xin Jian pointed at Guang Liang. "It's the manager of Nanliu Road, Uncle Guang Liang! He is such an uncle. He monopolizes half of the coal business of Jingshi Iron Works!"
"That's what he did to lose his conscience. He was such an immoral person that he had no sex to give birth to a son!"
Guang Liang's face turned pale with fright, "False accusation! You are making a false accusation! Your Majesty, I have never been involved in this kind of business, really!"
"This business is fair and reasonable. The coal in the factory is expensive. If you go to the city to buy it, who can stop the workers?"
"You fart..." The workers behind Xin Jian jumped up and cursed, "You and those scoundrels drove away all the businessmen who wanted to come to the iron factory to sell coal!"
"Once again, you stuffed tobacco cream into someone's car, and then found it and deliberately framed the person for selling tobacco, extorting a total of five hundred silver dollars from the person!"
"Who dares to come to do business? You have driven them away... The workers have no choice at all!"
Guang Liang jumped to his feet anxiously, "False accusations, they are all false accusations! You have no evidence, are you just making empty accusations?"
"Your Majesty, because I am cautious in doing things, my prince recommended me to be the general manager of South Sixth Road. There are more than 3,000 households here and a population of 12,230 people!"
"Slave, I am dedicated to my work. I don't dare to slack off for fear of delaying His Majesty's industrial plan!"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, what do you not know? We, the officials who maintain local security, deal with a group of unruly people. They usually sneak around, watch women bathing, gamble and eat, and fight and cause trouble after drinking too much. What the hell are they? Don’t want to do it?”
"My slave has no choice but to enforce the law more strictly. He never dares to engage in malpractice for personal gain. That's why he offended these villains. They colluded to file a lawsuit against me!"
"And this is Xin Jian! He also has a personal grudge against me! Last time he secretly went to the flower shack and pheasant place to go whore on the bed. I saw him and humiliated him a few words, and he took revenge. This is revenge!"
"Fart!" Xin Jian was furious, "I went there with four co-workers to catch one of my unscrupulous apprentices, King Grasshopper!"
"Your Majesty! Among the students I teach, there is a very smart young man named Wang Grasshopper. This person is naturally good at verbal arithmetic and mathematical thinking!"
"I've always given him a little extra time to study hard...but this kid is just out of tune, lazy and doesn't like studying!"
"I earned a little money by working, and I let some local gangsters seduce me, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling... I went to Hua Shack just to catch this unscrupulous apprentice!"
"Guang Liang! Do you dare to tell me in front of the workers of the Quan Iron Works why you have more than a hundred gangsters living with you for a long time?"
"Wang Grasshopper, you are such a simple farm boy, aren't you your henchmen, seducing the bad guys?"
"Today, in front of Lord Long Live! Please explain to Lord Long Live what is going on with the Flower Shack? How was it formed? You have explained it clearly to all the adults!"
Layer after layer, this Xin Jian's full firepower stirred up all the stench beneath the bustling surface of the iron factory.
Uncle Guangliang actually has a solid foundation. His master is Prince Heshuo Zheng Chengzhi! The title of Prince Zheng is that of Prince Zheng Duanhua who was killed by Cixi and Guiziliu during the Xinyou coup!
After Duan Hua died, a young man, Cheng Zhi, was selected from Prince Zheng's generosity to assume the title.
This Chengzhi had no political talent, but he was vicious and vicious. Every year, a large number of maids and servants in his palace were tortured to death.
However, this person is good at pretending, and he is absolutely flattering to the upper class. In the previous year of their wedding, when Xiang Ying and Cai Bixia went to his palace to ask for permission to plant chrysanthemums without a formal invitation, this boy did not dare to give it no matter how uncomfortable he felt. No expression at all.
It was this ability to bully his subordinates and his superiors that made him so popular in the past few years. As soon as he heard that Prince Yu had become powerful, he immediately attached himself to him, sending actors and guests to the table.
It was under such heavy planning that he began to send slaves to the iron factory through his prince's network and controlled many ways to make a fortune.
