The civil uprising in the Capital Iron Works was suppressed by Zai Chun's imperial majesty, but everyone knew that this was only temporary, and a larger eruption of the volcano was yet to come.
Today's inspection of the iron factory cannot go on. In front of the workers, Zai Chun appointed Ma Ming and Na Sanbao as his deputy to investigate the case. Xin Jian and other Chinese workers set up a supervision group to oversee the whole process. !
The security of the Jingshi Iron Factory is temporarily under the responsibility of the Yulin New Army and Guaizimai. The entire industrial zone has entered a state of military control without suspending production and work!
All officials in the industrial zone are not allowed to leave here. They have to be on call and isolated from the outside world!
The entire Qinghe Industrial Zone was completely sealed off. Not even the Iron Hat King, let alone the officials, could even enter the capital. It was impossible to even hand in a note.
The whole government and the public were worried, especially the princes who were inextricably connected with the tenth general manager. They were all frightened for fear that the little emperor would suffer from some evil disease and torment them.
After explaining everything, Zai Chun returned to the royal road angrily. At this time, the empress dowagers of the two palaces had already returned to the train. The empress dowagers heard the whole thing clearly, but there was nothing they could do after knowing it. They had returned the power to Emperor Tongzhi. At this moment Just shut up.
Back on the train, Zai Chun sat angrily in front of the two queen mothers, drinking cup after cup of bitter tea. Ci'an and Cixi just looked at him quietly without speaking.
It took a long time before Ci'an said, "Let the ministers get on the bus! What's wrong with you leaving them on the platform? It's such a cold day, they will freeze..."
"Just freeze them, I just want to freeze them to death... It's so crazy, it's so crazy! Just to make a little money, people's lives are being sacrificed!" Zai Chun angrily threw the cup on the table, and it cracked at the bottom with a snap. , half a cup of tea was spilled all over the table.
Cixi frowned and said, "There is a wrongdoer and a debtor, so you can do whatever you want to do. But if Your Majesty says that all the ministers have problems, the Ai family will not agree!"
"Let them come up and go to other carriages. Your Majesty will be out of sight and out of mind..."
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon as the day broke in winter. The officials had been frozen on the platform for an hour. The young officials were a little better, but some of the older officials started to tremble as they looked at them.
Zai Chun sighed and said nothing, Cixi waved her hand, Li Lianying bowed her head and took a few steps back and walked out of the carriage. After a while, the ministers on the platform began to board the carriage to prepare to return to the capital.
Ci'an looked at Emperor Tongzhi and said with a smile, "If your Majesty is angry about this kind of thing, I'm afraid you won't be able to govern the country for a few days and you will be so angry that you will die!"
"How big is the forest without birds? How big is the Qing Dynasty? There are so many places where the sun doesn't shine. Many of these conscience-stricken cases never see the light of day and are suppressed..."
"When the Ai family was young, I heard my grandmother tell about the events of the family's early years. During the Kangxi period, the rebellion of the Three Feudatories was quelled. When the war came to the end, the imperial court clearly won!"
"How many people have died within our Eight Banners due to uneven distribution of spoils? My old man was working under Mi Sihan at that time. When he went to the front line to escort military rations, he saw many such things!"
"Both families are bannermen. During the horse race, you robbed my paddy fields and I robbed yours, and we got angry in the fight... In the end, didn't the leader of Zhenghongqi family have their family wiped out at night?"
"When the time comes, the crime will be pinned on the heads of the San Francisco rebels, and in the end the court will let it go... because there are too many such things, too many to count!"
"What the court wants is to win the war. As for whether there are any unjust people, that is something that even gods can't control!"
Zai Chun said angrily, "I know it's dark far away from the emperor, but this is the capital! If something like this happens again in the most virtuous place, do we still want the face of the Qing Dynasty?"
"The industrial zone is my heart and soul, and I will never allow anyone to destroy it..."
"Hey... Your Majesty, if you want to say that the person who caused the trouble is still in your body!" Cixi said calmly as she moved the tureen.
"This minister, you can't see money in your eyes. When you see the white money in your black eyes, they have long forgotten the etiquette, justice and shame!"
"Why is the Jingshi Iron Works in such a mess? The bottom line is that you paid too much!"
"A small worker earns sixty cents a day, but a skilled worker can offer you 120 cents? How much does a one-hundred-thousand-person worker in the Capital Iron Works earn per day? Twelve thousand is a lot of money!"
"Twelve thousand coins. Silver is cheap and copper coins are expensive in the market right now. This big coin can be exchanged for ten silver dollars. That means you have to pay these people 120,000 silver dollars a day!"
"A month's expenditure is more than three million silver dollars... Haha, Your Majesty, you are really rich. As expected, the British and Xiao Letian support you and help you pile up the silver!"
"But don't you think about it, how can a fat man with three million silver dollars a month not attract flies? How can these dog slaves not be tempted when they see such a fat man?"
"When the water gets wet, the ground becomes wet. This group of people are the best at exploiting the common people. How is that possible if we want the cats to stop stealing fish?"
"My child, you have to study hard. Sometimes giving too much money is not a good thing! Those coolies are born with a low life. They are not here to enjoy themselves when they are reincarnated into the human world, but to pay off debts!"
"You gave them too much money, and they couldn't bear it. In the end, they crushed themselves to death!"
Um? Zai Chun suddenly couldn't turn around. What E Niang said sounded very novel! It turns out that people died tragically because their lives were too cheap and they couldn't afford the high salary I gave them?
This, this, this... what's the point of this? But he wanted to refute, but Zai Chun couldn't think of any reason to refute.
"My mother said that I can't go back...but this industry is about technical work, and what we need is workers working for a long time. Who is willing to work hard without a high salary?"
Zai Chun couldn't say how high the salary of other Chinese people was. It is precisely because of the high salary that many smart young men can be attracted to devote their lives to the factory!
Huff, puff... The train started to move again, puffing out white smoke. Zai Chun listened to the instructions of the two queen mothers and was thinking hard about his own problems. At this moment, how he wished that the master was still with him!
Everything that happened in the capital was spread throughout the capital that night. The evil nature on the ground in Forty-Nine City could not keep a secret at all. The news had already spread before the curfew.
Even the traffickers and lackeys in Nancheng knew about the murders at the Qinghe Iron Works, let alone the Chinese embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane and Dongdan Archway!
Chun Shisanniang was shocked when she heard the news. There was no warning at all about today's murder in her intelligence network!
The Northern Bureau's intelligence network had no idea that such a tragedy had occurred, especially since Xin Jian did not report it to his superiors before doing this.
Chun Shisanniang stamped her feet anxiously. In intelligence work, she was not afraid of things getting serious, but she was afraid that things would get out of control!
"Quick, quick, quick... So all the secret whistles are activated, and the whole city is investigating the truth of the incident to see if there is anyone behind the scenes!"
"If we can't find the mastermind behind this tonight, how will we explain it to the head of state tomorrow!"
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