Chapter 30 Fury
Soon He Xi walked out of the shop opposite.
He has ten cloth tickets in his hand. It was obtained with a price higher than the face value of the cloth ticket.
After taking it off, He Xi looked through it carefully. Silence fell.
Zhu Xiongying also took it over and looked at it. Said: "What's the problem?"
He Xi said: "There are two channels for issuing cloth tickets. The first channel is external, that is, foreign merchants use money to buy cloth tickets directly at banks. The other channel is to issue cloth tickets to various venues at the beginning of each month. When the salary is paid, it will be paid."
"Both bills look the same. But the difference is the date."
"The cloth tickets are printed based on the output of the cloth, and they are one-to-one. There was a period of time when the cloth was selling well and it was easy to sell out. At that time, I used banknotes to subsidize it for a while." He Xi thought of the extremely difficult days. Every penny was spent, and he sighed slightly and said: "But this is not a long-term solution, so we printed them separately. The cloth coupons issued to the workers every month were printed at the beginning of the previous month. And to the outside world The cloth tickets we sell are printed based on the total quantity at the end of each month."
Zhu Xiongying looked at the date on the cloth ticket, thought for a moment, and said, "In other words, this factory is deducting workers' cloth tickets?"
He Xi nodded and said, "Actually, I should have thought of it earlier."
Zhu Xiongying said: "What should we do? Go in and check?"
He Xi shook her head and said, "It's not enough."
He Xi brought Zhu Xiongying here this time not to fight corruption. To put it bluntly, He Xi has already come to the stage where anti-corruption is needed. Even if there is such a need, others will do it. He Xi came here for investigation. Let’s take a look at the current situation of Liaodong’s industrial system during this period.
And he didn't bring Zhu Xiongying here to teach him how to conduct private visits incognito. But he wanted Zhu Xiongying to actually see the process of economic operation. There are many things that I can't explain, but just let him do it again.
But He Xi never expected it. I encountered this kind of thing from the beginning.
This was completely unexpected. This made He Xi a little embarrassed. Teaching people a lesson is beside the point. Fortunately, Zhu Xiongying didn't know, but found it very exciting.
Now He Xi probably figured out the corruption methods of this factory director or some people. Lower the price and buy the cloth tickets from employees, or not distribute them at all, and then only let the cloth tickets be traded. Therefore, he has room for a premium here.
This is enough to deal with these people.
He Xi couldn't say enough because he understood very well that when you see one cockroach, there will be countless cockroaches hiding in the dark. Although He Xi is not here to fight corruption. but
He Xi said: "Let's go and change the cloth first."
After replacing ten pieces of cloth, He Xi waved his hand and a man came over and carried the pieces of cloth away without mentioning them. Even if He Xi didn't do it for himself or for Zhu Xiongying, they wouldn't be able to act alone. Someone would always be in sight to protect them.
He Xi immediately took Zhu Xiongying and walked around the textile factory. Zhu Xiongying didn't know what He Xi was looking for?
He Xi then came to an intersection and saw several women chatting there.
He Xi walked over and found out the origins of these women in a few words. They are not people from the factory, but refugees who moved from Shandong and have settled here. He is considered a registered citizen of Yingkou County.
He Xi pulled Zhu Xiongying over and said: "Tell me, old ladies, I brought my nephew here today. Actually, I want to find a marriage for my nephew. We are from the south. We came to Liaodong to seek life. No, the child is old. I’m older, and I couldn’t find a suitable one for a while. Isn’t there a factory here? I heard there are a lot of girls in it, isn’t this------"
As soon as He Xi said this, these women suddenly laughed.
But Zhu Xiongying couldn't react at all. He didn't know why He Xi suddenly mentioned this, so he could only keep an awkward smile.
The reason why He Xi asked was that he knew very well that it would be difficult to find out many things directly from people in the factory, but people around here couldn't hide it, and they wouldn't hide it for them. The reason why He Xi used Zhu Xiongying's marriage as an introduction. Because he knows that women, especially older women, like to be matchmakers. They like the short gossip about the parents.
Using this incident to bring out the incident in the textile factory will not arouse suspicion.
"This child is so handsome." A middle-aged woman said, "But you must not find a Korean maid in this factory."
Although Zhu Xiongying didn't know why He Xi asked that? But he knew how to cooperate. He thought to himself: "How can the dragon and phoenix grandsons of the Ming Dynasty not be handsome?" Then he asked: "Why?"
The middle-aged woman whispered: "Are the women in this factory unclean?"
He Xi secretly thought in her heart, what exactly does this uncleanness refer to? He whispered: "What kind of unclean method is this?"
The middle-aged woman laughed and said: "What other unclean method can there be? You know it, but you still went to Lao Zhang's house? Isn't it right?"
One of the middle-aged women suddenly looked ugly. He Xi knew that it was probably Lao Zhang.
He Xi's face suddenly lost expression.
There are some things he can tolerate and some things he cannot tolerate.
The only thing He Xi can tolerate is corruption.
It’s not that corruption is not harmful, but that corruption is very common and difficult to catch. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's severe punishments are not cruel, but what is the result? Therefore, although the discovery of corruption was unexpected, it was also reasonable. He Xi never thought that there would be no need for corruption in Liaodong. Just more or less.
What He Xi cannot tolerate is confrontation with his reforms.
For such a thing, no matter who he is, He Xi will kill him without mercy.
And what happened in front of him took away He Xi's fig leaf.
What He Xi wants to establish is a new production relationship and industrialized production. The relationship established should be that between factory owners and workers, or between capitalists and workers. Instead of the relationship between master and slave, the people who work in the factory are workers, not slaves.
Why did He Xi conclude that the people here were slaves, not workers, based on this alone?
The reason is simple. He Xi participated in the formulation of workers' wages.
In the first year, which was also the very beginning, He Xi was too tight on money and could only reduce costs to the extreme. But even so, there are still differences between workers born in Liaodong and those who migrated from Korea. The wages received by the former are somewhat more than what the tenants can earn from a year of farming. The latter is just enough to eat.
But when the situation changed, the situation changed.
He Xi has repeatedly raised workers' wages, although workers' wages are still paid in the form of various bills. But if we look at it as a whole, workers are divided into different levels. There are some skilled workers, especially those who graduated from polytechnics. I can already get more than a dozen taels or more.
They can all be compared with low-ranking officials.
And workers at the lowest level receive slightly more than farmers.
In other words, even female workers in textile factories receive more than ordinary men. Such high salaries eliminate the need for them to engage in flesh-and-blood business.
Some people may say that they feel that the factory’s wages are not coming in fast enough.
But the problem is, this era is not the future. The power of morality is very powerful. For women, one mistake can lead to eternal hatred. No one will marry a prostitute unless they are really helpless.
It is ridiculous to say that some women are doing this kind of business just to make money.
So it's obvious why.
If a person cannot even have the right to dispose of his or her own body, what reason can be used to prove that these people are not slaves?
This was a slap in the face to He Xi.
He Xi has always protected everyone's basic personal rights. But now, the industrial system he established has systematically produced so many slaves. This is rubbing He Xi's reputation and face on the ground.
He Xi couldn't bear it anymore.
He suddenly stood up and shouted: "Wang Qianli."
Wang Qianli immediately came out of the alley on one side and said: "The general is here. Find Yang Shiqi, Liu Jing, and Wu Gao. By the way, ask Wu Gao to arrange a guard post. Go quickly."
Wang Qianli immediately said: "Yes."
Then he hurried away.
He Xi sensed Zhu Xiongying's gaze and felt that she had been humiliated today.
Some people died, but not completely...
