Chapter 3 Plans to trade aircraft with the Sichuan Army
"I heard it's a salary issue! Fourth Young Master!"
"The supervisor and the factory director were quarreling with the workers over wages and benefits!"
"Then the conflict between the two parties became more and more intense, and a fight broke out!"
"But the beating has been completed. Many workers were injured, especially those who were child workers!"
After catching his breath, Butler Liu Xing immediately responded.
"Okay! Go and get my father's car ready, and bring his bodyguard with me. I'll go to the match factory to take a look myself!"
Hearing this, Zhou Wenhua frowned immediately, especially when he heard that there were child laborers in his father's match factory, he felt even more complicated.
So he immediately gave instructions.
"Yes! Fourth Young Master!"
Butler Liu Xing nodded in agreement.
And immediately carry out the other party's instructions.
Because since yesterday, Zhou Wenhua's father, Zhou Jiawei, has already told him that all factories and companies will be left to Zhou Wenhua to handle for the time being.
If you encounter something that cannot be handled, report it to him and ask Zhou Weiguo's father Zhou Jixian to help deal with it.
Therefore, Butler Liu Xing felt relieved and followed Zhou Wenhua's instructions.
Anyway, for him, fights in the factory are not just once or twice, and he is used to it.
So I didn’t treat it as a big deal,
Therefore, Butler Liu Xing had no intention of reporting to Zhou Wenhua's father, Zhou Jiawei.
When watching Butler Liu Xing prepare the car and bodyguards according to his instructions,
Zhou Wenhua also started to change clothes and prepare to go to the match factory.
But when he was changing clothes, an idea flashed in his mind.
Suddenly an idea occurred to me,
That is, he plans to find a group of elite Sichuan troops to form his own security team to protect himself and his family when the Songhu Battle breaks out in the future.
As for how to find Sichuan Army troops to form a security team,
Then he planned to find the elite Sichuan troops from Commander Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, Yang Sen's Sichuan troops, and the other Sichuan generals.
As for how to trade with these Sichuan army commanders and exchange talents.
He also has a plan,
For example, Commander Liu Xiang planned to send relatively new foreign aircraft of this period, and get to know and exchange fuel with him.
Because he knew that Commander Liu Xiang had his own flying force, although it was far from comparable to the Chairman's National Army flying force, and even inferior to the Northeastern Army's flying force.
But compared to the troops in many small places, it is still better. At least it can have its own flying troops.
Moreover, for the Battle of Luzhou, which determined the final pattern of the struggle for hegemony in central Sichuan, Commander Liu Xiang deployed four arms, one of which was the flying force.
In 1928, Liu Xiang sent people to order 4 aircraft from France for 200,000 silver dollars. They arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam the next year. Liu Xiang immediately sent people to assemble and test fly them.
In the following years, Liu Xiang bought more than 20 aircraft from France, the United Kingdom, and the United States intermittently, trained dozens of pilots for the Sichuan Army, and thus reluctantly established the first Sichuan Army Air Force in history.
That is, the aviation force of the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army, where Commander Liu Xiang is very famous.
And because of the lack of aerial bombs, they "creatively" equipped the aircraft with "stone" bombs and used cluster grenades composed of "sweet potato" grenades for bombing.
Zhou Wenhua couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Commander Liu Xiang's aviation force.
As for the remaining commanders and generals of the Sichuan Army, Zhou Wenhua planned to give them more practical weapons and equipment, such as mortars and heavy machine guns with heavy firepower, in exchange for a group of elite Sichuan army officers and soldiers to serve as his own security team.
, to protect yourself and your family.
After conceiving this plan,
Zhou Wenhua had already changed his clothes and went out, preparing to take a car to the match factory to see what happened after the fight on that side and to deal with the aftermath.
In the early years of the Republic of China, with the development of capitalism, child labor began to appear in large numbers in major factories in Songhu, and accounted for a considerable proportion of factory workers.
According to historical records, child labor occurred not only in Songhu, but also in major cities such as Qingdao, Hong Kong Island, Tianjin and Wei, and child labor was as common as those of newsboys.
It’s just that there are more in Songhu, an international metropolis.
And the oppression he suffered was even more severe and dark.
It won't take long,
Zhou Wenhua was escorted by his father's bodyguards. He and Butler Liu Xing also took a car and arrived at the match factory.
At this time, although the fight in the factory had ended, many injured factory workers and child workers had not left the factory. Those with relatively minor injuries were still in the factory, enduring their injuries while working.
Because they cannot lose their jobs,
Because they still need to support their families and themselves.
As for those with more serious injuries, they should go outside to see a doctor.
Even they don't have much money for medical treatment, but because the injury is relatively serious, they still need to find a way to seek medical treatment.
For these dark and sad scenes before me,
It also made Zhou Wenhua, who had just entered the factory and had a brief understanding of the situation, very emotional.
So he immediately asked his housekeeper Liu Xing to summon all the injured employees and allocate some money to them to see a doctor immediately.
Especially for those with serious injuries, employees and factory workers who were not injured were asked to go to them immediately to collect money and go to the hospital for medical treatment.
As for the factory director and supervisor who initiated the fight, they were fired.
I'll get three months' salary back and be laid off.
He is ready to comprehensively improve the business policies of his father's factory that he took over, as well as the treatment and welfare of workers.
In particular, the treatment and benefits of child labor must be comprehensively reformed.
If he hadn't been worried that quitting these child workers would make it impossible for them to survive, or that they would have to find darker factories and small workshops to work,
Zhou Wenhua doesn’t want these child laborers to work.
So in order to improve the lives of these child workers, he planned to change the working hours, wages and benefits to deal with the aftermath.
But his kind act suddenly caused a sensation in the entire match factory. Whether it was the employees of the factory, the management, or even the housekeeper Liu Xing who came with him, he was treated in such an unexpected way by Zhou Wenhua.