Chapter 72: Sweet Harbor Storm - The solution to the problem
Chapter 72: Sweet Harbor Storm - The solution to the problem
"Liao Dahua said that he has booked a courtyard in Xuwen County. If it is not possible, he can escape into the county." Wen Tong put forward Liao Dahua's suggestion.
"That's it." Chen Tianxiong said, "No matter how important the South China Sugar Factory is, we don't necessarily have to die in the factory. I think Bei Wei and Liao Dahua will discuss it together and prepare for the situation in case of escape.
Plan. How to go, who to take with you..."
There are hundreds of people in the factory, Bei Wei only brought two or three team members, and the escort agency can only come with a dozen people at most. It is obviously impossible to protect all the workers from escaping. Fortunately, the other party will probably just take their lives.
, ordinary employees will not kill everyone.
"Send away the Wen brothers and the women. There is no use keeping women here. I have spent a lot of effort training the Wen brothers. It would be a pity if they were killed." Wen Tong said. In fact, the key is this.
People and time-travelers get along day and night, and have a certain amount of affection. "There are also a few key people in the sugar factory and their families." He shook his head, "But now people have just gathered people. In this way, South China will recover in the future.
, people’s hearts are scattered.”
This is a self-evident thing. Once things break out, there will inevitably be casualties among the sugar factory employees, but their leaders and cronies have long since hid in safe places - no one would like this.
matter.
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel frustrated. Xiao Gui said: "I think it would be too selfish and a bit despicable to do this." He said that since he thought of asking the employees to help defend the sugar factory now, he would throw them away when the time came.
So, just let nature take its course. From now on, South China's reputation will be so bad.
"I think," Chen Tianxiong said, "Wen brothers should not be sent away either. They are an important channel for us to communicate with the locals. In addition, women should not be sent away either. Otherwise, morale will be affected."
This is the meaning of losing soldiers and protecting handsome men. Everyone knows that it is useless for a few female slaves to stay in the sugar factory. But at least it is an attitude - everyone in the sugar factory knows that a few female slaves belong to the masters.
Maid and concubine.
Xiao Gui originally admired Chen Tianxiong for his calmness and orderliness, but now he disagreed: "It's even worse," Xiao Gui said, "What we should be thinking about now is how to defend the South China Sugar Refinery, not how to protect it."
Escape for your life, let alone prepare to resign and deceive employees after escaping for your life!"
These words were so righteous that everyone was speechless. Wen Tong's face turned blue and white: "Well, I have a gun after all. When the time comes, the most I can do is to fight for my life and be the first to enter Cuigang."
In Cuigang Cemetery, no one has been buried yet. He said he wanted to be the first to be buried, which is obviously out of anger.
Chen Tianxiong is still tepid: "The sugar factory must be preserved as much as possible. But when the workers come to knock on the door, even if they fight hard, they may not be able to save it."
Bei Wei asked: "What about the third one?"
"The third thing is to inquire about the information and find out the overall situation. Although I don't agree with killing the third master, we still need to prepare in advance for this matter. If it is not possible, instead of letting him blow our heads, we should first
He was violent." Everyone smiled a little when he said this, "Besides Mr. Zhu, who are the other key people? What is their attitude? We have to find out all of them one by one, including the details.
Understand it. Then when the time comes, whether you are beating or pulling someone, you can have a plan. Otherwise, even if you want to kill people and set fires, there will be no place to find people to go to!"
"This makes sense." Bei Wei agreed. "Send out all the people who are making threats to investigate."
"The people who raised the flag are now outside asking for information. Now that we have a clear goal, I'll just take care of Liao Dahua!" Wen Tong said.
"With accurate information, things will be easier to handle. If it doesn't work out then I'll have to ask Old Bei to take action. This job is a bit 'dirty'..."
The so-called "dirty" means that this is different from the war between countries. The divisions are famous, but the real competition is for interests. Chen Tianxiong is afraid that he will feel uncomfortable if Bei Wei, a former soldier, is allowed to engage in underworld activities.
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"That's unnecessary." Bei Wei said, "Since we have come to this time and space, we must consider the overall situation of the Time Travel Group."
"Okay, that's enough." Chen Tianxiong said, "Actually, I also have an idea to drain the firepower. But I'm not sure."
The so-called "drawing money from the bottom of the pot" is to lobby the sugar mill workers who are preparing to revolt, so that they can "understand the righteousness" or bribe them with large sums of money. As long as they don't revolt, the matter will be more than half successful. But the current situation is unclear, and Chen Tian
Xiong felt a little unable to start.
"Don't they have no work to do? At worst, we just recruit them all." Merlin said, he became excited, as if he had discovered a new world, "After the wages are paid, I don't believe they will still cause trouble."
"Originally it was possible, but we were late." Wen Tong was a little frustrated. "There is no shortage of people in the sugar factory now. What are we recruiting people for? We can't live in vain."
"Even white-collar wages, at least they play a role in 'maintaining stability'!" Merlin said, "Besides, there are about two hundred workers, and each person earns twelve taels of silver a year, which is only more than two thousand taels."
This is a good idea. Although it is suspected of spending money to buy peace of mind, it is always a more feasible method.
Chen Tianxiong nodded: "What you said has given me some ideas. Leave this matter to me. I must appease all the workers."
Everyone was stunned, not knowing what clever plan he had up his sleeve, but judging from the way he pretended to be mysterious, he must have great confidence.
"But this matter requires everyone's cooperation, especially Wen Tong." Chen Tianxiong said, "But I am 80 to 90% sure that it can be done - at least it can make them internally chaotic for a while and postpone the trouble for a few days."
The calculation was settled, Wen Tong asked: "What should we do about transporting sugar? Transporting sugar to Guangzhou is important, but how to solve the safety problem?"
"Yes, we either need to ask the Executive Committee to help send ships to escort, or we have to equip the ships of Guanggao Shipyard with weapons and soldiers, but this will be troublesome."
"It doesn't matter, I have an idea, but I need the help of the executive committee. That's it-"
The calculation was settled, and everyone went to do their own things. Chen Tianxiong discussed with Wen Tong for a while, and then called Liao Daxing, asked many questions, and asked him to open all the sugar factory workers who were originally sugar factory workers.
He took the list over and wrote on it one by one what their original jobs were: candy cooks, fire cooks, or ordinary handymen. Wenxiu also asked Wenxiu to write down the workers' "defense" in the "anti-corruption" movement.
I brought them all and looked at them one by one. I was busy for a long time.
Wen Tong was surprised and asked, "What does this mean?"
Chen Tianxiong said: "To put it bluntly, it's not a surprise. It's just a trick to provoke the masses to fight against the masses."
The method of hiring all the unemployed workers mentioned by Merlin, if used a few months earlier, is indeed a good strategy to "draw out the salary from under the cauldron". But now it is too late. The unemployed workers have obviously been organized and have a leader. This leader
Most of them are still under the control of Hai Yitang. If they offer jobs now, they may not win the trust of unemployed workers. Even if the other party is willing to talk, the asking price may be too high.
"You think: Unemployed workers are already ready to work. Now if we say we are willing to give them jobs, what would you think if you were an unemployed worker?"
"Of course I think the other person is scared."
"That's right," Chen Tianxiong nodded, "This will make them realize their own power - these people haven't thought about it so much now."
"This will actually help them unite."
"Haha, that's right." Chen Tianxiong said with a smile, "So the first thing to do is to divide them. The sugar lair workers may be said to be one, but in fact they are divided into several types of people."
Wen Tong knows that the sugar cook has the highest technical requirements, so he is the leader in every sugar house, followed by the fireman, who controls the size of the fire at all times according to the sugar cook's instructions. Both of these people have technical expertise.
, and the income is the highest. Especially during the harvest season, the income of masters with good skills is quite considerable. Others are just small workers who sell their strength.
"Who are you pulling and beating?" Wen Tong asked.
"What do you think?" Chen Tianxiong suddenly became suspicious.
Wen Tong said: "Generally speaking, it is always better to recruit skilled talents. On the one hand, skilled people are useful, and on the other hand, they have a greater say in the group. But we don't need their skills -
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Chen Tianxiong nodded repeatedly: "That's right, Lao Wen, you can think faster than me. At first, I wanted to start with the sugar cook, but then I realized that it was wrong -" He first gave Wen the same hand, "...
The price to bribe them is much higher than the price to bribe ordinary workers."
In terms of income, these people have never been able to win over water. South China cannot buy them off without spending a lot of money. If the cost is high, it will not only cost money but also make people in the sugar factory dissatisfied. The gains outweigh the losses.
In contrast, ordinary workers only need to have food to eat, clothing to wear, and their families not to starve to death. Although there are many people, the cost is not large, and the psychological expectations are small. Proper placement can satisfy them, and they may even be grateful.
As long as they have a stable livelihood, no matter how many complaints there are, no one is willing to join the mob. Chen Tianxiong and Wen Tong both understand this.
Some people want to be a mob, and some don't. This temporarily organized workers' group will inevitably fall into internal strife, and with the help of other means, it will be easy to disintegrate. Although Zhu Sanye is the mastermind behind the scenes, he is not a Communist Party after all.
Working on the labor movement is not his specialty.
As for Chen Tianxiong's list of sugar factory workers, Wen Tong also understood. They had no connections among the sugar factory workers, so they had to use people who were already in the factory to make connections.
"When you look for pleas, you probably want to let those who have "sore feet" in their hands get caught by us? We are not afraid that they will betray the truth, and we are not afraid that they will not try their best."
"That's right," Chen Tianxiong said, "but those who write the defense are basically those who cook sugar and make fires, and there are very few ordinary laborers. They have no skills, and it is not their turn to divide the spoils."
"It's okay if you don't have one! At least your character is good."
"That's right. I have selected a few and will meet them later to see how their adaptability is and let them go out for activities early tomorrow morning!"
Chen Tianxiong also plans to go out for activities by himself, but he won't say anything for now. Firstly, he doesn't want to make everyone worried, and secondly, he also wants to show off his skills in front of everyone and show off his status. If others don't tell him, Bei Wei is just a member of the special reconnaissance team.
Although he is the captain, he is also a core member of the executive committee, which left a deep impression on him, which will be of great benefit to his future development.
Early the next morning, Chen Tianxiong set off with Zhou Shizhai. He had already learned a Leizhou dialect in Lingao, which was not very standard. He had no problem communicating with the locals. In addition, his skin was darker, so he changed into the local dialect.
People's clothes then look very "Ming Dynasty".
Originally, Liao Dahua was going to send the best martial artist in Wei Lei Prefecture to follow him, but Chen Tianxiong still chose Zhou Shizhai. He was obviously more reliable than the others, and he had been in Lingao for a long time, and he was very good to the time travellers.
I also understand his behavior and don’t need any further explanation.
The purpose of this visit was to visit Linzhuang. The people who raised the flag easily found out that he was the leader of the unemployed workers in Tangliao. They also knew that he had been to Haiyi Hall several times.
"Lin Zhuang's craftsmanship is average," Zhou Shizhai said, "mainly because he is more 'outside', good at talking, and has a little relationship with Xu Wen's three religions and nine streams, so he is considered a leader among the sugar laborers. Last time we were involved in a lawsuit
It’s because of his public recommendation.”
"How are you as a person?" Chen Tianxiong asked
"He is quite a decent person," the escort said. He is certainly not a bad person. Because he is easy to socialize with, he has acquired various bad habits. He eats, drinks, whores and gambles, and cannot save much money. So he is already in his thirties.
He has no wife and is a bachelor.
Lin Zhuang is a single man, so naturally he doesn't have a family. Right now, he lives in Monk Zou's temple, which is surrounded by unemployed Tangliu workers who are dragging their families with their families and are planning to go to South China to ask for an explanation. It would be unavoidable to go to him.
Somewhat adventurous.
"It doesn't matter. If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs?" Chen Tianxiong was very confident. Since Lin Zhuang has a hobby, he will not be a firm person. The bribery is very likely to succeed. Even if it does not succeed, just today
This kind of thing, if spread out in a vivid and vivid way, can also destroy his little prestige.
A snake cannot survive without a head. If you remove this backbone, coupled with the strategic action of "mass versus mass", this temporarily assembled mob will disband immediately, and it will be much easier to clean up the mess by then.
The two came to the Monk Zou Temple and saw that the temple was quite large - because Monk Zou was the founder of the sugar industry, the sugar industry in Leizhou was developed, and the Monk Zou Temple was also very well built. Originally, this was also a seaside place.
Yitang is a place where opera is performed once a year to honor the gods.
But at this time, the front and back of the temple were full of people with their families. The corridors were filled with people. Adults were making children cry, and it was as lively as a market. Some were fully clothed, and some were simply in rags.