Pioneering

New Chang'an City, within the first ring road.

Zhong Ming sat on the leather chair in the office, holding a thick stack of reports on the July incident in Wulin Province, lost in thought...

The Foggy Forest Province is located on the banks of the Lorraine River in the southeast of Yaxia. It was originally the Marquis of Mostert in the Principality of Vizede. Its unique geographical environment such as water heat, monsoon, and vegetation has caused a unique phenomenon of being shrouded in fog all year round in summer.

The forest is dense, the towering canopy is full of rich blue-green, and the mist in the air adds a mysterious and quiet romantic atmosphere.

After the textile industry in the central province of Yaxia became saturated, labor costs rose sharply, so Wulin Province took over a large amount of textile production capacity and became one of the famous textile industry centers in Yaxia.

The rich forest resources in Wulin Province have also given birth to a huge logging industry market.

Today's Yaxia land and other natural resource ownership systems are very special, between state-owned and privately owned, and can be called Zhong Minghu's modified ownership system.

This statement is not an exaggeration, because the mainstream on the mainland is aristocratic ownership, and it is very common for the monarch to own one-fifth to one-half of the territory directly under the country.

Directly distributing land for free, at most, you will get a thousand thanks from the landless farmers, and then forget about it after a few years. After all, you will never cherish what you get easily.

As for attacking other countries after free distribution of land, you will gain the hearts of the people, you will be treated as a "king teacher", and you will be invincible, then you are thinking too much.

The popular support of ordinary people without extraordinary power is extremely limited for Zhong Ming to expand his territory.

Production relations in the form of capital have not been developed for tens of thousands of years since the Black Iron Age. The main reason is that the supernatural beings' fists are too big to break mountains and break rocks.

When Yasha didn't make an enchanted version of the firearms, 1 civilians would risk their lives and die without a formal knight, and would be easily suppressed instead.

Even now, with ordinary people in Asshai holding the most advanced enchanted light machine guns and enchanted rifles, it is difficult for a thousand people to threaten an official knight/Gangsha warrior/official wizard who comes and goes like the wind.

Unless the mana cannon is used to clean the ground on a large scale, otherwise it will be a bloody scenario.

And the negative cost of dividing land is that the common people of other countries in the mainland regard him as a lunatic and fool king, and the nobles and priests of other countries regard him as the greatest enemy in his life. He must bring all his strength to fight Zhong Ming to the end.

In short, ordinary people in the Zoya world do not represent advanced productive forces.

The income is low and the price is high, and he has to cut his own flesh for nothing. Zhong Ming's brain has not gone wrong because of spiritual practice.

However, the development of capitalism also requires private ownership, which is in serious conflict with the former.

However, it is hard for Zhong Ming who has absorbed the essence of Blue Star's ancient and modern Chinese and foreign politicians.

The solution he gave was to pass the law to recognize the private system, and to recognize that non-civilians can purchase the permanent right to use land from the king.

You don't necessarily need to go to the battlefield to win titles to own private land.

Everyone can get a piece of land that belongs to them through money, and the rest cannot use force to take it away, and neither can the king.

The legal rights of Yaxia's natural resources, land, forests, rivers, minerals... were artificially divided by Zhong Ming into two parts: ownership and use rights.

In order to avoid hitting the military title system, only the right to use natural resources can be purchased with money. In addition to the transfer fee, it is also necessary to pay taxes that far exceed the fixed offering money of the nobles.

The wealth obligation paid by the nobles is not the main obligation. Military obligations are their main business.

The fiefdom attached to the noble title has ownership and use rights, and the legal rights belong to the individual noble. As long as it does not violate the laws of Asshai, all the rights and interests of the nobles in the fief are protected.The nobles are still high above, but they are restrained.

The tax rate is different according to the type of natural resources, from cheaper residential construction land, more expensive industrial and commercial construction land, expensive forest resource use rights, expensive to outrageous minerals...

The most expensive special metal is only Viscount Rene's old father who contracted a small and medium-sized anti-monster gold mine, and the annual use tax is [-]%.

The cheapest agricultural land, Zhong Ming basically covers every farmer owning about 8 mu of land for the reasons of enthronement, celebration of victory, festival gifts, etc. The annual agricultural tax is also reduced every year, currently it is [-]%.

The most populous family in the central province, with 370 members, has accumulated various rewards from Zhong Ming and obtained the permanent use right of a total of more than [-] mu of land.The reproductive ability of the hostess and hostess of this family can be considered to open a class to fool infertile couples to earn... Well, they don't know such high-end methods.

What is really found on the land, such as a gold mine dug out of the farmland, legally supports your ownership, but if you change the nature of the land use, you have to pay a different tax rate, 8% of agriculture will be turned into gold mines 30.6%.

Moreover, this permanent use right can be bought and sold in the market and is protected by Yaxia's law. It can be said that it is private ownership covered in leather, which provides a legal basis for continuous tax collection, otherwise it will not be easy to mix in the kingdom-based continent.

Yiwulin Province is rich in forest resources. Even if they have to bear a 22% tax every year, loggers still make a lot of money.

Because with the spread of infrastructure construction, the real estate market is also stimulated by standardized Yaxia construction standards. Whether workers and peasants who have made money want to go home to build a house or go to the city to buy a house, they need to buy furniture.

Huge furniture market, after Yaxia won the Wulin Province, big loggers don't have to carry their heads to the outskirts of the Jueling Mountains to log a little bit, and compete with Warcraft for living space, it can be said to be overjoyed.

Especially the most famous spruce in Wulin Province is famous for its corrosion resistance, insect resistance, wear resistance, beautiful texture and elegant color, and is widely used to make high-quality furniture and handicrafts.

Its color is usually light blue-white to indigo blue, with rich changes, dense and hard texture, smooth and shiny surface, delicate texture and natural pattern with unique beauty.

There is also a certain unearthly value - the auxiliary materials of some low-level potions require years of spruce.

A hundred-year-old spruce has been packaged by a timber merchant, and it has directly become an extraordinary potion that prolongs life, and is worth tens of thousands of gold dollars.

The textile industry and logging industry have thus become the pillar industries of Wulin Province.

However, because the resources of Wulin Province are full of new capital, not only did they not think about taking social responsibility, engaging in charity or improving workers' treatment, but instead wanted to gather more wealth, or spend money for future generations. The best martial arts/knight/wizard resources, seeking a higher social status.

However, the two major industries of textile and logging are labor-intensive industries. If you want to rely on technological progress and brand effect to expand profits, it is far less effective than deducting money from people, and the market risk is low.

As a result, the millions of workers in Wulin Province were in bad luck.

They were brutally exploited by these first-generation capitalists, hovering on the edge of desperation, working 25 to 26 hours a day (45 hours day and night), or even as long as [-] hours, and their wages were meager.

There are even a large number of people in Wulin Province whose wages are lower than the minimum monthly salary standard set by Zhong Ming, even the warm line is difficult to reach.

You must know that in the Principality of Wized before, although most of them could only engage in basic agriculture and were also below the food and clothing line, they only worked an average of [-] hours a day, and there were still many slack periods every year.

Now, although the food and clothing situation has improved slightly, the price is too much for the workers in Wulin, and it has not directly improved to the point of food and clothing for the whole family.

People in Blue Star Dragon Country work continuously for [-] hours a day, and they are at risk of sudden death, complaining endlessly, and their spirits are listless.Compared with these workers from another world who worked continuously for [-] hours, it really pales in comparison.

After all, human physique cannot be generalized.

996? 007?lame!

These first-generation capitalists have not experienced the multiple economic crises tempered by the Blue Star capitalists, and the only half of the economic crisis (caused by the Northern Continent War) did not last long. They did not realize the importance of the balance between supply and demand at all, let alone understand What is labor resource reproduction.

Exquisite pressing, exuberant making!
Not to mention the violation of the "Yashai Labor Law", there are still child laborers... It is especially tragic, and many of them were tortured to death before they were 13 years old.

Isn't there all kinds of legal protection compiled by Zhong Ming (plagiarism)?
Isn’t the [-]-hour working system supervised by the Wealth Church written into the church’s teachings?
Yes, there are friends, there are, and formally there is nothing missing.

But... Please watch the Extraordinary World Zoya Continent Yaxia Kingdom Edition, you can't help but laugh at me.

Cast: The laborer who reported, the two-year crash version of the Yashai Kingdom official, the first generation of novice capitalists (without the street lamp education version)...

The textile workers are busy from early morning to late night, and their wages can only buy two or three pounds of bread. Not to mention supporting their families, they can barely maintain their personal life.

The workers complained: "We workers are so poor and naked.

The rich and bureaucrats put on fine coats and brocade ribbons.

We wove these, but even if we starved to death, we didn't have a piece of cloth to put them in. "

When the workers put forward legitimate demands for wage increases, the officials of the Ministry of Labor in the Wulin Province of the Kingdom of Asshai would say:
"I want to ask employers to raise wages and reduce working hours. We are a market economy, and this is not within our purview. We cannot..."

Ask again: "Then why not follow the minimum wage standard stipulated in the Yaxia Labor Law?"

"It's in charge, it's in charge. But there are too many people, things are too complicated, and we have limited manpower.

Even within our responsibilities, our abilities are limited, there is nothing we can do, please be patient. "

"How long to wait."

"..."

"You don't even say sorry?"

"I'm just doing things by the book, what's wrong with me?"

Therefore, under the rule of these people, the living conditions of the workers in Yasha Wulin Province have not improved at all in the past three years. On the contrary, life has become more and more difficult with the inflation of economic development.

It's not that they didn't try to go to Chang'an City to report it, but...it can only be said that some spiritual operations are learned by those in power without a teacher.

The people in Wulin Province watched the people in the surrounding provinces with better food get better and better. It was rare for the Wulin people who got their own land to start boldly migrating to other provinces.

Anyway, Zhong Ming did not deliberately divide the household registration, they all have a unified identity of the Kingdom of Assia, and only the individual titles reflect the difference in the color of the identity card.

The colors of identity cards with titles are different, white (commoner), green (feudal knight), blue (baron), purple (viscount), red (earl), gold (marquis), and Zhong Ming’s own colorful and cool ID card, play is a fancy look.

At present, only John has used the red ID card, and the rest have used the purple one at most.

The population of Wulin Province continues to flow in. After the drought is over, the surrounding provinces are in short supply of labor.

However, the available manpower is getting less and less, and the labor cost has to rise. Under the instigation of a certain smart and wealthy businessman, the Wulin officials with water in their heads chose to block people and collect migration fees, toll fees, and facility wear and tear. fee……

Human patience is limited, there is no way to appeal, and there is no way to run away.

Then only soldiers are in danger!
Just during the drought period, the Principality of Wized was one of the rare places where civilian uprisings were abundant. Wulin Province in Yashai was the place where riots first occurred in the Principality of Wized, and the Duchy was full of martial virtue.

The kindest group of people in Yaxia met the most wicked group of people, and the chemical reaction was extremely intense!
Millions of fog forest workers have gradually raised their consciousness from encountering obstacles again and again, realized the relationship of opposition, and prepared to fight, teaching the first generation of capitalists a good lesson.

At first it was a strike.

The Wulin Provincial native with the closest family relationship is full of martial arts, and he is not so reckless as to use a knife when he comes up.

After all, the opponent is the giant beast of Yashai, which has shaken the entire northern continent, and it is much stronger than the Principality of Wized.

General strike in Spruce, Smoky Forest.

Loggers gathered in front of the sprawling factory, carrying placards and holding aloft a banner of solidarity.Angry shouts filled the air, expressing their dissatisfaction with unfair treatment.

Thick fog was floating in the sky, which seemed to indicate that a historic event was about to begin.

Workers, eager for change, stand together and stand firm in the face of employer and political injustice.

The laborers stood on the street, forming an iron wall, and no one could ignore their existence.

They chanted slogans in unison, and their voices were as shocking as thunder.

They are no longer isolated and helpless individuals, but condense into a powerful force to stand up and defend their rights and interests.

The Sheriff's Department and factory security tried to stop them, but the workers were unrelenting.

They stood their ground without flinching.

The vehicles on the street were jammed there, standing still, a mess.People stopped and watched, shocked by this spectacular strike protest.

Finally, the voices and actions of the workers penetrated the high walls and won the opportunity to be at the negotiating table.

Of course, the bigger possibility is that he is afraid that the trouble will continue. He is afraid that Zhong Ming, who is too busy to die, will cast his eyes on him. All the civil servants who fail to maintain stability are afraid that they will be hanged.

The specific content of the negotiations, Ryan is also belated. The intelligence organization under him did not get the minutes of this "non-existent" meeting, but only found out that the management made concessions and promised to fulfill the minimum wage standard, but for some reason they tore up the promise.

Moreover, there was a bloody incident, and several prestigious workers' leaders died.

Then the enraged workers took up arms and occupied the city hall, logging factory and telegraph office of Spruce City, overthrowing the actual rule of Yashai Kingdom in Spruce City, Wulin Province.

Yunshan City is now in an anarchic state, and Zhong Ming feels that he needs to find time to go there. (end of this chapter)