Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 146 Ghost, wake up, it’s time to get up!

Because Milton's plan is still in its early stages, there is not even any clues to grasp, and Huang Jiang has no way to go to Tulip Island to provide services, so there are only so many things that can be done. You can't jump in and go against the governor, so It is even more justified for people to wear small shoes for themselves.

But this does not mean that Huangjiang cannot cope with Milton.

After writing the deceptive "Programme of the Oil and Steel Community", Huang Jiang handed him over to Thors, and he found Kalecki early the next morning.

"What do you think of Tulip Steel Group?" Huang Jiang asked straight to the point.

Kalecki was a little confused. He didn't know what age this deacon with strange ideas had appeared. He could only say carefully:

"From a technical point of view, it is not worth mentioning. Even if it eats the remaining iron ore on Cycad Island, it is unlikely to have an impact on our business. Tulip Steel's steelmaking technology is still in the previous generation, and there is no It cannot enter the club of new steel technologies guided by us, and its market is limited to the Tulip Territory, and it has no ability to reach other governor-general territories..."

Kalecki first said a long paragraph about how Tulip Steel was nothing to worry about, but in the end he still very vaguely mentioned Milton behind it.

Huang Jiang nodded and suddenly asked a question: "Have you visited the Tulip Steel ironmaking plant?"

"It's terrible..." Kalecki rarely uses this word. "In order to reduce costs as much as possible, after being unable to adopt technological breakthroughs, they began to use the crudest method of squeezing workers. This is the simplest, most effective, but also the most Cruel tactics."

However, this was once Kalecki's favorite method. If Huang Jiang hadn't forced the eight-hour work system on Jialan Island, Kalecki might have turned Jiagang's ironmaking plant into a sweatshop.

Even so, the workers of Jiagang are working overtime every day, but this is completely different from the tiredness before. The workers can very intuitively see that their labor is converted into money, and as dangerous work as designated by the Huangjiang River, The overtime pay in the ironworks is quite high, so on Gloria Island, the richest group is actually this group of ironworkers who seem to work in dirty conditions all year round.

It also gave workers their first exposure to a sense of satisfaction beyond money.

This is a sense of satisfaction that comes from social recognition.

In addition to the labor transactions with Jiagang, Jiagang workers also developed a sense of belonging to Jiagang Group.

Kalecki was even very surprised to find that the eight-hour work system did not reduce Jiagang's production efficiency. This was originally the reason why he had been opposed to this system.On the contrary, after the emergence of this work system, workers' enthusiasm for labor actually increased to a higher level, because workers finally had a clear judgment on the value of their work.

With the promotion of the eight-hour work system, after seeing the benefits of Jiagang, many new companies that settled in Jiagan also followed suit and implemented this system in a formal manner within the company.

This incident also made Kaleji look at Huang Jiang in a different light. Previously, he only thought that Huang Jiang was a deacon who had a keen eye and knew how to invest. Now he realized that anyone who could reach the position of a deacon must have extraordinary abilities.

It is a pity that this wrong judgment was broken after he met many other deacons.

"How is the system I asked you to implement recently?" Huang Jiang asked.

He was talking about three shifts. For boilers that are running all the time, outage is a huge loss. Moreover, it is also the time when steel profits are the highest. Stopping production for one hour represents a huge loss of profits.Therefore, the ironmaking plant must operate 24 hours a day, but naturally the workers cannot last so long, so shifts are a must.

"Three shifts are a bit difficult." Kalecki said honestly. "Most of the workers' income comes from the overtime wages we pay them. If three shifts of eight hours are implemented, their income will be greatly reduced, and even some Workers are unwilling to accept two shifts and want to work longer hours..."

"Today's workers are so cute." Huang Jiang scratched his head in confusion, but this is normal. Most of the workers in the Federation are still being bloody squeezed by the capitalists. Who knows what they represent? Power, unlike the capital world that was swept by the red storm in later generations, constantly giving out benefits because they were worried that one day the red devil would wake up.

"Then let's work in two shifts. But two shifts must be enforced. Experienced workers are Jiagang's most valuable asset. Without them, there will be no one among us who knows the detailed operation of the machine." Huang Jiangzhuan He started writing and took out another thing beside him.

This is what Huang Jiang wrote by the way last night when he was presenting the platform for the Water, Oil, and Steel Community.But Huang Jiang really put a lot of thought into this document.

"I want to implement the eight-hour work system throughout the federation." Huang Jiang said.

Kalecki was shocked, and he quickly dissuaded him: "You must not do this! Lord Deacon! This is tantamount to putting Jialan and Jiagang on the opposite side of the factory owners in the entire federation!"

"Of course I know it's difficult to fully implement this at this stage." Huang Jiang said with a smile, "But everything must have a breakthrough from scratch. I hope you will use this document as a guideline to create an organization. Originally, this The matter should be left to Thors, but after thinking about it, it would be more convincing for you, the president of Jiagang, to come forward."

"Organization...what organization?" Kalecki was a little confused.

"The Blue Federal Workers Alliance aims to seek better working conditions and higher wages for workers." Huang Jiang stood up, turned and looked out the window, "Now, it has been decades since the enclosure movement began. ?”

Although Huang Jiang only noticed this phenomenon after he became a deacon on Jialan Island, it has actually been going on in the Azure Federation for a long time, but it was accelerated by the establishment of the Merchant Alliance.

"Pretty much," Kalecki said.

The enclosure movement was what the deacon in front of him called the behavior of other deacons driving farmers to plunder land.

He also mentioned something like "sheep eats people" in front of himself and Thors several times.

"The capital development in this world is faster than expected." Huang Jiang sat down again and studied the document in his hand. "In just a few decades, a class destined to shake the world has been formed."

"What are you talking about, Mr. Butler?" Kalecki couldn't understand more and more.

"Ah, it's nothing." Huang Jiang put aside the world that he could not return to and said to Kaleji, "I have already made peace with most of the factory owners in the territory. When the time comes, you will let your workers participate. No one will stop this organization. As for spreading to the entire federation, it is too early."

"But...is this really okay? Ah, it's not that I don't want to, I'm just worried that other people won't want their workers to form an alliance."

"It doesn't matter." Huang Jiang said very generously, "If you don't want to, just let Nelson demolish their factory."

Kalecki trembled and said nothing.

Huang Jiang saw it and sighed in his heart, as expected, with the barrel of a gun, everything can be said easily.

"Then I'm going to make preparations." Kalecki opened the file and was a little confused. It's murderous and heart-wrenching. This is...

"Oh, by the way, we can let the workers of Tulip Steel see the nourishing life of the workers of Jiagan Steel." Huang Jiang lowered his head and drank tea and asked.

"Understood." Kalecki lowered his head and left the office.

"Is this really good? Give up the factory owners and support the workers?" Lexington knew Huang Jiang's tendency. Although it was difficult for her to understand this behavior as a native American ship girl, she still supported Huang Jiang unreservedly. Jiang's choice.

"The factory owners only have interests in their eyes. They can cooperate but cannot rely on them." Huang Jiang grinned. "In comparison, I think the workers are much cuter."

(End of this chapter)