Another big conflict.

Jenkins stood in front, trying to persuade them to go back with his usual smooth tongue.

"Brothers! Brothers! I know you are all very capable! Look at us this year, we have mined 450,000 tons of various ores, and the areas and mines worth mining are not even half of the total.

The ore is mined at a depth of fifty feet, which is enough to see your strength! I also know that in the past, you have always been a kind subject, patriotic, obedient, and religious!"

But before he could continue, Adu walked out from among the workers and interrupted him loudly: "We don't want to listen to your nonsense! We just want you to fulfill your promise!"

"Fulfill your promise!"

"Liar! He is a liar!"

The workers began to boo because they had repeatedly warned months ago that they would declare a strike if the situation did not improve.

But everything remained the same, so they finally struck, and they were forewarned that they were going to do so, without any blame.

Because Jenkins went too far.

Normally speaking, within the empire, if a technician of Jenkins's rank becomes a manager and dares to earn dozens of gold coins a month, it is considered a big deal, because if he continues to earn more, it will definitely cause problems in the project. This is already considered a big deal.

The upper limit is exceeded, and if you add more, it will affect your wealth and life.

But what about Jenkins?

How much can he make?

Hey, you have to ask how brave he is.

Because he only pays workers wages once every two months, he always controls one month's wages that should belong to the workers.

This is a vain and conceited playboy. He has never spoken like this before. He once openly threatened: "If they dare to go on strike, he will issue an order for the empire to come forward and execute them all without mercy!"

Even at the very beginning, this was what he did. When Adu was still watching, he openly punished and even starved several leaders to death. He ignored the agreed terms and worked overtime without the consent of the workers.

etc.

Such a fierce attitude has caused the danger of another strike to arise. The conflict has not yet been resolved, and even the nobles have intervened. The young nobleman who helped Jenkins speak represents the senior management who can really make the rules and has begun to intervene in this situation.

Disputes.

At the outset, the main demands of the rebellious strikers were:

First, disclose wages and costs.

Second, Jenkins and his lackeys no longer have the ability to fine and withhold wages at will.

Third, shorten the working day to ten hours, including the time to go up and down the well.

Fourth, recognize the legitimacy of workers’ organizations and grant corresponding autonomy rights.

The scale of the strike frightened Jenkins, so in the previous months, Jenkins bargained many times to meet some of the workers' demands, and in the fourth month, some mines partially resumed work.

However, because Jenkins broke his promise, the worker representatives made a decision to continue the strike after discussion.

But then, the nobles appeared.

On the one hand, due to the pressure of the real aristocracy to take repressive measures, and on the other hand, because of the new promises made by the Jenkins, the strike had to be stopped at the beginning of the fifth month.

But in terms of implementation, the workers' demands were only realized to a small extent. However, the strike improved the class consciousness and organization of the miners, and strengthened the role of organizational consciousness.

Lu En was very pleased that this strike would definitely have a significant impact on the future development of the Hell Camp labor movement.

On the other side, Jenkins made a big mistake. He thought that these hungry workers, as poor people begging for bread, would definitely compromise and be intimidated by the real imperial aristocrats.

But in fact, they are not supplicants, they are an army stationed in enemy territory!

Even though they don’t have any consciousness yet, this is the fact!

The appearance of the nobles brought great pressure. In this way, the workers realized more deeply that they were united with their brothers to fight against another vicious existence.

At the same time, inexplicable books and knowledge began to circulate at the bottom of the camp.

This is an important addition to their team because they are all good people and professionals, which means they can't be stupid.

With so many real struggles and the perfect descriptions of the current situation and explanations of the future in those books, they began to think.

And once people really start to think, no matter what they are thinking about, then they will inevitably be shaken by their faith in the emperor and the church.

They began to organize themselves, no longer united with Adu. Although Adu was still the leader, they formed a parliamentary system in which the lowest workers formed small circles and elected a representative from the small circles.

, contact other representatives, and then elect higher-level representatives. Finally, a new all-workers parliament was born.

This simple little parliament has never mastered material power, and what makes people feel even more powerless is that it does not pay attention to taking necessary measures to ensure that it has this power.

But nevertheless, despite being so weak, despite being tinged with romanticism, it is still the only flag under which it is possible to unite and try to start a new movement.

At this time, the strength of the workers has gradually been demonstrated. They are confident that Jenkins will never have the power to contain them anymore, and he will not be able to ask the nobles for instructions over and over again. That would be courting death.

But soon, another two months passed.

As they say, Jenkins learned the lesson.

He did make concessions to the workers and learned Adu's methods and methods. He even understood one thing!

He learned, and increasingly learned, through his long-term opposition to workers:

If he does not have the help of the working class, he will never achieve complete control of the camp.

So, driven by certain interests, he really began to change, and the relationship between the two classes gradually changed. The regulations on preferential treatment of workers that he once regarded as terrible and abominable are now not only voluntarily abiding by them, but also

It is also allowed to be extended to almost all departments. He no longer deducts a large amount of everyone's salary, and even pays it in full.

Workers' organizations that he had previously viewed as malignant entities were now viewed by him as perfectly understandable and supportive institutions, and were protected by Jenkins as useful tools for disseminating various viewpoints among workers.

Even strikes, which until last month were declared sanctionable, are now increasingly seen as useful at times, especially when Jenkins initiates them when needed.

That's right, take the initiative to strike.

Jenkins set his sights on the nobles, and he began to discuss with Adu how to extract enough benefits from those nobles so that both parties could make a fortune together.

So, in the following days, about a month and a half, everything got back on track. The results of this mutual cooperation were amazing at first.

Workers and technicians became active again, and rapidly developed the mines and the planned water plant construction base, at a speed that was unprecedented even for the empire.

The amazing results obtained by applying magic and magic machinery were displayed, showing the terrifying industrial strength.

Everything seems to be on track?

But after getting on the right track, the nobles became anxious.

This was not the result they wanted to see. After all, the camp was built as scheduled, so whose credit was it in the end?

There is no doubt that he is the king of monsters who ran away within a few days of his arrival and went to who knows where!

Therefore, the nobles also started to set off!

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Inside the Wallenstein family.

Albert was listening to a meeting between his father and a group of clan elders, as well as the heads and staff of other landowning baron families.

The Wallenstein family is the second-largest landowner baron. Within the Land Party, their status is similar to that of the Conservative Archduke Trela. It seems that the ancestors of this family were very insecure, so they spent a lot of money to build an airtight house.

The fortress served as a family residence.

Because of the security of this fortress, the Agrarian Party would often hold meetings here without the risk of being eavesdropped. Even the Anonymous 9 would find it difficult to sneak in under heavy surveillance.

The Agrarian Party, a political party within the empire that cannot be ignored, is full of farmers from the coastline to the Ontario Wasteland, from the Elf Silverleaf tribe bordering the Dukedom of Walder, to the primitive jungles over Star Maple.

Farmers are a very important factor in production and political power, and the Agrarian Party is the representative of farmers and the land, at least that's what they say.

Almost all members of the Land Party are landlord barons. This title originally had a very low status. Some clues can be seen from the title "Baron". However, because the landlord baron class has been at the grassroots level for a long time, their acquisition of land and the acquisition of serfs

The accumulation of barons led to the rapid growth of the original baron class, forcing the empire to face up to their power and rights. Finally, the best among them stood out and were given the unique title of landowner baron.

These landowning barons owned a large number of domestic slaves, long-term and day laborers, and occupied huge private land areas that could be used for production.

Now, the meeting of landowner barons is discussing this issue.

In the past, the land controlled by these landowner barons generally implemented a forced crop rotation system, and most of them were cultivated according to the three-field system, which was divided into winter plowing land, spring plowing land, and fallow land.

Fallow land and stubble land are reserved for farmers to use for grazing. Generally, landowners and barons will not interfere with these lands.

As for power at the grassroots level, the extremely conservative Agrarian Party members usually solve the problem of distribution of power at the grassroots level according to their inherited tradition, namely: the "village elder system". All affairs in these scattered villages are handled by the same villagers and local people.

Resolutions were resolved by majority vote at meetings represented by the lords.

The landowning barons rarely interfered with planting, and their control over the grassroots was often limited to collecting tribute.

The income from joint grazing on fallow land and stubble land, or the remaining part of the forest income, belongs to the farmers and the barons.

This was the basic situation of farmers in the empire hundreds of thousands of years ago. Compared with the homeless in the city today, their lives were much better.

But in the past few hundred years, the situation has been different.

The reason why the landowning barons had a growing need for money over the centuries was due to the impact of urbanization in the empire.

Farmers are moving into the city one after another and becoming a member of the "homeless". The reason is also very simple, that is, the city lords deceive them into going there, and then imprison them with debts and loans, becoming the burning fuel of urban development.

firewood.

The emergence of more and more means of enjoyment and luxury goods made the landowners and barons, who had always been extravagant, spend more.
To be continued...