Someone once said that when capital comes to the world, from head to toe, blood and dirty things flow through every pore.∈♀, the original accumulation of capital is through plunder, and capital accumulation is also based on exploitation.

Although capital is timid in nature to escape unrest and disputes, it is not completely. Capital is more afraid of no profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of vacuum. Once there is a proper profit, capital becomes bold. If there is a 10% profit, it will guarantee to be used everywhere, if there is a 20% profit, it will become active, if there is a 50% profit, it will take risks. For 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws, if there is a 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, and even risk the risk of hanging its head. If unrest and disputes can bring profits, it will encourage unrest and disputes, and smuggling and smuggling are proof.

Today's Dahan is in a stage of capital germination, especially with the full support of the court, the industrial and commercial environment is very good. The huge population base of Dahan has caused surplus of labor, coupled with the prosperity and stability of the founding of the Dahan and the rise of the financial industry, which also provides an excellent environment for the germination of capital.

Capitalism is a monster, but at this stage, Liu Jun believes that the use of this giant beast can bring more benefits to the great man, and the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, but Liu Jun dared not relax at all. He knew very well that the power of the capital monster is extremely strong. If it is used well, it can become a helper. If it is not controlled well, it will backfire its master.

The night market shouted that the boss was a bastard and ran away without paying them. This matter made Liu Jun pay attention to it. Wang Butcher, who was not a neighbor, was the price and style of the leather shoes, and then his sympathy for those leather shoes workers.

Liu Jun was watching the problem reflected behind this incident.

Therefore, he asked the East Factory to investigate the matter immediately and had to investigate it clearly.

Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday, with only one day of holiday, but people in this era are also very smart and know how to adjust the holiday. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival plus the Saturday and Sunday of the holiday are therefore a three-day holiday.

Three days was enough for the East Factory to investigate the incident inside and outside.

The entire investigation report of the matter has been submitted to Liu Jun's imperial case. After reading these results, Liu Jun found that he had not done enough before and had neglected some things.

"Your Majesty, the magistrate of Tongzhou is waiting for him outside the hall!" the eunuch reported.

"Let him in."

Tongzhou belonged to Shuntian Prefecture, which was originally a Zhili Prefecture. Later, the Han Dynasty abolished and merged all prefectures in the province. They were either demoted to counties or promoted to prefectures. Tongzhou was therefore promoted to prefectures, with four counties: Sanhe, Wuqing, Xianghe and Qiang County. Because Tongzhou was close to the capital, the canals were basically only sailed to Tongzhou in the past, so Tongzhou became an important wharf outside the capital.

The Han Dynasty established the country and built a reservoir in Yanqing, Huailai, and dredged and widened the Yongding River, Chaobai River, Shahe River, etc., and the Northern Canal could already directly connect to the gate of the capital. However, the capital moved a large number of workshops out of the capital, many of which were moved to Tongzhou. In addition, the imperial court built many new factories in the capital. Tongzhou also became an emerging industrial city because it was close to the capital and was on the edge of the canal, especially light industries such as shoes, clothing, and textiles, which had already formed a scale.

Tongzhou Prefecture's local fiscal revenue in the past two years is very considerable. The amount of national tax paid is also considerable. When he took office as the governor of Tongzhou, he was in charge of Tongzhou and had a good economy. As a result, he received excellent evaluation in the last assessment. Even the emperor gave him good reviews, so he was finally promoted to the left governor of Monan Province and became a provincial-level senior official.

The new magistrate was originally the deputy of the prefect. This time, he was naturally promoted to the full position. However, less than half a month after the new official took office, the emperor ordered him to come to the palace to meet him. The prefect was really a little nervous and didn't know what was going on.

The magistrate of Tongzhou, Chen Pengshan, is in his early forties. Now he is a fourth-rank prefect and a prefect of the capital. He has a bright future. But this is the first time he has entered the palace to face the saint. Walking in the magnificent hall, his waist is bent and he dares not raise his head, but just follows the footsteps of the eunuch.

When he arrived at Nanshu, Chen Pengshan hurriedly wanted to kneel down.

A majestic voice came from the front, "I have no kneeling rituals anymore. I have summoned you to come and you didn't ask you to kneel down."

Chen Pengshan felt a little excited. This was undoubtedly the emperor's voice. But the sound seemed to be the emperor's dissatisfaction with him. He had to bow and bow and retreat aside.

"Give a seat."

"I'm here to ask you, does Tongzhou leather shoe factory have a Tongzhou leather shoe factory?"

Chen Pengshan sat on the chair with only half of his butt, and basically didn't dare to sit down. When he heard the emperor's question, he stood up again and bent down and replied, "Reply to your Majesty, there is indeed a Tongzhou leather shoe factory in Tongzhou."

"What's the situation in this Tongzhou leather shoe factory now?"

Chen Pengshan didn't expect that the emperor was asking about this, and he couldn't help feeling uneasy and sweating on his forehead. He knew about this Tongzhou leather shoe factory. It was originally a relatively large shoe factory in Tongzhou, with leather shoes, and it was famous. Tongzhou's shoe production has a large scale, and there are many large and small shoe factories, spinning mills, weaving factories, and garment factories. Some large factories have thousands of workers, and there are seven or eight hundred small factories.

Tongzhou's shoe factories include leather shoes and cloth shoes, long boots and short boots. Tongzhou leather shoe factory is a factory specializing in leather shoes production. It is not the largest in Tongzhou's shoe factory, but there are more than 300 workers, specializing in producing various genuine leather shoes, and paying a lot of taxes every year. It is also a factory that Tongzhou Prefecture focuses on.

But the factory went bankrupt immediately after he took over as the governor of Tongzhou. The factory was invested and built by a businessman named Huang. Later, he became ill and could not manage it, so he handed over the factory to his nephew for management. Who knew that this nephew was not a management talent, and he was not careful and had everything he could eat, drink, bet and gambling. Not only did he like to go to brothels and eat showers, but he also liked to take concubines and raise actors, and he also liked to gambling.

Less than a year after he took over the leather shoe factory, he rarely managed the factory and spent all day outside. Not only did he spend all his money, he also embezzled the money from the factory to bet. In the end, he owed too much gambling debt, so he ran away.

When people in the factory used money to find someone else, they found that the person had been missing for a long time. At first, everyone thought they were just as usual, and they were spending money, but after a few days, they still disappeared. Later, a material dealer came to ask for payment for the goods, but the people in the factory could not find the person and finally notified the boss, but the Huang family could not find the person either.

Finally, I learned that this man owed a large amount of gambling debts and went to another place to hide from the debts.

Things got a big deal. Mr. Huang was angry while asking someone to pay the money for the goods, but found that this unfilial nephew had already secretly sold the land deeds, house deeds and even the factory at home.

In the end, the old man had to fight the lawsuit to the Tongzhou court, sue those people for nephews and steal the Huang family's property. Without the old man's introduction, those people actually paid for it at an extremely low price. This is not stealing.

The case was very turbulent. Although Chen Pengshan, the prefect, did not care about judicial trials, he also paid attention to the matter. The lawsuit is still being fought. Mr. Huang is right, but after all, he still has to collect evidence and go through procedures.

However, the Tongzhou leather shoe factory in the Huang family has also stopped working. After hearing the news, the workers asked the Huang family to pay their wages, and the material suppliers also came to ask for the account.

However, the old man of the Huang family was not wrong. Although he was cheated by his nephew, he still came forward in person, borrowed money from friends and relatives, and then gave all the money owed to the material dealer and the workers.

"Are you sure you have given it all? You haven't paid the workers' wages from the leather shoes in the factory?" Liu Jun asked.

Chen Pengshan couldn't speak. As far as he knew, there were also such things. There were more than 300 workers in the factory, and each of them had four months' salary. This time, the Huang family paid most of the salary. But some were paid with leather shoes in the factory.

"The workers at Tongzhou Leather Shoe Factory started working since the New Year and stopped working in the leather shoe factory. In four months, the workers had never paid any salary once. During this period, they only borrowed money two or three times, and each time they were in advance. Now, something happened in the factory. The factory did not give workers a salary, but instead found various reasons, only half of the salary, and then half of the salary was paid with leather shoes. Is Tongzhou Prefecture unaware of this?"

"I know."

"Okay, you said you know, then I'll ask you again. Since you know, what did you do with Tongzhou Prefecture in this matter?"

"After the incident happened in the leather shoe factory, I immediately went to the manufacturer to discuss with the Huang family, urged the Huang family to settle the wages of workers and pay the materials merchants, and to appease the workers' emotions."

Liu Jun snorted coldly.

"That's all you did? Do you think you did enough?"

Chen Pengshan wiped his sweat, but he didn't know how to answer.

"Look at the result. A big taxpayer with more than 300 workers, an annual output of more than 100,000 pairs of leather shoes and paying tens of thousands of taxes per year fell out in one go. The leather shoe factory was closed and probably couldn't be opened. The workers only got half of their salary, and the rest were paid with leather shoes. They had to find a way to sell them themselves for money. Whether it was taxes from the court, the manufacturer Huang family, the workers, or even those suppliers, they lost, and there was no winner."

"As local officials in Tongzhou, I think you are dereliction of duty and have not fulfilled your responsibilities. If you can manage and pay more attention to these businesses and workers, such a big thing will not happen. Especially in addition to the incident, your performance is even more disappointing."

Liu Jun was a little sad when he said this. Many officials are still stuck in their past concepts and think that being an official is to be superior. Liu Jun does not expect these people to be able to immediately transform from masters to public servants. But at least, you should go from a superior master to a manager.

"I'm here to tell you what a qualified Tongzhou magistrate should do in this Tongzhou leather shoe factory incident."

"When something happened to Tongzhou leather shoe factory, as a qualified manager, the first thing you have to do is to support the leather shoe factory and help them overcome this difficulty. The shoe factory has not been poorly managed. Their leather shoes are well received by merchants, with many orders and significant profits. For such a factory, are you just sitting on the verge of them?"

"The problems they had were just the managers who had problems, ran away with the money, the factory was still there, and the workers were still there. At this time, Tongzhou Prefecture should take the initiative to contact the bank to help the leather shoe factory Huang family borrow money, pay the materials and pay the workers' salaries, and then continue to produce and complete the order. Helping the Huang family through this difficulty also saved the work and jobs of more than 300 workers, and the more than 10,000 taxes per year in the court were also saved. But you did nothing, but you just sat down and saw the simple thing, and it was a loss."

Chen Pengshan was so arrogant that he didn't dare to let out a sigh of relief.

The emperor's words did make him feel enlightened. In fact, some things were not unexpected, but they never thought about them in the past. There were hundreds or thousands of manufacturers like the Huang family in Tongzhou. If they had not had private friendships with officials, who would have been in charge of those other people's business?

"If you are a conscientious magistrate of Tongzhou, you should not just watch from the top, but you should actually calm down and participate in management with your heart. Tongzhou has done a good job before. You know how to guide merchants to establish light industrial parks mainly in textile and shoe and clothing production in Tongzhou, gathering the same industries together, so that they can also attract upstream and downstream merchants to come in and form a good industrial chain, which is commendable. But you have also overlooked many things."

"For example, the issue of workers' rights protection, workers' wages must be paid at least monthly, up to one month. But in fact, many businesses in Tongzhou do the same thing once a year or twice a year. Usually, workers can only borrow living expenses once a month. Workers work for a year and work hard for a year. Sometimes at the end of the year, the boss has to deduct one month or two not to pay wages, and even find excuses to deduct wages."

"In addition, there are many factories that often extend their working hours, work overtime free of charge, and do not take holidays. Workers work day and night like cattle and horses, and cannot get rest. What do they treat workers as? Do they treat them as slaves? Many factories are also astonishingly low, and they do not buy work-related injury insurance for workers. If they suffer work-related injury, they are unwilling to pay medical expenses, and they are even unwilling to compensate for work-related injury expenses. Some manufacturers even use excuses to fire after workers are injured."

Liu Jun pointed out many problems in one breath, all of which are very realistic problems, and not only in Tongzhou. In fact, such situations occur in various places. Merchants value profit and capital accumulation even started with exploitation.

They want to squeeze out the greatest value from the workers.

"The court attaches importance to industry and commerce, but does not allow manufacturers to squeeze workers without restrictions. The government must not only support factories and merchants, but also protect workers' rights and interests. It sets a minimum wage standard, allows manufacturers to pay monthly salaries, establishes a trade union, and allows manufacturers to sign labor contracts with workers when employing people, clearly state the rights and interests of workers. Overtime must be paid overtime, rest time on holidays, double overtime on holidays, dangerous positions must have special job training, and purchase work-related injury insurance."

Chen Pengshan was stunned. The government still cares about these things? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!