After finishing his studies with Qian Qing, Oleg Nareshkin left the teahouse. He decided to go shopping on the street for no other reason, but he missed a wine brewed by a certain restaurant. As a standard Russian, Oleg still likes to drink very much, especially to taste wines of different flavors in other countries.

The street where the Nareshkin Building was located was just widened last year. The laborers were all Crandi and Quechua from the inland areas, who spent a lot of effort and sweat on it, and then received a reward, and boarded the sailing boat to South Africa in a complicated mood.

The widened streets still seem a bit crowded. This may be because there are more people coming to do business, and the charm of Nancun Port does seem to be different. But Nancun Port also has bad things, that is, the layout is too messy. Or there is no layout here at all, and they are all made up bit by bit by bit by bit. After all, this place was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, and the people on the east coast were attracted by the Yanbu Railway and the port terminal. The people of the Amtrak Company were indeed too poor in municipal management. They basically took a laissez-faire attitude towards this. When they didn't pay attention to it later, it was too late, which eventually created a slightly messy urban structure like Nancun Port.

Nareshkin Building is a famous high-end office area, gathering many famous East Coast enterprises. However, on the street where it is located, it was originally a barren area, but many houses have been built in the past two years, including a small enterprise engaged in mechanical processing, which shows that it has no plans. Olegnareshkin slowly passed by this small enterprise that mainly processed marine mechanical parts and found that there were some wooden boxes piled up in the yard of the factory. It seemed that it was a newly purchased machine. I couldn't help but sigh that its business was so good.

At this time, he couldn't help but remember an interesting story he had heard several British businessmen talk about: Sheffield, the second largest mechanical industrial city in the UK, used new machine tools to process parts, greatly improving its efficiency, so he laid off many workers. As a result, the workers made a collective riot and destroyed all the new machine tools they bought from Birmingham, losing thousands of pounds. Although the unemployed workers did not end up well and many were sentenced to exile in North American colonies, this incident itself illustrates the various contradictions arising from the transition period of the old and new society.

This story also made Oleg understand that the only capital of workers is labor and professional skills. Any behavior aimed at reducing the value of this product and that skill is deprived of all of them. The greatest benefit of machines is to save labor, but workers may have reason to believe that this saving is harming their interests, so it is inevitable that they will arouse their resistance.

Of course, workers do not understand that when machines are used in large quantities, their prices will drop quickly, so that more machines can be purchased by business owners and then increase jobs in disguise. But the problem is that it is difficult for workers to understand this way. When they see machines, they subconsciously think that their jobs will be lost at least their wages will be reduced, so they have to fight because not everyone can adapt to this transformation to learn new skills and find the right job.

In comparison, the situation on the east coast seems to be much better. The social system here is naturally more reasonable, that is, the relatively low prices and high average wealth give workers a way out. Whenever technology advances and the workers required by the factory decrease, they will try their luck in other factories. Sometimes they will not be laid off because the factory will likely expand the production scale. Business owners choose to provide them with sufficient training to enable them to adapt to new jobs. Take a step back and even if they are laid off and have no new jobs, they can still carry their luggage, register in branches of the State Development Administration in various places, participate in the pioneering work in the new development area, and become a farmer.

Although the income of farmers in the East Coast is declining overall, not as good as the income level of industrial and commercial positions, to be honest, it is not difficult to live a well-off life, as long as you can withstand the hard life of land reclamation. Not to mention, the country is also trying to help farmers increase their income, such as finding a market for their agricultural products, encouraging the establishment of cooperative organizations (this can effectively increase their bargaining power and reduce operating costs), implementing low-interest or even interest-free loans, etc. The farmers' income is at least there, and it will not decline without restrictions. This is much better than the workers who have transformed from homeless farmers in England. Those unemployed English workers really have no source of income if they are unemployed, and hunger is inevitable.

England lacks such a social system that guarantees the basic lives of these people, which has caused such a serious problem. In fact, they do not have such opportunities. In fact, they need a large amount of labor in the North American colonies. But the problem is that their management of the colonies is too bad, and there is basically lawlessness. Everything is decided by the company. The government can only formulate policies on a broad scale. For example, the "Director of Navigation" implemented by the iron-fisted strongman Cromwell back then, but it is difficult to get started with the operation of various farms or manors. Those manors and farmers also despise the English royal family very much, disobey various policies and treat new immigrants harshly, resulting in the native English people not considering living in North American colonies until they are desperate. It is really too bad.

It is said that the British discussed the introduction of a poverty relief bill last year to help these poor unemployed people and alleviate social conflicts. The poverty relief bill has many contents, including distributing limited amounts of food to unemployed workers, providing simple training opportunities, and setting up an orphanage. Oleg learned that this poverty relief bill was originally reported by Louis XIV and implemented in Paris. It was obviously not well implemented by the British, so they copied it. The rich men of Congress symbolically took out some money for their own interests to maintain the implementation of the poverty relief bill.

However, Oleg did not have much confidence in the role of this bill. He felt that the merchants had already sold their souls to the devil. In the orphanages in Paris, it is said that older children would spin and weave cloth, and they could be whipped if they were slower. The director of the orphanage colluded with the merchants and deceived their superiors and subordinates, which made the children suffer heavy work and inhuman torture. It was simply not human at all in those textile factories. There were often dozens of girls sitting together to spin, and they had to maintain absolute silence. A vicious woman stood by and punished anyone who was lazy or did not do well. Sometimes even four-year-old children had to make a living like adults, which made people speechless.

Oleg has lived on the East Coast for many years, and his moral standards are indeed much higher than before. Although children are short, slender and docile, they are the best workers in certain processes in textile work, he really cannot agree with this. Child labor is prohibited by law on the East Coast (although there are more or less child labor phenomena in society), Oleg believes that this is right. Children's task is to study hard and learn as much knowledge as possible to help their adult life, rather than spending their energy on endless physical labor too early, which is of no benefit to the entire society.

This is still a system difference! The East Coast Republic of China can indeed afford the title of the beacon of human civilization, rather than someone bragging about being the "Sun King" as if it is really shining. Olegnareshkin shook his head, walked past the factory where he was unboxing new machines, and stepped into the restaurant he liked to visit very much.

Coincidentally, there is a group of workers who have finished work drinking beer at the restaurant. Of course, it is not brand beer, but cheap beer brewed by the store. While drinking, they talked loudly about the factory's business this month. Who's the bonus this month will exceed everyone, and of course, it's more gossip and pornographic jokes about the female factory workers, which made Olegnareshkin smile after hearing this.

This is the atmosphere of free factory, not the atmosphere like the old road like the cell. Although these factories built by the British and French can greatly reduce the cost of goods and make them competitive in the continental market, after all, this is obtained at the cost of harming the health of all citizens, whether it is adults or children. Sooner or later, they will regret these behaviors one day, especially those children who have been deprived of the right to education. Perhaps some particularly talented children's talents are wasted in endless spinning machines, and they will not be able to create too much value for the country in their short life. Isn't this sad?

"Maybe the reforms that His Majesty the Tsar are carrying out will also have this consequence?" Sometimes Oleg would think so, but he had no good idea. Russia is too poor. They seem to have no other channels to obtain funds except selling natural resources and agricultural products. If the lives of children can be sacrificed to make profits, the men of the Duma Conference would not care! I am afraid that even his father, one of the craftsmen of the Russian reform plan, would implement them without hesitation! In Russia, adults' lives are despicable, let alone children. This is really an extremely cruel world!
Chapter completed!