"The moon is dark and the wind is high, be careful of the candle."

In the factory area of ​​the outer city of Xuanzhu County, the Jing family's smelting factory, the high walls of the factory were whistling around the factory. Old Man Lu, who was dozing off, was suddenly awakened by the sound coming from below.

It was quiet around, the street lights were as bright as a fire, and there seemed to be a barking dog in the distance. Old man Lu stretched out his head and looked at the two security guards who were patrolling, and yawned and said, "Xiang Rui Yudian, Xiang Rui Yudian... Oh, Lao Li, do you have any alcohol? You suddenly became addicted to it."

"You'll have some urine. I'll give you a soaker when you come down." An old security guard sneered, too lazy to pay attention to Old Man Lu, the drunkard, and continued to patrol the factory with the young security guard.

Almost all the five major chambers of commerce in Silver Blood monopolized a certain industry, including the military industry of Tingjia, the light textile of Quanjia, and the land transportation of Luojia... The Jingjia monopolized the steel industry. In addition to the Red Moon Fortress, the Jingjia also has three minerals in Dongyang District, and has a total of eight smelting factories, five of which are near Xuanzhu County. For a long time, "Jinggang" was the spokesperson of "Dongyang Steel".

Steelmaking requires large sites and large equipment, and it is very easy to cause safety accidents - there are many workers who die in the factory every year - so the Jing family attaches great importance to factory safety. At most, other factories arrange a man to guard the door, while the smelting factory builds four whistles around the walls and four night guards. The factory is very close to the patrol guard branch, so you can quickly get support for anything that happens.

The "outer city half city" where the factory area is located is a special place. First, because it is actually outside the outer city and has no city wall protection, and second, because it is surrounded by the branch of the Xuanjiang River, which not only facilitates the factory's water use, but also allows the factory to build recommended defense facilities based on the river, so it is called "half city".

The night watch security guards are divided into two teams, one guards the door, and the other team patrols the surroundings and inside the factory, which rotates every 15 minutes, which is quite frequent. When the patrol security guards pass by, they should match the slogans with the watch people. First, ask if anything has happened, and second, remind the watch people not to doze off - the capitalist asks you back and is not sleeping.

Because the patrol security guards had no sleep, they were naturally happy to wake up and sat in the whistle and watched the people all night.

However, human sleep will not end. Even if it is woken up every 15 minutes, Old Man Lu still falls asleep again soon.

In fact, he doesn't sleep during the day, but sleeping at work always makes him feel inexplicably at ease.

But the elderly always have a very shallow sleep, and Old Man Lu was quickly awakened by the strange noise. He rubbed his eyes and suddenly found that there was a shout of killing from the main entrance of the factory, and he couldn't help but be shocked and frightened.

What's going on?

Did another worker come to ask for wages?

Old man Lu had worked as a worker in the Jing family before, so he naturally knew the various things inside. When working in a long-term worker in a factory, the wages are usually paid every year, but not everyone can get them. After all, the worker's wages are the most abundant, and the cadres of the Jing family will touch and pull them.

Generally speaking, if a worker can get two-thirds of his wages, even if he is very lucky, he can thank God. If he only gets half of it, it means that you have a bad relationship with the cadres and don’t help the cadres run errands and flatter them; if he only gets one-third, it means that you have offended the cadres and may be lazy and caught.

The worst workers naturally didn't get the money - they may not be lazy, and they may even be the most diligent group of people, but they are not lucky: they were found to be bullied by cadres.

Yes, if you are owed wages in Xuanzhu County, it is not because you offended people, not because you are lazy at work, nor because you are messy - just because you are easy to bully.

Cadres are not fools. How could they not know that without giving any money at all, they would let the workers die? But since they dared to do this, it proves that they are sure that the workers will not resist and are powerless to resist. Moreover, there are not many workers in this group and they cannot make a big difference. Other workers who get the money will not help them. Therefore, there are many workers who are owed wages every year.

The existence of gangs in the outer city is due to various demands, and workers’ wage arrears are one of them. Of course, gangs will not help workers seek wages offend capitalists, but they have the ability to threaten factory cadres - cadres are just dogs of the chamber of commerce, not silver-blooded people. If they are beaten, they can only solve the problem by themselves, and no one will stand up for them.

Therefore, if workers join the gang, cadres generally do not engage in such workers, which is a balanced tacit understanding.

Of course, you also have to pay a "protection fee" to join a gang. If you are not lucky, you just paid the protection fee, but the gang will be swallowed up and beaten up by other gangs - such as the Yitian Gang, which has now been destroyed - then you have to pay another money to join other gangs.

Under the plunder of such a lot of "income redistribution" and "value-added service tax", most of the workers' annual salary was naturally removed by them, but if workers save a little, they can still barely live.

And the worst group of workers almost had to wait to die because they didn't get the money.

Sometimes, they will wait for death, but sometimes they won't.

If a rabbit is anxious, it will bite people. If a person dies, it will naturally pluck up the courage to join dozens of people to go to the factory gate to make trouble and ask for salary. Old man Lu has lived for more than fifty years and has long been used to such things.

As for whether the factory will succeed, it depends on the supervisor's mood. If the supervisor feels that the factory will be short of people next year and needs to give workers a little sweetness, then he may be kind to pay some wages; if the supervisor feels that the factory will recruit people at will, he will naturally be too lazy to pay attention to the poor and directly instruct the security guard to beat them out.

Old Man Lu felt that they were coming to ask for wages this time, but they really hit the iron plate - the refugees in the sky outside the city were one after another, and they could just shout for recruiting workers and feeding them, and they would be able to go up the nest, and they were not afraid of not being able to recruit people.

Moreover, Old Man Lu heard that the factory planned to recruit less people next year. After all, wars are everywhere these days and the freight cannot be shipped out. On the one hand, he recruits less people, and on the other hand, he is a refugee who is willing to work hard when eating. How would the factory choose? He can think about it and think about it.

Because Old Man Lu is an old worker, he doesn't have much wages, so the cadres didn't deduct him much, at least give him a little money to buy a cigarette to smoke. However, he is ready to stay even if the cadres deduct his wages - he can't find a job outside, and at least he has some food to eat here.

As for looking for his son when he went home... Haha, he was not so handsome, and his daughter-in-law was very arrogant. Instead of going back to cause trouble for his son, it would be better to raise him here.

Just as Old Man Lu was thinking about it, he found that the sound on the main entrance was getting louder and louder, until a harsh sound broke through the night sky-

Bang!

It's the sound of a gun!

Old man Lu was so scared that he sat in the whistle and trembled. The sound of the gun seemed to be a charge. When the first sound of the gun sounded, the whole city also heard a chaotic and harsh gun sound from all directions!

With shouts of killing and scolding, the whole city began to become chaotic!

boom!

A loud noise suddenly broke out from the front door, and Old Man Lu immediately realized what was going on - the factory gate was blown open!

"Fire! Fire!"

"Come and put out the fire!"

"Rebelled! They rebelled!"

"Where are the patrol guards!? Where are the patrol guards? Where are the patrol guards??"

Old man Lu hid inside the whistle and heard the explosion of thunder and fire outside. He didn't dare to show up at all. He just wanted to wait quietly for the arrival of the Patrol Criminal Guard Brigade. A similar incident happened before. The workers collectively asked for wages. Someone accidentally killed one of the workers and caused a fierce conflict. However, the Patrol Criminal Guard Brigade stationed in the outer city arrived quickly and quickly suppressed the criminals.

Moreover, these rioters must not dare to stay for long, and they will definitely withdraw after killing and setting fire!

Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, Old Man Lu heard the shouts of killing outside gradually weakening. The destructors seemed to have evacuated from the factory, but there was a violent sound of gunfire in the direction of the outer city - the patrol guard brigade rushed over!

marvelous!

How could those thieves be able to defeat the patrol guards?

Old man Lu was thinking - do I want to go out and shout? If others found out that I was always staying in the whistle, they would definitely say that I was lazy, but if I go down now, it would prove that I can fight back, and maybe there will be rewards...

Just as he was about to leave the whistle, a powerful voice came from the main road in the factory:

"Everyone, everyone, give up chasing the thief, give up chasing the thief!"

"Take the wounded first and put out the fire! Treat the wounded and put out the fire!"

"I am Jing Zhengwei of the Jing family. Everyone obeyed my orders, gave up the pursuit, and gave up the fire to put out the first priority!"

"Medical officer, go and save people!"

Old man Lu stood up in surprise and saw several light trucks passing through the factory street. A young man was standing in the back seat of the truck in front with a loudspeaker and shouting loudly, followed by dozens of fully armed guards. The security guards who were stunned by the factories seemed to have found their backbone. Under the command of this outsider, they began to carry the wounded and put out the fire in an orderly manner.

"There are too many wounded people. Send people to patrol the criminal guards. In the name of the Jing family, they will be assigned medical officers and let them come in a group of people. Putting out fires is more important than pursuing them!"

"First save the near fire, then save the far fire!"

Old man Lu ran down after leaving the whistle and saw the young man rolling up his sleeves to carry the bucket together. He couldn't help but go over and say, "Young master, I, I'm from your factory..."

"Hmm? Thank you for your hard work tonight, uncle, sit aside first."

Old Man Lu was flattered: "I dare not, but the factory over our side is also on fire. Master, go and put out the fire!"

The young man looked at his finger and shook his head: "There is a little far away from the water source. First save the near fire here, and then save the far fire there!"

"This, this..."

"Don't be afraid, the losses tonight are not counted on you!" The young man's voice suddenly increased eighth: "Listen to everyone, I will participate in fire fighting and treatment of the wounded tonight. You can ask me Jing Zhengwei to get a reward later!"

"Save people first, put out the fire first!"

When everyone heard that the eldest son of the Jing family was willing to throw coins for this, their eyes changed.

When the first ray of sunshine shone on the land of Dongyang in the morning, the name Jing Zhengwei was already known to everyone in Xuanzhu County.

...

...

Le Yu pushed open the heavy mahogany gate of the main hall of Jingyuan and walked into the conference hall with a gloomy face.

Jing Qingfeng sat in the main seat, and several clan elders sat on the right, Jing Zhengwu, Jing Zhengfeng and Jing Zhengtang were sitting on the left.

When Leyu walked in, everyone looked at him.

Leyu was not polite, and pointed directly at the noses of Jing Zhengwu and the other two and cursed:

"It's all good things you did. Now we have not only affected our Jing family, but also affected other chambers of commerce... Our Jing family is about to die!"
Chapter completed!