Chapter 378 Doihira’s First Plan

"What's the reason?" Meng Xiang kept guessing the reason behind this strike.

"They protested the capitalists' income for no effort and demanded higher wages. At least equal pay. The wage level in the war zone is generally lower than that in Chongqing and Shanghai." Zhou Bai frowned.

"They didn't consider the minimum living allowance? They didn't consider compulsory education? The cost of this part is not counted?" Meng Xiang knew with this slogan that someone was pushing the situation behind the scenes, not just wages. The new elections in the war zone are about to begin, and this is their purpose. Other loopholes have been almost blocked by the Labor Protection Law issued by the Pioneer Army.

Workers require rest, one day off a week, and work must not exceed 48 hours per week, and the salary must be raised if the excess is increased. Even if the salary is increased, the continuous working time of a day must not exceed 12 hours. There is also the right to rest on statutory holidays, and overtime pay raises. Industry such as mining and other industries need safety measures, and industries with high dust require labor protection measures. Child workers under the age of 16 are not allowed to be hired, and the guardians of children who have not completed compulsory education will be subject to legal sanctions.

At this time, many countries in the international community did not reach the level. Even in the Soviet Union, there are various sayings of voluntary overtime work.

The war zone is not just about saying it, but doing it in practice. With the minimum living allowance, a large number of labor force was liberated. And after the minimum living allowance, although the tax was appropriately raised, the wages were reduced a little, and the exemption of messy taxes greatly reduced the burden on industry and commerce. It is both strict in management and strict requirements, and it is also more cost-effective than other regions.

Capital is always marching with the shadow of the greatest profit.

The workers were guaranteed, and the capitalists in the industrial and commercial industry had to make a profit, and the difference was subsidized by Meng Xiang. The transaction volume of large arms transactions became the main source of this start-up capital. Before cutting the wool, the cost was required, but Hua Xia urgently needed to exchange wool for money at this time, so it could not develop normal order.

It was Meng Xiang who used this large amount of capital to create a virtuous cycle of *** and create this sheep pen, which made the industry and commerce in the war zone accumulate more and more.

Only when industry and commerce in the war zone slowly develop, income in taxation and other aspects will increase, far exceeding the minimum security investment. Perhaps at that time, the people will no longer be satisfied with solving the minimum security for food and clothing, but will start to talk about high social welfare.

This era is not lacking in publicity from passionate young people, nor is it lacks the lack of picky supervisors, and there are also clones who strictly enforce the law. Coupled with the temptation of interests, various measures of labor law in the war zone are constantly being improved and implemented.

This makes many people unable to seize too many excuses and cannot find reasons to take advantage of the situation.

"This excuse is a bit too forced." A literati hesitated.

"This is always a solution!" said another skilled middle-aged man. "The organization has weakened too much recently, not only is there no one participating, but there are also people who are constantly withdrawing."

"Those weak-willed people are gone." The thin-eyed literati interrupted angrily, "They are willing to be a docile lamb without resisting exploitation to gain the right to turn over and become masters."

The union is the workers' own spontaneous organization, and the government does not interfere in its management. Their funds come from the workers' membership fees and are supervised by themselves. If workers do not even invest this little money, don't expect them to help themselves. The reason for this is to consider that they do not have to pay attention to the issue of expenses, the union will also become a toy of the government or capital.

In this way, even if other forces are the main force, their supervision will make the government easier. The pressure on the government in the future will not only come from one aspect, but huge capital is also the object of government defense. Mastering the balance between the two and clearing out excessive behaviors that exceed legal restrictions can be stable for a long time.

At this time, Meng Xiang was too strong to hold a base, but future managers may not have such strength. Therefore, Meng Xiang had to consider the future balance issue at the beginning. Otherwise, if there was a problem with the foundation, habitual cracks would cause the entire superstructure to collapse.

"This matter is not that simple! The Japanese have a lot of actions behind their backs!" Tang Pharmacist suddenly said from the side.

"There are traitors?" Meng Xiang said unexpectedly.

"No, it was the Japanese who acted as guns by some people." Tang Pharmacist shook his fan and said.

"The Japanese are coming to attack us, so naturally the more chaotic the war zone, the better. They have now started to make trouble everywhere." Many domestic intelligence, Pharmacist Tang, had to judge and analyze some abnormal movements, and he had found some clues early. "So, these *** strikes need to be paid special attention to, and may be used by the Japanese, and some *** will happen."

"There are also those women who are not good at it, so be careful. Some troubles arise, but many people are waiting to see jokes."

"In addition, some money banks in Beijing and Tianjin have had some abnormal movements. There are also many small anti-Japanese groups who want to be less restricted." Tang Pharmacist said it all in one go. Meng Xiang knew that he was reminding the internal crisis at this time. But even Tang Pharmacist didn't know that Meng Xiang had more situations than him. It was just that it was not time to clean it up. Many hidden places needed to emerge to have a better way to clean it up.

"The price problem has fluctuated a while ago. At first, I just thought that the normal market regulation is approaching the end of the year, but now it seems that someone is making trouble." Zhou Bai also frowned. At this time, the end of the year is approaching, and once there is a big fluctuation, it will have a great impact.

"Fortunately, we have accumulated a lot of food. As long as the food price is stable, we can have a stable year." The minimum living allowance grain in the entire war zone has been almost allocated. In order to stabilize order faster, as soon as the minimum living allowance registration is completed, the first quarter of food will be distributed. Only when the people see the real food can they feel at ease. When the food is distributed, their attitude is biased towards the Pioneer Army.

This time, it is not only those who have no land. Even the farmers who have allocated the land have food, but this grain is a special interest-free loan this year. Each person is only allowed to borrow ten kilograms of grain, and will pay it back after the harvest next summer, and the interest calculation will be postponed. The Pioneer Army does not expect this to make money, but only hopes to settle the farmers who also have no food to eat. They have just distributed the land or paid the taxes, and their families have no surplus grain.

"Don't worry about food. As long as there is no major disaster, we will not be short of food next year." Meng Xiang said confidently.

The umbrella was already reclaimed on the land occupied by Brazil and Argentina at this time. China is not short of people, especially those who cannot survive and leave their hometowns. The agricultural reclamation company there promised to give away 100 acres of land for free after five years of work, which was heart-wrenching. In addition to the enthusiastic recruitment of Chinese labor companies, many people left their hometowns and came to Brazil and Argentina, which are in summer.

At this time, the Umbrella Company had tens of millions of acres of land in the two countries, and the more than one million acres of land allocated was only a small part. In the future, more people would come to work, one hundred thousand or even one million. The 100 acres of land would tie them here. The collective labor of the Chinese people will not lose the foundation of their Chinese culture, and this place will become a new Chinese city in the future.

This land is not very concerned about Brazil and Argentina. Brazil's agricultural and animal husbandry land alone reaches 5 million square kilometers, but because of resources such as rainforests and grasslands, and with few people and more land, their utilization rate is only 15% by the end of this century. The umbrella company mainly enclosed the savanna in the central and western regions, which have not been developed yet and are all wasteland.

Even Brasilia, the later capital of Brazil, began to rise in the central plains in the 1950s, and there was no trace at this time. Of course, the wasteland was also surrounded by the umbrella company. A new large farm was built there.

The iron ore at the quadrangle of Iron and Four Corners was also enclosed, but Meng Xiang had no plans to develop it. At this time, China could not use it for the time being, and it was close to the Atlantic Ocean, and it could only be cheaper for European and American countries when it was developed.

Also included is the Kalayas Iron Mine, which was later called the world's largest iron ore. There are desolate land nearby. Although Meng Xiang does not know the specific location, he just circles around it with a big turn.

The problem there is difficulty in development and no roads. Meng Xiang felt regretful. Unfortunately, it had exceeded the command range of 10,000 kilometers of the main base. Otherwise, the base would be opened and the crazy mining would be even richer in the base account. However, thinking of the huge demand for steel in China in the future, it would be better to keep it for your own use, but it would have fallen into its own pocket anyway.

Argentina has not a large population, and Meng Xiang doesn't know much about minerals, but Meng Xiang's original purpose was to lay idle land on a large amount of wasteland.

The cultivated land needs to be reclaimed and cultivated, and the staff of 10,000 people are also limited.

Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult for a person to plant more than ten acres of land. However, with the use of some tractors and combine harvesters, the farming area of ​​this 10,000 people has expanded dramatically. Three million acres were cultivated at once, and in many places, it can be cooked twice a year, or even three acres a year. However, that is too eroded and is not conducive to long-term farming.

It is precisely with this subsidy, coupled with the hundreds of thousands of tons of grain lacking by Brazil and Argentine this year, that is enough to fill the gap in the minimum living allowance. What's more, there are millions of acres of land directly controlled by the domestic pioneer army.

Even so, Meng Xiang was not satisfied. When those in Brazil and Argentina gained a foothold, 50,000 people would go there to reclaim new arable land. World War II was about to break out, and in addition to energy, food prices would also soar. Taking the opportunity to develop food products can also make a big profit.

"That's fine. If you have food, you can stabilize the situation. You are not afraid of the Japanese playing tricks." Zhou Bai nodded. At this time, the first thing the people need is to fill their stomachs.

"Now we will make the internal chaos of the vanguard army!" Kenji Doihara was also a little proud. A series of actions that had been arranged for a long time finally began to ignite the internal vanguard army.

"Come on the copper circle! Change one ocean to 9 copper circles."

"Boss, pure gold bars, exchange for copper circles. Don't fool me with the things from the previous dynasty. Remember it's Pioneer copper circles! Brass!"

"Small transactions are exchanged for some copper!"

"Give me a change. Don't have those paper ones, just copper circles."

"Boss Tian, ​​tell you, we only collect Pioneer copper circles for this batch of goods. Dayang? Dayang is not good either. If there is no copper circle, let's go to Boss Zhu."

For a moment, localities were purchasing copper roulettes. The actions of the public were still poor. The main channels of circulation were the banks and money shops. Even if the exchange procedures were increased, it was still cleared up.

"If it is a banknote, we should slowly absorb it and then release it with counterfeit currency. This will immediately depreciate the banknotes and increase prices." Kobayashi Koji, who has been struggling in the London financial industry for more than ten years, knelt in front of Kenji Doihara and calmly analyzed. If it were Meng Xiang here, he would definitely be shocked. The Soviet Union in later generations suffered a great loss in this move. However, Kobayashi Koji's analysis only ends here, and there is no follow-up plan, so the attack is naturally smaller.

"But Pioneer military uses metal currency. Although it is military tickets, it is similar to currency. Although the value of metal currency itself is much smaller than the marked currency value, the preservation of metal makes its depreciation limited. Moreover, the credit rating of our comprehensive Pioneer Army is very high and cannot be used to depreciate them in a way. However, one of the disadvantages of metal currency is that their number is limited. In particular, the value of the Pioneer Army's metal copper tickets has now exceeded their original fixed value with the rise in brass prices. It would be more cost-effective to exchange silver coins for those copper coins.

We can exchange hard currency such as gold, silver and foreign exchange for copper circles or copper coins of the Pioneer Army. We will definitely reduce their number to the minimum circulation quantity, so that they have no money to use. The silver dollar alone cannot support so many transactions, which will inevitably make them confused and force them to use the original fiat currency. At that time, the fiat currency we accumulated in large quantities could directly rush to their market, and our technology to counterfeit fiat currency is about to succeed. At that time, their wealth will slowly flow into our hands. Even if we do not occupy their territory, we can still let them work for us in vain. And we only need to pay for the straw paper with patterns printed on it." Kobayashi Kobayashi became more and more excited as he spoke, and his waving arms were poking onto Kenji Doihara's nose.

He has been looking for financial loopholes in the Pioneer Army, but the metal currency trick has dropped many hidden dangers to the trough. Some small hidden dangers are not enough to become the deadly root. As long as there is no sudden discovery of a large number of copper mines in the world, the Pioneer Army's metal copper currency can be within a stable range for a long time. His team tried to buy with fiat currency, but the fiat currency was not popular on the Pioneer Army's territory. The fiat currency of the Pioneer Army was exchanged and went to the Kuomintang-controlled area to spend and shop. This avoided the rampant trend of fiat currency counterfeit currency. Besides, because fiat currency is a technology of British and American countries, it is difficult to counterfeit. Therefore, the fiat currency is not available.

He thought hard for a long time before he came up with such a way to use currency austerity to influence the economy of the vanguard army. The outbreak of the war made copper even scarce, and even the Japanese had to plunder bronzes everywhere and resmelter them to produce bullets and shells.

This way, spending a lot of gold, silver and foreign exchange can also be exchanged for a lot of brass. Although it is much different from the actual value, it is a bit of a bottom line.

Kenji Doihara was next to him and didn't care about Kobayashi Mitsuji's actions and still smiled. The first series of his three plans had already been launched first, and it depends on how the Pioneer Army took the initiative.

At this time, in the headquarters of the Pioneer Army, Zhou Bai was speaking angrily:

"It turns out that something went wrong. Three naked women suddenly appeared in the women's *** team, shouting about the liberation of women. If the female police officer next to him had not stopped him in time, he would have been a big joke. What else would he talk about in the future to improve the status of women?"

"Fruit Girl?" Meng Xiang sighed. This era is also an open era. However, only a few people are at the forefront.

"They are also some innocent prostitutes who were bribed and cannot find out whereabouts of the other party. They just planned to use this method to discredit the women's status of the Pioneer Army, and to cause riots. The cameras and reporters next to them were posing." Zhou Bai smiled bitterly.

Meng Xiang smiled and said nothing. He knew at least that such a scene had happened in the late stage of the civil war a few years later. What can people who are struggling in troubled times do in order to survive?

"Don't be messed up, everyone, don't be messed up. Who are you?" The middle-aged man who was standing in front of the team and shouting slogans was shouting loudly. They were rushing out, and suddenly a group of people holding sticks and smashing down at the team. A stick was hit on his head, and the blood was falling blurred in his eyes, but he still saw a group of people rushing out of his team, smashing and burning around. He couldn't help but be surprised.

At the beginning, the number of people participating in the *** team was only more than 1,000. But then the number of people in the team increased, expanding to more than 3,000.

The people who were doing destruction at this time were some of the people who joined later.

"What's wrong?" He thought at first that the factory owner was doing, but at this time, the *** team began to qualify for the robbery and the robbers. He had already felt that he had fallen into a trap.

At the same time, a group of students were also gathering in the square in front of the office building of the War Zone Management Committee. As soon as they received the news of the recovery of Datong, they came over, one was to celebrate, and the other was to call on the vanguard army to continue attacking and regain more land.

But a gunshot suddenly echoed in the square.
Chapter completed!