From Chief to Ball

There were several clashes with the thugs and gunmen who were squatting, but the newcomers with red armbands restrained their actions, neither using guns nor knives, and just used sticks to beat these people who were patrolling the streets. drive away.

What was even more frightening was that in the evening of a certain day, those miners who had fled in the mountains came back and gathered outside the grocery store.

Soon after, there was a burst of singing outside the grocery store.

Two flute players accompanied, and the rest sang loudly with hoarse, unrefined voices.

Come all good workers;

I have good news for you:

This union built by everyone;

Never left will stay here.

Which side are you on, lad?

which side are you on

which side are you on

which side are you on

Your father was a miner;

You are the miner's son;

You should follow the union;

until the battle is won.

They said in Heishui Town;

There is no neutral person.

You are either from a union;

Either the villain of the Wang family.

Miners, can you stand it?

Oh tell me how can you bear it?

Are you going to be a scab?

Or be an upright man?

Don't be a scab to your boss;

Don't listen to their lies.

We scattered without a chance;

Unless we get organized.

The simple lyrics and simple melody, after being sung by more than a hundred rough voices, erupted into a voice that frightened the Wang family and the sheriff.

The song grew louder and heavier, and more and more voices joined it.

The miners who were afraid before, the women who stayed at home, those children who were ignorant but knew that their father was a miner...

From a distance, in the interval of singing, a miner who escaped before was preaching loudly to these workers.

"Unless he agrees to our conditions, we will never resume work. Let them dig mines by themselves. Tell everyone that they can't do without us, not us can't do without them. We don't work as miners, we can dig canals, To pick cotton... But what else can they do besides exchange our blood and sweat for money? It will not be us who starve to death, but them!"

"Once upon a time, it was difficult for us to explain to a crying child why your father didn't back down, let the family suffer, let the mother and child suffer from hunger for days, and be frightened like this. But now, I want to tell my Wife, my child, I don’t shrink back, so that this family will no longer suffer, and no longer be intimidated by those villains!"

"The union is back, the union has never gone, not now, never will. Stand up! All workers, put down your pickaxes, put down your back baskets, come here, stand with us, stand Until those evil spirits agree to our terms!"

"What we want is not to be smothered to death in the coal mine when it is on fire! What we want is not to allow them to be beaten with leather whips and threatened by the law! All of this is impossible to ask for. Let these villains See our strength."

...The sheriff and the members of the Wang family didn't listen to what he said after that, just these words made them break out in cold sweat.

Only now did they know that this group of people did not come here to extort money at all, but really wanted to take root here and change the situation of this stagnant pool.

This group of people had guns and swords, but they tightly controlled all the participants, and tried to provoke a rebellion several times without success.

Just a few days ago, the sheriff deliberately sent a few hooligans to cause trouble, trying to force the other party to do something, as long as they shoot, everything can be said.

However, the group of people were kept in a daze without doing anything. The sheriff was startled, knowing that this group of people was really different from the past, and he knew the bottom line of what he could do. Control the scene, it's scary.

It's not terrible, it's just a fool.The sheriff understood that these people were not fools, but a group of terrible miners with a backbone who knew what to do and what not to do.

This group of people has money and can continue to support them continuously. These miners are also determined, as if possessed by a demon, and follow this group of people to work.

That night, the trade union’s request for resumption of work was sent over. The above request was not excessive. It only required someone from the trade union to participate in safety management, prohibit whipping and other criminal laws, prohibit the dismissal of the leading miners, and ensure that in the future coal mine accidents must be rescued first. The mine is protected by people and supervised by miners' representatives, etc.

These alone are already unacceptable to the Wang family.

The loss of property is not very big, but once the opening is made, it will become more and more difficult for these miners to manage in the future.

If you want one, you will want two, especially after these miners have tasted the sweetness, the roots of the trade union will be deeper.

As a mine owner, he wants to maintain the old system, but he doesn’t want to be a martyr of the old system—if they fight desperately, these miners will probably be counted as rebels. A major event that killed or injured more than a hundred people, when the time comes, someone will come to clean them up, and the trade union will probably be forcibly disbanded.

But the problem is that I will definitely be beaten to death by these angry miners at that time, why use my own death to protect the remaining beneficiaries of the old system?

The magistrate's face was even darker. The energy of these people in front of him was far greater than he thought. He was afraid that what these people would do in the county would be thoroughly investigated by some people who wanted to be famous, and there was a trade union protecting the miners so that When they talk, they are afraid that something big will happen.

The Wang family considered for a long time and finally made a decision.

"Procrastinate with these people first, neither rejecting nor agreeing, and slowly procrastinating with them. I will go to Mincheng immediately, discuss with the mining guild people and come up with a result, and draw from the bottom of the pot."

The magistrate was puzzled and asked, "Draw the bottom of the pot? How?"

"The council enacted a decree to dissolve the trade union and prohibit the activities of the Mexican party."

"But... I heard that their power is not small."

"Not small? What if a piece of coal cannot be brought in from Mincheng? Those who reel silk, dye cloth, burn porcelain...they know which side they should stand on."

"The county... will there be any objections?"

"We are the county, and the county is us. Do those mill owners stand with the poor? Everyone is on the same side, how can there be any opinions? We always win, and always have. Without us, the sheriff is a fart. "

1Chapter 16 Seventh day of November

Mincheng looks the same as before, it will soon be November, the weather is no different from last year, but the people are a little different.