[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

Georgiana got along very well with Anne, and she was looking forward to the possibility that Anne might become her future sister-in-law, so she quickly wrote a letter to Mr. Darcy, in which she tactfully expressed her Satisfied with Anne, and at the same time urge Mr. Darcy to go home quickly and cultivate a relationship with Anne so as to complete his marriage as soon as possible.You must know that Mr. Darcy can be regarded as an older youth. Many people have already fathered several children at Mr. Darcy's age, and Mr. Darcy is still a widow. Georgiana will inevitably worry about him.

Mr. Darcy is currently in the Morgan Club in London. This is the largest and most luxurious club in London. The members in it are all the best in the entire British high society. Of course, most of them are businessmen like Mr. Darcy. Most of the aristocrats and new aristocrats like Mr. Bingley, the old aristocrats don't think much of businessmen, so naturally only a few of them come here.

The Moore Club has always been full of singing and dancing, but the atmosphere today is a bit depressing. The men are sitting around on the sofa, each with a stern face or frowning, each of them gathers together and whispers, but no one Dare to speak first to break the gloomy atmosphere.

In recent days, various factories in the city of London have suddenly set off a strike movement. The workers are clamoring for a big wage increase, and they have gathered to make trouble. Now more than 20 factories have been unable to start work because of the workers' strike, and this situation has already It has lasted for less than half a month. If this continues, not only the workers will not be able to make ends meet, but the factory owners will also be unable to bear it.For those workers, even if they don’t work for a month, they will only lose dozens of pennies, but for factory owners like them, they will lose tens or even hundreds of pounds a day, which is not a small sum for any of them. .

Mr. Darcy drank the red wine in the glass with a straight face, but the red wine did not relieve his restless mood. The originally bright red liquid looked faintly black under the candlelight, and the original sweet taste was now drunk. But it seemed a bit as pale as white water, and after drinking it made him feel even more anxious.

"Crack!" Mr. Lawrence suddenly slammed the wine glass on the table heavily, and said angrily, "We have to suppress what's going on now, it's too disgraceful, those idiots are lazy all day long and want to It is absolutely impossible for us to give more money!"

The sound was like a boulder falling into the calm water, and countless water splashes were hit in an instant. The whispering of the crowd turned into an angry response. The men became angry and didn't care about their dignity. They all blushed and slapped the table Yelling and using vulgar expletives to cover up his greed for money and desire for power.

Listening to these people's words, Mr. Darcy's brows gradually frowned.He agrees with these people. It is not the first time that strikes have happened in the north. If the first strike is not vigorously suppressed, there will be more and more frequent strikes in the future.Human beings' greed for money is endless. Once they agree to part of the demands of the workers in order to alleviate the current situation, the workers will go on strike as long as they are dissatisfied, and their factories will not have to open again. up.

But at the same time, Mr. Darcy also hopes to give the workers some wages in his heart. The compassion in his heart always makes him more sympathetic to the situation of the workers.Mr. Darcy owned a large textile factory, and he knew that the female workers in it often suffered severe lung diseases from inhaling the lint produced when too much weaving cloth was produced.Mr. Bingley has a dyeing and printing factory, and Mr. Darcy has seen the hands of the workers in it rotted because of the frequent contact with the corrosive fuels when dyeing cloth.Mr. Lawrence, who was the first to speak just now, owns a large leather factory. I heard that the workers who work there often lose all their health within a few years, and very few workers live to be in their 30s.And all the other factories where the workers are toiling away at jobs that destroy their health, and all they get is just enough wages to buy them so they don't starve their families .

There are not many people who sympathize with the workers' situation like Mr. Darcy. They have the same idea as Mr. Darcy, and they think that they can give workers a little more wages without being forced, even if it is only a dozen pence. , if it works properly, these workers will be grateful for it and work hard.But people who think like Mr. Darcy are a minority after all. Most people think that they have treated the workers generously enough. They can't see the miserable conditions of the workers. It is clear that as long as one meal is saved, a worker’s family can be fed for a month, and as long as one piece of jewelry is bought less, a factory worker can live without worrying about food and clothing for a year.

In this general environment, what Mr. Darcy and the others can do is to minimize the overtime hours of the workers, and spend a little more money on the lunch provided so that the workers can eat a little meat from time to time, even if it is just Leftovers are also better than eating dry, hard black bread.

The surrounding discussion has become more and more intense. Mr. Darcy even heard someone suggesting that the police should be used to force the workers to go back to work in the factory. The proposer and the most enthusiastic defender of this proposal is Mr. Lawrence. Everyone here knows that Mr. Lawrence has always had a hot temper. It is normal for him to say that, but many gentlemen who are usually very good-tempered have also started to respect Mr. Lawrence's proposal. They think it is a once-and-for-all solution, as long as the workers know If they are scared and know that they don't know how to process money, then they will obediently stay in the factory and work hard.

Probably because Mr. Darcy seemed too silent in this atmosphere, Mr. Lawrence quickly noticed him, because Darcy has quite a status in the Moore Club, so Mr. Lawrence hoped to get his support, so he asked: " What do you think of this proposal, Mr. Darcy?"

Mr. Darcy did not support him as Mr. Lawrence hoped. He directly rejected Mr. Lawrence's proposal: "Forgive me for agreeing to this proposal, Mr. Lawrence. Force cannot solve all problems, it will only make people lose their minds and exacerbate conflicts." I opened the factory to make money, not to fight. If the workers don't want to work, we can send people to persuade them and tell them that if they stop the strike immediately and go back to the factory, we don't care about it. If they really If you don’t listen, we don’t have to use this group of workers, we can just find another worker, there are plenty of people in London who are willing to work.”

"Of course it's easy for you to say. Less than one-third of the workers in your factory are on strike. Even if you don't find new workers, you won't lose much." Mr. Lawrence mocked with a red face.

"This strike is not my problem!" Mr. Darcy said mercilessly.

Mr. Lawrence's expression froze, and he became even more angry, but he didn't say anything, but angrily walked to the other side of the room with his scepter.

Everyone knows that the leader who instigated the workers' strike this time was a young lawyer named Adam Miller. Mr. Miller's father and two older brothers used to work in Mr. Lawrence's factory. The small amount of money provided Mr. Miller to study in college, but before Mr. Miller graduated from college, they all contracted diseases due to heavy work and poor working environment, and died in pain one after another.

Later, Mr. Miller became a lawyer. He wholeheartedly believed that the death of his father and two brothers was Mr. Lawrence's fault, and he wanted to avenge it. Therefore, he appealed to the court many times, suing Mr. Lawrence for operating the factory illegally and The workers were treated harshly, causing many workers to fall ill and die.But such a thing is impossible to file a case, let alone sue Mr. Lawrence.So that Mr. Miller finally thought of a way and started to encourage the workers in Mr. Lawrence's factory to go on strike, so that Mr. Lawrence would go bankrupt.The workers in Mr. Lawrence's factory were already dissatisfied with their situation, but no one dared to be the first to resist. Now there is a gentleman who they think is a gentleman to stand up for them, and most of them quickly It should be reconciled.

However, the development of the matter probably did not even occur to Mr. Miller himself. The strike action of workers in a single factory would quickly turn into a collective strike event of workers in more than 20 factories in just half a month. Things got out of hand.

The short conversation between Mr. Darcy and Mr. Lawrence had ended, but the atmosphere in the club suddenly changed because of this accident. The people in the room quickly divided into three groups. One was to support Mr. Lawrence's use of force. The group that suppressed the workers' strike, one is a group that supports Mr. Darcy against the use of force, and the rest are a bunch of people who have nothing to do with their own calculations.

A resolute-looking gentleman walked up to Mr. Darcy at this time and said, "Mr. Darcy, I am Stan Bull, and I agree with you very much."

Mr. Darcy recognized this Mr. Stang Bull. This Mr. Bull came from West Yorkshire in northern England. He just came to London this year to open a factory. He seems to be a man of good conduct.Mr. Darcy is always willing to make friends with people of good character, so he stood up and held out his hand and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Bull. I am Fitzwilliam Darcy."