I, the only extraordinary in this world

Chapter 109

The founder of the [Iron Workers Union] is Hong Duo, who was a laborer in a colonial factory.

As early as when the Western colonists were still ruling this area, he was the most active labor activist. Although he was persecuted and imprisoned many times, he survived all times.

After the colonists retreated, with the help of the legacy colonial industries, a lot of capital was attracted here, and industries gradually emerged here.

But similar to the colonial forces, the new factories and new orders established by capital are also profit-seeking. Compared with the pre-colonial period, the local laborers are only a little better, and they will not be detained and beaten at every turn.

But that’s all. Labor remuneration is still difficult to meet, and the guarantee mechanism is even more difficult to talk about. Thousands of tidal flat workers are building new factories day and night within a range of hundreds of kilometers. Opening up piece by piece of new gardens... creating "Princess Miracles" one after another.

In the 60s of the last century, it once became the top five regions in the economic index of Shanyu, Siam and Laos.

It’s just that this prosperity and development has nothing to do with this group of workers. The wealth accumulated by the local families and overseas capital that have taken over the colonial industry allows them to live in luxury manors with silver ranks and gold-plated roofs for generations. I can't even afford the electricity bill for an incandescent lamp, and I can only get electricity for about a week every month.

In this situation, the man named Hong Duo stepped forward.

His specific nationality and ethnicity are no longer clear. The national divisions in Southeast Asia in the pre-colonial period were extremely chaotic, especially in this border area. It is possible to say that he is from any country, and he may even be a Chinese.

He organized the first labor movement in "Princess Beach", which once set off a general strike that affected many enterprises and gardens. Naturally, he was suppressed and blocked many times during the period.

However, as an "old fritter" with a lot of experience in the labor movement as early as the colonial period, he is naturally able to deal with these "new recruits" of capitalism with ease.

Finally, after more than ten years of struggle, the [Iron Trade Union] was established.

As many as tens of thousands of workers participated in it, affecting more than 20 industrial groups in Princess Beach.

So on the banks of the Jinliu River, for the first time, those people who have worked hard for generations have the qualifications to bargain with the aristocratic family, the capital and the rich.

For the first time, those laborers received a salary that could buy enough food for a month. For the first time, their pockets could still have a surplus after buying the necessary survival materials. For the first time, they knew that they weaved The clothes that come out can be worn on yourself...

The Iron Workers' Union was a huge success, and if it continues to develop normally, it will be able to completely change the lives of the people here.

But in the story of this world, if there are no accidents, there will be accidents.

The accident is also very simple, Hong Duo died.

Died in a weird car accident, no one can tell the cause of the accident.

Or... some people are unwilling to explain the accident clearly.

In short, he is dead, and the relevant investigations have almost no results, just like throwing a stone into the rolling water of the Jinliusha River, which is insignificant.

Although the founder died, the union did not disband, and the organization that lost its leader would naturally have to fill it up again.

The successor was a man named Darcy, who was an apprentice who had followed Hong Duo for many years, and had always been by his teacher's side.

It can be said that it is a matter of course for him to inherit the position of president now.

It's just that since he took office, the Iron Workers' Union has slowly changed. Until many years later, it is hard to say that this trade union has any similarities with the workers' organization of the year.

Let me give you an example——

Since Darcy came to power, every president of the [Iron Works Union] has been from Darcy's family, and the current president is Darcy III, who used to be the grandson of Darcy.

That is, the "Darcy Boss" in the population of Sanji and his gang.

And there is something that has never existed before in the iron union-levels.

In the past, there was only one honorary president in the guild, that is, Hong Duo himself.

Since Darcy took office, the position of president has been firmly established, and the so-called president-vice president-first-level cadres-second-level cadres-third-level cadres have been formed from top to bottom. ——Members—casual workers, this series of strict and clear hierarchy.

To increase the level, you need the so-called "contribution points". The most direct way is to exchange "contributions" with money. In addition, there are various other means to increase the level.

Including but not limited to helping drug dealers entrenched in the nearby mountains and forests to smuggle prohibited drugs in exchange for the support of those drug dealer warlords, bribing the local government to provide backdoors, abducting young workers to supplement labor for major companies...even robbing cargo ships on the river to snatch supplies Money subsidizes trade unions and smuggles prohibited items on cargo ships.

Because of this, a considerable number of members once became organized water bandits, specializing in this kind of "side business", and even formed a unique "field department" in the guild, and the level of this department is not low. They are all cadres.

A group of thieves and thieves turned out to be the middle and high-level members of the trade union. Thinking about it, it feels outrageous. Can the world be more nonsense?

The "Snake King" that Leno intends to exchange hostages to China for this operation is such a cadre.

Hearing this, Li Heng couldn't help laughing: "The world is so big, but the world is so coincidental."

"Even if you succeed, you probably won't be able to get that guy back, and even if you can get it back, maybe he won't be able to get back."

"For...why..."

Sanji asked cautiously in a daze.

"I met your 'Brother Snake King' by chance, and had some simple exchanges and education with him. I heard that he is doing very well in prison now, and he seems to have won the mobile flag of labor model recently."

Sanji: ...

Sangji dared not speak and continued to lead the road. He passed through two paddy fields and villages, and took a trip on a country tractor. The black-smoky diesel engine drove forward on the bumpy gravel road.

The roadside is verdant and green tropical shrubs. Could it be possible to pass by a wet tidal flat and a double-layered bamboo building with Southeast Asian characteristics? Some people even cast nets directly from the bamboo buildings to catch fish. The hemp rope is passed through the fish's eyes and heads to form a ring-shaped "rosary string" and hangs on the top of the building to dry.

Sangji, who was sitting together in the tractor trailer, secretly glanced at Li Heng from time to time.

But Li Heng's face was as calm as the sea, and he couldn't see what he was thinking. He only looked at the surface as if he was a foreign guest who came here for tourism.

The tractor bumped and ran for more than half an hour, and put the two of them down beside a field, and the hitchhiker could only get here.

However, at this moment, Sanji hesitated and refused to move forward, walking two steps and stopping one step.

"Ok?"

He didn't want to go any further, but Li Heng hadn't reached his destination yet, so he couldn't let him go.

"First... sir, I... I don't really want to go there, I don't even want to get close to... that town... um, it's not a good place"

After thinking for a while, he changed his expression: "It's the people there, not someone to mess with..."

"Are you afraid of it?"

Li Heng asked.

Sanji nodded quickly.

"Are you afraid of me then?"

Li Heng continued to ask with a blank expression.

This expression immediately reminded Sanji of the "Death Comes" scene he saw on the deck last night. Leno's desperate and terrifying eyes are still imprinted in his mind.

Suddenly frightened him into a cold sweat, he shook his head and didn't dare to think about it, obediently walked towards a path.

Although Marta Town was scary to him, the humanoid monster beside him was more terrifying.

(End of this chapter)