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Chapter 86 Suffering and Suffering Common People (addition for Drunken Immortal Sword)

In the early days of the first industrial revolution, there was an undeniable truth - profit is everything.

For profit, the British can be said to do everything they can.

But in a link where there is only production and sales, how should we pursue high profits?

If he couldn't even answer this question, Selim could only say that a capitalist is no longer a capitalist.

As for Daiying's answer to this question, not only was it perfectly correct, it can even be said that he even answered the hidden additional questions.

Who would have thought that there are still three or four-year-old child laborers in the factories of the capitalists?
Not just one or two people, but hundreds of people appearing.

The life expectancy of these child laborers usually does not exceed 20 years old.

Entering the dark factory prematurely will cause their bodies to suffer serious damage.

Selim remembered reading a short story by Jack London called "The Rebel."

Jack London, known as the red writer, described a child named Jonny in a poignant tone.

From the age of seven, he was forced by life to work as a child laborer in the factory, enduring the exploitation of the capitalists and the whipping of the supervisors.

By the age of twelve or thirteen, he had worked successively in a hemp spinning factory, a glass factory, and a weaving factory.

Every day before dawn, his mother dragged him out of bed.Because of so little sleep, he was like a terribly tired little animal, completely lost confidence in life, and finally collapsed.

Selim can't remember the specific plot of the novel clearly.

He only remembered that the kid named Johnny had high expectations for the "Floating Island" cake, but when he finally ate it, he could no longer taste it, and the life of a "working beast" had made him numb.

The author Jack London lived this kind of "working animal" life in his childhood.

Jack London begins this novel with a witty doggerel:
Today I got up and went to work,

Lord, save me from being a slob;
If I die before dark,

God bless my job.

Amen.

The era of Jack London has already reached the end of the nineteenth century, what about the eighteenth century?

As the birthplace of the industrial revolution, the British Isles have a small population and limited labor force. In order to reduce costs, British capitalists turned their attention to women, children and street people.

The salary of an adult male worker can employ 2 female workers and 3 to 7 child workers. The younger the worker, the lower the salary expenditure.

Compared with adults, child labor is obviously easier to manage, and it is easier to suppress strikes. There are a large number of child labor in factories that do not require too much labor intensity.

The sources of these child laborers are also varied. Some of them are forced by the people at the bottom to make a living and send their children to factories; the other part is bought from the trading market.

That's right, child labor is also a commodity at this time. Orphanages, church almshouses, and human traffickers are the biggest sellers, and a very small part is sold by parents.

If it is said that child labor will still be paid, then the homeless people are grouped in three-year batches. Those who are alive don’t even think about going out, and those who are dead don’t need to go out.

The factory serves you for a lifetime. When you are alive, you eat some black bread mixed with sand and some thick soup that you don’t know what to make every day. After you die, throw it outside the city and return to nature.

It can be said that the bloody factory is the truest social portrayal of this era.

On the one hand, Daiying made huge profits by exploiting child labor crazily, and on the other hand, he portrayed a gentleman in the outside world, donating money to churches and investing in education, under the pretense of subsidizing poor students.

I have to say that my tapestry is simply a model of the archway world, and it can be called the world-daiqing.

Teacher Ma has a very good saying.

"Capital came into this world, from head to toe, dripping blood and filth from every pore."

This is also the reason why Emperor Sai the Great started compulsory education. The accumulation of primitive capital is indeed quite bloody. This kind of labor is not suitable for Muslims, so there are only Orthodox people who suffer.

Selim remembered that people used to say that the assimilation ability of the Ottoman Empire was rubbish. When he came to this world, he found that the assimilation ability of the Ottoman Empire was not worth mentioning, but it could also be said to be horrific.

But in fact, if you look into the reasons, the poor assimilation effect is not because the Ottoman Empire is incapable, it is purely because later researchers or folk history lovers have not figured out the Ottoman Sultan's positioning for himself and the Ottoman people.

For the sultan, the so-called Ottoman subjects were not actually Muslims, as folk history buffs think, but elites, elites who could bring benefits to the empire.

To be honest, in the eyes of the Sultan, the Fanars are much more noble than ordinary Muslims.

As a citizen of the Ottoman Empire, you are naturally full of pride in the empire, because you are the people, not the cattle and sheep.

The ruled class was called reaya by the Ottoman Empire. It was not even a human being, and the Ottomans made no secret of it. It literally meant cattle and sheep.

You are not the lowly Turkic principalities and nomads in Asia Minor, who were almost oppressed by the Ottoman Empire and had no way out, so that they stabbed back almost every year and revolted every year.

Of course, the empire did not hesitate to launch massacres and forced relocation of these lowly Turks. Aiden, Germian, Karaman, and even the remnants of the Seljuk dynasty in Dobroja could not escape the butcher knife of the Ottomans.

You are not the Karaman Turks who were beaten by the Ottoman Empire with almost no way out. They will not be massacred by the Ottoman Empire, nor will they be exiled by the "conqueror", or forced to immigrate to the Balkans to fill the newly conquered territories of the empire.

You are not an unlucky Balkan mountaineer, you don’t have to hand over your children to the Sudan, pay the blood tax, and you will not “voluntarily” take up the weapons given by the empire to fight against the Turkic people who were forced to immigrate to defend the Sudan’s trade routes.

It doesn't matter who you are, what matters is who you are.

Maybe your ancestors followed the Prophet to pass the test, maybe your ancestors followed the "Cruel One" to jump over the Persian face, maybe your ancestors were the mentors of the Muslim Brotherhood.

You are a noble citizen of the empire, not a sheep or a sheep.

Why did the Ottoman Empire fail to convert the Orthodox Christians in the territory after 600 years of rule, because the bottom line of believers in Islam and Christianity are cattle and sheep, and they are both squeezed in pain, and almost have no chance to leave their villages.

Compared with daily life, the painful squeeze of tyranny, the plunder of manpower by military conquest, and religious discrimination did not become the main contradiction until the late empire, when productivity and transportation improved, and the large-scale mixing of Christians and Muslims at the bottom became the main contradiction.

This is why Selim set up these policies. Without comparison, why should others convert.

Could it be that if you change your beliefs, you don't need to be a cow or horse for Sudan?

This is the fundamental problem. In Selim's view, the so-called belief is not worth mentioning in front of survival.

As long as good treatment is given, what are tax exemptions, tax cuts, and Orthodox Christians do not convert?
Don't pretend to be a saint. Without the permission of the sultan, even if you go on a hunger strike and starve to death to fight and convert, the Patriarch will still not make you a saint.

If you really refuse to convert, then you have to suffer the Orthodox people, after all, the factory is still short of people.

The Sudan sitting in the carriage laughed, survival or faith, this is actually a sub-question.

(End of this chapter)