1855 United States Tycoon

Easily throwing off the idiot detective who followed own, Dena and Alice put on a pair of work clothes commonly used by female workers in the changing room of the store, then came out of the store and turned in another direction. After walking for a while, they left the old neighborhood, and then boarded a tram heading towards the factory area.

With the advancement of the power revolution, in some cities in Europe and North America, public transportation based on trams has developed rapidly, especially in some cities in Germany, because their chemical plants have wars from the beginning. The plan to switch to chemical weapons during the period, coupled with the fact that even in normal times, many of the things produced there are highly toxic, so the German government forced the chemical plants to be placed in the downwind direction of the city, and it is even better to maintain a certain level with the city. distance. Therefore, it is necessary to use public transportation to get from the city center to the place where the chemical plant is located. At this time, the German Mercedes-Benz company was already producing cars in large quantities, but in terms of public transportation, the running cost of cars was higher than that of trams. Therefore, the road traffic between these cities and the factory area mainly relies on trams.

This is no longer the peak time for commuting, but the tram is still very crowded. In order to be able to carry more people, these trams leading to the factory area are specially designed. For example, in these trams, you cannot find as many seats as in a normal public car. The trams running on this route have only a simple row of seats, and the rest are all for people to stand. space. Even so, the car is still full.

But in general, the demeanor of the Germans is pretty decent. Although no one has taken the initiative to give way to the two girls, at least everyone is interesting to make room for them so that they don’t. As for being squeezed. Of course, as in the popular story of a certain island country as the background, taking advantage of the crowds, the story of arbitrarily stretching out salty pigs' hands is naturally gone. But this is not because of the high quality of the Germans, but because the people organized by the trade unions maintain order on the trams that workers often ride, and crack down on thieves who specialize in stealing while crowding the cars. By the way, he will also teach those tram idiots who arbitrarily stretch out salty pigs' hands. As a result, although the trams on this line are the most crowded, the order on the trains is very good.

The tram swayed out of the city center, leaving behind the beautiful Gothic buildings. Dena looked out the window, and what appeared in front of her was a large deserted land. It can be seen from the remaining fields that this place was also a field of tumbling wheat waves. But now, this is no longer farmland. A stinking dark stream flows from here, and all kinds of garbage are piled up by the stream. A little further away, some low-rise houses were erected in a mess. This is the slums that followed the establishment of factories. Many workers live here. The expelled workers whom Dena wanted to interview also lived in this slum.

The tram stopped on a nearby platform, and Dena and Alice got off the car. The union had already been waiting for them at the station.

"Hello Dena, Hello Alice!" A man with a peaked cap greeted him and said to Dena and Alice like this.

"Elber, hello, I didn't expect it to be you." Dena said.

The person named Elber who came to greet Dena and Alice is a member of the German Social Democratic Party. He has met Dena a few times and everyone knows each other.

"What? Surprised to see me?" Elber said.

"Yes, I thought you went to Berlin." Dena said.

"It was Hassel who went to Berlin to attend the meeting. I stay here." Elber said, "We have to wait here, because there is one of your colleagues who is going to interview the accident."

"Who is it?" Alice asked.

"Siegfelter, he is a reporter for the "Advance" newspaper." Elber replied.

"Advance News" is the official newspaper of the German Social Democratic Party and the most important and longest-lived newspaper of the German left. Since its inception in 1876, it has been closed several times and reopened several times, and it has been maintained. This is a small miracle. It is also the benchmark for German left-wing newspapers. Even the "Advance News" has noticed this matter. It seems that they really hope that through the report of this incident and the strike action thereafter, they can achieve a new protection of the personal safety and economics of workers. The purpose of benefit legislation.

"The smell here is really unpleasant." Alice interjected. While talking, he covered his nose.

"There are chemical plants nearby. That's naturally the case." Elber replied, "In fact, it's nothing but a leak of ammonia. The concentration in the workshop is so much higher that we even need to prepare for ourselves. Goggles."

"Is the ammonia gas that caused the workers to be injured in this leak?" Dena asked. She knows that there have also been incidents of workers poisoning due to ammonia leaks in the Macdonald family's chemical plant.

"No, although the ammonia leak can also cause poisoning, it is far less serious. We don't know the specifics of the leak in this accident. We only know that it is an intermediate product used to make pesticides. I only know. Its toxicity is far more than that of ammonia. You can ask the survivors about the specific situation. In just a moment, after one or two inhalations, their eyes were completely blinded. Ammonia is not so powerful. And this poisonous gas Although it is very smelly, it is still different from the smell of ammonia. At least this is what Hausen said." Elber replied.

"Then did they describe what the smell of this poisonous gas looks like?" Dena continued to ask.

Elber was about to answer when he saw another tram approaching with the jingling bells.

"Ah, maybe Siegfelter is in this car." Elber said.

The tram stopped and some people got out of the car. One of them was tall, a man about two meters long bent over and got out of the car. When he got off the car, he waved to Elber: "Elber, Hello!"

"My God, isn't this guy a breed cultivated by Emperor Frederick I?" Alice somehow said such a sentence.

"It's not Frederick I, but Frederick William I." Dana habitually began to correct Alice's historical mistakes. "He is the son of Frederick I and the father of Frederick II. And whatever Either he or Frederick I was just a king, not an emperor. These two words mean different things."

"Oh my God, this messy history of Europeans is really confusing. If I can figure out these messy things, I will meet a hundred big-headed ghosts." Alice shook her head and said.

"Alice, are you cursing that I will meet a hundred big-headed ghosts?" Dena asked deliberately with a gloomy air.

"Ah, my dear Little Sister, I will express my sympathy and condolences to those one hundred big-headed ghosts." Alice replied.

At this time, the giant grenadier had already walked over. He first bent down and shook hands with Elber and talked a few words, and then Elber introduced Dena to him.

"This is Dena Miss, now... Ah, what is the name of your newspaper now?"

"You copied your name, called "The Bavarian Advance", you won't go to the court to sue us for infringement?" Dena said to the giant jokingly.

"Ah, no. Because we know that before the bureaucrats in the court finish the process and issue the subpoena, you will have a new name." The giant replied with a smile. "Please say hello to Mr. Heisenberg for me. Are you Dena Miss? Carl and us have talked about you more than once."

Siegfelter refers to Karl Lee Poker Nesi. He is the son of the well-known international labor movement activist William Lee Poneresi. He is now serving in the Berlin City Council. He is also responsible for the work of the "Advance News" and has a considerable influence on the Social Democratic Party and the entire German left. . Dena has also interviewed him.

"Please also say hello to Mr. Lee Poker Nessi." Dena replied, "I have benefited a lot from his analysis of militarism."

"Siegfelter, this is not a place to talk. And you are too conspicuous. Any spy can see you at a glance from twenty kilometers away." Elber said, "I'll take you first. Go and see the survivors."

"Okay." Siegfelter replied. So Elber led the way, and Dana, Alice, and Siegfelter followed and walked into this large slum together.

When Dena was still in United States, she noticed that his Uncle Scrooge had connections with some left-wing activists in Europe, and even provided funding to those left-wing activists. Dena once asked Scrooge why he did this. Scrooge responded like this:

"Dana, if you have the opportunity to go to Europe in the future, you will find that the wages and life levels of European workers are significantly lower than those of United States. In this way, the wage cost of their products will also be higher than that of United States. States are few. In market competition, this will become an advantage for Europeans relative to us. Of course, important companies under the McDonald Consortium can rely on technological advantages to restore some of the situation, but other people’s technology will also Progressive. Our technology leadership cannot last forever. Once they catch up with us in technology, then our troubles will come.

You know, United States has a vast west, which makes it impossible for us to keep workers' wages as low as in Europe, so we can only rely on high tariffs to protect ourselves. But our products can't just be sold in the United States forever. In overseas markets, once the cost-effective advantage we gained because of our technology advantage disappears, it will be difficult for us to compete with European goods with lower wage costs. Therefore, I will fund those European leftists and even Marxists. Because they bring the resistance of European workers, whether they succeed or not, they will definitely increase the cost of European goods-if they succeed, the cost of wages in each European product will increase. If they fail, then the cost of maintaining social order in every European commodity will be ascending. This is of course beneficial to us in the long run. Why not do things like this that have little investment and, once they succeed, have great results? "

Now that she is walking in the workers' residential area in Germany, Dena really understands Scrooge's statement that "the life level of European workers is very low".

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