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"Male workers, female workers, child workers..."

"Minimum labor protection and labor contracts!"

"Insurance..."

"Eight-hour work system, twelve-hour work system..."

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Anda Aida looked at the information collected by Kojima seriously, and his face was more and more satisfied. "Yoshi, Chairman Sanye is completely copying the Chinese system."

Last year, the old Confucian school in China used "unkindness" as an excuse to rebuild the new Confucian school. Japan also heard about the war. Just before the Sino-Japanese conflict, the subsequent second war was after the Sino-Japanese conflict. The Japanese did not hear much during the war. After the war, a large number of Chinese businessmen poured into Japan, and countless news was also brought into Japan. The war between the Chinese government and the opposition began from that time, and it has not been completely extinguished until now. However, the efficiency of the Chinese government is still very high. It quickly filtered out the actual situation of disabled workers, female workers, and child workers, and formulated a series of protection measures based on feedback.

Although these measures are completely crude and simple in Chen Ming's eyes. But for people of this era, it is absolutely good policy.

And the set of rules and regulations that Mitsubishi Boshoku is implementing now is the policy of the Chinese.

Each worker can only work a maximum of twelve hours a day, regardless of gender. Any more is considered "overtime". The factory mainly pays overtime pay, and the overtime pay measured in hours is much higher than the normal average hourly wage.

Female workers can only work within twelve hours, including overtime; child workers work eight hours, and the maximum working time per day is ten hours. The two-time work system provides a good protection net for female and child workers.

Then came the establishment of the minimum labor security system and the minimum labor security system for various industries. These systems and policies directly killed the entire "apprenticeship" in China. The characteristics of the old era have faded a little.

Then there is insurance.

The factory owner signs a labor contract with his workers. According to the contract, the factory owner must buy insurance for his workers, although the per capita cost is very low. But if workers are injured or even disabled due to accidents, the insurance company established by the Chinese government can pay the main compensation on behalf of the factory owner. This industry has just appeared in China, but it has existed in the West for a long time.

Since the Chinese government opened the insurance industry, several insurance companies have appeared in China, involving life, property, fire, shipping, etc., and even pension.

There is also a force in Japan now. Several insurance stores have appeared in Nagasaki, Osaka, and Edo. Perhaps before long, the Japanese insurance industry will be officially born.

But now Ando Aida just wants to laugh, want to laugh loudly. "Chairman Sanye is too wishful." Sanye Pingbei has no ability to establish an insurance company himself, and now he has registered his company's insurance business under the name of a Chinese insurance company in Nagasaki. Is this a bit too much of a "kindness"?

You must know that since the textile industry entered the hydraulic stage, there have been frequent industrial accidents. Whether it is a small citizen or a farmer, once they enter the factory to work, their bodies are equivalent to being sold to the capital, and they are no longer at their disposal. Once a worker has an industrial accident, the factory will subsidize some medical expenses, but most of them are just a drop in the bucket, just like the situation in China before. And the factory basically does not pay the workers during the treatment period. Therefore, in the absence of funds for medical treatment, both Chinese and Japanese workers are "bearing minor illnesses and waiting for death for major illnesses." After recovering from the illness, if you can still work, you are lucky; if you can't work, you can only wait to be fired by the factory.

The scenes that happened in China also happened in Japan. And Japanese owners are more demanding than Chinese merchants. Because Japan's manpower is relatively more abundant than China at the moment.

This is not wrong. China's 200 million people are distributed throughout the country. Although the population of major emerging industrial cities is concentrated, the density cannot be compared with Japan's Nagasaki, Osaka, Edo, Yokohama, Kobe and other cities. Japan's 20 to 30 million people are nestled in three small islands.

Now Japanese companies, like many factories in China, lack the necessary labor protection conditions, so industrial accidents occur from time to time. Once a family suffers from a work-related injury, the most terrible misfortune awaits that family.

The current textile enterprises, on the one hand, are due to the fact that the factories themselves are not doing their job well. For example, long hair hinders the operation of textile machinery and will bring greater possible harm to workers. China has implemented a system that requires both men and women to wear headgear when they go to work, but Japan is still the same, with no requirements in this regard.

No matter how you say it, the number and probability of work-related injuries in this era are too high. Sanye Pingbei lit up the "insurance money", which added a big brick to his finances.

"He thought that Japan had no power to threaten him anymore. In fact, Japan did not, but he never expected that he had become the prey of China's cotton spinning giant." Even if the Sumitomo family's textile company started, it would not be possible to produce cotton cloth cheaper than the cost price of Mitsubishi Textiles, so there was really no power in Japan that could threaten Sanye Pingbei's business empire.

So in order to show his kindness and win the loyalty of the workers, he gave the latter higher treatment, so that Mitsubishi workers would be more loyal to him. There is nothing wrong with this.

The mistake was that he should not have forgotten the Chinese.

In the Sino-Japanese cotton trade war, it seems that the Japanese are gaining momentum, but in fact the Chinese still have an absolute advantage. If normal business competition cannot defeat Mitsubishi, there will be abnormal price competition. The Chinese have much stronger capital than Mitsubishi. The two sides will then engage in a price war, which will depend on the strength of both sides.

As the Sumitomo family joins forces with their Chinese allies, Adachi Sanada has no reason to believe that he will lose to Sanye. This blow may not kill Sanye, but it will definitely bring Mitsubishi Textile back to the ground from the high blue sky.

"Kindergarten? What is this?" Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a word that was definitely not unfamiliar on the document, but Aida Adachi was stunned. Is there any connection between "Kindergarten and Mitsubishi???"?

"Your Excellency, this is the children's management established by President Sanye in order to care for the female workers who take care of their children. It is to allow the female workers to work wholeheartedly." It is also to win people's hearts. Kojima Maori said silently in his heart.

"Yo Xi, President Sanye really wants to be a saint." Adachi Sanada had to lament the extent of Sanye Pingbei's "death-seeking", which really opened his eyes.

Of course, Adachi Sanada was only happy at this time. The higher Mitsubishi's 'labor' costs, the better for his plan.

"Your Excellency." Kojima Matachi leaned forward and whispered. "According to my understanding, Chairman Mitsuno is likely to announce the establishment of a workers' hospital in the near future, and he will invite first-class doctors from China. He also said that the working meals for the workers should include at least one fish every day. Mitsubishi workers are now They are all very excited..."

Kojima Marate didn't know how to evaluate Sanye Pingbei.

kindness? Still stupid...

In the eyes of many people, these two words are inherently linked, but for Xiaodao, nothing he witnessed with his own eyes was more impactful and exciting.

Shaking his head, Adachi Aangda frowned slightly.

"What's going on with these three Chinese people?"

"These three are managers, accountants and chief engineers specially invited by Chairman Sanye from China. Chairman Sanye placed them in high positions from the beginning and reformed the previous contracting system. For this reason, he even I almost fell out with several factory managers..."

Kojima Marate knew this very clearly, so Adachi Aida had just answered the question.

"Almost fell out?" Adachi Aangda's eyes lit up. "What about now? Is their relationship still very stiff now?"

"Absolutely." Kojima thought for a moment before saying. "According to what my subordinates know, these three Chinese people are mainly responsible for promoting the China policies implemented by Mitsubishi Textile. As soon as they arrived, they were in high positions and gained the trust of Chairman Mitsuno, allowing the original few The supervisor was quite dissatisfied..."

"Yo Xi." Adachi Sanada tapped his fingers on the table, "You quietly contact these people and see if you can win over one or two of them." Maybe the level of these people is really not as good as the Chinese, but It is still much stronger than the manpower currently prepared by Sumitomo. After all, they were responsible for the overall process of Mitsubishi Textile's first phase project and the early operation of the factory. Their experience was greatly needed by Sumitomo. "Then we will send people to collect information about those Chinese people, especially their origins."

Experienced employees who can be responsible for the operation of the Mitsubishi Textiles Phase 1 factory are not insignificant people. How could such a person be easily poached by Sanye Pingbei. This should be Sanye Pingbei’s ‘ally’ in China!

"I understand." Kojima Marate nodded heavily.

Adachi Aida looked at Kojima Marate's departing spherical back with a sneer on his face. He seemed to have discovered another secret of Sanye. When a big plan is about to unfold, it is better to discover as many secrets as possible.

"The opportunity is coming." How much effort he put into formulating the plan. If it succeeds, Mitsubishi Textiles will no longer be an unattainable god, but just a pioneer who is one step ahead. The Sumitomo family can always surpass the pioneer who suffered a huge setback and lost his vitality.

…

In the production workshop of Dongyang Cotton Mill, almost all the windows are tightly closed. This is a new yarn mill also based in Nagasaki. It only spins yarn. It is already the time for spring and summer socializing, and the entire factory is like a big stuffy furnace with no ventilation.

Because of the sweltering heat, most female workers wear very thin clothes. Whether in China or Japan, female workers working in cotton and textile mills always receive some criticism because of the traditional concept of comfort. Not only because they wore less, but also because many male workers took off their shirts because of the unbearable sweltering heat in the factory, and went in and out shirtless while working.

In the textile workshop, a male worker was walking toward the exit with goods in his arms.

Although this male worker is shirtless, the female workers around him are not embarrassed at all and have long been accustomed to being beaten easily.

Just when the male worker was only about ten steps away from the exit, the sole of his foot suddenly slipped and he was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, a foreman passing by at this time helped him, otherwise he would not only have fallen to the ground. He was covered in mud, and the yarn in his hand was about to become stained with mud and water. This will cost you money.

"Be careful. If you drop these goods, you will have worked for nothing these days." The foreman is the supervisor, the most basic manager in the spinning workshop. Dongyang Spinning Mill is a very simple spinning mill, which still implements the "contracting system", a worker management system that has been eliminated in China for a long time.

That is, the entire production process is contracted to the foreman through bidding, and the foreman recruits workers to carry out production.

The model is similar to the three weaving offices of the Qing Dynasty.

The foreman is the number one worker. They are responsible for supervising the production of workers and generally do not work. They can be said to be contractors. The female foreman also has the power to restrain and supervise the workers. No matter whether they are experienced or not, they must obey the female foreman's dispatch. Violators will be fined once for the first time, doubled for the second time, and replaced for the third time. These foremen hold the power to punish workers. At the beginning of the implementation of the factory system, it was common for foremen to bully and extort ordinary workers. Some factories even give each worker a work card with black words on it: xxx, what mistakes have been made, how much fine the worker has been fined or how many days he has been suspended. The foreman hangs this penalty card in front of the worker's machine, indicating that the worker has been fined. It is very insulting. If there is theft or laziness, the worker will be pulled to the factory gate for public display and fired from the factory and never reused. If the production volume is not enough or the production equipment is damaged, the salary will be deducted at the lightest, and the factory will be fired at the worst.

This work system was quickly eliminated in China.

However, in Japan, factory owners who pursue maximum benefits and "saving effort" are still holding on to such a production system. Toyo Cotton Mill is one of them.

"Kudo-kun, thank you very much..." The workers thanked the foreman repeatedly. There are bad foremen among these foremen, but there are also good ones, and Kudo in front of them is one of them.

"I'm so lucky to meet Kudo. It's really dangerous-" After putting the goods in a clean place, the male worker wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and said with some lingering fear.

If he really slipped, it wouldn't matter if he fell into the mud, but he was afraid that the cotton yarn he was holding would be dirty. In that case, he would have to work for three to five days in vain before he could be fined.

"But this damn place is really bad. It's so hot, but even the ground is so slippery..."

The male worker cursed the boss of the factory in his heart. The workshop of the Dongyang Spinning Mill is known as a "living hell" among the workers. The working environment is very bad, and the workers work very long hours. Because the Dongyang Spinning Mill was built and put into production without sufficient stock raising, the shareholders and bosses lacked funds, so after the factory building was built and the machines were moved in and started working, they did not make further improvements to the working environment.

The ventilation performance of the factory building is relatively poor, and the surface is still muddy. The humid indoor environment makes the muddy ground very slippery. The accumulated water in many places has turned into small puddles. Because most of the workers in the spinning mill come from rural areas near Nagasaki, they basically walk to and from get off work instead of living in staff dormitories. The factory naturally stopped providing meals for ordinary workers. Mitsubishi Textile did a good job in this regard. From the beginning, Sanye Pingbei provided its workers with a higher treatment than other new textile enterprises.

Provide work meals and a place to rest at noon. In the Toyo Cotton Mill, the workers here have to carry a lunch basket when they come to work every day, and the factory only provides "hot rice bowls" for the workers.

And I don't know if it's because of working in this airtight workshop for a long time, the workers find that they are now very easy to catch a cold, and prefer a hot and humid environment to a cool climate. Take the production workshop, a big stuffy furnace, as an example. From the initial discomfort to the current "like", this change makes every conscious worker shudder.

God knows what is worth liking here. The air is bad, there is not enough oxygen, and the stuffy environment is often suffocating. Because of the heat, the workers all wear very little, so once the indoor temperature is uneven, they will inevitably catch a cold.

The workers only know that they are less and less willing to contact fresh air. But they don't know why.

According to later science, a long-term hot and stuffy working environment will reduce human functions. As human functions gradually decline, the heat generated by the body will also gradually decrease, and it will rely on the heat outside to maintain it. Therefore, workers feel most comfortable in the hot and stuffy factory air with windows tightly closed...

Horrible, right?

That clean area is actually a car. Each car belongs to its own foreman, and there are signs on it. When the car is full of goods, the foreman will lead people to push the car out of the workshop and send it to where the yarn should go.