The crazy guy from Hakoden, defeated the millions of gods!

Mu Yuan also realized his own loss of composure. He shook his head gently, took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and then spoke slowly.

"The proletariat of the whole world suffers the same kind of hardship, but the workers in Da Yan suffer more and have a harder life than the workers in Russia!"

He understood very well that the root cause of the poverty of these workers was "wage slavery", because the "means of production" were owned by the bourgeoisie and because the workers were so poor that they had nothing but selling their labor.

"Any distribution of the means of consumption in society is nothing more than the result of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves. The basis of the capitalist mode of production is that the material conditions of production are in the form of capital and land in the hands of non-workers, while the great masses of the people have only the personal conditions of production, namely, labor power. Since the elements of production are distributed in this way, the present distribution of the means of consumption will naturally follow..." - This is the theory written by Marx in his works, which is eye-opening and reveals the fundamental reason why workers in this capitalist society become beasts of burden!

At this moment, history turned into the present, and the present in his eyes turned into another kind of history. Time and space intertwined and merged into overlapping illusions in his eyes. Reasons and theories followed closely, all turning into bloody realities and appearing before his eyes. So, he was - surprisingly angry! !

"Wei Lin, tell me what we are going to do!"

Li Weilin replied: "The first step is to investigate. Without investigation, we can't reach a conclusion and we can't fully understand how cruelly the workers were oppressed."

"Wei Lin, I'm with you!"

"Okay, let's go together!"

Dark Forest: Liberating the Three Bodies: Chapter 145: The Dock Workers in the Magic City, Investigation and Research Report

There are many ways to investigate a problem.

For example, questionnaire surveys, interview surveys, group discussions, observation surveys, and literature research. In the information age, big data can also be used for data analysis. Without leaving home, you can receive questionnaires from millions of netizens, quickly filter out invalid answers, extract useful information, and draw conclusions.

But in this era, the Internet has not been invented, and new problem investigation methods do not have their material basis, so we just use some common investigation methods, which are also effective.

Whether it is Marx, Engels, or Lenin, their works are supported by extremely solid data. They consulted official documents, searched for relevant information, and drew conclusions from these facts. As a certain mentor who was in the revolutionary practice stage of this era said, "Without investigation, there is no right to speak."

The truth is always a bit empty. If you say that the workers are being exploited by capitalists, this truth is sometimes not convincing enough. But if you use numerical facts and tell them that the value of your labor is 100 yuan, but 99 yuan is exploited by capitalists, the workers will immediately understand after calculating and will start cursing, "Capitalist, I fuck your mother!"

Li Weilin's investigation method is a "three-in-one" approach. He not only studies official data recording the situation at the dock, but also holds meetings and discussions with the contact persons at the workers' club, and also communicates and inquires with the workers, unraveling the few individual cases and finding the universal things.

Originally, the investigation was planned to last for one to two months. However, after only one week, Li Weilin left the Magic City to deal with affairs in the north, and the task of the investigation was entirely handed over to Mu Yuan.

At first, Mu Yuan was a little worried.

He had not been in Dayan for very long, and he was worried that his colleagues here would have a problem with him, making it difficult to carry out the work, as such an important task was handed to him so soon.

However, he soon found that his worries were unnecessary. Dayan's comrades were still revolutionary comrades of the proletariat. At present, they were still very simple and energetic. They had not yet been contaminated by the decadent bourgeois worldly ways and the stench of fighting for power in this revolutionary cause.

They were convinced of Mu Yuan's abilities and were willing to work under his leadership.

The contact also trusted him very much.

"Comrade Mu Yuan, don't worry, not only Weilin trusts you, but we do too."

The contact smiled.

"In fact, when I first saw you, I thought you were some young master from a wealthy family who came to show sympathy for the people. But after spending these days together, I realized that impression was wrong."

As the contact person said, Mu Yuan did not look like a farmer or worker from the proletariat. His skin was white, his hands had no scars from work, his body did not seem to have any signs of malnutrition, and he did not look strong.

This was undoubtedly suspicious in the eyes of the contact person, who thought that this person was the eldest son of a landlord or capitalist family and had come here in disguise for a private visit.

But these days of getting along with each other made him change the prejudice caused by his first impression.

"Comrade Mu Yuan, I was a little biased in the beginning. But as I got to know you better, I immediately realized that you are a true revolutionary."

The contact laughed, then pointed to his ears.

It was an ear without an ear cap, which was suddenly cut off by the iron chain of the ship. In that accident, some workers had their waists cut off, and some had their heads cut off. If the chain had been off by one centimeter, a part of his skull would have been cut off as well.

"After losing one ear, I lost my hearing, but I seem to be able to see things that I couldn't see before."

"I can see a fire in your chest, as if it wants to burn you to ashes."

At this point, he gave a thumbs up and smiled widely.

"The color of the fire is very bright, I like it very much, so I believe you!"

"This reason..."

Mu Yuan couldn't fully understand this strange reason. After all, the Yan people always liked to be implicit. Some things always liked to be hidden in some images, and the analysis of implicit words was not his forte.

However, he truly received this trust.

He stretched out both hands, held the contact's hand tightly, and moved it vigorously. The movement was simple, sincere and powerful.

"Thank you for your trust, Comrade Su Fanxiu!"

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Through the "three-in-one" investigation, a lot of information about dock workers was gradually collected. However, Mu Yuan always felt unsatisfied. He felt that it was not enough, neither enough nor basic enough.

So he began to deepen his investigation further - by becoming a dock worker.

And it was only the first day...If he was just an ordinary person, he would probably really die on the construction site at the dock.

Mu Yuan once heard a sad story from a friend of different ages. The story happened about 70 or 80 years from now. As a farmer and a retired rural teacher, he could not support his family with his meager pension, so he chose to go to the Shanghai dock thousands of miles away to work as a worker in loading and unloading goods.

He thought that although he was over 60 years old, he was still strong, could do farm work, and could endure hardships. He should be able to earn some money to support his family at the dock. However, after only a few months, he fled the dock, saying "I can't stand it!" and returned to his hometown. Every time I heard him talk about this past, I could always see some fear in the depths of his cloudy eyes.

What exactly is he afraid of?

Mu Yuan didn't understand at first, but after reading a lot of books he finally understood.

In that era, the country had become the master, and workers were no longer regarded as human beings. Capitalists regarded workers as "hired slaves" and exploited them at will, wishing that they would not even have to rest and work for them all day long.

In this era, workers are treated like cattle and horses. Dock workers are scornfully called "wild chicken workers". Mu Yuan heard a haughty dock owner say disdainfully: "In the Magic City, it's not easy to find a hundred dogs, but it's easy to find a hundred wild chicken workers."

Dock workers are basically not permanent workers, but temporary workers with cheap wages.

However, even with such a low wage, on Mu Yuan's first day at work, he was first skinned once by the dock owner, then once by the feudal boss, and finally beaten up by the gangsters and bullies. Only then did he finally deal with these greedy vampires temporarily, and got a work ticket "panting and sweating profusely".

Seeing that he looked new, a fierce-looking foreman who was waving a whip and shouting at other workers noticed him, rolled his eyes, came up to him, put on a friendly face and said, "Would you like to do the mountain jumping?"

Mu Yuan's heart was moved slightly. He looked around and heard the three words "jumping over the mountain". Some of the workers seemed to have turned a lot paler from their originally dark complexion, and some even shivered.

what's the situation?

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xAfter writing this chapter, I remembered, woc, was Chuan's ears also rubbed?

Dark Forest: Liberating the Three Bodies: Chapter 146 The old society turns people into ghosts, the new society turns ghosts into people

Mu Yuan felt something was wrong. Did this so-called "mountain jumping" mean that he had to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire?

Still, he replied, “I’ll do it.”

This was the purpose of his coming here. Even if it meant going into a sea of fire, he would still give it a try.

Afterwards, he was taken to the dock warehouse.

Some people saw his new face and thought he was tricked by the foreman to do this job. Some of them felt sorry for him and took advantage of the foreman's inattention to get close to his ear and whispered in a low voice: "Go away, don't do this job."

"Jumping over the hill, jumping over the hill, running up the hill carrying coal.

If you can run over, you will get a few pieces of cake. If you can't run over, you will die!"

This seems to be a ballad that implies a lot of things, Mu Yuan was thoughtful.

He looked at the worker's kind face and asked, "What's your name, old man?"

“Just call me Lao Wang.

This kind of work is not something a young man like you can do, run away quickly!"

"Well... let me try it first."

Mu Yuan didn't think that such a job would pose any danger to his life.

For a certain path, most of his power has been dispersed, and is still being dispersed. But the power that remains in this world is also huge enough.

However, in response to the worker's kindness, he still added a sentence.

"If it doesn't work, then I'll quit."

Old Wang looked at him with regret, glanced at the foreman who was looking at him fiercely, and stopped trying to persuade him.

The subsequent workplace made Mu Yuan suddenly realize.

It turns out that the so-called "mountain jump" is the springboard used to transport goods from the ship's hatch to the coal mountain on the dock.

Mu Yuan thought about it for a while and did not show his special features. Instead, he followed the actions of the workers around him and wrapped most of his body with cloth.

As soon as I entered the cabin, a heat wave hit me. The hot air almost burned my exposed skin and caused blisters.

The temperature must be over a hundred degrees.

Mu Yuan instantly understood the significance of wrapping the body with cloth.

Otherwise, every worker who entered would be scalded to death!

But even with the simple protection, this place is still a steamer, and the workers who enter to transport goods are like cattle and sheep that will be steamed and eaten clean by parasitic vampires.

In order to maximize their own profits, the capitalists even filled the vents with coal, and hardly took any measures to dissipate heat, so that the temperature in the cargo hold was over 110 degrees Celsius! !

But this is only the first step. The nimble workers can endure the scorching heat and quickly put the hot coal into the basket, carrying hundreds of kilograms of goods and entering the truly dangerous places.

In order to save space and reduce costs, the dock owners always piled coal higher than three or four stories high. However, the gangplank they built from the cargo hold to the coal mountain was extremely simple, just a gangplank about one foot wide, connected section by section, with a high stool placed under the gangplank every few steps to create a passage.

Carrying hundreds of kilograms of coal with great effort and walking up the gangplank, Mu Yuan finally understood why the workers were so afraid of this "mountain jump".

Forget about using adhesives or nails to fix these wooden boards. They are just pieces of boards, and there is no safety at all.

Not only was this springboard narrow and shaky, it also trembled with every step, as if it would fall down at the next moment, and the people on it would have to fall straight down, with their brains bursting!

"Hey-ah-hey!"

Mu Yuan and the workers in front and behind kept in step with such rhythmic shouting, which could reduce the vibration of the wooden board so that it would not suddenly tilt up at one end like a seesaw.

But the plank was so narrow that he could only move sideways like a crab, and it looked like he was struggling to walk.

The workers behind him looked at his "dilemma" and laughed.

"Let me help you." As he said this, he carried Mu Yuan's basket and pushed Mu Yuan forward.

Mu Yuan felt his shoulders relax. Although he was looking forward, he could still see the worker behind him grinning.

"Thank you." Mu Yuan smiled back.

"It's okay, it's nothing. We workers are supposed to help each other. I see you look clean and fair. This is your first time working here, right? Why did you end up in such a hellish place?"

Before Mu Yuan could reply, the workers behind him said angrily, "That son of a bitch foreman! He actually tricked a young man like you into coming here. This is a life-threatening job! If no one helps you, you will die here within three to five days!"

The worker continued to say sadly: "These days, the lives of us unskilled workers are worth less than that of a dog. Often, people get sick while working here, and are carried out and thrown on the ground like dead dogs. The supervisors don't give them medical treatment or medicine, but just pour water on them. If they can't survive, they ask their families to claim the bodies. If they survive, they are whipped and urged to continue working!"

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With the help of the old worker in the back and several workers around him, Mu Yuan finally completed the move.

After unloading the coal, Mu Yuan knelt in front of the coal pile and thanked his old worker, Lao Wang, who had been helping him throughout this trip.

It turned out that after persuading Mu Yuan, Lao Wang was still worried about him and was afraid that something might happen to him, so he kept following him quietly, and when he saw that he was having a hard time, he offered to help him.

"How is it? Are you tired?" Lao Wang said with a smile.

"Tired..." Mu Yuan hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"I told you not to do this, but you insisted on doing it. Mountain jumping is the hardest and most tiring job at this dock."

Lao Wang paused, then continued with a smile, "You really are - what was that? Oh, yes, a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger!"

This smile has a bit of a bittersweet taste.

A supervisor not far away noticed that Lao Wang and Mu Yuan were talking instead of working, so he came towards them with his arms and legs bared.

Lao Wang saw this scene out of the corner of his eye and quickly shook Mu Yuan's shoulder and said, "Don't do this anymore. You are still young. Find another job. I and other workers will ask the supervisor for mercy for you."

The supervisor walked up to them, waving the whip in his hand, and said viciously: "What are you doing!"

He looked so arrogant, as if he would whip Mu Yuan and Lao Wang the next moment if they didn't explain to his satisfaction.

Old Wang was so scared that he immediately stopped the supervisor with his hands, protected Mu Yuan, and smiled flatteringly, "Hey, look at this guy, it's his first time working here, he doesn't know the rules and has been working like a fool. He is weak and can't do this kind of work. I beg the supervisor to be kind and give him a different job."

The supervisor stared at Mu Yuan suspiciously, pointed at Mu Yuan's nose and asked Lao Wang.

"You know him?"

"I know him." When Lao Wang heard the supervisor ask this, he nodded quickly like a chick pecking at rice.