After listening to Wen Hong's account, Le Yu realized that this matter really did have something to do with him.
Based on Yin Yinyin's intelligence, White Night's merchants had taken the initiative to contact the Shi family, offering to purchase the glass factory at a high price. The Shi family was naturally overjoyed and completely ignored the Silver Blood Society's regulations, directly transferring the glass factory to White Night.
White Night then repaired the factory and recruited workers, planning to use the glass factory as a base to accumulate strength, develop the revolutionary masses, build high walls, stockpile grain, and stay ready to overthrow the Silver Blood Society at any moment.
Everything had gone smoothly at first, but when the factory was preparing to begin operations, trouble finally arrived.
Actually, the trouble was not aimed at White Night specifically, but at every factory in the entire Profound Candle Prefecture. The Jing family took the lead in joining forces with several merchant associations, lowering workers' wages at the same time and introducing a new welfare system.
The so-called welfare system was the class system for corporate slaves that Jing Zhengtang had proposed at the family banquet: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and so on. This year, you would be Black Iron; next year, you would become Silver; and the year after that, you would become a senior Gold Worker!
In short, it was nothing but drawing a pie. As for wanting to eat that pie, you had better work hard mining for me first.
With refugees from the horizon flooding in and goods piling up unsold, the merchant associations had long since planned to lower wages and lay off workers. Now that the Jing family had taken the lead, they naturally followed at once. They planned to observe the welfare system for a