The night the union held a trial and hanged George, Choya, and others seemed like a lightning bolt tearing through the long-standing gloom enveloping Oranck, completely uncovering the longstanding conflict between workers and factory owners.
As the first ray of dawn illuminated the bodies still hanging from the street lamps, news already spread throughout the industrial district, with hushed discussions echoing in the corridors of factories and the alleyways of slums.
After the banquet at Violet Manor, Lu Yan altered perceptions, prompting capitalists and new nobility to willingly concede profits to improve workers' benefits and wages, thus causing the union's evolution to be exceedingly peaceful, avoiding much bloody violent conflict.
Even with the Wilton Mine unrest, the upper echelons perceived its roots as lying with the Evil God Sect, rather than the workers' own power.
