From Chief to Ball

Including men over the age of 20 without criminal records under the old legal system have the right to vote, allocate constituencies in Mincheng, and elect a new council in Mincheng according to the representative system.

Council members no longer pay council member taxes and fees, but a certain amount of financial support from the county government, so that more people at the bottom have the opportunity to participate.

And since the small producers who occupied the main force from the beginning were ready to compromise, the final agreement inevitably showed progress compared to before but still full of compromise and weakness.

Including retaining the qualifications of the old council members; only expanding the number of members of the civilian council; still adopting the property weighting system, but the people at the bottom who did not have the right to vote also have a vote, and the highest taxpayer according to the number of taxpayers last year Have the highest voting power of one to one hundred.

This measure, which was a little more progressive than before, finally won the approval of all parties under compromise, and it was decided to hold the election of new council members in Mincheng on October [-]th.And it was unanimously approved that the picket team of the Mexican Party mobilized from nearby places to help maintain the order of the city. This is the only self-defense armed force that can be accepted by the big workshop owners and the bottom.

After the final news was confirmed, the representatives of the interests of the small citizens still did not consider the problems of the whole Min county, but only limited their attention to the city of Min.Now that the seemingly progressive new council has been won by relying on the bloodshed of the uprising at the bottom, and since the number of small citizens is dominant, these original allies are no longer meaningful, and they are even less willing to cross over to seek the interests of those "allies". "Rebellion" the red line.

After the last bloody conflict, their slogans were less bare, but they offered a more regressive solution.

"Let all urban refugees return to their original places, strictly formulate the Mincheng ban on free movement, and only receive relief in their original places."

"Let the big landowners allocate small pieces of land for the returning refugees to cultivate, but the refugees need to fulfill their labor obligations, exchange unpaid labor for the right to use the land, and belong to the small a piece of land to accommodate them in the hands of the landowner."

"Re-establish the guild. All the unemployed in the city of origin must learn in the survival skills training institute established in the county. And work in the handicraft guild as an apprentice, and re-establish the levels of master, individual, helper, apprentice, etc. organized, dignified guilds of small producers, and cheap apprenticeships."

As soon as the solution came out, the radicals who originally joined the uprising immediately declared a break, and bought a huge tortoise that symbolized old age and remained unchanged, and sent it to these people in red and green, beating gongs and drums.

The other party gave back a glass jar full of cicada larvae dug out, and attached a naturalist's introduction about cicadas: ten years of silence, once the ground is broken, summer with chirping, and restlessness in the north and south, thinking that cicadas are summer, without cicadas, there will be no cicadas. There is no summer, but drink dew for three months, and die before the frost comes.

Chapter 34 Dominance ([-])

Summer is not only the summer of summer, but also the summer of China.No matter how joyfully the cicada sings, it will make people connect the cicada and Xia as an inseparable one, but what's the use?Once the real frost falls, it will die instantly, and it will be of no use.

Radicals know that their bases are those at the bottom, and many radical young people agree with those radical ideas because they are full of sympathy for the bottom, but they are utopian after all.

However, their original allies betrayed them, so they had to seek support from the Mexican Party, which had been denounced as "traitors" and "surrenderers".

People kept coming in and out of the central party headquarters of the Mexican Party. After a series of secret talks and reconciliations between the two sides, the program formulated by the radicals also began to change. move in the direction.

For example, the land policy has also changed from the utopian idea of ​​distributing land equally according to the population of the country at the beginning, to another utopian idea of ​​"keeping the large land system undivided, allowing hired workers to elect managers, establishing joint farms, and buying them in installments."

This subtle change immediately attracted the attention of those big workshop owners in Mincheng. Unlike the north, many emerging workshop owners and factory owners have little relationship with the land. Their primitive accumulation mainly depends on the original small handicraft industry or It's going to sea, and the land issue is not important to them.

But they understand what the Mexican Party is after. Once they reach an agreement with these radicals on the land issue, what should they do in the city?Since the land can be used to form joint farms, what about factories?

Those small citizens respected ownership, and although the designed world made these workshop owners extremely dissatisfied, they did not dig the roots.

But ownership is the root, these people want to dig the root, and obviously understand that it is impossible to achieve the goal by relying on these messy forces in Mincheng, and the issue of ownership is to declare war on the entire old era, which is obviously not prepared to play within the rules , ready to flip the table and set up another rule.

The Mexican party has not yet fully stated its position on these issues, or it has clearly expressed its position before, but the future of the position is too far away to feel threatened at all.

From their point of view, what the Mexican party has clearly stated before is like someone telling them not to burn coal anymore, otherwise the soot will cover the sky and shade the sun, and eventually everything will die.This is out of reach, but one day when I can vaguely feel that this threat really exists, that kind of worry suddenly lingers in my heart, which is difficult to erase.

In fact, after the Mexican party was stabbed by those people in front of the meeting square a month ago, this naive party, which has not experienced any real big scenes, and is still loose, is also full of extreme displeasure.

But most people still think that the time is far from ripe. They firmly believe that at this time, they cannot be the leaders of social change, but can only act as an ally of the factory owner class and the liberal class, preferably under reasonable and legal circumstances. Accelerate the production transformation of society, thereby creating more opportunities.

Under this kind of social change, any class that does not conform to the new era will disappear, and the situation will only become more and more favorable to the future calculated by the Mexican party.When more and more self-cultivating farmers go bankrupt, small producers go bankrupt, and more and more large farms, large workshops and large factories are established, a powerful force will eventually be formed. I can explain it.

But today's conditions are far from enough, even in Mincheng, the place closest to the new era, the strength is far from enough.Therefore, the best way at this time is to wait, regain the dominance of the bottom-level movement, and use the contradictions among the small citizens, the northern land tycoons and power families, factory owners, liberals, and extreme anarchists to obtain a smoother and more stable future. for favorable conditions.

This is not something that can be decided by the internal high-level, but because this party has no urgent pursuit of saving the country, and it has not penetrated into the countryside. The backbone of the grassroots is all factory workers.

The grassroots are not very interested in some goals. Compared with those pursuits that do not step aside, they need a twelve-hour work system, a day off every ten days, an increase in the minimum wage, resistance to piecework wages, and letting factory owners tear up the strike blacklist. kind of stuff.

As far as they are concerned, the pursuits of the petty bourgeois have no interest, and they have destroyed factories and machines. What should they do?

For the utopian society of the extreme radicals, after these years of propaganda and the actual improvement of the factories owned by the Mexican party, they are not willing to go back, and they think it is hopeless.

As long as a party exists, it needs a foundation at the grassroots level, and it cannot achieve its goals with the assumptions of the upper echelons.At least at this time, the Mexican Party is still nascent and naive, and it is completely unprepared and has no foundation for doing great things.

After several more intense internal debates, the party's top leaders made a decision: use the contradictions to strive for certain progress.Temporarily form an alliance with the factory owner class, and fight against the reactionary and retreating petty bourgeoisie.Fight for the dominance at the bottom, insist on your independence, and forming an alliance does not mean unconditional compromise.Once the bourgeois and liberals are ready to shake the table across the country, the party will support them to shake the table, and then go further.But in the process, we must also pursue the interests of the employee class. We cannot retreat unconditionally, and we should choose allies according to the situation, including those who cannot be ignored. They are only temporary enemies, not allies who may not be able to unite in the future.

The enemies and political allies at this stage have been determined, and the goals at this stage have also been set. All that remains is to rely on various means to do some not-so-magnificent things.

At the end of September, it was reported that the Central Committee of the Mexican Party decided to grant private interest-free aid loans to some members of the radicals. These loans can "legally" buy firearms from gun workshops. It is even said that these radicals obtained from the Mexican Party Bought a ship equipped with copper guns, and is buying gun mounts for land use.

The street propaganda of those radicals is also scaring some people more and more. The content of the propaganda has taken a considerable step forward, which is very attractive to the bottom of the unemployed and the rural unemployed workers who wander to the cities, and these people are also the most supportive of radical policies. A group of people who have nothing but a life.

The attitude of the Mexican party was not clear before. It seemed to have completely given up on this ridiculous new council election in Mincheng. In addition to expanding its basic market in various factories and docks and preaching improvement measures that are in line with the interests of employees, it seems that The rest of the class gave up entirely.

However, after the extreme radicals and the unemployed chanted slogans of absolute egalitarianism such as "a real equal republic", a group of propagandists of the Mexican Party seemed to wake up.

In places such as docks, riverside streets, workshop areas, banks, and stock exchanges, the number of pickets suddenly increased, and a large number of them were old pickets who participated in the miners' petitions several years ago, or "legal and reasonable" from the mining area. The backbone mobilized at the request of the county magistrate.

These people who were born as miners have been trained for several years, and firearms are not a problem at all. Even some schools controlled by the Mok Party have taught many young people who have learned simple trigonometric functions in batches.

These men, carrying flintlock guns and black armbands, increased their numbers at several important points on the grounds of patrolling.A large number of pickets mobilized from the mining area also began to gather near some properties controlled by Chen Jian and important masonry buildings.

Two ships legally equipped with cannons from the Great Wilderness Fleet began to call at the port, and they unloaded the cannons on the pretext of cleaning them up. Sailors and interns wearing blue and white striped sea shirts also began to go ashore to rest.

Before this, no one knew how deep the foundation of the Mo party was. They only knew that many of Chen Jian's workshops relied on technological monopoly. A large part of the money was donated to the party in the past. Except for the behemoth Nanyang Company, no other capital force has such a powerful force. However, Nanyang Company focuses on profit and does not train armed forces in batches and in a planned way.

Once the silent Mexican Party began to show its muscles, many people panicked, especially not knowing what the top leaders of the Mexican Party were planning to do.

In addition, Chen Jian and some high-level members of the party left Mincheng. Although the reason was to go north to the capital to return to the council, this situation had to make people think too much.

Some people think that people like Chen Jian went to the capital to make trouble?Is it really going to turn the tables, and turn the tables nationwide?

In fact, this is the Mexican party that has put all its energy into it. It looks scary, but in fact it can only scare people in Mincheng. It has no ability to make troubles nationwide, and there is no such foundation.

But just like a tiger seeing a donkey for the first time, this hoof is enough to frighten people, especially those who have been frightened once by extreme radicals.

He Yuanshan was worried, he was worried that he had made a big mistake, he thought that people like the Mo Party would not make drastic moves, and the matter could still be resolved.

He also never thought that after several years of development, the grassroots of the Mexican Party has already developed so many people. Once the Mexican Party unites with those extreme radicals, Mincheng will fall into the hands of these people in an instant.

I sent someone to the party headquarters of the Mexican Party, and the reply I got was: "Because of the bloody conflict last time, many people were killed and injured and the chaos in Mincheng was caused. In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again and maintain the order of Reasonably increased manpower. As for the cannons unloaded from the ship, it is easy to explain. The cannons need to be cleaned, and the sea is prone to rust, which is very reasonable. And the grain transported along the Min River to Min City is Mo The party's consistent charitable actions are also for the purpose of stabilizing food prices and ensuring food supply in Mincheng. If the place is in chaos, Mincheng will also be in chaos."

What he said was so reasonable and impeccable, but the big businessmen, the Maritime Federation, and the factory owners in Mincheng couldn't sit still.

Listening to the street speeches of those extreme radicals every day, the two groups have already stood between each other. At this time, I saw the pickets of the Mexican Party. I thought that I knew this, and I would have agreed to build a county-owned factory to accommodate these low-level petitions. How could such a thing happen?

Seeing that the day of October [-] was approaching and rumors were increasing, these people finally sent representatives to the central party headquarters of the Mexican Party, which they hated the most, and begged the two parties to sit down and have a good talk.

But after the incident, the Mexican party never took the initiative to contact those factory owners and big businessmen, and kept making some comments that made the other party feel extremely uncomfortable, deeply exposing how they exploited them.

However, the more this is the case, these people chose to take the initiative to walk into the central party headquarters of the Mexican Party.

Asking for help is always easy to be rejected.Sitting at home and waiting for someone to come forward, many things are much easier to talk about.

But this is not waiting, but using various means to win, the harder the scolding and the more aggressive the performance, the easier it is for the other party to take the initiative to contact.If you wait in vain, you can only wait for a big mouth like the last petition to slap your face and tell you what the freedom to starve to death is.

Chapter 35 Dominance (Thirteen)