From Chief to Ball

"Everyone is mortal, and no one can escape, so you can die right now?"

After the fierce rhetoric, in exchange for angry laughter from both sides, the representatives of the factory owners finally sat down seriously and looked through the various solutions on those papers, and began to bargain on some issues. This is a good start .

Two days later, after secret negotiations between the factory owners and some people from the Nanyang Company, the text after bargaining was returned to the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party. After the discussion, the two parties secretly reached a series of agreements.

After obtaining the compromise and approval of the factory owners and the Nanyang Company, the Mexican party, which had been silent for a long time, was like a poisonous snake waking up in spring, and quickly became active.

Send people and small handicraftsmen in the weaving industry who are least impacted by machines and have not yet appeared hydraulic machinery or animal-powered machinery to carry out propaganda. The Mexican party takes the lead in establishing a cooperative of new wide-width looms, and a small bank established by the Mexican party. Low-interest loans are still taken the same way as a few years ago, but funds are more abundant at this time.

Among the cotton spinning industry, the loom has the least change. Compared with the ginning, spinning, and twisting industries, the loom has only increased the width at most. There is basically no big difference whether it is a factory or its own handicraft industry. , the only difference is the bargaining power and the cost of buying cotton yarn.

First pull these people out of the small handicraft alliances of the cotton spinning industry that are facing the impact of machines, and they are divided and disintegrated. Moreover, due to a large number of smuggled exports, the life of the weaving industry in recent years is far better than being forced to gradually go bankrupt spinning industry.

They are all small handicraftsmen, but the disparity in their circumstances at this time makes their alliance extremely loose, and they can be divided with a little provocation, especially when the price of cotton yarn fluctuates sharply and there is a price war. More moisturizing.The guild has been wiped out, and there is no danger of machine competition for the time being, so of course they are unwilling to retreat.

Enjoying free labor and fair trade, the cooperatives satisfied them and immediately withdrew from the Federation of Craftsmen.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of free handicraftsmen were recruited at the cost of free boat tickets and a part of the food tokens of the Great Deserted City.

After promising to go to the Great Deserted City, these free handicraftsmen can obtain the citizenship of the Great Deserted City without having to work in the Great Deserted City for four years, and can freely open their own handicraft shops in the Great Deserted City and its vicinity, exempting them from public affairs for three years taxes and fees.

These handicraftsmen are exactly the group of free people that the Great Deserted City urgently needs after it prepares to use force to dismantle the nearby slavery city-states. The generous policies and the infrastructure and food security that the first batch of settlers in the Great Deserted City spent several years completing have made the people there The living conditions are not too bad.

The only requirement is to declare that they do not support the old-fashioned and backward programs, completely get rid of the Handicrafts Union, and vote for the Mexican Party when the new council is elected.At least, there is no second organization that can offer such generous conditions, and no second organization has such a world that has been built but lacks handicraftsmen.

In this way, a part of handicraftsmen were differentiated, and the confidence and momentum of the conservatives were greatly damaged.Some people began to waver, while others thought that they could take a boat to the Great Deserted City, stay away from this land where life and death were uncertain, and escape possible chaos and future disputes.

This is their consistent habit and consistent choice.

Then the street activists of the Mexican Party took to the streets, under the armed guard of the pickets, talked with those at the bottom who had been led by the radicals before, and publicized the solution proposed by the Mexican Party: a small amount of money was provided by the factory owners and the Nanyang Company. Part of the taxes and fees, the abolition of relief, the establishment of county-owned factories to carry out labor, during the labor can be issued to the circulation banknotes of Dahuangcheng, and if conditions permit, they can go to Dahuangcheng to obtain the right to use a large piece of land.

In addition, some paintings of harvest scenes in the Great Deserted City and a novel describing life in the Great Deserted City were read to these people, and some letters sent back from the Great Deserted City also described some life that sounded extremely beautiful.

Under the paralysis filled with the future, the base of the extreme radicals suddenly turned to the Mexican Party.Compared with a small piece of land, the life depicted here in Dahuangcheng seems to be better, and after all, the Mo party still has a very high prestige and reputation, as well as money and the strength to do this, and most importantly, it does not need to use To exchange blood, you only need to exchange sweat for a future that may exist.

...After obtaining the compromise and alliance of the factory owners, the more detailed agenda for the selection of the council of the Mexican party has not yet been publicized, but just these few very real things, within two days, the situation in Mincheng has undergone tremendous changes. The change.

The Mexican party has always had a history of creating voting rights, creating divisions among small producers, grabbing the voting rights of neutral or extreme radicals at the bottom, allowing factory owners to actively choose to negotiate and compromise, and use party assets to control Some special factories in the country carry out economic oppression to force some neutrals to support...

The political change and voting power change that the Mexican Party wants is because the ordinary citizens saw that the Mexican Party voted against the "Prohibition of New Hydraulic Workshop Act" and proposed it on their own initiative, in order to pass this bill in the future.

For those who contributed to the flames behind the scenes, it was shooting themselves in the foot. They wanted to use small citizens to destroy the gradually developing machine workshops so that they did not have to come forward.But now it seems that according to the actions of the Mo Party, I am afraid that they will lose even the minimum veto right in the new meeting...

For the Mexican party, this reform of voting rights is what they want, and it is the only one that can support the fanatical demands of small citizens and can form an alliance to maintain it.Although it is still a grade-proportional system, at least the bottom one counts.

All that remains is to find a way to win over the small citizens so that they can get some kind of compensation bill.In order to allow them to take a firm stand on the issue of voting rights reform, and when necessary, together oppose the retrogression and reaction of the bourgeoisie and the old class that were briefly united at this time on the issue of voting rights.

Chapter 37 Program

If the small citizens want to support the issue of voting rights, they must safeguard their vital interests.

The petty citizens who were born out of the old era are extremely exquisite. To sum it up, they hate officials and riches, and at the same time they hate farmers, poor and hired workers.

However, at both ends of the production relationship in the new era, especially in places like Mincheng where the power of big families is scarce, the two groups of people are mostly born from small citizens.One step further is the factory owner, and one step back is the proletarian worker.

The bourgeois say that free competition is good, but you petty bourgeois are destroyed because you cannot adapt to the times.Small townspeople think this is unfair, and we should establish an absolutely fair labor exchange, a beautiful society where full labor is exchanged for full consumption, so you big bourgeois should give us a fair competitive environment morally and morally.

The employment class said that public ownership should be used to solve the problem, and it is the public ownership of the means of production rather than property. Only in this way can full labor be exchanged for full consumption. Relying on morality and morality will not work.Small citizens trembled when they heard the word public ownership, and believed that this would deprive them of the channel to rise through "hard work", and cut off their sense of superiority when they looked at the bottom with pity when they were able to get by. Part of the property on the upper floor but the ownership cannot be changed.

That being the case, in order to obtain the continuation and support of the most progressive issue of voting rights in this chaos, we have to consider the attitudes of these petty citizens, and must be closely related to them, otherwise it will be difficult to sustain.

If you want to deal with it, you can only find a way from the investment funds of the county-owned factories.

Small citizens have a warm and compassionate heart, which is their progressive nature.But as soon as the price of this mercy is taxed from them, they will object.In a word, I pity them, but don't try to take money from me to pity them. As for what to do, it has nothing to do with us, but we pity them and hope their lives will improve.

The big bourgeois also have their own considerations for investing in county-owned factories.It would be best if, like the poll tax, each class with a certain consumption power should collect a certain amount of tax.

It is robbing the poor and helping the poor that can also cause hatred and conflicts between the petty bourgeoisie and the bottom, turning that bit of compassion into a dispute of vital interests.

If possible, it is best to collect taxes from the countryside, and collect taxes from the self-cultivating farmers to feed the low-level hired workers in the cities, so that when there are riots in the cities in the future, the self-cultivating farmers can be directly suppressed.

In this way, the factory owners have reached a secret agreement with the Mexican party. At this time, the Mexican party no longer needs to compromise with them, but instead work with the small citizens to stab the factory owners and big businessmen.

When negotiating with factory owners and big businessmen, they left a hole where the money would come from, and spread rumors that they wanted to collect money from small citizens and farmers to buy the bottom, so that small citizens still insisted on voting even though they knew their demands had failed. change of rights.

If you don't even strive for this biggest progress, the Mexican party can only choose to clean up the party and split, kill all the progressives, democrats and bottom-level factions in the party, kneel and lick the capital groups, and perfectly fight with the big factory owners Big businessmen formed an interest group and transformed into a liberal capitalist political party, only opposing feudalism, big families, bureaucratic capital, old rights and not capitalists.

In the more than a month since the chaos at the beginning of the uprising to now when the Mexican party has regained the dominance of the grassroots movement, many of the actions of the Mexican party are not so upright. Combined.

However, there is no way to do this. Any change will touch the interests of too many people, and it is impossible to achieve this process without bloodshed or conflict.

Just like the proposal of the county-owned factories before, the factory owners and big businessmen disagreed, and they still shouted that this is freedom. They didn't know how to save their lives at all, and they didn't realize the counterattack of the old forces.

Since this is the case, there is no other way. The Mexican party can only send people, money and guns, and by the way, publish a few sets of pamphlets on how to seize power and build barricades. and extreme radicals to frighten the factory owners and big businessmen.

Wait until the factory owners compromise and then return the core interests of the petty citizens to the guilds and smash the machines to petition for sale, support the petty bourgeois reform of voting rights that are only incidental benefits, and turn those at the bottom who were not considered human beings in terms of voting rights into human beings. , Expand the right to speak and the basic market.

It can only be won by fighting for rights, and one's compromise and begging for alms can only be exchanged for slaps in the face again and again.

Just like the story of Mozi saving Song Dynasty, if Mozi hadn’t sent [-] disciples to the city of Song State early, but only prepared to persuade the king of Chu by reasoning...there would be no soul-stirring story of Mozi saving Song Dynasty In that case, it is estimated that only such a last word can be left in the history books: "Zhai Zhiying, defending and attacking Song unrighteousness, Wang Nu, cooking".

Although what they have won at this time is not the ultimate goal of the Mexican party, but based on the future, they still rely on the program that is relatively complete compared with other parties to start fighting for the most important reform in the past hundred years of the Republic.

Relying on the grassroots organization, good reputation, the picket team that can prove its strength, and the huge amount of money that Chen Jian handed over the ownership of the party property, the series of agreements reached behind it helped the emerging capitalists eight years in advance. The big hole buried by the yellow robe and the body... The Mexican Party, which only maintained order in the early stage and even seemed to have given up its dominance this time, began to exert its strength ten days before the election of a new council on October [-].

The perfect program began to propose that it would draw all the forces that were progressive against the old forces such as the feudal remnants and powerful families to its side, and clearly proposed to establish a society that was more in line with the times, loyal to the Republic, committed to maintaining the integrity of the Republic, and respecting the principles of the Republic. Under the premise of taxes, duties and officials, it is more conducive to the new council program of the people of Min County.

The first article in all programs is to be loyal to the Republic, maintain the integrity of the Republic, recognize the unchangeable taxes agreed by the Council of the Republic and its king, and once the Republic is invaded, the people of Min County will fulfill the obligations of the people of the country.

This one is to ensure that the forces in the north can't find an excuse to suppress the bright fire of capitalist bean sprouts. Except for Chen Jian going north to incite the families in the north to divert their attention and interests elsewhere, the Republic has no absolute power at this time. Repression is also an important factor.

Min County has been preparing for this day since Chen Jian started making troubles ten years ago.Before the large-scale order of a large number of firearms by Nanyang Company, Chen Jian had already spent a lot of money to establish a firearms workshop, and the quantity produced in these years was definitely not small.

The warships and trainee system of Nanyang Company, together with the fleet of Dahuangcheng, can guarantee Mincheng's naval superiority.The advancement of mathematics and physics, and the mass training of new schools can ensure that there are better artillery than the military academy in the capital.

At this time, the best choice for the old forces in the north is to catch up, rebuild the backbone of officers mainly composed of wealthy farmers and family forces, and retrain the self-cultivating cavalry that have been abandoned after the end of the unification war. This will take time.At this time, choosing to turn your face is not the best choice in terms of morality and strength.

As far as Mincheng is concerned, even if the new council can try to use legal robbing of the rich and helping the poor to create a slightly better life for the bottom of Mincheng, it is impossible to give birth to an independent trend of thought.

On the one hand, the long-term unified foundation and cultural tradition have not provided the soil for the survival of independent thoughts.

On the other hand, the last thing industrial capitalists and maritime merchants want is to split up. To open up colonies and maintain colonies requires a lot of capital investment. It is their interest to maintain a common, tax-free republic with a huge market.

At the Chinese people's meeting for establishing Nanyang Company a few years ago, Chen Jian had already planted a nail.

Since then, some capitalists and plantation operators in Min County have had a rift with some families in the north.Because those rules, such as monopoly rights, prohibition of food imports under the non-statutory famine, sugar cane not crossing rivers, prohibition of migration, and tariffs on overseas raw materials, have made this group of interest groups with growing appetites dissatisfied, not to mention independence and the like. Weird idea.

At the beginning, it was to compromise and take care of the north to prevent it from competing with the people for profit, but in fact it was secretly provoking the determination of the new capital group that was about to be formed to completely break the shackles of the old era. will be plenty.