From Chief to Ball

"Thinking about it now, he was just waiting for an opportunity. He waited for eight years. Not to mention pretending to be crazy, it just made people think that he was out of energy, and no one would care that such a mangy dog ​​would take revenge. He and The younger sister grew up dependent on each other, and it is estimated that she is holding her last breath."

"Let's just kill him. The wealthy households are all relatives, and his sister's life will not be easy. I'm sorry for his sister. Don't kill him. I'm sorry for my wife."

"It lasted eight years. I guess he thought about it. He lied to himself that he didn't want to take revenge, but he was afraid that his sister would not be able to survive. Anyway, if he lived like this, he would definitely die before his sister. When the time comes, Hun'er Seeing his woman, it’s easy to talk about why he didn’t do it. Who would have thought that his sister was dead, and the other side was not vigilant, so he did it.”

"It was not good to do it back then. If someone beat him up, the sheriff would take him away and clean him up. Whether he can come back alive is two different things. Besides, there are thugs at home. Even if they fight, they can afford it. Even if the sheriff If it is done impartially, at most it will be two years of hard labor, and the thugs will come back after paying some money, but he can't."

"Sleeping the tenant's daughter-in-law is a matter of your own will from a legal point of view. From a national law point of view, no one is forcing anyone, it is your own will. If a woman dies, it is you who find someone to hook the child out with a hook If he died, legally speaking, he can’t be blamed on others.”

"As you said, the law is a tool for the rich to rule the poor. As soon as you say this, I think it makes sense. It sounds reasonable, but it's really unreasonable when you think about it."

"What do you think he could do if he didn't agree? If he didn't have any land to grow, where could he go? To put it bluntly, let alone whether the city can accommodate him to do something, even if he goes to the city, he has to pay for it? Besides You are not allowed to relocate casually, he is not like you, not to mention the tight control over Mincheng, and the shopkeeper of your company has contacts with big figures in Mincheng, not to mention Luyin, salt can be sold, it is really different. "

"Furthermore, the land is in other people's hands, so it's useless to reason. According to the reason, people take advantage of the reason and don't break the law, but are you right if you don't break the law? Whose law is this law? Let’s be reasonable, at the time the Liguo Gold Table said that the interest and land rent should not exceed how much, but the problem is that the land rent is now [-]%, whether you want to rent or not, I’m not forcing you to rent.”

"Speaking of which, I went to the capital city. As long as I declare my situation, I can get an agricultural loan with the lowest interest rate. The problem is that we can still go to the capital city to borrow money without leaving our homes? That's it, now this place I don’t know if there are any.”

After listening to the story, the young man nodded, took out the leather-covered notebook he carried with him and wrote something, then took out a book, flipped through it and said, "That's right, I won't tell the story today, I will tell everyone Let’s read a passage of “Country, Law, and People.” It’s written by the third manager of our company, and it’s quite easy to understand, and it’s not difficult to understand.”

From that day forward, the nights in this grocery store were no longer just about storytelling, but the occasional reading of shallow pamphlets that promoted hatred and injustice.

After the crowd dispersed that night, the new young man in the village wrote a line on a piece of paper that had been prepared for a year.

"Progress has been made. Apply for some silver coins, a hand-operated cotton gin and improved long-staple cotton seeds, an iron honey shaker centrifuge barrel, some potato pumpkin and corn peanut seeds, and send a person who has practiced planting and breeding as soon as possible. Comrade, come here. If possible, please send some short guns for self-defense. Also, hand in the last quarter's turnover and detailed bills. I accidentally broke a bottle of kerosene. deducted from the allowance."

Chapter 88 A young man came to the village ([-])

The picture-scroll-like story came to a temporary halt here.

The young man named Hai Lang did not continue to tell fairy-tale stories such as using his knowledge and strong perseverance to build a new countryside and lead tenant farmers and small farmers to become rich.

There are no fairy tales, only the misery of reality.

Everyone here has heard such a tragic story, and although they sympathize with it, they are no longer easily angry about it.

The atmosphere in the venue was depressing but full of hope.

Depression stems from the sad sentence "It has been like this for more than a hundred years, and everyone is used to it."

Getting used to it is the most terrible depression.

Hope, derived from the story of the lazy man who spent eight years in revenge, is the light of hope for indomitable and rebellious.

The young man with the pseudonym Hailang said this, took a deep breath, looked at Chen Jian who was sitting in the front row below, hesitated for a moment, and finally picked up the simple cardboard party card on the left.

"Chen Jian can be said to be my husband and the guide who led me on this road. I respect him, but I respect our party's pursuit-fairness and justice even more."

"Comrade Chen Jian said the principle of cooperation with the Min County New Council the day before yesterday. I would like to ask him a question: According to the laws of the Min County New Council, is the landlord innocent? If he is innocent, then we Why are we still tossing about? We are tossing and tossing, the standards of justice and fairness are still theirs, why should we work hard? What are we going to do?"

"If the laws in their system are legal, but unreasonable, and we agree with the judgment of the legal system. Then ask, what is the difference between us and those parties who want to strictly observe morality? As long as there is morality, everything will be fine ?”

"We can't change anything. What we do is just tinkering with an old foundation and continuing to reincarnate."

"If today's comrades can't give me an answer, then I don't know if it makes any difference whether I have this party card or not."

In the sudden silence of the venue, Hailang held the party card and said solemnly: "I hope to give an answer today, an answer that allows us to elect the executive committee, so that I know who I should vote for." .”

"If I'm the only one who has such a question, and you don't want to know the answer..."

He unfolded his very precious party card, pointed to a passage on it and said, "Then I have no choice but to light a match and burn everything that is as precious as my life. Because I don't want the words on it to be tarnished!"

For a while, there was chaos in the venue.

The host of the meeting hurriedly shook the copper bell, and a person next to him came forward to accuse: "What are you talking about? What do you think of this place?"

The young man raised his head and said decisively: "What? To be the central party headquarters of the Mexican Party that pursues fairness and justice! I would like to ask Comrade Chen Jian to answer my question face to face. Yes. I request a vote now!"

All eyes in the venue were on Chen Jianjian. The meeting host gave 5 minutes, and the formal vote was made after 5 minutes.

This was something that the entire venue did not expect. The Nan'an factory school that was mentioned as a joke before was one of Chen Jian's absolute direct descendants, which can also be judged from the story told by this young man.No one thought that these people would be the first to attack, and the timing of the questioning and the previous story made it necessary to start arguing at this time when the discussion was originally planned to continue to be postponed.

After 5 minutes of voting, Chen Jian walked onto the podium, looked at the young man beside him who had grown up but hadn't forgotten his original persistence, and really laughed.

"Yes, I don't deny that, according to the basis of the Min County's new council at this time, that person is not guilty, but has moral faults. If we choose to cooperate with the Min County's new council, then it is impossible to formulate a policy that considers this person Criminal law. However, I would like to ask comrades, if we say that the landlord is not morally wrong, but a real village sage, will we not be angry? Will we not oppose it?"

"What is the cause of our opposition? Because of these evils? Or because they hinder the progress of society? Mind you, it is us, our living party, and not passionate, fanatical individuals."

"In the story of Comrade Hailang, this person is bad. However, everyone must make it clear that the reason we oppose these people is not because they are bad. sage’s story, we think we’re wrong?”

"Is our party using morality to judge a class? Is it using morality to judge who to support and who to oppose?"

"Now I would like to ask everyone a question. What is the difference between the new council of Min County that we will cooperate with in the past, other places, and even foreign authorities? The basis for our cooperation with them, or the possibility of cooperation What is the basis of it?"

There was a discussion at the venue, and some people who dared to speak their minds were close to the cruel truth.It is neither morality nor conscience, but a very fundamental interest.

When the various shouted ideas gradually converged, Chen Jian nodded and said: "Yes, many people have already understood what the basis of our cooperation is."

"The basis of our cooperation is that the new council in Min County is the original council in Min City. There are factory owners, workshop owners, handicraftsmen, teachers, lawyers, bankers, directors of Nanyang Company...and us. .”

"How many big landlords are there? How many people are inseparable from the old land system? It can be said that there are very few, at least there are very few in this Mincheng Council disguised as the Minjun Council."

"It's not because of morality, conscience, or because they think it's unfair. It's just because the land issue will not touch the fundamental interests of this council. When we touch on the land issue, we don't need their support. We just need it." They don't object."

"If it is said that this is a council established by the landlords, the scholars trained by the landlord class, and the sons and daughters of the big landlords, then the land issue is their lifeblood, and we don't need to cooperate with them at all, because it is impossible to cooperate. ——Reform and reform, who will take the initiative to cut off their own lifeblood?"

"This largest council based on different interests and classes is the basis on which we can choose to cooperate."

"In other words, one step back in the city is exchanged for two steps forward in the countryside. For those people in Mincheng, they can feel it personally and are grateful. We take two steps forward in the countryside, and they cannot personally feel it. Feel, on the contrary, feel that the stories in the countryside are miserable, and support us from the perspective of moral sense.”

"This kind of foundation determines that there is room for compromise and cooperation, and determines that they are still progressive compared with the old landlords."

"What is this kind of progress? This kind of progress means that when we start to make moves in the countryside, they will not firmly oppose them. As long as they do not touch the foundation of the ownership system they agree with, they will even express their support to a certain extent—no matter what Whether it’s for profit or to gain fame—some people will choose to support it.”

"Since we have chosen to cooperate, what we have to do is not to judge those people on our own basis, but to use our means to make those people no longer have room to exist. Instead of killing them, killing them will soon change The previous group of people became them, but let this class disappear! And this kind of disappearance is a disappearance that does not judge good or bad people."

"The current cooperation does not mean that we have given up our original dream, let alone the future."

However, at the end of these words, the young man with the pseudonym Hai Lang bit his lip and asked: "Comrade Chen Jian, you have said so much, I just want to know one thing... If we cooperate with the new council in Min County, If the landlord rents out the land at a low rent, and then invests his family property in cement factories, metallurgical companies, Nanyang companies, etc., will he make progress?"

"Is it because we cooperate with the new council of Min County, as long as he does what I just said, will he not be punished?"

"I've heard too much progress, now I want to hear justice!"

Asking the question in such detail, Chen Jian had no room to flicker around, and could only say realistically: "If we choose to cooperate, it means that we agree with the ownership system of the Fujian County Council and the resulting The right and the law. Then he will not be punished."

The young man took a deep breath, stared into Chen Jian's eyes and asked, "Please say it again."

"If he chooses to cooperate with the new council, he will not be punished. But..."