From Chief to Ball

"It's really too much, but it's also the price increase caused by speculation. Can the speed of production catch up with the speed of silver's increase and depreciation? For the time being, it's impossible to catch up in Mincheng."

"A silver coin, placed 30 years ago, gave him 20.00% interest, and he would choose to borrow."

"A silver coin, put it in the current Mincheng, and give him 20.00% interest, he will hesitate. It needs to see if there is a good investment direction."

"One silver coin, put it in the current Mincheng, give him 20.00% interest, but the loan period is ten years, he will definitely object."

"Why are they all 20.00%, there are different choices? Leaving aside the issue of yield, the grain that can be bought with one silver coin now will be the same as the grain that can be bought ten years later according to the trend of silver continuing to flow here Is it the same amount?"

"Prices are rising, operating profits are increasing, and we are forcing the interest rate to remain at 20.00%. Where will the rural money go?"

“Should we continue to borrow rent interest? Or choose to operate independently, hire agricultural laborers, and improve the land? Especially in the case of rising raw material and food prices.”

"This is a frog boiled in warm water. It is impossible for those people to understand it all at once, but under the guidance of the overall flow, it must be heading in this direction."

"We must be clear that sharecroppers and small farmers are just our fellow travelers, but the ultimate agricultural laborers are our real base. The large-scale land labor system is only one step away from collective farms."

"A large number of tenant farmers who will be forced to quit their tenants in the future, or those who quit their tenants due to profit-seeking, some of them can be converted into agricultural employees, and the other part of our work can be focused on the direction of immigration in the Great Deserted City."

"The Great Deserted City has been under construction for a long time, and has enough foundation and food reserves to support mass immigration."

"From the perspective of profitability, the current prices in Europe are also skyrocketing with the increase in silver. If Europe fights, food prices will still rise. The Great Wilderness is closer to Europe and the cost of transportation is lower than here. The internal banknote system of the Great Wilderness And it will secure our access to European silver."

"Our investment in the Great Deserted City—it can finally be said that it is time to pay off, and it is no longer a bottomless pit. Then we can invest more in immigration, which is always felt to be insufficient in our budget. Lost land pressure, and can continue to make profits which in turn support our various work here.”

"Supposing that five years from now, our policies in the countryside have won a lot of support from the grassroots, and some rentier landlords have converted to self-management, then we can proceed to the next step, forcing the remaining conservative landlords to use semi-coercive means They walk into the capital system."

"Compulsory redemption, pay some interest in installments, it seems that we are listening to reason, in fact, the price is rising, with silver as currency, it is hard to say whether the interest can catch up with the speed of price rise."

"Five or ten years later, if we have made a breakthrough in scientific and practical technology research, or have a foundation in metallurgical and mineral resources and are ready to continue investing, then we can give the redeemed a certain priority, or force them to use dividends as capital." Money for redemption - we don't give cash, who knows where they will invest it if we give it, we force it into stocks, anyway, our money has to be invested in the company, and by the way, we can force them into the capitalist system .”

"Our goal is to disintegrate the personal control system of tenant interest. The rural areas are either self-cultivated farmers, farms operated by capital, or cooperative land bought by our party property."

"Only in this way can we fundamentally decipher those stories that sound angry. Otherwise, relying on justice, who can maintain a sense of justice forever? How many people will be saviors purely for justice?"

"Of course, there may be other tragic stories under the new system. That's another matter, and it's something to be solved in the future."

Chapter 90 A young man came to the village (end)

Taking a brief glance at the young man who was still sulking in the corner, and then looking at the rest of the young men who were a little impatient about the new injustice that Chen Jian said would happen again, Chen Jian was as calm as possible.

"Before Comrade Hailang talked about how he met and integrated into our big family, then I will talk about how our big family is constantly separated."

"Practicing the justice in my heart is a kind of progress."

"But the consequences of progress are not necessarily just."

"The Old Mexican Party split into a loose progressive alliance. Before the split, the reason why so many people gathered together was because of the sense of justice in their hearts. Therefore, after the split, it is still called the Progressive Alliance because justice is a kind of progress."

"However, when ideological debates and contention among the three religions, nine streams, and hundreds of schools of thought first appeared, differences began to emerge on how to practice justice. I can say that according to the good and the bad, most people who joined the Progressive League at the beginning were divided according to this classification. Laws are good people."

"However, it is precisely because we do not distinguish between good and bad, so we split into the Progressive Alliance, and then completely disbanded and stopped activities because of their respective disputes."

"That is to say, when our party split in the first place, it chose the two standards of productivity improvement and fairness and justice, not just kindness and morality-then, who is the first of the two standards we chose? ? Who's next?"

"This is a trap, because there is no one who is ahead and who is behind. The ultimate result of progress is that injustice will disappear naturally, rather than relying on the pursuit of abstract moral humanity to achieve final progress."

"Just like the story about the landlord in Hailang, if the land is owned by the whole people, then there is no basis for the story he told us that made us tear up. The basis for this story is that the land belongs to the big landlord. All, while tenant farmers have no means of subsistence other than farming."

"Of course, we can't take that step now, we can only take another stage of the road, so some young people are very unhappy."

"You are not happy, and I am not happy either. I should know better than you what the hydraulic spinning mills in Hegu District are like. Twisted child labor, cheap female workers... That's why we can only build textile factories in Dahuang City, but not in Fujian. The reason why the city doesn’t build too many textile factories—people work [-] hours a day, but we have a [-]-hour work system and work injury compensation and holidays. We’ll lose our underpants in less than a year—yarn If we can’t sell it, it’s just yarn instead of money. Our method determines that the cost of our yarn is much higher than that of other yarn mills, so we don’t build too many of these yarn factories in Mincheng. Some industries that can be monopolized by technology maintain our internal system, forcing us to continuously develop new technologies for our ideals and beliefs."

"You said that after turning into a large farm, wouldn't it be profit-seeking and wages kept down as much as possible? If it weren't for the domestic opposition to the introduction of slaves to grab jobs at the bottom, you would soon see that the large farms in Mincheng are full of black people."

"You say that the bourgeoisie in the city also take pleasure in seducing other people's wives, can also play female workers cheaply, and even send women in batches to a situation where they can be as good as their husbands for money. This is the same as sleeping tenants Does your wife make a difference?"

"Looking at it this way, what's the point of progress? The distance from justice has not been shortened at all, and some places have been stretched further. This is why some people call for the restoration of the patriarchal land and the guild system. Let me put it harshly. In other words, if you meet a good guild leader and a good patriarchal patriarch and village head, the life at the bottom will be better than many factories in Mincheng today."

"Now you can ask any landless person, should they live in the countryside? Or should they wait in the city to sell their labor every day? The answer is obvious."

"I think this problem is the reason why many young people in us are angry, dissatisfied, and even made radical actions. This is understandable, and I am also very glad that you can still uphold a heart of practicing justice and fairness .”

"However, if this trend continues, I think our Mexican party will soon split again - at that time, it will be divided into two factions, one is the future progressive faction; the other is the justice ranger faction."

There was a buzzing sound below. The question Chen Jian mentioned is a doubt that has always existed in many people's minds, especially after the establishment of capitalism and the exposure of various problems, some radicals still have the mentality of good or bad, justice, etc. Young people who are not driven will definitely think, what the hell is this?They are all cannibals, so changing the way of eating is progress?

This reasoning does not make sense, and the Mexican party will inevitably split.

Chen Jian stood on tiptoe, and said in a deep voice: "When I was sailing around the world, I read a poem. Here, I will give it to Comrade Hailang: I have sharpened my sword for ten years, but I have never tried the frost blade. Who will show you today?" Injustice?"

"This is a sword with injustice in mind, okay?"

"it is good."

"Should everyone in our Mexican party hold a frost blade, and we will be there wherever there is injustice? Let's not pursue any social progress, just like those people who go to the market in the countryside. Wherever there is injustice, we will go there. Use the sword to fulfill the justice and fairness in our hearts, okay?"

"not good!"

"I will give you a ten-year sword now, and you go and kill that landlord and divide the land. Revenge is avenged, hatred is gone, justice is fair... Then society will still be like this. It was land annexation, and a new landlord replaced the original position. At that time, were you still alive? Can your children maintain this innocent heart to lift the three-foot sword to make it fair?"

"Practicing justice by killing people with a sword is like holding a bottle of water to put out a fire in the vast northern wilderness."

"To change the social system and make society progress is to cut down the trees in the wilderness, so that there will be no more fire in the mountains."

"We all know that in the future we envision, things like mountains, rivers, land and minerals are owned by the returnees. But how to achieve this step?"

"There are two ways."

"Now it's up to us to revolt. If we want to gain support, we have to divide the land equally, so as to gain the support of tenant farmers and small owner farmers. If they don't share evenly, they will not support it, let alone collective ownership."

"Cooperate with the bourgeoisie now, while reducing rent and interest, let capital penetrate into land management, eliminate the tenancy relationship, and become a completely different management method from the tenancy relationship. Turn the tenants into hired labor, and wait until the future Let’s bring up the ideas of the people of the land country again, and the employees will change from laborers to laborers plus operators, and continue to maintain the model of large land.”

"The latter sounds good, but the key is whether the bourgeoisie is strong? Can it be our ally? Can it cooperate with us to defeat the big families and rentier landlords of the old forces?"

"This needs to be analyzed in detail."

"In Mincheng, it is entirely possible. We have the Great Desolate City to relieve pressure and reclaim land, have a strong bourgeois force, and have a large number of citizens who have been enlightened by our propaganda for nearly ten years as sympathizers. The new council and The land relationship is not very big."

"The bourgeois democrats in Mincheng are still in the most vigorous era. Those young people who have grown up are fighting against the old age with this vitality; the bourgeois liberals, those craftsmen, free weavers, etc., are also willing to Come with us to fight against the old times. The big bourgeoisie still needs our strength, and it is not time to face the gravediggers."

"It seems that there have been uprisings before, but the life of the petty bourgeois weavers is much better than before. The bad thing is only the spinners who were hit. Therefore, a large part of the citizens felt the ugliness and oppression of the old era. But I haven't really felt the competition and filth of the new era."

"They can stand with us and be easily mobilized by their zealotry, welcoming capitalism against the injustices of old times when many industries have not been affected by capital monsters. And wait until they too are eaten At that time, we gained more strength."

"In the north of Wangbei City, this kind of road is absolutely impossible. The land order there is deeply rooted, the bourgeoisie there is weak and powerless, the relationship between the merchants and the land is too deep, and the population there is too large. Land annexation in cities is an uprising of millions of people.”

"Without the upsurge of peasant resistance, it would be impossible for Wangbeicheng to overthrow the old system and win the republic. This upsurge presupposes the most sincere sympathy for the living conditions of the peasants and the strongest hatred for their oppressors and exploiters , At the same time, this kind of sympathy and hatred are produced in turn. This kind of sympathy and hatred determines that only when they oppose all exploitative systems and realize the traditional culture of sages ruling the world and cultivating land, can they overthrow the old system.”