From Chief to Ball

These people didn't rush forward spontaneously in a chaotic manner, but waited here temporarily and formed a team.The number of people gradually increased, and those originally panicked mentality settled down with more and more people.

Panic, already preached by the psychological safety and propaganda teams of many people, has turned into a kind of pride and passion for quelling the rebellion.

Ye Yuanshan stood there, still regarded as a hero by others, but not many people surrounded him.

Those who keep coming, wearing special black armbands or hats made by the Mexican party, are the center of this chaotic crowd.

They are like rotten meat thrown on the ground in groups in summer, surrounded by swarms of flies in the center, seemingly scattered, but if you look closely, you can find that it is an orderly circle instead of a mess. group.

The hoarse orators, some old allies of the Progressive League, were the heart of the chaotic crowd.Constantly changing the dull, venous blood into fiery, bright red blood.

He Yuanshan raised his head, and instead of looking at the place where the gunshots sounded, he turned his gaze to the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party standing farther away.

Near the Sheriff's Mansion, people's lives are pretty good, but they hate those franchisees, contractors, and passionate petty bourgeois young citizens who want the fairness under the old system.

He thought: the first batch of brick and frame houses in Fujian City in the distance, the transformed slums, those gathering everything full of hatred for injustice, were infiltrated by the Mexican party through relief, organizations and community housing like a sieve What would it be like?Are they just singing the republican song of the Chinese people with only passion but no hatred?

Sing the republican song of passion without hatred, and cooperate.

Singing class songs that trace back to their origins is a stranger after all, and they will be suppressed if they have the opportunity in the future.

Chapter 98 The Direction of Anger

Ye Yuanshan's worries are not unreasonable, the real turmoil has not yet come.

In this sudden chaos, the various ideological trends that had flooded before and the special class structure of Fujian City made this sudden flame likely to sweep everything.

And the Mexican party, which held an enlarged meeting more than half a year ago and has the most radical vision for the future, if it does not split in this reform, it will only become a brake instead of an accelerator.

This is the city, not the countryside.

So there is both resentment of the old age and fear of the new age.

Among the citizens who occupy the absolute main force in Mincheng, more than half are small producers, and the number of real proletarians is not large. Those who have just entered the city from the countryside to dig rivers in the shelter factories still prefer the land , It will take a long time to adapt to the new era.

The tax reform that has been discussed in the meeting this time will benefit the most from the small producers, while it will hurt the old franchises and tax packers the most.

And those speculators and food merchants who look ugly have also accumulated enough resentment from the middle and bottom classes in the past ten years.

For small producers, the society they dream of is always fair labor in exchange for fair exchange, and their hatred is more concentrated on those grain merchants, speculators, and those tax-paying franchisees.

All kinds of chaotic taxes and commodity taxes made the small producers who are the main consumers extremely dissatisfied, especially after the economic theory began to analyze the internal problems, the dissatisfaction became deeper and deeper.

Any kind of commodity tax will eventually be added to the price of the commodity. It seems that merchants pay the tax, but in fact it is a large number of consumers, and then these tax packages and franchisees use the tax paid in exchange for privileges and unequal voting rights.

In fact, the land issue and the issue of rent reduction and interest reduction did not cause much resentment in Mincheng. Many landlords living in Mincheng have completed the transformation, and they can obtain some tax exemption rights by donating money. Things didn't affect them much.

The propaganda of the Mexican party even pointed the finger at those who lost their interests in the tax reform without evidence, which is equivalent to directly making the petty bourgeoisie the most angry class and the best in terms of interests. ally.

The same is true for the issue of franchise rights. Many capitals are eagerly looking forward to franchise rights, and even if they can't get them, they hope to be able to compete freely.

The landless people who should have been the most angry and the farmers who flocked to the city, because of the "buying" policy of the Mexican Party, let them temporarily have a subsistence job; employees under the factory system do not even have the right to vote, they can only put their demands on At the same time, for the time being, they are only fighting for the interests of the factory owners. Coupled with the influx of a large number of landless people and the improvement of new machinery, some unskilled workers can do a lot of work, and some employees are busy setting up to resist new workers. Small groups, they are organized but also most likely to be controlled by the Mexican Party.

Therefore, the group of people who are most likely to lose control are the petty bourgeois who are extremely radical and utopian.They have always been passionate, and they also feel the deepest about the tax reform. At the same time, except for some industries in which hydraulic factories compete, the rest of the industries have been doing well in recent years because of trade and other issues, so they are the most angry about the remnants of the old era.

Earning more money, prices are also rising.

If you earn more money, you will naturally think it is the benefit of the new era.

Prices are rising and taxes are not being changed, so it is natural to think that it is a bad remnant of the old days.

In fact, silver inflows, massive exports, increased productivity minus exports cannot keep up with the speed of silver inflows, rural land has not completed capitalist transformation, and agricultural products have not been integrated into the market on the largest scale. This is the reason for the bulk.

But these people may not think so, and it is too far away to think so. It is far easier to push the problem to the tax system and speculators. Of course, their eating habits are indeed too ugly, and they have not yet learned how to eat gracefully.

Anger does not necessarily occur in the poorest and most miserable places.

Anger often occurs in semi-dark places.

The bright place has already been touched, so all good things come to light. Even though many people try their best to make them think rationally, it is difficult to do so.

The dark place has already been felt, so all the bad things are attributed to the darkness, even though many people try their best to tell them that the darkness has always been like this, but the passion and brightness make them want to resist the darkness.

In addition to their personal interests, their unique fanaticism also gave them a romantic temperament of wanting to be a savior, and it gave birth to organizations such as the Justice Radical Youth Association.Of course, their radicalization provided an opportunity for some détente policies of the party.

And the Mexican party has not encountered a real massacre yet, so the moderates, idealists, and naive factions in the party are in groups, and there has not been a massacre to wake them up or kill all the moderates. At the time of death, there is still a chance to continue to improve and become a bourgeois democratic platform until the moment when the butcher's knife comes.

When the three documents signed and sealed by He Yuanshan had just spread to the streets and alleys of Mincheng, the Radical Justice Youth Association, which was banned from legal activities in name because of the violent bomb attack on officials, immediately issued a statement.

"The Radical Justice Youth Club firmly supports the Chinese people in countering the rebellion, and hereby releases a statement."

"If the behind-the-scenes instigators of this rebellion and military coup, even the 'big shots' in the capital, cannot be brought to justice, this association will uphold justice."

"Fight against unjust violence with righteous violence. This association swears to the Tianmeng that if it is verified, its entire family will be killed, and no one will be left behind, so that anyone who has made such actions will be restrained."

"Additionally: This association is responsible for the bombing of the whole family of the landlord surnamed Zhou in the "Record of the Tragic Life of Tenant Peasants" on the [-]th of last month. After investigation, it is true, and it is impossible to escape the trial of justice. It is against the betrayal of justice and the pursuit of the future of a 'scientific society' The New Mexico Party will suspend hostility and work together to quell the rebellion against the Republic."

"But please remember that the provisional committee of the MPC is what the people ultimately pursue, not science."

As soon as this announcement came out, two leaders of the Radical Justice Youth Club who were sentenced to "permanent exile for life" appeared in public, calling on the various parties of the former Progressive Alliance to unite and fight against the armed rebellion that threatened progress.

Under such circumstances, among the seven temporary members of the Mexican Party in Mincheng when the rebellion broke out, except for one who stayed at the Central Party Headquarters to coordinate, one took part of the military backbone to Nan'an, two went to the front line, and the rest The three of them immediately contacted and negotiated with other parties of the original Progressive Alliance in the city.

The battle in the distance was still going on, and the various parties in front of the Sheriff's Mansion and some progressive people in Min City quickly elected the "Emergency Temporary Special Second Council" and made an eight-point program.

"One, immediately seal up the banks in the counties along the coast, and be stationed by temporary bailiffs. It is strictly forbidden for anyone to move precious metals. If the rebellion continues, the gold and silver in the banks will be used to force the purchase of anti-rebellion bonds, with an annual interest rate of 18.00%, and there is no limit to the maximum amount. .”

"Second, immediately block the residences of speculators, tax contractors, tax officials, and franchised merchants, and restrict their activities. Anyone who resists or escapes while taking advantage of the chaos will be regarded as participating in the rebellion and will be detained immediately. If there is resistance Shoot on the spot."

"Third, immediately organize a Chinese anti-insurgency volunteer team and seal off the grain storage at the wharf. During the anti-insurgency period, all grains will be sold at the average grain price of this year and purchased with anti-insurgency bond funds."

"Fourth, set up a picket team during the special period. Anyone who commits robbery, rape, theft, etc. during the rebellion, if caught, will be punished as a rebellion crime and hanged."

"Fifth, anyone who participates in fighting and digging barricades in this counter-insurgency, regardless of their property, can obtain the minimum voting rights of citizens."

"Sixth, all grain stores are not allowed to go on strike during the counter-insurgency period. Anyone who sells more than [-]% of the lowest price this year will be fined by dividing the profit by [-]%."

"Seventh, the ticket-taking futures exchange is temporarily closed, and any transfer of stock futures during the counter-insurgency period will not be recognized."

"Eight, the Military Committee of the Anti-Treason Volunteer Team will be elected later. Where the Military Committee deems it necessary to build barricades, the Military Committee has the right to demolish the houses, and the losses caused will be recorded in the register and compensated at the original price. During the counter-insurgency period, military order, the Military Council is superior to the Sheriff and the Emergency Extraordinary Second Council."

"Ninth, the powers of the Emergency Temporary Special Second Council and the Military Committee of the Anti-Treason Volunteer Team will be automatically lifted when the rebellion is put down, and all the above-mentioned temporary special prohibitions will be lifted together."

The urgently drafted special program was immediately adopted in the place where the citizens gathered through the method of counting votes hundreds of years ago, and it was officially released with the seal of Qi Yuanshan.

Hu Lin, who had been living in seclusion at home a year ago and had been invited by Chen Jian several times but had no further activities, also walked out of his small building, signed his name on the drafted special program, and at the same time took out his own Silver bought counterinsurgency bonds—no bonds, just a piece of paper with a number on it.

He and Chen Jian did not meet. Before these guidelines were drafted, Chen Jian had already taken people to these places.It was not seized, but surveillance was carried out. After the program was drafted and took effect, it was quickly conveyed, and the important places in the program were immediately sealed up.