From Chief to Ball

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The success of this incident has widened the differences accumulated before.

In view of the current situation and the level of productivity, the MCP was an organization with chaotic ideas and no perfect program when it was established, and now it has developed into an inevitable ideological dispute.

Utopianism, radicals, bourgeois democrats, liberals, groups plotting insurrections, anarchists, reformists, handicraft cooperation groups... All these will develop with the expansion of large workshops and this petition. own principles and ideas.

The so-called program and philosophy are things that treat both symptoms and root causes.

At the beginning, many people can be united for a lofty ideal, but as ideals and reality intertwine, this unity will gradually loosen.

For the same purpose, we can unite, but in the future there will definitely be differences. At that time, we may only shake hands and smile lightly, saying that we will go our separate ways when we see each other on the battlefield.

Some people representing small townspeople and small handicraft industries have expressed their dissatisfaction with Chen Jian's act of strongly opposing the opportunity to encourage small handicraft workers exploited by guilds and contractors to fight for their interests. However, how do you know you will fail?

Those who represent reformists and bourgeois democrats feel uneasy about internal radicals and utopian ideas such as state ownership of land and collective ownership of workshops, expressing difficulty in accepting them and believing that this violates respect for ownership.

And reformists and bourgeois democrats and liberals also have differences.Doctors for headaches and feet are not the solution, what should we do in the future?How can we avoid these situations from happening?Is it representative?Or public participation?Is the central government centralized?Or are the counties decentralized?Where is the limit of freedom?Where are the boundaries of equality?Who will balance?Who will supervise?

In addition to these, those who support Chen Jian expressed their opposition to some utopian absolute averages and asceticism. However, what Chen Jian described was the future, and the utopians were based on reality, so it was difficult to convince.

Even within utopianism, there are serious differences.

Some hope that a government that surpasses the rights of all people will promote some welfare laws and tax distribution; some believe that they should no longer participate in political struggle at this time, but focus on cooperatives and handicraft workshop associations; Some think that some absolute average cooperatives, collective labor, etc. should be established with the Mexican Party as the core; All these problems will be solved...

These signs are gradually maturing, and they are beginning to try to describe the future, hoping to find a way to perfectly solve all these injustices and ugliness.

Based on this situation, someone proposed to hold an enlarged meeting in Mincheng in July this year, and all representatives of grassroots organizations, as well as allies and sympathizers organizations in the capital and other cities should be invited.

In name, it was to celebrate the victory on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

In fact, many people have heard the meaning of it.

Or, these people jointly discuss a program that everyone can accept, and still expand and exist in the form of an organization.

Or, it is impossible to negotiate a program that everyone can accept, but there is consensus on some issues-then the Mexican party is divided internally, and other alliance organizations form a loose party that does not govern each other, but some issues can be negotiated alliance.

Obviously, the first way is impossible to achieve, so there is only the second way to go.

As it was said back then, this is nothing more than a cram school. Theories ferment internally and diverge, and the organizational form grows externally to learn from each other. After the incident on December 24, we learned the boundaries of compromise and resistance. The rest, That is, each station has its own team, each going its own way.

Internal members have realized how ridiculous their previous statement of "better life for everyone" is, and they can only choose to make some people live better, depending on which side they stand on.

Chen Jian just sighed at this proposal. After thinking about it, he finally expressed his support. It might be a good thing. After all, everyone still has a common goal in many places.

The gathering of these people is based on the most basic sympathy, morality, and human kindness in the vulgar sense.

If they are forced together, the political program will either belong to the bourgeoisie or the utopian side of the small handicraft industry, which is determined by the actual situation.

After separation, the boundaries of each can be expanded to incorporate more marginalized people who were previously unable to join under the joint organization.

After confirming this proposal, Chen Jian left Mincheng and returned to Nan'an.

He still has a lot of assigned tasks. Since Nan'an is his base camp and the gathering place of the few mine owners who were the first to accept the petition, Chen Jian needs to go back as soon as possible to organize production and complete the original promise.

It is also necessary to arrange the employment association there, establish and improve the organization due to the sudden increase in the number of people, arrange the employment after the canal is completed, and so on.

In addition to official business, there are a lot of personal matters.

The reshuffle of the canal and the coal industry, uniting some mine owners to squeeze out the rest of the mine owners to extend their hands to the coal mining industry; the counterattack of the cotton textile industry, destroying the cotton spinning guild in Mincheng; the development of new handmade machines for the textile industry and improvement; the road leading to the oil seedling mining area; the establishment of a simple oil refining workshop and so on.

All of this must be completed within half a year or a solid foundation must be laid. Once the enlarged meeting is completed in July, they must go to sea within a year to catch up with the unemployment wave of some cottage industries, so that people here can see a broader perspective. world.

Mincheng wants to become the birthplace of bourgeois revolution, but the current qualifications are not enough.

Not only the birthplace of the bourgeois revolution, but also the birthplace of democracy, freedom, equality, universal love, economics, joint-stock companies, trade unions, shipping insurance, and so on.

Internal thinking has already begun to prepare, new handicraft machines are being produced, but the external environment is still insufficient.

Only by sailing to the unknowable land in the west blocked by mountains and deserts, using the terrain of Mincheng Bay Peninsula to make Mincheng a center for foreign shipping, increase population and wealth, and make the power of the bourgeoisie stronger.

Chapter 157

Just after the New Year, Nan'an County began to get busy, and there were more people with different goals in the streets, restaurants, teahouses or inns.

One day in the first lunar month, Nan'an unknowingly ushered in a special guest from the capital.

Speaking of being a guest, it was not anyone who invited him, but all kinds of strange things that have been reported in Mincheng and Nan'an in recent years.

The guest is a wind collector, a special official who has no real power but is free to travel around the world and has a certain right to speak.

Fengfengguan is an official position that existed hundreds of years ago, and it has not changed as an ancient system.

The main job is to travel all over the north and south of the river, listen to people's sentiments, sort out languages, and collect ballads.

At the beginning of the founding of the Xia Kingdom, the written language was not yet mature, and the languages ​​of various tribes were varied.Whether it is the love between men and women in the late spring, or the dissatisfaction, they are mostly sung in the form of ballads.

It has lasted for hundreds of years, and it can be said that the wind collector is the person who has the most exposure to lewd lyrics and songs by men and women. These are the essence of folk songs and are not forbidden.The more obscene songs like this, the more stable the society is, and they still have the heart to sing these things.

In addition to collecting folk songs, the wind collector also had a task of sorting out the texts from various places.

Writing is a process of gradual development and maturity, and the folk vernacular language changes a lot every hundred years.Words, paper, and movable type printing appeared early, but they could not avoid the self-maturity and evolution of words.

Therefore, the elegant language is inherited from the articles written within a hundred years of the founding of the country. Although they are also vernacular, setting those things as a model for the articles can successfully pass on the official language and eliminate the rest of the language.

The advantage is that many people have developed a way of writing articles because of it. The disadvantage is that since then the text has been a mess, lacking a heavy and simple feeling.

Up to now, the writing has basically matured, and the work of the wind-collecting officer is only to wander around and collect wind from the people, and get in touch with things that are not accessible to the official.

The wind collector came from the capital just to go deep into Min County and Nan'an to see what happened here.

Since the year before last, the county of Nan'an has suddenly become popular in the capital.

Afterwards, the news of the break of the orchid trend spread to the capital, the photography technique spread to the capital, and the weird pamphlets spread to the capital... It seemed that everything was normal, nothing more than something happened in Min County.

But after a while, some things were not Min County's own problems. The so-called East is not bright and the West is bright. news.

When asked about the source, it still came from Nan'an, Fujian County, which aroused the great attention of the capital.

In the beginning, a new machine called cotton gin entered some cotton-producing areas in the north, especially in large cotton-producing areas such as Old Capital and Xinhua City.

It wasn't long before problems arose.Within half a year, cotton gin uprisings, riots, or petitions to smash machines occurred in seven cities.

The fire is in full swing, and the turmoil is the same for a while.The routines reported by the officials were basically the same. The cotton gin appeared, and the cotton gins used by the cotton gin workshops no longer hired so many cotton gins. The cotton gins had nothing to do and no food to eat, so they had to smash the machines.The machines are bought with money, and if they want to lose money, the ginners have no money to pay, so they can only be arrested. If there are too many arrests, they will simply riot.

This kind of shock appeared suddenly, and the effect was immediate. The more meticulous the division of labor and the more developed the handicraft industry, the more serious the situation will be. If the small-scale peasant economy is dominated by men farming and women weaving, it is not easy for such things to happen, and at most it is urban The guilds of many countries united to smash their counterparts who adopted new machines.

This incident, coupled with the various turmoil and rumors in Min County in the past two years, made some people in the capital turn their attention to this southern port county.

But the strangest thing is that there have been more or less cotton gin riots or machine smashing incidents in other counties and counties, but Min County, which is the source of the incident, has not reported such incidents.