From Chief to Ball

It is said that when people are about to die, their words are good. The old man also knows that his time is short, he is getting thinner, his liver is swollen and painful, his appetite is poor, etc. He himself knows that this is a problem caused by playing realgar when he was young, and he also knows There is no cure for this disease, but now I persist every day.He always felt that within a few years, some truths between heaven and earth that he wanted to pursue all his life might be revealed, so for the first time he was a little afraid of death.When you die, you never know everything is empty. After you die, who will tell yourself the things you have thought about all your life?

I am busy with new experiments these days, I don’t see any guests behind closed doors, I keep guarding those glass bottles every day, repeating some things that my disciples accidentally discovered in the workshop, and I suddenly feel a lot of fun.

Although it is said to be behind closed doors, it is not aimed at everyone, some people still have to see.For example, a fellow of the mathematics department in the academy came in a hurry, and Mr. Mu had no choice but to put down what he was doing.

Straight to the point, there are not many courtesies on the other side.

"Old Mu, is that Chen Jian your disciple?"

Mr. Mu frowned and said, "That's right, don't many people say that I have accepted a disciple by mistake? Why, you people who are good at math also want to trouble my disciple?"

The person who came shook his head and said: "I'm not looking for trouble with him, I'm looking for him. A few days ago, I will take the big exam, and there is a child who did well in math. This year's questions are difficult, and it is rare to get a good question, and it is even more rare. It's a girl."

"My disciple is a man."

"Oh, I know."

The old gentleman of the mathematics department was a little impatient, and said: "The key is that the geometry problems this girl did are quite interesting. None of us have seen the process before, and the results are all right. What's more, she stunned a few A geometry problem turned into arithmetic..."

He thought for a while and explained: "It's like... yes, it's like a person in your school said that she can turn water into gold. The problem is that she did it, and after we finished it, we found that this method really works. .Because the name is vague, we waited for a long time to find this girl, knowing that this girl came from Fujian."

Mr. Mu laughed and said, "Is it Lin Xi?"

"you know?"

"A few days ago, they sent me some money to recruit craftsmen to make balances, and some small gifts, which I said were sent by my disciple in Mincheng."

"That's her, that's right. When we found her, she drew us something called coordinates. She wrote out circles and ellipses in arithmetic formulas. You need to know how to combine geometry and arithmetic. How hard is it to be together?"

"At that time, I felt that this thing was really interesting and profound. If it could be made into a system, some difficult problems might be solved now, and many things would be much simpler. After listening to the girl talk for a few days, she was very generous. She is not cowardly and has a clear mind, so I thought of directly recommending her to enter Gong Xue, which counts as a subject. But people told me directly that she was going to study agriculture, and when I looked at the books piled up in her room, I knew It's useless to persuade."

"Fortunately, she said that someone else taught her these things. I thought it was just right, but when she said her name, I felt familiar. This year, my ears are so callused, and she is from Min County again. Isn't that you?" disciple?"

The math subject sighed and said, "That's great. One went to study agriculture, and the other made you a disciple. Old Mu, when will your disciple come to the capital?"

Mr. Mu looked at the snow that was about to melt outside, and said with a smile: "Soon, soon. Isn't spring coming? When spring comes, he will come."

"Do you think it's possible that he actually likes arithmetic?"

"Learning is endless. The more you learn, the less you know. He knows his own strengths, so he found me first instead of sending some coordinates to your desk. Another thing, my disciple speaks out of words, and I Just ask, is it possible to make money by learning arithmetic?"

The old man knew it was a joke, and the two of them knew each other well, so he mocked, "At least live long."

The two old men looked at each other, raised their heads and laughed.

Chapter 77 Embarkation

Winter goes and spring comes, another year.

Before Chen Jian piled up all the experimental equipment on the ship and prepared to go north, the newly established Mexican party had already completed its first internal meeting.

For several years, Chen Jian carefully studied this ethnic group and this so-called republic.At its root, it is nothing more than an aristocratic and oligarchic republic in the name of a republic.

With the end of the large-scale war, and the extremely unreasonable number of council members and the election system, the real control of real power has been reduced to the secret rule of dozens of families.It's just a union of aristocrats in the name of the republic, without bloodlines and holy aristocratic family nepotism.

That is to say, there is enough land, and the population is still too small for five or six hundred years. With the support of iron smelting and agricultural technology progress, there has not been an extremely acute contradiction for the time being.

This trend of oligarchy and regentrification is still going on. Chen Jian speculates that if the fog cannot be overcome and there is no rapid technological progress, civil war will break out in a short time.

Using the support of the bottom to proclaim the emperor to ease the conflict between the big clan and the bottom may be a kind of progress in the case of technological stagnation, and there is already such a trend now.

In the final analysis, from the beginning, it was just to leave a non-imperial model and thought.However, to a certain extent, the system of God is not necessarily inferior to the pseudo-republic. The elected emperor still has a great foundation for existence, and the power of the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie is not enough to have an overwhelming advantage.

What the future should be like, no one knows.Except for Chen Jian who is convinced that there is a vast world beyond the fog, and that the progress brought about by technology and foreign colonization can ease the contradictions, no one believes it.Because it hasn't been proven yet.

Under such circumstances, the newly established Mexican Party has actually started the countdown to splitting from the very beginning of its establishment.

This can't be a strict organization, and all kinds of people join in with different purposes.

There are visionaries of the handicraft age, anarchist self-government faction, centralized control and heavy taxation faction, and entertainment faction who regard this party as a loose discussion group.

There were a total of 280 seven people. After seven days of meetings, 94 people withdrew and formed various loose organizations, completely breaking up.

The times determined what Chen Jian would say, and it also determined that if a civil war broke out in the future, it would inevitably be a war for the bourgeoisie to seize power, so he knew whose side he should be on.

At the seven-day meeting, Chen Jian borrowed the statement about human nature to pursue self-interest from the pamphlet mailed from the capital, and set the weird tone within the party, which was skewed beyond the horizon.

At this time, there is no relative overproduction, so there is no need to bring up some things at all. On the contrary, we must firmly support the laissez-faire bourgeois ideology with the aim of relative overproduction.

He didn't know much about these things, so he could only put forward a general idea, set the tone and discuss slowly.But since it is an enlightenment or beginning, it can naturally persuade many people to support it.

He said that people pursue self-interest and are full of rationality, so countless rational individuals pursuing self-interest will naturally expand their capital production to pursue more interests, so the total amount of social wealth in this case is ever increasing.

New machines and new technologies are all driving this forward.It is also the most important way to increase social wealth.Only when there is enough social wealth can the overall living standard rise and benefit everyone.

Temporary unemployment and bankruptcy brought about by new technologies are the necessary price for social progress. We must believe that in the existence of rational selfish people, self-regulation is possible.

The so-called mutual love and mutual benefit cannot be counted on a person's kindness, but should be counted on him to pursue self-interest and rationally consider his own self-interest.For example, a farmer who grows wheat should not expect him to give flour to others out of kindness, but hope that he will expand the planting area and production out of his own self-interest. Maybe his original intention is to make money for himself, but objectively Increased the amount of wheat...

As for the charity business company itself, Chen Jian said that if the bottom is completely desperate and difficult to survive and resists, it will cost more, so charity itself is a long-term, rational selfishness of the rich.

At the same time, in order to attract the middle and lower classes, Chen Jian also proposed to expand the voting rights, and to give symbolic unemployment compensation and work-related death compensation for the secondary distribution of national tax revenue.It is required to improve the education system, expand the power of the council, and the council has the qualifications to elect some political officials and so on.

He also put forward the saying that little by little progress is made by every step, starting from Min County to carry out some utopian attempts to improve the society of petty bourgeoisie such as cooperatives.

This is a hodgepodge, and in the future these ideas may hate each other and blame each other.

But looking at it now, all of these are progressive and can attract many fans.

Classical freedom cannot coexist with secondary distribution and welfare improvement, and they are heresies; the utopia of the handicraft era and large industrial capital hate each other, and it is difficult to integrate.

But at a time when the bourgeoisie is as vulnerable as its twin, it is this hodgepodge that can find the broadest support.

Moreover, these new concepts also need to be perfected by future generations. He is just a beginning and introduces these concepts into it.

As for when this party will split, that is not a question for him to consider. When it splits, it must be so strong that any branch that splits out will be a political force that can affect the whole country.

It's too early to think about all this, it just takes an organization trying to come up with a few theories.When the water power plant and the textile industry revolutionize technology, they have the right to explain, so as not to be affected by the movement of destroying machines, and there is no set of rational explanations for being caught off guard.

Similarly, in order to gain the support of the emerging bourgeoisie, Chen Jian decisively used a set of fallacies to curry favor with them and paralyze the bottom at the same time: it is meaningless for a single workshop to strike and demand wages, only a broad organization can win votes. Rights, amending laws and raising the minimum wage are feasible, and as far as possible let the lower class have illusions that their suffering can be solved as long as they get the right to vote.

These chaotic and deceptive theories are just in line with this ignorant youth group, and also in line with the composition of the organization: petty bourgeoisie, workshop owners, some employees with a good standard of living in monopoly industries, citizens, handicraftsmen, idealism youth.

When the fog comes out in the future, colonization begins, and new machines are used, new beneficiaries such as maritime merchants, navy, and large factory owners will also join.They will be rich by then, so they need a political party to help them grab political power and give them the legitimacy to govern.

As for the hired workers and the real bottom, that is not yet a political force that can make its own voice, and there is still a steam engine before they enter the field.

After seven days of bitter debate and the withdrawal of a third of its members, there is tentative agreement within the party.