From Chief to Ball

"If there are saints, that's right. But in reality there are no saints, so this is the biggest mistake. If the assumed conditions are right, it may not be true."

"No, what you say is not right. One cannot be a saint to all. A minimum wage is set, and that is not a saint to the employer; a minimum wage is not set, and it is a saint to the employer, But that's no saint to a hired worker."

"A sage is not a good person. He does not want everyone to say that he is a good person, but seeks to benefit the majority of people. This can be calculated rationally. As long as a good ratio is calculated, it may be successful."

"To benefit the many is to harm the freedom of the few."

"There is always a way to minimize the problem of mutual restraint and to serve the interests of more people."

... As the red candles flickered, these young people continued their previous quarrels, and the confusion of thoughts may continue for a long time. This may be the price of growth.

Chen Jian sat there, respecting everyone's opinions, listening carefully, but didn't say a word.

After a while, someone asked: "Chen Jian, today those people and us are sitting in the left, middle and right. Now it's just a verbal quarrel, what about the future?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "In the future? Debaters just rely on lip service, at most they just punch their fists. But the things hidden behind involve the interests of many people. When there are too many people, fisting may not be enough, so use guns and cannons." Just debate."

Everyone sighed, but they didn't refute. Having experienced the fighting incident in the glass workshop, they are considered to be much more mature, and reasoning is always better than fisting.

Seeing everyone sighing, Chen Jian smiled and said, "What's there to sigh about? Just like today when the seats were lined up, isn't the problem very clear? Most of the people sitting on the left are ruled by the guild rules, officials and guild officials. Repressed merchants, workshop owners, or craftsmen who are skilled but difficult to display. Most of those sitting in the middle are full of food."

"There are many unreasonable things nowadays, for example, real estate votes are too heavy, and guild leaders can be directly recommended into the council. Another example is that the constituency is unreasonable. There are 20 people in Mincheng, and only a few can participate in the national council. However, in some places, the number of people is only a few thousand, but there are the same council members as Mincheng, which leads to many policies that are very unfavorable to workshop owners and craftsmen."

"In this regard, those of us who sit in the middle can actually be regarded as allies with those who sit on the left. Because people who are full of food and have good intentions can't get things done. Those who sit on the left need our help to get what they want. Want, legal rules and parliamentary rights in mind, because they have money but few people."

"Similarly, those of us who sit in the middle have to rely on those who sit on the left. Only by helping the people on the left get the rights and expanding the voting rights can we take advantage of more numbers. After all, supporting the people sitting in the middle is not only enough to eat Most of them are poor hired laborers or small craftsmen.”

"After the people on the left have achieved their goals, it is time for us to part ways with them. The people on the left have achieved their goals, which proves that there are more workshops, and their ideas of freedom have matured. If there are more workshops, there will be more hired workers. Only in this way can we have a stronger force, and we can be qualified to speak out by relying on the number of people. Otherwise, how many employees are there in Mincheng now? It is completely invincible to the temptation of stipulating the maximum amount of land ownership and evenly dividing the land. This is exactly the same as our big workshop. The idea of ​​big farms and then taxing and redistributing legislative subsidies goes against the grain."

"So I suggest that we remain friends with them for the time being, and resist those thoughts of retreating together. As for the future, let's talk about it in the future. It's not about completely surrendering or listening to them, but about dealing with the common enemy. Standing with them, but equally we have our own organization."

"We are not opposed to big workshops or free economics, and we fully support political reform and parliamentary reform, but we must fight for our interests on this basis. It is easy to lose our own principles. So we still have to spend a few years to perfect our own principles."

"Prior to this, improving the theory, expanding publicity, changing the law, and fighting for the right to vote and speak are the top priorities. Only with the support of these conditions can we make suggestions and pass them through legal means. We There will be more and more people.”

"How about this, let's call the members in the capital together tomorrow, let's discuss it and vote. If you agree, it will be considered as the tone set after this trip to the capital, and we will discuss it when we return to Mincheng."

Everyone discussed in low voices for a while, and they all agreed with this statement, expressing their agreement with Chen Jian's opinion.

It was getting late, everyone talked for a while and they all yawned, and they were about to go to sleep.

Before everyone left, Chen Jian said suddenly: "Everyone, there is one more thing. The party's financial system has taken shape and is gradually improving. I want to resign as a finance committee member. Let me talk to everyone first."

"It's not that I'm evading my responsibilities and tasks, but there are more important things. Since we want to improve the living environment of the employees, I am the owner of the workshop with the largest number of employees in Mincheng, so naturally we have to start from me. Various regulations , appeals, and improvements, we also need to try to sort them out from here, thinking that we will enrich our foundation in the future. In principle, I should avoid suspicion, but there is no suitable candidate. So I recommend myself to be mainly responsible for this work.”

"This is a place where problems can easily arise, especially since our current thinking is still very naive and confusing. It is difficult to define cooperation and compromise, struggle and confrontation."

"This is the first attempt of this kind, and I know the bottom line of the workshop owner. I hope that everyone can pay attention to my opinion on this matter, base on reality, move forward slowly, and don't go too fast. Especially me It is not recommended that some comrades with extremely radical ideas do this, and I hope to get everyone's support and approval on this point."

This is just a suggestion, not an opinion on a formal occasion, especially since most of the people here agree with Chen Jian.After the crowd dispersed, Chen Jian held Hu Lin back and finally had a chance to talk about something personal.

"Brother Zhu, who is that girl at the banquet today?"

"Lan Qi. My ancestors followed Ji Xia in the conquest after the second battle of Spring Valley, and were named Viscount, with the surname Lan. Later..."

Chen Jian recalled the events that sounded long ago but he had personally experienced, and suddenly said: "It turned out to be his house."

Hu Lin thought that Chen Jian was reminiscing about the things that happened later that many people knew, but he didn't know that Chen Jian was recalling the forgotten things that happened before, so he shook his head with a smile.

Chapter 1 and Six Features

A month and a half later.

The athletic conference in the capital city was in full swing, setting off a carnival for the capital city; the ten-week school called the Youth House, where young people vent their political enthusiasm, also began to have more people participate in it; When it was printed, Chen Jian paid to subsidize it, and the price was low, and there were many purchases; the place where glass and new technology were originally exhibited and sold was rented by Chen Jian, and thousands of silver coins were invested to turn it into a simple children's amusement park. The annual fair prepares the grounds.

The authorities are very smart and understand the principle that blocking is worse than slacking off. It is much better to create small riots, trends of thought, and debates from time to time than to keep suppressing until the consequences are out of control.

The government's spies have also begun to penetrate into these young people, and began to monitor the thoughts of these people, but they have not banned them.

Now there are rudiments of classical political economy and Enlightenment thought, but there is still a long way to go before a complete and detailed theory can be sorted out, and it will take more than ten years to conceive.

Without this, there is no way to stand for the advancement of the bourgeoisie and the superiority of capitalism.

Labor, division of labor, production, distribution, circulation, reproduction, these things, in a certain extreme sense, are more or less like the doctrine of destiny or theism, which can be regarded as a platform for legitimacy-you are the emperor because of the destiny, and you are the king Aristocracy is God's will, and we come to power to engage in capitalism because we are more advanced and can argue.

Of course it is not so shallow, but it is also an indispensable layer of clothing.

Including a series of freedom, human rights, equality, etc., while defending the tradition, they try to use "reason" to explain the republican tradition and the distribution of rights.

This is inseparable from the progress of science. Whether economics is science or not is a matter of confusion, but if there is no recognition and pursuit of science, it is impossible to use "reason" or rationality to explain the laws of society and wealth , leading to the conclusion that many of today's old things have hindered the growth of wealth.

Together with the previous experiments in the academy and the exhibitions in front of people, it was like a bright comet, suddenly making the capital bustling and complicated.

Such a bustling and complicated capital did not keep Chen Jian. At this time, he had already set foot on the sea route back to Min City with many people.

When he came, he was just a disciple of the academy and a workshop owner in Nan'an County, Fujian City.

When I went back, there were already some differences.

First, under the auspices of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Jian left his name on the Shrine of the Immortals in recognition of some of his contributions.

Not the youngest person to be named in history, but the youngest in the past few decades, which caused a sensation, and it was taken for granted.

The real ancestral temple is far away in the old capital. In order to suppress the old nobles of Hou Boguo, and to break the plutocratic family that has lasted for many years, the capital was moved to the new capital. A ancestral hall was also built in the new capital, and Chen Jian was not allowed to visit his old place again. Opportunity.

Wearing a brass badge on his chest that he designed a long time ago, this is a great honor. He can brag about it for a lifetime and even have the opportunity to be buried in the cemetery of the old capital after death——Before the system collapsed, many Hou Bo countries After the death of the rulers, they were also buried in the old capital.

In addition, Mr. Mu Lao and the gentlemen in the academy also gave Chen Jian a big gift.These old gentlemen jointly elected Chen Jian as Mr. Xuegong.

Mr. is Mr., from the meaning of teacher to the present, it is widely counted as a title.

As for Mr. Xuegong, it is more like an honorary title or title, which means that he can give lectures and teach in the academy by himself.

To a certain extent, some major projects of the Ministry of Industry need to consult Mr. Xue Gong, who has the right to speak.

Of course, not only natural science or technology, but also academics such as literature and politics, but the total number of people in the whole country is only more than 160, and Chen Jian's age can be regarded as unprecedented.

People in natural sciences, arithmetic, technical craftsmen, etc. have a lot of influence in the Ministry of Industry and the military, but they are far behind in other ministries and belong to the marginal class.

When the name was conferred, it was also the first time for Chen Jian to meet a big shot in this world, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, a real figure in the high-level decision-making circle.

A few words of encouragement to Chen Jian, because of the uproar before, I was very impressed with Chen Jian, so I wrote a picture and gave it to Chen Jian to show encouragement to young people.

Chen Jian regretted that he hadn't developed the silver-plated copperplate photography first, otherwise taking an original photo would be more helpful for him to pull a big banner and make a tiger skin.

However, a set of expensive purple silk robes and a jade pendant are considered to be in hand.Although the purple dye is expensive, it is not something that the rich can afford, nor is it forbidden to wear it, but it is different whether it is issued by the Ministry of Rites or bought by oneself.

This is a dress, and it is not necessary to wear it under normal circumstances, but it is still possible to wear a purple silk robe, a badge with the name of the Xianren Temple, and a jade pendant to attend formal occasions.