From Chief to Ball

"No, our Mr. Kaimeng didn't say anything, but he said that if you study hard, you will be able to eat meat in the future. If you don't study hard, you will have to move bricks in the future."

"Moving bricks?"

The child pointed to the low red brick corridors in the distance: "Nong."

The wind collector couldn't laugh or cry, he said that Mr. Kai Meng was really vulgar, but he also learned and used it, and he was really vivid.

"How can you not move bricks?"

"Admitted to Lanxiang."

The child pointed to the ordinary-looking school not far away, and the officer stretched his neck to look along the child's fingers, thinking that this group of people really spent a lot of money to trick the child into going to school... His heart can be punished.

Dig a broken well, and still use it to learn those things in school?What does studying nature, geography and astronomy have to do with digging wells?How was the man who dug the well worth thirty denarii a year?Such painstaking efforts to deceive children to go to school must be wrong.

Literacy and hyphenation is a sacred thing, but this group of people was stunned into the reason of eating meat. The more the officials thought about it, the more they felt that these people were harboring ulterior motives.

Seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye to this group of children and said to go and see the adults.

So I made a slight turn and turned to a small restaurant. At this time, it was time to finish work. Hired workers in twos and threes walked into the restaurant, pushing and changing glasses, drinking five or six, and smelling the smell of the market from a distance.

Open the door and enter, it is a very ordinary wine shop, but it is completely different from other places.

There is a banner hanging on the wall of the restaurant, which reads: "How can you be a citizen if you don't like to talk about state affairs?"

Caifeng officials said, what kind of nonsense are these, what does state affairs have to do with the people in these wine shops?

Although it was a bit messy inside, a few people bought a plate of boiled tofu and stood in the corner, listening to someone talking.

The wind collecting officer also wanted a jug of wine, paced over, squeezed in from the sweaty hired worker, and saw a young man inside who was talking about something.

It may be that he came late, this person has already said most of the speech, and the wind collector heard the second half.

"So, rights and obligations are relative. Let me give you an example. It's like your parents gave birth to you, and they have the obligation to raise you up. When your parents are old, you need to be like It is like repaying debts to fulfill the obligation to support parents. This is a contract that does not require paperwork. Of course, if you are born because of poverty and you are drowned in the slop bucket, then you will not grow up, so naturally you don’t need it. Repay this obligation."

A group of hired workers laughed and said: "What you said is reasonable. But it is a bit inconsistent with what you said a few days ago. It is like paying taxes. It is supposed to be an obligation, right? Those who pay more taxes, Shouldn’t those who pay taxes have less rights? According to this, then we want to pursue the same voting rights without any difference, isn’t it a mistake?”

The young man scratched his head and said, "This...uh...I haven't learned this yet, it seems to be...but...should..."

The hired workers smiled kindly, and didn't make things difficult for him, and booed: "There is no hair on your mouth, and you can't do things well. After all, we have heard these things for more than a year. You should learn more, and those people It's still worse."

The young man was a little embarrassed, but he didn't get annoyed, and then said something else. Obviously these hired workers were familiar with this young man, and although they booed, they continued to discuss this topic.

The wind collector was terrified when he heard it, thinking that this kind of thing can also be chatted in a wine shop?

Especially the embarrassment of the young man just now being questioned by this group of so-called hired workers who have been listening for more than a year. The interviewer never thought that he could hear words like rights and obligations from a group of sweaty hired workers. This is true. The scary place - the whole of Nan'an has already melted into ink without knowing it. This group of people is like paint that has been melted into the water. If you want to completely remove it, you have to pour out the water together.

As for the right and wrong in the end, the interviewer felt that these people were crazy. How could there be any right or wrong in this kind of thing?If there is no right and wrong, there will be no wrong, and if there is right and wrong, there may be wrong. Once rights and other things start to talk about right and wrong, this is to create momentum for something.

What is right and wrong about Hou Boguo's lineage inheritance?If you say there is no, there is no, but once you say that there is, you can find out the mistakes. Once everyone in the world accepts the new right and regards the old right as wrong, what should we do?

It's not that he is extremely opposed to the dialogues of these people. On the contrary, these dialogues make him feel acceptable and reasonable, after all, he has a lot of experience in folk gathering.

But what he was worried about was that people's hearts would be chaotic. Once people's hearts were chaotic, troubles would happen, and internal turmoil would kill people.

Today, things like why, because, and so have begun to explain rights and obligations. Although it sounds like there is no perfect explanation, it has begun to dig the root after all.

If there are too many people who believe in this set of things, there will definitely be problems.

The wind collector asked himself, and he also felt that some things were unreasonable, but he didn't want to deny the right and wrong of these things at all, but wanted to repair them smoothly.There is no need for right and wrong, why, and no theory for smooth tinkering. Old habits are enough.

When I was shaking my head secretly, I heard another hired worker yelling: "I said, Mr. Xiao, we asked you the question the day before yesterday. Did you go back and ask? It seems like you are helping the miners fight for it. It's like what my wife should do." ?You said that in the future, the country can legislate, only work [-] hours a day, and raise the minimum wage or something. But my wife spins yarn at home and sells money, has a spinning wheel, and legislation works [-] hours a day. It has nothing to do with my wife. .”

Speaking of this, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he half-jokingly said: "We discussed that in the future, we will make a machine for spinning, and one person can be worth five people. The machine is so expensive, your wife must I can’t afford it, and I can’t compete for the yarn from the machine, so I can only smash the spinning wheel and go to the workshop as a hired worker. Wouldn’t it be useful by then?”

The hired worker knew it was a joke, and said with a smile: "You are making a velvet shirt for my wife, but you find that she is a bit fat and can't fit it. You don't want to change the shirt, but you want to make my wife lose weight. ?”

The wind collector also laughed when he heard this, thinking that the hired workers here are interesting, but he listened to the young man's answer.

"I said, the fat ones are getting fatter and the thin ones are getting thinner. It's not our fault. We just know that your wife will be thinner in the future, so we prepared a shirt for her in advance. We don't want to care about people for the time being." If you are fat or thin, or give some fat to the thin, then you can only prepare shirts for the thin, rather than naked, right?"

As soon as this was said, the hired workers immediately nodded and cursed a few words about fat and thin, knowing that this young man and that group of people could not be blamed for this incident, and the more they cursed, the more outrageous they became.

After scolding, the young man began to discuss with these hired workers what the reasons for fat and thin were.

After listening for a while, the wind collector sighed, and he had finished speaking.

Don’t listen to the rest, it’s no longer the style of each county, but the elegance of the whole country—the style of each county may not be popular elsewhere, but this set of rhetoric can be listened to in Nan’an, and in Fujian. There are people in the city who will listen, even if it is thrown in the capital, there will still be people who will listen.

The wind collector sat silently on a chair in the corner, drinking to himself, not wanting to listen to the conversation next to him, but those words still penetrated into his ears like needle pricks.

I don't know how many cups I drank, and I finally got a little drunk in a trance, and the discussion about fat and thin over there was finally over.

Drowsy-eyed, I heard a hired worker ask another question, "Mr. Xiao, you say the earth is round, so if there are people under our feet, wouldn't they fall headfirst"?

The wind collector was not interested in this, so he paid for the drink, and took a last look at the young man who seemed to be gesticulating something excitedly. and so on.

He didn't know if the hired workers understood or not, they left the restaurant drunkenly, sat on the side of the road, looked at the strange buildings around them, and their minds became more and more confused.

Or drunk, the wind collector feels that apart from himself, none of the people he saw today is normal.

Normal people shouldn’t think about studying hard to eat meat, normal people shouldn’t treat arithmetic and geometry as a leisure activity, normal people don’t talk about rights and obligations, normal people don’t want to know why the earth is round and people can’t fall down…

Walking on the smooth street, he came to a building before he knew it.

There are many expensive carriages parked in front of the door. The wind collector knows that this is the residence of Chen Jian, who has heard the name many times these days. He also heard that the people on these carriages tonight are local mine owners. It is said that they seem to be Let's talk about things.

Seeing the smiling faces of the mine owners who entered the door, and vaguely seeing a young man in his 20s coming to greet him, he couldn't figure it out even more.

What have these mine owners to talk to this man who just organized a miners' petition?Shouldn't it be the sworn enemy?There are abnormal people everywhere in Nan'an, and they still smile when they see their mortal enemies...

Chapter 159 Come to an end

Mine owners and hired workers are of course opposites, but hired workers often have to fight the enemy's enemy before capital is united all over the world because of technology and transportation, because their survival is closely related to the enemy's profit.The reverse is also the same, there is cooperation at the same time as opposition.

Sometimes the employers and employees in A will unite against the counterparts in B, and the producers in A will sometimes oppose the merchants in A, and the merchants in A will also support the employees in A for their own interests. Fight for benefits.

As employees who are still weak, in these cracks, they can rationally use the contradictions of these enemies, keenly seize every opportunity to gain a little profit, and open their minds.

The strangeness and perplexity that the wind collector saw was because he didn't know the huge benefits in it.But the mine owner understood, so when he received Chen Jian's invitation, he smiled happily. Maybe he was secretly vigilant, but mainly he was happy.

In the house, the six mine owners who hooked up with Chen Jian from the very beginning chatted, and Chen Jian didn't mention the unpleasant incident that happened a few days earlier.

The canal has been repaired, and special flat-bottomed coal barges can pass through it, and the height difference was carefully measured when it was built. The road from the coal mine to the Minhe wharf is a slow downhill slope, allowing fully loaded ships to go down the river.

The road of the mine that Chen Jian hooked up with at the earliest was a railway with cast iron rails. It was not too long, but it could continuously transport coal to the freight yard of the canal.

It can be loaded there, and it can quickly go to Mincheng.After Yuanshan came forward, the Employers Association also fulfilled its original promise and stabilized the coal supply of Mincheng through the canal within a few days, which won a great reputation for Yuanshan.