From Chief to Ball

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Mexican party also opened a vaccination school in the capital, trained simple doctors in batches, and chanted the slogan of making 72 counties free from smallpox within 36 years.

So, from the briquettes at the beginning to the relief of the poor in winter in the middle, to this smallpox epidemic.

The Mexican party has expanded its influence in the capital with a model that is completely different from that in Fujian, and because it has not participated in political struggles at all, it has left such an impression on everyone.

The Mexican Party is a charity society.Mincheng should be the same.

Many people think so, and the result is that when the miners' petition in Mincheng spread to the capital, no one thought there was anything wrong: this group of well-fed parties, they have seen a lot, and something like this happened It is also normal, otherwise it is easy to cause nationwide riots if you keep holding back.

The big news of the election accident in Mincheng hadn't reached the capital, yet another gossip spread in the capital.

Nan'an ordered Weiyuan Mountain to be governed well, and he was promoted to be the deputy governor of Min County and in charge of the industry, commerce and shipping in Min County.Zhang Yu, a tax officer in Mincheng, was promoted to a county tax officer for his contribution to the stamp duty...

In addition to the change of promotion or demotion or reward or punishment, there is also a reasonable and unexpected news.

The officers of the garrison near Min County returned to the capital to serve, and a new officer with a prominent family was sent from the capital, along with a 500-man Liangjiazi cavalry battalion.The new county magistrate of Nan'an County was also sent directly from the capital, not from the local area.

This gossip was quickly confirmed and became a formal confession.

Everyone knew that this Heyuan Mountain was going to be reused. This was to let him do a good job in Min County. Maybe he wanted to find a new way, which meant to let go of his hands and feet.

The sent cavalry and the replaced garrison generals further confirmed this point, which was for surveillance.There are not many counties that are eligible to be monitored, and they are all two or three counties that are trying new roads.

Appropriate changes can be made, don't burn the foundation too much, these troops can put out the fire when the time is right.

Chapter 162 Three Ways, Walk Together

The gossip became regular news, and the regular news spread from the capital to Min County along the post station or the air route.

Along with the arrival of these news, there were still people from various parties who had received invitations in the capital.

Different from the purely scientific symposium last time, this time the invitees are all social activists or theorists.

Every time the era develops to a critical point between the old and the new, there will always be a scene of a hundred schools of thought contending in Jixia Academy, which is inevitable.The lack of this kind of spontaneous contention between a hundred schools of thought either proves that the society has not yet reached the transition period, or that this ethnic group is lagging behind before the advent of the new era.

After hundreds of years of development, the era of contention among a hundred schools of thought in this ethnic group is finally coming.

There are hundreds of schools of thought, even if the contention has not yet begun, they are already chirping and chaotic.

After the incident of the man-made ticket holders in Mincheng occurred, a long and chaotic discussion had already begun within the Mexican party.

The power of the council is not too great, but the quarrels caused by this little power have become chaotic like a forest that has slept all night after being awakened by gunshots.

It's not a big deal, it revolves around the Relief of the Poor Act.

This kind of relief still relies on the old moral and old system, and it is shared equally among all the people in the county and the county who are able to set up their own businesses, make a living by themselves, and have a certain amount of property, real estate, and income.

Everyone will pay the same amount for the relief of the poor, and of course those who pay are also of decent wealth.

It was felt within the party that this was the easiest change to implement, so someone raised an opinion.

Hu Lin believes that this kind of relief is unreasonable - he has not yet reached the height of fundamentally discovering the problem, but he is a little farther than others from the appearance.

For this unreasonable reason, Hu Lin believes that this is actually taking the money of the poor to help the poor, because some people who make a living on their own are still considered poor compared with those big households, rich businessmen, and big workshop owners.

He and Chen Jian are very familiar with each other, so they don't mind using each other as examples.

"Everyone, assuming that the tax fee of half a silver coin is a drop in the bucket for a big workshop owner like Chen Jian. But for ordinary citizens, this may affect many days of life. But this is better than the relief money owned by everyone. This is unreasonable. The proportion should be redefined according to family property or income.”

Perhaps influenced by the victory of the miners' petition last time, he said something more serious with some excitement.

"The poll tax is also unreasonable. Look at those poor people, sometimes they have to drown their children in order to pay less poll tax..."

After giving some impassioned pointers, opponents in the party immediately raised doubts.

"Hulin, if you say this, then what you are after is not self-consistent internally. Relief is morality. According to this, why let the rich who work hard to get rich support the poor? The relief law is not reasonable, but It still has to be done morally.”

"But as you said, if the poll tax is abolished and the income tax is implemented as you said, then the problem will come again. If this is the case, why should we pursue the qualifications for more people to have the right to vote? On what grounds is the pursuit of equal voting rights?"

"According to you, people who pay more taxes should naturally have more rights; people who pay less taxes should naturally have fewer rights."

"Besides, rich people must be smart and hardworking. It's okay to pursue moral welfare, but those who manage and rule must be rich. Because if you can't even be a rich person, how can you manage a rich person? What about counties?"

"We support a moral economy and relief, and we sympathize with the suffering of the poor. However, we must do things with reason. If progressive taxation of relief laws is implemented, then equal voting rights cannot be pursued; conversely, if progressive taxation is not implemented, everyone pays Only when the taxes are the same can we pursue equality of voting rights.”

...In general, before the invited people from the capital came, the party was arguing about such and similar issues.

This is why there must be political economy, sociology, and ideology.

For a simple matter, if there is no corresponding new theory as support, the internal logic will be difficult to be self-consistent.

Things in the new era must start anew.Just like the divine right of kings, you need to find a new theoretical support point to prove that the human rights, freedom, and democracy you pursue are just, correct, and logically self-consistent.

Taking the divine right of the king as justice, then it is inevitable that the conclusion that what you want to do is justice cannot be drawn from the inside.Although there is no divine right of kings here, everything of the old era still exists.The changes in the new era are dual, including a revolution in productivity and a revolution in thinking.

A small discussion about taxes and rights is just the tip of the iceberg.The hidden things refracted in this corner are extremely grand.

There is no contention among a hundred schools of thought, and it is impossible to start anew after melting.And without a spontaneous contention, it will always give people a feeling of imported products, which is difficult to accept emotionally.

In fact, what is being discussed is still those things.

Human nature is good and evil, civil rights and monarchy, private property and public property, private power centralization... It's just that different conclusions have been drawn under different productive relations, the accepted arguments are different, and the expression methods under different traditional cultures are even more different.

The result of premature maturity is tragedy, and the result of miss is also tragedy.

Chen Jian did not participate in this discussion, but was busy with the economic foundation of this change, creating a testing ground for these people to continue to have enough opportunities to observe and draw conclusions.

There is Jixia Academy here but not Jixia Academy. Chen Jian thinks that Min City should be regarded as the Jixia Academy before the opening of the new era, and let those ideas grow slowly in this hotbed, where fierce confrontation and debates are discussed.

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In June, the news that Ye Yuanshan was about to take up the post of deputy governor and commercial officer of Fujian County was finally confirmed, and the official acceptance of his fate had also spread.

In the past few months, Chen Jian withdrew his funds, and relied on his accumulated reputation to survive the most dangerous possible run-on period.

The cotton spinning cooperative in Mincheng has started to make a profit and has recovered the principal; the hand loom thrown to Qi State in advance has also made a fortune for the cotton and cotton yarn transported by Chen Jian; the toll of the canal has been stabilized every month. The wave of glass price cuts along the coast has won a decisive victory, completely crowding out those glass workshops, and a steady stream of funds flowed into his pocket.

Oil wells are still being excavated, and a simple oil refining workshop has been established in Nan'an. With the original discontinuous separate still method, thousands of catties of crude oil can be processed every day. The only useful kerosene and oil residue crystallization and filtration to extract paraffin The method can be regarded as formally profitable.

The sulfuric acid and alkali workshops have finally been fully integrated and truly become a chemical system.

The exhaust gas discharged from the soda production process is recycled through heated air, copper chloride and pyrolusite, and chlorine gas is collected in batches.

The bleaching powder produced by chlorine gas and lime milk has also become the favorite of the cotton cloth industry in Mincheng. This bleaching technology simplifies the bleaching process from seven processes to two, and the bleaching effect is better. The industry has also benefited.

With the development of the Zhuotong well method to exploit oil, it has also caused a reality that the stock of cattle in the salt well area has increased.

In Nan'an and Mincheng, sick or old cattle are sold every ten days, and the blood of the cattle is collected and burned with potassium alkali to make yellow blood salt.