From Chief to Ball

They practice on the island every day. Although there are only four hundred people, the sound of gunfire is always heard.

After a while, not only guns, but also four cannons were unloaded from a ship, and there were more than 20 naval gunners.

Someone secretly calculated that the daily food and drink costs are very expensive.

So some people wonder, can this island really make money?

What is this colonial company up to?

Chapter 165 Colonial Corporation

What exactly this colonial company was going to do was not unknown.

They know some members of the Mexican Party who have been on the island, and their perspective of observing all this is completely different from that of these hired workers.

Perhaps, some clues can be seen from the diary of a member of the Mexican Party.

The 23th of the first month.

The cotton spinning cooperative movement is in full swing.The question of how the party should go in the future has already been debated in full swing.

We are called Chen Jianpai, or Futurist, this is our future label.

A split within the party is inevitable, but I'm not worried, and Chen Jian doesn't seem to be worried either. He probably knew that this day would come sooner or later, right?

Hulin once asked us, isn't everything we pursue based on assumptions?

Chen Jian was not there at the time, so I stood up and told Hulin that we are not based on assumptions, but on the future based on scientific inferences—like we believe that the earth is round, so we can be sure that it is not wrong to go the opposite way based on this assumption.And your utopians are based on realistic fantasy, thinking that you will touch the sun in the morning along the boundless sea to the horizon...

I have seen the emergence of the cotton gin and the machines in the Institute of Science and Practical Technology with my own eyes. I believe in the future described by Chen Jian - those hand weavers will become hired workers in machine workshops, and they have nothing but labor just like these hired workers now .

So I believe that in the city, we will not stand on the side of the handicraftsmen, they are bound to perish, we only need to stand on the side of the real hired workers, and strive for the future.

Chen Jian asked me, what if one day these hand spinners smashed the machines?Don't be afraid, I told him, the workers in the mechanical spinning mill will protect themselves, because they have nothing left.

I thought, come on, come on, let your personal spinning wheel be worthless, and then you will know that the cause we are pursuing is actually for you.You are not you yet, but you will be in the future.

Similarly, I believe that the earth is round, and I believe that our China will not be so lonely, and there must be a wider land.

I think, if there is such a vast land, everything will be different, and everything will have a new beginning.

That's why we're called futurists.In the cities, what we see is the future after the popularization of machinery; in the countryside, what we see is the future under the vast land.

This is not fantasy, but a scientific projection of the future.I think this is the biggest difference between us and those closest friends.

Today, some of us futurists boarded a boat and went to a place to try to build that "future" based colony.

This "colony" does not exist, it only exists in the boundless blank on the globe.But I believe in Chen Jian, I also believe in science, and I believe that this place exists—otherwise, the future will be bloody.

In fact, I am also a good person, a bit afraid of bloody, introverted and closed life and death.

February 22.

Those of us who mingle with the hired laborers go to work the normal hours for paper money.Then use banknotes to exchange for food and wine from the wharf controlled by Chen Jian.

This is even clearer than what I learned in party night schools-money, money, paper can be money, silver can be money, even a pile of shit can be money, as long as it is controlled properly.

What is money?

February 28.

Sometimes, I also think, what if we guess the future wrong?What if the science is wrong?What if the earth is not round, what if the world is not so vast and [-] miles in circumference?

As the leader of the party group, I asked this question to comrades who are also futurists.They said we'd die in the ocean that way, so it's pointless.

Yeah, what a simple question.Chen Jian said that he will go to sea in March next year, and some of our Futurists will go to sea with him.

Futuristic... Ha, we not only see the future, but also use our lives to pursue the future.Chen Jian criticized me, saying that this was a kind of pathological penance and sacrificial pleasure.I don't care, I'm still young and will grow up one day.

The ninth day of March.

The first hydraulic sawmill is built.

Colonial corporations did not force labor, but all necessities had to be purchased with paper money earned from labor.There are also regulations on the amount of daily labor. If the amount of labor is not met, no one will be able to get the paper money they earn, but the fixed amount of work is not so great that everyone has to work like crazy.

The chains are very loose. We all know that this is an exercise on this small island to train a group of new Chinese, a group of Chinese who can govern themselves in the colony.

The road has to be taken step by step, everyone is equal, freedom, fraternity, separation of public and private interests, understanding what is the public interest of the group... These all need a little bit of experimentation.The land where the new Chinese people live is ultimately built by these Chinese people.

The eighth day of April.

Schools were established.I did my first speech in the colony and it worked out pretty well.

I said, schools need teachers, and teachers need to live, but where does the money for living come from?It is impossible to dig struvite and teach children at the same time.After all, a child's enlightenment education or education in a new school can become the management of a colonial company.

In fact, the solution is very simple, that is, each of these people contributes a little money as the living expenses of the teachers, and they are separated from the production in the mine.Teaching is also labor, but it is just mental work.

We futurists are not anarchists, so we need taxes, even on this freak island.

However, there was a small disagreement on the question of whose tax to collect, but after a debate and a speech, everyone unanimously passed the first colonial public rights bill: everyone pays a certain amount of banknotes as a living guarantee for teachers. .

Through the assessment content we had prepared a long time ago, six people passed the exam and became the first batch of...well, colonial laborers-the company is hidden, including those 400 troops who are training and the company's real Managers don't care about the internal affairs of the colony, which is separate.

This is a very good start. These six teachers have made a good start. Although they are all our comrades, for these people on the island, these people become teachers through their approval: they first handed over Paper currency was used as tax, the content of assessment was approved, and the assessment method was approved.

Terrible land, but the core is the same, and this spirit will continue until we actually find the future land.

April 27.

Some employees on the island think that I am knowledgeable and talented, and they also know that I am a member of the Mexican Party.

He asked me, what is the purpose of life?What happens after death?from where?where to go

What does the future look like?

This question makes me feel ashamed, I think this is the ultimate care that Chen Jianchang told us, right?

terrible question.

The eighth day of May.

The first batch of sheep, chickens, ducks and dogs were unloaded from the ship.The colonial company came forward and recruited shepherds from Min County, and began to teach some people to breed.

At the same time, a group of former self-cultivating farmers came, and the colonial company took two days off every ten days, and these self-cultivating farmers taught these people how to farm the land during these two days.Pamphlets on basic methods of planting, interplanting, and planting rotations were also distributed.

Some people saw that something was wrong. It was obviously not for making money, but more like learning, but everyone was not afraid, but seemed to be aware of something, and began to use the ten-day break to learn these things.

I figured it out, Chen Jian has to post a lot of money here every day, and those struvites, shipyards, wood board factories, etc., will take a year to make a profit.