From Chief to Ball

"At this moment, what we want to pursue is a transitional stage. In the short term, there may still be large factories, councils, cities, and trading businesses, but we can slowly transition to the kind of pure natural society of the way.”

The middle-aged man glanced at the young people around him, and said emotionally: "Children, all of this can't fall from the sky, we can only fight for it with our hands and even our blood. Today, we are fighting for the real The first step in the future of mankind. We hold our black and red flags and walk in the forefront. I hope that when I fall, someone will step over my body and continue to hold the flag and fight for what we want. The beautiful, purely natural society that we want.”

After saying all this, the middle-aged man glanced at the pendulum clock on the table, and there was still an hour left before the agreed time.

He didn't say anything anymore, and those radical young people didn't ask any more questions, but silently wrapped the black and red cuffs around their arms, sorted out the cannon protractors that had been prepared, and checked the various items that had been secretly prepared. Guns and Flint.

The middle-aged man also wrapped the black and red cuffs. His hands were white and tender, without the kind of calluses that had been worked all year round. There were only two thick calluses on the knuckles where the pen was held.The wrists are thinner than those of those who have worked all year round. They may not be able to hold the large-caliber heavy matchlock guns that were standard decades ago, but they may be able to use the new flintlock guns.

During the last eighteen hundred swings of the pendulum clock, the middle-aged man broke his pen and burned his book.Since Tao follows nature, all these teachings are meaningless and are against nature.But now, he wants to do the most unnatural thing for Taoism to follow nature—take up arms and start a dispute.

The only thing to fight for is not to fight.

Chapter 26 Dominance ([-])

On the pier, the people on the cargo ship loaded with muskets, gunpowder and lead bullets in paper did not know that the ship had been targeted.

It is not the first time for the sailors on the ship to go to Amsterdam. They will cross the ocean after stopping in the Great Desert City. This journey is boring, long and lacks excitement.

In addition to the goods transported, there are also some people who are in or outside the organization of the Mexican Party going to the Netherlands.Some were to guide Dutch Protestants in the parish self-defense militia established in the diocese, and some went to Dutch shipyards as apprentices to learn sailing skills.

Several people gathered in a small tavern outside the ship to drink. In the tavern, after getting drunk, some young people were arguing over whether the spring, summer, autumn and winter were due to the elliptical orbit or the yellow-red intersection. There was a smell of alcohol.

The two tables in the corner came together, and those who were about to take a boat to Holland were drinking. They had already drank half of the cacao wine they ordered, and the table was full of peanut shells boiled in salt water.

A young man sitting in the innermost place had a big bag next to him. Obviously this bag could be put on the boat, but probably because he was used to it, he carried it on his back and never left it.It contained ink lines, jigsaws, measuring sticks, etc. It was obviously a carpenter sent as an apprentice to a shipyard in Holland.

The people at this table may not have known each other or were not familiar with them before, but because the same organization got together, and because they had the same voyage, they became acquainted after half a barrel of wine, and they were joking and teasing each other.

"I said, didn't you do a good job in uniting the woodworkers' association? You have knowledge and style, and it is better than the hired workers' associations we organized. Except for the carpenters of Nan'an Woodware Factory, I really rarely see carpenters from other places joining organize."

The little carpenter shook his head and said, "Don't mention it, those people and I can't urinate in the same pot. They say that the employment system is justified all day long, and it's useless for the hired workers to pursue anything else. As long as they pursue a fair day's work, they will be rewarded." One day’s fair wages is enough. I asked the leader of the federation, what is the ultimate goal? He told me that the ultimate goal is to reduce working hours and raise wages. A group of people exclude new hires day by day, thinking that the more people there are, the better they will be. No, grab your own job and shout out slogans. Anyone who doesn’t join the woodworking association will squeeze out one by one, what the hell is the difference between this and a guild?”

After scolding, he took a sip of wine and said, "I asked me again how to raise wages? They said it's not easy? Expand externally, sell things at high prices, and transport all kinds of good wood for free. Come back. I used to earn one for ten workers, but now I earn one and a half for twenty workers. Wouldn’t that raise the wages? That’s the reason, but I think it’s wrong after a little thought. My fourth uncle is carrying wood and chopping Wooden ones are easy for me to handle, so what about my fourth uncle? These jobs are done by slaves outside, and it’s unlikely that my fourth uncle will get paid if he doesn’t work, right? By then he won’t be a refugee? Mom Now this group of people has made all the small spinners go bankrupt, and you haven't seen them distribute the extra money they earned to those bankrupts?"

This kind of simple consciousness and vulgar language, which is obviously a member of the peripheral organization, attracted laughter from the table.The person who started the conversation was about to say something more in-depth to talk to the little carpenter, when suddenly there was a commotion outside, followed by a dull gunshot.

The people at the table obviously sensed something was wrong, and hurriedly ran outside, but the door of the tavern was suddenly pushed open, and more than 20 people with short knives, iron forks or short guns rushed in from outside, each with black hair wrapped around their arms. There are a few familiar faces inside the red and white cotton cloth.

"Don't move, just stay quietly. Are you guys from the Mo Party?"

The people in the corner nodded and frowned, "What are you doing?"

"Don't do anything, everyone is in the same spirit. We used to be members of the Progressive Alliance. Don't hurt your peace now. It was your people who fired the shot just now. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Go out and persuade them, and let your people hurry up. Get out of here. Don’t worry about our affairs, temporarily requisition the guns of your ship, and now you have borrowed them, and your people are standing guard in the corner, don’t hurt your peace, and advise them to leave quickly.”

"What are you going to do?"

The person who came in from outside took out a piece of paper and handed it over, "You'll know it after reading it, just in time, you go back to your party headquarters and send a letter."

The rest of the people in the tavern were at a loss. The members of the Mexican Party roughly glanced at the thing that looked like a leaflet, and they were half sober from the wine, and persuaded: "Isn't it nonsense for you to do this?"

"What? Your picket team is still going to fight us? Okay, some of you have guns, and you have forgotten all your oaths at the beginning, but now you want to suppress those of us who are unemployed and helpless? What you can't solve, Are you still not allowed to solve it? You just wait for the future every day!"

There was another commotion outside the speaking room. It sounded like there were more and more people, and the sound of cannons from a distance could be vaguely heard, as well as impetuous shouts to maintain order outside.

The person who opened the door was obviously a little impatient, and asked: "Hurry up, if you don't persuade us, we will use force to drive those of you away. There is no need. With these lead bullets and blood, use them in On those big speculators who are rich and unkind."

"We need to discuss it."

The man knew that the Mo party had many rules, so he nodded and said, "Hurry up, 2 minutes."

After a short discussion, the group agreed to go out to dissuade the people in the organization from retreating and not to conflict. The two quickly passed the news back through the already chaotic dock, and the other four stayed here to observe the situation.

The rest help maintain order in their own name, prevent possible disturbances or take advantage of the chaos, but do not participate in any military operations, and wait for the news from the city before making the next step.

……

The chaos is not limited to the pier, there are more than 300 backbones, more than 100 radical young people, and many people who have secretly learned how to use firearms who participated in the last March of Dignity, as well as those unemployed who have accumulated too much dissatisfaction The losers and the bankrupts act together.

Although the plan formulated before has a large number of backbones, there are still some problems when it is put into action, but some general goals have been achieved.

There were shouts and gunshots everywhere.With the miners' petition movement five or six years ago as a model, coupled with many subsequent teachings, the backbones still maintained order, the citizens closed their doors and windows tightly, and there were no large-scale robberies or other incidents.

It is not clear who wins and who loses, but the street hooligans who want to take advantage of the chaos see the black and red flags and those obvious armbands. At this time, if you take advantage of the chaos to rob and set fire, you will add fuel to the fire, and you will definitely be the first to be hung on the tree.

Many people didn't know what happened, and they didn't know what these people were going to do at night. They only knew that the sky was in chaos outside, and there were not fierce battles in several places.

In this kind of thing, the dead usually don't appear on the night or a few days later, but will basically be concentrated in the follow-up stage when the suppressing army starts to counterattack. What's going on, I can't react in time.

In the Sheriff's Mansion, Ye Yuanshan, who is still the Deputy Sheriff but is actually the Sheriff, didn't know what happened. He stood on a high place and frowned, but he didn't look at the places where flashes of light and gunshots occasionally came from. But staring at the darkness.

Although there was moonlight, he still couldn't see the distance clearly, but he knew that the direction he was looking at was the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party standing in the city, which was also the place he was most worried about.

If these things were really caused by that group of people, things would be in big trouble, not to mention Min City, the whole Min County might be in chaos, and he, the county guard, might not be able to control the situation at all.

It was night, except for the patrol team and the security team guarding the sheriff's mansion, the rest of the force had been dispersed, and it was impossible to organize an effective resistance. It's useless to be organized.

When I was anxious, a man came running outside, and the guards let him in when he saw that he knew him.

Qi Yuanshan quickly asked: "What happened?"

"do not know."

"Is it the people from the Mexican Party who caused the chaos?"

"It should not be, not the black flag of the Mexican Party, but a black and red flag."

"you sure?"

"determine."

Hearing this, Ye Yuanshan sat down in a loss of composure, and immediately relaxed his nervousness, and quickly said: "It's fine if it's not a black flag, it's fine if it's not a black flag."

After muttering a few words, since the thing I was most worried about did not happen, my frowning state of mind suddenly relaxed a lot, and my mind returned to its original flexibility and sharpness.

As long as it is not initiated by the Mexican party, then everything is easy to solve and everything is under control.

After thinking about the recent situation, I guessed that those unemployed refugees should be making trouble, but there must be someone organizing behind the scenes.Because the places where the gunshots and flames came from were just ordinary unorganized riots, there would be no fighting at all, and those people would choose to attack the county guard's mansion and the council immediately.Just because the battles are taking place in those places, it is obvious that these people have a purpose and are organized behind the scenes, but they are not led by the group of the Mexican party, so it is much simpler.

"Come here, light the torches, and hang out all the oil lamps and lanterns you can find."

The guarding soldiers carried out the order, some people didn't understand, and Ye Yuanshan didn't explain.If it is an uprising, then there will definitely be appeals, and generally they will not choose to attack the county guard's mansion and the council - this is the bottom line, if they are forced to survive, according to some of the endlessly burned books when the country was founded, this is always Excuse me.However, if they invaded the county guard's mansion and the council, and killed the council members and the county guard, it would be declaring an enemy of the powerful violent machine of the Republic, and that would be war, which cannot be explained by reason.Killing officials is a rebellion, and not killing officials is just a desperate cry, which can still be saved in the eyes of state power.

He Yuanshan is betting that these people don't have the guts, because since there is an organization, there must be someone who is aware of the consequences of doing so, and the majesty of the Republic is still there, and basically no one dares to challenge the bottom line.This is also the case with the uprising of low-level employees decades ago. Even if they occupy the city, they will still not touch things that symbolize the bottom line of national power, because they know how strong the country is, and this is not a small city-state republic.

The upper class is also willing to stir up internal struggles in the urban class to adjust in the middle, and sometimes setting fire appropriately is also a way to maintain the politics of the big family.

This kind of thing has rarely been seen in recent years, and there are many books and family education.The only thing that Xi Yuanshan finds it difficult to deal with is the group of people in the Mo party who are completely different from the previous ones. They don't have a lot of experience, but they should definitely be able to deal with the rest with ease.