From Chief to Ball

"Tomorrow morning in the city will be enough, but the backbone of the mining area will take seven or eight days. They will be ahead of those people."

Qiao Tiexin didn't say who they were, but Ye Yuanshan knew who they were, but he couldn't tell at this time.Even if Ye Yuanshan knew that someone was fanning the flames and using those people behind his back, he could only pretend that he didn't know what was going on, and he had to rely on pretending not to know as a way of expressing his attitude to gain political capital for the future.

With the intervention of the Mok Party, the original apprehension turned into racking my brains for planning for the future. Under various unspeakable emotions, I finally looked forward to the dawn.

When the sun shone warmly on the earth, the black and red flag was already waving in front of the Sheriff's Mansion, but it did not set foot within the invisible line.

A banner full of words was held high: We are also Chinese, we have the right to live, and we have the right to work.

Many people held guns, or all kinds of weird weapons, and the slogans they shouted were also impassioned.

However, there is clearly no line on the ground, and these people who shout slogans dare not cross the line. The tradition and majesty accumulated over hundreds of years have finally defeated the freedom of anarchy, and only those who fanned the flames behind the scenes are left begging for rights and alms Come and help them defeat the illusion of capital.

He Yuanshan listened to the slogans outside, looked at the ragged lower class and the fanatical young people, waved his hands to disperse the soldiers who were waiting in full battle, and walked out by himself.

A few people held a piece of paper full of words and respectfully handed it in front of Yuanshan, and shouted: "The county governor please agree to our request, and the county governor please sign it and submit it to the capital."

Looking at the various requests above, Yuanshan shook his head and said: "I won't sign, and you can't find my seal. And these things have nothing to do with me, you need to get the consent of the county council."

Several people shouted: "We can't trust them! They only know how to drink our flesh and blood."

Yan Yuanshan said in a mocking tone: "This is the rule. If you want to play within this rule, you must abide by the rule. Unless you break this rule and establish a new rule. I am standing here now, Your choice is simple."

He pointed at those people with his fingers and said contemptuously: "Either, kill me. Or, play within the rules. I can't dodge lead bullets."

He was a little scared, but in the end no lead bullets were fired from the crowd, but someone shouted: "We are not trying to rebel, but we just hope that the Republic will give us the right to live. The sheriff must agree."

Hundreds of people shouted in unison, and Yuanshan shook his head resolutely: "I can't agree. This violates the traditions and laws of the republic, and you, the king, and those prominent families are involved in the injustice of betraying the republic."

"I'm afraid the county guard doesn't know the current situation. We have already controlled Mincheng, and we invite the county guard and officials at all levels to participate in our meeting. If the county guard refuses to agree, then we will let all the people of Mincheng decide all of these!"

He Yuanshan nodded, asked everyone to wait, went back and changed into a standard silk long gown, straightened his clothes, and went to the meeting with those anxious officials at all levels under the "invitation" of everyone hall.

The flags on the meeting have not changed, but a shorter black and red flag has been inserted side by side.

There was a sea of ​​people in front of the square, many people stood on high places and made speeches loudly, and there were young people with armbands on the periphery to maintain order.

Many members of the Fujian county council sat outside dejectedly, there was no noose in front of them, there was only an indescribable humiliation.

They just rejected the petition of these people not long ago, and they did not expect these people to respond in such an extreme way so soon.

It can be seen that these people were either "invited" or "captured". Only a small number of representatives elected by the bottom are not nervous.

The operation last night was extremely successful. A large number of refugees captured almost all important places within the boundaries, and blocked the passage out of the city based on the number of people. After the pier was controlled again, the roads to escape from the city were basically blocked. up.

The members of these councils are all "well-known figures", "famous people in a county", "successful businessmen" and the like, and because of the property and real estate plus voting rights, the residences of these people can be said to be known to everyone. Xiao, it's only natural to "invite" these people here.

The army outside the city is changing defenses, and the number is not large; the navy has been transferred away to suppress bandits, and it is unlikely to return in the short term; the mercenaries of the sea merchants cannot suppress and have no rights.

All kinds of deliberate or premeditated circumstances made it easy to succeed in the early stage of the uprising, but it was easy for most cities to succeed in the early stage of the uprising and even establish an autonomous government. The difficulty is whether they can withstand future counterattacks.Just like in the history that Chen Jian is familiar with, it is very easy to call himself the emperor, and he can even quickly establish his own system of hundreds of officials. The difficulty is whether he can last until the end.

After the last miners incident and the subsequent "voter-making" incident, some things in the county were corrected, coupled with the disintegration of the Mexican Party into the Progressive Alliance and the Progressive Alliance, and the actions of the Mexican Party in the March of Dignity last time, let the discussion The number of members of the Mexican Party in the meeting dropped sharply.

Either issue a declaration to leave the party, or be elected, but after all, what is left is still a force that can be said.These people were really "invited" to come, and they were also allowed to come after an internal decision was made.

In addition to these members of the council controlled by the Mexican Party, there are also representatives of organizations that can be regarded as close allies or individuals who can be united, such as Hu Lin and the like.

Hu Lin looked at the members of the Mo Party sitting next to him, and asked for a handful of tobacco leaves with a wry smile.The last time the Mexican party organized a petition for the unemployed to set up a county-owned factory to accommodate the unemployed and change the relief into a matter of labor dignity, this made Hu Lin's faction reconnect with the Mexican party a little more closely.

It's just that the facts that happened today were beyond Hu Lin's expectation. He didn't know what would happen in the future, but he knew that something big might happen.

Just as he was about to say something, a man with a black and red armband came up behind him and said respectfully, "Mr. Zhu Gan, please don't talk."

It can be seen that the respect comes from the heart. After all, Hu Lin has written books that have influenced these radical young people, and has been running for the bottom.

He pointed at his pipe embarrassingly. The person who stopped him took out a match from his pocket and lit it for him, but he ignored the member of the Mexican Party who was smoking a paper cigarette and took the match that was still burning. Shake it off and throw it on the ground.

Hu Lin held back his laugh, and then looked at the members of the council with disturbed expressions on the opposite side, thinking that this time was really interesting.

All kinds of strange speeches echoed in the square, advocating the hereditary horror of capitalism and stirring up opposition. Many small citizens who were about to go bankrupt under the impact of hydraulic workshops cheered loudly.

"Citizens! Citizens! Look, these are the council members we elected... Oh, no, I was wrong, we don't have the right to vote at all, how can we elect them? Even if they have a little property Citizens who rely on their own labor to weave will also lose this qualification soon."

"We are also Chinese, but our opinions have never been respected, and we don't even have the right to express our own opinions. This kind of council only represents the interests of those who suck our flesh and blood, not us!"

"Now, let's see their faces!"

"Two years ago, these people enacted the "Prohibition of Smashing Machines Act." Anyone who smashed machines should not only compensate for the loss, but also be thrown into prison or exiled. But we did not propose this bill, and we even opposed it. , but that’s how it passed!”

"Citizens! Today, today, we are free to express what we really want, not what those of us non-voting citizens want on behalf of the interests of those who suck our flesh!"

"Since they can propose the "Prohibition of Smashing Machines Act", we will propose the "Prohibition of New Hydraulic Machine Works Act" today. Get those big machines out and restore the dignity and freedom of our citizens, as well as the right to work!"

The gathered citizens cheered loudly and shouted: "Everyone in the council, cast your votes!"

"Yes, let us see if you are really upholding the justice in your hearts!"

"Let's see if we count as Chinese people, if we count as human beings!"

While shouting, many fanatical citizens fired their muskets into the sky, making bang bang noises and bursts of white smoke of gunpowder.

The yelling, the gunfire, and the old stories of being hanged for smashing the machinery made many council members sitting there tremble.

A man walked up to these members of the council, read out loud the entire content of the "Act Prohibiting New Construction of Hydraulic Machine Workshops", and after reading it, he slammed the piece of paper on the table and shouted: "Everyone! Vote! ! In front of all the citizens of Fujian, let us see if you really represent the interests of the people of the country? Or are we people who deserve to die and are not people of the country at all?"

The deliberately provocative words once again ignited the passion of the small citizens, and someone carried two huge transparent glass boxes and placed them in front of the table.

One says support, the other says no, there is no option to abstain.

Behind the box are thousands of fanatical citizens who are about to go bankrupt or have already gone bankrupt, driven by hydraulic machinery, division of labor factories and futures speculation.

The anger and stories behind the box are some people who were exiled for life two years ago, the leader who smashed the machine hanged in the square for more than half a year, and the bankrupt who tried to smash the machine with broken legs and arms citizens.

Chapter 29 Dominance ([-])

"Come on, big figures in the council, please exercise your 'sacred rights', let us see whether we are considered citizens of the country, and how many people care about our interests!"

"Yes! Vote, big shots!"

"We're watching you, fat pigs and dogs!"

"You should be roasted on the fire, look at the fat on your body, it can make a big pot of oil!"

"When you hanged them, didn't you expect such a day?"

All kinds of angry shouts drove the whole square into madness. Min City is naturally prosperous, but the hidden contradictions and accumulated anger behind this prosperity will always erupt.The more prosperous the country, the deeper the conflict and the anger of confrontation. New machines and new divisions of labor, factories and bank futures speculation make the gap between rich and poor accumulate faster.

In the face of angry citizens, many people chose to put their votes into the glass box of support, but some people still insisted.Either it is related to one's own vital interests, or because of the belief in the heart, or a kind of self-persistence.