From Chief to Ball

The meeting between the representatives of the big factory owners and the representatives of the Mexican party was somewhat magical and realistic.

In the hall of the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party, a banner of "Everything belongs to the laborers" was hung high, and it was filled with black and white photos of previous strikes and mass rallies. Oil painting depicting miners' petition in light and shadow.

People who came here to ask for a meeting had never tire of this place before, but they had no choice but to get in touch.

The predecessor of the Mexican Party was the Progressive Alliance. There are a lot of extreme radicals, conspiratorial factions or liberal terrorist attack factions in the alliance, and the Mexican Party has spared no effort in organizing strikes and petitions before. It often funds some groups and provides Strike funds and food support.

What can be done now is really uncertain, and these factory owners and commercial representatives have no certainty in their minds.

Furthermore, Chen Jian has deep contacts with these people. Even though he has withdrawn shares from some industries, many industries are closely related to industries controlled by the Mexican party.

The simplest example is the silk reeling workshop, which uses disodium hydrogen phosphate or sodium carbonate produced by the chemical workshop as the desilting agent. The former can only be bought here, and the latter uses salt and sulfuric acid as raw materials to compare the quality of sodium carbonate Ash method is better.

It is not impossible to not use it, but the cost and quality must be reduced, and it is only an industry of silk reeling, not to mention the rest of the large-scale manual workshops with division of labor.

One is the advanced production relations relative to the old era, and the other is the representative and direction of advanced productive forces. Although there have been irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides since its birth, there is still room for discussion in dealing with the remnants of the old era. at.

The representatives of the factory owners sat there, looking at the writing on the wall, feeling extremely uncomfortable.Although I can't say I'm restless, I always feel a little ridiculous.

The people on the opposite side are not very old, but they are all familiar figures here. In the "joint blacklist" secretly circulated among the factory owners, these people are all famous people on the list.

There were guards outside the door, and the representatives of the factory owners got right to the point.

One of them held a street pamphlet used by the Mexican Party for propaganda, opened a certain page and said: "Everyone, big factories and big workshops are the future direction that your Party thinks, that is to say, we are on the right path. You can’t betray your own program, can you?”

The young people on the opposite side also laughed, nodded and said: "Yes, this is indeed what we said, and we have always admitted it. But who owns the big factories and workshops does not affect the big factories and workshops. no?"

The face of the person who asked the question twitched, and he said hastily: "Don't talk about this issue, just talk about those personal family workshops, you won't stand with them and go back to the past, right?"

A person on the opposite side said: "Of course we will not go back to the past, but the beauty of the future is built on the bones of the dead. Some things must be responsible after all. Who will be responsible? Who will take care of it?"

"You are not the king, nor are you in charge of managing this country. You don't need to be responsible, you just need to take care of your interests. Aren't you going on strike to fight for your interests? But I haven't heard that you are not going on strike. , turn to smash the machine or ask to go back to the time when the guild existed. In this situation, they are obviously trying to force us to death, and those people in the north stretched out their hands, we will be finished, Min The city will be over, and the republic will be over. Without big workshops, those big families can still live well by relying on monopoly and franchise, and relying on land rent. The existence of these things is meaningless to them. But these are of great significance to us and you. They will all become small farmers and small producers, and your party will become a tree without roots and duckweed.”

The people on the opposite side all laughed, and said with a broken smile: "You have read a lot of books these days."

"Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to win a hundred battles. There is nothing we can do about it."

"The current situation in Mincheng, you can only blame others, but yourself. Although the life of those small producers is getting worse and worse, at least they can survive. Their motivation for uprising is not enough. But those at the bottom who really can't survive People, it’s not that we didn’t petition the county to change the relief into a county-owned factory, but you rejected it. Not only did we disagree, but after the typhoon, we kept raising the price of grain and hoarding goods, which really pushed people to a desperate situation. Then No wonder people would rather fight than starve to death, right?"

The representatives of the factory owners hurriedly shook their heads and said, "Those hoarders have nothing to do with us, you have to figure this out. According to your pamphlet, we make profits by squeezing surplus labor, but those speculators don't Same."

"That's right, it's different from us. Speaking of which, we still hate rising food prices. The rising food prices are of no benefit to us, and the prices of raw materials also rise accordingly. If wages don't rise, you have to organize riots. In fact, we do too. Those who want the price of food to go down."

"Speaking of which, if we really want to organize county-owned factories, those speculators should pay more money. And we also feel that the relief itself is unreasonable. The relief money is earned back by the food price. In fact, we have no benefit at all. get."

A person on the opposite side said helplessly: "Everyone, now we are not talking about who will take the blame. It is about how to solve this matter now that it has happened. If it can't be resolved, then I'm sorry, we can only fight with those people together. Over the years, our industry has cultivated a lot of people, but I dare not say that the public affairs officers who manage these factories can still be elected.”

"If you really want to overturn the table, you will lose your head. You will not only overturn our table, but if you want to overturn the tables of those big families and big landowners, you will definitely die."

The other person laughed again, and asked back: "Do you think we are the ones who are afraid of losing our heads? If we are afraid of losing our heads, we should be afraid when the miners petition. We were not afraid then, but now we are? Then, when the grass grows on our graves, there will be more people who will lift the table next time, don’t you think so?”

The factory owner stopped talking, and the inference of whether these people on the other side could do such a thing was the basis for their negotiation.Because it is possible to do it, I will come to talk about it.If it's impossible to do, don't talk about it.

After a moment of silence, someone from the Mexican party stood up and said: "Everyone, this is the end of the matter, and I will say something on behalf of our party. Now the world is connected by sailboats, and the speed of land accumulation of money is getting faster and faster than that of workshops and factories." Slow, the location of Mincheng determines that Mincheng is the place where accumulation and development are the fastest, far exceeding the speed at which those families in the north rely on land privileges and monopoly rights to make money."

"Now that you make so much money, are those people jealous? Even if you are not jealous, as you said, even if the land is the most precious wealth in the era of complete regression, what will you have left? With the ebb and flow, you should worry It’s something that one day someone reaches out to you.”

"If the matter in Mincheng is not resolved now, those who want to reach out will have enough excuses. We also know that you are good at compromise, but your foundation determines that it is difficult for you to compromise with those people, because you do not rely on the big land The development of land rent did not rely on those monopoly monopoly or government-run large workshops. So you have no way out. If you don't stand up and participate in stabilizing the situation in Mincheng, then you don't even have the courage to defend your own interests. No, it’s just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.”

"For us, those people may still buy us temporarily. For employees, if the absolute power of those big families can restrict you, they are also happy to do so. Even if it is wrong, they are shackles for themselves. But it will definitely confuse many people."

"So, regarding the matter of Mincheng, you must come forward, you must solve it, you must continue your life, and you must pay some necessary price for your own growth. We don't talk about our demands, but just think about it differently. Help you think about it. Indeed, we want to kill you in the future, but before we kill you, we can still join hands with you to deal with those more backward and reactionary things."

"You have money, but no one. The petty citizens are standing opposite you, who can you rely on? To put it bluntly, if you don't come to buy us at this time, buy the lower class, and wait for the power of the northern family to reach out and unite with the petty citizens To deal with you? At that time, the bottom will watch you bite each other with the mentality of watching a show."

"The freedom you pursue, the breaking of monopoly rights, the abolition of land shackles, and the prohibition of migration orders, etc., but you are not willing to take even the slightest responsibility for the consequences of these things. Your current body is so fragile, it is too early to dig for yourself. The pit is buried under the shadow of the old era, after all, it is not worth it?"

"We also tell you clearly that there is no possibility of compromise between you and those people in the north. Their accumulation of land is far slower than yours. Many of their workshops are opposed by most people. Don't imagine that you have the same privileges as them. Because they still have the basic base of self-cultivating farmers and wealthy farmers, what do you have?"

"Give you political rights, which means that one day you will swallow them up, because your accumulation rate may surpass their accumulation in hundreds of years in a few decades. If you don't give you political rights, then do it well Kill your preparations early, and would rather return to the era of small farmers and small workshops and guilds than allow you to grow stronger day by day. But you are still giving excuses to others day by day, and you don’t even think about solving it. If the old forces are weak or It doesn’t matter if you join forces with you, the problem is that you can be crushed to death casually now, and if you continue to act like this, you will drive most people to the opposite side of you without any thought of redress.”

"This is not a country the size of a county, but a country with tens of millions of people. Some things may not matter in a palm-sized place where the old forces are not strong or deep-rooted. Doing so in such a big country is courting death. Do you think You are towering trees now, that’s because you are only in Fujian City. If you put it in the whole country, you are just bean sprouts now.”

Chapter 36 Dominance (End)

Waiting for these people to digest for a while, the people of the Mo Party took out a thick stack of papers and said: "This is the solution we proposed. Everyone takes a step back. It's better than letting those covetous guys from the north reach out. No Give some people an excuse, and don't force everyone to go against you. To fight against rotten things, we can temporarily join forces with you factory owners. In other words, we contribute, and you contribute money to maintain some The situation of moving forward, clear away some rotten things left in Mincheng."

"Prepare for the worst. If it is declared as a rebellion, it may require barricade confrontation or even take the initiative to attack, and it is necessary to promulgate a program that is in the interests of the majority and completely overthrow the table. It is not for us, but for yourselves. table, this is a revolution that belongs to you. Because you have no way to retreat, there is no chance to compromise, and you are not needed in the old era."

"If it is handled well, mediation becomes a situation where the north side acquiesces, or organizes enough forces to make the opponent dare not take action for the time being, then everything is easy to talk about. Clean up the corruption of the old era, let Min County develop faster, and accumulate strength It is enough to affect the coastal counties, and the matter is another matter."

After saying this, maybe he wants these people to believe that they really have no way out, that person spread his hands helplessly and said: "No way, when Chen Jian was tossing around in the capital a few years ago, he already gave you the way to compromise. It's blocked."

"When you played in rows in the capital city, you didn't have a program at that time. We sat in the middle, and some of you sat on the left. What freedom, rights and obligations, free trade, factory division of labor and rationality, Legislative power, judicial administrative power, the operating mechanism of the new society, etc... the people on the left can help you sum up a lot.”

"We haven't been idle all these years. By the way, we have written a lot of pamphlets in your name and distributed them everywhere. Anyway, people who saw those pamphlets must think that you wrote them. We also read them. They are well written. Basically, it is very much in line with the ideal society in your mind, and I think you should have read it too, but I don’t know who wrote it.”

"Now that a new batch of young people has grown up, the pamphlets of 'you' are still very attractive to young people. The problem is that they are not attractive to those deep-rooted families, and they are very dissatisfied. The Youth Home in the capital city The debate field has penetrated into teahouses, wine shops and even the streets and alleys. If you haven’t concluded the program, we will help you summarize it; if you haven’t imagined how the new era will work, we will help you imagine it; if you haven’t figured out the rationality and legality, we will help you find it .”

"At the beginning, the seats were said to be a cram school. Now it seems that the effect is good. Everyone has grown up. Even if you want to retire at this time, those people will not believe it. You see, even the new era should be yours. I have thought about everything, and there is no place for those people, what do you think they can do? How can they think of you?"

The representatives of the factory owners twitched, thinking of the unsigned pamphlets they had seen before, who had never known who wrote them, about rights, the state of nature, the state and people, checks and balances, etc. I felt that it was a pamphlet for the ideal society in their minds, and couldn't help asking: "Write those things by your people?"

"Not all, some are, for example, the pamphlet that began to circulate in the capital eight years ago, I can tell you very clearly that it was written by our people. For us, this thing is not How to apply it is not the same as our worldview, but it does not prevent us from standing in your perspective to help you summarize, lest you lack a program. Otherwise, you think we are idle, and it is better to separate the left, middle, and right debates in the capital Donate money to support, and then write something that we don’t agree with at all? I’m just worried that you will grow slowly, so I can help you fertilize and water some water.”

The representatives of the factory owners swallowed their saliva, flipped through the papers that stated the general guidelines and various conditions for how to solve the problem, and how to maintain the stability of Mincheng and prevent people from finding excuses to intervene. All the previous conclusions finally put down a thick stack of papers.

He stared at the young people facing him with anticipation or worry, and asked solemnly, "How sure are you that you don't plan for the worst?"

"You have to plan for the worst. Only by making the worst plan can you be sure that you don't have to do things according to the worst plan. I can only say, [-]% of it. Our people went to the capital to find a way to transfer those people. Pay attention, let some of them look away or share some of their pie, so it doesn't get out of hand now."

"Are you saying...these incidents in Mincheng were caused by you alone? Otherwise, why did some of your people make plans before going to the capital?"

Everyone laughed and said one after another: "Don't talk nonsense, the accident in Mincheng was forced by you, we don't want to let Mincheng be in chaos, and it is impossible to predict what will happen in a few months. Just according to reason and analysis, we will do our best to help The factory model and development of Mincheng will delay some time. Always prepare in advance, otherwise it will be too late to prepare when the matter is imminent."

"Then what are you planning?"

"At this moment, you and we are twins. The stronger you are, the stronger we will be."

"If you say that, you should give up all strikes and fighting for rights, and let us grow faster."

"I think we have made it very clear. If we give up, others will not give up. At that time, the old forces and big families will dominate. Do you think the hired workers will not like a class of absolute power to mediate in the middle? They hate you, It is better than hating absolute power. At that time, capital and factories will still be there, but they will be dominated by bureaucrats or old power families, and it will be more difficult to deal with them at that time. Factories will still be there, capital will still be there, but you will not be in control These are just people. Therefore, we let you grow faster, not simply let capital and factories grow faster."

"Why, do you think we are easy to deal with?"

"No, it's just that we don't have to fight against the old forces when you grow up, because when you fight against the old forces, you help to fight against it. From now on, it's enough to fight against you. Instead, we have to fight against those who replaced you, and we also have to fight against the old forces. The old forces, old families, and old chaebols are troublesome, and they are easy to be suppressed together. It’s different now, you can’t compromise, and you can only stand with us in opposing the old forces. Wouldn’t it be more difficult for us to have multiple allies? good?"

"According to what you say, we seized power just to pave the way for what you will do in the future? Then what's the point of us doing this?"