From Chief to Ball

The previous violent gunpowder explosion shattered many glass windows of the party headquarters. The square in front of the party headquarters was covered with blood, and there were sparse gunshots from time to time.

An hour ago, shortly after the powder depot exploded, the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party was also attacked. More than 300 people participated in the attack, but were quickly repelled.

Members of the Mexican Party and peripheral members of sympathizers from nearby factories and residential areas kept coming around, and more than 400 people had already gathered.

People in the party headquarters are opening the basement that has been locked all the time, and taking out bundles of flintlock guns and barrels of gunpowder from inside.

More than 20 young people who have received formal military training are distributing flintlock guns and fixed-loaded lead bullets in leather paper. Two six-pound and one twelve-pound brass cannons are also dragged out of the basement. Young people are bringing up various boxing tools from the party headquarters.

Brushes, vinegar barrels, iron brazing, gunpowder packs, angle comparison table...

The group of people who attacked here before probably thought that they chose a good time: the main picket team of the Mexican Party is in Nan'an, and some of the backbone of the city have also mobilized to go to other counties. It seems that the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party can do it all at once.

It's just that they didn't expect that not long before entering the square, many powerful glycerin explosive grenades were thrown from upstairs, plus a lot of gasoline, sugar, and gun cotton powder. The frictional rangers in the city suffered heavy losses in an instant.

Most of the conflicts between them and the picket team of the Mexican Party involved fists or sticks, which seemed to be the case.

However, when they got down to it, they realized what the students from the School of Navigation and Surveying and Mapping were doing. They organized a secretly trained barricade and grenade youth group, which was completely different in city street fights and brawls.

The pungent smell of gasoline and burnt human flesh filled the front of the square. A charred corpse was distorted into shape, with only white teeth remaining on the entire face, which was particularly creepy.

Many people who have never seen such a scene vomited it out, but those who went to sea with Chen Jian did not. Many people have seen a worse scene than this during disaster relief in Fujian, but only one could not bear it and swallowed. Gun suicide.

The sound of gunfire in the distance continued. Chen Jian had a one-handed sword pinned to his waist, and two flintlock guns loaded with lead bullets. Martial law had already begun outside the square. All newcomers must be party members. Only internal members will do.

Mincheng is the foundation of the Mo Party, and now it is the time when the Mo Party seems weakest in Mincheng, which naturally makes many people show their ambitions.

Chen Jian had already heard the gunshot from the council, and it was the gunshot that reassured him a lot—the policy of the Mexican party chose the current bourgeois democratic revolution instead of a more radical one. policy, so the opponent's action this time chose to directly cull the Mincheng Council and the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party.

There are many questions. Is it an order from the capital?Or are the old forces, whose interests have been lost here, desperately fighting back?

Now is not the time to think about it. The Bell and Drum Tower in the distance sounded impatient and disorderly bells, which are the sounds that can only be made when Mincheng is under attack.

The Mexican Party does not only have the power it sees on the surface. There is a "wooden factory" not far from the Central Party Headquarters. Most of the employees in it are secret party members or peripheral members, and they are all in Turtle Island. Those who have received formal military training can be organized into four regular companies of fusiliers at any time, plus two artillery squads with three catty field guns.

The carpentry factory had been established long ago, but it was expanded suddenly this year, and some workers were recruited from "outside".

Many other factories or workshops where the party has hidden party property also have direct organizational power and can be pulled out at any time.

It's just that this part of power is not used at this time?

There was a quick discussion among several temporary members of the Central Party Headquarters and a few temporary special members who did not have voting rights for temporary members.

There were new news coming in constantly, and when put together, Chen Jian had roughly made a judgment in his mind.

A party member rode from outside the street and reported: "The teams over the ceramic factory and the coal store have been organized and are building barricades to resist. On the opposite side is the regular army, like five cannons."

Chen Jian was not too surprised that the regular army participated. The little power in the enemy's city could not make a difference. If there was any movement from the capital, there would be no news from here.

"What about the situation in the city?"

"It's very chaotic. It was time to go to work before, and now I heard the warning bell, and they should be gathering here."

"Raise the hot air balloon and observe the situation in the city."

"it is good."

"Find a few reliable comrades, ride directly to the contact point to change horses, and spread the news to Nan'an. Nan'an Miners' Association, Mining Explosives Internship Association, Farmers' Association, Co-cultivation Cooperative, Consumer Cooperative, all available forces are mobilized There will be temporary committee members going there soon. Let’s organize first and be ready to go to Mincheng at any time. The pickets have guns, go to our glass factory, there are guns in the warehouse; Form up directly with those who fought in Ryukyu.”

After thinking for a while, he said: "By the way, there are also organizations in the oilfield area, and they will also form formation as soon as possible. By the way, the track in the mine area was demolished and the mine owner was told to repair it for free in the future. Explosives were planted on the canal to blow up the ship lock at any time. What's wrong with us? If the capitalists in the city also participate, they will retaliate afterwards."

"The task force in the nearby county..."

"No, let's leave some seeds for the Mo party."

A temporary committee member next to him added: "If we all die in battle, if you are still alive, tell the surviving people... If you want to continue working for justice and fairness, go to the countryside to share with the opposition. Let's fight the landlord in the field."

Hearing such a sentence that seemed to be an excuse for the future, Chen Jian laughed and said: "All died in battle? I'm afraid they don't have the ability, but I didn't believe that petitions could establish a real republic of Chinese people from the beginning. They thought Our foundation is in Mincheng, as long as we get rid of them, everything will be solved? We don’t know that our foundation is among those Chinese people who have injustices. As long as there are injustices in this world, our foundation is still there. This party is not righteous Brothers who married Jinlan, not to mention families with oligarchic marriages, without our heads, will also grow new temporary members."

To cheer everyone up, listening to the gunshots in the distance, the temporary committee members stood and held a meeting.

"The army is coming from the sea. What I am worried about now is that the navy is also involved. Once the navy helps the shelling, the pressure on the coast will be too great. If that is the case, my father will probably be detained. If it is I am afraid that the order from the capital has been taken away by now."

Everyone listened to the gunshots over there, and nodded. These people don't have a lot of military experience. Those with a little more military experience are either in Nan'an, or they are organizing immigrants to smash the shackles and liberate the city-state slaves in Dahuang City, or they are in Wangbei City. Prepare to participate in the Tokugawa's attack on Osaka to monopolize the trade with Japan.

The fleet here is also not in the port, and now they are all smuggling food back in the Great Wilderness to stabilize prices or controlling the smuggling trade routes in the Taiwan Strait and Ryukyu in Wangbei City.

The Nanyang Company has ships, but the attitude of the Nanyang Company must be ambiguous. If the army is involved, they may not have the courage to blatantly attack the army, and they may even choose neutrality, which seems to be the most neutral.

If there are only two defensive troops outside the city, there are only 5000 people, even if they are elite, it will be difficult to get benefits in the city.

But if this matter drags on for a long time, I don’t know what kind of chain reaction it will have. Whether it will directly start a war with the army, Chen Jian suggested: "In the current situation, reasoning is useless. Reasoning is stretching your neck and being beaten." Human massacre, you can only be reasonable if you win. If you win, you can control Mincheng and let the wall-riding faction stand on our side. If you win, you can put the blame on the officers. If it is not an official order from the capital, there is still room for redemption. If so, then fight more, the harder the fight, the better, it’s better to wipe out all these 5000 people, and it’s easier to reason after the fact. My opinion is... no matter what mediation is done, let’s go to war without dying.”

Everyone discussed for a while and nodded unanimously.

"Since you agree to start the fight, don't hide it. Let's mobilize. There are many graduates from military schools at the grassroots level in Nan'an, and there are also many who can be officers at the grassroots level at any time. There are no cavalry. Be careful on the road, march slowly or It’s by boat. Mobilization, food, organization and the time on the road will take seven or eight days. We have to consider accidents and last ten days.”

"What about the navy?"

"Nanyang Company didn't come forward, we organized a riot to seize the ship. We organized interns to board the ship, cooperated with the old sailors, and pulled the Nanyang Company's ship to fight against the navy stationed in Mincheng."

"Start a fight with the army... I'm afraid that some people will not understand it. It's not our internal, but the external swaying and those sympathizers."

"Take control of the sheriff's mansion and ask the sheriff that he has no formal regulations for letting soldiers enter the city. He hasn't left the city, so he shouldn't have participated, but he may be 'neutral' to delay the time. If it is delayed, we still have a piece of paper from the distant mountains in our hands last time. Warrants? Forged seals and announcements throughout the city, saying that the reform of the tax system and the redemption of franchise rights touched the interests of the old class. Revise the date and post it all over the city. The propaganda team is fully mobilized, only singing the republican song of the Chinese people to participate in politics and not the workers' and peasants' songs, to promote the ugly appearance of those people who have franchise rights. Immediately track down which families are involved in instigating the incidents in the city, and immediately surround them. Wait for the judicial process of the council to directly control and hold a National People's Congress for trial."

"If all the capitalists in the city also participate, then use all the cash produced by the party to close the canals, stop the coal mines, close the ports with oil barrels, cut off the grain ships and cotton ships on the Min River to directly buy and hoard silver, and blow up the river valley textiles The diversion channel already dug in the upper reaches of the district was cut off from power, and all Mincheng handicrafts and industrial upstream factories owned by the party were shut down, all stocks in their hands were sold, and Mincheng silver banknotes were repurchased at low prices, so that those who made money knew that Mincheng was in chaos What can they get. Seven or eight years have passed, and I’m afraid they’ll heal and forget the pain. This time the wound hurts much more than the simple coal last time. They’d better not wait and see, let them understand a stable How important Mincheng is, by the way, remind them not to think that they are the only ones with money. Let them understand that the old forces have nothing to lose when Mincheng is in chaos, and they are not the same."

"If... well, if the sheriff refuses to meet and organizes the sheriff's mansion to resist and directly reprimand us for rebellion, then there is no need to talk nonsense, pull the twelve-jin brass cannon over, bombard the sheriff's mansion, and control the Nanyang Company and the coastal states. The county joint venture bank seized power by armed forces and completely broke up. The Dahuangcheng fleet was mobilized to come back and unite with the controlled Nanyang Company fleet, and went straight to the capital, looking for an opportunity to annihilate the Republic Navy, buying time for this side, and violently mobilizing the rural forces.”

Chen Jian sighed, and said helplessly: "When we get to that point, the situation is really out of control. Now we will draft a "Report to the People of the Landless". When the situation is completely out of control, read it among the landless people in the county factory Evenly distribute the land and secure land rights. This is not a last resort, so don’t read it out, just draft it first. If you don’t have any opinions, then vote on it, and if it passes, draft the "General Mobilization Order of the Party Armed Forces" and "Letter to Mincheng Citizens" .”

After unanimous approval, someone couldn't help asking: "If... I mean, if the situation is really out of control, should we stay or go to the Great Deserted City?"

"Eleven years ago, I told Hulin that if we don't build Xanadu, we won't be able to build Xanadu. After 11 years, even he didn't come to ask me for the 11 silver coins I promised to build his dream city. How about us? "

After thinking for a while, Chen Jian said again: "Even if we can't hold on, we must mobilize all the more than 2 party members and Nanyang Public School, and retreat to Wangbei City. Forcibly take away all the precious metals and the entire fleet of the craftsmen and banks. Burned the Nanyang Company’s charts, smashed all the experimental equipment of the Nanyang Public School, wiped out all the materials of telescope astronomy and surveying and mapping, shot the stubborn captain and navigator of the Nanyang Company...all retreated to Wangbei City, and saved 20 years to plot the Ming Empire to establish a real people The republic of China will wait for the future. There are people who have strength, and if you go to the deserted city, you will only have a dead end, and the fire of revolution will definitely be extinguished."

He wasn't afraid at all that it was the suppression order from the capital this time, really not.

Chapter 96 The Infected

In the Sheriff's House.

The distant mountains are like sitting on pins and needles.

Ten years ago, if such a thing had happened, he would have escaped from Min City immediately and denounced it as a rebellion.

Now, he is inseparable from the capital of Mincheng.