Chapter 37: Programme I

If you want to refine the issue of small citizens to support the right to vote, you must safeguard their vital interests.

The small citizens born in the old era are extremely exquisite, and they can be summed up as hating officials and hating the rich, and at the same time hating farmers and hating the poor and hating employees.

However, at both ends of the production relations in the new era, especially in places like Mincheng, where the power of big families is scarce, most of the people in the two groups are born from small citizens. The further is the factory owner, and the one step back is the proletarian worker.

The bourgeoisie says that free competition is good, but you petty citizens are destroyed because they cannot adapt to the times. The small citizens think that this is unfair, and that we should build a beautiful society in which absolutely fair labor exchange and full labor is exchanged for full consumption, so you big bourgeoisie should give us a level playing field morally and morally.

The hired class said that the solution to the problem should be public ownership, and that it should be public ownership of the means of production rather than property, so as to ensure that full labor is exchanged for full consumption, and it is not feasible to rely on morality and morality. The small townspeople, on the other hand, trembled with fright when they heard the word "public ownership", and thought that it would deprive them of the means of rising by "industrious labor," and that they would be cut off from the question of their sense of superiority in looking at the bottom with pity when they could get by, and that they could deprive the upper class of part of their property but not move their ownership.

That being the case, if we want to gain continuity and support for the most progressive issue of voting rights in this turmoil, we have to take into account the attitudes of these small citizens, and it must be closely related to them, otherwise it will be difficult to sustain.

If you want to deal with it, you can only find a way from the investment funds of the county-owned factories.

The small citizens have a fervent compassion, and this is their progressiveness. But as soon as the price of this mercy is to collect taxes from them, they will object. In a word, I pity them, but don't try to take money from me to pity them, as for what to do, that's none of our business, but we pity them and want their lives to improve.

The big bourgeoisie also have their own considerations for the investment in county-owned factories. If, as with the poll tax, each class with a certain amount of spending power is subject to a certain amount of tax, then it would be best.

It is the robbery of the poor and the help of the poor that can also cause hatred and contradictions between the small citizen class and the lowest level, turning that little bit of pity into a dispute of vital interests.

If possible, it would be better to collect taxes from the countryside as well, and collect taxes from the yeoman peasants to feed the low-level workers in the cities, so that in the future when there is another riot in the cities, the yeoman peasants can be directly pulled to suppress it.

In this way, the factory owners have reached a secret agreement with the Mexicans, and the Mexican Party no longer needs to compromise with them, but in turn stabs the factory owners and big businessmen with the small citizens.

When negotiating with the factory owners and big businessmen, they left an opening as to where the money came from, spreading rumors that they were going to take money from the petty burghers and peasants to buy off the bottom, so that the petty citizens insisted on the change of voting rights even though they knew that their demands had failed.

If we do not even strive for this greatest progress, the Mexican Party will have no choice but to split the party, kill all the progressives, democrats and low-level factions in the party, kneel and lick the capitalist group, and perfectly reach an interest group with the big factory owners and big businessmen, and degenerate into a liberal capitalist party, which is only anti-feudal, anti-big family, anti-bureaucratic capital, anti-old rights, and not anti-capitalists.

From the chaos at the beginning of the uprising to the current one-month or so when the Mexican Party has regained the leading position of the movement at the bottom, many of the Mexican Party's actions have not been so magnificent.

However, there is no way to do this, any change must touch the interests of too many people, and it is impossible to achieve this process without bloodshed and conflict.

Just like the previous proposal of the county-owned factory, the factory owners and big businessmen did not agree, and shouted that this is freedom, not knowing at all that they would continue their lives, and they did not realize the counterattack of the old forces.

In this case, there is no choice but to pay for it and to publish a few pamphlets on how to seize power and how to build a barricade, and make it look like it wants to stand on the side of the ultra-radicals, relying on the petty citizens and the ultra-radicals to scare the factory owners and big businessmen.

After the factory owners compromised, they would return the core interests of the small citizens to the guilds and smash the machines to petition for sale, and support the voting reform of the small citizens with only collateral interests, and turn those who were originally not human in terms of voting rights into human beings, and expand the right to speak and the basic market.

Only by fighting for rights can one win one's compromise, and one's compromise and begging for charity can only be exchanged for slaps in the face again and again.

Just like the story of Mozi's rescue of the Song Dynasty, if Mozi hadn't sent three hundred disciples to the city of the Song Kingdom early, he was only going to persuade the King of Chu by reasoning...... It is impossible to have the story of Mozi saving the Song Dynasty, so it is estimated that it can only leave such a masterpiece in the history books: "Zhai Zhiying, arguing against Song injustice, Wang Fu, cooking".

Although all this was not the ultimate goal of the Mexican Party, they still relied on a program that was relatively sound compared to the rest of the parties and began to strive for the most important change in the republic in more than a century.

Relying on the grassroots organization, good reputation, pickets that can prove their strength, and the huge amount of money that Chen Jian can leverage to hand over the ownership of the party property, a series of agreements reached behind it have planted a big hole for the emerging capitalists eight years in advance...... The Mexican Party, which had only maintained order in the early stage and even seemed to have given up its dominance this time, began to exert its strength 10 days before the election of a new parliament on October 17.

The perfect program began to be proposed, drawing all the progressive forces against the remnants of feudalism and the old forces such as the gate lord family to their side, and clearly proposing a new program of the council that would be more suitable for the times, loyal to the republic, committed to maintaining the integrity of the republic, and respecting the taxes and duties of the republic, as well as the officials, and more favorable to the people of Minjun.

The first of all the programs is to be loyal to the Republic, to preserve the integrity of the Republic, to recognize the irrevocable taxes agreed upon by the Council of the Republic and its king, and to fulfill the obligations of the people of Minjun in the event of an invasion of the Republic.

This is to ensure that the forces in the north cannot find an excuse to extinguish this bright flame of capitalist bean sprouts, and in addition to Chen Jian's instigation of those families in the north to divert their attention elsewhere, the lack of absolute power to suppress the republic at this time is also an important factor.

Min County has been preparing for this day since Chen Jian began to toss ten years ago. Before a large number of firearms were ordered on a large scale by Nanyang Company, Chen Jian had already spent a lot of money to establish a firearms workshop, and the number of firearms produced over the years was definitely quite a lot.

The warships and trainee system of the Nanyang Company, coupled with the fleet of the Great Wilderness City, could guarantee the naval superiority of Mincheng. Advances in mathematics and physics, as well as the mass training of new-style schools, can ensure that there are better artillerymen here than the military schools in the capital.

At this time, the best option for the old forces in the north was to catch up, rebuild the cadre of officers, who were mainly wealthy peasants and family forces, and retrain the yeoman peasant cavalry, which had been abandoned after the end of the Unification War, which would take time. At this time, choosing to turn the other cheek is not the best choice either morally or in strength.

As far as Mincheng is concerned, even if the new council can try to create a slightly better life for the bottom of Mincheng by legally robbing the rich and helping the poor, it will not be able to give birth to an independent trend of thought.

On the one hand, there is a long-standing foundation for unity and cultural traditions, which have not given the soil for independent thought to survive.

On the other hand, the last thing the industrial capitalists and maritime merchants wanted was to divide up, and it was in their interest to open up colonies and maintain them with a large amount of capital investment, and to maintain the huge market of a common, tariff-free republic.

At the National People's Assembly, which established Nanyang Company a few years ago, Chen Jian had already laid the nail on it.

Since then, some capitalists and plantation operators in Min County have been at odds with some families in the north. Because the rules of the franchise, the ban on the import of grain under the famine, the prohibition of sugar crossing the river, the ban on migration, the tariff on overseas raw materials, and so on, have made this group of interests with growing appetites dissatisfied, not to mention strange ideas such as independence.

At the beginning, it was nominally to compromise and accommodate the north and to prevent competition with the people, but in fact it was secretly inciting the determination of the new capitalist group to be formed to completely break the shackles of the old era, and the theories and reasons instigated will be sufficient in the future when the force is sufficient.

Unless it is strong enough to colonize the north, the best option for capital is to maintain a republic, to get rid of the present vested interests, to have a completely free domestic market, to have cheap raw materials and domestic dumping markets, to sweep away the remnants of feudalism and familial families, and to fight for political rights.

Article 2 of the program is the rationality of the new council, as well as the powers, duties, directions, and rights of the new county civilian council.

Without touching the composition of the old council, the civilian council under the new voting system was established in accordance with the voices of the people of all sides after the uprising.

The new Commoner Council no longer has direct official appointments, guild leaders, Glory Families, etc., but is elected according to rank and region.

Unlike in the past, the new council members not only did not need to pay the deliberative fee, but also received a part of the full-time salary from the fees of the new public servants in the county, which was small but could support their families, thus changing the property monopoly of the part-time council members.

The members of the county who went to the people's assembly of the capital city were still elected according to the original rules, and the new civilian council did not participate in or change it, so as to maintain the legal system of the republic.

The examination, expenditure, and statistics of the expenses and taxes of the county administration which had previously belonged to the county were decided by the new council, as well as some public affairs, and such regulations as were not contrary to the interests of the republic.

In order to divide the old forces, the chairman of the new council proposed that Yuanshan, the deputy guard of the county, who had formulated a number of favors for the development of the bourgeoisie in Mincheng over the years, should serve as the deputy guard, and also in order to test Yuanshan's ambitions and the bottom line of such a toss in Mincheng.

Unexpectedly, after learning about the program of the Mexican Party, he immediately said that this was the right of the Chinese people, and it was his honor as a Chinese citizen to be granted such trust and rights by the Chinese people, and he gladly accepted it.

As a big family, after witnessing the various changes that have taken place in Mincheng, the two-sided bet has become the embodiment of a big family with a keen sense of smell. At this time, the big families who don't understand two-sided betting are unqualified.

At this time, there is no family planning, which big family does not have three or five capable children, one invests in the family, one invests in the big landlord, one is a businessman, one is in politics, one is conservative, and the other is innovative.

The third and fourth articles are all things such as legitimacy and rationality, and their significance is huge, but the symbolic and ideological significance is far higher than the actual significance.

In short, it is a sentence: we are not rebelling, we are not rebelling, we are just fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of the people, exercising the rights of the people given by Ji Xia when the country was founded hundreds of years ago, and we are reasonable and legal to do so, and we can find the basis from the pile of old papers.

After all, there was a back door in the first place, and the premature appearance of paper and text made it unrealistic to ban it completely.