Chapter 115: Arrangements Before Departure (5)
Most of the people present immediately stopped the pen and paper in their hands, and the people outside guarded it, and some people were stunned in their hearts, they had already guessed a rough idea, but they were not sure.
After everyone quieted down, Chen Jian made three reports, "On the Land of the Vassal Kings of the Ming Empire and the Tax-Free Land of the Bureaucratic Class", "The System of Inequality of the Four Peoples", and "The Problem of the Squire's Heroic and Strong in Quanzhou, Fujian".
"Ladies and gentlemen, since we have made human equality and human progress our party philosophy, we must have sufficient alliances. To this end, we must not only fight for rights at home, but also set off a wave of great revolutions against feudal emperors, nobles, clergy, and so on on all over the world. Only when the idea of equality for all and human progress is deeply rooted in the hearts of every person at the bottom can we ensure the realization of our ideals. It's not just domestic, it's not just immigrating to a paradise like the Great Wilderness City to build alone. ”
"Of course, different places have different forms, and we're just here to lay the groundwork for the future. Only when the local people understand that the revolution that belongs to them to pursue their beliefs is the only right way. It's a long, long process, maybe 10, 20 years, or even longer, because there's a behemoth on the other side. ”
"But in ten or twenty years, we can cultivate batch after batch of people in Wangbei City who share our beliefs, fight for what they want, and we can only pin our hopes on them instead of our salvation."
"When we succeed one day, there are many more people in the world who identify with our dreams. Most of you here, I would say that you are gentlemen. A gentleman who teaches science, arithmetic, organization, planting, fighting, and all sorts of things. ”
"If we compare it to doing business, and we look at our purpose as the criterion of profitability, I don't know of a place where we can make more profit than here – we only need to invest a few thousand people, and we will get 10,000 allies who agree that everyone is equal, that they want human progress, that they agree with science and democracy."
"It's like the excuse of those who are trading slaves in the country, when everyone else is selling slaves, you are fools not to sell yourself. Then, when everyone is not equal, it is foolish to pursue equality, so what we pursue must be the business of the whole world connected by ships, not the business of some of us. ”
"We must use one revolution after another to break the old world and old concepts, so that people in the world can agree with equality, freedom, democracy and other beautiful things, and finally realize the world we want."
"At that time, it will be normal people who identify with these things, and those who don't identify with them will not be normal – not like now, we will be treated as outliers."
"As you can see, the aborigines here never think that headhunting is a barbaric thing, and when everyone grows up in this environment, what we think is abnormal will become normal."
"So our cause is not only at home, but in those barren places, but in all the places of the world where there is inequality, oppression, ugliness and darkness. It's just that because of the different developments, different ways are adopted, and they are fought for in stages. ”
"From a purely scientific point of view, all people in the world agree with science, and the larger the base, the faster the speed of scientific progress, and the better the world we pursue with science as the blueprint."
"From the perspective of human nature, we can't bear to look at these unfair oppressions, and devote ourselves to the world as a magnificent cause with a romantic passion."
"We are looking for a new world, not a frog in a well in the middle of nowhere. What we have to do is to sow the seeds all over the world like the dandelions in autumn, moving forward little by little. ”
"Since we're making seeds, we're going to be our husbands, that's all. As for sacrifice, that is the price they must pay to liberate themselves, and if they are not willing to sacrifice, it is also their freedom to continue to endure. ”
"It sounds scary, it sounds scary, or it sounds passionate, but it's actually boring to do."
"Because we are not going to charge into battle, but to sit in Wangbei City to teach students, I am afraid that the impulse to show up for our ideals is difficult to achieve."
"In fact, in the final analysis, it's just life, and if we live our ideal life in Wangbei City, there will naturally be people who want to follow in the footsteps of this place to realize their lives."
"What you have to do is to help the new people who have grown up in the region to build an organization, to teach them what they have to learn, to train them in the skills of craftsmen, in gun tactics, in mathematics and nature, and above all in a worldview - there is no need for an emperor, rights and duties are opposed, by what taxes are exempt, by hidden means of exploitation, by the root of poverty and hunger, ......"
"And how to build a country that belongs to 10,000,000,000 people, equal, literate, and understands mathematics and science."
Speaking of this, Jian Chen smiled at everyone below and said, "Actually, it is neither passionate nor surging, all we have to do is to live a good life, just live a good life like in Min County, in the Great Wilderness City and other places." Even if you are seeds, the students you teach are only seeds. This...... That's our task at this stage. ”
The people below also laughed, but they really didn't expect such a bland ending to be obtained after such a grand opening.
Yes, it's enough to just live well, live in the ideal way, build, try, and pursue.
The comrades who were miners in Nan'an only had to change places, from the Nan'an mining area at 28 degrees north latitude to the Wangbeicheng mining area at 25 degrees north latitude, and then teach these young people from poor backgrounds like them to mine, bomb mines, build wooden tracks, support mine roads, and use detonators.
A young arithmetic and natural knowledge instructor from Lanxiang Technical School came here to speak one, two, three, four, five with the same pronunciation, and used his speed to familiarize himself with the kind of words that seemed to be as plausible as a haha mirror, but many of the same. Receiving a normal salary, teaching the children here what the world is really like, while thinking that they are changing the world.
Comrades who came from weaving and spinning workshops only need to build a cotton workshop from scratch using Indian cotton spinning, and teach the women who are as oppressed as them to do their own thing, earn their own money, and control their own destiny in the workshops that belong to everyone and belong to them.
The pickets from the military training base only had to organize the training of the young people here, teaching them to load flintlock pistols and charge. Since the Spaniards and Portuguese could train black slaves, there was no reason why they should not be taught the same people here.
Shipbuilders have traveled far and wide to caress the finest teak from Thailand and dream of building a big ship with their names engraved on the hardwood on the side of the ship. The difference is just to tell the apprentices and interns who may have to teach in the future that all this is to protect this beautiful life.
And so on, it is life, not for the pleasure and satisfaction of the moment of martyrdom. After all, life is an eternal theme, and war is only a means that has to be done to achieve this end.
The only difference is that there is only a group of people who specialize in organizing and ideological propaganda, and what they have to do is to start from this meeting to summarize the propaganda and organizational models to be carried out to achieve this goal, and to build a local organization here with strict moral requirements based on cultural traditions, as Chen Jian said.
It would only be counterproductive to turn out the dauntless spirit of sacrifice for righteousness in traditional culture, the romantic morality to carry forward the budding ideology of petty bourgeois socialism in traditional culture, and the people-oriented ideas in traditional culture and to establish a life for the people.
The gap between the times is not big, there are not many things to catch up, and the solution is simpler, because it is still a long time before the time to destroy the country and the species.
But if you want to do the two simplest things well, you can't count on the current feudal dynasty.
For example, resettlement and reclamation, such as universal education.
Reclamation of immigrants requires organizational skills, money, the ability to defeat the barbarians, the ability to use tax revenues for immigrants at the grassroots level, the need to break the clans, and the need for grassroots organizations in the resettlement areas instead of family forces to make independent kingdoms.
The popularization of new education requires organizational skills, money, a new model of schools, a new content of the imperial examination, the ability to use tax revenues for education at the grassroots level, the need to break the cultural monopoly, and the need for tens of thousands of seeds of mathematics and natural enlightenment.
This is an era when immigrants can be used to release the pressure of the population at home, and this is also an era when there is no need to invest half of the national income in military defense, and this is also an era in which new crops have spread.
Even so, the process of pursuing all this is bound to be bloody, cruel, and vigorous. But for the "Gentiles" present, it is better not to participate, just live well and be dandelions.