The gossip became regular news, and the regular news spread from the capital to Min County along the post station or route. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Along with these news, there were people from all over the city who received invitations.

Unlike the last scientific symposium, this time it was all social activists and theorists who were invited.

Every time the era develops to a critical point at the turn of the old and the new, there will always be a scene where a hundred schools of thought will compete in the Jixia School Palace, which is inevitable. The lack of such spontaneous contention either proves that society has not yet reached a period of transition, or that the group is lagging behind before the advent of a new era.

After hundreds of years of development, the era of a hundred schools of thought in this ethnic group is finally coming.

There are hundreds of schools, even if the controversy has not yet begun, but it is already chirping and messy.

After the incident of the artificial voter in Mincheng, a long and chaotic discussion began within the Mexican Party.

The power of the council is not too great, but the quarrel caused by this small power has become chaotic like a forest that has been awakened by the sound of gunfire and has slept all night.

It's not a big deal, it's about the Poor Relief Act.

This kind of relief still relies on the old moral system, which is shared by all those in the county who can stand on their own, earn their own livelihood, and have a certain amount of property, real estate, and income.

Everyone will pay the same amount of money for the relief of the poor, and of course everyone who can afford to pay is also well-paid.

There was a feeling within the party that this was the easiest change to implement, and some people put forward their opinions.

Hu Lin thinks that this kind of relief is unreasonable -- he has not yet reached the level of discovering the problem at the root, but it is a little farther away from others on the surface.

For this unreasonable reason, Hu Lin believes that this is actually taking the money of the poor to help the poor, because some people who make a living on their own are still poor compared to those big households, rich merchants, and big workshop owners.

He and Chen Jian knew each other very well, so they didn't mind using each other as an example.

"Ladies and gentlemen, assuming that the tax of half a silver coin is a drop in the bucket for a big workshop owner like Jian Chen. But for ordinary citizens, this can affect the lives of many days. But this is more than the money for relief to be shared among all those who have the right to vote, which is unreasonable. The proportion should be redrawn according to the family's property or income. ”

Probably influenced by the victory of the last miners' petition incident, he said something more serious with some excitement.

"The poll tax is also unreasonable. Look at the poor people who sometimes have to drown their children in order to pay less poll tax......"

After impassionedly pointing out the situation, those who opposed it in the party immediately questioned it.

"Hu Lin, if you say that, then the things you are pursuing cannot be self-consistent internally. Relief is morality, so why should the rich who have worked to get rich feed the poor? The law of remedies is not reasonable, but it still needs to be done morally. ”

"But like you said, if you abolish the poll tax and implement what you call a tax on income, then the problem arises again. In this case, why should we pursue the qualification of more people to have the right to vote? On what grounds do we pursue equal voting? ”

"According to you, those who pay more taxes should naturally have more rights; People who pay less in taxes should have fewer rights. ”

"Besides, the rich must be intelligent and industrious, and it is okay to pursue moral welfare, but the person who manages and rules must be rich. Because if you can't even be rich, why can you manage a county well? ”

"We support the moral economy and bailout, and we are sympathetic to the plight of the poor. However, things must be done reasonably. If progressive taxation is applied to the relief law, then equality of votes cannot be pursued; On the other hand, if a progressive tax is not implemented, everyone pays the same tax, so that equality of votes can be pursued. ”

…… Roughly before the people from the invited capital arrived, there was a bickering within the party on such a similar issue.

This is why there must be political economy, sociology, and ideology.

A simple matter, without the corresponding new theory as a support, the internal logic is difficult to be self-consistent.

Things in the new era must be reinvented. Just like the divine right of kings, we need to find a new theoretical support point to prove that the human rights, freedom, and democracy we pursue are just, correct, and logically self-consistent.

If the divine right of kings is regarded as justice, then it is inevitable that the conclusion that what you want to do is justice cannot be obtained from within. Although there is no divine right here, everything from the old times still exists. The transformation of the new era is dual, with both the revolution of the productive forces and the revolution of ideas.

A small discussion about taxes and rights is just the tip of the iceberg. What is hidden in this corner is refracted in this corner, and it is incomparably grand.

Without a hundred schools of thought, it is impossible to melt and start anew. And without a spontaneous controversy, it will always give people a feeling of foreign products, which is emotionally difficult to accept.

Actually, it's still those things that are being discussed.

Human nature, good and evil, civil power, monarchy, private property, public property, private power, centralized power...... It's just that under the production relations of different productive forces, different conclusions have been reached, the arguments that have been agreed upon are different, and the expressions under different traditional cultures are even more different.

The result of precociousness is a tragedy, and the result of missing is just as tragic as the result.

Chen Jian did not participate in this discussion, but was busy with the economic basis of this change, continuing to create a testing ground for these people, giving them enough opportunities to observe and draw conclusions.

There is no Jixia School Palace here, Chen Jian thinks that he will regard Mincheng as the Jixia School Palace before the opening of the new era, and let those ideas grow slowly in this hotbed, fierce confrontation, debate and discussion.

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In June, the news that Yuan Shan was about to take office as the deputy warden of Min County and the commercial officer of the county was finally confirmed, and the official acceptance of his fate had spread.

In the past few months, Chen Jian has withdrawn his funds, relying on the reputation he has accumulated before, and has survived the most dangerous possible run period.

The cotton spinning cooperatives in Mincheng have begun to make a profit and have recovered their principal; The hand-pulled loom thrown to Qi in advance also made Chen Jianyun a lot of money on cotton and cotton yarn; The canal's tolls have a steady income every month; The wave of glass price reductions along the coast won a decisive victory, completely squeezing the glass workshops, and the money continued to flow into his pocket.

The oil wells are still being excavated, and a simple oil refining workshop has been established in Nan'an, relying on the original non-continuous individual distillation kettle method, which can process thousands of catties of crude oil per day, and the only useful kerosene and the method of extracting paraffin wax by oil residue crystallization filtration can be regarded as officially profitable.

The sulfuric acid and alkali production workshop has finally been completely integrated and truly become a chemical system.

The exhaust gas discharged from the alkali production process is recycled with heated air, copper chloride and pyromanganese, and chlorine gas is collected in batches.

The bleaching powder produced by chlorine and lime milk has also become the favorite of the cotton cloth industry in Mincheng, and this bleaching technology simplifies the bleaching process that originally went through seven processes into two, and the bleaching effect is better, and soon the weaving industry in Mincheng also gains benefits.

With the development of the oil exploitation industry by the Zhuo tube well method, it has also caused a reality of an increase in the number of cattle in the salt well area.

Every ten years in Nan'an and Mincheng, sick or old cattle are sold, and the blood of the cows is collected and burned with potassium alkali to make yellow blood salt.

The waste gas hydrogen chloride of the alkali production workshop is collected with charcoal and water, and it is combined with iron to form ferrous chloride, and then chlorine gas is introduced to become ferric iron, which is combined with yellow blood salt as a dye.

The production of sulfuric acid is increasing day by day, and some wealthy people in the north have begun to play with hydrogen balloons, and the consumption of itself as a raw material for explosives is also increasing.

Acidolytic glycerin, soap, and simple heart medicine are also being developed around this system.

A set of systems with the steps of cattle for oil wells, cattle selling meat, killing cattle for blood, blood burning dyes, salt alkali production, exhaust gas bleaching, and oxidizing raw materials, or something similar to the system, was finally established in patches.

Although the output is not high and the equipment is poor, it has taken the first step towards becoming a system. A large number of craftsmen also began to purposefully try to make new machines to cope with the problems that arose in this system, and to make a living from it.

In time, with the advantages of Nan'an's coal and iron and Minjun's port, which is already a future international trade port, this simple and crude industry will gradually develop into a chemical center and coal-iron complex industrial zone on the continent or the whole world.

In the same way, under the influence of the balance incident in the capital, more and more craftsmen came to Minjun to Nan'an, joining the craftsman technical association in the name of science.

Chen Jian has made a lot of money, and half of his annual glass income is thrown here. Ask people to give people, ask for money to give money.

He provides ideas, craftsmen try to make them, experiment, and finally the time has come to reap the rewards.

The development of the steam engine is far away, and preconditions such as new lathes and boring machines are still slowly being tried, but something else has reached a critical point.

In agriculture, trying new seed drills, horse-drawn cultivators, horse-drawn wooden threshers, horse-drawn ear harvesting machines have already taken shape, which is not too difficult things, the idea and direction are right, and the assembly of craftsmen is a planned development much faster than spontaneous research.

And in the cotton spinning industry, where the handicraft industry is the easiest to break through, new machines are also being tried to be manufactured.

Cotton starts from harvest and requires a lot of preparation before it can be spun into thread and then woven into cloth.

From seed cotton ginning into lint, hand-kneading into cotton slivers or using existing rolling machines to make cotton slivers, and then spinning the cotton slivers with hand-spinning wheels, or spinning roving into roving and then spinning roving into fine yarns, this is a complete set of business.

The ginning machine is just the beginning, and the legendary Jenny machine also spun roving into fine yarn, rather than directly turning cotton into yarn.

Research on textile machinery has been taking two years, and simple carding machines, cotton winding machines, and multi-spindle worsted spinning machines with hydraulic or animal power are ready to be released.

There is no need to follow the path that has proven to be an evil path, and there is no need to follow the established development.

Chen Jian looked at these simple iron or wooden machines and was full of emotion.

Not lamenting the greatness of machinery, but lamenting the turmoil that all this will bring.

Any traveler who aspires to change the world will inevitably exacerbate the turmoil in society, but will not make it more stable and stable.

Taking a person who has died a normal death for decades or more than a hundred years in a drastic form in just a few years can have horrific consequences.

The research on these machines is not strictly confidential, but it is also tried not to be publicized.

The simple promotion of agricultural machinery has caused a large number of small yeoman farmers to go bankrupt and be merged, and agricultural workers to lose their jobs.

As a result of the mechanical spread of these cotton spinning industries, the craftsmen of the cotton spinning industry were reduced to bankrupt proletarians within a few years.

The machine brought about a revolution in industry, but also a violent social upheaval, especially in a group of craftsmen who were well developed - people had to eat.

Originally, these transformations from handicraftsmen to proletarians, from small-land yeoman farmers to destitute hired laborers, were slowly digested over a period of more than 100 years.

These people will die and go bankrupt, but they will not die one after another because of the dilution of time.

But once this dilution is artificially shortened, riots and social unrest will erupt.

The Industrial Revolution did not begin with the steam engine, but with the machines that were already born at the moment—hundreds of thousands of unemployed agricultural workers flooded into the cities, tens of thousands of cotton spinners lost their jobs or went bankrupt, and hundreds of thousands of workers and instability left the whole society...... And not just the beauty of factories, black smoke, and machinery.

On the other side, however, the ideological revolution is not yet ready, and no one has yet laid down the ideological system of bourgeois democracy in the internal world.

On the other hand, this pressure relief valve for violent social unrest is not yet ready, and beyond the sea is still unknown.

If you want to kill fewer people, you can only put these machines on hold and experiment instead of using them.

Looking at it dialectically, this is also a good thing. A group of people who are unemployed, rebel, and suppressed can put people who should have the same fate on a sailboat.

Those who are not persecuted and poor cannot survive, and only merchants go to sea, not colonists who live and cultivate land in a fixed place.

Ideological change, mechanical power, and pressure relief valves are all linked together and indispensable, especially for a country with a population of more than 10 million.

After several years of exhaustion, Jian Chen realized that this was just the first step.

"Monsters that devour human lives, wait here first."

Looking at these simple handmade or animal-powered and water-powered machines made of pig iron or wood, Jian Chen was helpless.

Love and hate.