Before dawn, the sounds of docks, grain warehouses, speculators' warehouses, and Chen Jian's private firearms workshop gradually stopped.

By this time, he had understood that this was an organized uprising, not a simple uprising to vent his anger. Of course, using the word uprising is politically incorrect for Yu Yuanshan, and he can and must use the word riot.

It is impossible to station a large number of troops in the city, and the armed forces such as the security patrols in the city may not be as strong as the backbone of the rebels in terms of weapons and combat effectiveness. Old-fashioned unarmed arquebuses, swords, shields, spears, and even armor could hardly resist the passionate, months of training of flint guns, especially in the neighborhoods with dense masonry houses.

But this is not a victory, just the beginning, far from the end. From the very beginning, these people had to think about how to end the game, and it was clear that these people did not have the ability to resist the huge violent machine of the state for the time being, and all they could do was to negotiate and compromise, and try to realize the dream city of anarchic autonomy and mutual assistance in Minjun, and vent their fear of the big machine—the future is bleak for these insurgents, and the impact of those big machines is not hope, but despair and panic.

After a long wait, more and more people gathered near the county guard and council, and the representatives sent by the Mexican party finally arrived.

"What the hell is going on?"

Among the several ink-colored elements who came here, the leader was Qiao Tiexin, who heard Yuanshan's question, and handed over the letter sent by the transcribed rebels, Yuanshan glanced at it roughly, and looked at Qiao Tiexin expressionlessly.

"It's none of our business, we never shy away from our purpose, that's what everybody knows. But it's clear that these things aren't what we're after. ”

"Since it has nothing to do with you, can you help maintain order first? Mincheng can't be chaotic, some of you have guns and organizations, can you help confiscate those people's guns first? Anything can be discussed, but this is not possible. ”

Qiao Tiexin shook his head and said, "County guard, these people have already petitioned once before, but it is useless. You can put it off indefinitely, but if you don't eat for seven or eight days, you will starve to death. While we don't support their pursuits, we don't object to their ways. We can only help keep the city in order from looting and the like, but we can't do the knives and guns in your hands, and our lead bullets can't be fired at those people. ”

Yu Yuanshan gritted his teeth and said: "You have to figure out the current situation, once Mincheng is in chaos, I'm afraid it won't be something you can control at that time." If this is too sensational, you should be careful to revoke the right of association and the right of employees to form associations. You'll regret it then. ”

"This is our bottom line, if one day it is forcibly dissolved or the right of association is revoked, we will fight for it in the same way, you don't have to worry about this."

Qiao Tiexin understood the sound of the distant mountains, now Minjun has grown into a force that cannot be ignored, many people's hands want to reach here, it is very likely that someone will take advantage of the topic to play.

Facing Yuan Shan's worries, Qiao Tiexin said with a smile: "The county guard is worried, and we have also thought about this problem. But when that day comes, will honest others allow it? If you don't fight, you won't get anything. ”

He shook the letter and said, "That's the result of the struggle. ”

"They didn't capture the county guard's mansion, which means that they still want to compromise, hope that the county guard can make decisions for them, and maybe they want the county guard to be the lord of the blue sky to restrain Haoqiang. They didn't have the courage to break the old world, so they didn't have the strength to make Minjun chaotic. We are still discussing what to do, and now we can only say that we will see what to do, and what we will do depends on the follow-up development. ”

"In other words, it's possible for you to reach a compromise with them and riot together?"

"No, the county guard. According to our view of the world, this is an immature, childish uprising, and by no means a riot. ”

"I don't want to argue with you about this issue now, this is the most basic issue, we see that the foundation of the world is completely different, and we can't fight for results. But in the current situation, I hope you can help control the situation, I have no way back, if you reach a compromise and agreement with them, I can only be buried with my decision, but I don't want to ruin the current situation in Minjun. You are the only force that is unlikely to come into direct conflict with them, and there is a possibility of a peaceful resolution. ”

Qiao Tiexin nodded and said, "Of course we are willing to contribute to this to maintain the order of Fujian City." But we need you to take the blame, and we don't want to wait until something happens in the future to use that excuse against us. ”

"As you said, there is no need for excuses when the truth comes against you."

"If the division is famous, you can share the same hatred. We are not ready to use our name for the time being, so you will have to take the blame. We need orders from the county guard, asking our pickets to maintain order, and the county to pay for the wages of our men. And it must be stated that we are only invited to maintain order, not to clash with these insurgents, not to suppress them. ”

He sighed, and his heart was extremely conflicted.

He is not one of those people in the north, and he has seen with his own eyes what kind of power this place where the power of the big family is weakest in Minjun over the years.

Because I saw it with my own eyes, I could understand it. He knew that something was going to happen in Minjun sooner or later, and once something happened, it would be earth-shattering, not only these low-level parties, but also those loose parties formed by big businessmen, big workshops, bankers, maritime merchants, etc., which were also a force to be reckoned with.

So he has decided to tie himself to Minjun, just like those speculators, speculating his ambitions and future in Mincheng, and the rate of return is far greater than honestly being a county guard in the old era.

But the political demands on the letter he saw just now were obviously not what he wanted to see, and once those people in the north put their hands here, Minjun would probably immediately become chaotic.

He had to make a decision, which side he was on—among the great families of the North? Or start from scratch, at this time, it will stand firmly on the side of the big businessmen, big workshop owners, factory owners, bankers, and maritime merchants in Min County.

It is also a matter of suppression or pacification, who will do it, when to do it, how to do it, how to appease, how to solve it, and it is impossible to make a decision without deciding which side to stand on.

Those big bourgeoisie and big businessmen have money and can easily arm a group, but if he puts the handling of this matter in the hands of these people, an irreconcilable repression is inevitable.

At that time, there will definitely be countless people attacking him, the unauthorized armed forces will not have the right to participate in the repression, and he will definitely be caught as an authorizer, and when a few tragic photos will be circulated, and a few miserable articles will be written, and those people in the north will definitely be happy to clean up their faction and have an excuse.

Loyal to the old era, the best choice is to flee from Min County, whether the army does it itself and does not take the blame, but it also means that his political career is over, without the support of Min County, he is rootless duckweed, and he is kneaded at will.

Those in the north were happy to see a return to their family days, and they did not live on factory profits and overseas trade anyway, and their appeal was precisely an opportunity for them to mediate in the destruction of the increasingly powerful bourgeoisie in Minjun.

They denounce the political system that the bourgeoisie and the hired class are calling for a political system in which there is partial consensus, and they bewitch the lower classes that the best way is to revert to the patriarchal and guild era, where there is no meaning in representation, election, equality, and freedom.

It is better to rely on family generations, otherwise under the competition of the bourgeoisie, the people will lose everything.

Naturally, these things were not thought of by Yu Yuanshan himself, but after reading the newspapers and pamphlets of the Mexican Party.

Just like these things that happened in Mincheng at this time, and then linked to the letter of political appeals, Yu Yuanshan can almost be sure: If there is no behind-the-scenes promoter of this matter, there will be ghosts, and the behind-the-scenes promoter is very hidden, otherwise such a strange appeal would not have been made.

After weighing everything, he had to make a seemingly extremely strange decision: to use the power of the Mexican Party to stabilize the situation in Mincheng.

After Chen Jian returned, he visited the Mexican Party, and in the past few years, he has carefully studied the pamphlets and propaganda materials of the Mexican Party, and finally understood a problem: many people are wrong, the Mexican Party seemed to stand at the bottom at the beginning of its establishment, but it was not a party of the whole people or the bottom.

With the establishment of the Minjun Workshop, and after the dissolution of the old Mexican Party as the Progressive League a few years ago, and the dissolution of the Progressive League, the Mexican Party has completed its transformation from a low-level poor party to a hired labor party.

This is not a party of the poor at the bottom, it is just a party of hired workers, except that the hired workers happen to belong to the bottom.

He thought carefully about what the Mo Party had done over the years, and smoothed out the context of everything.

From the establishment of large workshops and factories to the investment in mechanical technological advancement, this is exactly the step by step effort for the future. With the help of social assets, a person who makes a profit from wage labor under the large land ownership system of large factories and workshops is formed, and the number of hired workers is expanded.

It guides and induces the capital related to land leasing to be turned into capital that exploits the labor of workers as much as possible, so that the capital that originally only leased land can be invested in places where it can produce hired workers in batches.

Even they have been committed to the immigration of the Great Wilderness City, which is not from the perspective of the poor people, but in the mass production of different forms of hired labor. The land system there is not a traditional peasant at all, although it is somewhat similar, but the ownership of land there is not private ownership.

At this time, Yu Yuanshan finally understood what Chen Jian had told him: they were not the party of the good people, or even the party of the poor people with pity, but the representative of another force.

Therefore, making such a seemingly absurd decision became the right choice.

In addition to the big businessmen and big capitalists who never die, the most programmatic, organized and powerful political organization that does not want to destroy the machine and return to the small land system and the patriarchal guilds is the Mexican Party.

In addition, it is the only political force that is likely to reach a settlement that will not be exploited by those in the north, and the last incident of the miners has proved that this group of people is organized and has enough power to maintain order in the city.

Of course, he felt that it would be better if the side he wanted to speculate on could provoke confrontation between the two sides or even break out into a bloody conflict.