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The officials were so sad that they could not even agree on the basics.

The majority of officials disagree with the petition, and there is still a consensus on this point. However, the question is, if you don't say yes, what happens next? That's the problem.

Now in the city, except for the strange prices, everything still exists, and once you start to do it, the order of the city will be completely chaotic.

Now it's just these hired workers who are petitioning, and it can be seen that the other side is deliberately controlling their emotions and not expanding the problem.

This is both gratifying and frightening, and it proves that those on the other side have far more control than these officials can imagine.

Once the mob is disciplined and ceases to be a mob, it means that the group of people has become terrible.

Once the problem expands, a scene from decades ago is in the history books. If there is discontent, what about these miners and dock workers? The cottage industries, which were exploited by contractors and big businessmen, were similarly dissatisfied, and if this sentiment was stirred up, it would be an armed insurrection.

It can be seen that the Mexican Party is trying to stabilize the price of food, and if it is also unstable, and at the same time stirs up emotions, it may be like a fire in the prairie - it only needs to blow the wind to the speculators in the council, and then it will inevitably lead to a major event, and the official propaganda of Mincheng has completely fallen.

After the old county warden said this, he stopped expressing his opinion and wanted to seek the opinions of the officials. Anyway, as a county guard, he has reached the peak of his political career, and he is already indifferent to it, the so-called desirelessness is rigid, and he has really reached the realm of desirelessness, but he can see it more clearly than when he was blinded by desire before.

When an enemy like Hou Boguo existed, the republic inevitably promoted the identity of the countrymen in order to gain soldiers and combat effectiveness. However, once these things are preached too much, and the enemy does not exist, problems will arise, especially when the contradictions in the classical republic are frequent in the later period, and the imperial system seems to have become the best way to solve the problem, used as a buffer between the bottom and the classical chaebol, and reconcile the contradictions between the two, but before it has come to this point, it has been forced to the edge of the handicraft revolution and the Age of Discovery.

In this case, the mind is extremely confused. On the one hand, the remnants of decades ago that proclaimed citizenship have not been removed, and on the other hand, the new ideology has not yet been established, and the top down is in a period of ideological transition, and they are at a loss for what to do.

After a long time, Shi Ming, the commercial officer, finally spoke: "If you want me to say, this is a rebellion. The hired men would never have done this if no one had instigated them behind them. As long as the wheel crushes the ant, capture those who lead the way. Either sentenced or hanged, these people naturally dispersed in a hurry. Where is the kingdom in the city now? ”

Hearing this, the magistrate frowned and said: "Even if they are said to be a rebellion, the problem is that there was a rebellion law when the country was founded, how can this be considered a rebellion?" All the government departments did not attack, did not kill officials, just petitions. ”

The magistrate was very depressed in his heart, the old county guard was obviously not ready to take responsibility for this matter, and he could not afford this responsibility. If everything goes well, it's fine, but if it doesn't go well and the trouble gets bigger, will the above carry this pot for them? Or will they use their official status to appease public anger?

Shi Ming snorted, "How can it not be considered a rebellion? They are pitting the mine owners against the hired workers, which is sedition. Obviously, they are all Chinese people, but they want to artificially divide them into two sides and instigate contradictions, which is treason. Is there anything wrong with this crime? ”

The magistrate shook his head and said, "Of course there is a problem. When the Northern Expedition was unified, there were also 'martyrs' in the northern states. The people of Qi consider themselves to be people of Qi and the patriots think they are patriots, which is artificially instigated and propagated. If the Marquis of Qi had fled and the Marquis of Wei had surrendered, no one would have believed in this confrontation anymore. But the miners and the mine owners are not opposed to each other by promoting them, but they are opposed to each other whether they are instigated or not. It's just telling the truth. If there was no Qi Hou, there would be no Qi Hou State, and conversely, there would be no Mo Party, and the mine owners and miners would still be full of contradictions. This kind of thing can deceive yourself, deceive those who have a mouth like a gun and a mouth like an arrow? ”

These words were not thought of by himself, but the group of writers of the Moxican Party wrote this matter clearly and clearly early on, for fear that he would be accused of treason. The magistrate felt that the group had already thought about the consequences before they were ready to do something. It's okay to just die, but it's impossible to die on the back of a charge of treason, and if you force this charge, you will have to bear the infamy in decades or centuries.

There is no heaven or hell, only sweat and ink, and the magistrate does not want to bear such a reputation on his back. Besides, the county guard who should be the most responsible didn't say a word, and wanted to push the problem down, who would be willing to carry such a cauldron?

Now this group of people is quite honest, but once some things appear, they can't be killed. There are quite a few radicals within the Mexican Party, and once this incident evolves into a violent shock, it is not impossible for those radicals to use mining explosives to blow themselves up and punish the country.

The magistrate thought of a perfect solution, that is, to define the matter above, and when he tried himself, he would not sentence the leading leaders to hanging, but exile them to the bitter cold of the Far North.

As long as you don't do things in the places under your jurisdiction, and if you are exiled, you won't attract a retaliatory attack, which is the best of both worlds. But if the top doesn't act, thinking about a good name for loving the people, and thinking about pushing the responsibility to the bottom, then he will never touch this mold.

Shi Ming said again: "Anyone who makes trouble must want to get something for nothing, and they can also be thrown into prison on this charge." Besides, why do others become mine owners when they are rich, and they become hired laborers when they are poor? Because of laziness. According to the crime, even if they don't kill, they should all be sent to workhouses or confined to the army, there should be no problem, right? ”

Tax officer Zhang Yu said helplessly: "Brother Shi, the problem now is that if these people don't return to work for a day, there will be no coal in Mincheng for a day." The problem now is to find a way to get them back to work, not to kill them all. Before the time to kill, who will do the work if they are all killed or thrown into the workhouse? And what if this happens, and these people rebel? ”

"You have to understand that these people are not well-fed and support students, but hired workers. If you are a student student, let them mess around, and you will be honest if you beat them. But the hired workers are completely different, they make a fuss, and the city is going to be in chaos. People who are full of food are not as good as fart, and they can't leave any taste at all. But the hired workers were not fed and fed, but hungry. ”

Shi Ming glanced at it and said, "According to what you say, we can only agree?" The order changes overnight, where is the face? How will the decree be implemented in the future? In the future, whenever something happens, it will make a fuss, what kind of system is this? Do you really want to go back to the old path of Chinese politics 200 years ago? If you talk about history books, I have read a lot, when the people were political, the king had an order, and the people at the bottom refused to be soldiers, and if they didn't change, they would let the meat eaters fight by themselves! The time was at stake, but those poor ghosts refused to serve unless they agreed to their conditions, do you want to see this happen again? These people don't know the severity, they only know the small profits in front of them, and they are short-sighted, which is not the blessing of the country. ”

Zhang Yu smiled bitterly, did not refute, and said in his heart: "Isn't this caused by refusing the petition in the first place?" ”

It's just that he thinks so in his heart, but he can't say it on his lips, at least on the bright side, he will never betray his ass, otherwise he will not be able to move an inch.

Zhang Yu thought that there was only one sentence he could help Jian Chen, and there was no need for more. This incident, but he has nothing to do with it, he is just a tax official in the city. Prices are skyrocketing, workers are rallying, businessmen are speculating, all of this has nothing to do with them. It's none of your business.

Moreover, the situation is different today, two hundred years ago, most of the people in the city could naturally become a very influential force. Nowadays, according to the proportion, there are not as many people in the city as there used to be, and it is no longer the time when three or five megacities support a country.

The larger the proportion of the urban population, the higher the political participation of the Chinese people, and vice versa.

The current situation was something that no one expected, and they did not expect that the scattered people of the country would reorganize again, which made them extremely uneasy and did not know how to deal with it.

Officials continue to argue, and there is a tendency to find a way to continue to drag this matter down.

The old county guard reluctantly said something again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this matter can't drag on. It takes a month to travel to and from the capital or the governor of Heyin, to say the least. Now that coal is cut off, it is difficult for the various industries in the city to sustain, and it is necessary to come up with an explanation as soon as possible. You want to drag, but at my age, is there anyone who wants to drag more than me? I can't put it off, but you're still young! ”

The old county guard did not fail to think of a solution, and that was for the officials to come forward and make an agreement between the hired workers and the mine owners, rather than by the council or by decree. In this way, if there is a change in the future, there is also room for return.

But those on the other side gave a clear answer, the bottom line is that it will be passed by decree or council, and it is not acceptable to reach an agreement with the mine owner alone.

Although there were no officials in that group of people, they had read too much history books, and they were extremely sensitive in this matter, and as one of the thirteen bottom lines of negotiations, they did not give an inch.

The crow was silent, frowning.

They are bureaucrats of the old era, and they are not going to deal with such a situation in the same way as the new era - this is not the armed uprising of those people decades ago who demanded the reorganization of the council to increase the rights of the common people, but the sudden movement of public opinion after two months of fermentation.

The requirements are so low that it is unbearable to refuse compared to those years. But if you can't bear to refuse, you have to refuse, otherwise this is a beginning.

What's even more helpless is that even if this matter is dealt with, what will happen in the future?

Clueless.