The meeting between the representatives of the big factory owners and the representatives of the Mexican Party was quite a bit of a magical reality.

In the hall of the Central Party Headquarters of Mexico, banners reading "Everything belongs to the workers" were hung, black and white photographs of previous strikes and mass rallies were displayed, as well as a number of brightly colored oil paintings depicting the miners' petitions by Western artists.

The people who came here to ask for talks had been tired of being here before, but they had to come into contact with it.

The predecessor of the Mexican Party was the Progressive League, and there were a large number of ultra-radicals and conspirators or liberal terrorist factions within the alliance, and the Mexican Party spared no effort in organizing strikes and petitions in the past, often funding some groups with money, strike funds and food support.

It is really impossible to say what can be done now, and these factory owners and business representatives are not sure in their minds.

Moreover, Chen Jian has a deep relationship with these people, and even though he has withdrawn from some industries, many industries are closely related to industries controlled by the Mexican Party.

The simplest example is the silk reeling workshop, which uses disodium hydrogen phosphate or sodium carbonate produced by the chemical workshop as a desilking agent, the former can only be bought here, and the latter uses salt and sulfuric acid as raw materials to use sodium carbonate as a better quality than the ash burning method.

No, it's not impossible, but the cost and quality must be reduced, and it's only an industry of silk reeling, not to mention the rest of the large-scale handicraft workshops with a division of labor.

Although there have been irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides since their birth, there is still something to talk about in dealing with the remnants of the old era.

The representatives of the factory owners sat there, looking at the writing on the wall, extremely uncomfortable. Although I don't want to be restless, I always feel a little ridiculous.

The people on the other side are not very old, but they are all familiar figures here, and these people are all on the list in the "joint blacklist" secretly circulated within the factory owner.

Someone guarded the door, and the representatives of the factory owners got straight to the point.

One of them held a street pamphlet used for the propaganda of the Mexican Party, turned a page and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the big factories and big workshops are the direction of the future that your party thinks, that is to say, we are on the right path, and you can't betray your own program, right?" ”

Several young people on the other side also laughed and nodded, "That's right, that's exactly what we said, and we've always admitted it." But who owns the big factories and big workshops doesn't affect the big factories and big workshops themselves, right? ”

The person who asked the question twitched his face, and hurriedly said: "Don't talk about this issue, just talk about those personal family workshops, you won't stand with them and retreat to the past, right?" ”

A person on the other side said: "Of course we will not go back to the past, but the future is built on the accumulation of bones, and some things must be responsible for someone after all." Who is responsible? Who cares? ”

"You are not the king, nor are you in charge of running the country, you don't need to be responsible or managed, you just need to take care of your interests. Aren't you striking for profit? But I don't hear you stop going on strike, smashing machines or asking to go back to when the guild existed. In this situation, those people are obviously trying to force us to death, and those people in the north stretch out their hands, and we will be finished, Mincheng will be finished, and the Republic will be finished. There are no big workshops, those big families can still live well by monopolizing and renting land, and it doesn't matter to them whether they have these things, they wish they didn't show up. But it means a lot to us and to you. They all go to be small farmers and small producers, and your party will become a rootless duckweed. ”

The people on the other side laughed and said with a smile: "You have read a lot of books these days." ”

"Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles. We can't help it. ”

"The current situation in Mincheng can't blame others, you can only blame yourself. The small producers, although they are having a hard time, are at least able to survive, and they have little incentive to revolt. But those at the bottom who really can't survive, we didn't petition the county to change the relief into a county-owned factory, but you vetoed it. Not only did they disagree, but after the typhoon, they also raised the price of grain and hoarded goods, which really pushed people into a desperate situation, so it's no wonder that people should fight hard instead of starving to death, right? ”

The representatives of the factory owners hurriedly shook their heads and said, "Those who hoard goods have nothing to do with us, you have to figure this out." We make a profit from the squeezing of surplus labor, according to your pamphlet, but the speculators are different. ”

"Yes, yes, it's not like us. Speaking of which, we hate rising food prices. The rise in grain prices is not good for us at all, not to mention the rise in the price of raw materials, and if the wages do not rise, you will organize a riot, and we are actually the group of people who hope that the price of grain will be reduced. ”

"Speaking of which, if the county-owned factories were really organized, the speculators should have paid some more money. And we also feel that the relief itself is unreasonable, and the money is earned back by the price of food, and in fact we don't get any benefit. ”

The person on the other side said helplessly: "Everyone, now we are not talking about who will carry this black cauldron." It's now that it's happened, how to fix it. If it doesn't work out, then I'm sorry, we'll have to flip the table with those people. Over the years, our industry has also cultivated a lot of people, and I dare not say that the public affairs officer who manages these factories can still be elected. ”

"If you really want to lift the table, you have to lose your head. You will not only lift our tables, but you will surely die if you lift the tables of the great families and the great landowners. ”

The other side laughed again and asked rhetorically, "Do you think we are the ones who are afraid of losing our heads?" If we are afraid of losing our heads, we should be afraid when the miners petition, we were not afraid then, but now we are afraid? Lifted, died, and then when the grass grows on our graves, there will be more people on the table next time, you say? ”

The factory owner no longer spoke, and the inference that these people on the other side could do such a thing was the basis for them to come to negotiate. Because I may do it, I will come to talk. If it's not possible, then don't talk about it.

After a moment of silence, someone from the Mexican Party stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the matter has come to this point, and I will say some things in place of our party." Now that the world is connected by sailing ships, and the speed at which land accumulates money is slower and slower than that of the workshops and factories, the location of Mincheng determines that Mincheng is the place of the fastest accumulation and development, far faster than the families in the north who make money by relying on land privileges and monopoly monopolies. ”

"Now that you are so profitable, are those people red-eyed? Even if you don't blush, as you say, even if the land is the most valuable treasure after a total regression, what will you have left? In the meantime, you should be worried that one day someone will reach out to your things. ”

"Now that the matter in Mincheng is not resolved, those who want to reach out will have enough excuses. We also know that you are good at compromise, but your foundation makes it difficult for you to compromise with those people, because you did not develop by the rent of large land, nor by the monopoly or the big government-run workshops. So you have no way out, if you don't stand up and participate in stabilizing the situation in Mincheng, then you don't even have the courage to defend your interests, you are lambs to the slaughter. ”

"For us, those people may still buy us for the time being, and for the hired people, if the absolute power of those big families can restrain you, they will be happy to do so, even if it is not right, they will tie themselves in chains, but they will definitely bewitch many people."

"Therefore, the matter of Mincheng, you must come forward, you must solve it, you must continue your life, and you must pay some necessary price for your own growth. We don't talk about our demands, but we just put ourselves in the shoes of you and help you think about it. It is true that we want to kill you in the future, but before we kill you, we can still join forces with you against those who are more backward and reactionary. ”

"You have money, but you don't have anybody. The little citizens are standing opposite you, who can you rely on? To put it mildly, at this time, why don't you come to buy us, buy the bottom, and wait for the power hand of the northern family to reach over and unite with the small citizens to deal with you? At that time, the bottom will watch you bite each other with the mentality of watching a play. ”

"The freedoms you seek, the breaking of monopolies, the abolition of land bonds, and the prohibition of migration, but you are not willing to take even the slightest responsibility for the consequences of these things, are you now so fragile that it is worthless to dig a hole for yourself too early and bury yourself in the shadow of the old era?"

"We will tell you that there is no possibility of compromise between you and those in the north. They are accumulating land at a much slower rate than you, and many of their workshops are opposed by the majority, so don't fantasize about having the same privileges as them, because they still have the basic plate of yeoman farmers and rich peasants, what do you have? ”

"Giving you political rights means that one day you will swallow them, because your accumulation rate may exceed their hundreds of years in a few decades. If we don't give you political rights, then we must be prepared to strangle you early, and we would rather completely regress to the era of small peasant and small workshop guilds than allow you to grow and grow day by day. But now you are still giving excuses to others day by day, and you don't want to solve it at all, if the old forces are weak or join you up, it doesn't matter if you do this, the problem is that now you can be pinched to death casually, and you are still doing this, forcing most people to the opposite side of you without thinking of remedy. ”

"This is not a country the size of a county, but a country of tens of millions of people. Some things may not matter in a place the size of a palm, where the old forces are not strong or deep-rooted, and to do so in such a big country is to seek death. You think you are a towering tree now, but that's because you're only in Mincheng. Put it all over the country, and you are now a bean sprout. ”