Chapter 524 - Democracy Foundation (1)
Legend has it that the home of Venus, the goddess of love, is Cyprus, where there are more than 300 days of sunshine a year, and it rains in November. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Mediterranean climate is hot and arid in summer and warm and rainy in winter. In the living room, the Marquis Grace was sorting out her son's schoolbag, and it could be seen that the little one was in a hurry to go to school, and he couldn't be quiet when his mother was tidying up. The Marquis Grace was not angry, her lower abdomen bulged, and she was pregnant with her second child.
At this time, Wang Mingshan sat in the study and read the briefing quietly.
"The times are changing, and China's peace is coming!"
"Comrade Wei Ze adheres to the Constitution, and the Minchao has always been a republic!"
"Is the People's Congress ready to increase the authority of the People's Congress?"
……
In 1895, the Third Congress was held, and Wang Mingshan's rank was there, and these briefings were also to give him a drop. Of course, in addition to these, Wang Mingshan also received orders against him personally. Wang Mingshan felt that the two orders were put together with great joy, "to promote the work of European countries in response to the World Olympic Summer Movement proposed by the Republic of China" and "to support the Hungarian people's revolution."
In the statutes of the Olympic Movement, which Weeser drafted, the committee called for a truce in the countries of the world at the time of the Games. Just like the region-wide truce when Greece held the Olympic Games. As for the Hungarian People's Revolution, it was bound to be a war of blood and fire, and Wang Mingshan knew this very well. So he couldn't help but give birth to an assumption that the Hungarian Revolutionary War was in full swing when the Olympics began, so what to do?
More than two months ago, Wang Mingshan met Wang Shizhen, who was sent by the central government. Since Wang Shizhen shot and killed the local nobles, it took a lot of effort for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to settle the matter. Wang Mingshan was surprised by this young man's observation of Hungary, "The Hungarian people lack the idea of rebellion, and as long as there is a revolutionary leader like the Governor, this place will also be dry fire." It is also interesting to note the specific domestic order 'to supply the Hungarian revolutionary forces with paper and printing equipment'. In addition, revolutionary pamphlets in Hungarian had already arrived in Cyprus and were waiting to be sent to Hungary by various means.
"Dad, I'm going to school." Wang Mingshan's son shouted in the direction of the study at the door, and after unilaterally expressing his respect for his father, without waiting for Wang Mingshan to respond, he heard the door ring, and the little guy ran out. A few minutes later, there was another knock on the door, and then there was a sound of footsteps from the door to the study.
"What's the deal with that shipping of books you're talking about?" The Marquis Grace held a small notebook in her hand. Commonly known as 'three years of stupidity in life', it refers to the fact that women's ability to deal with things other than babies is greatly reduced when they give birth and raise children. The Marquis Grace is also a normal woman, so she adopted the coping strategy of 'a good star is better than a bad pen' at the suggestion of Wang Mingshan.
Hearing Grace's question, Wang Mingshan looked up and saw that his mother's warm expression was rapidly fading from Grace's face, revealing the banker's calm and sharpness.
Wang Mingshan put down the briefing and replied calmly: "We hope to open a communication line from Italy to Hungary, so that we can transport the materials we want to transport to the Hungarian region we want to transport." ”
"Smuggling nets?" Grace also calmly made a judgment.
"Revolutionary books are being delivered now, and there may be weapons and ammunition in the future. I don't want to rely on mere smuggling networks. Those people were in it for money, and if it was for greater benefit to sell the Hungarian revolutionaries, they would probably not hesitate to betray the revolutionaries. Wang Mingshan has a lot of considerations about this, and he has no objection to using smuggling networks to some extent, but he himself does not trust the smuggling model at all.
"Oh? Do you have such a low opinion of the smugglers? Grace said with some amusement.
"Humph!" Wang Mingshan just snorted coldly, but didn't bother to speak. As early as more than 30 years ago, Wang Mingshan worked in Guangdong's financial department, and he cracked down smuggling. Because of his contacts and the real faces of the smugglers, Wang Mingshan has no good impression of these guys.
"The Republic of China is notorious in Europe, and as long as the military engineering team you organized can give some intimidation to the smugglers, they will probably be honest." Grace said in a joking tone, looking at Wang Mingshan's annoyed and helpless expression, she couldn't help but want to tease Wang Mingshan.
"Those people are all land snakes, how can our Minchao kill ......" Wang Mingshan said casually, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his face became solemn.
Governor Wei Zedu announced the end of the iron-blooded policy, and Wang Mingshan felt very uncomfortable, just like a considerable number of cadres in the Republic of China. When Wei Ze announced the policy of 'iron and blood' 40 years ago, Wang Mingshan was already a member of the Liberation Party. In the blink of an eye of 40 years, when Wei Ze announced the termination of the 'iron and blood' policy, Wang Mingshan suddenly discovered that Wei Ze had never changed his policy in the past 40 years.
In the 40 years of implementing the iron-blooded policy, the central government of the Republic of China led by Wei Ze has never considered a solution other than war, and even if there is a peaceful solution, it is only to pave the way for a larger war in the future. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Republic of China took away the areas controlled by the surrounding European powers. In the end, it took most of the North American continent.
Since Wei Ze was able to adhere to the 40-year iron-blooded policy, Wang Mingshan also believed that Wei Ze's decision to implement the iron-blooded policy was not a joke. From this point of view, Wang Mingshan suddenly found that he actually understood the arrangements of the governor of Wei Zedu for Hungary. If you want to provoke a revolution in Hungary without military action, you have to rely on the Hungarian revolutionaries. Ideas depend on books, and struggle depends on weapons. Cyprus acted as a relay station and provided assistance to the Hungarian revolutionaries in both directions.
Thinking of this, Wang Mingshan had no interest in discussing it. After the change of thinking, the idea of going to Italy disappeared in an instant. There were a number of more reliable routes than Italy, such as what is now Serbia and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the opening of a few printing houses and warehouses on the border would make it easy to supply the Hungarian side across the border. After thinking things through, Wang Mingshan closed the folder and stood up. His next job is to go out and make contacts.
Wang Shizhen had also returned to Beijing at this time, and to his surprise, it was Governor Wei Zedu who received him alone. Even when Wang Shizhen led a million servant troops in North America, he was not treated like this. In response to Weeser's inquiry about the situation of the Hungarian revolution, Wang Mingshan told the truth, "Those people believed in God, and the situation in the whole countryside was probably similar to that in the late Qing Dynasty, and the poor lost a large number of land. It's just that there are factories in Hungarian cities, and even the poor can go to work in them. But the working conditions are extremely harsh, and the workers are not treated as human beings at all. ”
"How productive is their labor?" Wei Ze couldn't help but interrupt Wang Shizhen's words, he had never had the opportunity to visit the European factories at the end of the 19th century, and he was very incomprehensible about the labor productivity of those factories. What difference between brutal oppression and the sweatshops of the 20th century is something Weeser would love to investigate for himself.
"Labor productivity is nowhere near as high as ours." Wang Shizhen replied very unexpectedly, "How can a factory that can use machinery and equipment without mechanical equipment compare its production efficiency with our people's dynasty?" ”
Wang Shizhen's introduction made Wei Ze can only temporarily put away his curiosity, whether it is theory or reality, enterprises that use a large number of standardized parts and machinery and equipment have far better production efficiency than manual labor.
"There are a lot of child laborers in those factories, the elderly, children, men and women, who work at least 12 hours a day. Injuries and illnesses are all borne by themselves. Schooling was the privilege of a few, and although Hungary had proposed compulsory education laws modelled on those of Germany, it was not really implemented in the countryside. Illiteracy is the vast majority in rural areas. The Church had a huge influence in the countryside, and church officials, officials, judges, and local landlords and aristocrats were complicit in the use of force to eliminate all those they felt threatened their existence......" Wang Shizhen was drawn to the factory, and he recounted what he had seen.
These things are too common, too classic, and Weeser is speechless for this textbook description. After taking a moment's time, Weeser asked Wang Shizhen, "What is the revolutionary spirit of the Hungarian people?" ”
"There is no way to the extent that death didn't matter at that time in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Compared with the Liberation Army, an army armed with a systematic revolutionary spirit and revolutionary organization, it is even further behind. However, they at least believe that public ownership of land is a more effective solution to Hungary's social problems. It's just that the revolutionaries who have read the books have a sense of condescension, which is far from what you have repeatedly emphasized recently, you must not be separated from the masses. Wang Shizhen replied very cleverly.
Wei Ze had no expression on his face, seeing Wang Shizhen's very understandable answer, Wei Ze felt a little unhappy in his heart. And the situation in Hungary also made Wei Ze unhappy, let Wang Shizhen go down first, Wei Ze couldn't help but take out the letter written by Uncle En and put it on the table, but he didn't open it, he couldn't help but tap it with his fingers.
Uncle En believes that Hungary is probably the most vulnerable country in Europe to a socialist revolution. The experience of the Chinese revolution is a case of an agrarian country embarking on the road to socialism through revolution, and Britain, France, Germany, and Austria in Western Europe are all industrial countries. Those small countries are not even serious agricultural countries. Therefore, Uncle En very much hopes to build a socialist country in Europe and guide European countries forward as the banner of socialism.
Weeser had little interest in exporting the revolution, and he had to consider this practical problem at this time. Theoretically, the export system is the habitual practice of the hegemonic powers, and Weeser is well aware of this. However, Weeser sincerely believes that the socialist system is inherently advanced, and he is very uneasy about exporting such a system to the outside world. This is the same as selling silk to the wilderness, maybe the various raw materials of the wilderness can make the silk merchant earn a high profit, but watching the silk draped over those savages, I always feel a kind of unhappiness that the pearl is darkened.
However, Weeser finally decided to set up a relevant department, and some things had to be done when they needed to be done.
No one in the Standing Committee rejects Wei Ze's plan, but everyone only asks what the name of this organization that exports revolution to the outside world should be, and according to the three principles of the Republic of China, 'determine the functions, organs, and personnel,' and Wei Ze is obliged to give an explanation. Of course, it is also necessary to 'determine the name' before the three determinations. Everyone saw that Wei Zedudu closed his eyes and thought about it, and when he opened his eyes, the corners of his mouth showed a hint of mockery.
"Let's call it the Democracy Foundation." Wei Ze said briskly.
After tasting this very serious name, everyone really can't find what is ridiculous.