What reactionary rulers? We are clearly the most enlightened rulers. Lucien said.

"Then we're going to have to be better at using these two tools." Joseph replied.

"Joseph, ignore this stupidity, let's continue with the topic just now." Napoleon said.

"Of these two means, force of force should be used cautiously, and if it is to be used, it must be swift and swift, and it will suddenly become chaotic and strangled in the bud. What is the germ of chaos that we need to pay attention to the most? My brothers, the most dangerous sprout is the beginning of the emergence of organizations at the bottom. If someone tries to organize the people at the bottom, the sans-culottes. We need to take immediate steps to undermine their organization. We can tolerate unorganized riots, but we must not tolerate organized even peaceful demonstrations. Because the organization itself means real power. Speaking of this, Joseph remembered the successful experience of a certain lighthouse nation in later generations.

For a while, the lighthouse state was a "beacon of freedom" rather than a beacon of "democracy." At that time, the banner of democracy was still waving in the hands of her most dangerous enemy, the polar bear. At that time, it was not the lighthouse country that liked to promote democracy all over the world, but the honest and reliable stuffy bear.

At that time, a group of blacks in the lighthouse country, led by a black pastor, began to attack the system of the lighthouse country, asking the lighthouse country for democracy. He also took hundreds of thousands of blacks and low-level whites to the Lincoln Memorial to conduct peaceful demonstrations.

When it is said to be a peaceful demonstration, it is indeed a peaceful demonstration. Demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people, without throwing even a scrap of paper - what a dangerous organizational force? I don't know where the danger is going than those who smash and rob. Moreover, the black pastor also gave a speech at the rally, and although the "non-violent non-cooperation" proposed in this speech was much better than the "armed seizure of power" and the like, it was also the guiding theory of rebellion. If there is a theory, there is an organization, and if it continues to develop, then it will have to be? So, the Lighthouse Nation decisively took the decapitation measure and killed the black priest with a single shot.

After the black pastors, what "Black Panther Party" - not the Black Panther who let the common people live a primitive life and pretend to be superheroes themselves - who believe that changing the world must be through long-term organization and mobilization of the people, they try to create revolutionary socialism from mass organization and community programming, provide free breakfast for poor children in black communities, give political education to the people in the community, hope to change people's minds bit by bit and empower them - see? They actually want to organize!

How to deal with them? Of course, it's still an old trick, and it's directly beheaded. Soon, the leaders of the Black Panther Party were either shot to death or thrown into prison. Then, and then protest, there will be riots, but how threatening can unorganized and undisciplined riots be?

"As soon as we find that they have the intention of organising, like the Textile Workers' Union in England, especially the kind that is organized and thoughtful, we must immediately take measures to dismantle them. Includes direct physical settlement. Of course, there are sometimes high costs associated with this, so it is best to use deception if you can use deception. Well, Napoleon, how can a field not grow at all, no matter how much you sow it? Joseph suddenly asked again.

"Ah, it's easy." Napoleon leaned back in the soft back of his chair and said, "Just let the ground grow with weeds." ”

"That's right." Joseph said, glancing at Lucien.

"I ...... Give me a little more time, and maybe I'll be able to answer it. Lucien thought to himself.

"So what is a weed? Of course, it looks like an organization of workers, but in fact it is an organization of ours. "What are the characteristics of the workers in our factories?" The workers in our factories can be divided into two categories, one is the ordinary workers who are very mobile, and the other is the relatively stable skilled workers. There is also a big difference between the two categories of workers.

First of all, the wages of ordinary workers are quite low, far inferior to those of skilled workers, and even to peasants. Our skilled workers, even at the lowest level, are paid more than five times as much as the average worker. As for the highest-end skilled workers, their income is already more than ten times or even dozens of times that of ordinary workers.

One consequence of this is that although skilled workers and ordinary workers are called workers, their lifestyles are completely different. For skilled workers, their lives are already passable. Ordinary workers, on the other hand, can only be said to be living on the subsistence line. But we have a pressure reducing valve for them, and that's North America. One of their goals in life is to earn enough money to buy a ferry ticket and go to North America.

Moreover, in terms of ethnic composition, they also have obvious differences in skilled workers. More than half of the ordinary workers in our factories are foreigners with green cards. Or rather, 'preparing the French'. ”

When it comes to "preparing the French", Joseph can't help but smile smugly.

The so-called "pre-French" could only become French citizens when they arrived in Louisiana. The green card in their hand was proof that they had passed the "Basic French Test" and the "Oath of Allegiance to France". Only with such documents can you get to Louisiana to buy land at a low price and get a loan at a low interest rate. But if they get involved in a crime or something while they are in France, they will be disqualified and deported. So these "pre-French people" with green cards, in general, are very honest and don't dare to cause trouble. They won't be in France for long anyway.

"These 'pre-French' are very mobile, they don't stay here for long anyway, and it is difficult to set up an organization. Add to that the language problem, the legal problem, and the problem of the oppression of those guys in their hometown - with them as a foil, we are actually not particularly intolerable to their oppression.

As for skilled workers, their situation is different. They are relatively stable, and it can even be said that as long as there are no problems with our factory, they may be able to work in the factory for a lifetime. In addition, the income is good, and the lifestyle is different from that of ordinary workers. Their way of life makes them emotionally closer to the top than to the bottom. Their lives are not bad, and even if they realize that we are plundering them, they have to consider that once the struggle starts, what they have now will most likely be wiped out. They will complain, they will say strange things, and when we bully them, they will shout 'lighter, it hurts', but they will not really resist. Because they are afraid of losing everything they still barely have. Therefore, they are also the most easily bought and controlled.

They had a long time in the factory and little mobility, and based on them, we preemptively established the union. These unions appear to be there to defend the interests of workers, but in essence, they are defending our interests. But not everyone understands this.

Now that this field is overgrown with our weeds, it is too difficult for those who want to grow the fruits of the revolution here, isn't it? If they are to grow crops that will bear the fruits of the revolution, they will need to work harder. At least they need to get rid of all the weeds first. But the skilled workers – or, as we should call them, the workers' aristocracy – will think that our unions are protecting them, and then they will be cut off from the ordinary workers, they will protect the weeds, and then the workers will be in a mess within. You say how good that is. ”

"This is part of the deception of public opinion." Napoleon nodded, "Very instructive indeed. That's part of the deception, right? ”

"Yes, definitely. In addition to this, there should be deception in the mind. Joseph went on to say, "An important factor in the organization of a revolutionary organization is that it is guided by revolutionary ideas.

To be honest, before the Revolution, the living conditions of the French people were not worse than those of other countries around them. Neither the Italians, nor the Spaniards, nor the Highlanders nor the Lowlanders, nor even the Austrian-Prussians, were no better than the French, and most of them were worse than the French. Why is it that the French are the first to stand it and rise up to make a revolution and rebel, and not to the people of these countries? Lucien, answer this question. ”

"Ah, I know that, because they don't have Voltaire and Rousseau." Lucien replied immediately.

"That's pretty true." Joseph nodded, "It is precisely because of the emergence of Enlightenment ideas in France that Voltaire and Rousseau appeared—speaking of which, the two of them were mortal enemies in their lifetimes, but after the revolution, they were sent into the Panthéon together, and they are so close that if they die and know, I am afraid that they will quarrel every day."

It was with these ideas that various clubs were organized around them, including the Jacobin Club. Without these ideas, it would not have been France that would have been the first to make a revolution. So, Lucien, do you know what your job consists of? ”

"I think it should be something a little more metaphysical than the 'our union' that Napoleon mentioned earlier. Well, 'our union' is an organizational weed, and I'm responsible for providing something more superlative—a spiritual weed. ”

"No, no, no, it's not like that." Napoleon shook his finger and said, "Not like that. ”

"What was that like?" Lucien was a little unhappy.

"You're not going to plant weeds, you're going to plant all sorts of big poisonous weeds!" Napoleon replied.

When Lucien heard this, he habitually wanted to refute, but when he thought about it, it seemed that Napoleon really had a little truth in what he said, so he shut up.

"We want to propagate theories that will benefit our rule. For example, we want to emphasize freedom, and we want to emphasize that economic freedom is the foundation of all freedom. And in the case that we already have such an advantage, any freedom is unilaterally beneficial to us.

Secondly, we must promote a 'free way of life', and we must make the workers' aristocracy aspire to such a way of life. It's a way of life that should make the working-class aristocracy — well, we can call them the middle class — to make them feel that they can touch it with a jump, or that they can touch it with a jump. Let them be obsessed with such a 'free way of life'. Then they will become our staunch supporters, even if we are actually exploiting them.

We also want to promote all kinds of entertainment. Offering a variety of entertainment that can drain one's energy. In many cases, false entertainment can drain people's energy, make them indulge in illusions, indulge in false happiness, and avoid causing any trouble.

Well, we can tailor something like that for them.

The first is the venting of sexual entertainment, the opening up of the industry, the lively election campaign, the endless war of words, and the abuse of various drugs. The second is the other kind of satisfying entertainment, reporting on boring little things, such as cute animals, celebrity scandals, etc., plus various commodity discounts for various festivals, as well as popular entertainment, such as various theaters, various competitions. Let them expend too much energy in the process and not think about the problems that they shouldn't think about.

In addition, it is the ordinary workers who are most likely to have class consciousness, and we must strengthen their foreigner nature, and if they do something that does not conform to our intentions, we will direct the contradiction to the national contradiction. It is said that it is the foreigners who have brought our workers to ruin. ”

Disguising class contradictions as national contradictions, or even racial contradictions, is also a common method used in later generations. This is what the lighthouse nation of later generations is best at. At this time, France also naturally had the conditions to implement this set. The existence of a large number of yeoman farmers is equivalent to those red necks of the lighthouse country in later generations. And those Germans or something can be equivalent to those Latins in the later lighthouse countries and the like. Therefore, Joseph felt that although such a trick was not needed for the time being, it was good to prepare in advance.

"In addition, there is the theory of economics, which must be grasped and convinced by the people that we capitalists and them are not in an employment relationship, but in a cooperative relationship. We need to set aside a certain number of upward channels for the bottom, although we don't need too many, but we must have them, and we should publicize such examples as much as possible, and encourage others to learn from these lucky ones, so that they can use all their strength in these areas, and use them to compete with each other for these channels......"