Chapter 165: The Colonial Company (Part II)
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Some of the Mexican members who wander around the island are aware of it, and they see it from a completely different perspective than these hired workers.
Perhaps, some clues can be seen in the diary of a member of the Mexican Party.
The twenty-third day of the first month.
The movement of cotton spinning cooperatives is in full swing. The question of how to go in the future within the party is already in full swing.
We are called Chen Jianpai, or Futurists, and this is our label in the future.
A split within the party is inevitable, but I'm not worried, and Jian Chen doesn't seem to be worried, he already knew that sooner or later there would be this day, right?
Hu Lin once asked us, isn't everything we pursue also based on assumptions?
In Jian Chen's absence, I stood up and told Hu Lin that we were not based on assumptions, but on scientific inferences about the future - just like we believe that the earth is round, so we can be sure that it is not wrong to go in the opposite direction based on this assumption. And your utopians are based on realistic fantasies, believing that you will feel the sun in the morning along the boundless sea to the horizon......
I have seen the emergence of the ginning machine with my own eyes, and I have seen the machines in the Institute of Science and Practical Technology, and I believe that the future that Jian Chen depicts will be reduced to the hired hands of the machine workshop, and the same hired workers as they are now will have nothing but labor.
So I believe that in the cities, we will not be on the side of the craftsmen, they will inevitably die, we just need to be on the side of the real employees, and strive for the future.
Jian Chen asked me, what if one day these hand-spinners smashed the machine? I told him not to be afraid, the employees of the mechanical yarn mill would protect themselves, because they had nothing left.
I thought, come on, come on, make your little spinning wheel worthless, and then you will know that what we are pursuing is actually for you. You are not you yet, but you will be in the future.
In the same way, I believe that the earth is round, and I believe that our China will not be so lonely, and there must be a broader land.
I think that if there was such a vast land, everything would be different, and everything would have a new beginning.
That's why we're called futuristic. In the city, we see the future after the popularization of machinery; In the countryside, we see the future beneath the vast expanse of land.
This is not a pipe dream, it is a projection of the future based on science. I think that's the biggest difference between us and our closest friends.
Today, some of our futuristic people get on the boat, go to a place, try to build that colony based on the "future".
This "colony" does not exist, only in the boundless void on the globe. But I believe in Jian Chen, I believe in science, and I believe that this place exists - otherwise, the future will be bloody.
I'm actually a good person, and I'm a little afraid of bloody, involution and closure of you to the death.
February 22.
Those of us mingled with hired laborers and went about working at normal hours in exchange for paper money. He then used paper money to exchange food and wine from the dock controlled by Chen Jian.
This is clearer than in the partisan night school - money, money, paper can be used as money, silver can be used as money, even a piece of can be used as money, as long as it is properly controlled.
What is money?
February 28.
Sometimes, I also wonder, what if we guess the future wrong? What if the science is wrong? What if the earth is not round, if the world is not so vast and has a circumference of 80,000 miles?
As the head of the party group, I asked this question to my comrades who were also futurists. In that case, they say, we will die in the sea, so there is no point.
yes, what a simple question. Chen Jian said that we will go to sea in March next year, and some of our futuristic people will go to sea together.
Futuristic ...... Ha, we not only see the future, but also pursue the future with our lives. Jian Chen criticized me, saying that I was a kind of sacrificial pleasure of pathological penance. I don't care, I'm still young, and I'll grow up someday.
The ninth day of the first month of March.
The first water-powered sawmill was built.
Labor was not compulsory in the colonial companies, but all necessities of life had to be purchased from paper money obtained from labor. There is also a limit to the amount of daily work, and if it is not up to the rule, no one can get the paper money that is obtained, but the fixed amount of work is not so much that everyone has to work like crazy.
The chains are very loose, and we all know that this is a drill using this small island, and a new group of Chinese people can be rehearsed, a group of Chinese people who can be self-governing in the colony.
The road should be taken step by step, everyone should be equal, free, fraternity, public and private rights and interests should be separated, and understand what is the public interest of the group...... These are all things that need to be tried a little bit. After all, the land where the new Chinese people lived was built by these people.
The eighth day of April.
The school was established. I gave my first lecture on the colony, and it worked out pretty well.
I said, the school needs teachers, teachers need to live, but where does the money come from? It is impossible to dig struvite and teach children at the same time. After all, a child's enlightenment education or the education of a new school can become the management of a colonial company.
In fact, the solution is very simple, that is, each of these people will take out a little money as the living expenses of the teachers and leave the mine production. Teaching is also labor, but it is only mental work.
We futurists are not anarchists, so we need to collect taxes, even on this misshapen island.
But there was a slight disagreement as to who should be taxed, but after a debate and a speech, the first Colonial Bill of Public Rights was unanimously passed: everyone paid a certain amount of paper money as a guarantee for the teacher's livelihood.
Through the assessment content that we had prepared for a long time, six people passed the exam and became the first batch of ...... Well, the working laborers of the colony - the company is hidden, including the army of four hundred men who are being trained, and the real managers of the company, who do not care about the internal affairs of the colony, which is separate.
This is a good start, these six teachers have made a good start, although they are all our comrades, but for these people on the island, these people became teachers, through their approval: they first paid paper money as taxes, approved the content of the assessment, and approved the method of assessment.
The Land of Deformity, but the core is the same, and this spirit will continue to be maintained until we truly find the Land of the Future.
April 27.
Some of the island's hired workers thought I was knowledgeable and knew that I was a member of the Mexican Party.
He asked me, what do people live for? What comes after death? Where did it come from? Where to go?
What does the future look like?
This question makes me embarrassed, I think this is the ultimate care that Jian Chen often told us, right?
Terrible question.
The eighth day of the fifth month.
The first sheep, chickens, ducks and dogs were unloaded from the ship. The colonial company came forward and brought in shepherds from Min County and began to teach some people to breed.
At the same time, a group of former yeoman farmers came, and the colonial company took two days off every ten days, during which these yeoman farmers taught them how to farm. Pamphlets on how to plant, intercrop, and rotate crops were also distributed.
Some people saw that something was wrong, it was obviously not for making money, it was more like it was for learning, but everyone was not afraid, but seemed to be aware of something, and began to use the time off to learn these things.
I calculated, Chen Jian has to put a lot of money into it about every day, and it will take a year for those struvite stones, shipyards, wood factories and the like to make a profit.
Half of the money from his glass factory was thrown into the Institute of Practical Science and Technology, and about half of the money was thrown into this colonial company, which symbolizes the future, right?
May 10.
The owners of the colony passed a second public welfare decree, and used their rest time to build a public building, learn farming, weaving, and communicate with each other.
In fact, everyone is lonely, and they all want to have a warm, large, equal family.
The eighth day of July.
The first ship that was not our company docked at the port, and it set off from the mouth of the Great River to trade in Qi State, using the nautical chart drawn by Chen Jian, and it had to pass through here.
I heard that it seems that there is a maritime trade?
The sailors were not accustomed to the way of trading here, but they had to accept it, first exchanging silver coins for paper money, and then using paper money to buy chickens, ducks, sheep and some fresh vegetables.
We love to eat vegetables, and we grow them wherever we are.
When they left, these sailors did not exchange all the unspent banknotes, and they would use them next time anyway.
July 13.
The first members of the Decolonist Company came to Turtle Island, went to our public buildings, learned the rules here, agreed with the management here, and opened their own sail sewing workshop.
This man was like a white dove sunk in ink, and soon became a colonist who was hired by a non-colonial company. He used paper money, paid the official fees of the school, and would go into our public buildings on his days off to listen to us chat, study, debate, and sometimes listen to stories.
But he couldn't hire a hired worker from here - no hired person would be stupid enough to give up hope in five years to work in his sewing workshop, which might be possible five years later, but certainly not now. Teachers are excluded from this list, and the colonial corporation recognizes teachers as internal members of the colonial corporation.
August 19.
Two ships docked, and the colony company recruited more than 600 men to build houses, wooden tracks, and lighthouses.
The six hundred people also quickly merged in, strange place, but gradually everyone began to agree on something.
There were also a few ships from elsewhere docking, and drunken sailors making trouble. The more than 400 gunmen trained there would not be involved in such a thing, so new problems arose.
The third public decree of the colony was introduced, and four more sheriffs were elected, and one more sheriff was elected from among the four sheriffs to be responsible for the stability of the increasingly lively docks.
At the end of the day, anarchy is impossible. Today's teachers and security officers are not the government, but what is the difference between them and the government? A lot of people are starting to think about it, and that's a good thing.
The four of them still have to rely on everyone's money to support them. And they also need to maintain order and protect these people.
It's not an army, but if one day there is a need for an army, these people will probably also pay paper money and organize an army, right?
September 12.
The news of the July congress came, split.
Incompact...... Progressive League?
Predictable.
We are the firm believers that all men are created equal, and that property has nothing to do with people's political rights, which is our foundation. We insist on fairness and justice.
Break and break.
The eighth day of October.
The first homicide.
The Colonial Judge Evaluation Act was passed, and I was elected the first judge of this small colony.
Ah, and the first public lawyer. Soon after, there will be the first judicial lawyer examination, but these people are not out of work, but self-reliant, and they will not be needed now, but will be used in the future.
By this incident, two more people were left from mining, shipbuilding, and port labor, and they were doctors who had long been mixed in, and the public health and medicine department was formed.
On the one hand, it is necessary to vaccinate everyone against cowpox, and it is on this matter that the party has gained a foothold in the capital. On the other hand, a lot of bleaching powder was shipped from Minjun, which can kill things that make people sick and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Toilets, sewage, and other things also need to be re-planned.
It's not something two people can do.
The tenth day of October.
On the day off, 28 candidates were selected through an assessment. Of the 28 candidates, only four will elect the administrators of the Autonomous Council.
There are a lot of things to manage, such as the planning of toilets, the discharge of sewage, the management of the town, etc., and by the way, two people must be selected to be responsible for collecting taxes.
On the one hand, it was everyone's public expenditure, and on the other hand, the colonial corporations put the taxing power of some of the foreign traders in the hands of the self-government committee.
This is a difficult matter to decide, so a new town council must be elected. Because there are more taxes, in fact, it is everyone who suffers, and some things have to be obtained from the vendors. There are fewer taxes, and these traders also enjoy a lot of the treatment on the island.
The supreme authority of the colonies was the colonial corporations that were hidden behind the scenes, but we all knew that once the vast land of the future was found, in five years these people would become free people.
What will be the supreme authority of the future colony? We call it the National Assembly as the supreme organ of power - at least in the colonies, where all adults had equal votes, with women having one-third of the votes.
This is appalling in our homeland, but on this misshapen island, we began to try.
What is the specific form of organization? What are the evaluation criteria for public servants? How do I have the right to nominate? Where do we futuristic people stand?
This needs to be reconsidered, but it will take a long time. Jian Chen told me that these things can be thought about slowly, because ah, we are not afraid of others eating us now.
If there really is a vast land, if we put down roots there, we will try new things from the beginning, starting with the children and everyone.
As for the rest, take your time. We don't want to dream of the city, it's not possible now, we're just trying to use a gentler way to transition to the conditions needed for the future.
As for what the future holds, leave that to the future.
There are still five months to go, and we are going to have Yang Fan, and we are looking forward to it.
The land of the future cannot be all our people, but our people will account for the majority, and this majority will gradually use the idea that all men are created equal to influence the rest of the people.