The petition, which was sprinkled with thousands of words, was endorsed by many citizens but also caused an uproar.

Nowhere in the whole petition is there a question of land, nor what to do with the people at the bottom of the city who have nothing, and all the starting point is from the point of view of small production in a little industry.

They did not dare to talk about the land question, and after the success of their petition, not the "uprising", the radicals of the small anarchic country and the widow who shared the land were worthless, and if they continued to unite with them, they would probably be suppressed in the future.

Therefore, the radicals were refuted internally on the grounds of violation of ownership, and they took the initiative to create a split, angrily denouncing those who rushed to the front as madmen who tried to expropriate the property of others.

If you want to get the support of the big families in the north, the land question is a forbidden area, and if you talk about the land question, it is impossible to get the opposition of the big families in the north, because the big families in the north are supported by land - for the small producers in these cities, land is not a problem, as long as there is no competition between big machines and big capital, they do not live on the land anyway, and they do not want to turn this "popular petition" into a "rebellion and revolution".

On the one hand, they praised the production of small craftsmen as the pillar of the republic, the basis of freedom and equality, the embodiment of dignity, the best system in which industriousness and laziness can be separated at a glance; On the other hand, they are worried about the "unfair" competition of big capital, and the lack of freedom and dignity of the division of labor factories that "despise human freedom and make people obey time like machines".

As for the dispossessed urban vagrants at the lowest level, who had been with them a dozen days ago, they gave a solution in a veiled way: they were all conscripted as soldiers, seized land and slaves from the outside world, and ensured the interests of the "vast majority of the countrymen" with the slave trade and slavery plantations and grain raw material cultivation land monopolized by the republic and all the countrymen.

In other words, as they did decades ago, these people are once again selling the bottom for a good price.

Before the incident, they knew that their strength was not enough to shake the entire city of Fujian and cause a huge impact, so they needed the help of those at the bottom, and even if something happened in the future, more people would share the responsibility.

However, after the uprising, when the radicals at the bottom of the group were guided to continue to expand their gains, to change the land system and the ownership system, and to truly establish an anarchic association of villages and communities with small people in a paradise, these people began to be afraid. In addition to fearing that his own interests would be affected, he was also afraid of being burned and hanged under the gallows in the future, so he quickly drew a line with those radicals.

They believe that they have the support of some more powerful forces, and that they no longer need their original allies, as long as they serve their own interests.

While the re-election of the council was still in progress, the petition caused a serious conflict.

Near a teahouse where small citizens and family workshops gather to discuss "state affairs," a man is giving a speech about a truly "ideal society."

"Private ownership is the best system that stimulates hard work, creativity, and maximizes the wealth of society – we believe that labor creates wealth."

"However, the root cause of all these problems now is that we have not received the full fruits of our labor, because some people have stolen the fruits of our labor and destroyed the fairness in it."

"What should the best society look like? It should be a society based on equality and freedom under private ownership. ”

"We work honestly, then take full possession of the fruits of labor, and then use fair transactions measured by labor value, so as to obtain full value."

"Under such conditions, it will be the pinnacle of national freedom, and it will also promote personal development to the greatest extent."

"Private ownership is of course good, market exchange is of course good, and in this way, as long as you are industrious and smart, everyone can get rich."

"How can such a society be realized? Quite simply, on the premise of guaranteeing private ownership, everything is fairly exchanged according to the value of a kind of money. As long as you can own all the fruits of your labor and fairly obtain goods of the same value of labor, no one can go bankrupt, and the only criterion for measuring wealth and poverty in such a society is whether the person is industrious or lazy. For only labor can be exchanged, then the industrious must be rich, and the lazy must be poor. ”

"Why? Because before the advent of big machines, there were also poor and rich, such as those at the bottom now, who were originally poor because they were lazy all the time and lacked brains. ”

"We are different, and the reason why we are now on the verge of bankruptcy is because of the unfair competition of the hydraulic machine, the violation of fair morality - just like one person riding a horse and another person barefoot to see who can run faster, and there are extenuating circumstances if you lose."

"But there were no water workshops before, so why are some people still poor? So what do you say it's not lazy? Some people may say that it is because they do not have the slightest assets, which is ridiculous. Do my parents and grandparents have a lot of assets? Why is it that our family can accumulate some inheritance, but they can't? Doesn't this mean that they are lazy, stupid, and brainless in their bones? ”

"We are having a hard time now, not because we are lazy, nor because of any private property reasons, but because the hydraulic machine violates fairness, morality, and human freedom, and there are people who manipulate it in the transaction process, so that we cannot obtain the full equivalent of the value of our labor."

"You think, if the trade is truly fair, how can I go bankrupt if I have ten labor's worth of cloth for four labor's cotton, two labor's grain, and four labor's rest of the goods, if I have ten labor's cloth?"

"If everybody were a small producer, everybody would have his own land, everybody would have his own land and his home in exchange for everything he needs......"

"In this way, the only thing that determines what kind of life I can live is whether I am industrious or not. The more I work, the more I get. ”

"Of course, we should sympathize with the bankrupt farmers whose labor was stolen in the course of the transaction, which is the same situation as we do. But we shouldn't sympathize with the people at the bottom who want some kind of public ownership, and those people are just lazy people. ”

"The best way to deal with these people is to send them to the barracks, where they will be beaten for a few years and learn what hard work is."

"If the army can't accommodate so many people, it's not that there is no solution. But what is the solution given by those people in the Mexican Party? What kind of bad idea is it to set up a county-owned factory and let these people stay in the city? ”

"By staying in the cities, they only make it cheaper for the workers in the water-powered workshops, and they keep it going, which only undermines fairness and freedom."

"If you want me to say, you should move them all to the plantations on the island, and give each of them a little land, but the past costs, don't ask us to collect taxes, let these people pay for the transportation costs, this is fair. Anyway, where do you like to go, in short, don't stay in Mincheng, without free labor, those hydraulic workshops can't be opened, so that you can be fair and free......"

However, when I should have received applause and applause, I received a sentence: "Nima's bullshit, this is the way out you found for us?" You only found a way for yourself, you didn't give us a way at all! ”

Turning his head, he saw that more than forty people came from nowhere, dressed in tatters, holding sticks and bricks in their hands, and the leader shouted, and the people behind swarmed up, holding sticks and pumping at the people gathered there.

Judging from the posture and proficiency of the whipping, it should be a professional hooligan who has received money from the big workshop owner.

But apparently there was a large number of genuinely unemployed people at the bottom nearby, and the number of people involved in the fight soon swelled from dozens to hundreds.

By the time the Mexican pickets arrived, seventeen or eighteen had died, and more than 40 had been seriously injured.

Both sides have been instigated and have become difficult to control, and once the council is re-elected and there is no agreement on some issues, a larger armed struggle is close at hand.