Chapter Ninety-Six: The Infected

The county guard is in the house.

The distant mountains are like sitting on pins and needles.

Ten years ago, if such a thing had happened, he would have escaped from Mincheng as soon as possible and denounced it as a rebellion.

Now, he is inseparable from the capital of Mincheng.

Capitalism is a system, and the most important link in the capitalist system in Mincheng at this time is most of the upstream enterprises controlled by the Mexican Party, the Nanyang Company, and the banks of the coastal counties.

This is not a capitalist system of free development, but a regulatory system disguised as free development that has been systematically driven by Chen Jian.

Among the three necessary links in the most important system, except for the Mexican Party, Chen Jian, and the private property party, which made Yuanshan have little interest, the rest has been pulled into this system.

Nanyang Company had his shares, and the money of the share capital was lent to him by Chen Jian and the directors of Nanyang Company at that time, with an annual interest rate of 15 percent in cash, but now the annual yield of these shares makes the interest of 15 percent ridiculous, so it is equivalent to giving away and bribes, and it is nothing more than legal.

Stocks and cash dividends were deposited in the banks of the coastal counties, and the information of customers was completely confidential, and many northern families also kept their money in them.

In addition to this part of the money, Nanyang Company spent a lot of money to hire his son as a planner of the slave trade department of Nanyang Company, in fact, this work can be done by a bunch of people in Mincheng, but only certain people can do it because there are fixed dividends.

Regardless of his political future, purely from the perspective of personal interests, even if he has no power, he is still a very powerful group of people in Mincheng.

In the past ten years, he has changed from power rent-seeking to owning capital, and although the capital he owns stems from the power he once had, as long as the capitalist system does not collapse, he has completed the transformation.

Mincheng was in chaos, and Yuanshan knew very well what the consequences would be if the most important chain in this system was broken.

Many people in the capital can't understand what Mincheng is like now, and it is difficult to clearly understand the current situation when considering the capital monster according to the thinking of the old era.

The minds of many families in the capital are still stuck in the land, manors, power franchises, money from the Ministry of Households, and corruption.

Let them understand what kind of impact Mincheng will have on Mincheng if the coal mine is bombed, the canal is intercepted, the port is blocked, the water power of the river valley is cut off, and the upstream workshops supporting acid and alkali rinsing agents are all stopped, which is tantamount to playing the piano to the cow.

The more complex after-reactions, such as the slump in the handicraft industry, the loss of money in the cotton fields due to the shutdown of industry, the burning of indigo, the bankruptcy of the cactus carmine plantations, the sudden crunch in the inflow of silver, the soaring price of food, the collapse of the stock market, the turning of paper money into waste paper, the surge in the cost of living of the citizens, the collapse of the employment system due to bankruptcy, and the unemployment of tens of thousands of employees, are not understandable to those who can count money by means of franchises, the system of tenants, manor labor, and old habits.

When the Hegu Spinning Mill was the most profitable, the Mo Party only built a model, even if the profits were amazing at that time, they did not build it themselves, but took loans to support a part of the middle class in Fujian.

When spinning and weaving were the most profitable, Chen Jian did not invest a lot of money to do it himself, but supported batch after batch of people and cooperatives to complete the initial accumulation and disintegrate the contractors.

Before the start of overseas trade, the Mexican Party began to organize the excavation of canals connecting coal mining areas, which no one was optimistic about at the time, and thought it was just for charity.

When the slums were worthless and the trade and business circles had not yet been formed, the full-time construction team in Nan'an had already begun to build that kind of frame building, forming a new industry.

At a time when social capital was heavily invested in the direction of Nanyang companies and plantations, the funds of the Mexican Party were still supporting factories, handicrafts and hydraulic factories, constantly luring many people in Mincheng to complete the transformation and economically dismantle the old era.

When no one knew that overseas trade was about to begin, the shipyard began to be customized and improved by Chen Jian, training a large number of craftsmen and expanding the scale of the shipyard.

The money in the hands of the Mexican Party and Chen Jian was like a medicine primer, leading capital to gather in the places they wanted, and through this gathering, the tenant and guild system in the vicinity of Mincheng was dismantled, and a more brutal employment system was gradually established.

It is never developed freely, but secretly regulated by an invisible hand.

He had contact with Chen Jian when he was in Nan'an, and he never forgot to study after that, and often read various pamphlets of the Mexican Party, such as "What the Economic Base Determines". I saw it, and I even felt that it made sense, but it didn't mean that I didn't object.

He was convinced that the economic base determines the superstructure was correct, and he said many things from the point of view of class analysis, without agitation, but with a scientific attitude like a man looking at an ant.

In whose hands is Mincheng's economic system decided?

He didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit it.

The history of the development of Mincheng is a history of planning hidden behind the Mo Party, and the prosperity of Mincheng is a model in which the Mo Party eats fat, invites the original land and the original accumulated capital to eat lean meat, and allows small producers to drink soup.

By the way, while eating meat, they threw infamy and contradictions into the hands of those big capitalists, and by drinking soup, they were able to unite the petty bourgeoisie against the old system such as franchise guilds.

The Mexican Party can practice a ten-hour working day in its own factories and celebrate Workers' Day every year, because their factories are difficult to replace by others, relying on monopoly excess profits to achieve welfare - this is to let the citizens see with their own eyes that the big factory system is not bad, it will create more wealth than the guild handicrafts, and the bad thing is only the distribution problem, you have to figure out who you oppose.

Oil wells, acids and alkalis, rinsing agents, mirror-making monopolies, canal ownership, nautical trainees, cotton spinning machinery, cement joint ventures...... Do others have pricing power? Who can compete for patents over the Mexican Party's capital and planned, even at any cost, in technology?

In the freely competitive cotton yarn, weaving and other factories, even if the capitalists have a conscience and want to implement a ten-hour work system, if others do not do it and do not legislate, it will go bankrupt and be swallowed up by their peers in less than half a year.

The hired workers do not hate the Mexican Party, on the contrary, they are full of respect and support for the 10-hour work day legislation proposed by the Mexican Party, and the Mexican Party has been implementing various reforms in its technological monopoly factories, and the hired workers only hate the new capitalists in the era of free competition rather than monopoly capital, which are brutally exploited.

The largest textile industry, coal industry, construction industry, as well as the steel industry and education industry that will be built, and a series of upstream canal transportation, machinery, rinsing, explosives and other industries are all in the hands of the Mexican Party.

A few years ago, they could only move grain and coal, relying on tears of crying and sympathy to win over the miners' petition proposals in the council. At that time, they also talked about morality, virtue, and human nature.

Now, they don't even bother to cry.

Their party property can monopolize the economic lifeline of Minxian County, which is the reason why they dare to call out on the basis of the economy, and they have the ability to drag those soup drinkers in Mincheng to destroy together, so now they no longer cry or win sympathy, but directly talk about interest analysis.

Even Nanyang seems to be eating meat, but can Nanyang replace it? A company that started as a transshipment trade, the meat it eats originated from the industry of Mincheng. The handicrafts in Mincheng seem to be drinking soup, but when they can't drink the soup, Nanyang Company will eat.

The place where the distant mountains are sad is also here.

oppose the nationalization of land, the real equality of all people on the basis of the economy, and the monopoly of the state for the people to be taken from the people; and slogans against rent and interest reductions, against compromise redemption franchises, and against equality for all...... These two are completely different.

The former can force the Mexican Party into a situation where all the emerging forces in the entire old era plus Mincheng are hostile, and the latter directly forces in Mincheng are forced to the side of the Mexican Party.

He did not know exactly what was discussed at the first special enlarged congress of the Mexican Party, but he knew that the slogan shouted by the Mexican Party was a temporary compromise with the rest of the forces in Mincheng.

Now that such an accident has happened, the hatred of Yuanshan is simply itchy at the root of his teeth.

The Mexican Party has no real estate, but it has capital and a group of radical, fanatical and thoughtful young people who can leave at any time. The Great Wilderness City, the ends of the earth, Taiwan, where can I go?

Is there a place in the world where there is no oppression? As long as there is, the group of people in the Mo Party is like a fish running into the water.

In a hurry, they ran away, and when the time comes, they will leave behind a mess in Mincheng, who will clean it up? Who's going to take the blame? Who bears the anger of the bottom and middle levels? The most radical in the future, but at this time, the Mexican Party in the middle is gone, leaving a group of young people who are utopian radicals and absolute equals, who will put out the fire at the bottom? Who can control so many landless unemployed people in Mincheng who have been pulled in by the shelter factories and have lost their jobs and returned to the countryside to take revenge and ask for land?

The Mexican Party is not a good people's party, but when it is not in power, it has to accommodate tens of thousands of people to dig canals and build roads in Fujian to do some things that should only be done in power. This is not tens of thousands of people digging canals and building roads, but tens of thousands of bombs that can explode at any time, and the lead of this bomb is the chaos in Mincheng and the collapse of the normal system.

How to solve these potential bombs? It is not impossible to solve the problem, that is, to force the landlords to return the land, deny the right to collect tenants, and throw these bombs back into the countryside.

But he understands that the simplest solution is often the hardest. Who will execute it? Rely on the bureaucracy of the old forces of the landlords to carry it out? Who will take their own lives? And is there such organizational and executive power?

What is the easiest solution in theory is always the hardest.

He had read a lot of the propaganda pamphlets of the Mexican Party in Mincheng, so he could think about this issue clearly, so it was like sitting on pins and needles.

Whether Mincheng is chaotic or not, whether it is good or not has nothing to do with him ten years ago. But now, it's all about him.

Mincheng is there, and no one owns it, but the shares of the Nanyang Company, the cash from the bank, the shares of the factory of the Hegu Textile Mill, and the interest on the bank's loans...... But it is his own and the Dharma under the thought of Mincheng.

Mincheng is a city in the eyes of others, and in his eyes it is a higher ladder that can be climbed, but now some people want to break this ladder.

Even if he resigns, as long as the council system and capital system in Mincheng do not fail, he will become a public shareholder and banker of Nanyang Company, and it will be no problem to rely on his reputation over the years to become the chairman of the council, and this power does not come from the central government but from Mincheng.

But now, once Mincheng is finished, his political future is also over, even if he escapes at this time and says that this is a rebellion and supports the army to suppress it, what is left for him?

If you turn your back on Mincheng, you will inevitably lose the power granted by the Mincheng system; He did not react in time to the problems of Mincheng over the years, and lost his power from above.

He also finally understood that when he came to Mincheng and accepted the proposal of Nanyang Company and Chen Jian to let him take out a loan to buy shares, from then on, the cancer of capital had begun to devour and corrupt it.

He also understood, how could Jian Chen be so kind to give him the equity of Nanyang Company in the first place? The main business of the Nanyang Company was trade, not land rent and robbery by force, but also the transshipment trade starting from the developed handicraft industry and initial industry in Mincheng. If he had invested in a company that used robbery and land rent as a means of profit, nothing would have affected his interests.

Yes, the Mexicans are not yet capable of fighting the whole old world.

But before he died, he could dismantle the new system in Mincheng and drag all the new classes in Mincheng that had nothing to do with land rent to be buried......

At this time, land rent was conservative and trade was aggressive; There is no upstream and downstream, and trade involves handicrafts; Ground rent and power are bound, the most old-fashioned; Capital and power are bound, the most shameless; Land rent is the mainstay, and the chaos in the city has nothing to do with them; Capital system, once the city is in chaos, I don't know how many people will jump off buildings and rivers to swallow matchsticks.

At this time, the personified capital has nowhere to run, and the Mexican Party can run because they have never taken profit as their first purpose, and their personality is still ideals and beliefs for the time being......

From the first time Nan'an saw the present, it took nearly ten years of pervasive corrosion to finally corrupt the distant mountains into a "moth" of the old empire.

The power of the old empire has nothing to do with him anymore, he already has the most important things in the power of the new era - capital and fame.

The constant sound of gunfire and commotion outside took his eyes away from the pamphlets of the Mexican Party and the Progressive League, and several people hurried in and reported: "The county guard, the citizens of Mincheng and the people of the Mexican Party want to meet you. More than 400 people from the Mexican side carried guns and three cannons. ”

Speaking of cannons, the person who returned the report twisted his cheeks slightly, handed over a few documents that the Mo Party had just handed over, and said, "They said that these cannons have legal procedures. A door that was nominally commissioned by the military to help Chen Jian measure the trajectory had the military's seal on it; One is Chen Jian's application to try to use a new boring machine to drill the barrel to withstand glycerin explosives as propellant, which was approved by the Ministry of Industry and went through the legal procedure; There is also a test of whether the glycerin explosives can be fired directly without a boring machine......"

Yu Yuanshan took the paperwork, and threw it aside without even looking at it.

Usually there are cannons, no one can say anything, and at this juncture, I look at the three documents, whether it is legal or not, does not depend on these documents, but on what I will say.

Legitimate? Will the Mexican Party's group of people who have never been shy about rebellion and justification take the old law seriously?

Yu Yuanshan laughed angrily, this was the second joke he had heard this year. The previous one was at the beginning of the year, when I heard a petition from a few people to preach and educate the people of the world to believe in religion, and the world would be peaceful and free of disputes.