Mincheng, it looks like the same as always, it is almost November, and the weather is no different from last year, but the people are a little different. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The original stock booth of the Standard Oil Monopoly Workshop would gather a lot of people every day to hand over silver coins and get a stock with their names on it that could not be transferred for three years.

The funds raised by next year's shipping venture capital have been bought out early, and those who don't have their turn will choose to invest their money in the Standard Oil monopoly workshop, how to calculate this is also a business that will make a lot of money, and Chen Jian also gave a promise that even if he didn't make money after three years, he would return all the shares according to the 10% return.

With such a promise, with the ship guide and the workshop as the pillars, and the fame and fame as the reassurance, no one is worried that their money will not be recovered.

A large amount of cash was concentrated in Chen Jian's hands, and no one supervised how he would use the money, anyway, many seemingly useless things had been earned before, and people would only think that they had no vision.

At this time, it is the season of cotton purchase, and this year, as long as it does not rain, it will be a cotton harvest year. The people of the Cotton Spinning Guild are busy preparing for this year's cotton purchase, secretly thanking Chen Jian for promoting the ginning machine that can make them more money this year, but ignoring the large amount of money hidden by Chen Jian in the name of the Standard Oil monopoly workshop.

In the past two years, many people in Mincheng have experienced great ups and downs, some have become rich overnight, and some have become hired workers with nothing overnight, but the speculative craze that was stopped in time and did not expand has not faded.

The middle class of small citizens and the upper class are thinking about how to make money, thinking about how to make money faster. The ground floor is busy with daily life.

What happened in that remote mine was a big deal for the Mexican Party, but for Mincheng, if it was according to the situation in previous years, it would not even be able to make a splash.

However, this year is not the same as in previous years, when people with intentions want to add fuel to the fire, especially when people who have money and have a pen and a grassroots organization want to help the trouble, everything is different.

The results of the deliberations of the 13-member emergency committee of the Mexican Party that day were kept secret from the outside world, and even the internal members only knew that more than 60 pickets had been transferred from the docks, Chen Jian's workshop, and the canal.

As Hu Lin said, the law does not punish the heart.

However, morality, public opinion, and writing have the power of condemnation that the law does not have.

The tabloids controlled by the ink-colored elements made perfect use of the loopholes in the law, and with lightning speed, they used the power of the pen to show everything that happened in that mine to the people of Mincheng.

With money, people, and organization, it's much easier to want to stir up emotions. The bottom without money does not have the time and energy to protect their own interests and the so-called justice, but what they lack is made out by a group of people who are full of food.

For a time, the streets and alleys of Mincheng were full of denunciations against the Wang family, the magistrate and owner of the mine, which could indeed be said to be unintentional and therefore innocent in law, but the public opinion of the tabloids was not directed to pursue the guilt of those people, but hoped that the council would allow the coal mine to establish an employee association, improve the correction mechanism, and prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

The fact that everything was reasonable and legal, with neither smashing nor violence, has raised concerns among many, including those of the Holy Moral Alliance, who had previously splintered and given support to the parties they had withdrawn from.

The miserable life in the mining areas there was written with tears in the pen, and the Mexican Party organization in Fujian quickly followed the path of non-violent petitions.

Soliciting middle- and low-level signatures, giving speeches on the streets, lobbying celebrities, communicating with council members, etc., were like falling into a spark of kerosene, which quickly triggered a boom among people in Mincheng.

Except for the thirteen, no one knew that this was not for the mining area, nor for easing the conflict, nor for the sake of compromise and goodwill support, but for the preparation of intensifying the conflict.

If you want to enter the political arena in a bright and bright way, you have to do something big, and by the way, claim responsibility for this matter.

On the seventh day of November, this is an ordinary day for most people, but it is not ordinary for others in Mincheng who really have the strength to influence the situation.

On this day, it is the season for the official start of cotton procurement around Min County.

The Cotton Spinning Guild did not want to provoke Chen Jian, so it knew that some cooperatives or lobbying of the Mexican Party members did indeed grow cotton, but they did not extend their tentacles there.

Since the advent of the ginning machine, the amount of cotton planted in places where non-Mexican party elements are active has also increased significantly. After discussing within the Cotton Spinning Guild, it was decided not to provoke this group of madmen, although the profit was tempting, but if there was a conflict, I was afraid that both sides would not look good.

After all, Jian Chen is not one of those people who only has 1,800 silver coins like he is involved in this industry, and the people who stand with him are not three or five people, but a large group of people.

However, their concession did not keep Chen Jian and the people of the trading company dignified, but regardless of face and the hidden rules of the past, they extended their hands to the cotton plantations that had been monopolized by the cotton spinning guild in the past.

Both sides had weapons and did not use their hands, and this group of people in the trading company were even more scoundrels and shameless, completely ignoring the rules of the guild, and raising the price of lint by three percent on the same day, claiming to be open to purchase, and if there was no time to gin, they would directly purchase seed cotton, and only add a part of the processing fee.

This is simply lawless in the eyes of the people of the cotton spinning guild, so many years have been like this, before the start of the acquisition, the tooth shop, middlemen, ginning workshops, speculators, etc. met together, agreed on this year's purchase price, divided the cake, and made a fortune.

It's been like this for so many years, no one dares to violate the rules, and whoever violates the rules will be ruined and killed, making you untenable in Mincheng.

But this year, all the rules have been disrupted, and this is a complete enemy of the Cotton Spinning Guild, which is a war to the death.

There is only one winner, and if you win, you can eat it all, and you will always eat it all in the future. If you lose, you don't dare to say that you have nothing, but you won't dare to set foot in this industry in the future.

In the eyes of the people of the Cotton Spinning Guild, Chen Jian is simply hitting a stone with an egg.

Money is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is the survival of various people who are directly related to the cotton spinning industry, which is also a bargaining chip, and in their opinion, Chen Jian has no possibility of winning at all.

When it really got to that point, the guild announced the closure of the alliance and put all the blame on Chen Jianjian, so that the weavers and yarn workers in the family workshop would not care how many good things this trading company had done, and would vent their anger and smash it.

And the official face ...... How dare you let Mincheng be in chaos?

But this is the worst-case scenario, before this is more than the money to be made, but this has never been the case before, the cotton spinning guild has an intricate system of deliberations, and the efficiency is really no better than that of a trading company that one person says and a fanatical young man who declares that more people can live a better life.

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On the same day, Hu Lin, along with sympathizers of the Mexican Party and some enlightened celebrities in Fujian, went to the county council with a petition signed by many to ask the council to convene a special session to pass this not too much proposal.

The Mexican Party has begun to extend its minions to places where the authorities have not reached, and has begun to slowly erode, but it has not yet touched its core interests, and it will not immediately provoke strong opposition, after all, it still stands on the commanding heights of public opinion and morality.

This is a situation that the various bureaucrats in Min County have never encountered, and they do not know how to deal with it, and even if there is a disturbance in the past, there is no organization behind the covert support.

It was as if the previous experience had been invalidated at this moment, and I had no idea how to deal with it.

This feeling of helplessness and helplessness did not begin on this day, but from the time when the orchid craze shattered, and the response was nothing short of a farce, inappropriate and frequent, and even almost caused a large-scale riot.

Slow response, overwhelmed, blame-shifting, looking for scapegoats but not finding ...... These questions were like a bright red slap in the face, firmly imprinted on the faces of Mincheng officials.

The previous trend alarmed the above, and because there were too many legends in Mincheng, the central organization at a higher level had sent people to Minjun to investigate, and did not interfere with the normal government affairs of Minjun, but only as observers.

The experience of the old era could not guide the new era, and in the face of the petitions submitted by hundreds of people who had been incited, Mincheng was already in chaos and had no time to pay attention to the wailing of the big merchants of the cotton spinning guild, so he could only try his best to deal with this matter first.

"The businessman's business is handed over to you merchants, is it possible that we will also issue a decree stipulating that cotton can only be sold to you?"

The officials of Minjun County, who were disturbed by this incident, responded to the request of the Cotton Spinning Guild, and looked at the petition submitted by Hu Lin and others, their heads were as big as a bucket.

One-third of the officials in the council are appointed, and whether or not they can pass depends largely on the attitude of the authorities.

But how could the coal mine owners agree to these requests?

If you are biased towards this petition, Min County will be messed up, and there are so many industries that depend on coal to survive, who can take this responsibility? Pottery burning, silk reeling, dyeing, iron smelting, forging, anchoring, daily ...... This involved almost all walks of life in Mincheng, and the members of the council were basically these big workshop owners and big businessmen, who obviously worried about their own interests and sided with the coal mine owners and did not want any situation to arise.

In favor of the coal mine owners, public opinion has been completely biased in favor of those miserable miners, and has been organized and planned to support and incite public opinion. The mine owner has benefited, but the black cauldron is all carried by the officials, so what can be done? If it provokes a popular uprising, Mincheng has been very unsatisfactory, and things have happened frequently in the past two years, and Nan'an next to it is like a magical cave to suck labor and money over, in contrast, once the public opinion is monstrous, it is still themselves who are responsible.

Destroy the oaths that were made at the time of the founding of the country, although the grave of the person who founded the country did not know where he died, but no one dared to completely deny the oath made at the beginning, at least it was not easy to break on the surface.

Careerists are everywhere, and some people dare to pick up this thing against themselves, whether they really think so or not, but the bones can always be pulled up and draped over the body for use.

Dilemma, but not with the mud. Which side are you on? A choice has to be made, there is no third way.