The March with Dignity was launched at a time when the Progressive Alliance had not yet been disbanded, and there was a discussion among the parties involved about whether to support it.

If this kind of thing is to go smoothly, it needs financial support, and when it was first established as an alliance, it left a part of the public activity funds, and the use of these funds needs to be supported by all parties. Originally, these funds were used to do things like vaccination, which were certain, without any conflict of political interest, and definite for the benefit of all.

Many organisations within the Progressive League disagreed with this event, especially the quasi-party organisations within themselves that formally represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie and overseas trade.

At this time, in Min County, the Mo Party is not the protagonist, and it is impossible to become the protagonist. As in these things, it is destined to be the new bourgeoisie and the small peasants and petty bourgeoisie who have been hit. And for a long time, these people were the main force on both sides of the whole social change.

However, the Mexican Party is an important supporting actor, and it is better to have the support of the Mexican Party if it wants to make trouble: the party is rich, financially rich, influential enough, and has a large number of miners, dock workers, canal helpers, as well as first-class propaganda departments and party-controlled newspapers.

With the changes of the times and the continuous division of the original organization, it has changed from the original charity party or good people party of the whole people to an organization that represents a certain class and has its own interests.

So this "march of dignity", which is nominally motivated by mercy and morality, did not vote for the decision to use the common assets of the Progressive Alliance.

Before that, they had been arguing with each other in the newspapers and seizing the leadership at the bottom, which had reached the point of being evenly matched, and the first thing many people did every ten years was to buy a newspaper to see what loopholes the two sides had seized on each other.

When an organization has its own ideology and interest appeal, it is like a child who has grown up without his parents, although he is still very naïve in some places, but he continues to grow up and mature in naivety.

With regard to agriculture and land, they insisted on the communalization of land, but they also supported the operational farms of the time – the organization of the symposium decided that small plots of land were a step backwards, and that domestic reform could save a lot of things: when the time came, the private agricultural workers would become state-owned or collectively owned. As for the large number of laborers that have been freed up, they can choose to go to places like the Great Wilderness City to make a living, where they can also build large farms.

We resolutely resist the idea of redividing small pieces of land in this "dignity march".

In the handicrafts, they came to the same conclusion, like the "people-oriented romantic societies", that the system of the big factories would eventually collapse in internal logic, but the solution was not to revert to the times when the state was hindering development and the guild system, but to adopt another approach.

The "March of Dignity" talk about the rebuilding of the guild was also resolutely resisted.

The Mexican Party and the Minben Romantic Society are the two most forward-thinking organizations of this era, at least they point out from their internal logic that the system will eventually collapse if this continues. The rest of the various organizations that aim to build an "ideal society" still pin their ideas on human nature, expounding and criticizing all these problems from the perspective of human nature and morality, but they also pin all their futures on human nature and morality—on the one hand, the internal logic shows that this will be finished sooner or later; On the other hand, from the perspective of human nature, it is sinful to go on like this. That's the biggest difference, the biggest gap.

As propagated by the Minben Romance Society, the people of the Mexican Party are in a painful choice. On the one hand, I am moved and sympathetic to the lives of tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands of people and millions of people who will be affected in the future by the whole country, and whose lives are becoming more and more difficult; On the other hand, they rejoiced that the progress of the times had eliminated these people in batches.

In the same way, the future worst enemies of the Mexican Party and their propaganda antagonists are in a not painful but uncomfortable choice: the grave that the Mexican Party has prepared for them will be hundreds of years later, and they will have to dig the pit themselves; The graves dug for them by the Minmoto Romance Society and the remnants of the old times are right in front of them.

There was the most bizarre scene in the entire Min County. During the debate, the Mexican Party denounced the irrationality of the times, and made a prophecy of ultimate self-destruction in this mercenary era. The reprimanded side gladly accepted and said that everything he did was for the progress of the times, and the destruction of the future was a matter of the future.

The two groups of people who were originally scolding each other the most actually shook hands behind their backs silently at this time. The Mexican Party does not need to show its support for the capitalists, it only needs to remain neutral, which is the biggest support of this supporting actor at this time.

When the two protagonists are on equal footing, the protagonist is not as powerful as the supporting characters.

At an internal meeting of the Progressive Alliance, the Mexican Party voted against the "March of Dignity" amid a flurry of boos. This declared the Progressive League dead, and it was only a matter of time before it was formally dissolved.

To the surprise of the Mexican party, Hulin, whose minds had gradually leaned towards them, voted in favor, but the power of this vote was not great. The opposition of more than half of the votes prevented the Progressive League from using its public assets to support such activities.

After the meeting, Hu Lin, who had been sullen, sent a personal letter to the members of the Mexican Party.

The above is short.

"I know it's wrong and meaningless for me to vote for it, but my conscience says I have to."

"You have theories, science, ideas, futures, facts, and reason. But you ...... Do you have a conscience? ”

As a wave of people who saw it very clearly, Hu Lin had long expected this failure: they might succeed elsewhere, but they didn't have such an urgent motivation, so it was difficult to organize; In Minjun they have an urgent motivation, but it is precisely because of the motivation that it proves that those people are more powerful and therefore cannot succeed.

As he expected, this massive "march of dignity" lasted six days before it was suppressed.

The Mexicans remained neutral, and the solution was to make the factory owners pay a special compensation of 2 percent, and to organize the migration of those who could not survive.

Their neutrality left the most combative and experienced group of people who had experienced several struggles without support, but only psychological and verbal sympathy.

After ensuring the neutrality of the Mexican Party and verbally agreeing to special taxes and fees for poverty relief, the capitalists, workshop owners, and maritime merchants of Min County united with unprecedented speed.

The newly formed coastal banks quickly gave out large amounts of cash; hired hooligans and employees of the company quickly assembled; Speculators were warned not to take advantage of the chaos to disturb the economic order of Min County; In the midst of the chaos, the order and normal life of the rest of the industries, such as weavers, small weaving workshops, etc., which have no impact on their own interests, are guaranteed, and they remain neutral; A large number of the company's armed mercenary employees quickly withdrew from the sea, took off their uniforms, put down their muskets, and picked up sticks; A large amount of money was poured into the newspapers and public opinion, and it was rumored that the Romanticists had taken Spanish pesos in order to destroy their country's industry, and that their leaders had received thirty-five thousand silver pesos from the missionaries......

The sufficient preparations that have been made for the news have made this "march of dignity" without dignity at all. A violent clash broke out along the banks of the Min River, with a group of hired men disguised as hired laborers guarding the gate of the spinning mill, chanting the slogan "We want to eat too" and fighting in a mess.

The militarized armed hired workers confronted these machine-smashing demonstrators, supported by a pitiful number of pickets, with predictable results.

Later, one of the several leaders captured was bribed and wrote a confession: the smashing of the machine was instructed by the leader of the Minben Romance Society, and it is said that the leaders received Spanish pesos and so on.

A confession that began with a confession that was said to have been bribed by the sheriff and the rest of the officials quickly mobilized and seized the headquarters of the Minmoto Romance Society and captured most of the people in charge.

Soon, the evidence showed that the taking of pesos was a fictitious thing, but the smashing of machines was unstoppable, and had to be placed on the heads of these people.

This matter has been resolved before the big families and invisible nobles above are looking forward to the big trouble here.

More than 70 people were sentenced to imprisonment, hard labor or deportation by the Min County Judiciary. The Minjun council introduced a bill for the protection of machinery and its factory means of production with unprecedented speed, and anyone who tried to smash the machine was sentenced to two years of hard labor or exiled from the country – not applicable to the action before the legislation, but it made legal conditions for future repression.

There was no excuse for the bureaucrats, hidden aristocrats, or political families of the old era in the capital, and the county guard of Min County was inevitably tied to this group of interest groups, and some political speculative families behind him also began to put the treasure on the big businessmen and big capitalists on the coast.

As a concession, Min County also issued a resolution on special poverty compensation taxes and fees for factories, as well as a new "Tropical Plantation Employment Case".

The former is financed by the factory, so that those who have been temporarily left in poverty because of the establishment of the factory go to sea to make a living, and the main flow direction is the great desert city controlled by the Mexican Party.

The latter stipulates that when there is a domestic free labour, industries such as plantations must give preference to the country's free labourers, and that slaves are allowed only when the number of free labourers in the country is insufficient. A special supervisory committee was set up to oversee this, but the legal wages of the same plantation freelancers were very low, and only slightly more expensive than slaves.

When the organizers were finally tried, the only one who came out to defend those organizers was Hu Lin. He knew that this was a defense that could not be won, but he made up his mind to treat the defense as a huge propaganda.

Many people watched, Hu Lin has long been used to it, eight years have passed since he met Jian Chen, and he has experienced too many major events so that he is no longer the young man full of illusions, but his conscience in his heart has not changed. It's just that I'm getting more and more depressed and can't find a way out.

Thousands of people were moved when they heard Hu Lin's propaganda that seemed to be a defense but was a speech, but the outcome of the trial did not change.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are two kinds of robbery. One is fast, lethal, and unambiguous. The other is a hidden, slow, money-making method of stealing money from other people's pockets. Is this reasonable? Does it make any difference? ”

The person who refuted said indifferently: "Mr. Zhu Qian, the former is illegal, and the latter is not illegal. Unless you overthrow the government now, or change the law at the National Assembly, you say it doesn't make sense. Reasonable vs. unreasonable...... It's like collecting taxes, I can find 10,000 reasons to say he's reasonable, and I can find 10,000 reasons to say he's unreasonable. But the most important thing is just whether it is legal or not. ”

After this brief publicity, Hu Lin found the members of the Mexican Party who were busy organizing a new batch of immigrants to the Great Wilderness City. Looking at these original spinning craftsmen and future farmers or people from other industries, Hu Lin asked the original comrades who received him: "They wanted an orange, but you gave them a peach." What about their freedom? Do you respect the free will of man? ”

"Zhu Qian, they originally wanted peaches, but they couldn't afford them, so they had to buy oranges. So that's freedom? ”

"When there are not enough peaches, it is not free to buy peaches and divide peaches. So you think it doesn't matter? ”

"No, we're just working hard to have enough peaches. At least it's better than if you sit there and just say it's not right to divide peaches or buy peaches. As for those people, it's even more ridiculous, there aren't enough peaches, so there won't be a problem if you cut them all. You're a little better than them. ”

The sharp criticism made Hu Lin very comfortable, as if he had already made a decision in his heart but needed to be reprimanded to help him make up his mind. Although the person in front of him was still a young man who read "Dream City" written by himself eight years ago, he didn't make him feel too unhappy, just smiled and asked, "When will Jian Chen come back?" ”

"Come on, there are some things I can't tell you, but there are some things that don't hurt to tell you. He is now on the east side of the sea, and the ship we have sent has departed, and should be back soon. ”