On the 17th, flags of all colors fluttered, and the streets and alleys were filled with many low-level citizens who had truly felt the concept of "national people" because they had participated in the affairs of the county for the first time.

The agitation of the month before has faded away, the main forces have chosen to compromise at this time, and the agitation of radical average utopian fantasy has gradually been suppressed.

But this month's riots have truly exposed the bloodshed necessary for the replacement of the old with the new, and the collective anger and panic of thousands of unemployed people and many small citizens who feel the crisis and loss of dignity have cast an indelible shadow over what many people once thought was an infinitely beautiful "future".

Not only the people in Mincheng see it really, but also the guests in Mincheng see it really. There were not only businessmen from the Netherlands and England, but also a few Ming people who had been deceived or lured by Chen Jian or were curious to come and see this "land of the remnants of Yin Shang".

They returned more than half a year earlier than Jian Chen, and arrived directly with the ship across the Pacific Ocean, and did not participate in Jian Chen's expedition in the southern hemisphere to find the southern continent.

For almost a year, they saw many new things. Flying hot air balloons, primitive condensing vacuum steam engines used to pump water in mines, large telescopes with views of hills on the moon, microscopes with views of water and the world, handicraft factories that accommodate more than 1,000 people, and yarn factories with a lot of child labor......

When we open our eyes to the world, we can't see only the good, but also the bad.

When the uprising broke out in Mincheng, they finally understood the price to be paid for what they had seen before, and many became terrified.

In the inn in the city, in the dining room below a few people, they shook their heads as they listened to the people who were encouraged in Mincheng talking about rights and obligations.

These people are talking about state affairs, and they are talking about it as a matter of course, but there is neither a king nor a father, no benevolence or righteousness in their words, only straightforward and obvious interests, and they do not hide it.

From time to time, there were bursts of street propaganda shouts outside, and from time to time there were bursts of applause, and several guests sitting inside looked at each other awkwardly, and finally someone swept the paper fan and opened the conversation.

"When Jian Chen first arrived in Quanzhou, I was also worried that these people would covet the community and cause trouble to the world like the Francophone or the Lan people. Now it seems that I was worried about it in the first place. Look at this posture, this country, I'm afraid it's going to end. ”

One of the people next to him also nodded and said, "Exactly." Ten thousand people rioted, the disaster caused the wall, and the country will not be a country. What is it? The Chinese riots, you think about the Chinese riots, although Zhou Tianzi is still there, he will soon be the five tyrants and seven heroes. Etiquette collapses, that's what I'm talking about. If you want me to say, twenty years at most, the country will be in chaos. ”

"Exactly, businessmen are profitable and mercenary. Do you remember the old things about Lü Buwei? Strange goods can live, strange goods can live, what goods are strange goods? What can be more profitable than being in charge of the world? The Zichu he Lu Buwei is looking for, after all, he has to pay attention to the status of a monarch and a minister, and the businessmen here don't even want the status of a monarch and a minister. ”

"The saint hangs his arch to rule the world, and the council is nothing, but to govern the world, we must teach righteousness and seek benevolence, otherwise the world will be in chaos. When King Hui of Liang saw Mencius, he asked why he benefited my country? Mencius once replied: Why bother with profit? There is only benevolence and righteousness. ”

Several people nodded their heads and praised: "The king said, 'Why is it for the benefit of our country?' The doctor said, 'Why do you benefit my family?' The Tushu people said, 'Why do you benefit my body?' 'The upper and lower levels are levied and the country is in danger. In the country of ten thousand times, those who kill their monarchs will be the home of a thousand times; In the country of a thousand times, whoever kills its monarch will be the home of a hundred times. Thousands of thousands, thousands of thousands, not too much. Gou for the sake of the aftermath and the first profit, do not take away and do not eat. Those who have not been benevolent and leave their relatives behind, and those who have not been righteous and then their kings. Wang also said that benevolence and righteousness are just that, why bother with profit? ”

"The words of the sage are still there, it is not easy for eternity, it is 40,000 miles long, is it not the same here? Isn't it true that everyone talks about profit but not righteousness, and will never give up if they don't seize the society? Who is the most profitable? Who is the richest? In the future, who will take over the world's social society. If the people of this country are kind and righteous, in fact, it is much easier for me to say this. ”

When they heard this man say this, everyone asked for advice, but this man said, "In my opinion, this matter has been very simple from beginning to end. Because those industrial and commercial people pursue profit and are not righteous, they have built large workshops and factories, and they are only interested in profit. In this way, will not we compete with the people for profit? How can these tens of thousands of small people who spin yarn survive? If benevolence is emphasized, then this does not have to happen. ”

"On the one hand, there is a lot of education, so that people know benevolence and faithfulness, and the great governance of the world is at your fingertips. On the one hand, if the world is governed by benevolence and righteousness, the livelihood of tens of thousands of small people must be worried. It only takes a royal order from the king to smash the machine, so that the people of the world dare not use it again. In this case, how can there be a riot of 10,000 people? Seek righteousness, then the world is safe; If you seek profit, the world will be chaotic. It's a pity that a huge country is about to fall apart, and the matter of Yuyang drums is not far away. ”

"Shinong Industry and Commerce, four words can break this mess. When this place is calm, I will go north to this capital city, preach the words of the saints, learn from the thousands of miles of preaching, and open a school. If the king summons him, the country will be able to rule greatly, and he will be able to preach and educate thousands of miles away. ”

After speaking, he sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that King Fan is not Song Zhirenzong, but King Liang Zhihui." ”

Just as I was sighing with emotion, I heard the street preachers outside shouting: "There is no pure white fox in the world, but there is a pure white fur, and all white is taken." If this whiteness is the wisdom of the people, and it is taken from the people, this is the reason for the prosperity of the republic; If this whiteness is for the benefit of all, and it is taken from all, this is the basis for the continuation of the republic! Nationals! Citizens! Speak your mind out loud and exercise your rights and obligations as a countryman! The Civilian Council wins! ”

After the tsunami of applause, there was a man who preached the advantages of meritocracy, refuting the somewhat radical declaration that the man had just said. But the latter man apparently did not receive much applause than the former, but he took the trouble to explain many things until the people below gradually dispersed......

A few days later, in the hall of the new council, which had been given sacred status by the people of Mincheng, the Mexican Party, which had received a quarter of the membership of the new council by mere party representatives, was reading out its party's program at the council, and by the way, put forward various proposals, waiting for the support or opposition of the people in the council.

Hu Lin is not a member of the Mexican Party, but because of his reputation, he was still elected as a new member of the council, and sits next to a member of the Mexican Party as he did more than a month ago.

The most critical proposals have been adopted, and all that remains is the process of sticking knives into each other's stumbling blocks.

In return for the MSP's proposal to reduce land rents, the MSP's proposal to ban child labor under the age of 10 was supported.

Because they don't use child labor, especially in agricultural production, it doesn't mean much, so it shows their morality.

But when it comes to the minimum wage, these people don't budge.

Proposals such as a minimum wage and a 12-hour working day would have benefited small producers, theoretically increasing costs and increasing their competitiveness.

But in retaliation for the ban on smashing machines, the small producer faction opposed the minimum wage and the twelve-hour workday.

However, on the issue of voting rights, because of the question of where the money comes from, the small producer faction supported the proposal to change the voting rights of the county council of the Mexican Party.

In return, the party would need to secretly cede some of its positions as public affairs officials to these people.

A large number of compromises on the urban issue and the refusal to give an inch to the issue of the old-fashioned rentier landlords in the countryside have become the keynote of this new council, and have also become the keynote of Fujian's life-and-death struggle with some of the old-fashioned forces in the countryside in a certain sense in the future.

Hu Lin sat on the side, listening to these arguments full of interests, and a sense of powerlessness suddenly surged in his heart.

Some are lonely, some are tired, and some even want to get away from this brand new council that was supposed to bring a better future.

All of this is just to bring the hidden interests of the past to the surface, and the original entire republic or a whole Fujian City has been divided into a collection of interests one after another, and each organization may support each other one moment and hate each other the next.

The cacophony of voices made Hu Lin feel irritated in his chest, he had previously voted against the "Bill to Ban the Construction of New Water Workshops", because he had been in contact with Chen Jian for too long, so he knew that it was reactionary and contrary to the law.

But the sympathy for those bankrupt citizens will not disappear because of their own opposition, on the contrary, there is a faint feeling of guilt, far less indifferent than when they stood up and shouted against it.

He also sympathized with those at the bottom, but the life of the small citizens was always better than that of those at the bottom. Therefore, it is true to sympathize with the bottom, and it is also another kind of sympathy for the bankrupt citizens to fall to the bottom.

What he couldn't understand was that it was clear that Chen Jian told him that these were all improvements, why did this progress bring the small citizens who were originally doing well to the bottom? Who's improving?

When he saw this brand-new council today, he woke up to the fact that Mincheng had been divided. If Mincheng as a whole is indeed improving. However, for those strata and groups that are divided, not all of them are making progress, but a few people are advancing and the majority are retreating, but the few are less multiplied by the minority than the minority is far greater than the majority multiplying the majority by the majority.

This feeling of paleness and weakness made him fall into a kind of fatalistic exhaustion.

A few years ago, he wondered, and he also questioned, what about those who were abandoned by the new era at the turn of the old and new eras?

This is a question he has been searching for for all these years.

He thought that the Mexican Party had a solution to this problem, but because he was no longer a member of the Mexican Party after the divisive controversy a few years ago, he thought that there were some things in the Mexican Party that were kept secret.

But now it seems that the proposal and performance of the Mexican Party at the new parliament, the simple and crude way to solve this problem, he did not expect - early death and late death are death, so die quickly, speed up death, die with the help of legislation, die early and entrust factory workers, and then they will be a family...... This is how Hu Lin thinks the Mexican Party will solve the problem.

The ideas are all good, the reasons are right, but there are two words missing.

Conscience.