The pickets took control of the situation and captured all the participants.

The new council has not yet been elected, the various factions are still busy with nonsense, and one by one activists have suffered from "parliamentary disease", and participated in the establishment of this purely nonsense council with a sick sense of mission - neither shouting to change the old era, nor shouting a change from the south to the north, and even what to do in the countryside outside of Mincheng There are few people who care about it, and many people think of a simple handicraft Mincheng, which has never gone beyond the outer slums.

Since a new council has not yet been elected, and no break with the old era has been declared, the old legal system is still in force.

A public trial took place in the square of the council, and twelve were sentenced to exile to Turtle Island to guard the lighthouse, and more than seventy were sentenced to five years in the matchbox factory of the county jail for sticking matchboxes and mixing highly poisonous matchheads.

The trial, which was not dominated by the Mexican Party, sparked an even more serious confrontation. The unemployed at the lowest levels were outraged that the petty burgher class parties did not consider their demands, and began to question their promises after the public trial.

At the beginning of the uprising, the unemployed at the bottom had no programme of their own, and had to work with the petty burghers or the ultra-radicals. The ultra-radical ones were too dangerous, and the programme was unclear and contradictory, and the old majesty of the republic was still there, and the people preferred a solution to be pitied, and there was no desire to carry out the radical policy thoroughly, and there was still a glimmer of illusion in their hearts, so the conservative and reactionary retreats of the petty burghers became the leaders.

At the turn of the old and new eras, retro will always be the first choice, and it is also easier to gather more people's hearts. People are always afraid of the future, in the face of this silent and quiet social change, there are always many people who miss the previous feelings and beauty, just like a child who discards toys, when the toys are really discarded, those ugly places are forgotten, and there are only those feelings and beauty in the memory.

However, when the dawn of the "victory" of the uprising first appeared, these people at the lowest level suddenly discovered that they were not in the "future" designed by those small citizen factions.

In particular, after the fuse of this bloodshed was deliberately amplified by the Mexican Party and the big bourgeoisie who chose to open the trial debate – although this is not the mainstream thinking of the activists of the petty burgher faction, but now it is like a piece of on the yellow shirt pants, and it is impossible to say how to say it – this feeling of distrust and deception has made the anger at the bottom even more intense.

Half a month ago, some people stabbed the Mexican party in front of the parliament square, and briefly labeled the Mexican party a traitor and a capitulator with a satirical song of praise for the hanging.

Half a month later, the Mexican Party did nothing, only slightly created a "peaceful" environment, and the essence of those people was clearly exposed.

Weak and full of illusions, the future in his mind is only a small corner of Mincheng, and his heart is always worried about crossing the red line of "rebellion", and the only solution is to retreat to the guild era......

Mincheng is not a city where large workshops dominate, even though it may be the most capitalistic city in the world at this time, but after all, it is still too young, and it is still at the intersection of the times when the division of labor, large factories and handicrafts go hand in hand, or even some inferior.

The small townspeople and the old strata made up a large proportion, and before the uprising their slogans were so loud that the Mexican Party did not think it was ripe to take action, and that the dominant power in the early stage inevitably fell into the hands of those people.

This is not a victory, but a prelude to a storm disguised as a "victory", and the real repressors have not yet been armed. Supposedly, if they really have the ambition to change the world, what they should do at this time is to form a national self-defense force in Mincheng, or at least announce their announcement of their rural policy against Minxian County to gain the support of agricultural workers and maintain the neutrality of yeoman farmers......

However, the first thing they did was to wag their tails and beg for mercy from the big families of the old times in the north, hoping for the emergence of an impartial old class that did not want the new bourgeoisie to grow as a buffer, and to restrain the powerful to fight for them a dream city under private ownership, fair, reasonable, and moral, with full benefits of labor and fair trade.

At this time, if the leader is truly ambitious for change, it will not be considered a victory, but a critical moment.

At such a critical juncture, however, the dying old guilds, the spokesmen of the small producers, crushed by the new productive forces and relations of production, have begun to fear.

They are afraid of the people who have taken up their pompous call to arms, of the regime that has fallen into their hands, and above all of the consequences that the policies they have been forced to adopt will have for themselves, for their social status and for their property.

They are afraid that things will make too much trouble, and that they will lose their insignificant and pitiful capital and life when they fail; They are afraid that when things get bigger, the unemployed at the bottom of the fighting, who are the main fighting force, will oust them from power and really demand a change in ownership; They are afraid that if things go down, the bottom of the main fighting force will really shout the slogan of changing the land system, so that the real military families and the hidden landed nobles will break up irreconcilable.

Thus these petty burghers of the fanatical old times were surrounded by all sorts of contradictory dangers, and a ridiculous situation arose: they did not know what to do, what they had to do with the highest priority, and they did not know how to implement concretely the competition of the large factories that did not harm ownership and the commodity economy, and put an end to the division of labor of the big workshops.

All kinds of contradictory, reactionary, and retrogressive programs became the "correct" choice after their "victory."

Only, they can go back to the guild times, because they are subordinate to the old times; However, in the new era, the freelancers, the bankrupt peasants, and the original agricultural employees who were robbed of their jobs by the machines, there was no basis for their survival in the old era.

Since that bloodshed and public trial, the situation in Mincheng has become more and more chaotic, and although the pickets of the Mexican Party have been able to maintain the normal operation of the city, what will happen to Mincheng in the future has finally been considered after the passion has passed.

Just like on the Pregnancy Festival, there is always a woman who conceives a child after a heartbeat, at least she will not regret it that night. But when the lower abdomen bulges and has to face the reality, the real panic begins to come, melting the passion like snowflakes like the warm breeze of spring.

Although there are contradictions of one kind or another, even if the Mexican Party does not agree with the uprising at this time, it does not agree with many political ideas, and even maintains the party's bottom line by not hesitating to cede dominance in the early stage.

But after all, this is Mincheng, the place where the Moxican Party first operated, and it is also the place where the large workshops, factories under the division of labor and various industries are the most developed, and the Mexican Party still has enough influence, and there is also a lot of money and weapons provided by traitors like Chen Jian, and some things have to be expressed.

Although there are various contradictions between the forces, the most important ones are still supported.

Men over the age of 20 with no criminal record under the old legal system have the right to vote, elect electoral districts in Mincheng, and elect new councils in Mincheng according to the representative system.

Council members no longer pay council member taxes, but are given a certain amount of financial support by the county government, so that more people at the bottom have the opportunity to participate.

Moreover, since the small producers, who had been the main producers from the beginning, were ready to compromise, it was inevitable that the final agreement would lead to a decision that was progressive, but still fraught with compromise and weakness.

including the retention of the old membership of the Council; only to expand the membership of the Commoners' Council; The property-weighted system is still adopted, but the lowest people who originally did not have the right to vote also have one vote, and according to the number of taxes paid last year, the highest taxpayer has the highest vote right of 1:100.

This measure, which was a little more advanced than before, finally won the agreement of all parties in a compromise, and it was decided that the election of the new members of the council in Mincheng would be held on October 17. And unanimously approved the mobilization of Mexican pickets from all over the vicinity to help maintain order in the city, which was the only self-defense force acceptable to both the big workshop owners and the lower classes.

After the final news was confirmed, the representatives of the interests of the small citizens still did not consider the problems of the entire Minjun, but only limited their attention to Mincheng. Now that they have relied on the bloodshed of the lowest uprising to win the seemingly progressive new council, and since the small citizens are numerous, these original allies are no longer meaningful, and they are even less willing to cross the red line of "rebellion" in order to seek the interests of those "allies".

After the last bloodshed, their slogans are less red, but they offer a more regressive solution.

"Let all urban displaced people return to their places of origin, and strictly formulate a law prohibiting free movement in Fujian, so that they can only receive relief in their places of origin."

"Let the large landowners set aside small plots of land for the displaced people who have returned to their hometowns to cultivate, but the displaced people need to fulfill their labor obligations and exchange their unpaid labor for the right to use the land, and subordinate it in the form of free contracts to the landlords who provided the small plots of land for them to live in."

"The guilds were re-established, and all the unemployed in their cities of origin were to learn from the survival skills training institutes established in the county. and to work in the handicraft guilds as apprentices, re-establishing a hierarchical system of masters, individuals, helpers, apprentices, etc., with dignified guilds for small producers and a system of cheap apprenticeships. ”

As soon as the solution came out, the radicals who had been revolting together immediately declared a break, and bought a huge giant turtle, which symbolized old age and immutability, and sent it to these people in red and green, beating gongs and drums.

The other party gave back a glass jar full of cicada larvae dug up, and attached a naturalist's introduction to cicadas: ten years of silence, once breaking the ground, squeaking for a summer, restless north and south, thinking that the cicada is summer, no cicada is no summer, and then drinking dew in March, frost is not to die.