The conversation between the two brothers at the wine table fell into endless silence, and Qiao Shijiao poured the last bit of sugarcane wine into the cup and asked, "Brother, I will ask you one last sentence." ”

"Say it."

"Your party can speak in the council, and it also has a lot of influence in Min County. There are a lot of people at the Institute of Science and Technology. Can you help, say a few words, make some proposals. Not for the sake of me being your brother, but also for the sake of so many people who have gone through it more and more miserable. ”

"How can I help?"

"Let the state intervene and force the price of cotton yarn and cotton. Give us little spinners a way out, or set aside a third of our output for us. No new machines are allowed to be studied, otherwise the world will be in chaos. Thousands of people have nothing to do, can there be peace in this world? The farm horses you have made have already put many hired farmers out of work, and you will be responsible for the survival and survival of hundreds of thousands of people. ”

"It didn't work. It is neither likely to succeed nor effective, and we are against all of this. Besides, let's not say that we disagree or disagree for the time being, and I don't have to talk about our internal affairs, but I have to discuss and persuade. ”

"That is not to be discussed?"

"There's no need to talk about it."

Qiao Shigu nodded, didn't say anything, but clinked glasses with his brother like every younger brother at the wine table, raised his head and drank dry, and called his own woman to clean up the table.

Early the next morning, a few of Qiao Shigu's peers came to his house, opened the door and asked, "How are you talking to your brother?" ”

"Hard-hearted. Their men had no hearts or lungs, and their blood was cold, like stones. What kind of brothers do you talk to about with that group? Bullshit. What do the Mexican people know about brothers? No king and no father. If you want to love me, I, who is a younger brother, is the same as everyone else! ”

"So you don't have a choice?"

"I don't have a choice. That's all I can do. ”

After a few people discussed it behind closed doors, they went to contact the rest of the small spinners and individual citizens, and poured into the streets.

On the streets, since the rise of the Mexican Party this year, the political atmosphere on the streets of Minjun has become stronger and stronger, but the protagonist of the speech on the street at this time is not the organization that inherited the name of the Mexican Party, but an organization called the "Minben Romantic Society" within the Progressive League.

In fact, since a few years ago, the influence of the New Mo Party in Min County has been declining. After experiencing the peak of miners' petitions, it has fallen into a period of sluggish activity, and now it is no longer the original people who are singing the leading roles, but many organizations of all kinds.

This premature baby led partisan politics and internal academic progress, but after all, it was a premature baby, and at this time it could not sing the leading role, so it could only wait for itself to gradually mature and grow up, and also to wait for the maturity and growth of the times.

In recent years, the development and the leading progress of economics have allowed various organizations to have their own programs, and some of the more advanced ones, such as this "people-oriented romantic society", have embarked on a romantic future of criticizing reality.

They have first-rate theorists within themselves, at least for the time being, because they have gone down the path of critical reality and are keenly aware of the collapse and general impoverishment of the future under this big factory model.

The man in the street was speaking loudly, surrounded by a group of fanatical townspeople, and a large part of the petty bourgeoisie, who were bankrupt because of the development of the hydroelectric plant, and cheered from time to time.

"Yes, that's right! Citizens, the purpose of the government's existence is to interfere with the development of the economy, to slow down the pace of this development, to let the total amount of wealth develop at a rate and so on for us poor people. Legislators should also keep we, the poor, from the effects of general competition. ”

"Whoever encourages unbridled production will eventually lead the country to perdition, just like the water-powered workshops you see today, today they are alive and well, but what about the future? This unlimited, profit-oriented production has led to widespread poverty. When there are many hydroelectric factories, who will buy these yarns? At that time, it will be not only the factories that will be destroyed, but also the hired workers who depend on the factories for survival. ”

This is a very simple truth, and if you go down this path, you can only perish. Therefore, if the government regulates and regulates the prosperity of the people, it will be a really good government and a country that is truly for the whole people. Instead of encouraging enrichment, encouraging unrestricted production, as it is now...... What is it called? This is called putting the cart before the horse. ”

"What is putting the cart before the horse? Isn't forgetting people for the sake of things putting the cart before the horse? Morality is gone, individuality is gone, more and more people are getting poorer and poorer, and they are sitting on a powder keg that could blow many of us to pieces in the future. ”

"Think about it, citizens. Decades, the days of your fathers, when the guilds still existed, what was that like? It's like a boot maker, if no one comes to buy boots, then he won't produce and now a large workshop with a large number of hired workers? They don't stop, they just produce constantly, aimlessly, and then go bankrupt. Just like the original cotton spinning guild, when the number of cotton yarn is too large, the guild will reduce the output of cotton yarn and now? The water-powered cotton mills that have been established one by one are producing like crazy, and there is always a demand for them, but no one regulates all this, until the factories of those with less capital are closed, and the cycle repeats itself again and again! ”

"What makes us morally corrupt? What makes us hate each other? What makes our days more and more miserable? ”

"The Mexican Party has divided our country. Has the antagonism between private proprietors and bourgeoisie always existed? No! It is the shackles that the Mexican party has imposed on us, the organizational result of a model of mass production factories that they have imposed called 'progress'. ”

"But the citizens, how ridiculous is it that they call this progress? What is social progress? Social progress is by no means about separating man and things, separating capital from labour, and separating bourgeoisie from labourers. This is not progress, it is regression, a retreat to the brink of moral decay and the collapse of the state. ”

"The separation of the working class and the capitalist class is by no means necessary for the progress of the times. A few decades ago, farmers were still farmers, they worked and owned the land; A few decades ago, we, the small producers, had both capital and labor. Isn't it ridiculous that there was no such division, and there were guilds in the middle, but they said that we would eventually perish, and that this division was inevitable? ”

"At the beginning of social life, every man had capital, by which he used his labour, and almost all craftsmen lived on income which was equally made up of profits and wages. This is our traditional tradition of combining the means of production and labor. We abandon these traditions, but believe in the development of big factories, as I said earlier, this aimless, unrestrained, profit-oriented development model will eventually blow up and kill all of us. ”

"How to solve it? Tradition has given us the answer, and our ancestors have given us the answer. ”

"The means of production shall be distributed to the citizens, the land shall be divided into small plots for the peasants, the factories shall be nationalized and the citizens shall be run by the noble families, and the great families who are genuine, educated and traditionally moral, will not covet that little profit, nor will they drag everyone into the abyss of poverty for the sake of profit, as the bourgeoisie does!"

"In the countryside, we have to learn from the patriarchal economy of the northern Hou Bo kingdom: each agricultural laborer who was paid a daily fee was given a small plot of land, and the Moxican people said that such small production was backward and could not resist disasters. But it's easy to solve, isn't it? It is not a matter of conscience to let the landlords who own large lands take care of the hired workers who have been allocated land, but the large landlords need hired workers to work for them and let them enjoy, so logically they will definitely protect these hired workers who have been allocated small plots of land. ”

"In the city, we are going to re-establish the guilds. Of course, there were oppressive and unreasonable in the previous guilds, and of course we need to improve. Now the workers of the hydroelectric factories have been workers all their lives, without any hope, without any hope, but the new guilds that we have set up will be like this: the state will come forward to support and intervene to raise the price of yarn. Any hired man is only the salary of the hired man in the beginning, but as in the previous guilds, he changed from hired hands to apprentices, then to journeymen, and finally to masters, to the leaders and leaders of the guilds. ”

"We want to restore this kingdom that has been divided, we want to restore the glory of man, we want to drive out the separation of capital and labor. Let every Chinese person be a laborer, and let every Chinese person be a propertied person! This is the world we promise. ”

"The world is much easier and more realistic than the future promised by the Mexican party. Citizens, like factories, if the state intervenes, the guilds are reorganized, half of the profits of the factories are distributed to the laborers, the quantity of production in the factories is controlled, and those of us who have both labor and small assets are protected, how can there be widespread poverty? ”

"It is well known that the bourgeoisie can do whatever it takes for the sake of profit, and the Mexican party rejoices every day at the elimination of us petty bourgeoisie...... Ha, then the only thing we can rely on is those big families and bureaucrats. At least, they are better and more moral than these two people. We are fragile and have no choice but to rely on them, so don't resent the big families and bureaucrats and the hidden nobility. At least, they didn't push us into a corner, at least they didn't bankrupt us! ”

"Think about it! Suppose you are an agricultural hired laborer and you are given twenty acres of land near the landlord's estate. After you have done your work, you will go to help the landlord to work, and the landlord will help you in the event of a famine, because you have made the landlord live a life that can be enjoyed without labor, and is it not a dream life compared to the fact that your work is now taken away by horse-drawn machinery? ”

"Think about it! If you are a spinning worker with a small bourgeoisie, and the big factories are controlled to reduce production, we have established guilds, and the price of yarn remains the same, and we live the same as before. Moreover, in addition to work, we also have the personality, dignity, and glory of small bourgeoisie and small citizens. We can start from the lowest guild members and work our way up, and those names are not only what we eat, but also the honor of our labor, and now, what is labor? Man is alienated into the power of labor, just in exchange for money, which destroys individuality and dignity! ”

The people on the stage tried their best, shouting for dignity and promising the future. The crowd shouted frantically, supported and raised their fists.

"Citizens! We will send people to the council of the national capital to petition, ask the king to come up and protect our interests, and ask the king and the big family to curb these profit-seeking capitalists! ”

"Citizens! We want the king and the noble families to be the arbiters between us and the big factories, and let them defend weak people like us! ”

"Citizens, we want to reclaim our dignity, our glory, and fight for our future! Just like the Workers' Day in November, aren't we laborers? ”

"Now! Let's take the first step towards a better future! Smash those harmful machines! Smash the machines that will drag us all into ruin and poverty! Smash the machines that alienate us into slaves for labor for money! Go and smash the machines that have made us lose our dignity! Smash the machines that divide the countrymen into propertied and laborers! ”

"Return to the patriarchal law! Rebuild the Guild! National legislation regulates and hinders production! Back to tradition! No more splitting! Give me back my personality! Give me back my dignity! Give me back the essence of my humanity! ”

The organized petty bourgeoisie, the spinning millers, the small pottery mills, or the rest of the small burghers on the verge of bankruptcy, the spinning mills, the small pottery mills, or the rest of the small townspeople, who were on the verge of bankruptcy, were instigated, shouted slogans, and began in a mighty manner what was called the "March of Dignity" towards the upper valleys and canals of the Min, where water-powered workshops and factories with a meticulous division of labor were densely packed.

The threatened northern families and hidden nobles acquiesced in this action, strictly forbidding the soldiers to suppress it, saying that it was the choice of the countrymen themselves, and let the countrymen solve it themselves, and incidentally cause internal contradictions and bloodsheds to facilitate control and division.

The "Romantic Society" branched off from the Progressive League learned the art of organization and organized its own pickets to ensure that citizens only smashed machines and not people, and did not risk their lives or personal attacks, and found out suspicious elements who might have mixed in.