After straightening out all this, weighing the pros and cons, he finally wrote a special letter, found the hidden seal, granted the Mexican pickets the right to maintain order in the city, paid for it from the county treasury, and asked for the support of the factory owners and mine owners.

After getting the letter, Qiao Tiexin asked someone to carefully collect it and send it back, and with the person who carried the blame and the famous teacher of this era at this time, he could finally organize a group of forces to participate in the chaos in Mincheng with confidence and boldness.

This is a dangerous place, and the slightest wrong step can lead to undone efforts and even reviralization.

But it's also a place of opportunity, an opportunity to re-expand its influence from a split decline.

"When will your people be able to organize?"

"Tomorrow morning in the city will be fine, and the backbone of the mining area will take seven or eight days. It's going to be ahead of those people. ”

Who it is, Qiao Tiexin didn't say, but Yu Yuanshan understood who it was, but he couldn't tell it at this time. Even if he knew that someone was fanning the flames behind his back and using those people, he could only pretend to be stupid and pretend that he didn't know what was going on, and he had to rely on pretending not to know as a way to express his attitude and win political capital for the future.

With the intervention of the Mexican Party, the original apprehension turned into racking brains for future planning, and under all kinds of indescribable emotions, it finally looked forward to the dawn.

When the sun was shining warmly on the earth, the black-and-red flag was already waving in front of the county guard's office, but it did not set foot in the invisible line.

A banner full of words was held high: We are also Chinese people, we have the right to live, we have the right to work.

Many people were armed with guns, or all sorts of strange weapons, and the slogans shouted were impassioned.

However, there is no line on the ground, and these people who shout slogans do not dare to cross the line, and the tradition and majesty accumulated over hundreds of years have finally triumphed over anarchic freedom, leaving only those who are behind the scenes to beg for alms to help them overcome the illusions of capital.

Listening to the slogans outside, looking at the ragged bottom and those fanatical young people, he waved his hand to disperse the soldiers who were waiting for him, and walked out by himself.

Several people respectfully handed a piece of paper full of words to the front of the mountain, and shouted, "Please accept our request, and ask the county guard to sign it and hand it to the capital." ”

Looking at the various requirements above, Yu Yuanshan shook his head and said, "I won't sign it, and you can't find my seal." And these things have nothing to do with me, you need to get the consent of the county council. ”

Several people shouted, "We can't trust them!" They only know how to drink our flesh. ”

Yu Yuanshan said in a tone that seemed to be mocking: "This is the rule, if you want to play within this rule, you must abide by the rules." Unless you break this rule and establish new rules. I'm standing here right now, and your choice is simple. ”

Pointing his finger at those people, he said contemptuously, "Or, kill me." Or, play within the rules. I can't dodge buckshot. ”

He was a little scared, but in the end there was no buckshot in the crowd, only someone shouted: "We are not going to rebel, we just hope that the republic will give us some right to live." Please agree to the warden by all means. ”

Hundreds of people shouted in unison, and Yuan Shan shook his head resolutely: "I can't agree." This is contrary to the traditions and laws of the Republic, and you are in the unrighteousness of betraying the Republic with the noble families of the King. ”

"I'm afraid that the county guard doesn't know the current situation yet, we have taken control of Mincheng, and we also invite the county guard and officials at all levels to attend our meeting. If the county guard doesn't agree, then we'll let all the people of Mincheng decide all this! ”

Yu Yuanshan nodded, told everyone to wait, went back and changed into a standard silk gown and dress, straightened his clothes, and went to the council hall with those uneasy officials at all levels, under the "invitation" of everyone.

The flag at the council had not changed, except that a shorter black and red flag had been planted side by side.

The square was crowded with people, many people standing on high places and making loud speeches, and young people with armbands on the periphery maintained order.

Many members of the Min County Council sat outside with their heads hung down, and there was no noose in front of them, only an indescribable humiliation.

Not long ago, they had just rejected the petition of these people, and they didn't expect them to respond in such an extreme way so soon.

It can be seen that these people were either "invited" or "arrested", and only a small number of deputies elected at the bottom were not nervous.

Last night's operation was unusually successful, a large number of displaced people captured almost all important points within the boundary, and blocked the passage out of the city by numbers, and after the docks were controlled again, the escape roads from the city to the outside were basically blocked.

The members of these councils are all "well-known people", "county hopes", "successful businessmen", etc., and because of the property and real estate bonus votes, the places of these people can be said to be known to everyone, and it is only natural that these people can be "invited" here.

The army outside the city is changing guards, and there are not many of them; The navy was transferred to suppress bandits, and it is unlikely that they will return in the near future; The mercenaries of the maritime merchants cannot be suppressed and have no rights.

All kinds of deliberate or premeditated circumstances made it easy for the uprising to succeed in the early stage, but it was easy for most cities to succeed in the early stage of the uprising or even to set up an autonomous government, and the difficult thing was whether they could withstand future counterattacks. Just like in the history that Jian Chen is familiar with, it is very easy to shout out that he is the emperor, and he can even quickly establish his own system of hundred officials, but the difficult thing is whether he can survive to the end.

After the last miners incident and the subsequent "voter making" incident, some things in the county were corrected, and the split of the Mexican Party into the Progressive League and the dissolution of the Progressive Alliance, as well as the last time the Mexican Party behaved in Operation Dignity March, led to a sharp decline in the number of Mexican Party members in the council.

Either he will leave the party with a manifesto, or he will be elected, but what he will leave behind is still a force that can speak. These people were really "invited" and were made internally to come.

In addition to the members of the council controlled by the Mexican Party, there are also representatives of organizations that can be considered close relatives or individuals who can be united, such as Hu Lin and the like.

Hu Lin looked at the members of the Mo Party sitting next to him, and asked for a handful of tobacco leaves with a wry smile. The last time the Mexican party organized the unemployed to petition for the establishment of a county-owned factory to accommodate the unemployed and change relief to the dignity of labor, Hulin's faction reconnected with the Mexican party.

It's just that these things that happened today really didn't happen to Hu Lin, he didn't know what would happen later, but he understood that something big might happen.

Just about to say something, a person with a black and red armband came over behind him and said very respectfully: "Mr. Zhu Qian, please don't talk." ”

It can be seen that respect comes from the bottom of his heart, after all, Hu Lin has written books that have influenced these radical young people, and he has been campaigning for the bottom.

He pointed to his pipe with some embarrassment, and the man who stopped him from talking took out a match from his bosom and lit it for him, but he didn't care about the members of the Mo Party who were holding paper cigarettes on the side, and shook the still burning match and extinguished it and threw it to the ground.

Hu Lin held back a smile, and then looked at the members of the council who looked very uneasy on the other side, and said that this time it was interesting.

The square reverberated with all kinds of bizarre speeches, preaching the hereditary horror of capital, fanning the antagonism, and many small citizens who were about to go bankrupt under the impact of the water-powered workshop cheered loudly.

"Citizens! Citizens! Look, that's what we've elected to the council...... Oh no, I was wrong, we don't have any votes, how can we elect them? Even citizens who have a little property and rely on their own labor will soon lose this qualification. ”

"We are also Chinese people, but our opinions have never been respected, and we don't even have the right to put forward our own opinions. Such a council only represents the interests of those who suck our flesh and blood, not us! ”

"Now, let's see their faces!"

"Two years ago, these people enacted the Prohibition of Smashing Machines, which would not only pay compensation for the damages, but also be thrown into prison or exile. But we didn't propose this bill, and we even opposed it, but it was passed! ”

"Citizens! Today, even today, we are free to put forward what we really want, and not what these people who represent the interests of those who suck our flesh and blood, and which we, the people who do not have the right to vote, want! ”

"Since they can propose a Prohibition of Smashing Machines, we are proposing a Prohibition of New Hydraulic Machinery Workshops Bill today. Let those big machines get out of the way and restore the dignity and freedom of our citizens, as well as the right to work! ”

The gathered townsfolk shouted loudly and shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen, cast your votes!" ”

"Yes, let's see if you really stand up for justice in your hearts!"

"Let's see if we are Chinese, whether we are human!"

In addition to the shouts, many fanatical citizens fired their muskets into the air, making a thumping sound and emitting bursts of white smoke of gunpowder.

The shouts, the gunshots, and the old stories of hangings for smashing machines made many of the council members sit there shiver.

A man walked up to the council members, read aloud the full contents of the Act on the Prohibition of the Construction of New Hydraulic Machine Workshops, and when he had finished reading it, he slapped the paper on the table and shouted: "Everyone! Vote now! In front of all the citizens of Mincheng, let's see if you really represent the interests of the Chinese people? Or do we just deserve to die, and we are not Chinese at all? ”

The deliberately incendiary words once again ignited the passion of the small citizens, and someone carried two huge boxes made of clear glass in front of the table.

One is written in favor and the other is against, with no option to abstain.

Behind the boxes were fanatical thousands of petty citizens who were about to go bankrupt or had already gone bankrupt, driven by hydraulic machinery and division of labor factories and futures speculation.

The anger and stories behind the boxes are those of some people who were exiled for life two years ago, the leaders of the smashed machines who hung in the square for more than half a year and were hanged, and the bankrupt citizens who tried to smash the machines with their legs and arms broken.