Chapter Seventy-Seven: Embarkation
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Before Jian Chen stacked all the experimental equipment on the ship and prepared to go north, the newly formed Mexican Party had already completed its first internal meeting.
Over the course of several years, Jian Chen carefully studied this ethnic group and this so-called republic. In the end, it is nothing more than an aristocratic oligarchic republic in the name of a republic.
With the end of the large-scale war, as well as the extremely unreasonable number of council hierarchies and the election system, the real control of real power has been reduced to the covert rule of dozens of families. It is just a union of nepotism in the name of the republic, a noble family with no blood sacred.
That is to say, there is enough land, and the population is still too small for five or six hundred years, and the progress of iron smelting and agricultural technology supports it, and there is no extremely sharp contradiction for the time being.
This trend of oligarchism and re-aristocracy continues, and Chen Jian speculates that if he does not get out of the fog and without rapid technological progress, it will not be long before a civil war will be fought.
The use of the emperor supported by the bottom to alleviate the contradiction between the big clan and the bottom may be a kind of progress in the context of technological stagnation, and now there is such a trend.
In the end, from the beginning, it was just to leave a non-imperial model and idea. But to some extent, theocracy is not necessarily inferior to a pseudo-republic, the democratically elected emperor still has a great basis for existence, and the power of the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie is not enough to have an overwhelming advantage.
What the future holds, no one knows. No one believes except that Chen Jian is convinced that there is a vast world beyond the fog, and that technological progress and foreign colonization can alleviate the contradictions. Because it hasn't been proven yet.
Under these circumstances, the newly established Mexican Party has actually begun the countdown to split from the very beginning of its establishment.
It can't be a tight-knit organization with all sorts of people joining in with different goals.
There are the utopians of the handicraft era, the anarchist autonomics, the centralised and tax-intensive factions, and the entertaining faction that treats the party as a loose discussion group.
There were 287 people in total, and after a seven-day meeting, 94 people withdrew, formed all kinds of loose organizations, and completely broke up.
The times determined what Chen Jian wanted to say, and it also decided that if there was a civil war in the future, it would inevitably be a war for the bourgeoisie to seize power, so he knew whose side he should be on.
At the seven-day meeting, Chen Jian borrowed the statement about human nature chasing self-interest in a pamphlet mailed by the capital, and set the strange tone within the party, which was distorted beyond the sky.
At this time, there was no relative overproduction, so there was no need to mention something at all, but on the contrary, it was necessary to resolutely support laissez-faire bourgeois ideas for the purpose of relative overproduction.
He didn't know much about these things, so he could only put forward a general idea, set the tone and discuss it slowly. But since it is enlightenment or the beginning, it is natural to say that many people support it.
He said that people are self-interested and full of rationality, so countless rational individuals who pursue self-interest will naturally expand their capital production in pursuit of more profits, so the total amount of social wealth is constantly increasing in this case.
New machines, new technologies, are all pushing the boundaries of this. It is also the most important way to increase the wealth of society. Only when there is enough wealth in society can the overall standard of living rise for the benefit of all.
Temporary unemployment and bankruptcy brought about by new technologies are necessary for social progress, and it is necessary to believe that in the presence of rational selfish people, it is possible to self-regulate.
The so-called mutual love and mutual benefit cannot be counted on a person's kindness, but should be expected to pursue self-interest and rationally consider his own self-interest. For example, a wheat farmer should not expect him to give flour to others with kindness, but hope that he will expand the planting area and output out of his own selfish interests......
As for the charity trading company itself, Chen Jian's statement is that if the bottom is completely desperate and unable to survive and resist, it will cost more, so charity itself is a long-term, rational selfishness of the rich.
At the same time, in order to attract the middle and lower classes, Chen Jian also proposed to strive for the expansion of voting rights, the secondary distribution of state tax revenue, and the giving of symbolic unemployment compensation and work-related death compensation. It is required to improve the education system, expand the powers of the council, and the council has the ability to elect some administrative officers.
He also put forward the theory that little by little progress is a thousand miles, starting from Minjun to carry out some utopian attempts to reform the petty bourgeois society such as cooperatives.
This is a hodgepodge, and in the future these thoughts may hate each other and accuse each other.
But for now, all of this is progressive, and it can attract a lot of fans.
Classical freedom cannot coexist with the reform of secondary distribution of welfare, and they are heretics of each other; The utopian imagination of the handicraft era and the big industrial capital hated each other and were difficult to integrate.
But at a time when the bourgeoisie and its twins are equally vulnerable, this hodgepodge can be supported most broadly.
Moreover, these new concepts also need to be perfected by future generations, and he is just the beginning to introduce these concepts into them.
As for when this party will split, it is not a question for him to consider, and at the time of the split, it must have been so strong that any one of the split will be a political force that can influence the whole country.
It's too early to think about all of this, it's just that an organization needs to try to come up with a few theories. When the technological revolution of the hydroelectric factory and the textile industry comes, it has the right to interpret it, so as not to be affected by the movement of the destroyed machine, and there is no set of reasonable explanations for being caught off guard.
Similarly, in order to gain the support of the new bourgeoisie, Chen Jian decisively used a set of fallacies to curry favor with them and paralyze the bottom at the same time: it was pointless to strike and demand wages in a single workshop, but only to have a wide range of organizations to obtain votes, change the law to raise the minimum wage, and try to make the bottom people have the illusion that they could solve their misery as long as they got the votes.
These chaotic and deceptive theories fit in with this group of ignorant youth, as well as with the elements that join the organization: petty bourgeoisie, workshop owners, some hired workers with a good standard of living in the monopoly industry, citizens, craftsmen, idealistic youth.
In the future, when the fog is lifted and colonization begins, new machines will be used, and new beneficiaries such as maritime merchants, navies, and large factory owners will also join. They will be rich by then, so they will need a political party to help them gain political power and legitimacy for their governance.
As for the hired hands and the real bottom, it was not yet a political force that could make its voice heard, and there was still a steam engine before they came to the field.
After seven days of heated debate and the withdrawal of a third of its members, there was a tentative consensus within the party.
The long-term program is to implement the ideas of fairness, justice, science and technology, etc., the medium-term goal is to let these ideas spread to the earth, the voice of truth spreads everywhere, and the internal debate and organization system, and the short-term goal is to start various reforms and expand the influence centered on Minjun.
The remaining members agreed with the program and bylaws, and elected seven internal executive members, and Chen Jian was elected as the executive committee member in charge of dues finance and science and technology dissemination.
At the meeting, the development goals for the new year were set, and the party expanded to the rest of the mining cities on the basis of selling safety lamps and setting up small workshops, attracting more artisan classes to join and gain the support of miners.
At the same time, he went to the capital, came into contact with some radical young people, established his own organization in the capital, printed party periodicals and newspapers, and spread the ideas of enlightenment.
All of this is legitimate, neither divisive nor advocating violent confrontation, and it will not be taken seriously for the time being, but will only be treated as a group of people who are well fed and have nothing to do to pursue some justice or something. Someone always needs to whitewash these things, and Chen Jian also needs to prepare for the future colonial vote for the autonomy of the political officer, and try to force internal changes.
With all kinds of ideas, Chen Jian and Hu Lin and members of more than 40 political parties set foot on the sailboat heading north as the warm spring of March approached.
The sailboat was loaded with all kinds of novelty cargo, as well as all kinds of equipment that Jian Chen needed. As for the rest of the people who went north together, it was not only to open the glass market in the capital, but also to contact friends on Hulin's side.
On the bow of the boat, Jian Chen looked at the waves and the seagulls flying in the air, and he was a little emotional.
This was the first time I had taken a sea boat, and the wind and waves were very rough and the speed was not very fast.
It really takes a lot of courage and indomitable spirit to cross tens of thousands of miles of ocean at such a speed. This era should belong to adventurers.
The boundless inky sea, right now, Chen Jian thought that one day, he would also travel to all corners of the world on a sailboat and chase the sunrise.
The undiscovered islands, the undiscovered land, and the undiscovered species will at least have a large part of the naming in square words.
Straits, ocean currents, land ...... What an amazing existence this is. They didn't have names until they were discovered, and the footprints and history of the discoverers were naturally recorded from these names.
Disease, Indigenous, Beasts...... Will all this intimidate the pace of exploration of this race? Religion, Thought, Antagonism...... Will all this, after opening the fog, plunge the race into chaos? And the real race that belongs to itself in the distance, what kind of attitude will grasp the tail of the new era, and can the ancient civilization and profound heritage glow with different vitality?
He has no bottom in his heart, and he can't have a bottom, so he can only take one step at a time.
Standing on the deck, Jian Chen couldn't help but shout at the sea.
The people on board laughed, thinking that he was excited about his first voyage, but they did not know his worries.
After shouting, he silently looked at the sea for a long time, sighed, and was at a loss.