After that somewhat impatient discussion, Mincheng officially entered a kind of pre-storm tranquility, and there was a wave of frenzy in the tranquility.

There were not many soldiers stationed in Min County, two thousand soldiers, and they were simply not able to complete the suppression.

Moreover, officials who have the right to ask the soldiers to intervene to suppress it, such as the county guard, only define this matter as a "rebellion", not a "rebellion", and can be suppressed or petitioned to settle it, and the word counterinsurgency is not used.

The people who led this uprising were like mirrors in their hearts. Not a faction per se, but a union of several factions, or rather a union of different strata in a miserable position and worried about the future, all of which are not yet unified within themselves.

They all know that there are only two ways to go.

Either they adopted the most radical policy, changed the land system, and incited the entire Minjun underclass to go on a northern expedition to completely change the republic.

Either they can only adopt a policy of compromise and hope for the absolute rights of third parties to check and balance these big machines and big workshops, so as to achieve the demands of the small citizens themselves, so as to solve the matter peacefully. As for land, there is no need for it, and most of the citizen-based activists in Fujian don't have much idea about the land system.

However, a discerning person can see at a glance that the first road is not going to go at all, and the result of following the first road is that there is an extra row of gallows in Mincheng.

And if the nature of this matter is changed from a popular rebellion to a rebellion, not to mention the suppression of those forces in the north, even the desperate counterattack of the rest of the forces in Fujian will make all this meaningless.

The first group of idealists and radicals, the group of people who rushed to the forefront of the uprising, were now marginalized and could not occupy the majority of these people who led the uprising.

There is no need for the people of the Mexican Party to question anything, these people have begun to split internally, or there are irreconcilable rifts and contradictions in the first place, but they have been united by common pain before, but they are not all the way after all.

The power of tradition is enormous, and the habits of centuries of tradition cannot be ignored.

In the aftermath of the uprising, these people used the most traditional habits of the community to solve the problems they faced—recognizing the rights of the council, but not the composition of the old council.

All actions were taken to control within a scope that did not completely destroy traditions and destroy the old era, and although the slogans were very loud, there were no excessively drastic actions for the time being, except for controlling the price of grain and distributing a part of the grain to the lowest level.

They want the new council to decide everything, to share all the responsibilities and, as traditionally, to gain legitimacy for all future actions.

After a few days of tossing and turning, the leadership of the uprising set the most important task of Mincheng at the moment: to re-elect the council, to elect new council members on the basis of one person, one vote for men over twenty years old and with no criminal record, so as to make decisions on various systems.

For a few days, the streets, taverns, teahouses, tea shop pergolas and other places were filled with speakers and activists promoting various ideas.

The Mexican Party's pickets were armed and helped the insurgents to maintain order in the city, and both sides exercised great restraint, acknowledging the progressive nature of the one-person-one-vote election of members of the council over the age of 20, and the other side positioned the most important matter at this time to elect a new council, and there was no irreconcilable contradiction between the two sides until a new council was elected.

Although there were many unpleasant things before, the other party also understood that these people from the Mexican Party were their most reliable allies in the matter of the new council, and the quarrel at this time outweighed the losses.

They are confident enough to defeat the propaganda of the Mexican Party in Mincheng, occupy the majority advantage, and thus occupy the commanding heights of traditional habits, if the Mexican Party opposes it by force, then the Mexican Party will become the target of public criticism in Mincheng, and traditional habits are a force that is difficult to ignore.

Of course, temporary peace and mutual nonaggression are only the will of the two sides, and they cannot stop some people who want to kill on both sides from sabotaging and inciting them, so they can only thwart these provocations one after another and carry out propaganda and agitation without breaking the old habits.

Every day, a new activist becomes a politician that many people trust; Every day, new ideas and ideas for the future appear on the streets of Mincheng.

Eight years ago, I started preparing for cram schools for various parties, and this is when I finally have the opportunity to try large-scale street politics.

In the teahouse and wine shop, on the corner of Qiaotou Street, there is chaos and an indescribable sharp smell like spring rain.

However, hidden behind all this brief lull, there are people with different purposes who are beginning to operate.

The representatives of the small citizen class naturally gained a lot of support in Mincheng, where there are a large number of small citizens, after all, this is on the eve of change.

A large number of small producers and burghers of the guild age have not yet been completely crushed by capital and machines, but are experiencing the pain of the caterpillar's mowing, and after the moult it is evident that it becomes not a brightly colored butterfly but an even uglier and more miserable moth.

Under these circumstances, a petition signing event entitled "Let the king and the families of the capital who are the same age as the republic see the situation in Mincheng and ask for their mercy" was carried out before the election of the new council, and soon became one of the great events in the temporary calm of Mincheng.

"Honorable kings, honorable families of the pillars of the republic who have stood up countless times to save the republic, and poor laborers from Mincheng send our blessings."

"You are far away in the capital, and you don't fully know what has happened in Mincheng over the years, and you may regard what we have done before as a rebellion, after all, the big people of the elected National People's Council don't care about our life or death, and everything they say has blinded you. But we believe that you are wise, and that you have mercy on us, who are of the same ancestor. ”

"In today's Mincheng, a terrible and slow cannibalism is taking place. The water-powered workshops are competing with the people for profit, and these machines and the corresponding factories and large workshops of the division of labor are eating people, although not so bloody and not even violating the law, but they are indeed eating. ”

"A small spinning practitioner who could have supported his family could have worked hard to become a master in the guild. Children can learn the history and glory of the ancestors of the Republic in the Enlightenment School, and even the most ordinary apprentices will not starve to death. ”

"Now, however, everything has changed. How could a small spinning wheel compete for a water-powered spinning machine that could drive dozens of spindles? The price of yarn is falling day by day, but the price of cotton is being manipulated by those speculators day by day, and the spinning not only cannot support itself, but may even lose all the possessions accumulated by his ancestors. ”

"After last year's typhoon, many women in Minjun took the hairpins that had been handed down from ancient times when they got married to sell, just to buy a few catties of rice to survive. Before the advent of machines and division of labor, these women could run their own family workshops with a dozen small spinning wheels and go out during the holidays, at least without thinking about whether there would be rice in the pot tomorrow. ”

"Many people in Mincheng have lost everything in this terrifying process of machines competing with the Chinese people for profit. Only when Cang Liao is honest can he know etiquette, and in this way, many Chinese people will become the most prone to crime and the worthless poor. ”

"We believe that the king's families of the same age as those republics will not ignore the pain and suffering of our people, but you have been blinded by those people."

"Therefore, we ask the respectful king and those well-bred and caring families to help us, save us, and stop letting the hydraulic machines eat us all."

"These miserable people in Mincheng do not have the slightest resentment and opposition to the dictatorship or the ruling of the big family that some people criticize. As long as the king and these families regard themselves as the kings of the countrymen, and the ancestors of ordinary people are only better families, then these miserable people of Mincheng tend to see the king as a completely different from the mercenary big businessmen and big workshop owners, and the embodiment of the interests of the vast majority of the countrymen, including family governance and hidden hereditary, which we also recognize. ”

"We suggest that the king should send a special prosecutor to ban the construction of water-powered workshops. Because water-powered workshops and big factories are terrible things that compete with the people for profit and drive most people into a desperate situation. ”

"We suggest that the king can send a special equalizer to control the price of raw materials such as cotton. Those profiteers who are mercenary do not care whether we live or die. ”

"We suggest that the king take back ownership of the banks in Mincheng and let them be controlled by the great families and each king. This allows us to lend money at a low interest rate, which helps us to establish a cooperative and has enough money to buy raw materials. ”

"We suggest that the king can take back the monopoly of the Nanyang Company in Mincheng, which can be run by the king and those families of the same age as the republic. We have thought that the company's shares will be subscribed equally by the people instead of monopolizing them in the hands of a few people, but unless the transaction is prohibited, it will eventually be transferred back to those people, so we trust the power of your family more than them, at least you don't live by profit, those lands and military lands are enough to live a good life. ”

"The republic should use the slave trade to get enough money and cheaper cotton, which can help us who are self-reliant, cheaper cotton can also make us profitable, and foreign expansion can also make cotton and cotton yarn more expensive, which is also the ...... we expect"