Jian Chen sat there and thought for a while, organized his words, and raised his hand to signal his objection. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the host named Jian Chen, Jian Chen stood up, and the venue slowly quieted down.

"Comrades, I think that comrade's remarks just now represent the voice of a large part of our party, and perhaps even more than one-third of them agree with the idea, but only the practice and whether it can be successful."

"Undoubtedly, the intentions are good, and that's something to be affirmed. Let's not discuss whether this is feasible in practice, but I want to talk about another issue. ”

"From the very beginning, our goal was to discuss how to make life better for most people. Everyone present would not go against this original intention, so different identities, different families, and different wealth sat together under this common goal. ”

"But how can we make life better for more people? I think it's like a steamed bun that ten people eat. Fairness or justice is important, but why does it have to be a steamed bun? Why can't it be ten steamed buns? Make more and more steamed buns, so that more people can live better. ”

"A steamed bun is divided into ten people, even if the division is unreasonable, one person can eat at most one. And what about ten steamed buns? Even if it is absolutely average, it is still one person at a time. ”

Jian Chen glanced at the people in the venue and asked, "Give the ginning machine to the ginning workers and let them continue to do those jobs, has the steamed buns increased?" ”

"If not, it can only be said that more people will live the same life as before, not better."

"Now there are fifty ginning workers, one of whom is ginning with a ginning machine, and the other forty-nine are doing other things. This is progress, this is to make more and more steamed buns, so that there is a basis for saying what to say to make more people live better. ”

"Your concern about the remaining 49 people who are unemployed and unable to make a living is another problem. But I resolutely oppose what the comrade just said is not to make more people live better, but to make more people live the same life as before. At least the income from labor is the same as before, although it is easier, but it is not possible to buy more things, because the things on the market have not increased. ”

"You know, we not only want to make more steamed buns, but also make the steamed buns fair. One must not be chosen and the other completely ignored. ”

"Isn't this unsolvable? On the whole, this issue needs to be thought about, but in this individual matter, it is not unsolvable. ”

"There are about three or four thousand ginning workers in Min County, and if the total amount of cotton remains the same, then once the ginning machine is promoted, it will only need eighty people."

"What about the rest? I think everyone knows that building roads and rivers is a good way to make the city more convenient and prosperous, and I don't think you will object to this. ”

"Some people may ask, what happens after the repair?"

"It's going to take at least a year after that. A year later, the ginning machine was promoted, did you think that those yeoman farmers who were not willing to grow cotton would be willing to grow cotton because cotton was profitable? ”

"If there is more cotton, will there be more weavers? There are more weavers, and so are the weavers. There were more weavers, and there were just as many people dyeing cloth, planting dyes, and transporting them. ”

"It can be said that even if they don't care about anything, in 10 or 20 years, if these now unemployed ginning workers can live for 20 years, they will have other jobs."

"Of course, people are not stones, we can't put them in those twenty years without eating or drinking, and we can't look at the world with such cold-blooded eyes."

"But we can use our minds, our organizations, to make this time shorter. This is what we should strive for, not to convince the owners of the ginning workshops. ”

"I suggest that the main direction of our party next year should be placed elsewhere, in addition to the safety lights that have been set and the Coal Mine Workers Association."

"For example, in some homesteaders' villages, they were given a glimpse of a ginner, which strengthened their determination to grow cotton."

"They don't need to buy it, but we set up a ginning workshop and only charge those people processing fees. After changing from seed cotton to lint, they can sell it to whomever they want, and of course we can buy some of it. ”

"There's no gin, they don't grow cotton. Seeing the ginner, they will choose to grow cotton. Cotton cultivation requires hiring people to pick cotton peaches, which in turn can alleviate the work of a large part of the unemployed ginning workers, and can be facilitated in a short period of time, so that the impact is minimized. ”

"Since then, the amount of cotton planting has increased, and there is more cotton on the market, can those who can only buy one cloth a year buy more? Whether you can afford it or not, that's another matter, but at least if you want to buy it, you won't be unable to buy it. ”

"This is to increase the number of steamed buns without stagnation of the total wealth and goods of the society, and at the same time to perfectly solve the survival of the ginning workers after a year."

"It's just one thing, one case at a time, and it's not extensive. Because ginning workers and velvet workers are different, ginning workers can do it by anyone, and there are naturally other ways to do it when it comes to other machines. ”

"Even, is there a truth, an inner law that we have not yet discovered, that can solve all problems? This is what we are looking for, but we cannot talk about it and not do it. Rather, it is necessary to encounter specific things and analyze them in detail, and find solutions that can be solved and conform to our philosophy. ”

"Until we find the inner truth, which we have not yet discovered, that can solve all problems, what we have to do is tinker! Being a tinkerer, where exactly what went wrong, where to solve, firmly supports new technological advances. ”

"Wouldn't it be more meaningful to do that than to go to the owners of the ginning workshops? I think it's also easier to achieve. ”

"That's all for my fixes, I'm done."

After saying it in one go, the scene was extremely quiet, and the host watched it for a long time, but no one raised his hand to refute it, and finally asked: "Who supports it?" Who is against? ”

After thinking for a while, the vast majority of those present raised their hands in support.

Only a few people stood up and asked, "That's just tinkering, and it doesn't work on all machines." ”

Jian Chen nodded, "That's right." But isn't what we're talking about today about the ginning machine? As for the solution that can be perfectly solved and can be applied to any machine, everyone has been discussing it for months, and it is perfectly possible to continue the discussion. What is the wealth of society? What is a commodity? How do wealth and commodities increase? What is money? Does wealth come from labor or land? How does wealth increase? ”

"Just as we need to know some theorems to be able to calculate some geometric problems. We first need to discuss these most basic problems clearly, and then we can come up with a solution from these problems through logical deduction, right? ”

"Until you get the answers to these questions, everything is fantasy, everything is speculation, and there is no point in discussion."

"And under fantasy and speculation, all we can do is tinker with it and see the tricks. I've heard that there are already people in the capital who spend their days reading books in libraries in order to find out where the national wealth comes from. I've also heard that some of us are doing this as well, and that's good and meaningful. ”

"Only by figuring out the most basic questions can we use rigorous logic to figure out what we should do."

Only then can we say that what we want to do and pursue is science, which can be achieved after argumentation, and can be confirmed by rigorous logic. It's not a fantasy, it's not a city of dreams. ”

"After all, we live in reality."

This time, Hu Lin took the lead in expressing his support for Chen Jian, even if Chen Jian said what he wrote a long time ago at the end, and said it with a negative attitude, Hu Lin didn't care.

Since this time the topic is only to discuss the ginning machine, this is the end. Jian Chen wanted everyone to think for themselves, accept the ginning machine first, and then think about the rest.

The remaining question is not to discuss ginning machines and ginners, but to discuss how to promote cotton planting as Chen Jian said, so that more people can benefit.

These people understood the power of the Cotton Spinning Guild, and when most of them analyzed it and decided that they could not confront it head-on but chose to compromise, the problem became even simpler.

The party produces a part of the money, buys part of the ginning machine, and establishes its own ginning workshop.

At the same time, the source of seed cotton is set on those farmers who are unprofitable because the price of seed cotton is too low, rather than the cotton growers who have a large amount of land now.

This requires some people who have left their jobs to go to the countryside to work.

Including knives, tools, glass and gadgets retail stores, small loans, cotton planting technology dissemination, etc., quickly carry out work in the countryside near Mincheng or Nan'an.

Farmers voluntarily organized planting cooperatives, carried out some mutual aid activities, used grocery stores as a cover to directly contact cotton farmers, and competed with the actual controllers of the rural areas, large landowners, for the rural grassroots.

It's not for yourself, it's for making wedding clothes for others.

It can be said that this plutocratic classical pseudo-republic of hidden aristocracy has come to the present, and it is time to take the next step.

That is, the technical superiority of gunpowder, and there is not much enemy nearby.

If you don't take into account the addition of Chinese consciousness and technological advantages, such a strange system is placed between Europe and Asia in the old continent, and you may not know how many times you have been hanged and beaten.

At this juncture, there is no danger of annihilation from external enemies, and there are only two ways to go through the accumulation of internal contradictions and the transformation under technological progress.

Or, the imperial system, with the supreme emperor buffering the contradictions between the upper and lower strata, centralized power, enlightened autocracy, a symbolic parliamentary system with a veto, supported by the emperor with supreme power and the homesteaders at the bottom, alleviating the contradictions. Nowadays, many people support this idea, and they are very powerful, and they are expanding public opinion support, including Chen Jian's Mr. Drama, and even a group of utopians in the party.

Either way, improve the republican system and the bourgeois government, quickly complete the handicraft revolution and create enough capitalists to alleviate the contradictions through technological progress and external expansion, increase the voice of the capitalists and give the voice of the lower strata.

Both of these are actually progressive at this time, depending on which one will be transitioned to.

But for Chen Jian and the vast majority of people around him at this time, they had already chosen which path to take when they had already identified their allies for temporary cooperation, so they also needed to appropriately win over some big farmers and farmers.

Don't ask for support, just sympathy, recognition, friendliness, and no opposition.

Chen Jian, on the other hand, had to come forward to negotiate a result with those in the Cotton Textile Guild, to win certain benefits, so that lint could be used as a raw material, sowing the seeds of differentiation within them and not being controlled by the upstream and downstream guilds, and becoming independent to achieve a certain degree of free circulation.

After all, some of them will become allies, breaking with the old guilds because of their interests.