Military port.

Chen Siwen was placed under house arrest by several officers in his room, and the old man, he smiled and asked the newly sent officers, "What about the warrant?" ”

"There is no warrant. We're just going to counter-insurgency. ”

"Let me ask again, what about the warrant?"

"Not now, it will naturally be made up after the counterinsurgency."

Chen Siwen sighed, shook his gray hair and mocked: "A bunch of fools! Without a warrant, if something happens, you're the ghost! ”

"If the crackdown is successful, it will not be a substitute for the dead, but a counterinsurgency merit."

"If it's really meritorious, why don't you give a warrant from above? I want to suppress it, but I don't want to take responsibility and infamy. Gutsless! Measureless! Are the people of the capital now degraded like this? If you really shout it out openly, you want to suppress it, I respect them as a man, a group of cowards. Being frightened like this by a few bombs from the Righteous and Radical Youth Association, how can they have a bit of the demeanor of their grandparents when they fought the war for reunification? ”

He had no idea what was going on, but the ups and downs of the years made it easy for him to think through what some people were thinking.

Many years ago, when I read the newspaper, the people of the Righteous Radical Youth Club threw two glycerin bombs on the homes of officials in order to fight the censorship of the newspapers, and although several of them were hanged afterwards, there has been a strange atmosphere in the capital since then, and they dare not take responsibility.

This is what Chen Siwen is quite despised.

Looking at these officers, Chen Siwen suddenly asked, "What if the suppression is not successful?" Have you thought about the consequences? ”

"Naturally, someone will come forward, so you don't have to worry about it. Please don't push us. ”

"I'm here to save you. Who dares to really stand up and shout now, I am against the republic, I just don't care whether the bottom lives or dies? Whoever dares to shout like this, other families will stand up and shout that we care about the life and death of the bottom, dare to kill the person who shouts and make it stink, and dare to claim to represent the interests of the common people. Do you really think it's a monolith? ”

"Stupid old man, stop talking nonsense, you think you understand? Do you see that you are sixty years old and still a school officer? ”

Chen Siwen sighed, and said in his heart that if Lao Tzu's son hadn't let the son-in-law of a good big family go to the Mo Party, Lao Tzu would have become an admiral by now and wiped out the puppet Qi navy.

When he thought of his son in the city, he laughed instead of worry, resentment, unwillingness, or sadness.

"Seek kindness, and so will you."

After saying this, he stopped humming, stood up as straight as he did when he was young, sorted out his military uniform that he had not changed for many years, and sat quietly in his chair, closing his eyes and saying nothing.

……

The Central Party Department of Mexico.

The previous violent explosion of gunpowder shattered many glass windows of the party headquarters, and the square in front of the party headquarters was covered with bloodstains, and from time to time there was a sparse burst of gunfire.

An hour earlier, shortly after the explosion of the powder magazine, the central party headquarters of the Mexican Party had also been attacked, with more than 300 people taking part in the attack, but it was quickly repulsed.

More than 400 people have gathered around the Mexican Party and peripheral members of sympathizers in nearby factories and residential areas.

The people in the party headquarters were opening the locked basement and taking out bundles of flintlock pistols and barrels of gunpowder from inside.

More than 20 young people with formal military training were distributing flintlock pistols and vellum paper-loaded lead bullets, two six-pound and one twelve-pound brass cannons were also being dragged out of the basement, and several young men who had graduated from the surveying, mapping and navigation school were handing out various tools for packing from the party headquarters.

Brushes, vinegar barrels, iron drills, gunpowder packs, angle comparison tables......

The group of people who attacked this side before probably thought that they had chosen a good time: the main pickets of the Mexican Party were all in Nan'an, and the backbone of the city had also mobilized some of them to go to the rest of the counties.

It's just that they didn't expect that not long before they entered the square, many powerful grenades with glycerin explosives were thrown from the upper floors, plus a lot of incendiary bottles of gasoline and sugar and collodion powder, so that the group of special forces in the city who often had friction with the Mexican pickets suffered heavy losses in an instant.

Most of the time they clash with the Mexican pickets with fists or sticks, and that's exactly what it looks like.

However, when they really got to work, they realized what the students who had been taught by the School of Navigation and Surveying were really doing, and that the organized and secretly trained barricade grenadier youth regiments were no different from fighting to the death in the streets of the city.

The pungent smell of gasoline and burnt human flesh permeated the square, and a charred corpse was distorted, leaving only Bai Sensen's teeth on his entire face, which was particularly terrifying.

Many people who have never seen this kind of scene have vomited, but those who went to sea with Chen Jian did not vomit, and many people have seen a worse scene than this during the disaster relief in Fujian, but only one person who couldn't bear it and committed suicide by swallowing a gun.

The gunfire continued in the distance, Chen Jian had a one-handed sword pinned to his waist, plus two flintlock pistols with lead bullets, martial law had begun outside the square, and all the new arrivals had to be party members.

Mincheng is the foundation of the Mexican Party, and now it is the time when the Mexican Party's strength in Mincheng looks the weakest, which naturally makes many people show their ambitions.

Chen Jian had already heard the gunshots coming from the side of the council, and it was this gunfire that made him feel a lot more at ease - the policy of the Mexican party chose the bourgeois-democratic revolution at the present stage, rather than a more radical policy, so the other party's action this time chose to directly kill the council in Mincheng and the central party headquarters of the Mexican party.

There are a lot of questions, is it the order of the capital? Or is it the desperate counterattack of the old forces whose interests have been lost?

Now was not the time to think about it, and the bell and drum tower in the distance rang with an impatient and disorderly bell, which was a sound that could only be made when the city of Min was attacked.

The Mexican Party is not only the only force that appears on the surface, but also a "wood factory" not far from the Central Party Headquarters, most of the employees in it are secret party members or peripheral members, and they have all received formal military training in Turtle Island, and can be organized into four regular flintlock companies at any time, plus two artillery squads of three-pound field guns.

The carpentry factory had been established for a long time, but this year it suddenly expanded, bringing in some workers from "other places".

Many of the remaining factories or workshops where the Moxican Party hides its property also have the power to form a direct organization and can be pulled out at any time.

But is this part of the power used at this time?

Several temporary members of the Central Party Headquarters, plus several temporary special members who did not have the right to vote as temporary members, quickly discussed the situation.

There is constantly new news coming, and when it comes together, Jian Chen has roughly made a judgment in his heart.

A party member came running from outside the street on horseback and reported: "The teams from the ceramic factory and the coal hoarding bank have been organized and are building barricades to resist. On the opposite side was the regular army, like five guns. ”

The regular army participated, and Chen Jian was not too surprised, the little strength in the enemy's city could not become the climate, and if there was really any action in the capital, there would be no news here.

"What about the city?"

"It's messy. It was the time to go to work before, but now I heard the warning bell, and I should be gathering in this direction. ”

"Raise the balloon and observe the situation inside the city."

"Okay."

"Find a few reliable comrades, ride directly to the contact point to change horses, and spread the news to Nan'an. Nan'an's miners' associations, mining explosives practice associations, peasant associations, co-farming cooperatives, and consumer cooperatives mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized. Soon there will be temporary committee members going over there, so let's organize it first, and be ready to go to Mincheng at any time. The pickets have guns, go to our glass factory, there are guns in the warehouse; The mine explosives factory has pull grenades, so that officers and students and people who have fought in the Ryukyus are directly in the formation. ”

After thinking for a while, he said: "By the way, there is also the organization of the oilfield area, and it will also be formed as soon as possible." By the way, the track in the mining area was dismantled, and the mine owner was told to repair it for free in the future, and the explosives were planted in the canal to blow up the locks at any time, and we were? If the capitalists in the city were involved, they would take revenge afterwards. ”

"The team in the nearby county ......"

"No, leave some seeds for the Mexican Party."

A temporary member next to him added: "If we all die in battle, if you are still alive, tell the survivors...... If you want to continue to work for justice and fairness, go to the countryside and fight the landlords with those oppositionists. ”

Hearing such a sentence that seemed to be a posthumous matter, Jian Chen laughed and said, "All of them died in battle? I'm afraid they don't have the ability to do this, but I didn't believe that petitioning could establish a real national republic from the beginning. They think that our foundation is in Mincheng, as long as we get rid of them, everything will be solved? As everyone knows, our foundation is among those people who have grievances, and as long as there are grievances in the world, our foundation is still there. This party is not a brother who married Jin Lan, let alone an oligarchic marriage, and without our heads, it will grow a new temporary member. ”

Cheering up the crowd, listening to the sound of gunfire in the distance, the temporary committee members stood for a meeting.

"The army is coming from the sea, and I'm worried now that the navy side is also involved, and once the navy helps with the shelling, the pressure on the coastal side will be too great. If that were the case, my father would probably have to be detained. If it had been an order from the capital, I'm afraid it would have been taken away by now. ”

Everyone listened to the gunfire over there, and they all nodded, these people did not have a lot of military experience, and the slightly more military experience was either in Nan'an, or in the Great Wilderness City, they were organizing immigrants to smash the shackles and liberate the slaves of the city-state, or they were in Wangbei City to prepare to participate in the Tokugawa family's attack on Osaka to monopolize trade with Japan.

The fleets here are also not in the port, and now they are also smuggling grain back in the Great Wilderness City to stabilize prices, or in Wangbei City to control the Taiwan Strait and the Ryukyu smuggling trade route.

Nanyang Company has ships, but Nanyang Company's attitude must be ambiguous, if the army is involved, they may not have the courage to blatantly attack the army, and it is even possible that they will choose the most neutral neutral.

If there are only two armies outside the city, there are only four or five thousand people, even if they are elite, it is difficult to get benefits in the city.

But if this matter drags on for a long time, I don't know what kind of chain reaction it will have, whether it will be a direct war with the army, Chen Jian proposed: "In the current situation, it is useless to reason. To be reasonable is to stretch your neck and be slaughtered, and only when you win can you be reasonable. Only by winning can we control Mincheng and let the wall-riding faction stand on our side, and only by winning can we put the blame on the officers - assuming it is not the official order of the capital, there is still room for redemption. If so, then it is even more necessary to fight, the harder the fight, the better, it is better to annihilate all these four or five thousand people, and it is easier to reason afterwards. My opinion is...... No matter what kind of mediation, never die, go to war. ”

The crowd discussed for a while and nodded in unison.

"Since you agree to fight, don't hide it. Let's mobilize. There are many grassroots officers in Nan'an who have graduated from military schools, and there are also many who can become grassroots officers at any time. There were no cavalry, and they moved cautiously on the road, marching slowly or by boat. Mobilization, food, organization, and time on the road will take seven or eight days, and we must consider the unexpected and hold on for ten days. ”

"What about the Navy?"

"The Nanyang Company did not come forward, and we organized a force riot to seize the ship. Organize interns to board the ship, cooperate with the old sailors, and pull the ship of the Nanyang Company to fight against the navy stationed in Mincheng. ”

"Fight with the army...... I'm afraid someone won't figure it out. It's not that we are internal, but that we are swinging outside and those who sympathize. ”

"Take control of the county watchman's mansion and ask the county guard that he has no official rules for letting soldiers into the city. He didn't leave the city, so he shouldn't have been involved, but he might be 'neutral' to drag on for time. If it drags, don't we still have a warrant in our hands last time? Seals were forged and proclamations were issued to the whole city, saying that the tax reform and the redemption of franchises had touched the interests of the old class, and that they had taken the initiative to rebel, and that we were the counterinsurgents. Last time, the warrant asking our pickets to maintain order was directly revised and pasted all over the city. The propaganda team was dispatched in an all-round way, singing only the republican songs of the country's participation in politics and not the songs of the workers and peasants, and propagating the ugly state of those who were in the franchise. Immediately find out which families are involved in the affairs of the city, immediately surround and control them without waiting for the judicial procedures of the council, and convene a national assembly for trial. ”

"If the capitalists in the city also participated, then use all the cash of the party property to close the canal, stop the coal mines, close the port with wooden barrels filled with oil, cut off the grain and cotton ships of the Min River, directly buy and hoard silver, blow up the diversion channels that have been dug in the upper reaches of the textile area of the river valley and cut off the power, all the handicraft and industrial upstream factories in Mincheng owned by the party will stop working, sell all the stocks in their hands, and buy back the Mincheng silver banknotes at a low price, so that those who make money will know what they can get in the chaos in Mincheng. Seven or eight years have passed, and I am afraid that they will heal their scars again and forget the pain. This time the wound is much more painful than the simple coal last time, they had better not wait and see, we have to let them understand how important a stable Mincheng is, and by the way, remind them not to think that they have money. It also made them understand that the old forces in Mincheng had no loss at all, they were different. ”

"What if...... Well, if the county guard refuses to meet and organizes the county guard to resist and directly rebuke us for rebellion, then there is no need to talk nonsense, pull the twelve pounds of brass cannons over, shell the county guard's house, control the Nanyang Company and the joint venture banks of the coastal counties, seize power by force, and completely break with it. Mobilize the Great Wilderness City fleet to come back and unite with the controlled fleet of the Nanyang Company, go straight to the capital, seek an opportunity to annihilate the Republic Navy, buy time for this side, and violently integrate and mobilize rural forces. ”

Jian Chen sighed and said helplessly: "If you really get to that point, the situation is really out of control, and now I will draft a "Letter to the Lost Countrymen". When the situation is completely out of control, it is read out among those who have lost their land in the county-owned factories, and the land is divided equally and the land rights are guaranteed. This is not a last resort, don't read it, draft it first. If you don't have any opinions, then vote, and if they are passed, draft the "Order on the General Mobilization of the Armed Forces within the Party" and the "Letter to the People of Mincheng". ”

After the unanimous approval, someone couldn't help but ask: "What if...... I mean, if the situation is really out of control, do we stay or go to the Great Wilderness City? ”

"Eleven years ago, I told Hu Lin that if we don't build a paradise, we can't build a paradise. Eleven years later, he didn't even come to ask me for the 80,000 silver coins I promised to build his dream city, what about us? ”

After thinking for a while, Jian Chen said again: "Even if you can't hold on, you must mobilize all the more than 20,000 party members and Nanyang Public School, and all of them will retreat to Wangbei City." forcibly took away all the precious metals and all the fleets of the craftsmen and banks, burned the charts of the Nanyang Company, smashed all the experimental equipment of the Nanyang College, eliminated all the materials of astronomy and cartography of the telescopes, and shot the captain and navigator of the Nanyang Company...... All of them retreated to Wangbei City, and accumulated twenty years of planning for the Ming Empire to establish a real people's republic, waiting for later. Only when there are people can there be strength, and when you go to the Great Wilderness City, there is only one way to die, and the fire of revolution will inevitably be extinguished. ”

He is not afraid at all that this time it is a suppression order under the capital, he is really not afraid.