From 1908 to the present, almost three years, Baotou has developed by leaps and bounds, from the original town of tens of thousands of people, to millions of people, with many factories, almost can produce a qiē product of the industrial city, a city that can really compare with the developed industrial cities abroad.

Among these cities, there are a large number of workers, but the environment is beautiful, the workers live happily, Yang Yuanzhao's excellent vision and preferential treatment, these workers in Baotou are not as miserable as other workers in this era, in Marx's theory of surplus value, the biggest contradiction is that the capitalists exploit surplus value, Baotou will not leave this basic theory, but Baotou with the help of strong science and technology and all-in-one machine, beyond this theory, the exploitation of surplus value, It is not dependent on the workers working day and night, but on the improvement of technology and production efficiency.

More efficient machines, more horizontal equipment, and even things that exceed the technical content, these make these workers create a very considerable value alone, but the working hours, wage level, and even labor intensity are not as good as the usual body lì laborers, so that the previous workers, farmers, and even the unemployed have been grateful to Baotou, because compared with the past days, it is simply heaven.

The people's requirements have always been very low, generally as long as they are fed and clothed, but in Baotou, the salary is enough for the family to live a relatively well-off life, and there are also for the people, such as the vegetable basket project, poultry egg and meat project. Compulsory education and housing renovation and a series of projects not only allow the people to have enough to eat, dress warmly, and even live well. A dazzling number of things have entered the homes of ordinary people, from the past to be able to eat meat only once a year, to now, dual-income families can eat meat every day, even on holidays. There is also leisure, go to some scenic places to play, this is simply the life of the landlords, the life that I didn't even dare to think about before, but now it is something that ordinary people can achieve and spend.

Because of this. The happiness of the people of Baotou is very strong, and now, someone wants to destroy their happiness, let them return to the past, miserable, poor, and even precarious days, which is simply the weakest place in their hearts. The dragon has reverse scales, and the people are the same, and a happy life is about to be lost. The power that finally erupted shocked the world.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat, once it shakes the foundation of the people, it will bring capsizing, but after the rational use of the people's psychology. That's a lot of help. The vote has long been prepared, even the factory. In addition to some must-haves, it is necessary to maintain the normal operation of the city in Baotou. In addition to insisting on starting work, the rest have stopped, for Baotou, this is already a life-and-death juncture, and they must make a quick decision.

Ballot boxes are ready, in Baotou City, there are at least 1,200 polling points, each intersection has a special guide and propagandist, all government personnel plus some employees of the company, holding more than 3 million votes in the integrated mechanism, almost ensuring that everyone in Baotou has a household registration has a ballot, so exquisite, even using the paper ballots of later generations, in this era, more difficult to copy than banknotes, can be used as the most original information.

When the time came, in the major polling points, rows of queues began to line up, and then, immediately began, groups of workers, farmers, citizens and even women and children, all began to vote, the crowd was passionate, slogans and discussions were noisy, so that the atmosphere was eager but not panicked, long-term discipline training, so that everyone was very orderly, 1200 polling points, each polling point, almost 4000 people can vote, in Baotou's literacy rate reached more than 9 percent, it is not difficult to complete the ballots, For the first time, the people felt that their fate was not in the hands of the officials, but in their own hands, and the votes in their hands represented their choice.

In one day, all the voting was over, and the sorting of the voting was also done that night, with more than 7,000 students, who were temporarily selected, students who had at least one year, or even two years of compulsory education, and they worked for half a night to summarize the results.

At present, in the whole of Baotou, there are 3,235,434 people with household registration, and the number of voters has reached 3,234,000, and only more than 1,000 people are unable to vote for special reasons, and the voter turnout rate has reached almost ninety-nine, such a voter turnout is amazing. In the end, the vote reached 90 percent of the vote, and millions of Baotou people, almost all of them, had their own choice, that is, independence, and wanted to decay, representing the backward Qing government to declare war and build their own beautiful homes with their own hands and choices.

"Okay, everyone has made their own choices, what about you?" Yang Yuanzhao has been waiting for the results of the vote and has been prepared for a long time, but such a concerted effort made him unexpected, he got the news as soon as possible, and said calmly facing all shareholders.

Baotou Chamber of Commerce also after the vote, there was a plenary meeting, relative to the people and workers, this support rate is higher, these factory owners, all their net worth are in Baotou, even if they joined the Jin merchant family later, their proportion in Baotou also occupies a large proportion, continue to invest in dividends, but again and again new technology and the construction of new factories, let them gradually put their value in, as for the early joining, the amount of dividends has been huge to a huge amount of Cheng dù, if they can resist the Beiyang Army, Baotou is self-made, their harvest will be greater, Baotou is not just a merchant group, but really becomes a powerful political force.

The Baotou Chamber of Commerce all agreed, which also marked the beginning of Baotou's independence, and all aspects of the literature were also preparing, and the semi-hidden government itself began to be listed the next day, and even the surrounding dozen or so new cities, as far away as Suiyuan and Datong, hundreds of kilometers away, also appeared semi-public governments and began to guide the operation of these cities.

All this was done within a week, and according to the previous schedule, when the Baotou referendum and the chamber of commerce voted the day after the end, Baotou sent a telegram to the world in the form of a clear code, declaring the independence of Baotou, with the goal of overthrowing the rule of the Qing government, building a new China, and allowing the people to live a happy life as an independent government.

As soon as the news came out, the situation was in an uproar, and it was less than a month after the headlines were made before, and Baotou was on the headlines again, and it was such a strong news of independence, for a while, the newsboys of major newspapers and periodicals began to sell newspapers in most important cities in the country, and the news of Baotou spread to every corner of China, and even some major powers were also paying attention to this matter.

The electrification was completed, and Baotou proceeded step by step, because the army pressed the border, and the militarized management system of Baotou was also promulgated in Baotou, and the recruitment of the new army began to be carried out, and the new army was once again doubled, with 10 divisions as the basic unit, and once again expanded into 5 divisions, among them, the original one, two, and three divisions were merged, and some of the military academy graduates and supplementary soldiers were supplemented to form the first army in Baotou, with a total of 65,000 people, going to the direction of Zhangjiakou to meet the fifth and sixth towns of Beiyang that came to meet the others. Conduct training.

Yang Yuanzhao's speech, a certain Cheng dù above, inspired the citizens of Baotou, in the next week, the citizens enthusiastically joined the army, a large number of suitable soldiers, so that everyone was dazzled, 100,000 people, almost within a week, completed the call-up, are young young men, the most important thing, these soldiers, have undergone preliminary military training, most of them, are reserve militia, in the factory to end more than half of the militarized management, even the target, are at least more than 600 rounds, This is a great way to go and shorten the time to form an army.

Baotou is engaged in intense training and military warfare, while the sixth and fifth towns in Beijing have not yet set off, and they have been mobilized from one side of Beijing to the other side, but they are just internal transfers to prepare for the future, but there is really no sign of sending troops.

In 1910, the Qing government, internal and external troubles, the government's credit was completely bankrupt, and it only relied on Guan Yu every year, and it was not yet the stage of Guan Yu allocation, the 500,000 yuan supported by Japan was taken away by the Qing government, and the remaining 200,000 were not enough for the two towns to set off, the soldiers refused to carry out the order, and even the arms and ammunition were not fully allocated, and the action was very slow, and they walked out of Beijing. I stopped before I reached Baoding.

At this time, Baotou's independent telegram was electrified throughout the country at this time, you know, now the revolutions are coming and going, and the whole China is in chaos, but on the bright side, there are not many people who will play for the purpose of overthrowing the Qing government and building a new China, which is almost digging to the roots of the Qing government, even if it is mutual protection in the southeast, those powerful southern governors, on the bright side, still obey the orders of the Qing government, a small city declares independence, or close to the north of Kyoto, the straight-line distance is only a thousand miles, which is too bold, The Qing government couldn't hang up, but there was no money on hand.

At this time, Britain and France had already been prepared to come forward, with Guan Yu as collateral, and suddenly loaned 1 million yuan to the Qing government, this money, the Qing government put all of it on this crusade, and even the Japanese took out 300,000 yuan before, a total of 1.5 million yuan of appropriation fees, and the full amount was distributed.

At the other end of Beijing, the Fifth and Sixth Towns of the Beiyang Army, after a large amount of funds and ammunition were in place, quickly got on the train and took the train from the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway to the direction of Zhangjiakou. (To be continued) R655