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There was a knock on the door, and the iron door of this small villa in a wealthy area of London suddenly opened. A woman dressed as an elderly maid copied English with an Irish accent, looked at the person at the door, and asked suspiciously: "This gentleman, are you ......" Standing at the door are several middle-aged men wearing straight suits and top hats, one of them is tall, and has a big beard, the old lady who has seen many characters can recognize at a glance, the suit worn by the middle-aged man is sewn with the best grass mud and horse velvet material, and by this point you know that the person who comes is either rich or expensive.

The smile of the visitor was very polite, but the noble temperament that had been cultivated in his eyes for a long time was still revealed: "Oh, does Mr. Marx live here?" I'm his friend Friedrich. Engels. This is my business card, and a letter from His Majesty in China, please pass it on. The old woman did not take the business card he handed over, but hurriedly changed to a respectful smile: "You are from China?" The old woman hurriedly opened the iron door, made a gesture to invite him in, and led him into the courtyard, Engels let his entourage guard outside, and entered the living room himself, took off his top hat, and looked at this small living room with a completely Chinese layout, and it seemed that his old friend was really a well-rounded expert on China.

"Sir, wait a minute, I'll go and ask Mr. Marx to come down at once, he's in the study." The old woman, presumably Marx's maid, smiled and nodded at Engels, and then went upstairs with her skirt. Obviously, the life of the mentor on this plane is very nourishing. Engels, who often supported him, is now the world's highest-paid professional manager. Not one of them. He is himself London's best-known expert on China. He has published several books analyzing China's economy, and is regularly published in Europe's best-selling newspapers, earning more than he has historically known. It's just that the work is really busy, and I don't know if it will affect the study of revolutionary theory, if that is the case, Emperor Zhu's sin will be too great.

At the very same time, the Great Mentor was writing an analysis of how much the boom in China's railways and urban construction would have on the European and world economies – to be published in The Times, with £120 already prepaid. The article has just been written. There was a knock on the door and the voice of the maid, Madame Cody, at the same time: "Sir, sir, there is a man who claims to be Friedrich. Engels' gentleman asked to see him, and he said he was from China! ”

"Engels? China! Marx hurriedly put down the pen in his hand, got up and rushed out of the study, "Where is Engels?" ”

"Wait in the drawing-room, sir, is he the Chinese royal steward you often mention?"

"Hurry up and prepare milk tea and dim sum, I'm going to talk to my friends for an afternoon, a whole afternoon!" Talking. The great teacher took three steps and two steps and galloped down the stairs, and then warmly embraced Engels.

"Friedrich. It's really you, it's so nice to see you, by the way, the Chinese Majesty didn't give you any knighthood, right? ”

Marx pulled his old friend to sit down and asked half-jokingly.

"Haha, Jason never mentioned this, and sometimes I find it strange that I am a commoner on the board of directors of the Royal Consortium. Owen is an earl. Engels glanced up the stairs, "I didn't see Yanni and Linyu, where did they go?" ”

"They took their children to visit relatives in Westphalia, and you know, I'm now a celebrity in Europe, an expert on China, a university professor, a famous writer. So they also need to go back to their hometowns to meet their relatives and friends and earn a little envy. As Marx spoke, his Irish maid, Lady Cody, had brought milk tea and snacks, brewed with the finest Chinese tea, brought by the Engersto. Although the share of Indian black tea in the British market is getting higher and higher, foreigners who have really stayed in China for a while and learned to drink tea think that Indian tea is simply leaves!

"What about your research? Is it still going on? Engels took a sip of milk tea and asked with concern.

"Of course, that's my main job, Friedrich, and I think I would like to thank you for your help, because the materials you send me regularly have been of great help to my research. Really, what a precious piece of first-hand information! ”

Engels smiled slightly bitterly and said: "It is indeed precious, this is the birth of a capitalist country, how the small peasant economy has been ruthlessly smashed, countless people have left their hometowns to go to the cities, to the wider land in the distance, and there are more ruthless invasions, expansions and colonization!" Sometimes I feel like an accomplice, a midwife of an empire of sin! ”

"But that's a very rewarding and very progressive thing at the same time." Marx commented, "The study of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has made us realize that the present process is inevitable, because the peasants simply have no ability and consciousness to lead a revolution that can really promote the rapid progress of the whole society." The most they could do was to establish a new feudal dynasty, just like the great ancestor of His Majesty of China. But in the 19th century, it was meaningless. The tutor gently turned the coffee cup in his hand, "Friedrich, I recently studied the Jiangnan Shilin Turmoil and the 1.20 Imperial City Square Incident, and I found that China's industrial workers have stepped onto the stage of politics!" Is that the case? ”

Engels smiled slightly: "Yes, they are already a little awake!" Of the 200,000 people in the Jishi Youth Party, industrial workers account for 70 percent, and at least half of these 70 percent are not hired by the Jishi Youth Party, and they are expressing their political demands, not for a few silver dollars. ”

"So, how many industrial workers are there in the whole of China now?" Marx asked again.

"Between 1.3 million and 1.5 million, that's about the number of industrial workers in big industry, and if you include the traditional handicrafts and construction, dock workers, rickshaw pullers, boat workers, farm workers, the number will increase at least twice."

Marx burst out laughing: "Great, 5 million proletarians!" In 10 years, the number of proletarians in China has grown to 5 million! In another 10, 20, 30 years, 50 million proletarians will be generated! When the time comes, the Chinese working class will stand up and raise the voice of revolution just like the European working class! ”

"Perhaps it will be suppressed, just like the European Revolution of 1848!" Engels frowned, "His Majesty of China is an iron-fisted man!" ”

"So what?" Marx waved his hand indifferently: "He can't live forever...... And with the development of capitalism in China, the proletarians in China will continue to emerge, and they will become stronger and stronger! In 50, 60, or even 70 years, there will be hundreds of millions of proletarians in China. Once these hundreds of millions of proletarians awaken, what forces can stop them? ”

"What if...... What about them not fully awakened? "Engels has seen too many Chinese proletariats laughing all day long, although they are very poor, but they are still much better than when they used to farm. In big cities like Shanghai and Yingtian, an ordinary worker with food and shelter now needs at least 2 silver dollars a month, which is 24 yuan a year, which is equivalent to all the income obtained from the land by a landlord with 20 acres of watered land!

"Full awakening and struggle are inevitable, because there is no other way out for the proletariat!" Marx was very sure that "because the greatest defect of capitalism is that capitalists are bound to invest more money and resources in the research and development of science and technology in order to maximize productivity and profits, and the value of labor will be devalued because of the progress of science and technology." In the future, labor will inevitably be turned into daily necessities, and then alienated the human characteristics of the proletarian labor itself, and become the human flesh machine of the capitalists...... This trend is now becoming more and more obvious, so if the working class of the future wants to have a happy life, there is no other way but to unite and fight! And the participation of hundreds of millions of Chinese working class will make such a struggle a worldwide revolution! (To be continued......)