Chapter 166: Chaos Rises

The night is silent.

And in the human world, I don't know how many conspiracies and tricks will be born in the hearts of people on such a dark night, and at this time, the dark clouds cover the clouds and the moon, which seems to be a sign of ominous......

In Wuxi City, in an inconspicuous courtyard, there is no light in the courtyard from the room, it seems that the owner here has already slept, and it seems that ...... But no one would have imagined that in a house in this courtyard, the lights were still on, and the reason why the lights did not shine into the courtyard was because the thick blankets blocked the windows, so that the lights would not be reflected outside.

At this time, in this room, several people were gathered around a table, as if discussing something, and among these people, there was also a person wearing a police uniform, and the appearance of these people was so low that their upper body was completely hidden in darkness because of the lampshade.

"Shoot!"

A voice of great certainty rang out in the room.

"Gotta shoot! And be sure to be shot by the police! ”

"But ......"

The officer in the police uniform seemed to be a little hesitant to shoot if he fired ......

"Nothing, if we want to escalate the incident, we have to shoot!"

One of the dark shadows said in a very cold voice.

"The sound of gunfire, only the sound of gunfire, can wake everyone up, the sound of gunfire here will intensify everything, will open up all the problems that are covered up......"

"The families of those women workers are also workers, and there are tens of thousands of workers in Wuxi, and if all of them launch a general strike in the industry, and then launch a big demonstration, their actions will provoke a chain reaction across the country, and once tens of millions of industrial workers across the country carry out a general strike, a big demonstration, demand a minimum wage standard, implement an eight-hour working day, prohibit business owners from cutting wages at will, and organize trade unions, then ......"

Then the shadow fell silent, as if he was imagining the scene that would have shocked the world.

"Only the sound of gunfire can awaken this country ......"

"Yes...... Some workers also have guns in their homes, and. There are also dozens of gun shops in the city, in case ......"

The police officer asked with some concern, the right to bear a gun is one of the basic rights of Chinese people. According to His Majesty the Emperor, there were only two periods in Chinese history when civilians were forbidden to bear arms, one during the Mongol and Yuan colonial periods and the other during the Manchu colonial period. And the fundamental reason why they forbade the Han people to keep weapons was that they were afraid that the Han people would start an uprising.

In a normal nation-state, its citizens must have a certain right of self-defense, and firearms are the basic right of self-defense of the people, not only to resist foreign aggression. The same can be done against tyranny.

"The right to hold a gun, one is to resist aggression, and the other is to resist tyranny!"

Another dark shadow for no reason speaks to the interpretation of the right to bear arms in the imperial constitution.

"Since it is tyranny, then the resistance of the people is understandable!"

"Revolutions always come at a cost! Revolution always pays off! Ladies and gentlemen, if we succeed, we will see a completely different China. A republican, democratic China. It will also be born because of the gunfire here! Comrades, this will be our mission! ”

"But, those female workers, tomorrow, will they still strike?"

"Yes! If you don't strike......"

"Hmph, don't worry. They're going to strike! ”

At this moment, the black shadow's words paused, and then turned into calm with that excitement.

"Tomorrow. We are going to wake up this sinking country with the sound of guns, with the sound of guns! ”

In the wee hours of the morning. A middle-aged man in a summer dress quietly left the courtyard, and he walked down the silent street, looking at the city that was still sleeping in the night, and a smile appeared on his lips. …,

"Conspirators!"

Suddenly, the corners of his lips moved slightly and spit out these three words, is he a conspirator?

No! In his mind, he had never been a conspirator himself, but a figure who was good at improvising, but enthusiasm could lead him to a deep pool. He secretly thinks that he has the ability to influence some people, to make them do something according to their decisions, like now, like now......

This...... It's destined to be a midsummer!

Looking at the dawn that was about to rise, the middle-aged man muttered to himself silently, and then walked in the direction of the outside of the city without hesitation.

In the early morning, when the buses on the street drove by, the whistle of the workers sounded in the Yufeng Yarn Mill, and the whistles of other factories also sounded in the early morning, yesterday's strike swept dozens of factories, and today, these factories still sound the whistle of the workers in the early morning, reminding the female workers in the work area that it is time to go to work.

However, compared with the usual hustle and bustle, there are not many female workers who go to work today, only a few timid female workers scattered around, and the news that Yufeng took the police to the work area to arrest people yesterday has already spread, which not only did not let those female workers back down, but made them further strengthen their confidence in the strike.

At this time, outside the gate of Yufeng Yarn Factory, the policemen who protected the start of work lined up in front of the factory gate, different from the batons in the past, today's hundreds of policemen are holding rifles in their hands, and the rifle guns are loaded with bayonets, but the bayonets are stuck in the steel scabbards, although this is the case, but these well-armed policemen are standing outside the factory gate with serious expressions to maintain order.

In the early hours of the morning, Yufeng's manager Sheng informed the police station that they had hired 500 temporary substitutes, and that the factory would resume work regardless of whether the female workers were on duty today, after all, a day's delay was money.

Temporary substitutes!

In the past many years, this is a method often used by factories in the face of strikes, they first threaten to dismiss female workers, and at the same time negotiate with similar factories in other places to hire temporary substitutes with high salaries and enter the factory as substitutes, and in order to prevent substitute workers from entering the factory, the strikers often use various methods such as blocking the factory gates, and even violent threats and fights to prevent the substitute workers from entering the factory, and the method used by the factory owners is to call the police.

As taxpayers, they naturally need the protection of the police, and the police station is to fulfill the obligation to protect the substitute workers into the factory, and then, the strike will be because of the entry of the substitute workers, coupled with the threat of dismissal of the factory, first a small number of workers quit the strike, and then the strike was easily broken, and the factory then settled the accounts after the autumn to dismiss some of the workers.

Now, these police officers are here to protect the factory from shocks. At the same time, we are waiting for the arrival of the substitute.

In the Yufeng Yarn Factory, the insomnia faces of the factory managers and the pipe trucks were covered with a layer of blue, and there were red threads on their eyes. There is the brilliance of excitement.

It's the last five minutes of the showdown!

The management staff, who are struggling to resume factory production, are still a little nervous at this most critical time while waiting for the factory to resume work.

In front of the hallway of the Administration over there. Sheng Wuming paced back and forth like a great general, he looked nervously outside the factory from time to time, and at the same time pricked up his ears to listen to the sound outside the factory.

"I hope ......"

At this time, his expression is determined and confident, perhaps for the outside world. What he was waiting for was the resumption of the factory, but only he knew what he was waiting for, and although what he was waiting for was fraught with threats, he had nothing to fear now!

What's so scary?

For everything, he laid it out very well.

Perhaps, the chairman did not approve the use of substitutes, the expensive method of resuming work, and he only hired a hundred substitutes within his authority. But. God knows what awaits him. …,

Then the whistle beeped a second time, longer and louder than before. After calling it, Sheng Wuming still felt a little buzzing in his ears. The wooden door of the workshop has been opened, waiting for the women workers to enter, waiting for the roar of the yarn machine.

Wang Changlin came running from afar, and the disproportionate small eyes on his rectangular face nailed Sheng Wuming from afar.

"What's wrong? Changlin! ”

"The women workers are in the factory! Three or five. More than a dozen! ”

So the two of them smiled at each other. It's time to decide!

Sheng Wuming turned around and ran into the management department, picked up the phone and reported the number in the chairman's mansion to the operator. He's going to send the first telegram. There are some things that need to be done, but the operator over there has just connected the line. Suddenly a shout came from outside, it was the roar of the women.

Sheng Wuming also turned his face and glanced out. He smiled coldly.

He knew what this shouting was. There are also some female workers who want to "stop" people at the gate of the factory!

This is what Sheng Wuming had already expected.

This...... Exactly what he was looking forward to!

There's nothing to be afraid of him. He put his mouth back on the telephone, but the line was broken again, and he was about to scream again, when another louder cry flew from outside; Following this shout, a man shouted and rushed into the room.

"It's a fight! It's time to fight! ”

Ah Zhen shouted wildly, and rushed to Sheng Wuming's side. The telephone dropped, Sheng Wuming screamed fiercely, pushed away the intruder, and ran out quickly, just in front of the corridor steps, he bumped into a staff member of the management department, he also fled like crazy, his face was as gray as a dead man.

"Blocking the factory door? What about the police! ”

Sheng Wuming kept running forward, shouting all the way.

His face turned pale with anger; If that person doesn't do it...... All your thoughts will be in vain. But when he was about to get to the factory gate, he himself stopped. Wang Changlin's face was colored, and he ran in frustration. At the gate of the factory over there, a group of people twisted into a ball. The police were shouting at each other, while thousands of women were crowding outside the factory gates, where they were arguing.

Wang Changlin stopped Sheng Wuming and shouted urgently:

"Can't go! Our people have been beaten! Can't go! ”

"Fart! Are you mud bodhisattvas? What about the police? ”

"This guy! It can't be done......"

Sheng Wuming scolded sharply, waved Wang Changlin away, and then ran in the direction of the factory gate.

"Everyone calm down, this factory is private property, and no one is allowed to attack ......"

The police shouted loudly, and a shout was heard from among the female workers.

"Sisters, don't listen to these policemen, when those substitutes come, they will fire us, and we must not let them return to work! Sisters, smash the machine ......"

"Smash the machine!"

"Smashing the machine ......"

Emotions are always contagious, in this chaos, people are always blind, blindly obedient, always follow the actions of others, shouts and act without permission, finally, the female workers are like a wave, rushing towards the factory gate, they first broke through a team of police to dissuade, and even some women scolded the police.

"Leave these lackeys ......"

When the policemen lined up at the gate saw this scene, they all looked nervously at the female workers who were getting closer and closer, and they all held their rifles diagonally according to the previous training, ready to use the sheathed bayonets with the heads of the guns to stop the women workers from breaking in.

"Ah......h

Suddenly. The police officers in front of them let out a scream, and then the officers saw a colleague lying in a pool of blood clutching his stomach, while the female workers shouted and walked towards the gate without heeding the wounded policeman.

The screams of a colleague. It only made these policemen stunned, and a burst of anger rose in their hearts, and they all looked at this scene in surprise and anger, and then they all turned their eyes to the commander on the side. …,

"Sir!"

The police officer, who had been standing by the gate all along, glanced at the labor tide. Then he glanced ahead again.

"Gun...... Load! ”

As he gave the order, he felt a slight stiffness in his voice, and another command came out of his mouth as he heard a loading sound in his ears.

"Aim straight ahead!"

The officer then walked to the front. He shouted loudly at the female workers.

"Everyone immediately retreat! Immediately back ......"

The female workers in the front row were also stunned when they saw the police loading their guns, and when they saw the police's flat-ended rifles, they showed even more timidity, but when they wanted to retreat, the people in the back wanted to move forward, and under the push of the female workers in the back, the female workers who were originally timid were pushed to the front.

"Open...... Gun! ”

At the moment when the order was given. The officer closed his eyes in some pain.

"Bang ......"

When the sound of gunfire like a bean came from the factory gate. Sheng Wuming couldn't help but be stunned, he stopped, gunshots, dozens of gunshots, came from the factory gate, just when he stopped. Another volley of gunfire.

Bullets flew across the crowd, piercing through the delicate bodies of the female workers. Blood splattered the streets, and the sound of gunfire and cries echoed through the gates of the Yufeng Mill.

"Gun...... Load! ”

After a volley of platoon guns. The police officer gave the command again, and a few meters in front of him, dozens of female workers were already lying down, but the female workers in the front row who had not retreated were still pushed forward.

"Put!"

Another round of gunfire, and the gunfire rang out again.

And these policemen with rifles in their hands, just performing their duties and obeying orders, for them, shooting is just an order, different from the first shot, this time shooting, the policemen who were also stunned by the scene in front of them were also stunned by the female workers who were struggling in a pool of blood, they couldn't even believe that they did it, and in the second volley, most of them raised the muzzle of their guns.

"What ......"

Shot!

Yu Defu, who was working in the factory, listened to the shouts of the workers, he could hardly believe his ears, and the police shot at the female workers!

He, his daughter-in-law is Yufeng's yarn worker, and she is also a ......

Without further thought, he immediately ran out of the workshop, where the factory was boiling.

"Damn, I'm not doing it!"

"Strike...... Strike! ”

"The police shot at our daughter-in-law, went on strike, protested to ......"

Who?

Who fired the shot? Who ordered the shots?

Now, after all the factories in Wuxi were shut down in just a few minutes, when nearly 100,000 workers and citizens gathered in the city government and the city council to protest and demonstrate, no one had the heart to ask these questions.

"Hand over the murderer!"

"Down with the cops!"

"Severely punish the murderer ......"

Anger, an unprecedented anger filled the hearts of these workers and citizens, and in front of the steps of the city council, sixteen corpses were laid out in a row, and the delicate bloodstained appearance only made the anger in everyone's hearts thicker, and when people looked at the police in front of the steps, the anger in their hearts was even stronger, and next to one corpse, Yu Defu was holding his wife, who was covered in blood and had long lost her life.

"Kill me! Kill me...... Shoot me......"

A sturdy male worker ripped off his work uniform and patted his chest on his chest against the police, facing the anger of the people, neither the mayor nor the city council knew what to do about it, they had never faced the anger of the people, at least the anger of the people had never been directed at them. …,

"First, we must hold accountable ......"

"Removal ...... of Police Chief of Police"

"Arrest all suspected police officers ......"

"Establish a special investigation committee to thoroughly investigate the ...... matter"

Just when the city council and the city government officials were discussing how to deal with the matter, there was a more passionate shout outside the window, the scene seemed to be more chaotic, the officials and councilors hurriedly stood by the window and looked out the window, but what they saw was chaos, those demonstrators were constantly throwing bricks and stones at the police outside the council, and even constantly impacting the police line, and those unarmed police, who could only be supported by rattan shields, all looked like a passive response.

"The police can't do it!"

Seeing this scene in front of them, everyone understood that it would be difficult to maintain order by relying on the police alone, not to mention, after the shooting in front of the Yufeng Yarn Factory, I am afraid that those people only have a belly of anger against these police, and there is not much possibility at all to maintain order by relying on the police.

"Or ...... Bring the guards into the city! ”

Looking at the chaotic scene in front of the council, the mayor squeaked with some hesitation.

Ask the guards to come into town, maybe it's the last option! At the very least, those people will not have any resentment against the guards, and they will restore order first. (To be continued......) ……,