Chapter 253: The Labor Party
Chen Liqing followed Xie Haiyang directly to a café called 'Pooh's House', which is located around Trajafal Square, with an open terrain and a relatively high location, on the sixth floor of a building. When Chen Liqing and Xie Haiyang, two people with yellow faces, came here, the café, which was originally a little noisy, immediately became a little quiet, and everyone's eyes fell on the two of them.
A waiter quickly came up: "I'm sorry, two guests, there are no seats left." The waiter seemed to be kindly informed, but Chen Liqing and Xie Haiyang both sensed that the waiter's demeanor was a little resistant to them coming to this café.
"It's a place where this group of people often meet, and it's not usually open to the public." Xie Haiyang immediately explained slightly.
Chen Liqing nodded slightly, and then said to the waiter: "It's okay, we're just here to find someone, Wei An. Is Richard here? Chen Liqing's eyes hit a deep-eyed British man by the window, this man was in his forties, dressed neatly, with a high nose, seeing Chen Liqing look over, there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.
"Mr. Richard?" The waiter turned his head, and his gaze just happened to hit the man.
"Yes, Mr. Richard, we have something of interest in you." Seeing the main owner at a glance, Chen Liqing ignored the waiter and called out directly to Richard.
Richard was even more confused, but he quickly put away his doubts, and after nodding to the waiter secretly, the waiter got out of the way.
"Thank you."
After saying thank you, Chen Liqing walked directly to Richard, as he moved, more people's eyes in the café hit him, doubts, curiosity, speculation and other things filled the café, Chen Liqing and Xie Haiyang, the arrival of the two yellow people, actually made these people divert their attention to the strike.
In the face of these eyes, Chen Liqing didn't care very much, walked directly in front of Richard, and smiled slightly: "Hello, Mr. Richard, it's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Chen Liqing, and I'm from China." ”
Richard himself was also very curious about the purpose of Chen Liqing's coming, and when he saw Chen Liqing coming over, he was full of confidence, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand: "Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you, Chen, Chen Liqing?" ”
"Yes." The smile on Chen Liqing's face became even bigger, he looked at the position in front of Richard, and said, "Do you mind if I sit down, Mr. Richard, and these two, Mr. and Madam, didn't bother you?" There was also a middle-aged couple opposite Richard, and Chen Liqing also gave the two of them a kind smile.
"Don't mind, please, please." Such an unceremonious Oriental made the two of them pause for a moment, and then hurriedly stretched out his hand.
"Thank you." Chen Liqing sat down directly, and Xie Haiyang stood quietly behind Chen Liqing, and the strange behavior of the two made Richard and his party curious. However, they didn't ask rashly, they just asked Chen Liqing with their eyes, waiting for this uninvited guest to speak first.
"Mr. Richard, are you watching a strike?" Chen Liqing didn't let a few people wait for a long time, and directly pointed to the dense crowd outside the window.
Richard nodded, but did not speak.
"Hehe, it seems that my question is a bit redundant, and those who came here today should all watch the workers' strike, right?" Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Chen Liqing laughed at himself.
His words made people not know how to answer, so they were still silent.
"Well, well, I don't seem to have any humor at all, well, Mr. Richard, I'll just explain what I mean." Chen Liqing could only touch his nose in this kind of scene, and then he could only say directly: "I heard that this strike, it seems that Mr. Richard is behind the strike, right?" ”
"Huh?"
When Chen Liqing's words came out, the faces of Richard and the others changed.
"How do you know?" The lady across from Richard couldn't help but ask, and at the same time, the atmosphere in the café was sluggish again.
"Don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions, I'm just an outsider." Seeing that Richard and the others were a little nervous, Chen Liqing then hurriedly waved his hand.
It's just that the curiosity in the eyes of Richard and the others is becoming more and more solemn, but in this curiosity, Chen Liqing also sees a trace of vigilance.
Sure enough, it was scary to come to the door so rashly, Chen Liqing smiled bitterly in his heart, and then he could only bite the bullet and say: "Mr. Richard, in fact, I also want to support this strike, I think you are doing the right thing!" ”
"Yes, Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen, what are you supporting?" Richard finally spoke and asked a question.
Chen Liqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Richard and said, "I support your actions, I think this kind of strike is very right." In addition, I would like to do my part to support the cause of the strike. ”
"Support our strike cause? Mr. Chen, what do you mean? The man across from Richard couldn't help but ask questions.
They are the presiding officers behind the strike, but the people who came to the door in the past were political axe personnel who made trouble for them. And it was the first time they had seen Chen Liqing who came to the door to provide support. Moreover, Chen Liqing and Xie Haiyang are still foreigners, Chinese.
Chinese?
Isn't the country still lagging behind?
That's the only thing these people remember.
However, because Chen Liqing directly explained his intentions, the vigilance in their curiosity was a little less.
"May I ask, Mr. Chen, what is this for?" Richard didn't ask Chen Liqing much questions, although he had a lot of doubts in his mind, but he only asked this one question.
"I think you're doing this for the good of the British public, Mr. Richard, so I want to support it."
This reason is not sufficient, and Richard frowns slightly, very dissatisfied. But Chen Liqing didn't explain much next, which made Richard very helpless.
"So, Mr. Chen, how do you want to support us?" The woman was not satisfied, and then she asked.
"Food, water." Chen Liqing stretched out two fingers and said, "I think it would have been a good thing for the strike demonstrations to get those capitalists to give the workers more wages and more holidays, but Mr. Richard, you can also see that from the morning to now, those workers have not eaten much, so I want to give them bread and water and do what I can." ”
Richard: They were even more surprised.
"Provide water and bread, Mr. Chen, you mean, provide water and bread for these 20,000 people?" Richard couldn't help but stared at Chen Liqing, a Chinese, with wide eyes, looking at Chen Liqing's serious appearance that didn't look like a joke. I am afraid that what Chen Liqing said is false.
"That's right, Mr. Richard, you heard me right, I want to provide water and bread to these workers, and I heard that you are the organizer, so I wanted to ask if you agree?" Chen Liqing nodded solemnly.
Agree, of course agree, Richard naturally wanted to agree, but this kind of thing of bread falling from the sky, he had never seen it in his life, and his heart and eyes didn't believe it.
He couldn't help but look at the two people across from him: "Webb, Portal, what do you think?" ”
"Webb, Portal?" Chen Liqing looked at these two people, and he realized that these two people didn't seem to be simple.
"Oh, and I forgot to introduce them, these two are our superior liaison to the Labour Party, Fabian Society member Sydney. Webb and his wife, Portal. Richard hurriedly introduced to Chen Liqing.
"Sydney. Webb, Portal, is that you? Chen Liqing was immediately taken aback.
"Oh, Mr. Chen has heard of us?" The two became interested instead.
Chen Liqing immediately nodded: "I didn't expect that I actually met Mr. Weber, I very much agree with the views in your "Historical Foundations of Socialism", and I didn't expect that I actually met Mr. Weber today, it's really an honor." Chen Liqing's eyes lit up and he looked at Weber in front of him.
This name is one of the four giants of the Fabian Society in the early days of the British Labour Party, and the formation of a political party in the British Labour Party can be said to be inseparable from a series of theoretical works written by Weber. How could Chen Liqing not know such a person who made important contributions to the formation of the British Labour Party.
Chen Liqing may not have known it before, but he recently checked the information, and this name appeared most frequently in the Labor Party, so how could he not know.
Ever since he noticed the workers' movement in Britain, he thought of a political party that would later become very famous in Britain, the Labour Party.
The Labour Party, as the name suggests, is a party that focuses on the interests of workers. After discovering this, Chen Liqing learned through investigation that it was now 1913, and the Labour Party, which later ruled the United Kingdom, had only been established for six or seven years. At this time, there was no big organizational structure and political ideology, which can be regarded as the germ of the early stage of the revolution.
However, although the current Labour Party still does not occupy any position in British politics, after the outbreak of World War I, they successfully entered the British political situation by supporting the war, so as to slowly occupy the British cabinet with a spark, and finally became the ruling party in the United Kingdom.
With such a promising party, Chen Liqing immediately knew how he could get enough with the help of World War I after consulting the information. (To be continued.) )