Chapter 328: Progress and Backwardness of the Peasant Revolt 3

From the bottom of his heart, Wang Shuhui had a negative view of the peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty, or rather, all the peasant uprisings in the feudal agricultural era. 【Reading.com】

For him, rebellion and revolution were two completely different things. While both are sabotage, rebellion is simply destroying and repeating the old world, while revolution is the construction of a new world after destruction.

Wang Shuhui believes that the rebellion is for personal gain. Almost all the fruits of the peasant uprisings of the feudal agricultural era were eventually usurped by the restored feudal ruling class.

Revolutions, on the other hand, are completely different. The revolution is for the benefit of the majority, for the good of the public. After the revolution, the role of the ruling class will be reversed. Although a revolution guided by the ideology of a non-scientific revolution does not necessarily share the fruits of the revolution with the masses of the people. But the reality is that after a real revolution, the size of the ruling class will be objectively expanded.

In Wang Shuhui's understanding, the peasant uprising was actually an objective manifestation of the periodic economic crises of feudal society. And it, like the periodic economic crises of capitalism, is essentially a direct result of the accumulation and eruption of class contradictions.

If we examine the peasant uprising with the theory of scientific sociology, it can only be regarded as an objective phenomenon that will inevitably occur, and it cannot be said that it is a revolutionary event.

According to Wang Shuhui's understanding, as long as any event or thing does not realize the development of the productive forces and the progress of production relations, then it does not have real progressive significance, and it is not a truly revolutionary event or thing.

When it comes to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shuhui does not think that the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty has any progressive significance. No matter how much you try to revolutionize it, it is only a rebellion led by a handful of careerists who sacrificed the lives of the majority of innocent people for their personal gain.

Needless to say, the actions of Li Zicheng alone illustrate the non-revolutionary nature of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In Wang Shuhui's view, the spontaneous uprisings and rebellions of the displaced people in the early days of Shaanxi also have a certain progressive significance. However, after the peasant armies of all walks of life raised their banners, this peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty became a war for hegemony between the old and new feudal forces.

From this point of view, Wang Shuhui certainly does not have any positive views on the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In November 1627, Wang Shuhui set out from Yunyang County and went to Xiping Town, the garrison of the First Army in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army, through the simple road from Yunyang to Xiping, which had just been completed.

After more than a month of hard work, the simple road from Yunyang County to Xiping Town was finally completed. Although this road through the valley is nothing more than the simplest rammed earth road. However, this rammed earth road is not a simple dirt road made of loess, but a relatively solid three-way dirt road built by more than 14,000 warriors using three materials, mud, hydrated lime, sand, and a large number of steam machinery and equipment.

It's just an improvised road, and more than 14,000 people were used to build a simple road with three clay soils, which seems to be a bit of a waste of labor. However, the decision was also made on the part of the First Army in the Northwest under full planning.

The construction of a general rammed earth road, equipped with a large number of equipment and materials to carry heavy four * vehicles for a year of non-stop rolling, this road will definitely be scrapped in less than a year. According to the Ba'ath Party's custom, generally speaking, as long as the roads built by the Ba'ath Party are built with cement concrete, except for different widths and different grades.

However, judging from the current situation, the main task of the first to third cement plants in Yunyang County, which has just begun operation, is to supply the construction of the iron and steel plant and the provision of reinforced concrete sleepers for the Northern Railway Production and Construction Corps. It is very unrealistic to get cement from Yunyang, where supply is tight.

Therefore, in the station of the First Army Corps in the northwest of Xiping Town, it became inevitable to build a cement factory dedicated to road construction.

In this case, it has become a wiser choice to build a three-way rammed earth highway that can be used as the foundation of the cement road in the future, which not only ensures the supply of materials for the army, but also facilitates the transportation of cement plant equipment.

Although under the Ba'ath Party, four-wheeled carriages with flexible steering and large payloads were promoted. However, because there is no rubber available for the Baath Party now, no matter how good the steel wheels are and how good the shock absorption equipment is, it cannot fundamentally solve the problem of vehicle bumps.

As early as the beginning of 1620, Wang Shuhui used the space-time gate to introduce a large number of high-quality breeding animals from modern society to this time and space. Now the transportation task is being undertaken by the Baath Party Pastoral Breeding Factory, and the new breed of Tieling Horse is a cross between the Tieling Horse and the local horse.

Although the size of this revival horse is not as large as that of Tieling Bangma. But compared to most of the horses on this plane, they were not only larger, but also more powerful. The maximum pulling force of a revival horse can reach 400 kilograms, which is equivalent to 80 percent of its body weight. Moreover, it also has the characteristics of both strength and speed, light and flexible, beautiful appearance, strong adaptability, tolerance to rough feeding, full of staying power, and easy to raise and serve, suitable for the development of agricultural production and transportation needs.

The combination of high-quality horses and structural science and light weight of the four-wheeled carriage made it possible for the carriage to move very fast, although there were a lot of materials on the wagon.

Unlike ordinary freight carriages, Wang Shuhui's carriage has office facilities such as desks and filing cabinets. If you open the door and look at it, you will see that it is a mobile office. Working in such an office is actually not a pleasant experience. Despite the fact that the road made of rammed earth is already very smooth, even a small pothole can bring a huge bump to the people in the carriage on steel wheels.

Of course, this feeling of bumpiness is actually only obvious to modern people like Wang Shuhui. In fact, for all the cadres and masses of the Baath Party who were born indigenous in this time and space, it was very pleasant to ride in a four-wheeled carriage equipped with a large number of shock-absorbing parts on a smooth road.

Now, for example, the soldiers of the guard company sitting on the four-wheeled troop carrier are singing:

Unity is strength,

Unity is strength,

This power is iron,

This power is steel,

Harder than iron,

Stronger than steel,

Fired at feudalism,

Let all undemocratic systems die!

To the sun,

Towards freedom,

Towards New China

Shine brightly!

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Wang Shuhui was reading a report from the local county party committee, and in the carriage he heard the singing of the soldiers of the guard company, and a distinct smile appeared on his face.

Hearing the singing of the soldiers of the guard company, the rest of the convoy began to sing as well.

Wang Shuhui carefully distinguished, and found that the two songs "We Workers Have Power" sung by the workers and "The Military Song of the Revival Army" sung by the soldiers were almost the loudest