"Ren Gong Weilong, operating Ren's timber shop for 20 years and seven years, fifty percent of the shipbuilding companies in Guangdong have business dealings with Ren Gong, and also supply to many furniture factories and gun factories......" The tall placard is densely covered with fly-headed letters, listing Ren Weilong's many customers in detail, and anyone can realize the strong strength of Boss Ren as long as they look at it carefully.

“…… The number of workers under his command has grown from eight twenty-seven years ago to more than 7,000 today, and the monthly salary is 10,000 taels ...... "In order to prove the strong strength of Boss Ren, a large placard followed also explained the donations that Ren Weilong had donated to the temple for more than ten years, as well as a large number of donations to the Fujian Provincial Government and the Duke of Qi.

Dozens of people hired by Ren Weilong shouted hoarsely around this placard, and they all remembered the data behind them, holding iron horns to repeatedly promote the talents of their employers to the people who came to vote in front of them:

"Ren Gong's wealth is thousands, and he knows the way to get rich, and he will definitely be able to lead the people of Guangdong to make a windfall, and he will vote for Ren Gong, which is to move gold, silver and jewelry to his home!"

Not far away is another candidate for the Guangdong Provincial Consulate, Guangzhou constituency should be bossed, his sign is listed with a line of the names of the dignitaries of the Qi State Mansion, behind each name, there is a brief description of the process of the boss and these well-known people, these content introductions are full of the first propaganda board, followed by many more propaganda boards, according to the official position from high to low in the order of other Guangdong and Fujian government members at all levels, the same name and official position behind each person, there are also the boss and their acquaintance. The drummers hired by the boss tried their best to shout to the people who walked in front of him: "Qi Guogong knows Ying Gong, Ying Gong's words can reach the heavens, vote for Ying Gong, vote for Ying Gong, no one can bully us!" ”

Surrounded by billboards of the legislators, most of the campaign slogans were similar to those of Ren and Ying, who boasted that they were rich and powerful, and that they were great big people.

In front of the placards of these big people, there are still many guys who are busy distributing steamed buns and melons and fruits, using these things to attract the people to their signs, and those drummers take the opportunity to recite the advertising words on the signs to them, and when the people leave after eating the steamed buns, they do not forget to shout behind their backs: "Eat Boss Liu's steamed buns, don't forget to vote for Boss Liu!" ”

Adult voters in the constituency of Canton were registered with the government, and all adult males were allowed to vote, following the old village practice in the past, and if they did not come to vote, they would be fined, and the provisional provincial secretary set the fine at one tael. The polling day is only three days, so at the beginning of today, the city of Guangzhou was crowded with thousands of people, and the polling stations were crowded. Fearing that the bosses would crowd up the polling stations, the Provincial Governor's House set aside an advertising site for all the candidates in advance, and this proved to be prescient - many people had the intention to build a stage to attract the attention of voters.

The district elects 10 councillors, and each of the city's hundreds of thousands of voters is given a piece of paper with the names of all 35 candidates, and they have to circle around the names of the 10 people. In addition to voters, women in Guangzhou City also brought their children to eat free steamed buns and melons and fruits, and everyone felt that this election day was even more prosperous than the New Year.

Few people know how many exhausted soldiers and administrative officials were behind this boom, and in order to coordinate this election, Qi Guogong sent a large number of instructors and staff officers to Guangzhou with newly recruited military cadets to Guangzhou to carry out staff operations to assist the magistrates.

In addition to a large number of merchant bosses, there are two rural gentry who came to the expedition, compared to these merchant bosses, their election cards look very shabby, one of them painted a big head on the sign, this head smiled very kindly, there is no introductory text about wealth and power below, only four lines of big ink:

"Zhang Fushou, forty-three years old, believes in Buddhism."

"The old mother of the family, fasting all year round."

"The two sons are adults, and they are very filial."

"Count backwards on paper, fifth."

The gentleman's billboard in front of all the polling places was so austere, and he himself was sitting at another polling place at this time. Another gentleman is here, and his slogan is even more concise with only a short sentence:

"I am willing to do things for the villagers, the seventh on paper."

The gentleman stood in front of his lonely placard, and kept greeting to every voter who passed in front of him:

"Li Yougui, I want to do something for the villagers, and the seventh one is below."

"Li Yougui, I want to do something for the villagers, and the seventh one is below"

"Li Yougui ......"

The shabby appearance of these two gentlemen made the other businessmen who ran for the election very contemptuous, and they inquired about the details of these two gentlemen who dared to come to Guangzhou to grab food, and knew that they were also a little wealthy, and as the saying goes, "those who come are not good, and those who are good do not come." The merchants were still a little nervous, but they felt angry and funny to see the two of them behave like this.

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Because the provisional provincial secretary of state in Fujian Province was established earlier, the secretary of the provincial secretary of Guangdong Province was in a hurry to hold a formal election, bent on catching up, and anyway, it had already stipulated that a person could only participate in the election of one constituency, and Guangzhou, as the center of the whole of Guangdong, could not wait to convene a formal election of the provincial secretary of state after the constituency was demarcated. After the end of voting in the Guangzhou constituency, some other constituencies have not yet completed their voting preparations.

The results of the vote shocked the confident businessmen of Guangdong Province, and the two gentlemen who went to Guangzhou were elected with high votes, ranking first and second, while the chairman of the council, who was very popular, relied on his own workers and many relatives and friends to get the ninth place, and the number of votes did not even reach the second place.

In addition to these two gentlemen, the performance of the Kuomintang under the command of Speaker Lu was also impressive, and the candidates they nominated won two seats in the Guangzhou constituency in one fell swoop, and a large group of small Kuomintang businessmen, small factory owners, and petty officials who had absolutely no chance of winning the election on their own strength gathered happily at the house of Speaker Lu to celebrate the victory of the party after the results of the vote.

The election results in Guangzhou not only shocked the whole of Guangdong, but also caused huge repercussions in Fujian. The Fujian Provincial Secretary of State decided to hold a simultaneous provincial election in the first three days of next month, and Boss Miao intends to participate in the election in the Quanzhou constituency, and the campaign strategy he has formulated is no different from that of his counterparts in Guangzhou, except that the distribution of steamed buns is to brag about his wealth and power.

"Boss Miao, we don't have as much money as businessmen like you, but when it comes to elections, we are much more experienced than you." Boss Miao's gentry friends said that in the past 20 years, the elections in Fujian's rural areas have already given the gentry some tricks, but because they have not been extended to the whole province and have been cramped to lower official positions, they have not attracted the attention of coastal businessmen.

"At the beginning, the village chief must have been elected by the patriarch of the big clan, but after almost ten years, it began to change gradually," said a gentleman who has relatives and friends who have run for the village chief many times, at first including young people, they felt that voting for the patriarch was a matter of course, but after ten years, everyone gradually began to feel that they were meritorious to the election of the patriarch, and gradually became not as able to endure the wanton oppression of the patriarch as before. After everyone did not necessarily vote for the same surname, the competition became fierce, and some people began to be elected, and some people jumped out to run for the patriarch of their own clan, and at that time, everyone's method was similar to your method today. ”

The gentry told Boss Miao that if the patriarch lost the election, it would easily lead to his prestige, and those who could not afford to lose the election began to promise benefits and bribe voters. Now if the patriarch dares to use the blatant patriarchal law to favor close relatives, he will not want to be elected, and once he is not elected, everyone knows that in fact, most people have a grudge against him, and even the authority of the patriarch will be lost when his prestige is swept away, so he has to pretend to be fair......

"So it's useless to just say that you're rich and powerful?" Boss Miao hurriedly asked.

"It's useless, and you're not even the patriarch, and it's even more useless."

"But the champion and the top actor in the Guangzhou constituency, the two of them have too few words."

"In fact, it's really like this to work, the fewer words, the easier it is to remember, generally speaking, everyone can agree to the same thing, nothing more than to lead the villagers to control more water, collect less money, and choose anyone is almost the same." The gentleman continued: "But if you don't vote, you'll be fined, so everyone goes, and most people just take a look before voting, and vote for whoever is more pleasing to the eye." ”

"So if you write too many words, no one can remember me, but if you write less, they will remember." Boss Miao immediately came to his senses.

"That's the reason, the election of the village chief is actually not the same as the election of this, you know that the county order over there in Longyan is also elected by Qi Guogong in this way, the county order, it is not like the village where everyone knows the roots. When I was choosing, the last shout was basically the same: I believe in the Bodhisattva, I am filial, my wife is virtuous, and my son is kind. Who doesn't like honest people to be officials in their hometown? ”

"I see!" Boss Miao nodded again and again, now that the constituency is bigger, the voters don't know what kind of guy the candidate is.

"The election of the mayor has been like this, and when it comes to the county order, the most important thing is that the slogan should be easy to remember, many people are voting for not being fined, and who they vote for depends on who looks more like a kind person."

"Understood," Boss Miao still has one more thing on his mind, that is, Lu Zhiqiang's Kuomintang has been a great success in the Guangdong election, and the results of each constituency in Guangzhou have not yet come out, but it seems that the Kuomintang can probably win more than 10 seats of the 150 seats in the Provincial Secretary Yuan: "Have you heard of this party?" ”

"This is really not there, Boss Lu's trick of forming a party is too despicable and cheap." The gentlemen in Fujian who care about the election have also heard about this, and many people are already planning to follow suit: "If he can tie the knot, we can also tie the knot, since Qi Guogong didn't punish him, then he can't punish us, right?" ”

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At this time, Lu Zhiqiang had already rushed back to Quanzhou to discuss with the Kuomintang comrades in Fujian the plan for the upcoming election in Fujian:

"We still have a lot of deficiencies this time, for example, in the Guangzhou constituency, we elected another person and won the eleventh place, which is about the same as the previous one, but we only thought in advance of voting for our own people, but we didn't think that we should unify and not vote for those strong enemies." After returning to Quanzhou, Lu Zhiqiang went to meet with Qi Guogong to test the other party's reaction to the success of his party.

The victory left Lui mixed feelings that the Qi Guild felt that his party was too strong — it looked like the Kuomintang would win more than one-twentieth of the seats in the Guangdong Provincial Governor's Yuan, and they would change their minds to suppress them.

As a result, Qi Guogong loudly congratulated Lu Zhiqiang as soon as they met, showing a kind of enthusiasm that made Lu Zhiqiang happy and confused, and Qi Guogong stayed with Speaker Lu for a long time to drink tea, during which he said casually: If the Kuomintang had assessed who was the most threatening contender earlier, it should have won more seats. Lu Zhiqiang thought it was the first few, but Qi Guogong pointed out with great interest: the so-called most threatening are those who only have a little more votes than the KMT's unsuccessful legislature.

In the Guangzhou constituency, for example, most of these people have the support of their own workers, but in addition to supporting their own bosses, the other nine places are generally filled blindly, and the same is true for the voters wooed by the KMT.

"I calculated carefully, if the people we notified us in advance didn't vote for this person, it was likely that our people would overtake, what a pity!" Lu Zhiqiang slapped his thigh three times in a row with remorse, and then lifted his spirits and continued to plot with his comrades: "We must learn a lesson in the Fujian election next month, and we must not make such a mistake again." ”

……

"Gong Qi has given a name!" When Boss Miao returned home, he waved his arm vigorously in the air and couldn't wait to announce to the allies: "We will call it the Labor Party!" ”

Boss Miao went to the Qi State Mansion in the dark at night to report that he wanted to form a party, and his allies waited here for good news, most of these people had fought with Boss Lu and his gang, and the rise of the Kuomintang made them feel a huge threat. After hearing Boss Miao's statement, these guys who had been waiting anxiously for a long time suddenly burst into cheers.

"Qi Gong said that workers have power. You think, after all, there are still the most workers in the coastal prefectures and counties, and our party is called the Labor Party, which means that every worker will vote for us, and as long as the workers support us, will they still be afraid of the Kuomintang rabble? ”

"Well said!" The people, who had united before the Kuomintang threatened, elected Boss Miao as the leader of the Labour Party, determined to repel the rampant attack of the Lu thieves once again.

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