The Donglin Party and other smaller parties want to disqualify the Kuomintang and the Labour Party, while the Kuomintang and Labour Party fear this happening, and Zhang Zaidi knows this.

"The people responsible for this incident will be temporarily detained by the Yamen, and this vote will be invalidated," Zhang Zaidi told them that the commander of the brawl did not want to escape justice, and if the candidate was guilty, he did not need to think about entering the Qing Yuan: "But the Qi State Government will not deprive the Kuomintang and the Labor Party of the right to run for election, and you can nominate another candidate to run." ”

"And this vote?"

"There will be a re-vote at a later date." Zhang Zaidi glanced sideways at the Kuomintang party officials who asked: "What are you fighting?" If the ballot box is burned, the vote will be re-elected, and in the future, it will be based on this, do you do it yourself, do you think you can enter the Qing Yuan? ”

After hearing this ruling, the party officials of the Kuomintang and the Labor Party all showed joy, while the people of Donglin were dissatisfied, turned to the Donglin group, Zhang Zaidi explained: "This time the Duke of Qi knows that your party is the victim, and I express my condolences to the monarchs on behalf of the Duke of Qi," Zhang Zaidi pointed to the group of Kuomintang and Labor Party next to him: "This riot is all their fault!" Qi Gong was very angry about this. ”

"But!" Zhang Zaidi said the turning point: "If this kind of thing happens and the qualification is cancelled, then in the future, the inferior side may really find out to create trouble, and will use the martial arts and burning the ballot box as a killer weapon to turn the tables or end up together, and the Duke of Qi hopes to inform everyone through this example that it is useless to burn the ballot box, because it will still be re-elected, and the Duke of Qi will be severely punished for this kind of behavior." ”

The burning of the ballot box had nothing to do with the two major parties, and upon interrogation, it was revealed that it was a person who had spent a lot of money on the campaign but had no hope of being elected. Zhang Zaidi announced that all injured people would be sent to the Yamen to await trial, and that the perpetrators would compensate for all economic losses, and finally punitive damages, and he asked the representatives of the Kuomintang and the Labor Party: "Duke Qi is magnanimous, and this time I don't plan to investigate your instigation of the peak, but I can't spare you in vain." ”

"We admit punishment."

The two parties hurriedly agreed, and Zhang Zaidi ordered them to compensate 100,000 taels of silver to the Donglin Party, in addition to another 100,000 to the government: "Go back and tell your Speaker Lu and Dr. Miao, there will be more than this next time." ”

……

In the Fujian Provincial Legation Election, the Kuomintang won 15 seats, the Labor Party won 13 seats, Donglin won 12 seats, and the other 20 or so small parties won a total of 59 seats, and the rest were won by free candidates. Those big businessmen who originally thought they were powerful, such as Liu Chang and Zhu Jiu, now their influence is far less than that of most parties, and they are even more lonely in front of the three major parties.

Now the most beautiful is Lu Zhiqiang, after the Kuomintang still has 11 seats in Guangdong and 15 in Fujian, the people who visit the door every day are about to break the threshold of Boss Lu's house. After receiving all the doctors of the Fujian Provincial Secretaries' Court, Qi Guogong specially invited the leaders of the three major parties to the Qi State Mansion for dinner and tea, congratulated them on their success, and hoped that they would sincerely cooperate with the Qi State Mansion and shoulder the responsibility of the leaders of the big parties.

……

The end of the election of the Provincial Secretary of the Yuan does not mean that the election war has subsided, and the county and county elections have followed suit, and now a large number of Shun troops have been transferred back to the north, and the few Shun troops left in Huguang and Zhejiang have contracted their defense, and the Qi State Mansion has taken the opportunity to carry out a comprehensive reform. After the county and county elections began, people with a career in the county were gearing up - these are all real shortcomings, usually they can only swallow and spit, but now as long as they win the election, they can take office, and everyone's eyes are red when they think of this.

"Small peasant party, small peasant party!"

The voting in Fuqing's county order will begin in half a month, and those who are interested in this position have already begun to canvass in advance, and a group of people with steamed buns are working hard to publicize in the townships: "The peasant family will vote for the small peasant party." ”

Li Yuanwai's family is wealthy, it is not that he has not moved the idea of entering the official career, and when he was young, the old member also let him study, but after many years of examination, he couldn't even pass the test, and he knew that he was not the material to study, and he died of this heart, until he witnessed the great changes in Fujian Province. Li Yuanwai, who is quite self-aware, thinks that he has little chance of becoming a doctor in the province, but he is also a figure with a head and a face in Fuqing.

According to the regulations of the Qi State Government, one percent of the local voters are required to guarantee the support of one percent of the local voters to participate in the county election, and each voter can only give one guarantee. This is difficult for Li Yuanwai, set up the stage for the surrounding villagers to watch the play for free, and then stewed more than a dozen large pots of broth, boiled rice, and waited for the people who watched the play for a long time, the Li family pushed out the rice and soup together, and announced to the parents who were hungry and stimulated by the aroma: Li Yuanwai is going to elect the county order, and he needs everyone's help to draw the charge, and this meal is a thank you gift to everyone.

The villagers lined up to draw a pledge, pressing the handprint here, and the servants of the Li family handed over the rice bowls over there, and Li Yuanwai easily got the guarantor needed to sign up for the election.

However, Li Yuanwai discovered the threat in the next day: as soon as he heard that several other gentlemen also did not do longevity and did not have anything to do, and suddenly announced that they would invite the villagers to watch the play, he knew that most of those people also had the intention of campaigning.

Sure enough, these people announced their candidacy one after another, and they used the same trick as Li Yuanwai to get the guarantor's handprint.

After seeing the example of the election of the Provincial Secretary of State, these gentlemen know very well that signing up is only the first step, and there is still a long way to go to win. The villagers below have also gone through the exercise of the election, and the handprints of the guarantors are easy to do, and they will sell a scene and a good meal, but when it is time to vote, these villagers will still sell at a price, if there is no convincing reason, that is, those who press the handprints of the guarantors may not vote for you.

The success of Lui Zhiqiang and others has made many gentlemen realize that forming a party is a necessary condition for winning the election -- forming a party may not necessarily win, but if you do not form a party, you will definitely lose on your own.

Li Yuanwai defected to the Small Peasant Party, which also had four seats in the Provincial Governor's Yuan, after all, most of the voters in Fujian were still peasants or peasants in the early years, and the leader of the Small Peasant Party hoped to win the favor of such voters with this name. And Li Yuanwai felt that this name was very suitable for him, and the voters here in Fuqing were almost all farmers.

There were no Fuqing people among the original members of the Small Peasant Party, and there was no power here, so it was really undesirable for a local snake like Li Yuanwai to defect. The two sides hit it off, and immediately recruited Li Yuanwai as a glorious member of the Small Peasant Party and provided him with campaign counsel and support, while Li Yuanwai needed to repay the favor and help the Small Peasant Party develop its power in Fuqing, and the Small Peasant Party also promised that if Li Yuanwai succeeded in running for the county magistrate, he would be given the status of a member of the Small Peasant Party in the future.

It was Zhao Juren who was regarded as a great enemy by Li Yuanwai, and he heard that his division was a Donglin official, and in April, Donglin scholars visited his home, and Zhao Juren immediately defected to Donglin, and his triumphant propaganda afterwards was well known. During the election campaign of the Provincial Secretary Yuan, Zhao Juren tried his best to help Donglin do publicity, and now Donglin reciprocated by electing him as the candidate of Donglin in Fuqing, and calling on all scholars, eunuchs and gentry who are interested in Donglin to support him.

When Li Yuanwai was canvassing for votes, he heard a burst of singing from a distance:

"Donglin! Donglin! How many people with lofty ideals have come to look up to you? ”

"Donglin! Donglin! How many heroic stories have spread you everywhere! ”

Then drove over a mighty group of people, led by Zhao Juren, who has always been pampered Zhao Juren did not sit in a sedan chair today, but stood on a high uncovered carriage, not to mention wearing silk and satin as usual but a simple gray robe. The Donglin Party boasted everywhere that this song was written by Qi Guogong himself for their party leader Chen Zizhuang, which shows Qi Guogong's respect for Donglin, while others sneered at it, thinking that they were talking about it.

Almost all of the gentry and Li Yuanwai who flocked around Zhao Juren knew each other, and almost every one of them was a well-known family in the local area, and after this team of people appeared, the eyes of the people were immediately attracted to it, pointing to the nobles around Zhao Juren and pointing:

"Ah, Master Liu also supports Zhao Juren."

"And the rich man."

The excited discussion made Li Yuanwai's heart full of unpleasantness, and several small peasant party staff officers who came to Fuqing to assist him also felt the pressure of the other party.

The smaller team outside Li Yuanwai seemed to be intimidated by the momentum of the other party, and retreated to the side of the road to make way for the oncoming Donglin propaganda group.

"It turned out to be Master Li, what a coincidence." When passing by Li Yuanwai's side, Zhao Juren seemed to have just seen him, stopped the car and walked down towards Li Yuanwai.

"Master Zhao." Li Yuanwai politely saluted this famous opponent.

Zhao Juren held his head high and accepted this salute, nodded even if it was a return salute, and after staring at Li Yuanwai for a while, he said with a smile: "I didn't know before, it turns out that Master Li's childlike innocence is so heavy!" But also, the election is quite fun, and Mr. Li's money is not in vain. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Juren laughed and walked away.

Looking at the back of the Donglin Propaganda Group, Li Yuanwai looked even more depressed, and the director of the Small Peasant Party from the province next to him was still comforting him: "Brother Li, the victory or defeat is not yet known, don't be discouraged." ”

Li Yuanwai first nodded, then shook it twice, sighed and continued to lead the team forward, looking no different from before meeting Zhao Juren, but his voice was much quieter.

Zhao Juren and Donglin both believed that the Kuomintang and the Labor Party had no competitiveness in Fuqing, although the Labor Party had some local friends who had good relations, such as the party leader Miao Boss had a grain business with many landlords, and these people worked hard to contribute to the Labor Party during the election of the Provincial Secretary Yuan, but almost all the famous people in Fuqing supported Donglin, and these people had the strongest influence in the eyes of the people.

Moreover, both Zhao Juren and Comrade Donglin believed that the names of the Kuomintang and the Labour Party were also a disadvantage, and that there was no appeal of the Workers' Labour Party here, and the Kuomintang was even more literal. At the time of the election of the Provincial Secretary of State, Donglin failed to gain much advantage in Fuqing because of the hasty establishment of the party, but this time it was different, after the election of the Provincial Secretary of State, Donglin also summed up a lot of lessons and lessons, and now Donglin's organization has also become more rigorous, Zhao Juren intends to emphasize to the elders that this is the election of the local parent official, not some provincial doctor in Quanzhou, so we must listen to the words of respected people, and choose people they can trust - that is, Zhao Juren himself.

Relatively speaking, Donglin felt that the small peasant party was more threatening, and the name was easy to remember, but fortunately, the weak strength of the small peasant party negated the benefits of the name.

"Peasant Party! Hey, we farmers have power! ”

"Peasant Party! The party of the peasants serves the peasants wholeheartedly! ”

Zhao Juren and his friends looked at each other when they heard the thunderous shouts, they had never heard of the name of this party, but from this neat shout, it was clear that the other party was outnumbered and well-trained.

Then Zhao Juren saw a very long procession, it seemed that there were more than 30 people and two big cars, he looked at the leader opposite, and shouted angrily: "Surnamed Hu, aren't you a lackey of the Labor Party?" How did you change to the peasant party? Have you betrayed the party? ”

"Help the peasants!"

When the team of the guy surnamed Hu on the opposite side reached the front of Zhao Juren's team, he also shouted a slogan demonstratively, and the top brass of the Labor Party always pretended to be mysterious, leaking that many of their slogans were secretly given by Qi Guogong, and everyone else felt that this suggestion was too inferior, and no one in the Labor Party believed it. Hu Jinshen, who was standing tall in the car opposite, turned his head and pointed to the advertising flag behind him: "Master Zhao, what kind of county order do you choose when your eyes are so bad?" ”

There are two advertising flags on the opposite side, one side that says "Labour Party" and the other side that says "Peasant Party".

"The Labor Party is the peasant party," Hu Jinshen exclaimed triumphantly, and now the slogans they shouted were all copied from the original, merely changing the word "worker" to "peasant": "Farming in the countryside and working in the city, the workers are peasants, the peasants are workers, we are the Labour Party in the cities, and the peasant parties in the towns and villages!" ”

……

"The surname Hu said that his ancestors were poor for eight lifetimes, and it was not until his grandfather's generation that he became rich, saying that he was able to understand the suffering of poor peasants, and if he became a county magistrate, he would definitely take care of the poor."

After inquiring about Hu Jinshen's propaganda slogan, Zhao Juren immediately felt tremendous pressure, and there were many local rich people who supported the Labor Party, basically all of whom were small landlords like Hu Jinshen who did not have deep roots or low reputation: "It's too shameless, being poor for eight lifetimes is a curse - of course, this is the truth for the surname Hu, but in the past, if anyone dared to mention that his ancestors were poor mud legs, the surname Hu would turn his face and deny people, and now he actually revealed that his ancestors came short, just to be a county magistrate, it is too shameless!" ”

Soon after Hu Jinshen began his campaign campaign, another sensational incident spread throughout Fuqing.

"The Kuomintang is also going to run?" Hu Jinshen was shocked when he first heard the news: "Can they also run?" Who supports them here? ”

As far as Hu Jinshen knew, none of the gentry were members of the Kuomintang, and their influence among the local gentry class was worse than that of any small peasant party. ”

"They found it."

"Who?"

"The king's black face."

"Who is Wang Blackface?" Hu Jinshen looked dazed.

Soon, this sensational thing shook the whole of Fuqing, and the poor peasant Wang jumped out with a black face to run against Zhao Juren, Hu Jinshen and Li Yuanwai, and the campaign partner he was looking for was Changgong Zhang Siqi.

Overnight, the names of Wang and Zhang Siqi spread to thousands of households, and although few people were willing to openly discuss it outside, after closing the door, every household was discussing the KMT's campaign slogan:

Why can only the gentry be officials?

Why can't we people be county magistrates?

The Kuomintang, the party of the poor, the party of the long-term workers! Turn over and be the master! Vote for the Kuomintang!

……

"It's so shameless, it's so shameless, it's just Sven sweeping the floor."

At the same time that Hu Jinshen was furious, Li Yuanwai's home ushered in a group of distinguished guests.

Li Yuanwai did not let the guests sit in the living room, but invited them to the study. The room wasn't big, it was full of people, but no one complained.

In front of a room full of members of the Donglin Party and the Small Peasant Party, Zhao Juren said solemnly: "Li Yuanwai, I formally suggest that you withdraw from the election and then run as my deputy." ”

"Yes," Li Yuanwai said happily, he turned his head and looked around at the small peasant party comrades around him: "In the future, Master Zhao will be the county commander, and he will be the deputy county commander, what if there is a disagreement?" ”

"This is my party's proposal."

Zhao Juren took out the prepared details and began to bargain.

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