CHAPTER XXVI
After wandering around for a while and getting familiar with the environment, Zhang Ang left Cuiliu Street. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the saying goes, it's better to see than to hear, and the fastest way to get acquainted with a city is to go through it yourself.
From the slum to the aristocratic district, from the commercial area to the government district, from the city wall to the palace, from the cemetery to the church, most of the day has passed.
Seeing the sunset, he stopped and went home.
When he opened the door, he found that Adolf had already returned first.
Seeing Adolf sitting at the dining table with a sad brow, Zhang Ang asked, "What's the matter, didn't it go well today? Did you find a suitable place to speak?"
Adolf looked down: "I have found a few places, among which the fountain square in the west of the city is the most suitable, there is the largest flow of people, and at noon and evening there are many people gathered for a meal, among which there are many poor workers, so I tried to give a speech, but it was ......"
"What? You gave a speech?" Zhang Ang hurriedly interrupted him: "Didn't you say that you would wait for the limelight to pass before giving a speech?
"I'm ...... I didn't hold back for a while. Adolf's face was full of bitterness: "Who made the speech work very well, but, as you expect, it still provoked the gendarmerie, they ......"
Adolf: I've talked about the things I encountered today.
"That's ......" Hearing Adolf's words, Zhang Ang fell into deep thought.
After being silent for a long time, Zhang Ang comforted: "Don't worry, little people like us don't care about it at all." Since he asked you to continue your speech, there must be something he has in mind, whether it is to divert the public's attention or to support and suppress the revolutionary party, there must be his considerations, and we don't need to speculate on his ideas, and you can just continue to give speeches in the future, and it will be more convenient to have the gendarmerie take care of it? Let's talk about it later, let's take one step at a time. ”
"Okay. Adolf's brow widened slightly: "Then I'll continue to give a speech tomorrow?"
"Yes, but it's not all day, didn't you say, there are the most talents at noon and evening, let's go to Cuiliu Street in the morning and hand over to the organization. Zhang Ang analyzed in detail: "After all, if you are alone, even if you give a speech every day, how many people can you influence? ”
"Well, okay. Adolf hesitated for a moment, looking a little worried: "It's just, what if the headquarters finds out about Bernau?"
"Don't worry, I've already figured out what to do. Zhang Ang didn't care: "It's a trivial matter, it's easy to solve." ”
After dinner, they talked about the skills and countermeasures of speaking, and in the dead of night, the two of them rested. Fortunately, the house is relatively large, and both of them have separate bedrooms.
Sitting on the smooth marble floor of the Xuanwu Palace, Zhang Ang was thinking about the events of the day today.
There is a black street in the city, of course, it is not surprising, there are always people who like to be traitors, and they are easy and hardworking, and even if they are nobles, there are some things that do not want to be in their own hands, and they need others to help solve them.
Of course, the guild here does not refer to the mercenary guild, the adventurer's guild, or the large and small criminal organizations formed by criminals, but the guild of trades.
What is an industry guild? It is an organization formed by people who are engaged in a certain industry and gather together.
For example, the Textile Guild is full of practitioners in the textile industry, and the bosses of large and small textile factories, when they gather and unite to form a guild, then as long as they hold a few more meetings, everyone will work together. Manipulating the price of textiles in a city or a country is as easy as a snap.
For example, the slaughtering guild is full of big merchants and butchers who control the meat supply in a city, and when they gather together, it is easy to control the price of meat in the city.
For example, the workers' guilds, which are full of workers who work for the factory owners, when they unite, organize strikes, destroy machines, as long as there are many people and are united, then it is very easy to negotiate with the bosses, reduce oppression and exploitation, increase wages, and coordinate the length of working hours.
Only if everyone unites in the same capacity, it is easy to fight for interests, and even if it fails, no matter how bad it is, it can be warmed together.
And Berlin, why is there no guild?
You must know that Zhang Ang walked down this day, and he saw a lot of factories, weaving, ironmaking, woodworking, pottery...... There are countless factories, large and small. There are dozens of people in the smaller ones, and there are even nearly 1,000 people in the larger ones, so it can be said that Berlin's industry is very developed.
But why are there no guilds here? There are not even associations, you know, in France, in Paris, although the level of industry is far less than here, there are many associations of all kinds, the culinary association, the fishery association, the architects' association, and even the dancers of the Moulin Rouge have their own association, and this association is the predecessor of the guild in the traditional sense.
But in Berlin, Zhang Ang asked a lot of people, and none of them had heard of any associations. This Germany is very different from France!
Zhang Ang wants to find the guild, of course, in order to unite them and strengthen their own strength, you know, they will fight against all Junker nobles in the future, in a sense, they are fighting against all feudal forces!
And how to defeat the feudal forces and create their rebellion? The rebellion guide clearly tells everyone that we need more advanced production relations and more emancipated productive forces!
And it is clear that capitalism is the only option at the moment!
And this guild is the soil for the germination of capitalism, the cradle for cultivating capitalists, and the first ladder for promoting social progress!
The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.
With the support of sufficient interests, capitalism will burst out with incomparable power to provide continuous support and strength for the future parties of Zhang Ang and Adolf!
But why, is there no guild in Berlin?
The years are long in the Xuanwu Palace.
After thinking about it for a few days, Zhang Ang understood.
It's because the feudal power is too strong! The Junker aristocracy is too strong!
Behind those factories are the aristocrats of each family! The small factories are the small aristocrats, and the big factories are the big aristocrats! There are no simple capitalists here, all of them are the spokesmen of the aristocracy, even if they are the top managers of the entire factory, it is just enough for the nobles!
The administrators don't have autonomy at all, and the nobles don't have such a deep vision!
The aristocrats were satisfied as long as the factories had income, and no less than the previous year, and they looked at the factories as much as they saw the land!
And the aristocrats are never monolithic, some are good relatives, and some are enemies who have never interacted with each other! To convince them to unite and control the market together is simply a fool's dream!
Workers' unions could not be organized! Because they were not workers at all in the eyes of the managers! They were tenants! They were serfs!
Any kind of tandem situation will be brutally suppressed! The nobles are accustomed to suppressing rebellious serfs! Many of those managers were even transferred directly from the farms!
How could a strike be organized? And even more so trying to destroy the machinery? It was absolutely impossible! The factory overseers were not vegetarians!
Even if you are all killed, you have nowhere to talk about it! Recruiting workers is not simple? There are many desperate people in all parts of the country who are struggling to die, and there is no shortage of people at all!
Workers can only accept exploitation from generation to generation, and work hard at an intensity close to sudden death in exchange for the qualification to live!
The most important thing is that the people at the bottom are too weak, and the feudal aristocracy is too strong.
This world is different from the previous life, there are extremely high-level martial arts and martial arts here! And these have always been firmly controlled by the nobles.
Why did those revolutions in the previous life succeed? Because even if you were a peasant who had just put down your hoe, as long as you picked up a crossbow, you would have a chance to shoot a knight with excellent martial arts! When you have gunpowder weapons, the gap between them will be doubled! No matter how noble the nobles are, they will not be able to stop the bullets fired from the shadows! When the power of the people is strong enough, when the people's cries turn into angry hammers, you can easily smash the shackles that have imprisoned them!
But this is not the case in this world, on this continent, in this country called Germany.
The nobles all have high-level martial arts passed down from their families, and even the lazy and incompetent noble families will not neglect to teach the martial arts of their family members, and almost every nobleman here has a good level of martial arts! Perhaps because of their natural qualifications, their achievements are high, and their abilities are lacking, but none of them can be easily shot to death with a bow and crossbow! In fact, those arrows that are not attached to the internal force, many times, even if they do not rely on armor, the nobles can directly use their bodies to resist! Among them, there are powerful warriors who can ride a thousand and break ten thousand with a sword!
To them, the vast sea of the masses of the people is just a bustle, and it is just an opportunity to hone their martial arts!
Thinking of this, Zhang Ang's heart suddenly became a little cold.
So what to do?
I have a lot of martial arts cheats, pick some, buy a printing house to produce cheats, and sell them at a low price, even if there are nobles to fight back to stop it, it is not difficult to distribute them secretly.
It's just that if you want to make the people strong, it's not just everyone who has skills, and martial arts practice is not like others, you need to have resources!
To put it simply, you have to eat enough! You have to eat meat! You have to have a healing plaster to deal with the dark wounds during practice! You need someone to guide you! You need to buy equipment and weapons! Most importantly, you have to have enough time to practice!
These are exactly what those serfs and workers who work all day cannot get, and they are also what Zhang Ang is not able to take care of now.
Although there is still a lot of money in the ring, the transformation of the whole society cannot be supplied by tens of millions of gold coins.
Everyone has a skill, after all, it is still a beautiful fantasy.
Lying on the smooth floor of the Xuanwu Palace, a deep sense of powerlessness hit Zhang Ang, making him feel very helpless.
Alas, why am I a chef in the middle of nowhere, if I am a science student, make some gunpowder, *** or something, isn't it much simpler, when the time comes, I will get the territory quickly, spend a few years climbing the science and technology tree, and start a war, that is, I will line up to shoot, the artillery will pave the road, and the east wind will wash the ground, which is as helpless as it is now.
Alas, there is still no way to do it overnight, let's take it step by step, in short, first organize the party, give them martial arts to improve their strength, and slowly develop and grow.
But what should be used to control them and ensure loyalty?
This seems to be a little cruel, and it has to refine medicine, I don't know if this herb is here, and it is also troublesome.
This is convenient, but the requirements for internal cultivation are relatively high, so let's quickly recover our strength.
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The next day, early in the morning, after breakfast, Zhang Ang took Adolf to Cuiliu Street.
Cuiliu Street was still depressed in the early morning, but this time I didn't ask for any information, and the idea was to contact the organization, after all, these people would be the backbone of their party.
Following Minister Kahn's instructions, they came to a gypsy tent with stars and moons painted on it, and Adolf stood guard outside the tent, and Jang Ang walked in.
The gypsy woman wrapped in her robe didn't look good at all, but her voice was quite nice: "Oh, a guest has come so early, and the guest wants to tell something." ”
"Divination of fate. Zhang Ang sat down in front of the chair in front of him: "I divinate my future." ”
"Oh, fate, future, what a beautiful word. The soothsayer took out a deck of cards with strange patterns, and moved quickly in his hand.
After a while, six cards were placed in front of Zhang Ang: "Guest, choose one." ”
Zhang Na didn't hesitate at all, and directly took the first one in the upper left corner and turned it over.
On the card is an old man with a cane hidden in a gray robe.
"Oh, it's the Hermit. The soothsayer sighed, "In the future, you are destined to hide your traces and not show your reputation." ”
That's exactly what I want, I'm the one who wants to be the boss behind the scenes.
Thinking in his heart, he opened his mouth and said, "No, I'm here to find the hermit." ”
"We don't have any hermits here!" the soothsayer decisively refused.
"No, you have. Zhang Ang took out a wooden carving carved into the shape of a pyramid from his bosom and placed it on the table.
Seeing this wood carving, the gypsy fortune teller's eyes were stunned, and his tone relaxed: "I thought it was who, it turned out to be their person, are you from the branch?"
"Yes, the two of us are from Bernau. Zhang Ang pointed out the door.
"Okay, then follow me. The gypsy soothsayer stepped out of the tent.
The two of them followed him in the camp of the gypsies for a while, through tents and carts, and finally stopped in front of an inconspicuous cart.
"Smack, smack, smack, smack, smack. "I slapped it five times on the pull.
The car door opened, and a middle-aged man with hair, beard, and clothes all messed up walked out.
"Mistress Klose, these are these two men, who say they are from Bernau. The female soothsayer introduced.
"Bernau?" the chaotic man's eyes burst into a gleam: "It's you two, it's finally here, your branch head has been missing for several days, do you know something?"
"Of course I do. Zhang Ang pulled Adolf and stood up.
(To be continued.) )