Macho Wars

The old prince said, throwing his crutches aside, he fell to his knees with a plop, and bowed his head to apologize to the young emperor.With him taking the lead, the cabinet all knelt to the ground.

The empress dowager who was still angry at first, seeing them behave in such a sincere and fearful manner, she suddenly felt a little ill and continued to exasperate.And Dragon watched with interest, saying that this old man is the top leader of the cabinet government, regardless of whether he is throwing a pot or a bitter trick, he is a good hand!

Seeing that the ministers in the cabinet "had a good attitude of admitting their mistakes," the queen mother asked them to get up first before speaking. Latuk suddenly showed a gratitude expression. While standing up tremblingly with the help of others, he swears and curses. The offending officials will be brought to justice without leaving behind.

Dragoon and a vote of military generals and colonial officials watched these exquisite performances with cold eyes, and no one broke them.

So after some discussions, the top management quickly came up with a countermeasure.

First of all, in response to the demands of the demonstrators, the official agreed to transfer the injured worker to a large hospital, provide him with free treatment and related compensation, and all follow legal channels.

Followed by the demonstrators arrested in the third district, the official will withdraw the previous serious crimes such as treason, but according to the actual situation, some people will be convicted of disturbing public security, and then detained for 15 days according to law.

And that black-hearted boss, he is going to be out of luck!In the main hall alone, there were more than a dozen crimes listed for him on the spot, one of which was more serious than one, and even the commissioners who were suspected of reselling officials, just like pulling peanuts, one breath can pull out a bunch of unlucky ones.

Finally, the protection of rights and interests requested by the working class is relatively troublesome.To enact relevant laws, it cannot be done overnight.

With this solution, Dragon returned to the street again.This time he did not come out alone, and he brought two government officials with him.When the relevant handling was announced, the demonstrators burst into cheers like a tsunami.

Dragun looked at the jubilant crowd, and inadvertently met a blue-haired girl in the crowd, and both sides smiled silently at each other.

Soon, the peaceful settlement of the incident spread throughout the colony. Some people shouted the emperor Shengming, and some believed that the worker-peasant alliance was indispensable in this matter. Without them, it would be impossible to force those in power to make concessions.But they are so prosperous for the workers at the bottom, they will inevitably be targeted by some people above.

The biggest gain may be Dragon himself.

During the parade, he did not bring any weapons, and the scene where he was walking towards the demonstrators alone in the town was filmed by many reporters present and published in the newspaper.The Alliance also published an article thanking General Li for his profound righteousness. If it were not for him to act as a bridge of communication, the voices of the people would never reach the emperor's ears.

Someone even compared the way the Marine Corps treated the marchers with that of the riot police in the third district.The former are well-trained, professional and very restrained. They have set up a cordon. Although protesters are prohibited from approaching, they have never used violence without authorization. Therefore, although nearly 150,000 people participated in the demonstration in Port Pandora, no one was injured.

The latter resorted to preemptive action. As soon as the riot police arrived at the scene, they threw tear gas canisters at the people, and then violently cleared the scene with batons, wounding more than 100 people.

Therefore, the people's favor for Dragon and the Marine Corps increased for a while, and praised them for being a civilized army and an army that protects the people!

Seeing Dragoon praised so much in the newspapers, the cabinet was furious.

"Fuck his mother! This Dragon, pretending to be like White Lotus, is he a good person? Look at the hall that day, his rhythmic ability is no worse than any of us here! This bunch of ruffians Qiu Ba!"

In the cabinet building, the Duke of Lorraine, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, angrily slapped a newspaper on the table, and shouted angrily.The Minister of the Interior sitting across from him was tasting a cup of black tea, looking calm and calm.

"Well, Luo Linqing, don't worry! We lost this round."

"Chief lord, I don't understand! Raising financial funds from the colony by selling the lowest rank knights. Didn't you talk to the Queen Mother before? Why..."

"Shhh! Be careful that the wall has ears, can you talk nonsense about this?"

The old Duke glanced at the Duke of Lorraine, who was sitting opposite, thinking that his son-in-law was still a little too young, and the city government was still a bit worse than his father's last minister of finance.

He picked up the newspaper on the table, looked at the headline on the front page and the accompanying photo, couldn't help but smiled, and pointed to Dragon on it.

"The first emperor has a good vision! This kid is indeed a talent. He is not only capable of fighting, but he is not a general man. We all thought he was just an impulsive young man. It seems that we are all fooled! "

"You are still smiling, what should we do now?"

"What to do? It's time of war. Soldiers are the easiest to sit up. We want to find a way to control them, but we must not rush them. According to my advice, we might as well follow the boat. Isn't he Dragong to gain a good reputation? We will praise him and his Marines! Don't forget, they are independent services."

Chapter 481

The cabinet faction’s ideas are actually very contradictory. On the one hand, they need to fight a civil war and they need to continuously expand the army, but at the same time they must beware of the military's growing power, which will change the existing power structure of the Eastern Empire and threaten the rule of their cabinet government. status.

Therefore, the cabinet's idea is to divide the senior generals in the army as much as possible, so that they form a mutual restraint relationship between them.

However, the bureaucrats obviously did not realize that the times have changed!

One week after the parade, the colonial government issued a formal "Labor Protection Law," expressly stipulating that the factory can work no more than twelve hours a day, and the excess must be handled as overtime and paid 1.5 times the normal hourly wage.

At the same time, it has been clarified that there are minimum wages, personal health protection, etc. Although this law is far from perfect at present, many standards are set extremely low, but this is at least a good start. When rights are violated, there is finally a law that can be used to argue against.

But on the other hand, the government also focused on the organization of the Workers’ and Peasants Mutual Aid Alliance.

At the beginning of the alliance, although the colonial officials also noticed this new civil organization, they thought they were similar to some so-called "community associations," so they didn't care too much.As a result, in just three years, the opponent's scale quickly grew to a jaw-dropping level.

Millions of people in the colony have joined this alliance, and its influence has spread to every corner, even in the mainland far beyond the ocean, their branches have appeared.And this Democratic Progressive Organization, which seems to have grown up inadvertently, showed amazing energy when it first shot!

According to incomplete official statistics, on January 2 alone, a total of more than 600,000 people in the 17 cities of the entire colony participated in the demonstrations, and nearly one-third of them were in the capital, Port Pandora. Many participants even made a special trip from other places, and the alliance paid them to reimburse the travel expenses and arranged food and accommodation.

Therefore, even if this incident was finally resolved peacefully, and no one was bleeding or injured in the incident, the official side was also very scared.

obviously!Those in power cannot tolerate the emergence of non-official organizations with such a large scale and tight organization.The opponent is organizing a parade this time. What if they organize a riot or even an armed rebellion?

The government shuddered just thinking about it!

Therefore, when the government promulgated the "Labor Protection Law", it also began to study how to dissolve the worker-peasant mutual aid alliance, even if it cannot be completely disintegrated, it must find a way to split them from within.

So the colonial authorities decided to set up a "labor supervision committee", nominally this is an officially established supervisory agency responsible for supervising local enterprises and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of workers.Then the government tried to recruit some senior leaders of the alliance and gave them official positions and rights, in order to divide the alliance.

The authorities can be said to be familiar with this set of methods.In the past, in the colonies and even in the empire, there were many "representatives of public opinion", inciting ordinary people to get up and making troubles. As long as the authorities give a small profit to those who take the lead, they will immediately compromise with those in power in nine out of ten. Betray your camp.

And the leader's betrayal will undoubtedly seriously hit the morale of the entire organization. The remaining people will either fall apart and fall apart in a rush, or fall into a split because of the inability to unify their opinions, and they will eventually be broken by the authorities one by one.

To borrow the words from the other side of the earth, this is the limitation of the peasant uprising!

Perhaps in the eyes of the colonial authorities, the so-called "worker-peasant mutual aid alliance" is nothing more than a civilian group. Although they are large and well-organized, there should not be much difference in essence, as long as the leaders are settled. , The little girl below will soon become a disc of loose sand.

In the face of the official recruitment, Xia Li couldn't perceive the taste of conspiracy, and the high level within the alliance also had some differences.So in line with the idea of ​​“asking for a teacher if you don’t understand it”, Xia Li found Dragon and met in the small wooden house in the back mountain of Li’s house, and told Dragoon the whole thing, wanting to ask his opinion .

Dragon pondered for a moment, and he naturally understood the stakes.

"The main purpose of the authorities recruiting the security alliance is to divide the organization from within. Once a leader becomes an official, he will inevitably be corrupted by power and stand on the side of those in power, thereby denying himself with the people."

"Then tutor, what do you mean, do we not accept it?"

"No! On the contrary, official positions must be accepted, but our leaders must be clearly aware that official positions are given by the authorities, but power comes from the people. We must have the consciousness to become public servants of the people!"

"People's servants?"

"Yes, servant of the people."

Dragon took advantage of the opportunity to throw out a term from the earth, and this is an unprecedented new concept for the world here.

It should be understood that in today’s common feudal dynasty society, self-proclaimed aristocrats often regarded themselves as “managers of the people”. Even though the number of common people as a whole is hundreds or thousands of times the number of nobles, they were ruled for hundreds of years. I'm used to it, and I don't think there is anything wrong with this almost unilateral system of exploitation.

The use of this backward system has begun to seriously affect the development and progress of society. Some people are aware of the problem but do not know how to solve the problem.

In fact, the empire has had the opportunity to change, and more than once.But the university scholar who wanted land reform was assassinated, and King Sidney XIV, who was about to lay the foundation for the constitutional monarchy, died suddenly, which indirectly led to the civil war in the empire.

This has led to the world today, which is still an abnormal appearance of a serious mismatch between social systems and technological productivity.

With regard to the concept of public servants, Dragon and Xia Li had a lot of conversations, and then Karen came over with a tray.Seeing that the two had been talking for a long time, she went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea and brought them over.