Chapter 110 Chinese Socialist Party

Zhou Minggen lowered his head and pondered for a long time, raised his head, his face a little lonely and confused: "I...If this is the case, I really don't know... But at least now, everyone is still working hard to implement what you said about labor security..."

"Minggen, if you make such a big change in society, you can't rely on just a few people. It depends on the strength of the whole society. It depends on the use of the system to restrain all the people involved. It depends on allowing vulnerable groups to have their own interests spokespersons, consider the issues from their perspective and fight for legitimate rights and interests for them. Zheng Yu paused and stared at Zhou Minggen, "I need a person, a determined, willful, capable, and consider the interests of the lower class from the heart, rather than a person who comes from the sympathy of the people and safeguards the interests of the middle class, to form a new group and participate in the political game of the country for the interests of the lower class."

Zheng Yu stared at Zhou Minggen and said word by word: "Minggen, are you willing to be such a person? Are you willing to work hard for the interests of the people at the bottom, for all this is not a gust of wind, and so that the people of this country can share the fruits of national development fairly? No mistake."

At this moment, Zhou Minggen was finally deeply shocked.

This was his lifelong career, and he knew he had no choice. And he also felt that the emperor opposite seemed to be determined to vigorously promote the career he was engaged in.

Zhou Minggen was an apprentice. Although he had become a phoenix in recent years, he was always dealing with workers. He knew the situation of European workers, what kind of struggles they had experienced, how many difficulties and obstacles they had experienced, and finally began to gain a certain political status and economic guarantee, and also knew how miserable the Chinese workers were in. He had extensive contact with socialist ideas in France and was full of yearning for a fair and reasonable new society. He was always committed to improving labor welfare and improving relations between different classes within the Baxing Party, and therefore he was often regarded as "alien" by some conservative Baxing Party members.

Now there is a person with the highest power who has decided to do such a career that will last forever, and choosing him as the leader gives him such an opportunity to leave his name in history.

Is there anything to hesitate about?

A fire ignited in Zhou Minggen's heart, a fire mixed with emotion and reason, ambition and gratitude.

"I do, your majesty."

Zhou Minggen bowed deeply and his expression was firm.

"You won't fight alone." Zheng Yu said calmly, "You will have many comrades. And I will firmly support you... I will make arrangements in the public opinion and make preparations from now on. In addition, I will promote the amendment of the election law after the war so that the lower-class people can also begin to participate in national political activities. The tax law will also be further revised. Social Security Law and Labor-Management Relations Law, these must be formulated one after another. But I cannot force it with my own will. I need your support, you need you to influence and mobilize public opinion, you need you to contact the Congress and the local Senate, and more comrades in the government who are interested in it."

Zhou Minggen was excited and nodded vigorously: "I will make a plan and do it in a solid manner.

"Time is endless." Zheng Yu nodded in praise, "This war is a rare opportunity... Through the wartime control system, many measures have been pushed half-forced and half-voluntarily. After practice, everyone has also seen the effect. But all this is still very fragile. If we cannot seize this favorable opportunity, everything we do will not withstand the counterattack of traditional ideas and social conservative inertia."

"We need to further improve, institutionalize and legalize, and to ensure a benign mechanism for a long time, we must rely on a party that truly represents the interests of the people at the bottom..." Zheng Yu paused, "After this national war, the capital will be dissatisfied with the various restrictions it has been subject to. Workers will hope to enjoy equal benefits for the war, and hope to see a tangible increase in their income and security. While wanting to go east and west, if they don't handle it well, both sides will suffer."

"We need a party that represents the interests of workers from the root, understands the rules of political activities, and can legally engage in political games under the framework of the existing order and fights for the interests of workers. His most direct opponent is the Baak Party, who is in charge of the current government. He cannot regard the Baak Party as a life-and-death enemy, nor can he let the Baak Party regard them as the most dangerous enemies. They have struggles, but they also have cooperation." Zheng Yu said, "You are the best candidate. I believe you can coordinate all this and guide the people's struggle methods in a direction that is conducive to the development of the country and their own."

Among the few people around him, Yang Yongtai is well aware of the inside story. Ke Shan has been busy with the royal industry recently and has no idea about it. He has become fascinated by it. Song Jiaoren and Wang Minghan are copying and writing.

They never expected that this emperor, the chairman of the Baxing Party, would take the initiative to dig out the corners of the Baxing Party and create a new party to speak for the lower-level people.

"Now, even for a period of time after the war, you can't openly establish the Party. It's better to do it within the Baeking Party." Zheng Yu touched his chin, "It's called the Labor-Management Relations Research Association... Starting from studying and improving labor-Management Relations, sorting out the personnel, organizational methods, and political programs. Once all aspects are prepared and the national situation can be coordinated, you can establish the Party. I will work with you to promote constitutional amendment so that you can have your own voter base."

"The Baath Party..."

"They continue to represent the middle class of this country, and still feature nationalism, gradual reformism, and nationalism." Zheng Yu smiled, "Remember, they are your opponents...but not enemies."

Zhou Minggen was slightly stunned, and nodded thoughtfully after a moment.

"The future party is called the Chinese Socialist Party." Zheng Yu's eyes flashed with some inexplicable brilliance, "I'll give you a sentence of Bernstein: Socialism refers to a huge cultural movement, which is an unstoppable movement. This movement is concentrated in a huge political party, expanding social enlightenment among workers, inspiring understanding of the needs of the national economy, and inspiring those who want to continue to promote society along the track of social progress."

"For thousands of years, the people at the bottom were ignored, fooled, raised, slaughtered, and imprisoned like animals. There was never a political force that truly represented them, nor did anyone teach them how to fight for profit correctly. Therefore, they could only be incited under the slogan of equalizing the wealth and poverty and turned into mobs, and then in front of the violent machine of the new rulers, they were either executed as rioters or persevered as obedient people until the new ruling class was corrupted again to the point where it was unsustainable."

"What you need to do now is to make them citizens who are self-respecting, respect others, and have equal rights and assume corresponding obligations. Let them consciously fight for their own interests and the overall interests of the state and society, let them walk out of the simple and crude equalization of the rich and poor, understand the relationship between creating value and obtaining rewards, let them understand that collaboration rather than elimination is the best way for the coexistence and development of different classes in society, let this society emerge from the endless cycle of oppressing the ruling class, and from a unipolar society to a multipolar society."

"Whether this country can break the cycle of chaos, a key corner will fall on your shoulders first." Zheng Yu stared at Zhou Minggen, "Don't let me down."—

After Zhou Minggen left, Zheng Yu looked at several new and old confidants in the house.

"Zhuo Feng, do you have some disagreements?"

"Your Majesty, I don't think it's necessary to make it so complicated." Ke Shan nodded and said bluntly, "For example, in this labor-management relationship, there is actually a difference between labor-management in the royal industry, but there has never been a labor-management wave. Because we are actually working for the country, everyone's salary is very fair. There are rules to follow from management personnel to grassroots level, and they are all wars from the troops. They are harmonious with each other. If they do well, they get more, and if they don't do well, they get less. No one complains. And even if they do the worst, they are always much better than those outside. Naturally, they won't make trouble."

Yu took a sip of tea and nodded without comment, "What do you mean is to promote the entire royal industry?"

"Yes. As long as the state-owned and private industries are transformed according to this model, as long as the people who are not inclined to do anything, the following conditions can be continuously improved. But if the lower-level political parties are really formed, some people will do whatever they want and stir up the trend, then it will be too big."

Zheng Yu nodded without comment and turned to the other people: "Minghan, Dunchu, what do you think?"

Wang Minghan said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I am not familiar with the situation of the royal industry and lack experience in politics, but I know that your intention is good and your long-term perspective, and the problems you mentioned do exist. So I have no other ideas. No matter what you arrange, I will do my best."

Song Jiaoren shook his head: "I don't really agree with what Mr. Zhuo Feng said, but I support your majesty. Without party politics as a guarantee, these things that rely on layered morality, awareness and gifts, especially militarized management methods, may be suitable for small-scale special organizations, such as the royal industry, which combines personal allegiance and military organization characteristics, are very special groups, but are not suitable for the entire complex society."

Zheng Yu and Ke Shan looked at each other and knew it clearly.

"In all democratic societies in Europe and the United States, political parties generally have two polar confrontations, or two parties, such as Britain and the United States, or two political parties alliances." Song Jiaoren said, "For example, Britain is the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, the United States is the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and France is the left and the right. These party groups generally represent radical, tending toward grassroots or newly emerging middle class; the other represents conservative and dominant class that tends toward vested interests."

"The unipolar politics of the empire can meet the needs of the period, but when the entire country structure becomes more and more complex and the people are increasingly divided into lower polarities, they are a little powerless." Song Jiaoren talked happily, "In terms of the party, there are many factions, there are rural research associations that advocate equal division of land rights, liberal alliances that advocate liberal politics, economy and culture, oppose state control, Christian alliances that advocate establishing Christianity as the state religion, Yanhuang Society that firmly opposes Western culture and advocates reviving pre-Qin and Han culture, and more radical Huanghan faction..."

"These various differences in concepts still represent the interests and will of different groups of people," said Song Jiaoren. "In my understanding, Your Majesty's move is more like a party division than a new party. The Baeking Party is too complex, with internal differences increasing, and efficiency becoming more and more problematic. Instead of letting him continue to decline in division and internal friction, it is better to divide it into several different parties according to the different representatives of interests, with relationships, crossovers, competition, and always maintain vitality and firepower. In addition, they have different interests driven and different electoral bases, so that all classes in the country have their own interests spokespersons, can make their own voices in political life, and dissatisfaction with the Baeking Party can be dispersed and will not evolve into dissatisfaction with the entire country and order."

"This is a strategy for long-term stability." Song Jiaoren bowed deeply, "Jiaoren usually claims to be a thorough understanding of party politics, but today he realizes that he is just watching the sky from a well."

Zheng Yu was also a little fascinated by the moment.

His intentions are naturally more than what Song Jiaoren said, but it is rare that this young man could explain such a big trick in a thorough manner after listening for a while.

Wang Minghan felt a little jealous, and looked at Song Jiaoren with great respect. He knew that although he had somehow been caught in the emperor's eyes, he could barely be regarded as a "counsecret of the Dragon", but with Song Jiaoren, a genuine genius who has reached this point through his own efforts, there are still too many things to learn.

He never regarded Song Jiaoren as his enemy. Because his future journey is too long and the world is too broad, he is just starting out now.

"It's rare that Dunchu said so thoroughly that he turned out a lot of my thoughts, which saved me from talking too much." Zheng Yu nodded with a smile, "However, I said that Zhou Minggen would not fight alone. I asked you to listen, just hope that you all can participate."

Zheng Yu turned to Yang Yongtai: "Changqing, what do you think should be done to start this matter?"

Yang Yongtai had already discussed with Zheng Yu properly, so he knew that this was establishing prestige for himself. He smiled: "In my opinion, Senior Brother Zhou has a deep foundation in the Fuxing Party and has been engaged in labor-management relations for many years. The organization leader does not need to worry too much. As long as your Majesty, you can hear some heavyweights and a powerful new party will naturally come naturally."

"My idea is that one is to set up government agencies, which can be organized into a formal Ministry of Labor after the war, which is specifically responsible for the improvement and legislation of labor security, as well as supervision and mediation of labor relations." Yang Yongtai continued, "There is another thing that is to vigorously introduce European and American social democratic ideas in the cultural front, form a relatively favorable public opinion atmosphere, and promote the smooth progress of reform."

Zheng Yu nodded and turned to Wang Minghan again: "Minghan, what do you think?"

Wang Minghan looked at Yang Yongtai in admiration and calmed down: "I agree with what Changqing Chief of Staff said. I will add that this movement or political party cannot rely solely on the middle-level, patriotic youth, and veterans who have recovered from the war, the improvement of labor problems is closely related to them. I think we can do a good job in this area. When Congress re-election and strive to start a shot, the situation will be very different."

Zheng Yu nodded in appreciation: "Minghan's words are very reasonable. Du Chu, what are your opinions?"

"I have another one," said Song Jiaoren. "The socialist party is probably more labor-oriented. Do you need a pure peasant party? After all, my empire has a large agricultural population, and the tenant relationship, rural issues, and rural clans are extremely complex."

Zheng Yu asked meaningfully: "Why do you mean to draw a peasant party?"

"I'm just asking for a thought." Song Jiaoren bowed slightly, "It's my honor to do a little bit of benefit."—

From this day on, an undercurrent that was indescribable began to slowly surge in the political territory of the Chinese Empire.

Within the Baxing Party, an organization called the "Labor-Management Relations Research Association" quietly appeared. The main promoter was Zhou Minggen, who was one of the Central Committee members but was regarded as an alien by many people. With his original team as the core, a group of Baxing Party were interested in labor-management issues, including many young and middle-aged cadres who were inspired and infected after Zheng Yu ascended the throne and determined to improve labor-management relations and improve labor-management security joined.

Not long after, in the public opinion media, an author named "Xinwei" began to write an article, praising "Long Live Labor", and began to preach some basic European democratic socialist ideas, proposing that the people should "appropriately turn their attention to their side and see what regrettable things are hidden behind the dazzling array of commodities and food resources." He proposed that as the main body of the people, the working workers and peasants "should receive more attention."

While the trade unions in various places and factories welcomed the Youth League, they also welcomed some young cadres of the Baeking Party. They went from factory to factory, holding letters of introduction from the base camp, but they did not have the rigidity of representatives of the factory army. These energetic young cadres took off their Chinese uniforms, changed into uniforms like workers, wore cotton gloves, shaved their buzz heads, went to the grassroots level, went down to the workshop, worked with workers, ate and lived with workers, were heart-wrenching, collected a large amount of information, and wrote millions of grassroots research reports. They were determined to make a fortune in the future Ministry of Labor on the political stage of the empire, not only to improve the lives of the people, but also to realize their ideals, leave their names in history, and become an increasingly important role in the real society.

They do not doubt their choice.

Because, they are clearly or vaguely aware that behind them, there is a powerful force that cannot be confronted, firmly supporting them. The idea they believe in is also a noble, just, and shiny concept with humanistic brilliance.

In Europe and the United States, it is called democratic socialism.

In China, it is currently called labor-management cooperation
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