The new workers were uneasy, filled with the joy of high remuneration and worries about the future, and set foot in the hell that was always illuminated by red light.

And in the next ten years, Lu En will teach them many things.

Because, there will definitely be a war, a big battle, and many people will die.

Lu En wanted to trigger this war with all his heart, but he also knew the consequences of this war. If there was a slight mistake, he would be hung on the pillar of shame in history until the day when civilization ends.

Even if he succeeds, it will still be blood stained on his hands.

Thinking about it this way, Livia is really his biological child, and even her thoughts on doing things are exactly the same.

However, if this blood is not shed, in the next hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, more people will die, and they will die needlessly, bringing no benefits at all, and they will just die in confusion.

Lost.

Therefore, someone must bleed first, and everyone is treated equally. It can be anyone, an enemy, a friendly force, or even oneself.

It doesn't matter.

But before that, Lu En hopes to reduce casualties as much as possible. After all, in such an environment, the bad guys may not necessarily die first, and the good guys may not necessarily die first, but the stupid people will definitely die first.

Walking in hell, he fell into deep thought.

The first problem to be solved is the conflict initiated by Lu En, that is, the issue of land ownership.

As we all know, land, the original source of all wealth, has now become a big problem, and the future of the working class will depend on how this problem is solved.

Lu En has enough reasons and information to believe and predict the future fact, that is, no matter where it is promoted, land nationalization will inevitably

The economic development of society, the increase and concentration of the population - these conditions would naturally force the landed aristocracy to adopt collective and organized labor in agriculture and to use professionals and academics, alchemists, or other organizations invented

New tools and new seeds.

The nationalization of land will increasingly become a "social necessity", and any argument in favor of ownership will be powerless to resist this necessity.

The urgent needs of society must and will be met, the changes demanded by social necessity will certainly make their way, and sooner or later legislation will always be adapted to these changes.

Today, the birth of a new class is waiting for food. With daily increasing consumption and visible market demand, the current production needs of the empire cannot satisfy them. What they need is not only money, but also delicious food.

Good clothes, good entertainment, good drinks, but the empire never prepared these.

The empire probably never thought that there would suddenly be so many professionals. These professionals are so urgently in need of a good life. They study hard just to have good food, clothing, and housing. Their urgent needs will immediately hit the market.

, forcing the market to satisfy them.

Therefore, all available methods will be widely used in agriculture and manufacturing to meet this new demand.

But these methods, obviously, can only be effectively used when cultivating land on a large scale. If it is cultivated by small farmers, they will definitely fall into the situation of farmers adjusting production according to their own willful requirements and actual conditions, or ignorantly consuming land resources, in vain.

Wasted production efficiency.

From an absolutely macro and long-term perspective, cultivating land on a large scale is much superior to operating agriculture on small and scattered plots of land. Therefore, on the one hand, the needs of the emerging class are constantly growing; on the other hand, the needs of the emerging class are growing;

, but the prices of agricultural products are still rising. These are indisputable proof that land nationalization has become a social necessity.

Even under the current production method, which reduces producers themselves to cattle and horses, it is impossible to stop the process of land nationalization.

Therefore, Lu En does not think that the passage of the normative law will affect the process of land nationalization. What the normative law can affect is only two possibilities in the future:

The first possibility: The final result of land nationalization led by the Land Party will be distorted and become the perfect retreat and liberation for the Land Party. After that, they will no longer be troubled by land ownership, and they can even go one step further.

Obtaining a part of the power of all the land. When the land aristocracy holds power, nationalizing the land will definitely lead to dividing the land into small pieces and leasing them to individuals or other families. This will only cause cruel competition between them and cause the increase of land rent.

, thus providing new convenience for the occupiers to make a living by renting land.

This would be an incredibly huge amount of wealth, definitely not what these serfs can earn now.

The second possibility is that the Land Party fails, then the matter is worth pondering.

In the empire, land was available to anyone who could afford it, but it was this situation that caused the land to be divided into many small plots, cultivated by people with little capital and who relied mainly on their own labor and the labor of their families.

At the same time, the landed aristocracy purchased a large amount of land because of the assets brought by their ancestors, which formed the current land distribution situation in the empire.

This form of land ownership, and the resulting division of land into small plots for cultivation, excludes any possibility of adopting orangutan agricultural improvements, while at the same time making the cultivators themselves the most vulnerable to any social progress, especially the nationalization of land.

A staunch opponent.

Existing farmers are tied to the land in this way. In order to obtain a relatively small amount of income, they must invest all their energy in the land. They have to hand over most of their products to the state in the form of taxes and litigation.

They hand over their money to litigants in the form of fees and to loan sharks in the form of interest. These farmers have no idea about the social movements outside their own small world.

Despite this, he was still infatuated with his small piece of land and his purely nominal ownership of it. As a result, these farmers were pitted against the industrial working class.

Without the strong nationalization of land promoted by the landed aristocracy, farmers would fall into the chaos mentioned above.

In the meantime, what else will happen?

In the city, companies began to expand due to the large number of professional workers. This has been said for a long time.

The larger the scale of the enterprise and the more workers it employs, the more losses and difficulties the factory owners will suffer every time they conflict with the workers, and the more intense the conflicts between the factory owners and workers will become.

The dual turmoil in urban and rural areas seems to be intertwined, but in fact they are separate.

First of all, on the issue of the relationship between farmers and landlords, the urban movement remains completely neutral, and urban unrest cannot spread to the countryside.

The emerging working class has no reason to stand between the peasants and landlords. It does not matter whether it protects the latter and opposes the former, or vice versa.

Although the workers' sympathy and support are entirely for the peasants, the task of the urban movement is by no means to instigate the peasants to oppose the landlords. The role of the landed aristocracy in the empire is difficult to shake. Moreover, even if the urban revolutionaries want to

The impact on the relationship between landlords and farmers is also very small.

This relationship must be and can only be determined by the landlords and farmers themselves.

But it is not certain, because Lu En is actually the actual leader of the urban workers, and he can influence the federation laterally. In this case, according to his understanding, the current attitude is dual.

Because, for the sake of better activities in the future, the emerging class cannot adopt the same attitude towards disputes between farmers and landlords on all occasions and under all conditions.

Under certain conditions and certain situations, a direct support attitude should be adopted, but when the situation changes, it may even be necessary to oppose the self-liberation of the farmers.

The entire difficulty that the current Imperial High Council has in formulating the empire's agrarian program and agrarian strategy lies in how to define the division of interests as clearly as possible.

In order to confuse the empire's judgment to a greater extent, the emerging workers must carefully determine under what conditions they must adopt a neutral attitude, under what conditions they must adopt an attitude of supporting the peasants, or even "instigating the peasants", and under what circumstances even support is needed

Landed aristocracy.

On the other hand, the land struggle is not simply polarized. In fact, there are four classes with different proximate and final goals, namely: landed aristocrats, wealthy farmers and some middle-class farmers, and proletarian farmers.

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Regarding this issue, Lu En can only have one idea at the moment. This is a decision he made after calmly considering the various factors among farmers.

First of all, we must work with the peasant propertied class to oppose all serfdom and the serf owners, that is, the landed aristocracy;

Secondly, working together with the emerging working class in the cities to oppose the peasant bourgeoisie and any other bourgeoisie is the "line" of the rural proletarians.

In other words: if the peasants appear to be correct and trying to resist, support and promote them, and help and instigate them to deprive the "holy master" of his "property".

If the peasants appear to be reactionary or anti-proletarian, they should adopt an attitude of distrust towards them, get rid of them, organize individually, and be prepared to fight against them.

Or to put it another way: if the struggle between farmers and landlords is conducive to the development and consolidation of the democratic faction, help the farmers;

Finally, if the struggle between the peasants and the landlords is merely a settlement of accounts between two factions of the landowning class that have nothing to do with the proletariat and the democrats, adopt a neutral attitude towards the peasants.

It is very dangerous to take risky actions on farmers' issues, so Lu En thought about it for a long time before finally determining the above conclusions and guidelines.

Especially on targeting the wealthy peasant class, he thought hard for a long time.

Because at least half of all production tools and property owned by farmers are in the hands of the wealthy peasant class.

This class cannot survive without hiring hired hands and day laborers, because they have too much land to cultivate themselves, generally more than fifty acres.

There is no doubt that the wealthy peasant class is hostile to the serfdom system, the landed aristocracy and officials, and it can become the leader of resistance. However, there is no doubt that it is hostile to the rural proletariat. Its ultimate goal is actually to

The original proletarian peasants became laborers for them, and at the same time they were no longer subject to the control of the landed aristocracy.

At the same time, there is a middle class of peasants between the poor peasants and the rich peasants. This class has the characteristics of the two opposing classes of serfs and rich peasants in terms of status. They are the most chaotic class, always going one way and the other.

, with a little encouragement, move it this way, move it that way.

Because the middle peasant has a servile nature "passed down from his ancestors", he is reluctant to part with his little property. The fear of losing this small property forces him to even reject any idea of ​​"fairness" and oppose all propaganda. They are trying their best to maintain

own status as small proprietors and try their best to hinder economic development.

But they also want to resist, because they are also oppressed people. They often suffer great pain from the landed aristocracy or the return of assets to the middle class, but what they fear most in the world is to completely "break up" with the above two classes.

Separation", for them, there is no way to "cultivate the land" without the "master".

Moreover, all farmers show the same characteristics, that is, because they are usually bound to one place by the land, their economic conditions inevitably lead to their ignorance and servility.

But at the same time, because of the labor homes passed down from their ancestors, they integrated their own interests with their entire lives and established a love for the land soaked in the blood and sweat of their ancestors.

All of this constitutes a complex group of farmers, who have a deep love for the land where they live, but also an attitude of ignorance and indifference towards the outside world.

They have the contradictory nature of both the property owner and the proletariat. The entire class is extremely contradictory and has very serious internal friction.

That's why Lu Encai has always believed that the movement needs to be led by the emerging working class, because in fact... farmers cannot be trusted, at least not completely.

But in the final analysis, no matter how serious some manifestations of farmers' unconsciousness and reactionarity are, in fact Lu En has always understood one thing.

That is, his task is never to deviate from organizing the urban proletariat and the rural proletariat into the closest alliance.

The next step is to propagate this idea. We must always remember to explain to the rural proletariat that its interests are opposed to the interests of the peasant propertied class. Explain to the proletarian peasants that only the rural proletariat and the urban proletariat fight against the entire bourgeoisie.

The common struggle of society can lead to a real resistance movement, and only such a resistance movement can truly rescue all poor farmers from poverty and exploitation.

When this is accomplished, Lu En's next goal can be achieved, which is the national concentration of the means of production, which includes not only the nationalization of land, but also more.

For this reason, as mentioned above, he must prevent the Land Party from promoting the passage of normative laws, otherwise, once the land nationalization is completed in this form, all his plans will be disrupted.
Chapter completed!