On April 20, the sixth year of Tianzheng (1578), Maple Leaf Mountain Castle Castle Tower.
"Your Highness, those businessmen are obsessed with money and refuse to agree." As soon as Naoe Nobuhe came back, he complained to Yu Qiuping, "I just don't dare to choose. I'm afraid that I won't be able to choose others, and I'm afraid that my seat will be lost."
.If they don’t have this seat, they won’t be able to count how many taxes they will collect in the future, trade, trade routes, etc., and their business will suffer losses. So, they won’t spit out the meat in their mouths at all.”
"It's okay. When I made the plan, I knew they would not give in easily." Yu Qiuping laughed nonchalantly, then clapped his hands and said, "You can continue to go back and train your soldiers. I will go to Sakai Town for a run.
, deal with them personally.”
"Don't steal my treasure while I'm away." When Yu Qiuping went out, he raised his eyebrows maliciously at Naoe Nobuhira, "You kid, you don't work well when I ask you to persuade others. You use sweet words.
My little girl is really good at deceiving her."
"Your Highness! Me... Yu Cen and I..." Naojiang Dengping suddenly blushed and ran away quickly in embarrassment amid Yu Qiuping's laughter.
On April 25, in Sakai Town, more than a hundred members of the House of Commons were still frowning in the chamber of the House of Commons.
"Boss Ritoku and the others are not coming today?" Imai Munehisa saw that the time had passed and asked Lonzo Konishi who was sitting next to him.
"I'm not coming anymore. Their twenty-odd congressmen who asked to accept His Highness's bill didn't come to protest." Lonzo Konishi touched the few hairs on the back of his head and gave a helpless smile.
"Actually, I also want to accept His Highness's bill. After all, Your Highness has treated me well over the years, and he has been very caring to Quanzi recently. But many old friends around me have come to ask for help, so I can only argue for them.
Strive for.”
"Yes, if we really want to choose, we who are famous can still be chosen. If it doesn't work out, we can always spend a lot of money to buy tickets." Hasegawa Munehito on the side also nodded, "
It’s just that many other people in Sakai Town are probably going to lose their seats. They are not well-known enough, and they don’t have that much money to buy tickets.”
"You don't realize the seriousness of the problem." After hearing what his two colleagues said, Imai Munehisa shook his head, "Originally, the seats were calculated based on money, and we have a cooperative relationship with His Highness. We paid for him.
To raise soldiers and fight, he conquered the place and opened up the channels to facilitate our business. But if the seats are elected, we are not independent businessmen outside the Yuqiu family's territory."
"What does Boss Imai mean by this?" Konishi Lonzo was confused when he heard this.
"Let's put it this way, think about who the rich peasants, small businessmen, and samurai will vote for?" Imai Munehisa took a sip of tea and did not give a direct answer.
"Vote for someone with a reputation." Hasegawa Munehito replied subconsciously.
"Not everyone is like Boss Hasegawa. If it were me, I would definitely vote for those who are beneficial to me." Imai Munehisa put down his teacup, sat up straight and said, "For example, I am
As a warrior from Hanoi, I will definitely vote for Hanoi's own businessmen. If there are two businessmen from Hanoi competing for the same position, then I will see which of them is more likely to propose a bill in the parliament that is beneficial to us.
Then I will support whoever is willing to invest in a building in my hometown.
For water conservancy projects, I will give my votes to anyone."
"Boss Imai is right." Konishi Lonzo seemed to understand what Imai Sohisa meant, "What you mean is... if the seats of the members are voted out, those who want to be elected have to please those who elect. Just like
If a person wants to be a shopkeeper, he must give some benefits to other guys so that they can support him."
"Boss Konishi is a sensible person." Imai Munehisa nodded, "If you want to win in the mountainous area, you must promise to go to the parliament to propose a road construction bill. If you want to win on the river, you must control the water. And if you want to win in ports like Sakai Town and Kishiwada
If we want to win, we have to find ways to please the countless small merchants and shops. But in this way, we can no longer focus on our own business. On the contrary, we have to work hard all day long to find ways to please the voters.
Find ways to do things for them so as to win votes. In this way, if we think about doing things for the people in the Yuqiu family every day, isn't it equivalent to becoming the Yuqiu family's pursuit?"
"Boss Imai...that's right." Konishi Lonzo completely understood what Imai Sohisa meant, and his expression was a little solemn, "If this is the case, what should we do?"
"We absolutely cannot agree to His Highness's request." Imai Munehisa put the cup lid on the teacup and knocked it hard twice. "No matter what, Your Highness is still playing tricks with us within the framework. We just need to firmly hold on to the framework."
Regulation: The bill was enacted by our House of Commons. As long as we don’t pass that bill, His Highness will have no choice but to compromise. We will hold a vote later and veto His Highness’s bill.”
"But His Highness is full of tricks, how can he just sit back and wait for death?" Hasegawa Munehito said as he walked towards the window, "I always feel like it's so noisy outside, I don't know what's going on."
"It's a bit noisy." Imai Muneku listened carefully and heard the noise outside, and the noise was getting louder and louder - it seemed to be coming towards the direction of the parliament hall.
"What happened?" Konishi Lonzo also stood up slowly and looked at Hasegawa Munehito, who was standing by the window. Only then did he realize that the latter's expression had become a little strange. The congressman who was still discussing the bill was
They all walked towards the window one after another at this moment.
At this moment, Tsuda Muneji suddenly opened the door and walked in. He was sweating profusely and panting, and he suddenly attracted everyone's attention.
"It's not good, more than half of the workers in Sakai Town are on strike." Tsuda Muneki's first sentence shocked everyone, "His Majesty Momiji suddenly ran to the construction site today to promote that workers should be given the right to vote, and he also said
In this way, they will hold the lifeblood of their congressman boss, so that the boss will not dare to deduct their wages, and they can also increase their salary and benefits. Then His Highness Hongye also said that we bosses firmly do not agree to let them go to the election, because we just want to exploit them. Those
The businessmen and bosses who are not in the parliament immediately responded to the call, stopped work and let their workers follow those people to the streets to protest in Sakai Town. We bosses were not here, and the foremen could not suppress those workers, and many of our workers also joined the march.
, now the whole Sakai Town is going to be paralyzed.”
"When did it happen?" Imai Munehisa had just asked, and it seemed that he already knew the answer - because the sounds on the street were getting louder and clearer -
“Down with the unscrupulous boss!”
“Long live the election!”
“Election bill passed!”
“If it doesn’t pass, we won’t resume work!”
"Long live the workers!"
Imai Munehisa quickly walked to the second floor, opened the window, and saw a huge crowd crowding the streets and alleys around the parliament hall, rushing towards the parliament hall from all directions. They held banners, flags, and shouted
slogans, and more people would join the team sporadically from time to time.
"It's a crow, it must be a crow, people are mixed in among the workers, leading them to shout, don't think about it, I am too familiar with this style." Listening to the deafening slogans of the workers, Imai Munehisa still had a bitter smile on his face that gave up.
.And all the members in the hall panicked after seeing the surging crowd, and had no other ideas in their hearts except agreeing with Yu Qiuping's bill.
It’s not their fault. After all, this is a workers’ movement that has emerged across the ages. How could they, the early capitalists, have the means to deal with it?
They did deduct wages, extend working hours, and reduce benefits on weekdays. These poor people who were used to being bullied by the samurai just worked hard without complaint, keeping their anger and dissatisfaction in their hearts. But the appearance of Yu Qiuping made the anger in their hearts rise.
Being able to break out openly and openly - is it still wrong to follow the house governor?
The guards outside the parliament hall tried in vain to maintain order, but were driven back by the turbulent flow of people. Imai Sohisa knew that among those who were leading the charge, they must be Crow people. These docile sheep-like people can only be led by fierce tigers.
The strike was so fierce. In just half a day, the strike actually affected so many people and surrounded the parliament hall.
Imai Munehisa raised his head and looked away, trying to estimate how many people were participating in the strike. However, before he could see far, he saw Yu Qiuping standing on a high platform looking at the parliament hall - he
Wearing a military uniform, the red leaf shawl on his shoulders was so dazzling. He held a telescope in his hand and was looking at the parliament hall with interest. Yu Qiuping seemed to have noticed Imai Munehisa and waved to him.
Imai Munehisa shook his head repeatedly in confusion, and bowed in the direction of Yu Qiuping.
"On April 25, 1578, the first workers' movement broke out in Sakai Town, Japan. Tens of thousands of workers, led by the lord Amaki Momiji, went on strike and demonstrated around the hall of the House of Commons, demanding that the House of Commons pass an election bill. The House of Commons was forced to
Reluctantly, after asking Yu Qiuping to make concessions on quota allocation, a vote was held that day and the election bill was passed, marking the beginning of the first popular election in our country's history."
A middle-aged teacher pointed at the content on the ppt with a teaching stick and repeatedly told the students in the audience, "Remember the time, place, content, impact, and significance. This is my favorite question in the high school entrance examination!"
"Isn't the first popular election held by Yuqiu Hongye in Mikawa?" A student suddenly raised his hand and asked, "I read about it in Yuqiu Hongye's biography!"
"Don't keep reading idle books, follow the textbook! Just memorize whatever the teacher asks you to memorize, it won't hurt you!" The middle-aged classroom was very dissatisfied with the students' questions. Seeing that the students wanted to talk more, they raised their voices and said: "
Are you going to waste the whole class’s time? If you waste one minute, it will be 40 minutes for the whole class!”
The student closed his mouth knowingly, lowered his head with some grievance, and quietly took out the biography of Yuqiu Red Leaves hidden in the hole in the table. The cover of the biography showed Yuqiu's confident smile, which was exactly the same as that of Yuqiu hundreds of years ago.
Yu Qiuping’s smile was the same after a demonstration.
Chapter completed!