In fact, no matter who comes from the north or not, Zaichun and the others cannot escape, because the entire capital is a cage, not just within the four or nine cities.
To the north on the outskirts of the capital, Shunyi, Changping, Huairou...where are there no bannermen? Is there no hidden thread manipulated by Guiziliu? Now that the capital has changed its flag, countless people have also changed their minds.
There are many people who want to kill Zai Chun and take credit for his head, and some even just want revenge!
Where in the world can there be immortal reformers? With so many opponents, how can the reform be successful without killing a group of people to establish their authority?
When Zai Chun was on the throne, he had elite soldiers and strong political power in his hands. It was impossible for these people to take revenge. But once you have no power and are down and out, these people will kill you as easily as killing a chicken!
"It's over... I didn't escape in the end... I'm here... Haha... Uncle Six, you win!" Zai Chun leaned in the carriage, closed his eyes and waited for his final fate.
But at this moment, Er Mao suddenly screamed like crazy, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"
"They are not enemies... they are here to save you... Your Majesty, look... the sky is filled with red flags... the people who are rushing up are not wearing military uniforms or civilian clothes..."
"Er Mao... please tell me..." Zai Chun hurriedly opened the curtain and looked north. My eyes instantly became moist. There were more than 3,000 people in front of me, all of whom were workers wearing dark blue oil-stained clothes!
"The Great Jingshi Iron Works... Your Majesty... the workers from the Great Jingshi Iron Works are coming to kill you... they are calling for escorts... they are escorts..."
Zai Chun burst into tears as soon as he cried. The rough and tumble understands people's hearts. Who would have thought that a group of workers would come to save him at a critical moment of life and death!
Yes, they were indeed workers from the Capital Iron Works. The first batch of 3,000 people were from the workers' mutual aid association organized by Xin Jian and others. Most of them had attended Xin Jian's night school at some point!
In Asia, they are the first working class in the Manchu Qing Dynasty besides the Chinese!
Why call it the working class instead of workers! Just two words difference, the ideological realm is completely different, because these workers have received organized education!
They are no longer confused ordinary people, they have a spark of hope planted in their hearts. At least these people are willing to look up at the sky, look at the world, and understand what is right and wrong.
Once people have ideas, they are called a class that can be organized. Otherwise, they will always be ordinary people and a mess!
The ones who rushed to the front were Xin Jian and other Chinese engineers who came for assistance. They rushed to the front line with weapons to protect the factory. Behind them were disciples holding countless red flags.
In fact, no matter where the flag is, it is just a piece of bright red cloth that can point one's direction on the battlefield!
There are only eight or nine hundred guns for three thousand people, and there are very few bullets. The remaining workers are armed with pipe wrenches, hammers, axes, and even huge wrenches or iron pipes...
There is no shortage of steel in the steel factory, and any one they can find is a weapon. These people shouted in the direction of Zai Chun, "Escort... Workers' Self-Defense Force escort..."
"Without the emperor running this big iron factory, we wouldn't be able to have this bowl of food... Brothers all come from poor backgrounds, do we have to go back to farming in the mud?"
"It's not easy to become a worker... One person works and the whole family has enough to eat. This kindness should not be forgotten..."
"How many people have starved to death in this snowstorm that has swept across the north... But none of our family members have died of starvation... The factory has never owed us any wages..."
"The wages are paid by Lord Long Live...the job opportunities are also given by Lord Long Live...the kindness that the family did not starve to death during the natural disaster is also given by Lord Long Live..."
"Repay kindness with kindness...revenge with hatred...Guiziliu wants to do something rebellious and rebellious...He wants to restore the life he had before when there was no iron factory..."
"He wants to reverse the course of history... we workers will never agree... to protect His Majesty... is to protect our own jobs..."
Xin Jian and countless Chinese engineers raised their arms and shouted in the crowd, and the morale of these students was boosted by them.
No one should talk about the principle of loyalty to the emperor and serving the country! That was of no use, so I told the workers who provided them with the food they needed now. They were about to lose their money!
Do you want to repay the favor? If you don’t take control of your own happy life, who will?
How else can we say that the working class is a progressive class? Because they are already accustomed to organization in their work, which is different from farmers who are scattered.
Moreover, they all learned knowledge and culture in night school. They are already a group of awakened people who have opened their eyes!
The most important point is that in the factory environment, they have no contact with their parents and relatives at home, which means that they are freed from the constraints of the small-scale peasant economy in the past.
Maybe their parents and grandparents would risk their lives to organize them to fight, just like Sanbao's family interfered with him.
These workers in the iron factory are not bound by the small-scale peasant economy and Confucian clan family laws. Because they are not around, Xin Jian started to work as soon as he organized these people to work hard.
"Raise the red flag...organize the workers...go to the capital to save Long Live Lord..."
With the core night school as the skeleton, the Workers' Mutual Aid Association as the flesh and blood, and the steel of the Capital Iron Works as the armor, the roar of the working class appeared for the first time in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Although they did not have any clear political program for this operation, they just repaid kindness and fought for their jobs!
However, this incident is also worthy of being recorded in the annals of history, because it was a military action completely spontaneously formed by the working class without any leadership and command.
The people have begun to wake up!
Xin Jian! This steel plant activist had just participated in the Battle of Zhuozhou, where he helped maintain the armored train on the train.
After the bloody battle in Zhuozhou, the armored train retreated to Tianjin. He did not follow him back, but continued to stick to the iron factory!
He didn't get any orders, and the whole world seemed to have forgotten them. However, Xin Jian and others vaguely felt that something was wrong, and there must be big changes in the world.
During the anti-gang and anti-corruption campaign in the iron factory, Xin Jian and others severely dealt with a group of corrupt officials under the Eight Banners. Xin Jian's reputation suddenly became very high.
Zai Chun was also willing to use this kind of person, so he acquiesced to the existence of the Workers' Self-Defense Force, and even had a key to the arsenal of the factory, Xin Jian.
The steel factory is armed, I dare not say too much, but there are still 1,800 guns! This is what gave Xin Jian and the others the confidence to start the uprising!
And there is another coincidence in this movement, that is, many parties have forgotten it!
Xin Jian, the Workers' Self-Defense Force, is actually a peripheral organization of the Stormtroopers. In theory, he accepts Xiang Ying's command.
According to Xiang Ying's plan, how could he save Emperor Tongzhi? He was only happy when Zai Chun died!
But Xin Jian just sent out troops. Why? In fact, it's not surprising at all, because there are so many things going on within the Chinese clan, and Xiang Ying's plan is too huge.
The core of this group of stormtroopers had long forgotten about Xin Jian and the others!
Xin Jian could not get any telegraphic orders from the Chinese at the big iron factory, but the war situation in the capital was unprecedented and they knew that time could not be lost!
That's why the ironworks workers spontaneously launched a rescue operation!
"Shoot... shoot..." Xin Jian led the workers and finally rushed in front of Zai Chun's motorcade. The workers spread their wings and rolled over like a tide.
Under the red flag, Xin Jian wields an engineer shovel, just like the battle ax of a berserker!
Under his order, gunshots were fired, smoke was thick around the convoy, and the thugs who were chasing after them were beaten to the ground!
