Master Yuan, start!

But now, each of them can get an equal share of a large piece of land, and they have all become masters of their own land!"

Listening to Zhang Zuolin's explanation, Trotsky's mind, which had originally been somewhat clear on the boat, became confused again.

Land, distributed equally?

Doesn't this still require the approach of a peasant party? How can we establish a proletarian state without the support of the working class?

Farmers are born conservatives, and no matter whether they are poor or rich, they cannot change this nature.

However, since he was already there, Trotsky did not intend to hide anything. He asked directly: "Boris, I just have some doubts, and I hope you can answer them for me.

After the land is distributed equally to private farmers, how can it be used effectively for industrial construction? Don’t you know that this will sooner or later widen the gap between the rich and the poor and create new rich peasants and poor peasants?

Also, we saw a tabloid on the ship that reported news about Vladivostok, which mentioned organizations such as the Farmland Cooperative and the Seafood Fishing Cooperative.

However, few people on the ship spoke Russian, so we didn’t understand what these words meant.”

Trotsky poured out all his doubts in one breath, hoping to find the answers.

However, Zhang Zuolin just smiled and did not intend to explain immediately.

"My two Russian comrades, if I were to tell you these things, I'm afraid it would be difficult to explain them clearly in a short time, and my personal feelings would be mixed in.

Friends from the Second International have already arrived in the village near Vladivostok before you. How about this? I will take you there to meet the investigators sent by the Second International.

You can draw more objective conclusions from their perspectives, or, while you're living here, take a closer look at what kind of social structure exists here."

Chapter 481 Soviet taste search. Search N: 1-0 Linqi Liujiu Shan-

On the way to the farm, Zhang Zuolin specifically emphasized to Trotsky and Stalin that life near Vladivostok might not be as good as that in European Russia, and could only guarantee the most basic food, clothing and daily necessities.

If they feel it is too hard, they can leave. The Red Confucian Society can immediately arrange for them to go to Birobidzhan, the central city of the Ussuri Autonomous Region in the north.

If you want to stay, you must obey the arrangements of the Red Confucian Society and not act on your own.

After Zhang Zuolin brought the two men to the farm where the Second International was, he led them to report at the entrance. After that, he was called away to deal with a noisy incident at the local villagers' meeting.

After staying on the ship for dozens of days, Trotsky and Stalin got off the ship and immediately took a rickshaw for a bumpy ride. Their bodies could not bear it.

So, when they saw that Zhang Zuolin was busy, they were happy to stop traveling.

Stalin looked at the harvested fields in the distance, the black soil contrasting with the blue sky. He opened his arms and breathed in the fresh air on the farm.

"This is our first stop in the Far East!"

Although the area around Vladivostok is located on a large plain like Minsk, it is more primitive.

Minsk is one of the top five cities in Russia. The towering chimneys and black smoke rising into the sky give the city an industrial-era feel.

The farms near Vladivostok appear very primitive, perhaps because they are far away from the docks.

However, this primitiveness made Stalin and Trotsky, who were standing at the entrance of the farm road, feel a long-lost peace and tranquility.

After some emotional expressions, the two picked up their luggage and decided to leave the entrance and walk towards the house that the staff had just assigned to them.

However, just as the two of them walked into the village and passed by an open courtyard with an open gate, they saw a group of people with high noses and deep eye sockets discussing something in it, which was very lively.

The yellow people outside Lin Er's yard seemed to have long been accustomed to this phenomenon. They had no interest in it and often passed by directly on the street without even looking inside.

Stalin went closer to listen and found that the people inside were speaking German.

"Are these the forerunners of the Second International?"

Trotsky and Stalin looked at each other, and then simultaneously put down their luggage and slowly walked in while the people in the yard were discussing heatedly.

The dozens of European youths who were arguing inside had no time to pay attention to the two Russians who appeared outside the door, or even if they noticed them, they would not care.

Because they are arguing fiercely at this moment.

The central point of their dispute was precisely a grassroots structure that the Red Confucian Society was gradually promoting outside the Great Wall: the villagers' meeting.

3. Such an organization is still too idealistic. With the executive, legislative, judicial, and military functions all under one roof, wouldn't it become a tool for those with ulterior motives to commit evil?

These villagers in the Lu Village Assembly can cast their votes for a stranger just for one kilogram of food. This behavior is even worse than that of the members of the capitalist representative parliament. At least they will fight for their rights!

Did President Yuan and his party want to rely on such farmers to establish a qualified organization and a qualified regime?

With all due respect, if this continues, sooner or later someone will usurp the rights that belong to farmers.”

“No one can take away these rights; they originally belong to the farmers.

They established a village assembly, a self-governing, self-disciplined, and potentially self-evolving institution, and that was enough.

As for going a step further and making villagers realize the importance of their rights, that requires a long-term educational investment, but this does not negate the correctness of the village assembly."

“Self-management, self-evolution, and the need for long-term education and investment in ideals may indeed be the case.

Who can guarantee that the new generation of farmers who have grown up in this environment during their years of education will not be influenced by the wrong practices of the old era and continue to make the same mistakes?

...

Several people were arguing in the middle of the yard, and the rest of the people were watching.

Trotsky had studied at a German-run church school, so he understood German. Seeing everyone's attention focused on the room, he pulled aside a man wearing round-framed glasses and asked in German, "Friend, what are they arguing about?"

The man with round glasses replied, "Oh, they're debating whether it's appropriate to establish a village assembly."

"Village meeting?" Trotsky frowned. "What is that?"

"Look at your outfit," Karl Liebknecht, who was wearing round-framed glasses, turned his head and glanced at the two people in front of him: "Are you new here?"

"Yes, we are representatives sent by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party." Trotsky nodded when asked about his identity.

"Just call me Karl." Karl Liebknecht stretched out his right hand.

Karl Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German International, his father Wilhelm Liebknecht was the founder of the Second International.

Historically, he had never been to the Far East.

But in this time and space, this year happened to be the year he would complete his doctoral thesis. In order to complete his doctoral thesis, he came to the Far East with volunteers from the Second International with the encouragement and support of his father Wilhelm Liebknecht, intending to collect first-hand social practice materials in preparation for his doctoral thesis.

After a brief introduction, Carl did not keep the audience in suspense and started to explain directly.

"A village assembly is actually a kind of council, or a representative meeting.

It was only after I came to the Far East that I discovered that the Chinese had created such a magical institution in this land.

Simply put, all the villagers sit together to form a large representative meeting with hundreds to thousands of people.

This committee exercises government functions to a certain extent, such as managing village affairs, resolving disputes between villagers, maintaining village security, and promulgating village rules and regulations.

Of course, to avoid too many people talking, the villagers' meeting is not always held. Usually, an appointment meeting is held first, allowing all villagers to vote to elect the person in charge of village administration and public security. The power of the villagers' meeting is then exercised through these persons.

When Trotsky heard Karl Liebknecht's words, he was reminded of a special Russian term:

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"What did you say just now? It seemed to be called...Soviet?" Karl Liebknecht did not understand Russian, so he could only read it out using transliteration.

"It's nothing, just a Russian word." Trotsky waved his hand and felt that he had a vague understanding of the word Soviet.

Chapter 482 Chinese Church

Trotsky was very skeptical about whether an organization like the village meeting could be maintained stably, just as everyone in the yard said during the argument.

Are things obtained through bribery really useful?

However, Trotsky had just learned through conversation that this organization was said to have been slowly spreading in the country's northernmost province.

If bystanders can see the various problems that arise in this so-called "village meeting", then would the people who set up this organization not know about it?

Trotsky shook his head; he couldn't understand.

After staying with Karl Liebknecht and listening to the arguments of the Second International volunteers for dozens of minutes, Trotsky finally decided to get up and say goodbye.

"Karl, we're going to look for a place to stay first. We'll contact you in two days."

"Okay, if you need me, you can always come to the school east of the farm to find me." Karl Liebknecht adjusted his glasses and replied.

He also had to collect materials for his doctoral thesis, and his right hand was constantly recording the speeches of the volunteers, so he did not stand up, but just waved to Trotsky.

"Let's go, Joseph." Trotsky called Stalin, who had wanted to leave for a long time, and left the yard.

To others, Stalin following Trotsky looked like a follower.

But in fact, there is no distinction between the two of them in terms of who is the main and who is the secondary.

After all, both of them are newcomers to the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and there is nothing commendable in their growth experience. It is difficult to say who can dominate the other.

Moreover, the internal struggle within the Social Democratic Labour Party of this era had not reached a life-or-death situation, or in other words, because the party had just been established, there had not yet been time for a struggle over its line within the party.

The reason why Stalin gave people the illusion that he was a follower was because Trotsky was quite tall.

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In the original time and space, among the members of the Bolshevik Central Committee who were basically short, Trotsky, who was 176cm tall, was a rare tall man.

Others like Lenin and Stalin were about 163cm tall, which is considered "normal" from a Mongolian perspective.

As for the rest, such as Kalinin, Bukharin, Kirov and others, they were all super short with an average height of only 1.55m.

It can be said that Trotsky stood out among these people.

Stalin was nearly 15cm shorter than Trotsky, so when he walked behind him, he naturally looked like a little follower.

However, Stalin did not realize this at the time. He was observing the houses on both sides of the road.

"I didn't expect there is a church here." Stalin stopped after seeing a familiar building.

Because of his experience as a seminary student, Stalin felt a little dazed when he looked at the Orthodox church in front of him.

He would not be surprised to see an Orthodox church in Europe, but it was indeed strange to see an Orthodox church in the Far East.

Moreover, the appearance of the church outside seems to have changed a bit.

Stalin looked carefully and found that the cross that should have been hanging on the gate had disappeared for some reason.

Instead, there is a complex pattern that looks like Chinese characters?

At the church entrance, people were coming and going, and it was very lively.

"Are there actually so many religious people among the Chinese people under the new government?"

Just when Stalin was confused, a familiar voice woke him up.

The person who came was Zhang Zuolin.

"You two really made it hard for me to find you. It's been so long, how did you end up here?"