Thousands of sparks

The streets of Newsail were crowded with people.

Today is the day when the expeditionary force returns home.

Newsail, who just experienced the massacre a year ago, gradually regained some vitality, and everyone is trying to survive in their own way.

There is a shortage of jobs everywhere on this planet.The massacre cost Nusaal a large number of skilled workers, as well as young adults.What's more terrible is that many children also died in the massacre.

Children are the future of a society.Without enough children as a population base, the entire society will be aging and declining within a few decades.

In order to turn this unfortunate prospect into a better future, Du Sande worked with the Interior Committee to develop a detailed "marriage promotion" plan.

Local civil affairs committees and other institutions should organize unmarried young men and women of the right age to actively associate with each other.The content of the social life ranges from dance parties to picnics to sightseeing tours.At the same time, the Civil Affairs Committee also transformed and reused the expropriated noble villas and properties, transforming them into sanatoriums and nurseries.

In order to ensure that unmarried men and women can have contact in a variety of environments, all school-age women must receive education and have to be mixed with other male students into classes. The traditional system of separate schools for men and women has been completely abolished.In the course of work, men and women are paid as equally as possible.If it is a piecework type of work, women should be provided with more labor protection and daily necessities, so as to ensure that the income of men and women is basically equal.

Equality between men and women is one of Newsail's fundamental policies. This is not a slogan, but a guiding direction that must be implemented.

Equality between men and women comes from the "Dusande Theory" in which "all men are created equal".If the emperor and the poor are created equal, there is no reason why men and women should not be equal.

In Dusand's theory, although there are some objective physiological differences between men and women, they are still essentially the same people.If serious inequality between men and women occurs in practice...wouldn't that completely make this theory empty talk?
Equality between men and women is of great significance for increasing population, promoting marriage and childbirth, and improving the quality of labor force.It was during the working process that Dusande himself began to realize that this matter must be done.

But... the work of promoting gender equality has not been smooth, and it can even be said that there is great resistance.

Not only are ordinary people not very interested in Dusand's plan, but even the members of the other internal affairs committees don't quite understand why Dusande spends so much effort to promote equality between men and women.

Even Escobar, who has always supported Dusand unconditionally, has persuaded Dusand in private, "We need to invest a lot of resources in this matter now, and we may not be able to do it well. It's better to wait a little bit until After the situation in Newsale has stabilized a little bit, will we start to do this?"

Although Escobar's suggestion is relatively safe and moderate, and not easy to make mistakes, Dusand does not intend to follow the chairman of the Nusaal Interior Committee who has lost a lot of weight in this matter. suggestion.

"100 years is too short, we only seize the day." Du Sande said to his trustworthy friend, "In the past hundreds, even thousands of years, men have used their physical advantages and Absolute dominance in society is too much for itself. Others may have countless reasons to be against equality between men and women, but we can't -- especially we can't do it."

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"We are talking about that all men are created equal, and we are talking about opposing the exploitation of the privileged class, the royal family, and the aristocracy." Dusande frowned and asked back, "If you restrain your hands because you care about other people's dissatisfaction, then what is the objection?" Class privilege? The royal family and nobles are not only dissatisfied, they are going to take up guns to kill us."

After listening to Dusande's words, Escobar fell into a brief silence, and then he asked, "Then what should we do next? Start with education protection?"

"Education security is one aspect, but we can't just start here." Du Sande thought for a while and said, "First, start with the People's Army, the Bureau of Internal Affairs and other government departments directly managed by us. Make sure that the next There are enough positions set aside specifically for women in the recruitment process - but education guarantees cannot be left behind."

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After a while of detailed discussion, Dussand and Escobar finally reached a consensus.

Absolute fairness is completely impossible under any circumstances.Even if a saint is alive, it will take time to reverse the outdated ideas that have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

There is no way to achieve absolute fairness, so we need to move closer to "relative fairness".Moreover, in order to ensure that "relative fairness" can benefit everyone, Dusand believes that the first thing that should be guaranteed is the education of every school-age girl.

In Newsail, there were no barriers to women's education, at least administratively.They, like men, are educated after the age of six in schools funded by the Newsail Civil Affairs Commission.

While the reality looks pretty good, that's where the "nice" part ends.

In schools, men and women will not only teach in separate classes, but they will even be taken to a building dedicated to teaching women in a school to ensure that female students and male students will not see each other during daily teaching.

On the other hand, the teaching content of male and female students is completely different.

Male students are taught mainly mathematics, physics and law.Generally speaking, the teaching purpose of male students is to train new great technicians.For female students, the teaching content is mainly grammar, supplemented by a large number of home economics, cooking and nursing related content.

It's not that girls are being taught poorly, in fact, Newsale's schools have gone to great lengths to increase the number of parents sending their daughters to school.But in Dusand's view, such a "concession" does not satisfy him.

In terms of teaching content, there is a huge difference between men and women, and at the same time... neither men nor women have the right to choose.From this point of view, it is impossible for Dusande to be satisfied.

It is hard for him to imagine that after Polina used her own experience to prove that "women are no worse than men in learning physics and mechanics", there are still people who think that women are far inferior to men in terms of rational thinking.

"If someone objected to their daughters entering school, or objecting to them learning the subjects they want to study..." Escobar proposed to Dusande, "I propose that such parents be divided by fines."

"Only a fine will make it appear that our purpose is not pure, and a short-term detention penalty will be added." Dusand added, "At the same time, we must also pay attention to the distinction. If some families really have difficulties, we must find a way to help them. support, rather than simple and rude direct punishment."

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This kind of thing is easy to say, but it is very difficult to implement it in practice.To put it bluntly, it is because the executors lack enough compassion most of the time.

"Let's implement the party formation as soon as possible." After the regular meeting was over, Dusand called the core members of the entire Newsale control team and announced his decision to them, "I am here, You are invited to join the People's Party that I am about to form."

Forming a party is actually a political move among the top echelons of the empire...with no precedent for reference.Before the House of Commons gained legislative power, forming a party was not a very serious matter in the days when the Privy Council held the highest legislative power in every colony.

In fact, the first batch of political parties formed in the empire were all short-lived parties. They centered on the party leader's personal will and political goals, and were mainly composed of the party leader's vassals.

Such "political parties" often do not have a clear political program or purpose at all.They don't even know who is a "comrade" of their own party.The entire political party is fundamentally a "puppet organization" serving the party leader.

Such a "loose" organization, of course, Du Sande looked down upon.The political party he wants to build should be a party that can attract a large number of people and shed their blood for a common goal, with strong action and vitality.

To be honest, Dussande was really not sure at first that his "Dussandism" would attract enough people.Of course, the materialist desire has a very remarkable vitality and advanced thinking.But the situation in the empire is very different from the world in the previous life—at least in the previous life, Du Sande was very sure that there was no magical mineral called "Yupsi Dragon Mine" in this world.

Concrete analysis of specific issues is the living soul of materialism.It is wishful thinking that commits the serious mistake of rigidism and dogmatism to blindly apply rote without looking at the actual situation.Du Sande is convinced that it is possible to engage in materialism in the empire, but the prerequisite is that materialism must adapt to the actual situation of the empire.

Capitalism is very weak in empire.In fact, the empire has not yet completed a full capitalist revolution.Not to mention that capitalism is prevalent, there is not even an attempt to seize control of the government in order to ensure the profits of capitalists.

But empires are not without capitalist forces.It's just that the capitalist forces in the empire are somewhat... impure.

If the analysis is carried out from the benefits of corporate income, the largest capitalist in the empire is actually the royal family.

In the empire, nobles have resource advantages that ordinary people cannot match.They are the group with the highest level of education in the entire empire, and they are also the group with the most capital in the empire.As the aristocrat among the nobles, the royal family owns a large number of enterprises, and the royal family's exclusive enterprises cover almost all commercial categories of the empire.And the scale of assets owned by His Majesty the Emperor and other high-ranking nobles is also extremely astonishing.

According to the estimates given by the Olin Development Bank, the companies owned by the royal family can provide the royal family with almost the same income as the tax revenue provided by the 26 most developed colonial stars.If the equity of the royal company is converted at 20% of the market value, this value is basically equal to the total tax revenue of the entire empire for more than [-] years.

When the biggest capitalist in a country is the supreme ruler of the country, the capitalist revolution is very meaningless.What's more, are the other capitalists still the ruling class?
Therefore, Dusand believes that it is not only necessary to carry out revolution in the empire, but also has a sufficient "market".

That being the case... let's form a party.

In the conference room, Dusand took out his long-prepared party founding manifesto.

"A ghost, a **** ghost is wandering in the universe..."