A Dream of Jinling Chapter 349 The Profit-Seeker (6)

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“…… Production, and the exchange of products that accompany it, is the basis of a social system; In every historically occurring society, the distribution of the product, and the division of the society that accompanies it, into classes or hierarchies, is determined by what is produced, how it is produced, and how it is exchanged. ”

"Therefore, the ultimate cause of social and political change should not be found in people's minds, in their growing awareness of eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange; It should not be found in the philosophy of the time, but in the economy of the time. ”

The growing awareness of the irrationality and unfairness of the existing social system, of the "turning rationality into nonsense, and happiness into misery" is only a symptom of the imperceptible changes that have taken place in the methods of production and the forms of exchange, and that the social system adapted to the earlier economic conditions is no longer compatible with these changes. ”

At the same time, it also shows that the means used to eliminate the ills that have been discovered must also exist in the relations of production themselves, which have changed in a more or less developed form. These means should not be invented in the mind, but should be discovered in the mind from the ready-made material facts of production. ”

This is the core of what I want to say in Anti-Dühring. Whether they are historical materialisms, they do not produce any material goods in themselves, and they cannot even be regarded as the basis for the inevitable production of correct ideas. Every qiē depends on practice! As the Chinese saying goes, the working people are the masters of the country. ”

Uncle En recounted his famous "Anti-Duhring Theory" in the party school, and when he mentioned some political slogans of the Guangfu Party, Uncle En thought it was very funny. The kingdoms of Europe shouted "Long live the king", and that was the duty of the system. When China had an emperor, it was said that "the working people are the masters of the country", which is indecent. What is even more amazing is that the Chinese workers not only feel that they should be the masters of the country, but also feel that they should have such an emperor in their heads.

Of course, as a teacher hired by the party school, Uncle En could not ask this question directly when he was very young. And the ideology within the Liberation Party did make Uncle En's find it interesting. It's a strange mixture to Europeans, but it's a system based on morality. Just like Plato's system of "sage-king".

"China is a very moral country, and although morality has its own class nature, the morality that China recognizes is still more inclined to the toiling masses." Wei Ze once said this to Uncle En, and Uncle En was also quite concerned about this.

Whether it was Wei Ze who became the supreme emperor, or Wei Ze who claimed that he was a citizen on an equal footing with ordinary people, or the Guangfu Party openly proclaimed that the working people were the masters of the country. Uncle En felt that in Chinese society, the influence of social morality, or village rules and folk customs, far exceeded that of European countries. The Liberation Party destroyed the old feudal system and established a considerable number of new systems and ideas. While those rural rules and folk customs that have not yet been destroyed continue to exist, the new system and ideas established by the Guangfu Party to benefit the people have become the standard for the Chinese people to evaluate the Guangfu Party government.

This mode of suppleness and incomparably tenacious tenacity made Uncle En very emotional, because the Chinese people really believed that Emperor Wei Ze had to have unparalleled ability and morality, which was the equivalent price for him to obtain the supreme power he has today. This reciprocal attitude of "power and responsibility" is indeed much more revolutionary than the European tradition of "God save the king".

As usual, Uncle En's lecture answered many questions from the students, and he was not able to get out until the next class began. When he returned to the office, Uncle Eun picked up the newspaper and read it. Uncle En's regret is that there are no big European newspapers on the Chinese side. But the content of China's state-run newspapers is no less than that of the big European newspapers. At least in Uncle En's eyes, the news delivered by Chinese newspapers is more important than those European newspapers.

The headline on the front page was "The Central Government is about to implement a new agricultural cultivation plan", and Uncle En's eyes became sharp when he saw only half of it. He read the article carefully three times before putting down the newspaper. The comrade next to him didn't expect Uncle En to be so serious, he picked up the newspaper and browsed for a while, but he really didn't see anything wrong. The newspaper said that the state needs the people to support the construction of the country, and called on the masses of the people to sign up in the places where they are recruited and to participate in the work of agricultural reclamation in the northern areas where their incomes are higher.

In such an article, he vigorously emphasized the importance of land state ownership, and at the same time thoroughly attacked and opposed the clan system born during the period of "low level of productive forces and backward level of development of the social system", and called on the people to follow the state and smash those clan elements who hope to rely on the clan to continue to exploit the interests of the people.

These are all things that have been shouted at many times before, and they are not unfamiliar to a member of the Liberation Party. Emperor Wei Ze's position on these matters has been the same for decades, and even if he can't talk about hearing the cocoon, at least he is familiar with it.

Both Uncle En and Uncle Ma were once soldiers in the newspapers, and Uncle Ma once criticized the Russian Tsar in the newspapers, and the Tsar's dissatisfaction was attacked. So Uncle En's insensitivity to newspapers for the Chinese is very unaccustomed. The situation in China is compared to that in Europe, where everyone is undoubtedly crowded out of the cracks in the doors and windows, trying to get some useful information. And the Chinese government is opening the door and telling everyone about the future policy without hesitation.

Therefore, with dissatisfaction with the Chinese, Uncle En asked: "Xiao Zhang, don't you think this comprehensive land reform is a big problem?" ”

"Isn't this the government's encouragement to immigrate to Canada?" After Comrade Xiao Zhang finished speaking, he felt that his account was incomplete enough, so he added, "We conquered the United States, and then divided the land in the United States for everyone to plant, and in the end we were still immigrants." ”

"With such a large scale of land division this time, aren't you worried that some people will oppose the state ownership of land?" Uncle Eun raised his concerns. In a world where private ownership of land is the mainstream, China's state ownership of land is so unique. Uncle Eun was worried that the system would meet with great opposition.

Comrade Xiao Zhang blinked puzzledly, "Mr. En, if the land is privately owned, everyone has no money to buy land." Now you don't want everyone to pay for land, if you want to farm, you just need to apply for farming. Isn't it true that we grow maps to collect grain? As long as the system allows us to farm well, isn't it? ”

Uncle En was silent, this ordinary party school worker said the simple feelings of a peasant, and there was a kind of righteous attitude unique to laborers in these words. In some European countries, this land would probably be regarded as a commodity on the market, but in China, land is simply regarded as a means of production for cultivation and harvesting. After arriving in China, Uncle En was shaken by the characteristics of the country several times, but this shaking clearly had no intention of ending. "Is it the people of China who identify with labor in particular? Or do the Chinese people not feel deeply about the commodity economy? Uncle En thought silently in his heart.

China's administrative capacity was one of the things that shook Uncle Eun the most. Emperor Wei Ze, in his capacity as president of the state, issued an order, and the entire Chinese administration began to carry it out in accordance with this order.

Of course, there were steps to these orders, the first of which was to eat all the land west of the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. The 24th Army under the North American Theater of Operations, which has already implemented military management, is stationed in the Portland area, and Qi Rui, chief of staff of the 24th Army, is receiving equipment at the Port of Portland.

As a member of the Portland conquerors, Qi Rui also feels very interesting to revisit the old place. Of course, the young soldier also felt the reality of the political zhì. More than half a year ago, the war decimated the populations of Washington and Oregon. The local Union Army was killed, the local rebels were killed, and a large part of the locals fled the two places when they saw that something was wrong.

At present, the remaining population of the two states is not as large as the number of troops of the Liberation Army, except for a very small number of people who live in the deep mountains. Stationed in the states of Huashengton and Oregon was the newly formed Fifth Corps, which was composed of three corps, and the corps was generally composed of at least one group army and several other corps-level units. At present, the Fifth Corps has one group army and three independent corps under its jurisdiction. Each corps was reorganized according to the way motorized infantry was formed, which was 300,000 troops. There are also fewer than 300,000 local people in the entire state of Washington and Oregon.

Portland is now the largest city in both states, with nearby cement plants already producing products, and Portland has transformed from a traditional American city dominated by wooden structures to a city of reinforced concrete with Chinese characteristics.

Of course, the city of Portland is full of soldiers, and there are also many ordinary people and locals. There were even a number of people with distinctly Indian ancestry and tribal costumes gathering in the city.

October 1 was a major event in Washington and Oregon, and on this day, the local people in these two states decided whether to secede from the United States of America and join the Republic of China.

Qi Rui was no longer in the army at this time, and his official identity at this time was the secretary of the party committee and chief instructor of the motorized infantry department of the Xinxiang Military Academy. It would have been a waste to let this experienced motorization expert continue to live and die on the front lines. It's not that someone is making sycophants, that's what the policy of the Liberation Army is.

Watching the port city with people coming and going, trucks galloping, and the local people who temporarily stopped their work to vote for a vote surrounded by a large number of Chinese, and then rushed back to the port to continue their work. Qi Rui felt that this time the matter was too formal.

After picking up the trucks and accessories that had been delivered to the dock, Qi Rui was about to go to the camp with these new equipment, which were obviously greatly improved, when he saw an ambulance drive into the dock with its characteristic blue overhead lights flashing. I don't know who fell ill, Qi Rui couldn't help but look closer, the patient was wearing clothes from the dock, and his head should be a local. However, what made Qi Rui feel strange was that the transporter who popped out of the ambulance was actually Wei Jianjun, who had been incorporated into the reserve.

Wei Jianjun was assigned to the reserve as a regimental-level cadre, and according to the tradition of being demoted to three levels after retirement, he would not get to the point of driving an ambulance. Qi Rui wanted to step forward and ask what was going on. But if you think about it carefully, I feel that it is too Meng Lang to do this. He asked the receiving troops to return to the camp with their equipment first, and went to the personnel department of the Fifth Corps himself.

Although the 24th Army is recognized as the core unit of the Fifth Corps, the 24th Army is regarded as a teaching force, so the comrades in the Personnel Department do not know Qi Rui. What's more, Qi Rui is in charge of the department in charge of retirement, and those soldiers who have a future on the battlefield will not be allowed to come here.

However, the cadres of these departments still stood up to salute Qi Rui, and a major general, especially a young major general, made everyone feel the attention of everyone.

Qi Rui simply returned the salute and asked: "I was originally the chief of staff of the 24th Army, and I want to investigate whether a regimental-level cadre named Wei Jianjun of our army went to work in the hospital after being transferred to the reserve?" ”

"Please fill out the application here. Also, can you show me your military certificate? Although they did not dare to slack off, the responsible cadres still followed the requirements put forward by the process.

"Okay." Qi Rui took out his military card and handed it to the cadre. After the other party checked it carefully, he compared the photo with Qi Rui himself, and found two other people to verify it together according to the regulations.

Qi Rui waited patiently for this, he didn't have any special feelings about such a process. If he had been prepared and had applied for a letter of introduction, things would have been much easier. Now that the incident happened suddenly, Qi Rui just had to rely on the privileges brought by his status as a general to inquire about the information. The personal information of the army is a very high level of confidentiality, Wei Jianjun is a regimental-level cadre assigned to the reserve, and Qi Rui still has the authority to check it. If it was the active regiment commander, Qi Rui would have come in so rashly to check the information, and the result would probably be that he was pulled to the front of the regulations posted on the wall and told that it was not okay.

There are not many cadres at the regimental level, and they are newly retired cadres, and Portland's archives department does not have too many adult files. Information about Wei Jianjun was quickly called up. Qi Rui couldn't help but be surprised after reading it, Wei Jianjun was assigned to the Portland Civil Affairs Department as a department-level cadre. It's a long way from the hospital unit.

"Thank you." After Qi Rui signed the returned signature, he shook hands with the comrades in the personnel department and said goodbye.

After going out, Qi Rui didn't want to go back to the training camp directly, and among the retired cadres, Qi Rui regretted Wei Jianjun's firm departure the most. The departure of such a serviceman from the unit is really some kind of loss.

Maybe this guy isn't doing well in the local area. After Qi Rui gave himself a reason, he asked his motorcycle driver to go to the civil affairs department. It would be nice if Wei Jianjun could be persuaded to return to the army.