Pang Zi refused to answer who leaked the news, and Wu Xingchen couldn't help it. During this rectification campaign, many cadres in the army were removed from their posts because of their warlord style of beating and scolding soldiers. As the commander of the military region, Wu Xingchen himself could not take the lead in making this mistake. What's more, he doesn't think that scolding can help.

Wu Xingchen said patiently: "Comrade Pang Zi, do you think we can't find out who looked for you in our investigation?" This time, from the end of the meeting to the time you talked to Chai Qingguo about this matter, there was not much time in between. It's not hard to find the leaker at all. ”

"Humph!" Pang Zi sneered, but didn't answer.

Wu Xingchen chuckled in his heart, and Chen Ke himself admitted frankly that there was the greatest possibility of leaking secrets from his side. The comrades present at the meeting also thought so. Everyone felt that the best-case scenario was for someone to get information at the time of the meeting and then there was a leak. Although such a thing is serious, it is really not a big deal, it is completely a disciplinary issue, and the involvement is not large.

The tricky thing is that if someone deduces the future strategic direction from Chen's actions, the leak arises. It's not as simple as finding the "leaker". That means that there is a problem with the entire organizational structure, and the entire organizational structure must be rectified. Against the backdrop of the rectification movement, if we carry out a comprehensive rectification of intelligence and secrecy work, the situation in the rectification movement will be so big that people will be afraid of it. Wu Xingchen knew that some comrades could recognize the rectification style, and he also knew that more comrades would have a wrong understanding.

Wu Xingchen knew Pang Zi very well, and he could see that Pang Zi's sneer was most likely because the leaker did not get the information at the meeting, but by summarizing the information himself, he came to the inference that the People's Party might use troops against Henan.

"Pang Zi, do you really think that leaks are not important? Isn't our intelligence security important? If this information is obtained by Yuan Shikai, they will make corresponding arrangements in advance. Our military operation against Henan will suffer a lot of unnecessary losses. It's not a question of money or materials, it's going to be the life of a lot of comrades! You can't be mistaken. ”

"Yuan Shikai counts as a ball!" Pang Zi replied with a sneer, "Don't talk about it now, when I led my troops to Hebei the year before last, we really attacked in two directions, can Yuan Shikai cross the Yellow River and return to Beijing?" Now we will fight foreigners, and when we were in Qingdao, there were many German cannons, and bunker groups were continuous. We're not going to do it. If it is said that my cavalry division will completely annihilate the Beiyang, it is a big talk. One of our divisions can definitely sweep Shandong or Henan. They don't fight at all. ”

Wu Xingchen had long known that Pang Zi would definitely come to such a pass, and he sneered, "Hmph! Comrade Pang Zi, when I heard what you said, I felt that you were not leading the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. You're obviously carrying your own ringing horse. ”

Under Wu Xingchen's ridicule, Pang Zi's face immediately turned red, "I killed the Manchus in Hebei and didn't dare to leave Beijing City." I also have merits in fighting Qingdao. Brother Wu, what do you mean by this? ”

Wu Xingchen sneered loudly, and then his face instantly became serious, even a little hideous, he stood up and slapped it on the table, Wu Xingchen pointed at Pang Zi's nose and asked, "Pang Zi, how old are you." You paid a penny for the creation of a cavalry division? You yourself have pulled the pole, can you not know how much it will cost to build a cavalry division of several thousand people. When Comrade Tianhua was pulling the pole in Nangong County, you occupied the entire Nangong County dart work, how many people did you raise? Are there five hundred?! Where did the chicken, duck and fish you eat come from, and you bought it from Pang Zi? Aren't they all provided to you by the farm run by Comrade Tianhua? Can you make a bullet yourself? Now you talk about it, how your cavalry division is. There is no People's Party, there is no base area, and you still form a cavalry division? You didn't wake up, did you? ”

This attack was like a knife, and Pang Zi's face turned white immediately. If someone else said this, Pang Zi could still pretend not to care, but being ruthlessly robbed by his eldest brother Wu Xingchen was completely unacceptable.

Wu Xingchen was about to go crazy, he no longer wanted to take care of Pang Zi's "decency". Now Wu Xingchen's chest was full of uncontrollable anger, and he slapped the table while shouting: "Pang Zi, you are also a man, you pat your chest and ask yourself, you can't fight without the cavalry division?" I don't want to say that you want to pull the team alone, you can't take it with you. Even if your entire cavalry division goes out, there is no staff department, no logistics office, what can you do outside except be a bandit? If you really think that you Pang Zi is amazing, okay, then I can ask the cavalry division to assemble now, and you Pang Zi can ride a tall horse and tell the comrades that you want to pull the pole yourself, and you will no longer be a member of the People's Party. I, Wu Xingchen, can guarantee in the name of the commander of the Huai Naval Region that whoever is willing to go, our military region will send him off. ”

When Pang Zi heard this, not only his face turned pale, but his whole body began to tremble.

Wu Xingchen vented like this, which can be regarded as calming down some emotions, "Comrade Pang Zi, you explain this matter clearly to the comrades who will be questioned later. It's okay if you don't confess, and you can go. ”

Regardless of Pang Zi's reaction, Wu Xingchen turned around and left the cavalry division headquarters.

Chen Ke listened to Wu Xingchen's report and frowned slightly. Wu Xingchen lowered his head, "Chairman Chen, I have always felt that Pang Zi is a good brother, and he was also very capable when he was the division commander. I was too indulgent of him at this point. I'm willing to take responsibility. ”

Chen Ke waved his hand at Wu Xingchen, "This is not in a hurry. I think Comrade Pang Zi's question of good people and bad people is very good. ”

For the youth of the 21st century, in this young and impetuous atmosphere of anti-tradition, good people and bad people are no longer the standard for evaluating people. If someone says "XX is a bad person", it is often perceived as too ill-informed. If someone pats their chest and says, I'm a bad person. Everyone actually doesn't think he's a bad person, but thinks that this person is inevitably "too two".

However, a hundred years ago in China, this good guy and bad guy were still the standard for evaluating a person, even the most important standard. The problem with this criterion is that if a person is recognized as a "bad person", if he is killed ......, he is also killed. Nobody cares. Chen Ke has never been a person who cares about the "rights and interests of criminals", but he also does not believe that the "moral court" can arbitrarily decide whether people live or die.

Chen Ke invited Wu Xingchen to sit down, and then said: "Comrade Wu Xingchen, when Comrade Pang Zi said this, I think his mentality can represent the thoughts of some comrades." They should not be afraid of punishment, but they don't want to be bad people at all. ”

Wu Xingchen's train of thought couldn't keep up with Chen Ke's thoughts for a while, and after pondering for a while, Wu Xingchen asked in surprise: "What Chairman Chen means is that one thing is one thing." Never implicated? ”

"No one's thoughts are isolated. Any thought is a manifestation of his entire system of thought. However, it is not possible for us to completely solve the problem of ideology now. Because many of our current material conditions are not available. If we are detached from material conditions and simply emphasize the ideological realm, then only a very small number of people can pass the test. Therefore, I think what Comrade Pang Zi said this time is very good. We must explain to the cadres and masses in the base areas that everything has a beginning and an end. We won't hold on to other people's pigtails, we won't turn over old accounts, and we won't settle accounts after the fall. We don't mention the term "good guys" and "bad guys", because now the masses think that good guys don't make mistakes, and those who make mistakes are bad guys. No matter what they ask of themselves, that's what they demand from others. So don't involve the good guys and the bad guys, we just need to demand that the current matter must have an explanation and an explanation. What do you think? ”

After Chen Ke said such a big call, Wu Xingchen would not be able to digest it for a while. This is indeed an era of struggle between the "good guys" and the "bad guys". In addition to giving a clear explanation in accordance with the regulations, many cadres had to label these guys as "big villains" in order to prove that the killing of them in the base areas was extremely justified. The masses of the people are very satisfied with the propaganda of the People's Party in glorifying the working masses, because these propaganda acknowledges that the common people are good people and that the common people naturally like them.

The reason why many comrades are very resistant to the rectification movement is that Pang Zi's words are very correct, because these mistakes are likely to directly classify them as "bad guys." It is an axiom that good people can kill bad people. Even for their own sake, no one wants to be reduced to the ranks of bad guys who can be "slaughtered at will by good people".

"I think this is good!" Wu Xingchen nodded again and again after figuring out the joint, "But Chairman Chen, if this is the case, what reason do we use to explain it to the comrades and the masses?" ”

The truth that Wu Xingchen refers to is the basic concept of the political and social concepts of the base area. Chen Ke said with a smile: "Just use the concept of socialism to explain." It is the productive forces that promote the progress of human society, and revolution is to liberate the productive forces to the greatest extent. In the final analysis, it is the word labor. ”

The two talked about this aspect for a long time, Wu Xingchen had not talked to Chen Ke so heartily about the concept for a long time, and as he listened, he felt that his understanding of the socialist system was quite misunderstood.

Labor is the only way to create wealth, and if we look at it from this point of view, society is naturally divided into two opposing classes: the exploiting class and the exploited class. China's traditional method of dividing good people and bad people has no basis for existence under such a clear-cut division method.

In the People's Party, if you make a mistake, as long as you do not become an exploiting class and elevate the contradiction to a "contradiction between us and the enemy," then it has nothing to do with the good guys and the bad guys, and this is a "contradiction among the people." In the "Theory of Contradictions", it is clearly stated that the contradiction between the masses of the people and the feudal system should be resolved by the method of democratic revolution; Contradictions within the Communist Party are resolved by means of criticism and self-criticism. As long as they do not directly become "bad guys" and "enemies" from cadres. This contradiction can be accepted by a considerable number of comrades who have been removed from their posts during the rectification.

After receiving Chen Ke's clear instructions, Wu Xingchen said excitedly: "I'll go and discuss this matter with Comrade Chen Tianhua now." ”

"Okay," Chen Ke replied, "but Comrade Wu Xingchen, I sincerely hope that in the future, comrades will be able to express their views on the issue first, because it is not only comrades who should follow the basic political concepts, but I must also follow these basic political concepts." ”

Wu Xingchen suddenly felt an inexplicable touch, he gave Chen Ke a serious military salute, and replied loudly: "Yes!" ”