76 The Yellow Sparrow That Flew Away (9)

At the end of 1933, before the storm in Japan was in place, the Chinese side caused a storm in Taiwan. The liberation of Taiwan is a very significant event, but Chen Ke really has no feelings. It's like taking a straight flush and comparing the size of a pair to a winning hand. I used to read Napoleon's famous quote "Not bad news, don't wake me up!" At that time, Chen Ke thought that Napoleon was very good. It was only after Chen Ke himself took the lead that he felt that Napoleon was just telling the truth. Because the good news affects precious sleep, which is an absolute desecration of life. In Chen Ke's position, the last thing that is lacking is all kinds of news, and what is lacking is the time to sleep. However, the news from Taiwan has caused Chen to extend his working hours for some time.

After the bald head retreated to Taiwan, it didn't take long for him to encounter an uprising. With Chen Ke's prudence, it is impossible for him not to remind the comrades stationed in Taiwan of such things. However, what should have come is still coming, and when preparing to implement the land reform, the local landlords in Taiwan also showed fierce resistance.

The People's Party confiscated the property and land left by the Japanese rulers during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and this was a very smooth thing. These processes, including replacing Japanese hospitals in Taiwan with Chinese doctors, have been supported by the local Taiwanese masses. Even when some Chinese nationals who were lackeys of the Japanese were killed in Taiwan by the small detachments of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army for more than 10 years, they did not meet with any resistance.

However, these days did not last long. The People's Party is not ready to put forward a comprehensive land reform plan at this time, and it is ready to start implementing it in a few years. Things did not go so smoothly, and less than half a year after the liberation of Taiwan, the matter of rebellion came out, and the more troublesome it became.

Taiwan is not a small place, and there are many contradictions. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a Qing Dynasty in which Fu Ke Dou, Quanzhang coaxed, all kinds of collective fights, large and small civil uprisings, and never stopped, and this kind of folk customs made Qing Dynasty officials call Taiwan a difficult place to govern. After the liberation of Taiwan, the local people in Taiwan did not feel so elated. There were also some large local families, such as the Koo family, who contacted a group of local gentry who wanted to establish a council.

The People's Party's attitude toward the gentry has been consistent for several decades, believing that the gentry have never been reliable, and the practice on the mainland has also proved that this view is by no means groundless and deliberately slandered. In order to restore feudal traditions, the gentry always jumped up and down. The BJP simply excluded the gentry altogether politically. There is a rule in the glass ceiling of the civil service that the gentry will never be hired, and the children of the gentry will be admitted last. This is the exclusion of the gentry from the system.

But a basic norm in the world is that "the temple is small and the demon is big, and the pool is shallow and the king is eight". The gentry in Taiwan went around camping, and when they couldn't do that, they began to make trouble. The reasons for causing trouble can be seen everywhere, for example, many cheap industrial products that are not available in Taiwan have been shipped from the mainland, which has greatly satisfied the needs of the Taiwan people. However, these commodities have squeezed out the business of Taiwan's private owners. After so many years of industrialization on the mainland, many commodities are quite competitive in the international arena, and Taiwan itself has no industry, and so many commodities entering Taiwan in a short period of time immediately made the private sector howl.

Another problem is the sugar business. The People's Party grows sugarcane in Guangxi and Guangdong. Because of the fertilizer such as synthetic ammonia, China's sugarcane production is high, the processing level is high, and there is also the technology to make full use of bagasse wine. The price of cane sugar is significantly lower than that of Taiwan. These cane sugars not only meet China's own needs, but also occupy the Southeast Asian market, and even exported to the United States and India.

The People's Party does not have the yen in its hands, and the renminbi does not fully cover Taiwan. Moreover, the purchase of local cane sugar in Taiwan according to the price of cane sugar on the mainland is not happy in the hearts of the cadres in Taiwan. This can only be done with the approval of the Ministry of Finance. So the speed of sugar acquisition is indeed a bit slow.

The local gentry in Taiwan have grasped these points, and some clever gentry know that the mainland has implemented a comprehensive land reform, and Taiwan is afraid that it will not be able to escape. So they began to agitate the local private sector to join the landlords in opposing the BJP. The reason is that the People's Party does not regard Taiwan as China at all and wants to plunder Taiwan's wealth.

If the People's Party really intends to do so, the comrades will be able to feel at ease when they are scolded and scolded like this. The problem is that the People's Party's economic policy is fundamentally tilted toward Taiwan, and in addition to rushing to supplement and improve Taiwan's original social service system after driving out the Japanese, it also provides a large number of commodities urgently needed by the locals, and even buys Taiwan's agricultural products at a discounted price. The result of these practices has been a total opposition. The People's Party has not engaged in this kind of pioneering work for several years, and when faced with this situation, the comrades have an attitude of anger and rush to the crown.

Parade! Demonstrations! Engage in some very sensational speeches! These people led by the local gentry in Taiwan spared no effort. No matter how high-sounding it is on the surface, the whole idea is to seek power, to retain the old system, and at the same time to take advantage of the mainland.

The BJP has many intelligence channels, but it was the Security Bureau that first passed the information to the Central Committee. Chen Ke didn't think there was anything strange about this kind of thing at all, he just asked a question, "Who is the current secretary of the Taiwan Provincial Party Committee?" ”

"Zhuo Xiansheng." Chen Tianhua replied.

"We still don't want to interfere with local work lightly." Chen Ke gave such an answer.

"What if the local forces collude with the remnants of Japan?" Shang Yuan was a little nervous.

Chen Ke was not nervous at all, "I'm not afraid of them making trouble, I'm afraid that they won't make trouble." Isn't it clear who is the enemy and who is the friend in this trouble. I see that our comrades now have a good grasp of the issue of principle, and absolutely cannot make any compromise with those old forces. ”

"But after all, Taiwan has been separated for so many years...... Shang Yuan felt that Chen Ke's attitude was a little too tough.

Chen Ke sneered, "It is a fact, not a reason, that Taiwan has been separated for so many years. According to this theory, the province of Laos has been lost for hundreds of years. None of the Chinese characters are used locally, but it's not good that we implemented the new system in Laos. We are not engaged in revolution, not relations. Our task is to bring every region and every person in China into the new era as soon as possible. As for whether they like or resent this new era, that's a matter of personal choice. Zhejiang has never been separated at all, Cai Yuanpei is still an old revolutionary in the past, what is the result? We have to dig up the old system from the roots, and the benefits of the old system will naturally play with us when they see that they have no capital to do power in the new system. ”

The situation has been analyzed to such an extent that the comrades can only put an end to this topic for the time being. In the system of the People's Party, there is no command that exceeds the level of command, so unless it is a unified decision of the Politburo or the Standing Committee, the government cannot interfere in the actions of local comrades in Taiwan until the Taiwan Party Committee has formally applied for a report. This seems to be very respectful of the work of local comrades, but it is also a very cruel way. Once you fail, you fail, and there is no possibility of shirking it at all. Of course, there are also countermeasures to hide the facts and fabricate lies, so the rest is a matter of the level of the supervision mechanism in all aspects.

After talking about Taiwan, Chen Ke suddenly said another thing, "My three terms of president are about to expire, and I will retire next term." ”

The comrades looked at each other, and now one term is five years, and three terms are 15 years. Chen Ke means to officially leave the position of president according to the system. Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Zhang Yu spoke, "Then Chairman Chen, do you mean that you want to elect the next candidate?" ”

"That's what I think, since I'm the chairman. The chairman of the party is elected. But as for the president, I can't put forward the next term in this position, and I think the election work should be handled by the Politburo Standing Committee and the comrades of the Politburo. Even though he said that he would not interfere, Chen Ke still did not flinch in deciding on the system.

Qi Huishen saw that everyone was silent, so he asked, "Will you step down from the position of party chairman?" ”

"The chairman of the party is elected by the party members, and I obey the decision of the party committee." Chen Ke replied.

After saying this, all the Standing Committee members felt a sense of relief. As long as Chen Ke is still sitting in the position of party chairman, it is not important who the president chooses.

The comrades' eyes then wandered back and forth on Shang Yuan, Chen Tianhua and Qi Huishen. It is clear that these three are the most competitive candidates.

The news spread quite quickly, and the views of the comrades of the Politburo and the Central Committee of the People's Party were basically the same as those of the Politburo. As long as Chen Ke is still the party chairman, then no one has the possibility of shaking Chen Ke's position. In such a situation, the president of the state can be regarded as a set of teams and two brands, and his approximate status is similar to that of the defense minister. It is likely that it is not as important as the premier of the State Council.

Legally speaking, the president of the state is elected by the people's congress and theoretically represents the choice of the people. At present, the People's Party is the vanguard of the broad masses of working people, the Chinese ruling class, and this is the same as the party leader, and there is no doubt that the party chairman should lead the state president.

On the contrary, the prime minister, as the top person in charge of the civil service, is a real unit of real power. Chen Ke can indeed decide the fate of the premier of the State Council with one sentence. However, there are still many formalities to go through in practice. As for the president of the country, as long as Chen Ke is not dead, he is still in the position of party chairman, and the position of theoretical dignity is also the nature of a stamp.

Since nothing has changed in the power structure, no one will be confused or uneasy. The honorary and respected position of the president of the country should be held by the respected old-timers. Shang Yuan, Chen Tianhua, and Qi Huishen are undoubtedly very suitable candidates. As for who will elect the president, Chen Ke's approach has been appreciated by the comrades.

Chen Ke's personality is at best said that he can afford to put it down, and at worst he is very lazy. For the things that he decided to let go, Chen Ke has never looked back. Chen Ke never adds anything unnecessary to his home, and occasionally there is an accident with such a thing, if someone is willing to take it, Chen Ke will thank him repeatedly, "You are doing harm to the people!" "I even invite people to dinner to express my gratitude. This is true for the objects of life, and it is also true for official positions.

Chen Ke's son is still young, and this is the period when naughty mischievous people don't want to see dogs. So only Chen Ke's wife and daughter knew Chen Ke's true thoughts, and Chen Ke answered their questions like this, "According to our family's ancestral teachings, even if I ask for food on the street, it is impossible to use other things to elevate my identity." For an independent person, no one or anything has such value. They don't deserve it. Anything that tries to decorate oneself with something external is self-defeating, as long as you have your own business and work hard to get the job done. The amount of work to be completed by Hu Zhigouying is still beyond his reach. Desire is as little as possible, and less is as little as possible. ”

Since Chen Ke sees the world in this way, he really only cares about his own work and formulates systems. After it is formulated, it will also look at the operation of the system. But he didn't care at all about what the system was doing.

Chen Ke didn't want to be idle and had idle time, after dealing with these things. Comrade Trotsky, head of the Siberian region of the Russian Republic of the USSR, came to visit Chenke. Comrade Trotsky has been becoming more and more unsatisfactory in recent years, first in the Central Committee of the CPSU Central Committee headed by Uncle Iron Man, in all his opposition to him, and now he has simply been brought in as secretary in the frozen Siberian tuna kicked from Moscow. Siberia is such a vast area that only two square kilometers can be divided into one person. By the criteria of population density, this is no man's land. There are more tigers and bears in this land than there are people. At this point, Comrade Trotsky must have been full of complaints.

During his visit to the Soviet Union, Chen Ke made a public report that the CPSU had to have "iron discipline," which was clearly in support of Comrade Stalin. This is also Chen Ke's original intention. Uncle Iron Man took power in the Soviet Union and then opposed Trotsky's "theory of permanent revolution". It is extremely wrong to think that Trotsky's view of "denying the revolutionary role of the peasantry, advocating skipping the stage of the democratic revolution and carrying out the socialist revolution directly, and that socialism cannot be built in a single country" is extremely wrong.

The People's Party had proved that it was not impossible for a socialist revolution to take place in an agrarian country, and some of Trotsky's arguments were rejected by the facts. Trotsky, however, looked at the ongoing "anti-feudal struggle" in China and considered it a revolutionary theory that could be used.

Uncle Iron Man believes that the development of human society will follow the direction of primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society, and communist society. The point of view of the comrades in China is quite different from that of Uncle Iron Man. In particular, in judging the current stage of world development, the Chinese comrades believe that the world environment is now in the middle and late stages of feudal society, and that the biggest enemy of the capitalist system and the socialist system is the "feudal system" within them. Even with the acceleration of the pace of society and the outbreak of the economic crisis, it will continue to show a continuous cycle of strengthening and weakening.

This view is more "conservative" than the mainstream view of a communist or socialist party in any of the world. Now most people in the world with some political awareness believe that the world has entered the stage of absolute struggle between capitalism and communism. However, Chen Ke dared to say that the world had not yet been freed from the feudal system, and gave a new definition to the feudal system. In addition to the division of land, the division of power was also included in the scope of the feudal system. If this revolutionary theory could be truly established, then Trotsky would most likely shake the one established by Comrade Stalin.

At this point, Chen Ke no longer has any scruples about changing history. He bluntly said to Comrade Trotsky: "Comrade Trotsky, I do not want to evaluate your views on the revolution, nor do I want to evaluate Comrade Stalin's evaluation of the revolution. Our perception of the world is all relative, and from the point of view of the ultimate absolute truth, we are all imperfect, and may even be very wrong. Because different opinions belong to ideology, and the organization of communism belongs to the material form. As a materialist, we must insist on the primacy of matter and the consciousness of the second. So what you are doing now is not right from the point of view of the revolution. Sticking to one's own personal point of view can probably be counted as a good quality. But without good operation at the material level, there is no way to build a good country. ”

Trotsky did not expect Chen Ke to come to such a show, and while he was silently meditating, Chen Ke continued: "I seriously give you a suggestion, after you return to the Soviet Union, write a letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU, acknowledging that your actions do have a real effect on splitting and influencing the Central Committee. And promise not to make such mistakes again in the future. I think that the comrades of the Central Committee of the CPSU are broad-minded and can understand whether what you are expounding is sincere or not. And it will also arrange you with a suitable job. ”

Trotsky was also extremely annoyed when he listened to Chen Ke's suggestion, and since Chen Ke really said a very practical question, Comrade Trotsky also replied very simply: "Now the atmosphere of arbitrariness and arbitrariness of the Central Committee of the CPSU is becoming more and more prevalent, and this has violated Marxism and Comrade Lenin's organizational principles. I feel that these practices are now rapidly sliding towards feudalism. ”

Chen Ke replied: "Comrade Trotsky, of course you can oppose feudalism, but you cannot split the Central Committee of the CPSU. Do you think it's a solidarity attitude? Was it the iron-clad discipline of the CPSU formed by Comrade Lenin? ”

Trotsky had already understood what Chen Ke meant, and he stopped the topic and began to exchange views on feudalism with Chen Ke.

After Trotsky left, Chen Ke ordered a copy of the record of the meeting to be sent to Uncle Iron Man. Such a resolute move came as a surprise to the Politburo Standing Committee. Chen Ke explained: "I would now say that I am sincerely helping Comrade Trotsky, helping the comrades of the Soviet Union, do you believe it or not? ”

The comrades of the Politburo can believe it, but they doubt that Uncle Iron Man will believe it. Chen Ke himself was a little skeptical, but he still had the most basic trust in Comrade Stalin's personality, and he replied: "As long as Comrade Stalin is not confused, he will be able to understand my true thoughts." It doesn't matter if we don't understand it, we have to get things sorted out first. I met Comrade Trotsky because he was one of the representatives of the CPSU. There was no follow-up after the talks began, which is not good for everyone. ”

After these things were done, Chen Ke turned his gaze back to his neighbor to the east, "Have you read the plan sent by Comrade Bei Yihui?" After reading it, can you agree with Comrade Kita Yihui's idea? ”