Smooth sailing was the biggest feeling in China from 1925 to 1928. According to the habits of Chinese agriculture, life is getting better day by day. As long as there is an area with a railway, life changes faster. The national health campaign, the national science popularization campaign, and the national law popularization campaign must be repeated every year. Other than that, it's work, work, work!

Cloth and farm tools that are not expensive can no longer surprise the laborers, and they can buy bicycles, watches, and radios after working hard. If you do your job well, you are also eligible to apply for a loan to buy a product such as a tractor.

The masses of the people have also discovered that they have an extra privilege, that is, "auditing the work of cadres", the method of auditing is very special, everything the cadres have said, there is a record, and a general meeting is held at the end of each year, and the people evaluate whether what the cadres say has been fulfilled or not. According to the BJP, this is called seeking truth from facts, and the government itself cannot talk nonsense.

If the people have anything they are not accustomed to, they can report or complain to the people's congress. Every month, the people's congress publishes a group of people's opinions, and determines whose proposals, reports, or complaints will be formally discussed. There will be some feedback after each conference.

These are of limited significance to the people, at most they are a bit of a hilarity. Rural people care about the movies that are shown once a week, as well as the various technological services provided by agricultural technology service companies. How can we get more food, buy more bargains, and bring a lot of fresh products to the service team every time.

The most important thing is whether you can join the engineering team and participate in the engineering construction projects in various places during the agricultural slack season every year. In the past three years, the purchase price of grain has risen somewhat, from two cents to three cents and a half. Even so, for rural households, such income growth has not kept pace with household demand. If you want to make money, you can rely on whether you can participate in urban engineering construction more during the agricultural slack season. It was a daily livelihood, and although it was very tiring, after three months of work, I earned more money than I could earn from farming in a year.

The feelings of urban residents are relatively complicated, and the biggest feeling is the issue of wage increases. Cities are getting bigger and more factories are numbering, but wage gains are limited. The good ones who are engaged in agriculture still have the income from the land, but there is no such good thing in the industry. I didn't work this month, and I won't have anything to eat next month. Although each family has a certain amount of savings, it can last for a few months. But there are more and more new things, and the pockets are getting more and more shriveled.

As for the biggest object of dissatisfaction in the civil service, I am afraid that the central government led by Chairman Chen Ke is very stinky. After becoming an official, he is high, and he has the power and money. In fact, civil servants have a hard time, and they really have the heart to sell white flour and earn money from selling cabbage. After studying the new system on their own all day, they also have to explain various systems to the people, and after the people's congress finally gets the "right to supervise," the civil service system still faces the threat of being complained about every day.

Everyone is slowly getting used to these troubles. The fact that everyone feels is that this day is really different from what it was more than ten years ago. The whole of China has become a stranger, the China of the past has not changed much for decades, and tomorrow is just a simple repetition of yesterday. Now every tomorrow will be a little different from yesterday. Or a new commodity, or a new factory, or a new system, or even a new way of life.

For example, the privately owned restaurant and barber businesses in the city are the most obvious. In the past, the survival life of a restaurant would be at least about 3 years, but as the city moved into the city, the number of restaurants increased dozens of times. The average of restaurants has fallen all the way to less than a year and a half, and the life expectancy of restaurants in many big cities has fallen to less than a year. If you can't make money, you will be finished, this bloody competition is a fact that consumers don't care too much, consumers just choose their favorite restaurants. From the point of view of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, these are two completely different things.

More than one person in the party is already questioning whether Chen Ke is practicing communism and socialism. The core of China's economic policy is to expand employment, not to create a XXX country. Regardless of whether it is a state-owned enterprise or a private enterprise, as long as it can expand employment, whether it is private ownership or not, it is allowed to exist in policy. Chen Ke did not come up with any advanced theories, but he put forward a point of view, "Industrialization and urbanization will inevitably involve the whole of China, and we must get through this period."

The old revolutionaries were noncommittal about this, and some young cadres were very puzzled by Chen Ke's non-revolutionary attitude, because industrialization had brought about countless new contradictions, and the young cadres had to face these complex contradictions. The old revolutionaries have been squatting in the localities for almost a long time, and they have not said a word except to remember, listen and ask questions. Within a year and a half, the meeting reached the upper echelons, and after that, new systems and regulations were promulgated. Some young cadres who do not perform well will also suffer. Those with active brains are promoted quickly. But that is always a minority, and for the majority of cadres, they can't even understand what is really going on in society.

By the beginning of 1928, there were several trends in the party, among which the more mainstream trend was to demand that Chairman Chen Ke be able to put forward a standard that would "never change" and a system that would be strict and unchanged for thousands of generations. Even if this hard-won system has to be relearned by everyone, everyone feels that it is much better than the current mess.

At this time, Chen Ke was inspecting the work in Hebei, and there were some changes in the top level of the People's Party. Yan Fu died in December 1927, before his death, Yan Fu took the hand of Chen Ke, who came to visit, and held the hand of Sa Zhenbing, who was also in front of the sickbed, and said with tears: "I have been running for the country all my life, and I have died without regrets after recovering Korea." I have only one request, to scatter my ashes in Dadonggou after death. So many comrades-in-arms and students stayed there, and when I arrived at the foot of Jiuquan, I could personally tell them that the shame of North Korea had been washed away. Rest in peace. ”

The old man did not ask for the annihilation of the Japanese fleet, and Chen Ke was very moved by this. Being able to accept defeat is Yan Fu's heroism. "I will go to Dadonggou with Commander Sa in person."

Sa Zhenbing held Yan Fu's emaciated hand, and he was also in tears. "Brother Dao, you go first, and I will be buried in Dadonggou with you after I die. I have good news for you myself. ”

Yan Fu's memorial service was simple and grand, Yan Fu's body lying among the flowers was covered with the party flag, and the party and state leaders personally attended and presided over the memorial service.

The burial ceremony was not so easy, theoretically Yan Fu's children had the greatest right to speak, but no one dared to compete with Chen Ke, the "disciple of Yan Fu", for this decision. Chen Ke couldn't change the arrangement rashly because of Yan Fu's matter. In January 1928, Chen Ke went south to inspect the work and inspected the South China Sea Fleet at the Zhanjiang Naval Base in Guangdong, and then went north with the main force of the South China Sea Fleet to Qingdao to join the Yellow Sea Fleet. The flagships of the two fleets were two Chinese battleships, 1025 and 1026. When asked by a comrade in the navy about the significance of such a portal number, Chen Ke replied: "In the future, the number of our warships will exceed 1,000, and there will not be enough four-digit portships." ”

When the Yellow Sea Fleet participated in the training and the warships buried at sea, the second tonnage warship was very delicate, and it turned out to be an aircraft carrier with the number 0004. With a displacement of 15,000 tons, the aircraft carrier adopts a completely new design idea. The island-shaped control tower on one side, the teak deck is fully connected, the take-off end deck is upturned at 15 degrees, and three lifts are equipped with high-pressure gas-driven auxiliary take-off speed increase devices. Although the tonnage is much smaller than the existing aircraft carriers of the United States and Japan, the aircraft capacity is up to 48 after the elimination of naval guns for artillery warfare and heavy armor.

This design idea is completely different from the traditional navy's thick-armored large-caliber artillery, and Chen Kecai's ability is also finalized. China's two fleets conducted a large-scale exercise as planned, during which Chen Ke was not armed with two battleships, but with aircraft carriers. This is an experimental warship designed entirely by China, and the upper echelons of the navy even know that the various logistics personnel in colorful vests running on the aircraft carrier, and even some exaggerated body instruction language, were formulated by Chen Ke. There are also the positions of the judges who determine whether the plane can land, and even some of the criteria of the judges, which are also completed under Chen Ke's instructions. They all know very well that Chen Ke, chairman of the Central Military Commission, already has his own ideas about the structure of the future people's navy.

After the exercise, it was finally time for Yan Fu's burial ceremony, but Chen Ke changed to a battleship. The attention paid to these details touched the officers and men of the navy very much. Chen Ke was the founder of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and Yan Fu was undoubtedly one of the founders of the People's Navy. Everyone knows that between aircraft carriers and battleships, Yan Fu is undoubtedly more enthusiastic about battleships. And Chen Ke's choice to scatter Yan Fu's ashes on the battleship is also a real respect.

In the waters of Dadonggou, the March of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was played on the loudspeakers on the battleship, and Yan Fu's children sprinkled Yan Fu's ashes mixed with flower petals on the sad ground of the Chinese Navy. Theoretically, Chen Ke is a retired soldier, and together with his commanders and fighters, he paid tribute to this senior who dedicated his life to the Chinese Navy.

On January 22, 1928, after landing in Tianjin, Chen Ke arrived in Beijing, the capital of Hebei Province. Shang Yuan was inspecting in the north, and at this time the two met and prepared to return to Zhengzhou together.

The train still has half a day to go, and it's Chinese New Year's Eve. Chen Ke and Shang Yuan are not lively people, they did not attend the New Year's party, listening to Chen Ke briefly introduce Yan Fu's funeral, Shang Yuan suddenly proposed, "Let's go to Teacher Li Hongqi to have a look, the two of us will be happy to go to the teacher." ”

"You'll be a little happier." Chen Ke said with a smile.

"It's all the same." Shang Yuan sighed.

In 1928, of course, there was no such thing as total warming, and it snowed on Chinese New Year's Eve as usual. Naturally, every family is lively and lively for the New Year, and the car that Chen Ke and Shang Yuan are riding is parked at the gate of the cemetery at night, and the surroundings are really quiet.

On a snowy night, the sky was quite bright, and without the pressure of government affairs, Chen Ke felt in a good mood, and Shang Yuan looked very relaxed. The only problem is that Shang Yuan is almost 60 years old, and the physical strength of this former Qingju revolutionary is obviously not as good as that of 48-year-old Chen Ke. Chen Ke matched Shang Yuan's pace, and walked slowly on the soft snow in the silent and uninhabited cemetery.

Neither of them wanted to talk about government affairs, Shang Yuan said slowly: "It's been five years since the teacher died, and I remember that his death day was just a few days. But I haven't come to see the teacher once, but I was able to come and see it today. ”

"It's similar to the last time we saw Teacher Li, it's just the two of us." Chen Ke replied nostalgically.

"I said, Wen Qing, what kind of burial method do we have after we die?" Shang Yuan asked.

Chen Ke smiled: "You, if you die, you should be able to be cremated and buried, but I don't know." Anyway, after death, there is such a pile of meat, and the party committee can dispose of it as much as it likes. ”

Even if these two people don't want to talk about government affairs, it is impossible to avoid government affairs in anything. Shang Yuan also replied slowly: "You mean that you will be like Comrade Lenin." ”

Chen Ke had no fear of death at all, and he replied: "People are dead, why do you want to do so much." After death, you should sleep quietly, where is the reason why the dead worry about the living. ”

Shang Yuan couldn't help but smile when he heard Chen Ke's words: "It seems that Teacher Li also said something similar." ”

Li Hongqi's tomb is very simple, among the rows of tight tombstones, very ordinary positions, very ordinary tombstones. The tombstones were covered with snow, and there was nothing in front of them. Shang Yuan was suddenly stunned, and Chen Ke immediately replied: "I didn't bring the tools to sweep the tomb, let's wipe the tombstone." ”

After speaking, Chen Ke untied the scarf from his neck and handed it to Shang Yuan, and he used woolen gloves himself. Neither of them was a particular person, and after wiping the tombstone vigorously, Chen Ke slapped the snow off the scarf and wrapped the scarf back around his neck. After standing in front of the tombstone for a while, Shang Yuan finally couldn't help but say, "Wen Qing, you should be very clear about the direction of the wind in the party recently. ”