"Comrades, why is the class struggle so cruel? Because the class struggle is a naked struggle of interests. This kind of struggle is not a struggle of wills in which you scold me and I scold you twice, but a struggle to maximize the interests of our own class. Therefore, once the class struggle is in full swing, there will inevitably be extremely terrible killings. So don't think that the Restoration Society will always stop after beating away the western Zhejiang branch. Even if they don't have a clear ...... philosophy, no! Just because they don't have a clear concept, the struggle and killing will be extremely cruel, because they subconsciously want to establish an order for thousands of generations, and they will rely on instinct to take advantage of this chaos to maximize their own interests! Li Shouxian tried his best to persuade the comrades of the West Zhejiang Branch, hoping that they would be able to provide a comprehensive list of the Restoration Society.

The young comrades of the western Zhejiang branch listened carefully one by one, but no one dared to believe that the landlords and gentry could continue to expand the scope of killing for their own selfishness. The corpses that have been killed in western Zhejiang are all over the field, and the result of continuing to kill can only be that the whole of Zhejiang will become a sea of blood.

Even Ji Ye didn't dare to easily express clear support for Li Shouxian's opinion, she asked with a little hesitation: "Secretary Li, how crazy does this be?" My family was born as a landlord, and I was not sympathetic to tenant farmers and peasants. But I don't believe the kind of indiscriminate killing you are talking about. ”

Li Shouxian smiled bitterly. While believing that the so-called "human nature" dominates human behavior, Li Shouxian also believes that there are too many incredible things in the world. When Li Shouxian studied materialism, he realized that all seemingly illogical things are driven by their own internal interests. The naked cruelty of these inner interests is even unfazed, and the darkness and tyranny of human nature are fully exposed in it. If we cannot look at these things in the light of materialist dialectics and historical outlook, most people will not be able to distinguish them with reason at all. They will even stubbornly deny that these things are inevitable.

For example, the young cadres of the Liberation Society in front of them resolutely refused to admit it.

Li Shouxian knew that the discussion of such issues must have the preconditions of a level of understanding, and that it was useless to discuss things on a case-by-case basis, and that if they were forcibly discussed, they would only cause all kinds of confusion, and he would no longer continue to discuss these issues. I'm just telling you what we expect for the future. Who can provide the entire list outside of Zhejiang? ”

The young cadres of the Liberation Society looked at each other, first, they did not have a complete list, and second, they did not believe Li Shouxian's words, and since the Zhejiang West Branch of the Liberation Society was not the Zhejiang West Branch of the People's Party after all, there was no reason to provide Li Shouxian with such confidential information. The whole situation was deadlocked.

Li Shouxian did not want to urge it, and the People's Party had no intention of carrying out a comprehensive rescue. Since Chen Kedu had already set the tone of "educating the whole party and the whole army through the performance of the counter-revolutionaries," Li Shouxian naturally would not go his own way. He did this in the hope of saving the young comrades of the western branch of Zhejiang, who were perhaps the most likely allies of the People's Party in all of China. If these people's horizons are not expanded, the brutal experiences they have experienced may not be translated into wealth for these young people.

"Secretary Li, let's discuss it first and see if everyone knows this part of the list." Ji Ye answered Li Shouxian's request in the most tactful words.

"Okay." Li Shouxian replied, "If there is anything you want us to help with, just mention it." ”

When leaving the Zhejiang West Branch, Li Shouxian sighed softly regretfully, and finally the possibility of saving the members of the Liberation Society as much as possible disappeared in this hesitation.

While Li Shouxian tried his last hand to save the party, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces were clearly going on against the party. In Guangzhou, there is some disagreement over how to delineate the list.

"Sun Wen of the League put forward the three-min doctrine, which clearly pointed out the equal land rights, and I think this is the same as the People's Party, and it should be completely eliminated. I don't know what you think? ”

"There are many members of the Alliance, and Speaker Chen Jiongming Chen is also a member of the Alliance. Isn't it inappropriate if everyone in the alliance will not let go? "There were also different opinions.

"At that time, the revolutionary mood in Guangdong was extremely high, and when we revolted, the People's Party didn't know where it was! It's just that most of the incidents back then were from the Restoration Society and the Alliance. It's very troublesome if you get involved. ”

The situation in Guangdong was complicated, and the revolutionary party in Guangdong was divided into two categories: the local revolution and the overseas Chinese revolution. Political opinions are not important, the key is that these people are intertwined, and if they are blindly implicated, it will be a complete bad debt. There are some people who cannot be offended by the forces behind them, regardless of their position. This makes it quite tricky for those in charge of making the list.

The three stinkers competed against Zhuge Liang, and after some discussion, someone finally figured out this joint, "Then let's do it this way, let's first list all the people suspected of disrupting the party." We ourselves are all reliable, so it is up to us to single out the sins that do not deserve to die. What do you think? ”

"That's great!" The people who were in charge of drawing up the list were all amazed.

With this in mind, the idea became more broad-minded, "If we make the list, there will still be a shortage of manpower." If we nominate reliable local people, we will review them first. These local people know the situation in each place, and they nominate the local list, and we just need to review it. It's much faster than we do. ”

The new proposal was approved by everyone, as long as these people held the power of review and did not kill the wrong people who should not be killed. The rest is extremely simple.

If there is a way, there will be people to do it, and there is no shortage of militia groups in Guangdong, and all chambers of commerce have their own armed forces. And western Guangdong is a mountainous area, and there are more bandits and militias. Not long ago, the army in the Liangguang region suffered a devastating blow, and the locals in Guangdong did not like to be soldiers. The military had no choice but to recruit the security bandits and rebuild the Guangdong army with these recruits as the main force. Although the performance of these "heroes" who do the business of licking blood with knives and heads is unpredictable, they are very good at suppressing ordinary people.

In the early morning of April 12, 1915, the New Army of Guangdong, which had already been arranged, blockaded Guangzhou and other cities, while the British army in Hong Kong also blocked the border. Not only did the army dispatch throughout the city, but the foreign patrolmen also got the list of concessions, and after knocking on the door of the house where the "rebels" lived, they began to arrest people without saying a word. The Guangdong New Army was even more unscrupulous, and they directly rushed into the "residence of the chaotic party" and began to arrest people. After the arrests, the new army, of which these bandits were the main members, returned to their old business and carried out "raids" against the rebellious parties. In just three days, 20,000 people were arrested in major cities in Guangdong, all of whom were former revolutionaries.

Chen Jiongming, speaker of the Guangdong Parliament, never expected that he would arrest the rebellious party of the Restoration Society, but the rebellious party of the Restoration Association was not caught, but the members of the League were arrested. He hurriedly went to find Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangdong. Lu Rongting was also inclined to revolution for a time, and when Sun Yat-sen led the Zhennanguan uprising, Lu Rongting reported to Sun Yat-sen.

But Chen Jiongming was disappointed, and Lu Rongting had an embarrassed expression, "Competing for survival, the alliance will always shout for equal land rights, and it is unreasonable to say that they have nothing to do with the People's Party." And you also know that the landlords and gentry in the Pearl River area have been dissatisfied with the constitution of the League for a long time, but most of them are revolutionary pioneers, and these landlords and gentry did not dare to touch them before. ”

"What?" Chen Jiongming thought that he had misheard, his eyes widened, "Lu Gong, this time I want to exterminate the People's Party, how can I do it against the Guangdong Revolutionary Party?" ”

"The landlords and gentry insist on this, but what can I do?" Lu Rongting's face was innocent.

"Lu Gong, this is not right!" Chen Jiongming was a little angry, "If you do this, isn't that a personal vendetta for the communiqué?" ”

The proportion of members of the League in the Guangdong Parliament is not small, and this is entirely thanks to the blessings of the Guangdong Revolutionary Party. Chen Jiongming is not stupid, he knows that this mass arrest has become a kind of power grab. The traditional Cantonese gentry wanted to regain their traditional dominance through this arrest.

"Jingcun, I know your thoughts. But I don't think you should talk nonsense for the time being, it's not that no one is beating you. Lu Rongting didn't want Chen Jiongming to continue to make trouble, so he "admonished" without being soft or hard.

Chen Jiongming did not agree with Lu Rongting's advice, and he said loudly: "If they have thoughts about me, they can come to me." I, Chen Jiongming, have always been above board, and I have nothing to be afraid of. ”

Lu Rongting saw that Chen Jiongming didn't listen to persuasion at all, so he had to persuade him with good words to appease Chen Jiongming.

But Chen Jiongming is a character who does not admit defeat, and seeing that Lu Rongting is not moved, Chen Jiongming went to find Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang. Zhang Renjun is old and refined, how can he come to mix this troubled water. Not to mention that the local faction in Guangdong that tried to purge the League had already won Zhang Renjun's support.

Chen Jiongming could not find reinforcements, but fortunately he convened a parliamentary meeting in his capacity as the speaker of the Guangdong Parliament, at which Chen Jiongming had a heavy attitude and a painful expression. After briefly briefing the members of the Guangdong parliament, Chen Jiongming demanded that the arrests be stopped and that all of Guangdong's forces be used against the People's Party.

The local legislators from Guangdong are willing to agree that most of these congressmen from the revolutionary party are not rich people, so they are not entirely inclined to the rich in terms of policy. These local gentry finally got this opportunity to purge dissidents, and in the face of Chen Jiongming's challenge, the gentry immediately demanded a re-election of the speaker of the Guangdong Parliament. Chen Jiongming never imagined that these legislators would so openly seize power, and the parliament's demand for a new election of the speaker requires the consent of a simple majority of more than half of the parliamentarians. These MPs were clearly prepared, and in the blink of an eye, half of them signed the motion order and demanded immediate re-election.

On the afternoon of April 18, the Guangdong Parliament re-elected its speaker, Chen Jiongming lost the election, and the local gentry chose Zhang Mingqi, the former political envoy of Guangdong, as the new speaker of the parliament.

As soon as the election ended, Zhang Mingqi had already stood on the rostrum with great ambition and arched his hand to the parliamentarians, Zhang Mingqi said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, at a time when the country is in turmoil, if we fully rely on the so-called parliamentary order, it will be self-inflicted. Therefore, it is proposed that the parliament immediately examine the crimes of collaborating with the enemy by some of the members of the parliament. ”

Chen Jiongming was frightened by these words, and it may not be surprising that he lost the election for speaker, but Zhang Mingqi's statement showed that he had been prepared. When the revolutionary councilors, including Chen Jiongming, were surprised, the door of the parliament hall suddenly opened. A heavily armed army rushed in.

Zhang Mingqi sneered: "Arrest all those chaotic parties for me!" ”

The officer who took the lead agreed, and then pounced on Chen Jiongming and the others like a wolf.