The election continued, and Chen Ke saw half of it and felt the need to look any further. But having a beginning and an end is the key to doing things, and from the beginning of Chen Ke's ability to understand words, his family instilled this concept in him. But until before the crossing, Chen Ke couldn't do it, he felt that he could control the situation, and some things were not impossible even if he didn't see the bottom. And now Chen Ke's thinking is not on the election at all, even if he barely watches it, he can't gain insight from concentrating on the election. After weighing for a while, Chen Ke finally decided to leave the venue.

Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren followed Chen Ke back to the barracks of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army near Yuezhangji, and were finally able to talk to Chen Ke head-on, both of them feeling a little nervous. Along the way, I saw that the People's Party was in an orderly manner in governing the base areas, and although there was no obvious improvement in the lives of the people, it was not necessarily worse than that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. You know, this is not an ordinary year, Anhui just suffered a big flood last year. Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren saw many victims in Nanjing, who have not been able to return to their hometowns until now. Compared with those ragged victims, the life in Fengtai County is very abnormal.

After sorting out his mood, Huang Xing said: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the president of our Alliance, invited the People's Party to join the Alliance. Mr. Sun said: With the revolutionary merits of the People's Party, we will definitely let you serve as the vice president of the League after joining the League. ”

While Huang Xing was speaking, Chen Ke had been staring at Huang Xing intently, and his bright gaze made Huang Xing feel very uncomfortable. In a moment's distraction, Huang Xing couldn't speak. He paused, and then continued: "I don't know what Mr. Chen thinks. ”

Chen Ke said frankly: "Mr. Huang, I am very grateful to Mr. Sun for his kind invitation, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to be overwhelmed by large troops. We just don't have time to deal with this. It's better to wait for us to defeat the Manchus before discussing this matter, I don't know what Mr. Huang thinks? ”

Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren were most afraid of this, if the People's Party single-handedly defeated the Manchus, then this victory had nothing to do with the alliance. Sun Yat-sen's meaning was very clear, no matter what, let the League pull the People's Party. This is a major matter related to the future development of the League, and the Liberation Society accuses the leaders of the League of hiding abroad and not being revolutionary at all. Although the League also launched a number of uprisings, each one ended in complete failure. All it takes is one victory, and now all the Alliance needs is a victory that proves their strength.

According to what Chen Ke said, Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren have to return to Japan now. I don't know when it will be when to negotiate with the People's Party, Huang Xing's temperament is already more impatient, but because his prestige is relatively high, Sun Yat-sen is unwilling to return to China, so Huang Xing has to be the negotiator this time. After being cleverly rejected by Chen Ke, Huang Xing didn't know how to continue the topic.

Song Jiaoren saw that Huang Xing couldn't continue to speak, so he quickly picked up the conversation, "Mr. Chen, Mr. Sun has already said that the position of vice president of the alliance is now vacant for you, Mr. Chen. You are busy with military affairs now, and you don't need to go to Japan in person. Just say a word from you, and the vice president of the league is yours. ”

Chen Ke had the same plan for Sun Yat-sen as Spiegel, and as the president of the Alliance, Sun Yat-sen must do his best for the political interests of the Alliance. Chen Ke understands Sun Yat-sen very well, but Chen Ke will not have the slightest bias towards the alliance because of Sun Yat-sen's fame in history. As the chairman of the People's Party, Chen Ke also has the obligation to maximize the interests of the People's Party. The constitution of the People's Party clearly stipulates that "before joining our ranks, members of the Chinese People's Party must sever all ties with parties and groups that run counter to our program." ”

History has shown that the League, and the Kuomintang derived from it, ran counter to the political program of communism. What Sun Yat-sen and the others tried to establish was a capitalist republic, and what the People's Party wanted to establish was a socialist country, and the two were basically incompatible. Chen Ke believed that the League was a potential enemy of the People's Party, and that it was impossible for Chen Ke to agree to cooperate with the League, let alone allow the League to borrow the name of the People's Party.

Looking at Song Jiaoren's expectant gaze, Chen Ke didn't feel moved at all. He said calmly: "The prestige of our People's Party is earned by the hard work of the comrades of the People's Party and the sacrifice of the lives of those revolutionary martyrs. I can't associate the popularity of the BJP with other parties. This is our principle. I appreciate the revolutionary enthusiasm of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and all the members of the League, and I thank him again for his kindness, but I will never be able to take up the post of vice president of the League. Nor can I allow anything to happen between the BJP and the League until the BJP Party Committee holds a general meeting of all the delegates to discuss it. ”

Huang Xing's diplomatic rhetoric didn't understand for a while, he thought about it carefully before he understood what Chen Ke meant, Huang Xing's eyes widened, and his voice was full of humiliation and indignation, "Mr. Chen, do you mean that you will never cooperate with our alliance?" ”

"For the sake of the Chinese revolution, we will cooperate when we all need it. Now there is no basis for cooperation. If you two don't have anything else to do......"

"Mr. Chen," Song Jiaoren interrupted Chen Ke, knowing that Huang Xing was not good at words, "Mr. Chen, why do revolutions always have to divide each other?" Wouldn't it be good to work together to overthrow the Manchus? ”

Looking at Song Jiaoren's face full of anxiety and Huang Xing's face full of anger, Chen Ke couldn't be sure for a while whether he was going to completely tear his face. He has no experience in fighting against political parties outside, and with Chen Ke's temper, once he tears his face, he will definitely not have the slightest tolerance. Although Chen Ke is not the character of "villain's revenge from morning to night", once he offends him, he can also make the choice of never getting along with each other. However, in history, the virtues of the League were not as tolerant as Chen Ke, and after the Xinhai Revolution, the League killed the Restoration Society, and even people like Chen Ke who did not know much about the history of the Restoration Society knew about it. It's not just the Restoration Society outside the Alliance, but now with an inexplicable look on his back up in front of Chen Ke, Song Jiaoren, one of the leaders of the Alliance, is also a victim. Behind the case of the assassination of Song Jiaoren is confusing, and many people believe that the mastermind of the assassination of Song Jiaoren is Sun Yat-sen, at least Sun Yat-sen is also an informed and acquiescing person.

Chen Ke's nature is very afraid of needless trouble, and he thinks that to deal with the group of hooligans of the Alliance, after tearing his face, he can only kill them all. Chen Ke also knew that he was not the kind of person who could particularly calm down, and once he made up his mind now, unless he achieved his goal, he would always have this thing in his heart. Now is not the time to compete with the allied accountants, and the main enemy Chen Ke faces is still the Manchu Qing. But let Chen Ke be perfunctory, he really hasn't learned how to stabilize these people in the Alliance.

How to choose? In the face of problems, Chen Ke habitually retraces his own thinking, hoping to find corresponding solutions from the education he has received. He remembered one thing, Chen Ke also thought that the revolution was a great cause to defeat the counter-revolution when he was a teenager, and once he talked about it with his parents, and his parents greatly ridiculed him for talking nonsense about hairy children. Chen Keli was speechless, and said loudly in anger: "I understand politics. The parents stopped laughing at Chen Ke, but burst into laughter. There was no specificity in that laughter, but the kind of laughter that naturally elicits when you hear the most outrageous jokes. This laughter made Chen Ke feel an extreme humiliation.

Now that Chen Ke occasionally thinks about it, he himself bursts out laughing when no one is around. For his naivety back then, Chen Ke felt really ridiculous and terrifying. Politics is about interests, and politics is about positions. From the point of view of the exploiting class, there is naturally a position of the exploiting class, and from the point of view of the exploited class, there is a completely different standpoint. Not long ago, Chen Ke completely understood what was wrong with him back then, because the young Chen Ke regarded the revolution as a "great cause" like a game, and did not stand on any position at all, that is, the delusion formed by children playing games excessively. In terms of that child's play attitude, Mo said that the exploited class would not regard Chen Ke as its guide at all, and the exploiting class would also disdain Chen Ke. That's the position. No one will accept as a comrade-in-arms a comrade-in-arms who sees the political struggle of life and death as a game.

Now Chen Ke finally feels that he is on the people's side. Then "who is the enemy of the revolution and who is the friend of the revolution." "Don't think about it anymore. Grandpa Mao said, "If you seek peace in struggle, you will survive in peace; If you seek peace in compromise, you will die in peace. The idea that Chen Ke is still trying to compromise for the time being is a sign of his political immaturity.

Thinking of this, Chen Ke said to Song Jiaoren: "Mr. Song, our People's Party is for the benefit of the people to bring down the Manchus. It seems to me that the purpose of your Alliance's so zealous involvement in this war is nothing more than to truly expand the interests of your Alliance through this time. If I were to become the vice president of the League now, and our People's Party had failed, the League itself would have nothing to lose, and it would still be possible to propagate that the League had launched another tragic uprising. If our People's Party succeeds, the League can declare that you have won a great victory. As the chairman of the People's Party, I will never be able to stain the top of your League with the blood of our People's Party fighters. If I agree, it will be a betrayal of the BJP, and I am the biggest traitor to the BJP. ”

After saying this, Chen Ke felt relaxed, this may be the so-called "firm revolutionary stance", Chen Ke felt that after only considering problems from the standpoint of the people's revolution, all his troubles disappeared cleanly. On the one hand, there is a simple revolutionary cause, and on the other hand, there is a complex self-existence. There is a transparent but tangible barrier between the two, and personal emotions such as fear, sympathy, annoyance, and pity, although still there, are no longer an inseparable part of Chen Ke himself. Chen Ke felt that this feeling was very good, and then he even forgot about it. The whole world is different.

Huang Xing knew that what Chen Ke said was right, knowing the facts and being able to accept the facts calmly were two different things, he stood up angrily, pointed at Chen Ke and said loudly: "Chen Ke, what you said is too much. ”

The guards behind Chen Ke saw that Huang Xing was about to make a mistake, and had already pulled out his pistol, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren. If it was before, Chen Ke would always subconsciously feel that this hurt the harmony and was not good. Now Chen Ke just felt that it was inconvenient for Huang Xing to poke his head in the room like this, he didn't look at the guard behind him, pointed to the stool behind Huang Xing, and said calmly: "Mr. Huang, please take a seat." ”

Huang Xing didn't choose to sit down, but Song Jiaoren also stood up. Seeing that both of them wanted to argue with themselves, Chen Ke also gave up his efforts to overwhelm the other in momentum, and he waved his hand. The guards then withdrew their pistols.

Soong Jiaoren was quite good politically, and he was able to become the actual founder of the Kuomintang in history only because of his old qualifications. Unlike Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren has seen that Chen Ke's opposition to cooperation with the League is by no means just because of "partisan interests". Song Jiaoren didn't know why Chen Ke was so resolute, he really wanted to understand this matter, "Mr. Chen, I know that we will definitely not be able to cooperate this time. However, I don't know one thing, and not to mention the interests of you and my two parties, I think Mr. Chen has completely denied our alliance. Please explain this point to Mr. Chen. ”

Chen Ke appreciated Song Jiaoren's political sensitivity, and it was very easy to talk to people who understood, "The princes of the League regarded themselves as revolutionaries, and they wanted to lead the people to revolution. Right? ”

This question was really beyond Song Jiaoren and Huang Xing's expectations, they frowned, although they instinctively wanted to deny Chen Ke's words, but they couldn't.

"We, the People's Party, have always believed that we ourselves are the people, and that it is not our People's Party that wants revolution, but that the people, including our People's Party, need revolution. This is the essential difference between our People's Party and the League. You are the spring and the snow, we are the people of the lower riba, you want to take advantage of the people, and we ourselves are with the people. ”

"The purpose of our revolution is for China!" Huang Xing really thought so, and he was firm when he said this.

"If it is for the people, then bring benefits to the people. When you come to our base area, I don't think I see any actual benefit to our base area except that you want to get benefits from us. So your words are not convincing. ”

Song Jiaoren replied: "Mr. Chen, you have become the vice president of the League, and your reputation has risen to a higher level, and everyone in China and abroad can know Mr. Chen's prestige, which is very beneficial to the revolutionary cause." ”

If it was in the past, Chen Ke might have smiled first before speaking, but now he didn't have any expression on his face, just replied calmly: "Being the vice president of the alliance is just my personal benefit, what is the benefit of my personal reputation to the people?" Imposing a victory that belongs to the people on my head, saying that it is for the sake of the people, is actually only stealing the interests of the people. Then I, Chen Ke, am just a deceptive and a thief. ”

Chen Ke was so outspoken, Song Jiaoren simply said what was in his heart, "Mr. Chen, do you have to give the People's Party the credit for overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty monopolistically?" ”

"Mr. Song, what you say is the essential difference between the People's Party and the League. It is not our People's Party that wants to overthrow the Manchus, but the people who want to overthrow the Manchus. If you don't understand this, then there is no need for us to talk about it. Your alliance will be able to continue your revolution by taking money from the rich and spending it yourself, and then getting some people to revolt. You take your Yangguan Road, and we take our single-plank bridge. ”

Huang Xing was not good at this kind of theoretical debate, although he also propagated revolution, but he always propagated how bad the Manchu Qing Dynasty was, and how foreign countries were like wolves and tigers. It seems to be to the point, but in fact, it is high. When Chen Ke talked about the people's revolution, Huang Xing did not have the ability to debate systematically. However, Chen Ke faintly ridiculed the alliance to cheat money and spend it himself, but it touched Huang Xing's sore spot. He grabbed Song Jiaoren, who was about to speak, and his originally angry tone became painful, "Mr. Chen, many revolutionaries in China think that our alliance will be very rich. In fact, we don't have any money, not to mention others, I, Huang Xing, have been revolutionized until now, and I am penniless. Brother Song Jiaoren received a letter from his brother a few days ago, saying that the family's clothes had been taken out and pawned, and the fields that had just grown green seedlings had been sold, and the old mother missed him very much, hoped that he would go home, and hoped that he could send money home or take it home himself to alleviate the family's financial difficulties. After reading the letter, Brother Song was so sad that he couldn't do anything, he hated to grow wings and fly home to visit his mother, and he wanted to find a way to get a sum of money to send back, but he thought left and right, and in the end there was no way at all! We don't have any money, and every comrade who supports our revolution is bankrupt and supports the revolution. If you say anything else, I think I'm a shallow learner. You are talented, we can't compare. But I will not allow you to use for nothing. Huang Xing's initial tone was very heavy, but later, Huang Xing's eyes were firmly focused on Chen Ke, and his voice was resolute, obviously moving his true feelings.

Chen Ke looked at Song Jiaoren's suddenly heavy expression, and knew in his heart that Huang Xing was not talking nonsense. In fact, how much money can the alliance really hack, as far as their ability is concerned, the money they can cheat must be limited. If the Alliance is rich and wealthy, wasting some money may not have such a big impact. But when the financial resources are exhausted, getting a sum of money must be boasted by the villain, and a little squandering is even more disgusting.

After pondering for a while, Chen Kecai said: "Both of you, you are both revolutionary predecessors, including the League, and your contribution to the revolution cannot be erased. However, the position of the League is different from ours, and we in the People's Party want to build a socialist system against exploitation, and your revolution is destined to make you choose the position of the exploiting class. In this regard, we have nothing to cooperate with. If these two gentlemen really regard themselves as ordinary people and really stand on the position of working for the welfare of ordinary people and creating a tomorrow, then they might as well join our People's Party. With us, the two of you will surely meet thousands of comrades who are revolutionizing for a better life. However, if the two of them are only for the interests of one person and one family, or only for the interests of one party and one faction, then our People's Party will absolutely not accept it. ”

Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren originally wanted to persuade Chen Ke to join the League, but in the end, Chen Ke persuaded them to join the People's Party. They all knew that there was no going to talk about it anymore. Song Jiaoren replied: "We understand Mr. Chen's kindness, since Mr. Chen refuses to cooperate with the Alliance, we will go back and tell Mr. Sun." ”

Chen Ke nodded, it's not bad that this matter has come to an end. "That's fine. In addition, I will prepare to return to Fengtai County immediately. Please also ask both of you to come with me. ”

The three of them didn't speak on the road, and as soon as they returned to Fengtai County, Chen Ke asked the guards to go to Chen Ke's account at the People's Bank of China and withdraw 100 silver dollars. He handed each of the rolls of oiled paper wrapped in fifty silver dollars to Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren. "Two, I am the chairman of the People's Party, so naturally I cannot use the party property of the People's Party. This is private money, but it is not to support the two revolutionaries. This is a little bit of heart for the two of you to bring to your own elderly. Please don't refuse. In addition, if the two of them are not worried about the base area being besieged by the Manchus, they can temporarily move their family members to Fengtai County. I don't want to take your family as hostages, because in our base area, it is not a problem for ordinary people to survive. Life is not a bargain. ”

Song Jiaoren naturally excused himself, and Huang Xing knew that Song Jiaoren was of noble character and never took the private property of the Alliance. Huang Xing was very clear about the situation in his family, and it was himself who mentioned this to Chen Ke. Huang Xing simply accepted the two money. He smiled bitterly and said, "I have received Mr. Chen's wishes, and our family naturally does not dare to bother Mr. Chen to take care of them." I borrowed this money from Huang Xing, and I will definitely return it to Mr. Chen in the future. ”

The difference between Chen Ke and Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren is nothing special, everyone shook hands and said goodbye, Chen Ke and Huang Xing Song Jiaoren turned their heads and walked in their respective directions, but they didn't look back.

Although Chen Ke sincerely sent money to Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren, he himself was also a poor ghost. Part of this money is his wife He Ying's private money. After taking the money, Chen Ke also felt very embarrassed. After getting off work, Chen Ke told He Ying about it a little hesitantly when he got home.

He Ying just frowned slightly, "Wen Qing, if you think this money should be sent, then send it." But we really don't have more money, so don't make it a rule. ”

Seeing that Mrs. was not angry, Chen Ke hurriedly replied, "I know." I don't have any money in my pocket, and I can't continue to burn buns if I want to. ”

Hearing Chen Ke's pitiful words, He Ying was angry. However, He Ying's face suddenly turned red, and she said generously: "Wen Qing, I seem to be pregnant." ”

Chen Ke didn't understand what he meant at first, and then Chen Ke suddenly shuddered, and without knowing it, Chen Ke's eyes widened more and more. He is going to be a father, this is something Chen Ke has never imagined. Although he could command thousands of troops and horses, and could bear the livelihood of millions of people in the base area, Chen Ke really felt for the first time that something could hold him down so heavily. Chen Ke's head seemed to be boiling with thousands of thoughts, but it seemed like there was nothing.

"Huh." A smirk finally woke Chen Ke up from this situation, and then Chen Ke realized that it was actually his own smirk.

"Haha!" He Ying couldn't help but laugh when she saw her husband's stupid appearance. This was the first time He Ying laughed out loud after getting married. Chen Ke felt that this laughter was very good, anyway, no matter how he listened to it, he felt that the beauty was indescribable. Listening to He Ying's laughter, Chen Ke felt that his bones were about to be crispy, and the husband and wife didn't know what to say, so they simply hugged each other tightly at a loss.

Feeling his wife's soft body and smelling the fragrance of his wife's body, Chen Ke felt that for the first time since he got married, he really felt a real connection with his wife. That's not something that reason can explain, that's a feeling, that's a belief.

"Wen Qing, I like you." He Ying said in Chen Ke's ear.

"Me too." Chen Ke felt that his breathing was not smooth, and he said with a short breath.

The husband and wife let go of their arms, and the two stood face to face, He Ying was not yet 19 years old this year, Chen Ke felt that his state of mind was like that of a teenager, and he couldn't help but smirk. He Ying was also smiling, it was a smile from the heart, and her beautiful eyes were full of tenderness.

If someone hadn't knocked on the door, God knows how long Chen Ke and He Ying would have stood hand in hand like this. He Ying suddenly twisted her body shyly, but Chen Ke broke He Ying's twisted shoulder. This is the first time that Chen Ke feels that he has a kind of righteous and bright idea of wanting to take his wife with him. Looking at Chen Ke's gaze, He Ying also understood what Chen Ke meant, she smiled and pushed Chen Ke, "Open the door." ”

It was a correspondent from the county party committee who came in, "Chairman Chen, a part of the people of Yue Zhangji are demanding that the local elections be reheld. ”

"Why?" Chen Ke was a little confused. The election was going on very well when he left.

"People are not satisfied with the candidates, and everyone is asking for a new election." The correspondent said, "The director of the district party committee of Yue Zhangji will report on the specific situation immediately." ”

"I see, I'll go to the office right away." Chen Ke said.

After the correspondent left, Chen Ke felt that the part of Fang Cai's happiness that made him at a loss had disappeared, and he grabbed his wife He Ying, "Jun Jie," Chen Ke called his wife's cousin, "Don't tell others about pregnancy, okay?" ”

"Okay." He Ying nodded.

Chen Ke was afraid that his wife would not understand, so he explained: "As the chairman of the party, I can't take this lead, and we won't accept gifts." ”

"I have to return the gift when I receive the gift, I'm lazy, I don't want to spend it." He Ying said with a smile. Chen Ke could see that this was his wife's true words.

"Well said, I love you!" Chen Ke said as he kissed his wife on the cheek.

He Ying took Chen Ke's hand and sent him to the door, Chen Ke turned his head and looked at his wife several times, and then suddenly remembered, "I won't come back to eat at night, you go to the cafeteria to get some food." ”

"Okay, I'll go now."

"When I get back, we'll discuss how to make a recipe."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

"I'm ......" Chen Ke stammered and didn't know what to say, and finally said, "I'm leaving." ”

"Well, be careful on the road."

Reluctantly letting go of his wife's hand, Chen Ke followed the correspondent who was waiting outside the gate.