174 Prelude to Conflict (1)

The evaluation work is not only for the troops, but also for the cadres opened in Xuzhou to participate in the excavation project. There are more than a dozen Japanese comrades in the cadre school, and there is also a non-staff member of genuine value. He is the North Ikki who came to "investigate".

Before the Spring Festival, the evaluation ended, and Bei Yihui also got his share of the prize. Two knitted towels, two toothbrushes, an enamel teapot with a sickle and axe logo, and four pieces of soap in a light yellow color with a delicate texture that makes people like it. Lying on his bunk, Kita Yihui brought the soap to his nose and sniffed it deeply, the aroma mixed with a pungent smell was shocking. Putting down the soap in his hand, Kita Yihui sat up a little irritably.

The recent news has really upset Kita Kazuki. As soon as he arrived, not long ago on January 24, 1912, Xingde Qiushui and 12 others were hanged. The sensational "Great Reverse Incident" in Japan has finally come to an end.

In late May 1910, a worker at the Minko sawmill in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, arrived at the factory with a bomb and was discovered. The Japanese Katsura Taro cabinet used this as a pretext to suppress the socialist movement in Japan. In June of the same year, the Japanese authorities began a mass arrest of socialists across the country, closed all trade unions, and banned the publication of all left-wing literature. From the end of 1910 to January 1911, hundreds of socialists were secretly tried and framed by 26 people, including the pioneer of Japanese socialism, Kotoku Akisui, for "committing the crime of attempted assassination of the emperor and attempting to assassinate the emperor." On January 18, 1911, 24 people, including Xingde Qiushui, were sentenced to death, and the other two were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.

In this era, the execution of political prisoners was recognized as a political evil. In Paris, London, San Francisco, New York and other places, left-wing masses held protest rallies and wrote letters of protest to Japanese embassies abroad. Under the condemnation and pressure of public opinion in Japan and the world, the Supreme Court was forced to commute the death sentences of 12 people to life imprisonment in the name of the emperor. However, Xingde Qiushui and 12 others upheld the original verdict.

The United States is quite opposed to Japan's move, and Japan does not dare to offend its biggest export target, so the Japanese government has even played a conspiracy and deliberately dragged it out for a year. It is impossible for the Americans' attention to continue to focus on Japanese political prisoners, and after the storm in the outside world has subsided, the Japanese government quietly hangs Kotoku Qiushui and 12 others.

Kita Ikki was also a nominal "dissident" in the Japanese government, and his relationship with the socialists was not particularly close, and he was not in Japan at the time, so he escaped this catastrophe. But between the Japanese government and these socialists, Kita Ikki was undoubtedly pro-socialist. Knowing that Xingde Qiushui and others were killed, Kita Yihui's mood was very low.

"These people must be made to pay the blood debt!" He thought hatefully.

But it is useless to be ruthless here, and Bei Yihui pinned all his hopes on the Chinese revolution. After losing faith in Japan's Meiji Restoration, Kita Ikki hoped that the Chinese Revolution would open up a new path. After the complete victory of the Chinese Revolution, Kita Ichiki, as the "Dai Road Party", led this powerful revolutionary force to overthrow the current rotten rule of the Japanese gate lords and create a truly fair and just Japanese state. For this reason, Kita Ikki firmly supported the revolution of the League, hoping to complete the Chinese revolution, and then liberate Japan and build an Asian alliance against the Europeans.

Even the alliance that was valued at the beginning has no future, and Kita Yihui has not lost confidence. He tried to learn the revolutionary path from the more powerful BJP. So far, Kita Ikki can't say disappointed, he just feels a kind of anxiety.

The revolutionary concept of the People's Party has the core program of "anti-imperialist and anti-feudalism" that Kita Kazuki endorses, and it has a firm line of pursuing social justice. That's all true, but on a practical level, the BJP has a style of saying one thing and doing another. According to Kita's observations, all of the BJP's energy, at least the vast majority, is at the practical level of building stronger base areas. As the standard-bearer of the Chinese revolution, the People's Party emphasizes practice over rhetoric. Externally, it showed a strong utilitarianism, not a strong revolutionary attitude. This made Kita Yihui extremely surprised.

The greater stimulus is the internal education of the People's Party, "the state is the instrument of class rule", "the law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class", and "the ruling class in the base areas is the broad masses of laborers". This was very unacceptable to him.

In a chaotic mood, Kita Yihui picked up the soap again and put it under his nose and inhaled deeply, the pungent smell of the alkaline substance made Kita Yihui's spirits lift a little. He is not a hairy boy who has never seen the world, and life in the base area must not be called bad. These bonuses and the daily meals that are comparable to those of Japan's gates, even the life of a Japanese naval officer is nothing more than that, not to mention the salary.

However, this is a far cry from Kita's hopes. What he wanted to learn from the BJP was how to build a strong revolutionary party, but what he learned most in the months was how to do practical work. This may be feasible for the base areas where political power has already been established. It can be said that the People's Party has put great effort into "awakening the broad masses of the working people." Chen Ke firmly believes that one of the characteristics of the ruling class itself is that it learns how to manage itself and learns to recognize the essence of society.

One of the first aspects of the training in the cadre school is to enable the cadres to have a clear understanding of the current social situation and learn how to organize labor production. In this lake digging project, all the cadres and schools went into battle. Bei Yihui originally thought that learning to organize labor production was to learn how to "organize the masses to work and produce", but he never expected that this was to let the cadres learn how to organize the students to engage in production through labor.

How tiring it is to engage in production, Kita Yihui didn't know before. He decided to join the revolution that year, and in order to raise funds, Bei Yihui did not devote himself to labor production, but joined a gang, and obtained start-up funds by collecting protection money and blackmailing rich people. The People's Party's approach to production, Bei Yihui also thought about it, but he vetoed this idea of slow money.

Since he wanted to learn about the organization of the People's Party, Kita Yihui had no choice but to learn to work. The so-called labor is not a group of people discussing how to do a better job at all, but a group of people who first pick up tools and bury their heads in digging holes. The hands will be worn out, and the rubber soles of the liberation shoes will be slippery, and the cold weather will also freeze out chilblains.

The solution to many problems made Kita feel that it was simply "inhumane". For example, if you want to solve the blood blisters on your hands, the only way is to wait for the blood blisters to burst and grind the calluses, which can solve the problem. When the blood blister just burst, the pain of the stabbing made Kita Yihui extremely unhappy. The BJP comrades have adopted "mutual encouragement" as a solution.

The so-called organization of the society is not China's Ming Zun and Humility, and it is not the strict hierarchy of Japan. The first rule of organization is to make everyone equal, and it is criticism and self-criticism. Everyone has to "tell the truth". Or, to put it more colloquially, in the old Chinese saying, "know how many buns you eat and how many bowls of soup you drink."

Bei Yihui understands some Chinese culture, for example, Confucius in the Analects said when talking about "shi", "Words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful, and you are a villain!" Or it can be secondary. ”

The education of the BJP is not aimed at producing revolutionaries who can overthrow the old system, nor is it about the big men who can command one side. It was actually this kind of "villain", which really surprised Bei Yihui.

However, Confucius finally listed this kind of "villain" as the lowest level of "scholars". According to the Analects, Zilu asked Confucius: "What are the politicians like today?" Confucius replied, "Wow! What is the amount of a person who fights for baskets? ”

Even Confucius believed that the "villain" was much better than the people in power at the moment. In Kita's view, this assessment is also in line with Japan's current situation.

However, this is only the beginning, and the students of the party school now learn to "know how many buns to eat and how many bowls of soup they eat" in the course of labor, and then it is the labor arrangement. Based on the amount of work reported by each person, start to calculate the collective workload for each day. This was fatal, and many comrades, including Kita Yihui, had survived the first few days, thinking that they could complete a certain level of workload. What everyone didn't expect was that this work was not ten days and half a month, but a few months in a row, and after half a month, many people used up their strength to breastfeed, because of the fatigue and even injuries accumulated in the body, physical strength, energy and willpower showed signs of unsustainability. The plan that was originally made by everyone could not be completed.

The contingent of cadets of the cadre school had to ask the comrades whether they could persevere, and some comrades admitted early on that they could not persevere, and some comrades were forced to admit their incompetence because they could not complete their tasks for several days in a row. Kita Yihui is also a good-looking person, gritted his teeth and held on for four weeks, and finally gave in to his body.

In the continuous high-intensity work, the cadres and students can't hold on.

The contingent of cadets of the cadre school had to ask the comrades whether they could persevere, and some comrades admitted early on that they could not persevere, and some comrades were forced to admit their incompetence because they could not complete their tasks for several days in a row. Kita Yihui is also a good-looking person, gritted his teeth and held on for four weeks, and finally gave in to his body.

In the continuous high-intensity work, the cadres and students can't hold on.