Qiu Jin slapped the table and cried in Chen Ke's office, and was finally forcibly sent to the base area. The news soon spread throughout the Central Committee of the People's Party. The middle and senior ranks of the People's Party all know the relationship between Chen Ke, Hua Xiongmao and Qiu Jin. The two high-ranking cadres of the People's Party held their stand so firmly that the comrades were relieved. These two high-ranking cadres were so impersonal that the comrades felt a little uncomfortable. In everyone's opinion, even if it is because of the relationship between Qiu Jin and the two, these two people have to symbolically support dozens of people. If this amount of support is provided as long as Chen Ke speaks, the comrades in the party will be able to accept it. But when Qiu Jin left, except for the two soldiers who escorted him, he didn't even take a single soldier with him.

Not long after Qiu Jin left, the People's Party's intelligence network began to send back more news. These were all ten days ago or more. After the Manchus lost Anqing and Chizhou, the revolutionary situation seemed to have been eased by the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, large-scale chaos suddenly broke out in Jiangnan. The Liberation Society launched a new uprising in Shaoxing, and spontaneous food grabbing broke out in Nanjing and Wuhu. There have been various degrees of purge within the New Army, with the aim of completely eliminating the revolutionary party that has infiltrated the New Army.

At this time, several squads sent out a few months ago began to return to the base area. The Japanese did not celebrate the Spring Festival, and the People's Party volunteered to return to Japan to gather local revolutionary youth party members to return to the base areas in three teams. Chen Ke never expected that five party members, including Ren Kuroshima, would go to Japan, and they would actually bring back more than 500 Japanese revolutionary youths.

After seeing Chen Ke, Kuroshima Ren was about to subconsciously bow respectfully, but saw that Chen Ke had already stretched out his hand to him. Only then did Kuroshima realize that he had been back in Japan for several months and had reverted to the Japanese habit of bowing. He hurriedly straightened up and took a step forward to shake hands with Chen Ke tightly. Kuroshima Ren said excitedly: "Chairman Chen, we are back. ”

"Comrade Kuroshima has worked hard." Chen Ke looked at the black oppressive Japanese behind Kuroshima Ren, and felt that something was wrong in his heart. Although Chen Ke knew that it was 1907 instead of 1937, the first batch of more than 200 Japanese youths to arrive at the base area gave Chen Ke a sense of Japanese invasion of China.

Kuroshima Ren didn't know what Chen Ke was thinking, he pointed to a few Japanese young people in the front row, "Secretary Chen, let me introduce you, these are the descendants of the Red Newspaper Team." ”

Kuroshima's words made Chen Ke slightly surprised, "Team Chibao? Could it be the descendants of Soraku Sozo? ”

"No, I haven't been able to contact the children and grandchildren of Mr. Sozo Sagaraku. At that time, I heard you talk about the Red Newspaper Team, and after returning to China, I began to inquire about it. I really didn't expect you to know more about Japan than I do. These are the descendants of the Red Newspaper Team. ”

Japan's Red Newspaper Formation's War to Overthrow the Shogunate was preaching "rent and interest reductions", which was far from the level of a "people's revolution", and as a result, after the fall of the Shogunate, the Red Newspaper Brigade was completely wiped out by the Meiji Restoration government. When Chen Ke was in Shanghai, he talked about this matter to the Japanese comrades in the party, and he never imagined that he would be able to see the descendants of this Red Newspaper Team with his own eyes. He stepped forward and shook hands with these revolutionary youths one by one.

Chen Ke's Japanese was learned when he was in college in order to play Japanese games, watch Japanese original animations, and listen to Japanese songs. It is certainly not enough for him to translate Japanese scientific and technological materials, but he is barely able to use everyday language. The only problem is that Chen Ke doesn't understand the layers of "honorifics" in Japanese at all, so when Chen Ke speaks Kanto dialect and speaks Chinese-style Japanese without honorifics, the expressions of those Japanese young people become a little strange.

Seeing the expressions of his comrades, Hitoshi Kuroshima immediately sank down, and he said loudly in Japanese: "You guys are very rude like this, His Royal Highness Chairman Chen is not familiar with Japanese, don't be so unruly." ”

Hearing Kuroshima's angry rebuke, those Japanese young men immediately stood up straight and said respectfully: "Hey! ”

"Alright, Sopranos. Everyone is a revolutionary comrade, and my Japanese skills are not very good, so everyone will gradually get used to it in the future. Chen Ke hurriedly stopped the underworld's scolding.

Regarding Chen Ke's criticism, Kuroshima Ren violently collided with the feelings he was used to and unaccustomed to at this time. This is the attitude he has been accustomed to for more than a year. BJP members are accustomed to looking for problems in themselves first. However, as a Japanese, the superior will never admit to his subordinates that he is wrong, let alone admit that he has caused inconvenience to his subordinates because of himself. Kuroshima's sense of loyalty to the revolution stemmed largely from this ethos of the People's Party. Kuroshima Ren was about to apologize to Chen Ke, but Chen Ke asked about Kuroshima Ren first. "Comrade Kuroshima, the program of our People's Party, labor is the most glorious, have you made it clear to these comrades?"

"It's been made clear." Kuroshima replied immediately.

"Then after arranging their accommodation and eating, can these comrades go to the breeding farm tomorrow and start working?" Chen Ke then asked.

Kuroshima didn't expect Chen Ke to be so anxious to arrange work for the Japanese comrades, and after hesitating for a moment, Kuroshima replied, "There is no problem." I have already said this to my comrades. ”

Chen Ke did not want to make things difficult for Kuroshima Ren and these Japanese comrades, from his observations, these Japanese young people did not look like Japanese peasants. If Kuroshima had been able to stir up a few hundred peasants, he would have been able to start a revolution in Japan. These people are very young, and probably they should belong to the petty-bourgeois type. To have the courage to cross the ocean to China to participate in the revolution is either a staunch revolutionary or a petty-bourgeois impulse. Whatever their origins, the best way to identify revolutionaries is to let them start with the most basic work. As long as you can persist in long-term and serious work, any kind of petty bourgeoisie can be transformed into qualified workers.

Seeing that Kuroshima Ren said that there was no problem, Chen Ke turned to the Japanese youth, but saw that the Japanese youth were looking at him with an expression that Chen Ke couldn't read. Chen Ke has never been to Japan, so he doesn't know what Japanese people are like in their daily lives. He wasn't in the mood to figure it out. Now that the base is busy like this, where do you have time to this idleness? Chen Ke shouted to the Japanese youth: "Welcome to the base area and join the Chinese revolution." Our revolution is, first of all, diligent and down-to-earth work. Spring is coming, and if you don't hurry up and work now, everyone will be hungry. I hope that you will be able to realize your revolutionary ideals through earnest work in the base areas. So now let's go rest and eat first. ”

The Japanese young people never expected Chen Ke to use such simple words as a welcome speech, although they had various ideas in their hearts, no one objected to them. They had all traveled long distances to reach the base area, and rest and food were what these young people needed most now.

The two-story standard barracks housing built of red bricks on the base site surprised the Japanese youth. Seeing the standard eight-person dormitory with glass windows moved these Japanese young people even more. In 1907, although Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War, its standard of living was far from surpassing that of China. Living conditions in Japan are still poor. Most of the people live in traditional wooden houses. Living in a brick house is a very luxurious living condition in Japan.

The next meal served at the base was sweet potato rice mixed with some rice. In addition, everyone actually got two duck eggs. This makes Japanese young people feel that their lives are close to or even exceed the average standard of living of Japanese landlords. When five large pots of oily cabbage stewed duck meat were brought to the table, the Japanese young people looked at Kuroshima Ren and didn't even dare to move their chopsticks.

"What are you doing in a daze, start dividing." Hitoshi Kuroshima shouted. The Japanese youths had a look of joy on their faces, but they still did not dare to move. When it comes to eating meat, there is no resistance from the Japanese youth. But these people are very suspicious of what kind of nonsense Kuroshima Ren said to himself. Living in a red brick house, there are duck eggs and meat to eat every day. Where is this hard-working revolutionary base area, this is simply the life of a happy Japanese landlord.

Hitoshi Kuroshima looked at the Japanese young man who didn't dare to move his chopsticks, and he remembered that Japan has a separate meal system. Although the duck is chopped into pieces, it is not easy to compare which piece is bigger. Someone needs to distribute the food. These people all came with themselves, and in the opinion of these people, Ren Kuroshima should preside over the distribution work.

Following the method he learned from the People's Party, Hitoshi Kuroshima shouted, "Don't be stunned, hurry up and elect the representatives to divide the food and divide the dishes equally." By the way, the representative who divides the meal must be the last to receive the meal. ”

After the first half of the speech was finished, many young people in Japan were already eager to try, and after listening to the second half, many people were stunned on the spot. However, smelling the fragrant duck stew with cabbage, the appetite still prevailed over reason. The young men either recommended themselves or recommended them, and soon five people were selected to start sharing the meal.

As soon as the dishes were finished, the young men immediately began to serve their meals. Some people are looking for a bowl to suit their appetite, while others just take a bowl and leave, sitting back in their seats and devouring a big meal. After eating, sweet potato porridge was served, and everyone put porridge in the bowl of meat and vegetables, and snorted and ate it.

After the meal, Hitoshi Kuroshima convened an impromptu meeting. A young Japanese man obviously grabbed a bowl of stew with duck leg meat, and he asked with a duck leg bone in his mouth. "Kuroshima-kun, is this how the food in the base area is usual?"

The other Japanese youths looked at Hitoshi Kuroshima with affection, and their eyes were full of the same questions. When Hitoshi Kuroshima summoned these revolutionary youths, he had already said that life in the base area was very difficult. Everyone should be mentally prepared. These young Japanese were brave enough to cross the ocean and travel thousands of miles to the base areas, or they were in utter despair of the Meiji government. Either they are cornered by life. They were even mentally prepared to live in the base areas to be even more brutal and difficult than in Japan. The red brick house and duck eggs have exceeded the highest hope of these young people for living conditions, and the cabbage and duck stew makes these young people feel extremely satisfied. So whether this meal is just an occasional improvement of the meal, or a daily meal, this question really can't be ignored.

"I told you a long time ago that when we first started building the base area, life was extremely difficult. Where can everyone have a full meal? Hitoshi Kuroshima said loudly. However, when it comes to not having enough to eat, he is also a little weak-hearted. The Japanese don't eat much, and when the base area is the hardest, Kuroshima Ren can't talk about not having enough to eat. After the duck breeding in the base area has achieved certain results, duck eggs began to appear more frequently in the food supply. Hitoshi Kuroshima felt that he could eat a lot. On the contrary, in the past few months since he returned to Japan, he has been ridiculed by many Japanese compatriots for the "big stomach" he has cultivated in the base area.

"Gentlemen, this meal will often appear in the base area, because this is the result of the revolution." Kuroshima straightened up and said loudly, "I told you that not long after I came to the base area, there was a big flood here. The people you see in the Manchu territory along the way are the people who were still displaced after the floods last year. To this day they are still hungry and cold. ”

Along the way, Japanese youths did see many victims, and even saw the bodies of many victims who had died. It wasn't until after entering the base area that the whole situation looked better. The closer you get to the core base, the better the situation looks.

"Then how did the comrades of the People's Party make everyone live a good life in the territory?" The Japanese revolutionary youth couldn't help but ask.

"Quite simply, no one in the base area can deprive others of what they produce for their own personal gain. In times of relief, all the food is distributed equally. Chairman Chen Ke and the food we eat are exactly the same. After the completion of the disaster relief, all the grain produced by the people was distributed to the people to eat, and no one withheld even a grain of grain from it. These duck eggs and meat were not taken from the people, but were personally bred by the comrades of the People's Party and the comrades of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. No one in the base area can get something for nothing, and the people can eat what they produce. Therefore, the life in the base area can get better and better day by day. This is the revolution! ”

Listening to the passionate and generous words of the underworld, a young man said excitedly: "Kuroshima-kun, can you go from not having enough to eat meat to eating meat often in just one year?" If the revolution were really like this, wouldn't it be too easy to mobilize the people in Japan? ”

Looking at the excited Japanese youth, Kuroshima Ren immediately poured a bucket of cold water, "Then you have to be able to defeat the army raised by the Japanese chaebols." Ladies and gentlemen, after the Meiji Restoration, we all know very well what the life of the Japanese people will be like. What year was there no rice commotion? But which one will succeed? The blood of the people has flowed into rivers and gathered into lakes. But the reactionaries in Japan were too powerful to do without a revolutionary army. The purpose of gathering you to join the revolution in China is to learn how to build a revolutionary organization and then to raise an army that will be formed by our Japanese revolutionary youth. When the Chinese revolution succeeds, we can return to Japan, and we can even ask the Chinese comrades to return to Japan with us to overthrow the rotten Japanese government and liberate the suffering people of all Japan. ”

The Japanese youths stared at Hitoshi Kuroshima and looked at each other. Some of Kuroshima's words are acceptable to them, and some are not. But these people were a group of people who were completely disappointed with the Japanese government after the Meiji Restoration. Needless to say, the descendants of the Red Newspaper Corps, most of these young people were born from the petty bourgeoisie, and they were born from small landlords, rich peasants, and small workshop owners, and their family livelihoods continued to deteriorate under the expansion of the big capitalists and plutocrats. They also became the most radical and opposed to the Japanese government. But even so, these Japanese young people still do not quite accept the idea of borrowing troops from China.

"What if the aim of the Chinese revolutionary party becomes the conquest of Japan?" A young man asked. This is also the concern of these young people. In the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated China, forming Japan's self-confidence in China. However, on the way to the base area, these people saw a vast and populous China. It only took one year for the BJP to occupy a territory of several hundred miles in a radius. For Japan's small territory, this is already the power of a super gatekeeper. If, as Kuroshima said, the People's Party ruled all of China, then did China not have the ambition to conquer Japan?

This is not the first time that Japanese comrades have asked this question, and many young people who have asked this question have not chosen to follow Kuroshima Ren to the base area, and Kuroshima Ren did not expect that even if he arrived at the base area, there would still be people who would be worried about this issue, and he said loudly: "Gentlemen, I do not think that Japan and China should have a life-and-death war for the hegemony of Asia. The purpose of the people's revolution was to liberate the people, and after the liberation, Japan and China would join hands to drive away all the colonizers and liberate the whole of Asia. Japan has no future isolated on a small island. If Japan had started a war, it might have been able to defeat a government like the Manchus, but the invading army would never have been able to win against an organization like the People's Party. Only by integrating into Asia and the world can Japan have a bright future. If you feel that you are worried about this or that, you might as well make efforts to observe and study in the next work to see whether the People's Party is a party aimed at aggression or not. If you feel uneasy about the BJP, you can choose to leave. I don't stand in the way. ”

After hearing this, the Japanese young people did not say anything more. Everyone expressed their willingness to work in the base area for a period of time to see the situation.

After the meeting, Kuroshima went to report to Chen Ke. The purpose of his return this time was not simply to find comrades, Chen Ke also entrusted Kuroshima Ren with other important tasks. In Japan, the land is relatively poor, but earthworms grow large and fast, making them suitable for feed. According to the information Chen Ke has read, the name of the forage earthworm has the word "Japan". Chen Ke himself didn't know what kind of earthworm it was, so he asked Kuroshima Ren to collect some earthworms after returning to Japan. Hitoshi Kuroshima also completed the task.

After handing over the earthworm matter, Kuroshima Ren did not hide what the Japanese young people discussed in the meeting today, and he briefed Chen Ke on the situation 1510. Chen Ke nodded, "Comrade underworld, I really have no intention of invading Japan. If the Japanese revolution succeeds, I hope that the two countries will be able to coexist peacefully and develop together. But one thing I have to say is that the current Japanese government is the British thug in Asia. Once we had a war with the British, the Japanese government would inevitably get involved in the war. First of all, I am also a patriot, and as a patriot, I believe that we should not belittle the patriotism of the people of other countries. The Chinese have the patriotism of the Chinese, and the Japanese have the patriotism of the Japanese. If there is a war between our People's Party and the Japanese government, I hope you can determine your position. ”

"Chairman Chen, I oppose all wars of an aggressive nature. You said before that the war between the empires was to divert internal contradictions. If the Japanese government had launched an imperial war, I myself would never have supported it. ”

Chen Ke nodded, "Then I'll change the question." There will be competition between any country, and the base areas will soon start experimenting with the production of silk and silk. You also know that since the base areas do not consider production according to capitalism, then in order to be competitive, the prices of our silk and silk will be very low. Among Japan's exports to the United States over the years, raw silk has been a major one. Once our goods compete with Japan, Japanese companies will definitely be affected, and some people may lose their jobs or even starve to death. What do you think about such a situation? ”

Chen Ke's question is quite acute, and this is not a theoretical discussion, but a very practical one. Kuroshima was stopped by Chen Ke, but the silence in the office didn't last long. Kuroshima Ren spoke, and there was a trembling feeling in his voice, but this trembling was not because of helplessness, but because of the excitement brought by being too firm, "Chairman Chen, I finally understood one thing after following you through the revolution. As long as the cannibalistic system exists, the people will always starve to death. I also cheered for Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War, believing that Japan would be able to become a powerful country from now on. People's lives would have changed for the better, but that was not the case. Under the rule of the Japanese government, people starved to death every day in Japan. If the war is won, the people will die, and if the war is lost, the people will die. Without overthrowing this system, the people cannot be saved. So I will definitely not attribute this responsibility to the revolution of the BJP. If you want to save the Japanese people, your roots lie in Japan. ”

"Hehe, haha." Chen Ke suddenly covered his mouth and laughed.

"Chairman Chen? Don't you believe me? Kuroshima Ren asked excitedly.

"No, no. It's not that I don't believe you, Comrade Kuroshima, I am completely convinced that you are telling the truth. I just lament that I can meet a determined revolutionary like you. How many of these Japanese comrades who came with you do you think they can reach your level? ”

In the face of Chen Ke's doubts, Kuroshima Ren said loudly: "As long as they really participate in the revolution for the liberation of the people, I believe they can have the same understanding as me." ”

Seeing Kuroshima's face full of vitality because he was full of firm beliefs, Chen Ke couldn't help but praise in his heart, it's good to be young! It is precisely because of the firm belief in justice that we can have such a pure mentality. Chen Ke doesn't think he is old, he knows that he is just from the downstream of history, he has seen more and understood more, and he will inevitably be constrained in his heart when solving the real problems he faces. It is precisely because he stands on the shoulders of those great men in history that Chen Ke's vision has become broader. That's why Chen Ke knew how arduous it was to surpass these incomparable historical greats, and to let the people get more real liberation on the basis of the efforts of these great men. One thing Chen Ke can be sure of, if he and Kuroshima Ren exchange positions, Chen Ke himself is very likely not to have such an awareness as Kuroshima Ren.

Looking at Kuroshima Ren, Chen Ke suddenly remembered a sentence, "Those who put the heavy responsibility of the times into their hearts and unswervingly assume their responsibilities, if they have such a consciousness, they are great people, if they do not have this consciousness, they are saints." ”