Ma Qingsheng failed to go to Jiangxi. He was bitter about the results, and when he returned to the countryside, he saw that the returns from farming were much better than before. However, if you leave the city and return to the countryside, there is talk of raising your salary. In a dilemma, it was March 20, 1911. The silk reeling factory gathered the cadres together and held a conscription and mobilization meeting.

"It is everyone's duty to defend the fruits of our revolutionary victory and to defend the base areas. The conscription work is to complete the conscription of the troops. The party secretary of the silk reeling factory said according to the script.

Every party member and cadre attending the meeting was given a draft work arrangement. As a retired soldier, Ma Qingsheng's first thought was "Are you ready to fight?" ”

After the end of the Jiangxi Campaign, there had been no fighting in the base area for almost two years. For Ma Qingsheng, the stage of joining the army is the biggest change in his life, from simply following the team in order to survive, learning culture and fighting in the army. to personally participate in the battle, braving the rain of bullets to fight the reactionaries. For more than two years, Ma Qingsheng traveled thousands of miles by boat and on foot. to many distant places that he couldn't have imagined before. This real experience made Ma Qingsheng realize that the world is very big. There are many, many things in this world that have never been seen before.

Looking back now, two years felt like a flash. But the brilliance of this moment has opened Ma Qingsheng's eyes. Ma Qingsheng suddenly understood why he was reluctant to return to the small countryside. He likes the feeling of being able to see more things, even if he doesn't fully understand what new things are, but as long as he can see new things that keep appearing, Ma Qingsheng feels very satisfied. Even if he braves the rain of bullets and faces death at any time, Ma Qingsheng is willing.

"I want to sign up." Ma Qingsheng stood up and said.

"Chief Ma, this recruitment is to recruit new soldiers. Organizationally, every village was required to be conscripted. But retired servicemen are not included in this conscription. The party secretary said with a smile.

"How many soldiers are you going to conscript this time?" Ma Qingsheng asked without giving up.

"We in Anhui are ready to recruit 50,000 recruits. Several other provinces are similar to us. The party secretary replied. In fact, he knew more detailed figures, but the county party committee meeting asked everyone to keep the conscription figures secret for the time being. In 1911, the entire base area was prepared to conscript 220,000 soldiers. Together with the existing 180,000 troops, the new 400,000 troops will be formed.

The figure of 50,000 recruits really stirred up the comrades. Even when the Anhui base area was at its strongest, the total number of troops was only 50,000. After reaching this peak, a large number of troops entered the provinces to fight. Now the number of troops remaining in Anhui is not even 20,000. It seems that something really is going to happen.

"Comrades, the organizational arrangement is such that every village in Anhui must have at least one person. But the conscription ceiling is 50,000. Fifty thousand recruits must be earned, and if the number of people willing to join the army exceeds fifty thousand, at least one place in each village must be selected. As you know, in some areas, the army is more enthusiastic, willing to defend the fruits of the current victory, and willing to come out to serve as soldiers. Some areas are reluctant to become soldiers, and the reason why this meeting is held is to let everyone have a psychological preparation. Everyone comes from all over the country, and if comrades are needed to go back to help with their work, they must go. ”

After listening to the words of the secretary of the party committee of the factory, the comrades understood the current situation. Someone was about to ask a question, but the secretary of the party committee of the factory continued: "Comrades, in the future, the conscription will be every year, and each soldier will serve for three years. Retired after three years. So not this time for conscription, but once a year in the future. ”

"Why do you need so many soldiers?" A cadre shouted in surprise, "50,000 people a year, 10 years is 500,000." ”

"You didn't hear that you would serve for three years and be discharged after three years." Cadres who had experience in the military corrected this mistake.

Seeing that the discussion began to enter the track, the secretary of the party committee of the factory began to write on the blackboard and talk about military service. There is indeed a fundamental difference between being a monk halfway through the road and going to school in a step-by-step manner from an early age. If Chen Ke saw it, he would sigh that many seemingly nonsense topics from the beginning of elementary school were not meaningless. These questions are not designed because they are full of food. There are definitely real cases, and many people have been stumped on a large scale.

For example, all the party members and cadres in this conscription meeting have received mathematics education. The calculation of how many troops there were in the base area in the third year after the conscription stumped a group of people. This can be said to be an addition and subtraction problem with obvious characteristics of primary school teaching in the 21 st century, and the army has served for three years, and there are 20,000 troops at present, and 50,000 are conscripted every year. Then in the fourth year, how many troops are there in the base area.

More than 40 party members and cadres calculated more than a dozen different figures in the range of 70,000 to 300,000. There are eight ways to calculate this. Even if you use the same calculation method, you can calculate different data. The different understandings of the concept of decommissioning have directly led to this big confusion in calculations.

The secretary of the factory party committee couldn't help laughing when he saw this situation. At the time of the county meeting, the performance of nearly 100 party secretaries was much more chaotic than it is now. As long as you can solve this math problem in an orderly manner, you will be able to deeply understand the recruitment process. "Comrades, I also made a mistake in this question at the beginning, and I will discuss with the comrades what to do about this question."

Not only the Fengtai County Silk Reeling Factory, but also the organizations of the People's Party began to mobilize. Just as the director of the silk reeling factory said, every village and every unit must have military service. This is not to say that it is just a question of getting 50,000 troops from Anhui, but it is a question of the operation of the system. It is also a question of how the people perceive the country.

Through the "tricky" math problems, it was not easy to figure out what the process of conscription was, and Ma Qingsheng recalled this way of solving the problem and could remember it. But there is something wrong with the mindset.

"Comrades, conscription involves a question of rights and obligations. This is also the relationship between military service and the treatment of military dependents. The secretary of the party committee of the factory continued.

Upon hearing about the treatment of military families this time, many retired soldiers felt that they had suffered a loss when they joined the army.

"One person is a soldier and the whole family is exempt from taxes?" Someone had already started screaming.

"Hey, hey! Military families and families are two different things. The party secretary immediately corrected.

Even when everyone later figured out the definition of immediate family members, these people felt that the military was too generous. However, Ma Qingsheng finally raised a very realistic question, "Secretary, why is the status of his wife higher than that of his parents in his immediate family?" ”

As soon as this question was raised, the attention of the comrades immediately turned to this direction.

"This is because the basic unit of society is the family." Although the secretary of the party committee of the factory also had doubts about this issue, the county did explain it and ask for it.

"Will this be said that if you have a daughter-in-law, you will forget your mother?" Some comrades jokingly said. The remark immediately sparked a burst of laughter.

The secretary of the party committee of the factory did not laugh, and established the concept of the family, and then disintegrated the concept of the clan, which was also one of the purposes of conscription. The secretary of the party committee of the factory is also reading and reading under the leadership of the party, and in the history of China, "adulthood is not separated, and it is doubly endowed." Naturally, the policy will not be understood. However, the party secretary sincerely agrees with the government's idea of "establishing a new understanding through this conscription." And it's also the ability to understand the difficulty.

Jokes aside, party members and cadres seem to be jokingly raising issues that conflict with the current situation at the local level, the concept of family, only marriages registered in the government marriage registry are protected legal marriages, and the corresponding land and tax policies. As they talked, many people had lost their smiles on their faces.

"Is the government too strict?" Someone muttered under his breath.

After hearing this, the secretary of the party committee sighed in his heart, and this issue had already been raised at the meeting of the county party committee. The secretary of the county party committee said that this was put forward by Chairman Chen Ke. "Our revolution has come to this point, and now there are two lines. The first is to mobilize the masses, and we will do what the masses agree to. If the masses can't agree for the time being, we'll slow down. Second, it is the government that forcibly controls everything, focusing on administrative rules and regulations, and all things that mobilize the masses are aimed at implementing administrative laws and regulations. The conflict between these two lines will be a point of contention in the course of work for a long time. Prepare yourself. ”

The party secretary is a political commissar, and as far as his position is concerned, it is difficult for him to judge which of these two lines is more reasonable. The mass line is, of course, absolutely correct. But the political commissar felt that it was wrong to lift the masses up to the sky and use this to fight against the building of the system. The army is an organization that stresses the most rules and discipline. The job of the commissar is to transform the fighters so that they can consciously understand and obey discipline. The purpose of improving organizational discipline is not to overthrow organizational discipline. The commissar could not be mistaken.

Ma Qingsheng never imagined that one day there would be a large-scale confrontation between the party and the masses. The party has always stood with the masses, so how could there be such a result? But the fact is that if you support the party's policies, you will definitely go against many traditions in the countryside. Ma Qingsheng would never think that the ideas implemented in this conscription would be fully supported in the countryside.

"Let's not talk about whether the government is in charge too much, comrades, is it right for the government to do this?" The party secretary said.

There was no longer the same laughter and laughter as when the meeting was first held, and the comrades were reluctant to express their opinions lightly. After a long period of silence, the comrade who had just said, "Is the government too strict?" said hesitantly, "Is the scope of this immediate family too small?" If the husband and wife and parents can be counted as immediate family members, this problem will be solved. ”

Many comrades immediately nodded yes. "Yes, it's always inappropriate to separate your parents from your wife. The palm of the hand is meat, and the back of the hand is also meat. ”

The family issue is actually one of the two major issues in this conscription, and there is no ambiguity about the definition of immediate family members in law. Because once this definition is interpreted differently, there will be great confusion in the judicial field later. The secretary of the party committee of the factory recorded this problem. "Is there any other question?"

Party members and cadres looked at each other, and the issue of immediate family members was not very acceptable to the current government's definition. As for other questions, there are no more reasonable rebuttals.

"Then I want to emphasize a question to you, what do you think is the difference between the treatment of military families and the money for selling their lives?" The party secretary asked. This is another important point in the recruitment process. There is a relationship of rights and obligations between the government and the people, but there is no relationship of buying and selling. The concept that the government does not pay for the sake of buying, and the people do not pay for the sake of selling, is absolutely infallible.

As expected by the Party committee, there was no consensus on rights and obligations even among the party members and cadres, and the majority of the comrades believed that there was some kind of buying and selling relationship between the government and the people. There is a considerable conflict between the concept of modern society and the general concept of base areas.

Meetings are recorded and summarized. After sorting it out, a thick report with quite informative content was handed over. Xu Dian, who now serves as secretary of the Anhui Political and Legal Committee, has strongly demanded the implementation of the concept of immediate family as defined by law. Qin Wuan, director of the Department of Finance, also supported this concept. If more tax-exempt military dependents are undertaken, the financial pressure on the base areas will be great.

However, the first thing mentioned in the report is the concept of military dependents, and grassroots party committees generally demand that the scope of tax exemption for military dependents be expanded.

Chen Ke didn't wait for someone to make trouble, so he took responsibility. "I didn't think carefully about the issue of tax exemption for military families, and now I see that there is a problem with the plan that was put forward first."

As an old urban otaku in the 21st century, Chen Ke's family concept has a profound conflict with this era. Households in the industrial era were much smaller than in the agricultural era. Most importantly, the masses' understanding of society and government is also very different from that of Chen's time. In this regard, Chen Ke is indeed detached from society to a considerable extent.

Since Chairman Chen Ke has taken the initiative to assume responsibility, the comrades will not pursue it too much. This kind of investigation is meaningless, from theory to reality, Xu Dian and Qin Wuan cannot say that there is any fundamental problem. It's just that their current policy is a bit excessive.

"If you do that, the financial pressure is too great." Qin Wuan still has his own views on this.

"It's stressful and you have to face it. Let's go up to the summer harvest. "Zhang Yu has always been the backbone of the Anhui bureaucracy. He has always been more straightforward in his approach to problems.

Xiao Wall, director of the Department of Agriculture, came out to ease the relationship, "Last year, the farm began to use synthetic ammonia, and now it is seen that the crops on the ground are growing gratifyingly." Although it is not known what the effect of large-scale use of synthetic ammonia on improved varieties will be. However, there is no problem in replenishing this idea. ”

Xiao Wall's statement of thin mud attracted Zhang Yu's white eyes, and Qi Huishen didn't even give a white eye, but said directly: "Comrade Xiao Wall, this is not a food problem, this is a concept problem. ”

Seeing that someone was more serious, Xiao Wall also replied unceremoniously: "Now this matter can't be solved at all." Our large-scale conscription was originally to draw people from the countryside. Transform this labor force from an agricultural population to an industrial population. It's normal for the masses to not understand this. The idea comes first, and it has to be within the right range. Not everyone can popularize the idea. ”

Qi Huishen didn't refute, not even sighing. The recent meetings of the BJP have made the recent work very clear. Ping Suri said that one cannot be used for two purposes, and that the People's Party should now strive to achieve industrialization at the fastest speed, in addition to building a new type of rural relationship. There are also complex foreign and domestic situations. If the person in charge was not Chen Ke, Qi Huishen would have been confused by these things that he had never experienced. Thinking of this, Qi Huishen looked at Chen Ke again. I saw Chen Ke quickly flipping through the thick report with his usual attentive attitude. It is indeed very rare to be able to maintain such a focused attitude in the midst of a comrade's argument. Qi Huishen was very convinced.

In fact, Chen Ke learned this from Grandpa Mao, who used to see Grandpa Mao reading on the noisy streets, and felt that it was a bit hypocritical. Later, Chen Ke found out that this was not Grandpa Mao's attempt to reflect the difference. Being able to concentrate anytime, anywhere is an ability that needs to be trained. Grandpa Mao is only training himself in this area. Not only to read, but also to remember, but also to think, but also to learn to forget, not to be misled and deceived by the huge amount of information. It takes too much training.

After reading the report, Chen Ke raised his head, "The suggestions of the comrades at the grassroots level are very good, and the comrades have also made a lot of predictions in the actual implementation. We need to adjust a lot of the design of this recruitment. ”

"Let's relax the scope of tax-exempt military dependents first." Qin Wuan said.

"I think the propaganda of rights and obligations still needs to be implemented." Xu Dian said.

"Isn't this administrative cost too high?" Zhang Yu put forward his own idea, and after the People's Party introduced cost accounting, including administrative costs, it was also calculated. Since the establishment of the bureaucratic system is inevitable, it is better to make the bureaucratic system scientific and standardized.

Qi Huishen immediately retorted: "This is not a matter of just recruiting 50,000 people, since conscription is already a comprehensive compulsory military service system, then spread it out to him." These upfront investments simply cannot be avoided. ”

After hearing this, Chen Ke suddenly wanted to laugh, like other Chinese youths, Chen Ke once had a strong antipathy to the bureaucracy of the national dynasty. Of course, the bureaucracy has its own problems, and this must not be ignored, but it is still more reliable than those who think that the bureaucracy of the dynasty should be completely destroyed in turn.

After the reform and opening up, the bureaucratic system was unprecedentedly strong, and the lessons of the first 30 years, coupled with the rectification of the Great Movement, made the system itself more rational than ever before. Chen Ke suddenly found that his important work now was not only to establish and improve the first stage of the new countryside and develop industry as soon as possible, but also to face the work of establishing a new bureaucratic system.

"This work must be handed over to someone else, otherwise I will be exhausted." Chen Ke settled on a very reasonable route.