The industrialization process of New China was arduous and arduous, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation took more than ten years. When the bald head ran to Taiwan, he took away all the gold and silver that he could take away. The steel production in 1949 was not as large as that of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant in 1910. Everything had to be built from scratch. All wealth accumulation has to start with agriculture.

Now Chen Ke's situation is much better, he is finally able to join the world trade system, and there are now small industrial centers in the base areas. However, this does not mean that Chen Ke can ignore the status of agriculture. One of the major changes in China's tax collection in the 21st century is the abolition of agricultural taxes that have lasted for thousands of years, and even the introduction of agricultural subsidies. Chen Ke hopes that he will also abolish the agricultural tax in his lifetime. In order to attain that goal at an early date, it is now necessary to intensify rural construction.

"I very much agree with Comrade Xiao Wall's work ideas. If you have determined this idea, you will continue to do it. Next topic. Chen's assessment is simple. By now, Chen Ke no longer dared to pay too much attention to a single issue, at least on the surface.

Xiao Wall said: "In our recent work, we have encountered clan problems. In the past few years, the clan problem in the countryside has not been obvious because of floods and land reform, but now the contradictions have begun to surface. Many clan elders try to dictate to clan members, and many of our cadres have had this experience. The problem now is that some families with weak production capacity are temporarily unable to get rid of their dependence on the clan, which is very troublesome. I think we need to get hands-on. ”

Chen Ke could see that many cadres had a very helpless look on their faces when they heard this. It seems that the "many cadres" mentioned by Xiao Wall probably refer to these cadres of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee.

"How much trouble did they give us?" Chen Ke was a little curious. Chen Ke has not had much contact with clans, and the 21st century seems to have revived a bit of clan fever, but this is purely a cultural search for roots. This powerful force, which was once able to decide the life and death of clan members, was completely wiped out during the Great Movement. Although some genealogies were burned, some ancestral halls were demolished, and ideas were fought in the process, but compared with the social progress of completely burying the clan family law in the garbage heap of history, these costs are insignificant.

"The clan won't cause us much trouble now. Let them jump, they don't have the money anyway. Ren Qiying, who is now the director of the General Office of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, replied.

Hearing this profound ridicule of the clan forces, many comrades smiled.

Ren Qiying continued: "Chairman Chen, I have investigated that the clan has no function of relief in recent years. At most, they are adding to the chaos, relying on the old and selling the old to ask for money from various clan members. As long as the attitude towards the clans can be determined within the party, there is no market for them among the masses. Especially the young people in the masses hated the clan elders very much. Young people are willing to go with our People's Party. ”

"The problem is that they're like flies, bothering you in every possible way. When we go to the countryside, it's a problem. "Xiao Wall seems to have been harassed many times.

"Director Xiao, they are not flies, these people are grasshoppers after autumn." Ren Qiying persuaded.

"Flies and grasshoppers don't matter, the point is that they're still jumping. Those people are not shouting now, what kind of school do girls go to! Director Ren, you are in charge of education, you always know about this, right? Xiao Wall seems to be very dissatisfied with the clan elders, and has begun to give examples of the problems encountered by Ren Qiying.

Chen Ke saw Ren Qiying sigh slightly, and then turned his head to look at himself. Chen Ke has always attached great importance to education, and he smiled and asked, "What's the matter with not allowing girls to go to school?" ”

Ren Qiying, who is also the acting director of the provincial education commission, said: "The clan elders jumped out to oppose girls going to school. ”

"Huh?" Chen Ke was surprised. The clan elders actually targeted girls to go to school, although this kind of thing did happen in the countryside, but Chen Ke wanted to make it clearer.

Ren Qiying explained: "Kindergarten and primary school education are very popular with the masses. Everyone thinks that this child has someone to take with them, and they can save a meal. It's a good thing. However, in this junior high school education, there are many people who are unwilling to let girls continue to go to school. ”

"But many of the children who graduated from elementary school are only nine years old." Chen Ke didn't understand this.

Not only Ren Qiying, but some comrades of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee smiled bitterly at Chen Ke's white-necked answer.

"Chairman Chen, in rural areas, nine- and ten-year-old girls are responsible for cooking at home. Some of the more troublesome meals can't be cooked, but they can already make a fire, make a soup or something. Ren Qiying replied, looking at Chen Ke's somewhat unhappy look, she continued to explain, "Chairman Chen, it's like this in the countryside. ”

Chen Ke is indeed quite unhappy, those super lively nine-year-olds are the age when people don't want to see dogs in the 21st century, but that doesn't mean that Chen Ke thinks they should be deprived of the right to go to school. Resisting the urge to immediately put forward the idea of compulsory education, Chen Ke asked, "What role does the clan play here?" ”

Ren Qiying replied: "Dingdoll kissing is a part. At least now the patriarchs in the clan have openly said things that many people dare not say, they think that girls can't get married if they read too many books. ”

Although Chen Ke gritted his teeth and did not express his opinion, his expression could already express Chen Ke's attitude more than any speech.

Ren Qiying was not so excited, "Chairman Chen, in this matter, if our government forcibly intervenes, it will definitely cause a big problem. Many people think that if they give birth to a daughter, they will marry someone else, not to mention, and they will follow the government, they can't accept it. ”

The people are really savvy! Chen Ke sighed in his heart. The BJP has always attached great importance to the training of female cadres and to the education of women. For the BJP-led government, this is an inevitable action. In the eyes of the government, the people are part of the state. The BJP has worked so hard to train adequately educated female citizens, and it is only natural that the state should make them part of society. But in the eyes of the people, their sons and daughters belong to them. The BJP sent the children to school, and then they were going to take them away.

Needless to say, Ren Qiying, who was sitting in front of her, and a group of female cadres in the base area, are now completely comrades under the leadership of the People's Party. Fundamentally hostile to the clan. And the BJP, in order to get the female teachers back from the abduction, is now in the labor position. However, with the protection and support of the State, these girls are fully capable of rejecting the domination of their families and clans.

In terms of social progress, this is absolute progress. From the traditional clan and family perspective, this is the People's Party naked snatching other people's daughters. In the 21st century, people have come to accept the idea that children are members of society. However, in 1911, it was accepted orthodoxy that children belonged to parents. If the clan elders want to execute the clan members, they must have a high-sounding excuse. When a parent kills a child, he dies.

"What do comrades think about these issues?" Chen Ke asked.

Everyone looked at each other, and Yuwen Badu said: "After all, it is someone's father, and we are not good at meddling in these things." ”

Compulsory education is easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to implement in China, which involves the strong intervention of the state in other people's families. In China, when the concept of allowing children to go to school is generally reached, even if it is compulsory, the enrolment rate in China has exceeded 97 percent. And even if there is consensus, there is no level of enforcement. In this kind of thing, Chen Ke has no experience at all.

"Then did our comrades in Anhui mobilize public opinion to confront these people?" Chen Ke asked.

"The propaganda of compulsory education must be publicized, but the effect is not obvious. Parents are willing to let boys study, but they don't support girls. In the respect, our People's Party is very disadvantaged. Yuwen Badu, secretary of the provincial party committee, also tactfully raised the difficulties faced.

Without waiting for Chen Ke to continue to ask, Ren Qiying continued: "After discussion, the party committee opposes the use of financial subsidies to promote girls' study. First, the financial pressure is too great, and second, doing so makes the masses even more uneasy. ”

"What is the enrolment rate of boys and girls?" Chen Ke is very concerned about this issue.

"As long as the boys pass the exam, they can basically reach 100%. Less than 30 per cent of girls have taken the lower secondary entrance exam. Nine percent of them eventually went to junior high school. Ren Qiying is very fluent in citing data.

Pursing his lips tightly, Chen Ke thought for a moment and decided not to push the matter for the time being. Changing dynasties may already be difficult, but without a more powerful revolution, it will take strong political action to make the theory of "women can hold up half the sky" into social correctness. And now the BJP cannot afford the negative effects of such actions.

"We will publicize the enrollment of male and female students first, and don't act rashly for the time being. The clan jumped out and said irresponsible things, what do you think? Chen Ke asked.

Ren Qiying replied: "I still think the same way, they can't jump for long. Without money, the masses will not follow these people. ”

Xiao Wall obviously did not support Ren Qiying's point of view, "Chairman Chen, if they just make a fuss, or try to convince our cadres to support the clan, it's nothing. Now these people have recently changed their tactics to incite contradictions among the masses. In particular, the issue of inciting water sources. ”

If Chen Ke was forced to face the facts and temporarily compromise on the issue of the girl doll going to school, but as soon as he heard about the water source, his face became calm. This is the standard performance of Chen Ke when he starts to get serious. Chen Ke also tried to make himself moody, but so far he has not been able to do so.

"Chairman Chen, the conditions in some areas of Anhui are relatively good, and it is only necessary to dig the irrigation canals. However, in many areas, reservoirs are needed to regulate water effectively. The contradictions in these areas over water sources are acute. As a result of our agricultural sector investigations, some clan elders began to regain control by inciting local conflicts. Although the local government is also trying its best to solve these problems, the basic water conservancy construction is a fundamental problem. If these cannot be solved, contradictions will erupt every year. Xiao Wall introduced.

"But now when we schedule our work, we always have to invest in areas where it is easy to increase production. In areas where production is not easy to increase, we can't start working right away. Chairman Chen, I'm not complaining, but there are too many manpower being withdrawn from Anhui now. Originally, there was also the surveying and mapping department of the army to help us do these things, but now the troops have gone to other provinces, and the technical departments are heavily inclined to industry, and now there is no shortage of technical personnel. I'm also from the army, and if I don't do a good job of measurement, there will definitely be problems with the technical design. So now we have to resist a lot of things. ”

Xiao Wall's questioning represents the voice of the cadres of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee. Anhui used to be full of talents. Anhui Province, with a population of 18.5 million, once gathered tens of thousands of skilled soldiers and technicians. Not to mention the large number of outstanding cadres. The expansion of the base area has allowed these personnel who can pick up the main beams to disperse to various places. No longer has a large-scale technical team so densely concentrated in Anhui Province.

However, Chen Ke personally experienced that era, and he also knew that Xiao Wall was a bit exaggerated. At least in areas where the work is easy to carry out, Anhui has really carried out relatively decent surveying and mapping work. In the areas where Xiao is referring to difficult work, it will take much more to increase agricultural output.

No matter what Xiao Wall's views on the clan troubles, at least Xiao Wall put forward a point of view that can definitely represent the current Anhui Party Committee, "Is it that too many people have been siphoned off to support the construction of other provinces!" ”

Sure enough, although Ren Qiying and Xiao Wall have differences on some issues, they are consistent on this point. Ren Qiying continued: "Chairman Chen, regarding the matter of sending teachers to teach in other provinces, the vast majority of teachers in Anhui are now reluctant to go to other provinces. The view of the principals in various places is that it is now whether it is formal school education, or night school and cram school education in rural areas. The existing teachers themselves are not enough. Moreover, the teachers are not party members and cadres, and they are not very able to take on too hard work. If you have too high fantasies about these people, it will be unrealistic. ”

In Anhui, at its peak, one out of 30 people was a member of the People's Party system. However, at present, the total number of party members and cadres of the People's Party in the entire base area plus the army is less than 400,000. In other words, in a base area with a population of 61 million, only one out of 150 people is a member of the People's Party system. With the power diluted to such an extent, it is indeed unrealistic to expect the work to be as smooth as before. The statistics put the problem in front of Chen Ke so coldly.

No matter what kind of political ideals there are, no matter what kind of advanced system there is. If there is not a sufficient number of people who can recruit and fight, everything is utopian. If you want to transform society, you definitely don't rely on empty words and white teeth, but on overwhelming power. It is man who embodies this power.

Fortunately, an agreement was reached with Yuan Shikai. Chen Ke suddenly thought that if it weren't for this seemingly dangerous but barely peaceful status quo, God knows how difficult the current work would be. However, Chen Ke soon discovered that he was making excuses for himself to distract himself. The problem now is how to effectively strengthen the organizational team. How can we effectively use the existing conditions to complete the task?

Every comrade of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee was watching Chen Ke, and Chen Ke knew that they were actually waiting to hear the words they were expecting. But Chen Ke tried to come up with a better way. A solution to the problem at hand is immediate. The so-called good steel is used on the blade to concentrate on doing great things. These are the only ways in which New China has vigorously promoted social progress in history.

However, at the end of the Liberation War, the party had in its hands millions of troops capable of conscription and war, and millions of tested party members. When they crossed the Yangtze River in the south, they were even able to levy hundreds of thousands of southbound cadres from the base areas. To maintain the current situation, the BJP has really reached its limit. Statistics don't lie.

"Well, for the time being, there will be no more personnel transfers from Anhui." Chen Ke said.

All the cadres of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee showed a relieved expression. Anhui is really unbearable now, if there is such an endless loss of talents, unless they tell Chen Ke nonsense, the existing work can hardly be maintained.

The topic of discussion soon changed from agricultural construction to manpower needs. In fact, many families who do not want their children to continue to go to school, especially those who do not want girls to go to school, are rightly worried. The BJP wants to select technicians from the masses who are willing to leave their families and follow the BJP to the places where they need to go through schooling. Especially the professional and technical personnel who specialize in eating the bowl of technology. This is a completely different thing from rural literacy and technical training.

Just like when Chen Ke was in college, the brothers from the civil engineering department worked in the highway construction department during the summer vacation, and they could earn three or four thousand a month on the construction site. But every day, he carried surveying and mapping instruments in the wilderness, and ran around all day long under the poisonous sun. The average construction worker doesn't earn as much as these people, but the work they do is different. What industrial countries need is a large number of engineers and technicians. Without these sufficient manpower bases, it is useless to talk about anything.

But now the masses of the people do not have any awareness of these things at all, in fact, there is no need to talk about the people. If Chen Ke hadn't gone to university, didn't have enough scientific and technological and cultural foundation, and didn't have so many friends from various majors to talk about, he wouldn't have had such an understanding of other industries. It is impossible to understand these things without experiencing them personally.

What's more, the parents of these students still regard their children as their own private property, and if you put it mildly, they are quite willing to sell their children for a price. Although the masses are already in the new system, their mode of thinking is still the old era.

At the present stage, the masses who are willing to follow the People's Party to fight the world have basically joined the People's Party organization. The intention of the rest of the masses is to build the happiness and prosperity of their own small families. How to mobilize the workers who are willing to "come out to work" to the greatest extent has become the focus of the next discussion.

"Now the factory pay is relatively low, and the workers' interest in night school is limited. At the end of the day, it's a matter of money. Anhui Provincial Party Secretary Yuwen Badu said.

Hearing this, Chen Ke felt quite comforted in his heart, at least the People's Party was still telling the truth.