When Chen Ke was in the Soviet Union, he said that a Marxist party should have discipline like steel. For Chen, this is something that history has proven. There are already new arsenals in the northeast, but the commanders of the two major military regions in the north and south cannot directly issue orders to the arsenals for the production of Japanese-style weapons and ammunition, and such orders must be approved by the Central Military Commission.

The discussion of the Central Military Commission is still very easy, but as the saying goes, Hades is easy to see little ghosts, and it is not so simple for commanders to encounter things. Soon, Mu Husan's restored subordinates came to see the commander.

"Nope!" Mu Husan replied to the guard crisply.

Liu Guange didn't feel any strange reaction to this, and Mi Feng looked at Mu Husan unexpectedly, "Commander Mu, is this ......?"

Mu Husan was not moved at all, he said solemnly: "We are the army, they are the place, what is good about this?" Don't see this kind of thing in the future. ”

Mi Feng had never seen Mu Husan so strict, but he was a little stunned. Liu Guange, as the deputy commander and member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, is said to be promoted to the political commissar of the military region after the merger of the Northeast and North Military Regions in the future. "Commander Mi, Henan has been very rectified recently, and our troops have been paying close attention to the propaganda and education of equality between men and women. You should know about this matter, and many people in Henan have been forced to death because of the implementation of the marriage law. Now the central government is pursuing this matter. Let's not get involved in local government affairs! ”

Mi Feng didn't understand the middle joint, let alone how the marriage law forced people to death, even with the calmness of being a commander, that inexplicable mentality was still revealed.

Liu Guange didn't care if Mi Feng could understand these things, what he cared about was Mi Feng's mentality of not respecting and staying away at all. Unless Mi Feng can be as mature as Chai Qingguo politically and can completely follow the direction of the party, the end of getting involved in political struggle is a dead end. Compared with Chai Qingguo, Mi Feng's little political experience is simply soaked in a honey pot. Chai Qingguo dared to fight against any unhealthy tendencies, and Liu Guange did not have such confidence in Mi Fengke.

Mu Husan's opinion of Mi Feng is the same as Liu Guange's, just seeing that Mi Feng has no respectful attitude, Mu Husan understands that he can't have any illusions about Mi Feng politically, so Mu Husan also made a decision, he said: "Commander Mi, there are some things we have to put in the right position, and no position has any privileges. ”

was opposed by the commander and deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region, and Mi Feng himself did not have the idea of interfering in the local government, so Mi Feng put this matter down.

Mu Husan's choice was correct, it was the local cadres in Henan who asked to see Mu Husan outside, or the cadres who were about to be dealt with. After the central government was directly subordinate to Henan, the local cadres in Henan had a very difficult life. When there was also Henan Province, at most, it was only necessary to be responsible to the secretary of the provincial party committee and the governor, but now the ministries and commissions are not governors. The person in charge of the part does not enter the oil and salt, so he asks the local government to do what to do!

When Chen Ke visited the Soviet Union, China was a great study of the two sets of party and government bodies, and the study must definitely talk about problems, and the issue of marriage law is one of the important contents of the study.

In April 1921, the People's Republic of China promulgated the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, which was the first legal document on women's emancipation and freedom of marriage formulated by the proletariat in Chinese history, which opened the prelude to the reform of China's marriage system and was of epoch-making significance.

The concept of "three obediences and four virtues" and the principle of husband as wife is still deeply rooted in China, marriage cases emerge one after another, and there are still unfortunate incidents of women committing suicide and being killed because of marriage in many provinces and autonomous regions. According to the statistics of the Democratic Women's Federation in East China, in 1922 there were 1,245 people in Shandong Province who committed suicide due to involuntary marriage and domestic abuse, 119 women were forced to commit suicide and were beaten to death in nine counties of Huaiyin Prefecture in northern Jiangsu from May to August 1922, 52 women were abused and forced to death in Linquan County of Fuyang Prefecture in northern Anhui Province from January to September 1922, and four women were killed in six days due to marital disputes in Xin'an District of Lu'an County. In Hui'an City, Fujian Province, due to the deep-rooted feudal marriage system, the local party organizations and the people's government did not pay enough attention to solving the special suffering of women and did not seriously organize forces to completely destroy the barbaric marriage system, resulting in many incidents of collective suicide of women in the city. According to incomplete statistics, from October 1921 to August 1922, 122 women committed mass suicide in Hui'an. According to incomplete statistics from the promulgation of the Marriage Law to the end of 1923, more than 11,500 men and women committed suicide or were killed due to unfree marriage.

This is still the situation reported by the provinces, and after the central government was directly subordinate to Henan, the situation in Henan was completely hidden. A considerable number of cadres are still unaccustomed to the freedom of marriage, especially the freedom of divorce, and they regard it as "bad influence" and "immoral," and they often intentionally or unintentionally obstruct and undermine the "Marriage Law" and infringe upon women's personal freedom. A female judge of the Kaifeng City People's Court in Henan Province has refused to study or accept criticism since she joined the work of the court, and has seriously mistaken the idea of not handling cases in accordance with the "Marriage Law." In 1922, in a divorce case involving a peasant couple, the judge held that the husband was "a peasant" and that "it was not easy to spend a bride price of 120 yuan", so he refused to allow him to divorce. She even interfered with her sister's freedom to marry, opposing her sister's love affair and union with a bailiff.

With regard to the implementation of the "Marriage Law," some Henan cadres adopted an attitude of indifference and did not sympathize with or support women for the persecution of the feudal marriage system. It is more common for matrimonial cases to be not dealt with at all, or to be delayed. For example, after a woman in Luoyang City, Henan Province, married a young man from Yanshi County in August 1922 on the arranged arrangement of her parents, the couple had a bad relationship and often quarreled. After the promulgation of the Marriage Law, the woman applied for divorce at the Luoyang Municipal People's Court. However, he went to 4 times, but was rejected by the court's case taker (and mediation work) on the grounds that "it was late", "no submission", and "did not meet the conditions for divorce". On August 23, 1922, after the woman's fourth request for divorce was not granted, the man was brutally killed in the suburbs that night.

In less than a year after the promulgation of the Marriage Law, 212 women were tortured and killed in Huaiyang Prefecture, Henan Province; In the Shangqiu Prefecture of Henan Province, from January to April 1923, more than 30 women committed suicide due to marital problems.

According to reports from various parts of the central and southern districts, more than 10,000 people were killed and committed suicide due to marital problems in the district from May 1922 to May 1923, including 2,042 women in Henan Province from 1922 to June 1923. After June 1923, the Marriage Law received some attention in Henan Province, but in the five months from July to November 1923, 60 women still died due to marital problems.

Chinese people know that it is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, and in the process of judicial implementation, legal workers also uphold the attitude of persuasion and non-persuasion. Women really want to emancipate themselves after they have been divided into land or work in factories, and the BJP feels that its rather strong grassroots power is no longer able to protect the people who should be protected in the face of opposition from a part of the people.

Murder pays for life. Whether or not to be convicted of intentional homicide is based on whether there is a clear purpose for committing the murder, and for thousands of years, the imperial power has not been lower than the county, and now it is the power of the central government that has suddenly intervened in every corner of society, which has triggered the people's discomfort and backlash.

It is already a tragedy for a husband to kill his wife, and now he has to pay for his life if he kills someone, isn't this a ruined family. The masses of the people don't care about so many laws for you, and when the laws are formulated, the masses of the people do not participate in the formulation of the laws, and they do not sign them. The government at the top came up with such a law that violated a long historical tradition, causing "family discord," but the masses who explicitly supported the government basically did not support it this time. That's the rhetoric of the officials below.

Xu Dian was not confused by this rhetoric at all, and his attitude was extremely clear, "No matter what the masses think, this kind of thing emerges in an endless stream, first of all, party members and civil servants everywhere do not understand women's liberation thoroughly, and even oppose women's liberation in their hearts!" No matter how opposed the masses are, the first thing they have to do when facing the government is to observe their words and colors. If government civil servants do not have a correct understanding of women's emancipation, how can the masses have a correct understanding of women's emancipation? ”

The People's Daily also immediately published an article on the front page: "The Marriage Law is not a divorce law, nor is it a marriage law, but a law to protect and liberate everyone!" ”

Taking this as a starting point, there was another "anti-feudal" rectification movement within the party.

The last large-scale anti-feudal campaign was based on "anti-meritocracy" as the starting point and the idea of rectifying the ideology of drawing a foundation within the party and the army. This anti-feudal campaign not only inherited the ideas of the previous time, but also added more in-depth contents, such as "no one has personal ownership of others" and "everyone is equal before the law".

When Chen Ke came back from the Soviet Union and saw the latest report, he felt that the speed of the advance was a bit fast. The new Marriage Law was actually enacted from the perspective of an industrial country. China in 1923 had not yet entered such a high-level industrial age.

Declining fertility rates are widespread in the industrialized countries of the 21st century, a trend that is not bordered by any political line of thought at all. The Shiite Muslims in Iran are in power, and they can at least be tied to theocracy. However, Iran itself is an industrial country, and such a Muslim industrial country has also experienced a significant decline in the birth rate. While other Muslims were born on a womb weapon, Iran's female fertility rate dropped below 2. Chen Ke probably remembers a statistic that between 1981 and 1991, Iran's population grew by 18 million, a growth rate of 3.5 to 4 percent. In the years that followed, however, the growth rate fell to 1.3 per cent.

The most fundamental reason for the decline in the population of the industrialized countries is the emancipation of women, and the development of the productive forces has greatly increased the scope of female employment. Boys are naturally good at "doing big things", and while they are working hard outside to achieve their ideals, girls are not so ambitious, and girls show a tendency to overwhelm boys in jobs that are not too mobile and require patience. The boys jumped up and down, making several deals a year, earning 50,000 yuan. The girls are safe and stable for more than 2,000 a month, and there are 34,000 yuan in a year plus the year-end bonus. Nor did the men show an overwhelming preponderance.

Boys are fun by nature, they go out happy when they have money, they can earn 100,000 a year, and the money they can keep in their pockets at the end of the year may not be more than that of girls. In most Chinese families in the 21st century, women manage money, and the family does not have the salary of women, and life is really not easy.

The girls work on their own to support themselves, and they are even able to have a house and a car. Under the system of a modern industrial state, equality between men and women, based on economic and work equality, can naturally be achieved, which Chen Ke learned from Chairman Mao.

In the 21st century, a Chinese literary and artistic worker once ridiculed Chairman Mao's women's liberation as a "women's work movement". Chen Ke felt that this was the standard model of "foolish people who don't know what to do".

Therefore, Chen Ke convened a meeting of the Politburo Committee when he returned to China, at which Chen Ke first agreed with Xu Dian's criticism of party members and civil servants, "The comrades of the Politburo themselves must first determine whether they support equality between men and women!" Then determine in what situations you support equality between men and women! Finally, determine how we can achieve equality between men and women! If the Politburo can't solve its own ideological problems, then there is no need to think about it at all. ”

The BJP's style is to tell the truth, and whoever discusses it at the meeting by going through old accounts will suffer. So a group of old men from the Politburo began to speak.

"Equality between men and women is not a woman riding on a man's head!"

"You can't say what a woman says at home!"

There is nothing like this, and the comrades who say these things are all married to female revolutionary comrades, and these comrades do not have an advantage in terms of income.

"If a woman says divorce, she will divorce? You can't just make this decision, right? I think the marriage law is too ruthless, and emotional incompatibility is the reason for divorce! Who doesn't have a little bump in the house? ”

"Women can also lead the divorce, I think it hurts a man's face!"

Words like that also appeared.

Xu Dian knew that he did not have Chen Ke's appeal, so it would be difficult for him to convene such a Politburo meeting firstly, and secondly, after it was held, he might not be able to let the comrades speak their hearts. Moreover, Xu Dian listened to the complaints of the Politburo comrades, and there was a faint uneasiness, and these complaints seemed to be a kind of counterattack to the law. Xu Dian had already talked to Chen Ke about legal issues many times, and he had a deep understanding of the fragility of the law. No matter how advanced the law is, if it cannot keep pace with the development of the economic and social concepts of the time, various problems will follow.

Even with so much opposition from the Politburo, Xu Dian does not think that there is anything wrong with the thinking behind the new marriage law, which is a law that is truly based on scientific socialism and universal care for mankind, and this is a law that wants to liberate human society and lift the shackles of human society.

However, the law did face a lot of resistance. This is because the development of the social productive forces has indeed not reached that height.

Chen Ke was not overwhelmed by this opposition, after all, he came from the lower reaches of history, even if he could not sum up the inevitability of historical development, Chen Ke had seen the results of the inevitability of historical development with his own eyes. "I now know that the comrades think this law is ahead of its time. I would now like to ask another question, do you have any objections to what I call equality between men and women in the industrial society of the future? ”

No one dared to speak out against it this time, and it would be unrealistic for men to take the initiative to get down on their knees to promote the status of women. But if faced with women who already have their own independent economic status, the Politburo may dare to use their position to gain an overwhelming advantage in the family, but they can also imagine that ordinary workers would never dare to do so.

Chen Ke looked around the silent conference room, and he continued: "Then let's study this law. Let's see what this law regulates, what it opposes, and what it protects. Comrade Xu Dian will explain. ”

Two days later, the issue of the Politburo was finally resolved. The comrades of the Politburo reached a consensus to protect the legitimate rights and interests of working women. The problem of non-working women is solved by strengthening the work of women's federations. and to promote the implementation of women's employment.

The Politburo solved the problem, and it was the turn of the Central Committee. At the level of the Central Committee, die-hards appeared. Even without Chen Ke naming them, the Central Committee unanimously agreed that certain comrades had a strong sense of feudal hierarchy and deep-seated discrimination against women, and that they must be temporarily dismissed from their jobs. As a result, senior cadres who went to the study class because they opposed equality between men and women appeared.

After the settlement of the Central Committee, comrades at the level of provincial governors and secretaries of provincial party committees had to begin to receive education. Because they are responsible for specific work, the provincial governors and secretaries of the provincial party committees are not die-hards, and what they need is a more detailed scope of application of the law and methods of applying the law. This is Xu Dian's own work and strength, and the Politburo has entrusted Xu Dian's responsibility for this work. The matter that almost caused an uproar at the top level was resolved.

The upper echelons reach an agreement, and the later things are cumbersome, but it is quite easy to straighten them out. After Xu Dian completed the work arrangement at the provincial level, he also applied to go to the grassroots level. He didn't want to ask the guilt of the teacher, "The work of the grassroots comrades is too hard. Xu Dian said seriously, "There are still a bunch of fools at the top, not to mention the hard work of the grassroots comrades." ”

Chen Ke smiled: "Who is responsible for the work in your position?" Do you want to support Comrade Zhang Yu's suggestion that high-level comrades go down to the grassroots level in disguise? ”

Xu Dian also laughed rarely, "There is a party committee for politics and law, and if I go down, the party committee can naturally elect the person who is temporarily responsible." If there are not enough personnel in the party committees at all levels, they can recommend people from the party committees at lower levels to take over the work. Besides, Chairman Chen, you are sitting in the central government, we can rest assured. If something happens to the work of the Central Committee, our party committee will hold a meeting to ask you for your guilt! ”

These words actually have a bit of a sycophant taste, and it is not easy for Xu Dian, who has a serious temperament, to say such things.

Chen Ke put away his smile, "Since you have gone to the grassroots level, let's take a good look at the grassroots organizations and the system of law implementation at all levels." Listen more, learn more, watch more. Don't give work instructions, don't talk nonsense when you get up. This is the key to the grassroots level. ”

"At the beginning of the dismount, I pointed fingers, and there was no accident at work." Xu Dian memorized a paragraph related to "Theory of Practice", "Talking about it every day, every year, this is definitely not enough." I'll say the same thing later. ”

Chen Ke sighed, "The past few years have been the last peace. He couldn't help but say what should have been hidden in his heart.

Xu Dian was slightly stunned, but he quickly replied: "Don't worry, we will definitely do our best to prepare before the war." ”