In January 1914, the People's Party again held a plenary party congress. Almost at the same time, Yuan Shikai of Beiyang also summoned the governors of all the provinces under his command to Beijing for a meeting. At the high-level meeting convened by both sides, both Yuan Shikai and Chen Ke set a strategy for the future war.

"After we rectify the military system in Beiyang, we expanded our army to 25 armies and 100 divisions, and there are only 2 million officers and soldiers, and if we want to completely defeat the People's Party and regain the five provinces under their control, we also need the support of the southern provinces." Facing the governors of Beiyang, Yuan Shikai's expression was cold, and his voice was full of strength.

Chen Ke's expression was calm, but the comrades knew very well that after Chen Ke made a real strategic decision, his expression would be like this, "Comrades, the liberation of the people means the complete destruction of the old society and the old system. Beiyang is perhaps the most formidable enemy we face, and the whole of China's old system is all the enemy of the people's revolution promoted by our People's Party. The future liberation war is not only to defeat Yuan Shikai in Beiyang, but also to liberate the whole of China! ”

Yuan Shikai said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the People's Party has gone against the grain, openly proclaimed the agrarian revolution, plundered fertile land, and killed the gentry. Some people also believe that the best plan at the moment is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, let the southern provinces fight with the people, and we in Beiyang will recuperate and wait for the People's Party to do it when it is exhausted. This method may work for others, but it certainly will not work for the People's Party. This group of fanatics of the People's Party is good at seducing the ignorant people and letting them continue to expand their territory in the south unscrupulously. ”

Chen Ke recounted to the map: "Comrades, we have been infiltrating the periphery for several years, and the old rulers of the surrounding provinces hate us to the core, and of course, we also think that they must be eliminated. The war requires the mobilization of 3 million troops. It will be an unprecedented mobilization. With 3 million troops fighting and 3 million industrial workers in the cities, the key point now is to strengthen the organization and determine the various systems as soon as possible. Rely on our superiority in efficiency and numbers to completely crush the enemy. ”

"We in Beiyang are the central government, and we must lead the whole of China's provinces to extinguish the People's Party. So we must get all the provinces on our side. If the righteous have more help and the unrighteous have less help, and the southern provinces have been united, the People's Party will surely be destroyed. Yuan Shikai put forward a plan of action for the near future.

"The people's revolution relies on the masses of the people, who account for the largest number of people in China, and we will be able to win the final victory by thoroughly mobilizing the people and letting the people realize who their enemies really are." Chen Ke once again emphasized the program of the People's Party.

There is no need to talk too much about high-level meetings, and if they are incompetent, they will be eliminated long ago. After the two major groups in China have made up their minds to completely eliminate each other, the corresponding work is in full swing.

In February 1914, Sun Yat-sen's ship docked in Tianjin. Accompanied by Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai and others, Sun Yat-sen stepped off the skipping class. The local Beiyang representative of Tianjin, who had been waiting at the wharf for a long time, had enthusiastically responded. Liao Zhongkai's face had become unpleasant when he saw the deputies, and four of the six people who came to greet him had participated in the alliance. When Liao Zhongkai and Wang Jingwei presided over the Pingjin branch of the Alliance, these four were once their subordinates, but they didn't expect that they had now taken refuge in Beiyang.

Sun Yat-sen didn't care, at least he didn't show a look of concern on his face. First, he stepped forward to shake hands with the people who came to greet him, and when the reporter took pictures, Sun Yat-sen was very accustomed to standing in the middle of the crowd and posing. After the simple greeting ceremony, the Beiyang representative told Sun Yat-sen that he would arrange for the League to take a train to Beijing to complete the paperwork for Sun Yat-sen to regain Chinese nationality, and then Yuan Shikai would send someone to meet Sun Yat-sen.

The information was made public, and the BJP soon received the information. In recent years, the League has been greatly marginalized in China's political arena. However, the League was once the largest revolutionary party in China, and the chaotic management of the League made it too easy to join and quit, which made the League have a wide network of contacts. Whether in the South or in the North, there are quite a few people who have joined the League. Therefore, after discussing with the intelligence department of the People's Party, the news was still submitted.

"Yuan Shikai is ready to play the trick of a thousand golden horse bones." After Chen Ke finished reading the report, he smiled at He Zudao, who was sitting opposite.

As the war drew nearer, He Zudao returned to the General Political Department as the director of the General Political Department. After listening to Chen Ke's words, He Zudao took the document and looked at it. But there was no comment.

Chen Ke didn't really take this matter too seriously, and the biggest threat that the League could pose to the BJP was the dispatch of assassins. When it comes to sending Assassins, the Restoration Society's capabilities are only above that of the Alliance. Before Sun Yat-sen went to Beijing with the main cadres of the League to accept the "recruitment" of the Beiyang government, Cai Yuanpei, the president of the Liberation Society, had already gone to Beijing with the representatives of the National Assembly from all over the country to prepare to participate in the 1914 National Assembly meeting. If he is worried, Chen Ke can only be more worried about the movements of the Restoration Society.

Seeing that Chen Ke quickly read the stack of newly sent documents, He Zudao said: "Chairman Chen, at present, our Political Department has gathered comrades from other provinces for political training. Outstanding comrades selected from the middle can return to their localities at any time to carry out pre-revolutionary preparations. Our Political Department believes that there are two best directions for work at present, one is Sichuan and the other is Hunan. ”

On the map in front of the two of them, the current People's Party base is probably in the shape of a rather distorted apple, but in the lower left position, the "apple" is recessed, and the word "Hunan" is marked on this light green piece.

"If you can seize Hunan, it will naturally be the best strategy for the next step. However, Hunan celebrities are very interested in participating in politics, and how to solve these people is very troublesome. When I was in Jiangxi, when the troops were fighting bandits, they infiltrated a lot into southern Hunan. When we cracked down on bandits, the Hunan gentry jumped out to point fingers. He Zudao said.

The bandits in Xiangxi are very famous, and He Zudao said it so implicitly, Chen Ke couldn't help laughing. Hunan's literary style was relatively prosperous, and the gentry were extremely conservative, so it was impossible for the local scholars to have a good impression of the People's Party.

He Zudao didn't laugh, he said seriously: "Chairman Chen, I've been in Jiangxi for so long, I'm afraid of these scholars. It may be that I didn't find a way to work for these people, so every time my efforts to make these people become laborers, they failed. ”

Chen Ke said with a smile: "If you want those people to work, you want to throw them into labor camps and force them to work, which is the only way to make them work." Again, this is just forced labor. As for transforming them into laborers, let's wait for the next life. You don't have to count on them in this life. ”

He Zudao nodded slightly, "But you and the comrades of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense don't have this problem." ”

"Sister You and I are both from engineering, and engineering is not cultivated to sit in the office drinking tea. They are all off the production line, working on the front line day and night. These literati don't understand this knowledge, and they don't like to do it. Speaking of this, Chen Ke couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Hearing Chen Ke mention You Wei, He Zudao just smiled slightly, but what he said had nothing to do with Chen Ke's ridicule, "Chairman Chen, do you want to open up to the literati in Hunan?" ”

Seeing that He Zudao was already so keen, Chen Ke was also quite happy in his heart. "When I implemented the system, I didn't advocate killing. However, there are too many literati in Hunan, and our current mass base in Hunan is not enough, so once we fight for it, we are afraid that it will be inevitable to start a large-scale killing. That's what worries me the most. After all, Hunan is the nest of the Hunan army, and the people are brave. Moreover, in recent years, we have blocked the export of Hunan's grain, so Hunan's grain prices have not fluctuated much in recent years. So penetration is stronger than hard attack. ”

He Zudao agrees with this, "The effect of slow progress is the best." However, in order to avoid trouble, we were not able to let go of it like in Henan. When to change strategy? ”

"When Yuan Shikai finishes this congress, we will openly change our strategy." Chen Ke gave He Zudao a clear answer.

"Are you preparing for a head-on attack?" He Zudao asked.

"Yes. This time, the Beiyang Congress will definitely discuss the matter of besieging the base area. We don't care what other provinces think, Hunan is the next target for liberation. If we control Hunan, we will get a passage to Guangxi and Yunnan-Guizhou. In any case, the forward base always has to be built as much as possible. ”

Yuan Shikai has no telepathy, so even though Chen Ke is full of malice towards the ongoing congressional meeting in Beijing, Yuan Shikai did not sneeze. Hunan Governor Cen Chunbei is the younger brother of Yuan Shikai's old political enemy Cen Chunxuan, and Yuan Shikai doesn't want to take the initiative to get too close to Cen Chunbei in his heart.

At that moment, Yuan Shikai brought together the heads of parliamentarians from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces to discuss how to deal with the People's Party. Wang Youhong, Cai Yuanpei and Feng Guozhang respectively represented the parliamentary groups of the three provinces. The BJP's strong expansion has put the three provinces under heavy pressure. Wang Youhong and Feng Guozhang can still calm down on the surface, but Cai Yuanpei's attitude towards the People's Party is quite hostile.

"If we can't get rid of the chaotic party in its provinces, and the people's party is good at demagoguing the people, there will definitely be no peace in the provinces." Cai Yuanpei said impassionedly.

Feng Guozhang finally couldn't help it, and he said with a little mockery: "Cai Gong, the most people in Fujian at the moment are members of the Restoration Association. You are almost everywhere in Fujian. In order to eliminate the chaotic parties of the People's Party, it is necessary for the Restoration Committee to come forward. ”

"If Feng Dudu wants us to provide a list of the People's Party, we can help." Cai Yuanpei said as if he didn't feel Feng Guozhang's malice, "The People's Party wants to deprive the world of land and property, and it seems to be the same as what they say, but it is basically the kind of killing gentry." Zhejiang's landlords have long been worried, fearing that the People's Party will enter Zhejiang. ”

Yuan Shikai had long known Cai Yuanpei's fear of the agrarian revolution, and the Liberation Society was once the closest ally of the People's Party, but the relationship between the two sides had unwittingly become incompatible based on the conflict of political positions. But Yuan Shikai would never think that Cai Yuanpei would throw himself into his door. Once he was able to borrow the power of Beiyang to clear the People's Party on the territory of the Liberation Society. Cai Yuanpei's next step will be to work hard to squeeze out Beiyang. Yuan Shikai knows these most basic political skills.

"Wang Dudu, what about you Jiangsu?" Yuan Shikai turned to Wang Youhong.

Wang Youhong has remained silent, Jiangsu is under the pressure of the People's Party, especially the location of the People's Party's Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Group, which is close to Nanjing, and a division of troops is stationed. This army, which can attack Nanjing at any time, is a thorn in Wang Youhong's heart, but Wang Youhong also has concerns, and there is a big gap between the people in southern and northern Jiangsu. However, there is no terrain between the two places that can be used as a military barrier. If the People's Party's army attacked southern Jiangsu from northern Jiangsu, it would be faced with the terrain of a flat river. Therefore, he is not willing to take any initiative to take any responsibility for the siege of the BJP.

Hearing Yuan Shikai take the initiative to ask, Wang Youhong hesitated for a moment before replying: "It would be good if Jiangsu could protect itself, but if we send troops to attack the People's Party, we can't do it." ”