Chen Ke knows better than anyone else about the changes in the party, and Chen Ke has seen this change at least once. And earlier, Chen Ke had seen a lot of records related to it. So Shang Yuan couldn't help but ask Chen Ke if he knew the direction of the party in the party, Chen Ke did not answer directly, but responded with a famous quote.

"The ultimate cause of all social and political changes should not be found in the minds of men, in their growing awareness of eternal truth and justice, but in the changes in the modes of production and exchange; It should not be found in the philosophy of the relevant era, but in the economics of the relevant era. The irrationality and unfairness of the existing system, the growing awareness that 'rationality has become nonsense, and happiness has become misery', is only a symbol of the quiet change that has taken place in the methods of production and the forms of exchange. ”

The People's Party has many "modes of thinking", and this passage of Engels can definitely rank in the top 20. Especially in recent years, it has been quoted more often by Chen Ke. Shang Yuan understood what Chen Ke meant as soon as he heard it, but Shang Yuan didn't feel like waking up from a dream, but felt even more uneasy.

Chen Ke continued: "In the past, China was an agricultural country, so it was inevitable to match the feudal set of things. In terms of China's history, our ancestors have done their best. Now that China has transformed into an industrial country, the original feudal system is really inappropriate. And we all come from the old times, and we must carry the imprint of the old times. One of the essences of any living being is to think that what you are doing is right. Even if human beings have rationality and rational thinking, this biological nature is not so easy to get rid of. Now it's normal for people to feel uncomfortable, and if someone feels uncomfortable, it means that that person is not normal. ”

Shang Yuan was amused by Chen Ke's words that were full of flavor in middle school, "In this way, you Chen Wenqing is the most abnormal person in China?" ”

Chen Ke knew very well that he was abnormal, what was normal for a time-traveler in the era of a hundred years ago? So he went on to say: "Many comrades now say that I condone capitalism, and I must admit that I have done so recently. ”

"Why?" Shang Yuan knew that Chen Ke was going to say something surprising.

"I am against capitalism, but I have always been in favor of the operation of capital. As far as the current trend within the party is concerned, the smell of leftism is getting stronger and stronger. Of course, leftist comrades are still good comrades! As far as I can see, feudalism is on the rise, and these feudalists are now disguising themselves as leftists. Chen Ke's tone was quite vicious.

This passage made Shang Yuan think for several minutes before he understood, and he was also happy, "In this way, feudal socialism was born, half an elegy, half slander, half an echo of the past, half a threat of the future; It can sometimes strike at the heart of the bourgeoisie with spicy, playful and scathing comments, but it is always laughable because of its utter inability to understand the course of modern history. In order to win over the people, the aristocracy waved the proletarian begging bag as a banner. But whenever the people followed them, they found that they had the old feudal coat of arms on their hips, so they laughed and scattered. ”

Chen Ke smiled maliciously: "There is nothing new under the sun. The bourgeoisie has destroyed all feudal, patriarchal and pastoral relations where it has gained domination. It ruthlessly severed the feudal fetters that bound people to their natural superiority, and it made it impossible for people to have any other connection with each other than naked interests, except for the ruthless "cash transaction". It drowns the sacred onset of religious piety, chivalric zeal, and the sadness of the burghers in the icy waters of self-interested intentions. It transforms human dignity into exchange value, replacing countless concessions and self-earned freedoms with a conscienceless freedom of trade. All in all, it replaces exploitation masked by religious and political fantasies with open, shameless, direct, and explicit exploitation. The bourgeoisie has erased the sacred aura of all professions that have always been revered and revered. It turned doctors, lawyers, clergy, poets, and scholars into wage laborers that it paid for. ”

This content should have provoked deep political thinking, but Marx's writing was very good, and the translation was equally powerful, and this spicy and profound words inspired Shang Yuan's sense of joy, and he couldn't help but laugh.

Chen Ke also said with a smile: "So Marx and Engels are mentors, hehe, this is really not a joke. If you change me, I can't grasp such a profound essence if you kill me, and I can't organize such a concise language. ”

"Haha, that's right, if you change it, you will go straight to the meeting and ask everyone to criticize and self-criticize with a straight face! Haha" Shang Yuan smiled and leaned back. After laughing for a while, Shang Yuan wiped the tears from his laughter and said seriously: "But Wen Qing, after you read these things, you finally know what to do and what will happen." I just read it, and if you ask me to deal with some things in the past, I can still do it, let me take the country forward, I really can't. ”

Chen Ke said in a very arrogant tone: "So, I'm an abnormal person!" ”

At this moment, Shang Yuan couldn't help but burst into laughter. He wanted to hold down the tombstone of Mr. Li Hongqi next to him to support his crumbling body, but he felt that it was very disrespectful, and Shang Yuan fortunately sat cross-legged on the snow and continued to laugh. After laughing for a while, Shang Yuan suddenly began to sob. Touching a handful of tears, Shang Yuan sighed, "If we can be liberated ten years earlier, and I can get to know each other earlier today, then we can laugh with Teacher Li." Mr. Li is a wonderful person, such a serious person, he can make people laugh to death when he talks about jokes. It's a pity. ”

A few really happy jokes can relieve Chen Ke of all the pressure, and he is now back to the leader of the People's Party, Chen Ke said solemnly: "There is a reason why I have connived at the existence and even expansion of private capital. In the next 10 years, China will continue to expand its armaments. It would be an unprecedented war, and we would have to go to war with Great Britain and most likely with the United States, and possibly even with Britain and the United States at the same time for some time. In the sky, in the sea, on land. In the jungles, in the mountains, in the plains, in the swamps, in the deserts, in the ice fields, everywhere you can see and can't see, this war is likely to cover every corner of the globe, and it may well be a real all-out war. ”

"What does this have to do with the indulgence of private capital?" Shang Yuan was puzzled.

Chen Ke walked slowly a few steps with his hands behind his back, and after spending a long time in the snow, his feet already felt a tingling pain caused by the cold, "During the war, I will adopt the wartime system, the wartime system, it is the command system." The feudal system and the official standard will definitely use the wartime system to expand and strengthen themselves, and finally create an unprecedented monster. When the war is over, I'll set out to destroy this monster. The destruction of capitalism is definitely not about killing all the capitalists, but about replacing it with a new and more dynamic system. The destruction of the bureaucracy under the war system is the real decisive battle in politics. It's not a bad thing to have some foreshadowing in those times. ”

Shang Yuan listened to Chen Ke's words, and his biggest feeling was puzzlement. Chen Ke, as usual, began to think about destruction as soon as he set out to create. What is still far from punctuating is what the unprecedented monster of the future described by Chen Ke really looks like. While he was thinking about it, Shang Yuan saw Chen Ke stretch out his hand, "Get up, don't sit there." It's going to freeze. ”

The two talked about work, and walked slowly to the gate of the cemetery. Chen Ke said that there are too many questions to be asked about the future work, and Shang Yuan has too many questions to ask Chen Ke, so he stopped and talked for a while after walking a few steps, and he didn't go far for a long time. There was no one in the cemetery, so the guards didn't get too close, and the two finally walked to the gate of the cemetery. only to find that there were people at the door who seemed to have come to sweep the tomb. And this person is actually an acquaintance, it is Mr. Li Hongqi's son Li Yujian.

Li Yujian obviously didn't expect that it was Shang Yuan who was sweeping the tomb in the cemetery, he carefully identified the one next to Shang Yuan, and found that it was actually Chen Ke.

Shang Yuan was not too surprised, Li Yujian's temperament is actually quite stubborn, in terms of his essence, he has learned some of Mr. Li Hongqi's skin, Li Yujian's personality is actually not very fond of caring for people. So it's not uncommon to come to the grave at night.

After stepping forward and talking for a few sentences, Li Yujian tried his best to say in a flat tone: "Senior Brother Shangyuan, tomorrow is my father's death day for five years. I don't want to be so ostentatious on the first day of the new year, so I'm going to worship tonight. ”

It seemed that Li Yujian had been waiting outside for a long time, although he couldn't see clearly in the snow, but Shang Yuan could hear Li Yujian's voice trembling a little, thinking that it was not lightly frozen. There was also a quiet little girl standing next to Li Yujian, dressed in thick clothes, and she looked a little shivering from the cold.

Shang Yuan was very unhappy in his heart, he didn't expect that there would be people to sweep the grave on this Chinese New Year's Eve. And it was Li Yujian, who had a very bad relationship before. I didn't know how to speak, but I saw Chen Ke walk forward and stretched out his hand to Li Yujian, "I delayed your tomb sweeping, I don't want to go, we will leave immediately, you can go in now." ”

Li Yujian didn't expect Chen Ke to speak so easily, seeing that Chen Ke took the initiative to stretch out his hand, Li Yujian was stunned for a while before he stepped forward to shake hands with Chen Ke, his voice was a little trembling, I don't know if it was excitement or because of the cold, "Chairman Chen, hello." ”

After shaking hands, Chen Ke bent down, and Wen Yan said to the little girl next to Li Yujian: "Hello." ”

The little girl looked at the tall Chen Ke a little timidly, but replied politely, "Hello." ”

exchanged a few common and very unnutritious words, but they announced each other's names, and Chen Ke asked the little girl's age again. Then Chen Kewen said: "The Spring Festival is coming soon, what do you want to say to my uncle?" ”

The little girl was stunned, thinking that she had never seen such a thick-skinned person. "Happy New Year, uncle."

Chen Ke didn't say a word, pulled out two tickets of ten yuan from his pocket and handed them to the little girl, "Uncle also wishes you a happy New Year, this is the New Year's money for you." ”

Li Yujian was stunned by this seemingly normal, but completely abnormal exchange of courtesies. He originally wanted to back down, but after glancing at Shang Yuan, Li Yujian finally said, "Uncle Chen gave it to you, you take it." ”

The little girl got her father's consent, so she put away the banknotes handed over by Chen Ke, looked at them carefully, put them in her pocket, and said to Chen Ke in a much cheerful voice: "Thank you, Uncle Chen." ”

"That's good." Chen Ke touched the little girl's head, and said to Li Yujian: "You guys come by bus." Now that it's such a delay, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch the last train when I go back. We'll be waiting for you outside and we'll take our car back together. ”

Li Yujian was the most reluctant to lose face in front of Shang Yuan in his life, if it was someone else's kindness, Li Yujian would refuse if he was afraid. In the face of Chen Ke's kindness, Li Yujian felt that if he resigned, it would be too ungraceful. In addition, he also knew that his daughter was only afraid of choking on the cold, so he nodded, "Thank you." ”

More than an hour later, Li Yujian came out after sweeping the tomb. Thinking that he saw that the tombstone had been wiped again, his attitude towards Shang Yuan was also polite. It was warm inside the car, and the little girl fell asleep after a while. sent the family to the door of Li Yujian's house, and Chen Ke also helped gently take out the sleeping little girl and hand it over to Li Yujian's arms. Li Yujian only said thank you, and went upstairs with her daughter in her arms.

Sitting back in the car with Chen Ke, Shang Yuan couldn't help but sigh: "It's better to be peaceful." ”

Chen Ke gave Shang Yuan a clear answer: "War cannot be avoided, so a big fight is better than a small fight, and an early fight is better than a late fight." The faster the process of industrialization, the less people will suffer. The simpler the capital operation, the fewer contradictions. If you want society to progress, you don't have to think about warmth and silence. Just like Li Yujian, he doesn't like you. But he doesn't talk enough, but everyone can be polite and polite. If he had been hypocritical at that time, not only would a circle of people follow him and waste time, but everyone would have followed him to suffer in the snow. ”

Since Chen Ke's humanity has evolved to such an extent, Shang Yuan can only agree.

When Chen Ke and the others returned to Zhengzhou, they immediately began to arrange the work. The propaganda department under Zhang Yu was tasked with arguing the inevitability of speculation and rentierism.

Zhang Yu was immediately happy when he heard this task, "Whose building is going to collapse?" ”

"The British have already made this prediction, and I think the British are right." Chen Ke replied. The British had a wealth of financial data at their disposal, and they were the first to feel the dangers of the Great Depression.

The 1920s were called the "New Age," and wealth and opportunity seemed to have opened their doors to Americans who had just won World War I. The whole society is rushing to new technologies and new lifestyles, and "conspicuous consumption" has become the trend of the times. US President Herbert Hoover even dared to publicly shout that "we are on the eve of a decisive war on poverty, and the slums will disappear from the United States".

Zhang Yu was happy, "Many people in China see the United States banqueting guests, but they can't envy it." Our propaganda department shouts against illegal fundraising every day, but this rat will be banned again and again. Jiangsu has made a lot of money in this, and our state-owned stock and bond markets must be opened as soon as possible. ”

"Don't worry, wait for those people in Jiangsu to be forced to tear apart by the creditors." Chen Ke replied with a demonic smile.