After retreating to Yucheng, Zhou Elai really realized the difference of this city, the strict social control is not seen in other cities in China, as soon as the personnel entered Hongyan Village, the sub-district office and the police station came to inform them, let them apply for ID cards and household registration books, and two staff members came, and they spoke politely, and they were not angry in the face of cold words, even if the staff declared that they would not do it, they just smiled and left.

But in the end, he still went to the police station to get all the documents, and Li Kenong explained to Zhou EN that it was almost impossible to move an inch without documents and household registration in Yucheng.

"If you don't have a hukou, you won't have food stamps, and if you don't have food stamps, you can't buy grain, even if it's high-priced grain, you must have grain, and you're not allowed to sell grain privately in the bazaar. Li Kenong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "In addition, you must have an ID card when you go out to stay in a hotel, and the police on the street can check your ID card at any time, and if you don't have a document, you will be taken to the police station to find someone to bail." To put it simply, without a hukou and ID card, it is almost impossible to move an inch in Sichuan, and there is no way to live at all. ”

ZHOU EN FINALLY UNDERSTOOD NOW WHY IT WAS SO DIFFICULT TO OPEN UP THE SITUATION IN THE UNDERGROUND WORK IN YUCHENG, WHICH MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR THE STAFF TO HIDE THEIR IDENTITIES, AND ONCE THEIR IDENTITIES WERE DISCOVERED, THERE WAS ALMOST NOTHING TO HIDE.

But even so, Li Kenong's work in Yucheng has also made some progress, and all the exposed staff members in the southwest development team have been withdrawn, and his most farsighted thing is to withdraw all the spies involved in the underground party and send them to Yan'an.

The work in Yucheng was extremely difficult, and the circulation of Xinhua Bao was completely stopped, and the Kuomintang refused to admit that Yucheng had press control regulations, and as long as it was handled in accordance with the press control regulations, any newspaper could be published, but the prerequisite for publication was a deposit of 1 million, or if it was calculated according to the price of goods, the Eighth Route Army Office would not be able to take it out, let alone the Eighth Route Army Office, even if the entire Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region could not take it out.

Without the Xinhua newspaper, the party would have no voice in the white areas, and there would be only one voice in the white areas, which would be very unfavorable to the party's ideas propagated and even more unfavorable to the party's development.

"Yuzhou Evening News is Mei Youlan's newspaper, Zhuang Jihua supports it behind, but this newspaper is the only private newspaper, Mei Youlan has a deep background, his grandfather is close friends with the Song family, has a close relationship with Zhuang Jihua, has a lot of autonomy in hiring personnel, and the newspaper is also neutral, especially the anti-Japanese position is firm, I have sent two comrades in, but they are just ordinary reporters."

Li Kenong racked his brains in order to open up the situation. In many people's opinion, underground work is lurking in the heart of the military system or [***], but in fact, a large amount of underground work is not these, but very ordinary development organizations, propagating the party's ideas, and spreading the party's voice everywhere, these jobs are actually no worse than those latent ones.

Wang Jingwei left, Hongyan Village got the news relatively late, Chiang Kai-shek had already arrived in Lin Yuan, the Eighth Route Army Office only got the news, Zhou En came to immediately judge that this was a premeditated treason, combined with the information received before, it is estimated that Wang Jingwei and Yue himself have reached some kind of agreement, otherwise it is impossible to explain why Wang Jingwei went to Hanoi the next day as soon as Mine made a statement.

The emergency meeting had lasted for more than an hour, and the central authorities had also received a reply, and the central authorities demanded that a propaganda offensive to propagate the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression be launched immediately to hold Chiang Kai-shek back, and that Chiang Kai-shek must be prevented from defecting to the enemy and that the impact of Wang Ching-wei's defection to the enemy should be minimized as much as possible.

"Wang Jingwei's surrender to the enemy has become a foregone conclusion," Zhou Enlai looked serious: "The central government's reply demanded that we immediately launch a propaganda offensive, and we must make full use of the position of the Third Department. ”

Bogu was very dissatisfied with the work of Yucheng in his heart, but since Wang Ming stepped down, he has restrained a lot and easily stopped accusing others, but the current situation must still be changed, and he cannot wander around in the bureau set up by the Kuomintang.

"The voice of the central government must be disseminated in the national control area," Bo Gu carefully said after careful use: "When it is necessary, should we consider forcibly publishing it?" ”

Li Kenong actually considered this method, but Zhuang Jihua's attitude was very tough, and he warned him in Chengdu that if he wanted to break the rules and regulations of Yucheng, he would forcibly close the office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing.

However, this office is now [***] office in the Kuomintang capital, and according to the bipartisan agreement, this office cannot be closed. Zhou EN thought for a while and said: "This method can only be a last resort, and it cannot be implemented until it is absolutely necessary." ”

"If only there were a million." Li Shaoshi, the secretary of Zhou EN, sighed: "Why is this Zhuang Jihuading's rules so evil? ”

"It's not a question of one million," Dong Biwu shook his head and said: "I think our proposition is still wrong, and now not only Xinhua Yuebao, but also Ta Kung Pao and Zuo Shunsheng's "New China Yuebao" run in Wuhan cannot be published, and Chen Cheng's "Sweeping Daily" in the background has also put one million. So it's hard to say that it's specifically against us, his purpose is to deal with everyone, so it's a [***] performance, and I think I can do something through the National Senate. ”

Li Kenong smiled bitterly in his heart: "Dong Lao, it's not that no one has tried this method, but the Yucheng Senate vetoed the proposal of the National Senate and insisted on not changing it." ”

"As a local political axe, how can Yucheng have the power to veto the resolution of the central political axe?" Ye Jianying asked strangely.

"This is related to the relationship between Yucheng and the central government, when the southwest was developed, Yucheng belonged to the special zone and could legislate on its own." Li Kenong said: "It is said that this is a special request from Zhuang Jihua to Chiang Kai-shek. ”

Zhou EN sighed in his heart, the real problem in Yucheng is that the political axe is very popular with the people, this is Zhuang Jihua's biggest harvest in the past seven years, these conditions are not a problem, Yucheng political participation is the biggest problem, this political participation is completely controlled by Zhuang Jihua, although there are the Kuomintang who form this political participation meeting, but there are non-party personages, celebrities, trade union representatives, and nearly half of the representatives of the peasant association, plus the youth party and other national parties, on the surface, the Kuomintang does not have more than half, but in fact, there are as many as eighty percent of the representatives who completely obey the orders of the Southwest Development Team, Those representatives of trade unions, peasant associations, educational circles, and chambers of commerce and industry have benefited a lot from the development of the southwest in the past seven years, and they have also enjoyed the benefits brought by the development of the southwest, so it is very difficult for them to change their stance and support [***].

It was precisely because of the basic success of the land reform in the rural areas of Sichuan that the Dabashan guerrillas could not stand in the 16 counties around Yucheng at all, and were forced to move to northern Sichuan. The working class in Marx's theory, on the other hand, is a network of trade unions organized by the Southwest Development Team, and the party's power among the workers is very weak.

"It seems that we will not be able to open up the situation in Chongqing in a short period of time," Zhou ENLAI finally said: "This requires long-term and hard work, and we must show the strength to climb the snowy mountains and cross the grasslands." ”

Zhou EN said in his heart that the cooperation of the Kuomintang is still needed, but he believes that the Kuomintang will cooperate, the corruption in the Kuomintang officialdom is serious, and Yucheng is by no means a pure land.

"Although it is very difficult, we still have to fulfill the instructions of the central government." Zhou EN glanced at everyone seriously: "Everyone works together to come up with some methods." ”

"In the current situation, the identity of the Kuomintang should be used to the greatest extent possible," Dong Biwu said: "In the three halls that Enlai just mentioned, we can give full play to the advantages of the literary and artistic circles and perform some dramas and dramas that reflect the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. ”

This suggestion opened everyone's minds at once, and Bogu thought about it and said with a smile: "Dong Lao said well, although Xinhua News cannot be published, we can secretly publish a newspaper and distribute it through underground channels. ”

"That's right, we want the people to hear the party's voice, but we have to continue to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek, even if he doesn't agree." Dong Biwu said.

"Besides, Jianying, you go to see Li Jishen tomorrow, it is estimated that he still doesn't know about Wang Jingwei." As far as Zhou En is concerned, the Third Party is now Li Jishen in Yucheng, Chen Mingshu is in Guiyang to assist Zhuang Jihua in training, Deng Yanda is running a school in Changsha, Tan Pingshan is raising funds in Hong Kong, Ji Fang is first in Henan, and now he is in Peng Xuefeng's department of the New Fourth Army, and he is basically out of the activities of the Third Party.

In history, the relationship between the third party and the GCD was bumpy, both were anti-Chiang and advocated resistance, but the GCD once regarded the third party as a more vicious enemy than Chiang Kai-shek, and in the early days of the Red Army, large-scale executions were carried out against the third party, and many loyal party members were killed by mistake; After the Xi'an Incident, [***] began to change its approach, with the purpose of establishing a national anti-Japanese united front and uniting all Ming cooking parties; Zhou Enlai held several talks with Deng Yanda in Wuhan, and finally eliminated the gap between the two parties, and the two parties began to have close ties.

"Tomorrow Dong Lao and Deng Yingchao will go to the political meeting, pay attention to the fact that Wang Jingwei cannot be directly said to be treasonous, Chiang Kai-shek has not announced Wang Jingwei's treason so far, it must be because of Wang Jingwei's influence, so we should not mention this matter directly." As an opponent, Zhou En knew Chiang Kai-shek very well, and even knew about his way of handling things: "In addition, telegraph to Pan Hannian and immediately find out whether Gao Zongwu has reached an agreement with Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, and if so, find a way to get the content of the agreement." ”

The emergency meeting had actually come to a conclusion at this point, and Zhou Enlai was about to announce the adjournment of the meeting, when Li Kenong's confidential secretary asked Li Kenong to go out outside the door.

Li Kenong soon came back and reported to Zhou EN: "I just received a news that Long Yun suddenly returned to Yunnan. ”

"Long Yun has returned to Yunnan?" Zhou EN frowned deeply, his first reaction was that this was unreasonable, and it was impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to agree to Long Yun's return to Yunnan: "Chiang Kai-shek agreed to him go back?" ”

"No, he secretly returned to Yunnan." Li Kenong replied that this information was very unnoticeable, but the intelligence officer still reported this information to his superiors.

Zhou ENLAI was silent for a moment, he had dealings with Long Yun in Wuhan, and knew that he had always been grudge against Chiang Kai-shek and Zhuang Jihua, so he had also been the focus of their unity, but this time, Zhou ENLAI felt that there must be something strange in it.

"Inform Zhuang Jihua of this news immediately." Zhou ENLAI resolutely ordered, although I don't know if Long Yun is related to Wang Jingwei, but at this time it is too sensitive to have the slightest accident, otherwise the domino effect will cause great damage to the overall situation of the current Anti-Japanese War.

(To be continued)