"Chairman Chen, we didn't do our job well, and as a result, the people were not satisfied with this election." The secretary of the district party committee of Yuezhangji District was very nervous and said to Chen Ke. His fear was not unreasonable, although the election was relatively chaotic when Chen Ke was there, the people did not raise large-scale objections to this election. After Chen Ke left, some of the people complained that they were not satisfied with all the electees, and they demanded a new election and put forward a new candidate themselves.

Looking at the nervous secretary of the district party committee, Chen Ke smiled and said: "Comrade Yue Mingjie, I first have to correct one thing, this statement of yours is unscientific. ”

Criticized by Chen Ke as unscientific, Yue Mingjie's face became a lot paler. The BJP has always advocated "science", and this criticism is very harsh.

Chen Ke was not angry, he still asked with a smile: "First of all, whether your work has been done well or not, the criterion for evaluation is whether you have completed the work according to the pre-made plan. As far as this election is concerned, have you done a good job of reaching out to everyone who meets the requirements for the election? Do you explain to everyone what the election means and why it is necessary? Comrade Yue Mingjie, can you answer me on this question? ”

"This ......" Yue Mingjie couldn't answer for a while, he asked himself, he still did this. Even those who demanded re-election were given election propaganda. However, Yue Mingjie himself is the first time to do this kind of work, since the reaction of the people exceeded his initial imagination, Yue Mingjie does not dare to say that he has done a good job.

"Chairman Chen, I'm sure I have something to do well." Yue Mingjie finally had to choose a vague statement.

"What didn't you do?" Chen Ke then asked.

"......" Yue Mingjie didn't know what he hadn't done well, he wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak.

Chen Ke looked at Yue Mingjie like this, he really sympathized with this comrade, if it was the kind of person who was completely thinking about his own interests, he would definitely be shirking responsibility or looking for reasons around whether to implement the plan or not. Yue Mingjie's performance was that he couldn't justify the final result. Chen Ke really regretted this, and he had to say: "Comrade Yue Mingjie, let me ask you, have you strictly implemented the work arrangement this time? ”

After making a lot of determination, Yue Mingjie squeezed out a sentence, "I did carry out the work according to the work arrangement." ”

"Have you made it clear the rules of the election, when the candidates will start to register and when they will end?"

"Chairman Chen, I've made it clear." Yue Mingjie is very confident in the execution of this work. In fact, when he first discussed the matter with the people who had raised the opinion, he specifically mentioned it. The people also admitted that Yue Mingjie had indeed said it, but they insisted that the candidates be re-elected.

Chen Ke's face sank, "So, I'm going to ask you now, have you reported to me realistically?" When you come up and say that you have not done your job well, do you mean that I will punish you according to the principles and discipline of the party organization? ”

Only then did Yue Mingjie realize what he had said wrong, and his face became even more ugly. Looking at Chen Ke's gloomy face, Yue Mingjie finally mustered up the courage and said, "Chairman Chen, I did something wrong. ”

"And what about next time, what are you going to do when you report?" Chen Ke then asked.

Yue Mingjie didn't expect Chen Ke to let him go so easily, and he even wondered if he had misunderstood Chen Ke's thoughts. But at this point, he didn't have anything else to say, Yue Mingjie said in a low voice: "Next time, I will definitely explain the specific situation first." And there will be no more such nonsense. ”

"It's louder, I can't hear it." Chen Ke said loudly.

Yue Mingjie cheered up, straightened his waist and said loudly: "Chairman Chen, I will definitely explain the specific situation clearly when I report next time." No more nonsense like this. ”

Chen Ke nodded, "Okay." You now continue to report back to me. ”

Yue Mingjie sorted out his thoughts and reported on the whole incident, as well as the failure of mediation between the district party committee and the masses. There are two kinds of ideas in the district committees, one is to agree to the demands of the masses, extend the election time, and let the masses who voluntarily sign up participate in the election. The other is that they believe that this precedent cannot be set, and if this is done, what if the people demand a new election in the future elections like this one? Comrades with two attitudes have their own reasons, and Yue Mingjie feels that he really can't make up his mind. He had to run to Chen Ke.

Chen Ke didn't answer directly, he asked, "Comrade Yue Mingjie, what is your own opinion?" ”

Yue Mingjie saw that Chen Ke really didn't have the idea of holding him accountable, and he regained his calm in his heart, and his speech became more fluent, "My opinion is that this time there can be a new by-election, and there will be no example." However, some comrades suggested that it was unfair to do so, and that if there was to be a by-election, it would simply be re-elected. I think the re-election is a delay, and if people are still not satisfied after the re-election, then there must be no re-election. Moreover, according to the charter, each election requires half a month of preparation time, and once the re-election is held, it will be delayed for half a month. I am really worried that if there is a re-election, it will affect the progress of the entire election process. If Yuezhangji Village is not elected, the entire district will have to continue. And once this kind of thing spreads, I am afraid that people in other places will also demand a new election. Chairman Chen, I can't afford this responsibility. ”

Chen Ke nodded slightly, Yue Mingjie's worry was not unreasonable. In fact, after Chen Ke himself heard Yue Mingjie's introduction, he thought that the by-election was good at first, and then he felt that the re-election was okay. But when he really thought about whether it would affect the entire local election work, Chen Ke had a much higher evaluation of Yue Mingjie, secretary of the Yuezhangji District Party Committee. As a district chief, I can consider issues from the perspective of the entire election process, which is quite a high quality.

Thinking of this, Chen Ke replied: "Yue Zhangji will re-elect, since it is an emergency, then change the preparation time from half a month to three days." Elsewhere, if there are people calling for re-election, it is not your responsibility. In the first election, it is good that the masses have this enthusiasm to participate. You must make it clear that the next is not an example. The first election was inexperienced, and some changes could be understood. Next time, we must run in accordance with the electoral system, and we will never accept such a situation of re-election after the fact. ”

"Yes." Yue Mingjie replied with relief, "Chairman Chen, do you have anything else to explain?" ”

"No, you hurry back and set up the work." Chen Ke said.

After Yue Mingjie left, Chen Kezao left his wife's pregnancy behind. This election is a major event, not only to determine the legal system of the new government, but also to be followed by the election of people's deputies, and the convening of the people's congress is not for a group of people to hold a meeting to have a good time, including the formulation of the local financial system and the formulation of various financial disclosure systems. There is also the formulation of the audit budget system, Chen Ke is not Grandpa Mao, although there were many factions in the party when Grandpa Mao was in power, he already had Premier Zhou and these heroes to work with. Chen Ke himself has to take charge of ideological issues as the leader of the party, and he also has to take on the operation of the government. Not to mention these internal problems, there are also external problems of war. Chen Ke also needs to be in charge of the planning of the second anti-encirclement war, and if this work is completed, God knows what will happen. In the days to come, Chen Ke doubted how much time he had to rest, let alone accompany his pregnant wife He Ying.

Is this a challenge that the traversers must face? Chen Ke thought with his eyes closed. Chen Ke's success is entirely based on his understanding of social development, and he was able to copy a set of extremely mature systems and methods to operate the base areas. In the past, Chen Ke also ridiculed the "spirit of the king", as a common "anti-authority" youth in the new era, Chen Ke does not think that there is any domineering spirit. Now Chen Ke recalls that when Grandpa Mao was in Jinggangshan, Grandpa Mao was able to easily persuade many unruly talents to obey the orders of the base area. In fact, it will not be a tyranny, but Grandpa Mao can come up with an effective solution to the problem. It can help those people understand the current state of society, understand how a stronger government should operate, how to solve problems. In order to survive and develop, those people are actually not convinced by Grandpa Mao, but they can't help but follow him.

Grandpa Mao relied on unparalleled talent, and Chen Ke relied on the knowledge accumulated in history. It's hard to say who is more advanced now. In Grandpa Mao's era, the comrades at the bottom could let go of their work, and if you didn't do well, you could be promoted or dismissed at any time. If the problem is bad, you can kill the head immediately. If Chen Ke's current revolution also starts to kill his head, not to mention that Chen Ke himself does not have the decisive power, at least Chen Ke is not used to solving problems in this way. Moreover, it is also a question whether the comrades below can accept this strict management model.

Putting aside these troublesome things, Chen Ke considered an even more troublesome thing. It is impossible for the BJP to always operate on the basis of "lower theory". The whole set of theories of communism and socialism still has to be come out, and it must be done very quickly. Once this theory, which is based on the basic viewpoint against exploitation, is taken out and disseminated. Chen Ke can imagine what the outcome will be, and there are very few people who really understand this theory. Some radicals may use these theories to justify their actions, but nearly 100 percent of China's exploiting class and its vassals hate this theory and the People's Party that guides its actions. Chen Ke knew the inevitability of this outcome, but Chen Ke found that he was not mentally prepared to accept it.

Thinking of this, Chen Ke got up and opened the cabinet and took out a large box from inside. These are all manuscripts written by Chen Ke on the theorizing of the idea of socialism. The manuscripts were all written by Chen Ke by hand, and the millions of words were only a small part of the original content in Chen Ke's opinion, and he still needed to spare a lot of time to write new content and then revise and organize it. If you look at the time, there will not be any real results without two years.

"I would have underestimated theorists, I was really young at that time." Chen Ke said with a wry smile in his heart.

Just as he was considering whether to write for a while, the guard entered the office with a confidential officer from the Intelligence Department. The confidential officer held a very thick document bag, "Chairman Chen, this is the latest information transmitted from Beijing. ”

Chen Kegang was in the mood to write, and now he had to give up the structure of the theory, he took the file tape, and after asking the confidential officer to go out, he put away the theoretical manuscript, and then began to read the documents transmitted by the Beijing intelligence station.

The Manchu Qing Qing reacted so slowly, Chen Ke always found it strange. He originally thought that the troops of the Manchu attack on the base area should be almost there. Chen Ke even considered that the first resolution of the people's congress was to issue a "liberation war order", but the slow action of the Manchus could not cope with the efficiency of the base areas. In the intelligence a few days ago, the reality was that even in the face of such a powerful force as the People's Party, even the representatives of the League came to the base area, but those senior members of the Manchu court still "can't change the dog and eat." "All the energy is spent on infighting. Although this was a good thing for the base areas, Chen Ke's original idea of using the Manchu Qing action to strengthen the effect of internal propaganda fell through.

There are two main sources of this information, one is the basic information gathered by the intelligence network established by the People's Party, and the other is the information provided by Beijing officials who have taken refuge with the People's Party. The information provided by the officials provided information about the internal officialdom struggle, and large-scale infighting broke out within the Manchus around the issue of the command of the Beiyang New Army. Chen Ke actually did not believe in the so-called "defection officials", and he compared the information collected by the People's Party's intelligence network with the information provided by the officials, and found that both sides were sure that there was no sign of the Beiyang New Army being dispatched. Chen Ke believes that the information provided by the "Toucheng officials" is true.

These news are indeed true, and the Beiyang New Army established by Yuan Shikai was far more loyal to Yuan Shikai than to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The reason for the existence of the Beiyang New Army was "money", and a large part of the Manchu Qing's finances were used to build a new army and raise a new army. For the whole of the new army, they felt that it was happier to take money from Lord Yuan Shikai than from the hands of the Manchus. Although Yuan Shikai already showed signs of losing power, this made the new army feel that the Manchu court was not a thing, and he actually wanted to rectify Lord Yuan. Sun Yongsheng is such a representative of a middle-level officer.

Sun Yongsheng commanded 809 officers and soldiers according to the establishment of the Beiyang Army. The third town is Duan Qirui's old army, and Sun Yongsheng is naturally an absolute supporter of Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui. Because of his support for Yuan Shikai, Sun Yongsheng's eldest brother was the first official named He Ruming in the Beiyang faction. According to the relationship between relatives, Chen Ke, the leader of the Anhui rebel party, had to call Sun Yongsheng "uncle" when he saw him. For Chen Ke, the "nephew and son-in-law", Sun Yongsheng has no incense at all, and he has some plans to "eat meat and sleep skin" for Chen Ke, who is the leader of the chaotic party.

For the middle-level officers of the Beiyang Army who knew some "inside information", they thought that if it weren't for Chen Ke's rebellion, Lord Yuan would not have been hit so badly. Lord Yuan was kind-hearted and spoke for Chen Ke, but he was implicated by Chen Ke. The hearts of these mid-level officials are full of hostility. Of course, although Sun Yongsheng has not yet been connected by Chen Kezhu, he himself feels that the colleagues around him look at him very wrongly, and some unknown guys even use Chen Ke, the "nephew and son-in-law", to make fun of Sun Yongsheng. It made this "commander" very annoyed in his heart.

Because of these reasons, these days, Sun Yongsheng has also ignored his wife He Qian and has a bad attitude. He Qian can understand Sun Yongsheng's thoughts, she herself is cautious and unwilling to take the lead again. So when He Qian suddenly took the initiative to talk to Sun Yongsheng at night, Sun Yongsheng felt a little surprised.

"Yongsheng, I heard about the dispatch of troops this time, and Lord Duan is very likely to lead the troops?" He Qian asked. The Lord Duan she said was Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui is a native of Taipingji, Lu'an County, Anhui Province (now Taiping Village, Sanshipu Town, Jin'an District, Lu'an City). On March 6, 1865 (the ninth day of the second month of the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), he was born in the ancestral home of Sanli in the north of Taiping Ji, Lu'an County, his grandfather Duan Pei (the word Yunshan) had sold illicit salt with Liu Ming in his early years, ran a regimental training, and had a meritorious service in suppressing the Twist Army.

At the beginning of 1869, Duan Congwen moved his family to Yanliu Temple in Shouzhou in order to avoid the revenge of the local tyrant surnamed Liu (the local tyrants Liu Nan and Liu Shu were rampant in the township, and Duan Pei was killed with righteousness, so he formed a grudge). In 1870, Duan Pei returned to his hometown to visit relatives and decided to move to the countryside of Dataogang, Xiqiao, Hefei (now Taogang Village, Sanshigang Township, Feixi County) and purchased more than 100 acres of land. In 1872, his grandfather Duan Pei was the commander of the third battalion of the horse team directly under the Ming Army, and Duan Qirui went to the Suqian Barracks in Jiangsu Province to study in a nearby private school. On April 22, 1879 (the second day of the third month of the leap month of the fifth year of Guangxu), his grandfather Duan Pei (named general soldier with the title of Commander of the Meritorious Guarantee, Liyong Baturu, awarded Ronglu Doctor, General Zhenwei) died, Duan Qirui cried and protected the coffin and was buried in Dataogang, Chengxi Township, Hefei.

Because Duan Qirui is from Anhui, the call for him to lead the troops this time is very high.

"Probably." Sun Yongsheng replied.

"Yongsheng, can you call yourself sick for a while?" He Qian said.

"What?" Sun Yongsheng thinks that He Qian is not sick, Sun Yongsheng himself is not sick or sick, why should he call him sick?

"If the imperial court sends troops to Anhui this time, I don't think you should go." He Qian's expression was cautious, but the words she said were not "cautious" at all.

"Why?" Sun Yongsheng was puzzled.

"You also know that my family has dealt with Chen Ke, I have seen that person, he is not easy to deal with." He Qian said. He Qian is a very smart girl, but in terms of knowledge, Sun Yongsheng is actually far from Qian. She didn't just want to persuade Sun Yongsheng now, seeing that although the matter of sending troops was disturbing, this kind of disturbance meant that the imperial court would definitely send troops. She didn't talk about it too early, and when it was close to the time to send troops, He Qian began to persuade Sun Yongsheng.

Sun Yongsheng actually doesn't hate He Qian, and the married life of the couple is okay. He just had to make some gestures because of recent events, He Qian's words made Sun Yongsheng unhappy, but Sun Yongsheng said kindly: "A group of bandits, it's okay to deal with the Anhui and Hubei New Army, but when they encounter our Beiyang New Army, they are absolutely vulnerable." ”