Chapter fifty-five

The success of the People's Party's rescue campaign has had a very good impact within the party, including the Huangpu Publishing House. Upon learning that the comrades had been successfully rescued from prison, the oppressive atmosphere of the past 20 days was swept away. Some of the rescued comrades had their families in Shanghai, and the party organization also arranged for their families to meet.

The advance team led by Hua Xiongmao has already arrived in Anhui to begin the preliminary investigation work. Wu Xingchen also set off to return to Hebei. The party organization entrusted Wu Xingchen to bring an official letter, informing Chen Tianhua to rush back to Shanghai to assist in the transfer of the party organization to Anhui.

In addition to these field work, the People's Party and the Huangpu Publishing House held plenary meetings one after another. After less intense discussions at the meeting, the comrades agreed with the fact that there was too much disparity between the forces of the enemy and us in Shanghai. Chen Ke's request to go to Anhui for work was approved. Then Chen Ke personally sat down and established the Anhui Working Committee. One by one, the committee talked to people and agitated. To Chen Ke's surprise, more than 70 percent of the People's Party members were willing to go to Anhui, and the number of members of the Huangpu Publishing House was even higher, more than 80 percent.

January 24, 1906 was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the People's Party had a big holiday. Chen Ke also didn't know what the next time the comrades who entered Anhui to work could spend the Spring Festival with their families in a peaceful environment. That's why he mentioned this suggestion, and it was unanimously agreed by the party members.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the work of entering Anhui officially began. Relying on several non-medical disciplines of Shanghai Renxin Medical College, enrollment has been carried out. The school's medical major is already affiliated with the school, and classes will officially open after the beginning of spring. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the school's dormitory building was really lively.

In November 1905, the Japanese government issued a number of regulations restricting Chinese students, and as a result, many Japanese students returned to Japan. This group of people originally hoped to get a diploma and then return to China to "make a big difference", but now they are forced to return to China, which further arouses the "ambition" of these people. For these people, there is no more immediate way to achieve the goal than to "run a school". The problem is that it costs money to run a school in these years, although these international students have a decent family background, but they want to support the school, their family's financial resources are not enough, and second, their family members let them study abroad, the purpose is to "glorify their ancestors" and "get promoted and make a fortune" after completing their studies.

So they started lobbying for investors. Huangpu Publishing House has become a well-known gathering place in Shanghai. Before this Shanghai* incident, Qi Huishen had been disturbed by this group of people. However, the so-called "blessing and misfortune depend", when the patrols arrested Qi Huishen, he was facing the daily routine visits of these international students, and the group of people who came to visit were also arrested. On the contrary, it proved that Qi Huishen simply did not have time to participate in this movement. In addition, the British were reluctant to offend these Chinese students too harshly, so they let them go. Now that Chen Ke is back to preside over the work, this group of people saw that the limelight had passed, so they gathered at the school again. Chen Ke had to do something righteous, and he simply let these people live in the school dormitory temporarily.

Chen Ke has heard of it, and occasionally seen women crying, making trouble, and hanging themselves. But he'd never seen a man do that in real life. After a few of these returning students in Japan staged such a play for Chen Ke, he began to regret agreeing to these people living in the dormitory.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Ke and these international students kept Chinese New Year's Eve together. There are still a few women among the international students, a very small number of women sit at one table, and the boys occupy the other tables in the cafeteria. Among this group of people, Chen Ke was concerned about the dozen or so international students who were engaged in prospecting. After the People's Party enters Anhui, it will definitely face a blockade in the future. Self-reliance, abundant food and clothing. To put it simply, in the actual economic operation, the most basic industries such as prospecting, agriculture and chemical industry are the most important. Even for these mining personnel who don't know the real level, they are all talents that Chen Ke must get in his hands. Among these people, Yao Hongye is the one that Chen Ke attaches the most importance to.

Chen Ke did not know the history of Yao Hongye, this brother Tai was born in 1881, according to Chen Ke's fabricated identity, he was one year younger than Chen Ke. A native of Xiameitang, Yiyang, Hunan. In 1904, he went to Japan to study, set up a road and mine school, advocated the protection of the sovereignty of road and mines, joined the League in 1905, and returned to China in 1906 because of the protest against the "Qing International Student Ban Rules" promulgated by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture, which aimed to prohibit the activities of Chinese students. Later, due to difficulties in funds and school buildings, as well as slanderous rumors, Chen Tianhua's coffin arrived in Shanghai on Qingming Day (March 7) and died in the Huangpu River.

Since Chen Tianhua joined the People's Party, there will naturally be no more suicide problems. Yao Hongye did not follow the old path of history, and he returned to Shanghai in December 1905. At this time, Chen Ke and Chen Tianhua were both active in Beijing, and Yao Hongye first participated in the social survey activities launched by the People's Party with Qiu Jin. In the social investigation activities, he lobbied Qi Huishen to fund the establishment of a mining university. Qi Huishen was very interested in his plan, but it was naturally inconvenient for Qi Huishen to make a decision on such a major matter. After Chen Ke returned to Shanghai, Yao Hongye met Chen Ke in person and continued to lobby Chen Ke to open the school. Chen Ke's reply was very simple, it was natural to open a school if he wanted to, but the main school of this school must be located in Anhui. Shanghai Zhineng opened a branch school.

Yao Hongye's enthusiasm was poured with cold water on his head, and he originally wanted to open a school in Shanghai. Chen Ke wanted to take them to the poor countryside of Anhui, which was certainly psychologically unacceptable. Chen Ke is not afraid that Yao Hongye will not agree in the end, anyway, without other investment, this mining school that is still on paper will either be aborted, or it will honestly obey Chen Ke's plan. If Chen Ke knew that Yao Hongye was forced to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river because of lack of funds in the past, he would have more confidence.

In fact, not only Yao Hongye, but most of the international students who stayed here have signed long or short work contracts with Renxin College. In the two months since Chen Ke left Shanghai, the production of special drugs has made great profits. It can be said that thanks to Wang Qinian's blessing, in Southeast Asia, the sales of special drugs have expanded again and again, reaching a record of 3,000 copies in January, and actually earning 100,000 taels of silver. By January 1906, the People's Party's existing funds exceeded 200,000 taels. I have money in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart. If it's just a few new majors, it's really not bad for the salary of the 100th person.

Moreover, the People's Party has a very good plan for who to recruit, and liberal arts students basically don't want it. These people are not characters like Lu Xun, and it is useless to ask for liberal arts students. In Chen Ke's place, those who cry, make trouble, and hang themselves are liberal arts students. Among the liberal arts students, except for those who studied law, Chen Ke did not recruit any of them.

Vigils generally begin with eating and drinking. But for a few hours, you can't eat and drink all at once. Qiu Jin did not go home for the New Year this time. At this time, he celebrated the New Year with everyone, as a revolutionary propagandist, Qiu Jin drank a few glasses of wine, and his nature came, and he began to tell the revolutionary truth in public. Chen Ke didn't pay much attention to it, anyway, the propaganda of this era is something he has heard many times. In addition, I am about to go to Anhui, and in the face of the arduous grassroots work, you first blow so loudly and stir up the emotions of everyone, and when you see the poor countryside, this gap will be too big.

International students naturally love this, and for these students who are temporarily powerless, the revolution has also drawn a beautiful pie. Whether you can eat it in your mouth or not, let's see it first. The mood of the audience is getting higher and higher. When Chen Ke talked to those key selection targets, he had already told about the hard work of working in Anhui, and he was not willing to pour any cold water at this time. Seeing that his wife He Ying was not interested in Qiu Jin's speech, he secretly glanced at He Ying, and then slipped out. Not long after, He Ying also slipped out. The husband and wife walked hand in hand around the school.

There were not only Chen Ke and his wife outside, but many students set off guns and fireworks on campus. The crackling of cannons was also hilarious.

"Homesick?" Chen Ke asked.

"Hmm." He Ying replied honestly.

Chen Ke wanted to apologize, but he felt that there was really nothing to apologize for. Since we're both married, let's live a good life together. "I'll play the piano for you." Chen Ke said.

"Okay." He Ying still answered honestly.

The couple slipped into the school's music room. Chen Ke has been here a few times in the past few days, and when he arrives in Anhui, where will he have time to play this petty bourgeois thing. As a leader, Chen Ke plays the piano for his wife, and this is effective up and down? So Chen Ke felt that he needed to play his wife a few more times now.

The sound of the piano is melodious, but it is "With You All the Way", "Do you know, it is not easy to love you, and it takes a lot of courage to ......" Chen Ke Chen Ke sang. He Ying's face changed a little when she listened. Chen Ke concentrated on playing and singing, and didn't notice his wife's expression at all. After playing the song, Chen Ke still felt very good. saw He Ying lowering her head and suddenly asked, "I miss my aunt." ”

"We'll see her in a few years." Chen Ke replied heartlessly. After saying this good sentence, I saw He Ying's face change, and I was even more unhappy. Chen Ke realized after a turn of his brain, and quickly explained: "I didn't write this song and lyrics at all, I just think it's good, and it doesn't mean anything else at all." ”

He Ying didn't seem to be satisfied with this answer, Chen Ke felt a little wronged at this time, and came to explain again, but no matter how he explained, he felt that the more he argued, the darker it became, so he simply changed the song "My Motherland" and sang it. This song is very good, and He Ying didn't really care about it that much. It's just the girl's inexplicable emotion. Seeing that Chen Ke no longer explained, he didn't pursue it. After playing and singing a few tunes in a row, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, but it was the sound of a group of people coming up. Then I heard Qiu Jin's slightly drunk voice, "Wen Qing is hiding here, but he is envious of me and others." As soon as the words fell, a crowd rushed in. The leader was Qiu Jin, and the one who followed her was Chen Tianhua.

As soon as Chen Tianhua came back, the international students seemed to have a backbone. This is also the effect pursued by Chen Ke, and sure enough, some international students who were not too enthusiastic about going to Anhui finally expressed their willingness to work in Anhui. Especially under the persuasion of Chen Tianhua, Yao Hongye finally expressed his willingness to join the school with those students who studied mining. However, Yao Hongye said that the main school must be set up in Shanghai, but he himself promised that a group of students would be sent to Anhui to work in a year. Coupled with Chen Tianhua's mediation, although Chen Ke did not trust their enthusiasm and assurance too much, he could not find fault too much.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the comrades returned to work one after another. On February 10, the comrades of the Beijing Party group also rushed back. This time, there were far more people than expected, Mao Yibo, Xu Dian, Su Wuming, and others brought more than a dozen comrades to Shanghai. Qin Tongren did not come with the team, because there are still many things in Beijing that need him to finish, and Qin Tongren is also trying to gather more people, as long as there are eyebrows on the Anhui side, he will lead the "big army" to meet the comrades.

On February 18, Shang Yuan also rushed to Shanghai. On February 19, the first national preparatory meeting of the People's Party was officially held in Shanghai.

Many years later, many comrades in the party debated the level of the first national preparatory meeting of the People's Party. What is the difference between the status of the First National Preparatory Conference and the First National Conference*? This is no small problem. This determines the order of seniority in the party. In this preparatory meeting, there were 53 official party members and probationary party members, of whom 23 were born north of the Huai River and 23 were from the south of the Huai River. It turned out to be a wonderful parity. Full and probationary party members come from 11 provinces across the country, including Taiwan, and even seven Japanese comrades are included.

There are not many memoirs about this preparatory meeting, and the vast majority of the participants did not live long enough to have the leisure to write memoirs. In addition to the official secretary records of the meeting, the most important place is Wang Qinian's diary. At that time, Wang Qinian had already died, and records from the French side prove that Wang Qinian had received a "baptism" ceremony in a Protestant church in France in 1900 and became a Protestant. In the context of the eradication of the three major schools of Christianity in the Republic, the manuscripts of Wang Qinian's death were comprehensively examined, which led to the discovery of those dozens of diaries.

Of course, after the staff's research, it is really unknown how different Wang Qinian's belief in "Christ" is from his belief in "Guanyin Bodhisattva". When "called by the Lord," Wang Qinian himself did not show any intention of asking religious people to "comfort them on their deathbed." In addition, Wang Qinian himself has never had any words and deeds since joining the party to prove that he has the slightest resistance or confusion about materialism and atheism. Therefore, the search work is based on "Wang Qinian's youth to his youth, before he came into contact with materialist theory, because of mental depression, he accidentally participated in a certain Protestant religious activity. For the sake of the result, it is still a definitive conclusion for Wang Qinian to cover the coffin as a materialist.

The diary contains the record of the first national preparatory meeting of the BJP:

"On the first day of the meeting, there were people everywhere. Many people basically understand what they speak, especially the comrades in the north who cannot understand the accents of the comrades in the south. Everyone's speeches had to be interpreted, and there was a commotion in the venue. ”

When Wen Qing faced the comrades' explanation of entering Anhui to work, he did not say any words of encouragement. Not only that, but like a Puritan, he repeatedly emphasized the hardships of rural work. It is required that everyone can abandon all the lofty mentality, sink down, and sink into the people to do the most practical work. ”

"I have lived in the countryside and know the hard work of farmers, I think it is very strange for Wen Qing to have such an attitude, and his description is like cheering himself up. Everyone knows that Wen Qing has never been to the countryside since returning from overseas. But then, in order to improve the development of rural productive forces, Wen Qing put forward his own targeted solutions one by one. Moreover, Wen Qing bluntly explained that the work of going to the countryside this time is to completely seize all local administrative power. All power is vested in the people* led by the BJP. The words are fresh, and this is the first time I've heard them. ”

……

At the meeting on the second day, Wen Qing made a speech, asking everyone to implement the party's organizational program, obey the command of all actions, and have only one work goal, that is, to overcome all difficulties and complete the tasks assigned by the organization. It was the first time for many comrades to see Wenqing adopting such a tough attitude. It seems that many comrades are a little dissatisfied. If it weren't for Wen Qing being the initiator of the People's Party, and the old party members were very convinced of him, such an unceremonious statement, someone would definitely make a fuss in public. Even so, many people privately feel that Wen Qing's attitude is too domineering. ”

……

"The third day of the meeting was to assign tasks, anyway, I was treating everywhere, and I would only go to Anhui to work in June, and in the first semester of the medical major, my task was to find students who could be willing to work in Anhui. Of course, many students in the school have an apprenticeship contract with the school. They must unconditionally obey the school's arrangements for seven years. Xu Dian, who came from the north, seemed to be studying law, and he had some objections to this issue. Wen Qing told everyone that after these students came to work in Anhui, their contracts would be automatically invalidated. If you do it now, those people will definitely not follow. In these years, it is a vegetable that is stripped into the basket, and there are so many means to manage it. I think what Wen Qing said is very reasonable, I know a little bit of medical skills, especially those who understand Western medicine, who is willing to follow you to the countryside these days. If it weren't for Wen Qing saying that he would lead the team to the countryside of Anhui in person, I wouldn't have gone to the countryside. ”

The meeting was held for three days and basically defined the party's development program and goals in the base areas. This was the main point of the discussion on qualifications among the delegates of the First National Preparatory Conference and the first National* delegates. As we all know, the formalization of Chen Ke's position in the party, as well as the determination of the complete revolutionary program and the direction of the revolution, were all completed in the first national * comprehensive way. At the First National Preparatory Conference, the direction of the revolution was mentioned, but Chen Ke's position was not discussed.

On February 24, 1906, three days after the conclusion of the First National Preparatory Conference of the People's Party, the People's Party began to send the first batch of official detachments, and the Party members headed by Chen Ke and other comrades officially embarked on the journey to Anhui.