If you ask the people in the base area who is the most influential person in the Anhui base area, then everyone will choose Chairman Chen Ke without exception. If you continue to ask who is the second most influential person in the Anhui base area, then this answer can be different. Not to mention the common people, even the People's Party and local cadres have no idea who the number two person in the base area is. From an organizational point of view, if Chen Ke dies suddenly, no one in the base area will be able to immediately stand in the second-generation leadership position.

Chen Ke is very clear about this, and the central leading comrades around him are equally clear. Therefore, Chen Ke strengthened the role of the party committee, and his efforts in this regard were unanimously supported by all parties. If the leader is gone, at least there is an organization to rely on. With the party committee, there is always a platform for the line of sight democratic centralism. Comrades can jubilantly obey their superior leaders, and similarly, albeit not, accept the principle of democratic centralism.

Chen Ke knows everyone's thoughts, and he also pays special attention to the organizational principle of democratic centralism. Only he himself could not theoretically expound the principles of action, but Chen Ke got a definite answer from the party's history and Grandpa Mao's actions, and Chen Ke would rely on his prestige and status to forcibly pass the resolution. As long as he can theoretically expound problems, Chen Ke always takes the trouble to persuade and educate comrades.

However, this does not mean that Chen Ke never thinks about the issue of heirs. He was still an ordinary person in this era, that is, working in the sun, he would also tan and even peel off his skin. Bumps can also sprain or bleed. Chen Ke did not get immortal, so for a politician, his own death is also a matter that needs to be considered.

Unlike other comrades' thoughts about the successor, Chen Ke believed that if he died unexpectedly, it was very likely that Yan Fu would eventually ascend to the position of successor.

Later generations evaluated Yan Fu as "a famous bourgeois enlightenment thinker, translator and educator in the late Qing Dynasty". As a translator, Yan Fu's translated books are all famous.

In 1896~1898, he translated Huxley's "Theory of Heavenly Evolution".

In 1901, he translated Adam 61 Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which is now translated as The Wealth of Nations.

The year 1903 was the peak of Yan Fu's translation work. In the past year, Yan Fu has translated several books one after another.

Spencer's "The Words of Group Studies" is now translated as "Principles of Sociology".

John 61 Mill's "On the Rights of the Masses" is now translated "On Liberty."

John 61 Mill's "Mill's Nomenclature".

Jenks's "Social Interpretation".

Beginning in 1904, Yan Fu began translating Montesquieu's famous work The Law and the Meaning, which is now known as On the Spirit of the Law.

The theories and ideas in "On the Spirit of Law" have had an extremely far-reaching impact on the world bourgeois revolutionary movement. In particular, the popular theory of separating the executive, legislature and judiciary, checking and balancing each other, and guaranteeing civil liberties has been praised by the bourgeoisie throughout the ages. It was the United States that first applied Montesquieu's theory to establish a bourgeois state. The leaders of the American Revolutionary War were well acquainted with The Spirit of the Law and enshrined Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers in their Constitutions. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, issued during the French bourgeois revolution in 1789, also declared that there could be no constitution without the separation of powers. Through the practice of the bourgeois revolutions in France and the United States, it has become the organizing principle for the bourgeois countries to build a democratic system and a political power system.

Being able to translate these masterpieces into Chinese means that Yan Fu must at least understand what the book is about. When it comes to solid theoretical foundation, Chen Ke thinks that he is not as good as Yan Fu. In order to survive, the BJP had to first establish an effective organizational model. As the founder, as Chen Ke, who has really solved the specific problem of survival, he can sit in the position of leader. Once Chen Ke is dead now, I am afraid that there is only one person who can give theoretical guidance to the organization of the People's Party. Chen Ke didn't understand these things before, but as he grew up, Chen Ke now understands them.

The release of the landlord meant that Chen Ke had decided to put it in the past. From now on, a new phase of work begins, and the future work will focus on internal affairs. Party building, government formation, economic work, system building. All of these need theoretical support without exception. So Chen Ke went directly to Yan Fu.

Yan Fu hasn't shown up much these days, and the fall of the third town in Beiyang will not make Yan Fu feel like a rabbit dead and a fox hurting his life. However, he is also from Beiyang, if he sits on the rostrum and watches these old colleagues, Yan Fu is a little unbearable, and he is also a little worried about the opinions of outsiders. In any case, Yan Fu also has the mark of Beiyang on his body. Chen Ke knows the difference between Li Hongzhang Beiyang and Yuan Shikai Beiyang. Most of the people in the base area don't know, or deliberately pretend not to know.

Seeing Chen Ke's visit, Yan Fu was a little surprised. After the two sat down, Chen Ke said his thoughts straight to the point.

Yan Fu listened quietly, Chen Ke's core demand was very simple, in the process of Chen Ke's comprehensive theoretical construction, he did not want Yan Fu to jump out and propagate the bourgeois theory.

Listening to Chen Ke's serious expression, he said, "Although the truth is becoming clearer and clearer the more we argue, we don't have the time to talk about theories now, so let's build the base area first." I don't have time to do systematic theoretical research right now, so there are some things that I don't discuss. ”

Yan Fu couldn't help but smile, "I know Wen Qing's worries, but how can Wen Qing think that I am this person who will cause trouble?" ”

"Mr. Yan, I'm not saying that you want to add to the chaos, but the core issue of system building is interests. The political system is the rule that determines the division of interests, and in the book you translated, the theory of checks and balances of power and the game of interests will inevitably be maliciously used by people to become an excuse for interest groups to compete for power and defend their privileges. For example, we have eliminated landlords in our bases, but in China, there are a lot of landlords. We, the People's Party, and the new government stand on the side of the workers and the landlords stand on the side of the exploiters, and the two sides have no common values at all, and the two sides are incompatible. Checks and balances of power and the game of interests are things that are within the system of common political standards and value standards. And we already have the people's democratic dictatorship and democratic centralism. For the landlords, we are a class struggle. Without this basis, it is either the victory of the landlords and the exploiting class, or the victory of the working masses. There is no third way. And your theoretical research in this area will undoubtedly lead to a lot of unnecessary confusion. ”

Yan Fu continued to listen quietly, and at the age of Chen Ke in his twenties, he was able to ruthlessly distinguish between the class struggle and clearly point out the incompatible contradictions of interests between the exploiters and the laborers. Yan Fu is quite appreciative. Although he felt that Chen Ke's attitude was too tough, Yan Fu did not feel unacceptable at all. Yan Fu was a real university scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and he was also one of the first people who could really open his eyes to the world. If this were not the case, Yan Fu would not willingly succumb to the young man Chen Ke.

After seeing Chen Ke's frank account of disagreeing with the theory of bourgeois regime, he looked at himself with blazing eyes, Yan Fu nodded and said, "I know." I am also a member of the People's Party, and it is the ethics of Party members to obey the Party's command and abide by the Party's discipline. I will stick to my integrity. ”

Chen Ke was a little surprised, he thought that Yan Fu was going to discuss it with him. Yan Fu has worked hard to translate so many books and introduce so many theories, and now he no longer promotes them at all, Chen Ke himself does not believe it.

Seeing Chen Ke's surprised look, Yan Fu explained: "Chairman Chen, you have a sentence that I deeply believe is that power checks and balances and interest games are within the common political standard and value standard system. If the base had adopted these things that I had translated from the beginning, it would have perished long ago. I know that very well. Since these things are useless now, I use them to promote them just for my own fame and status. I don't want to do that. ”

Yan Fu said frankly, and Chen Ke couldn't question anything anymore. He nodded, "Mr. Yan, I'm not just here to talk about this matter this time, I have a plan that needs Mr. Yan's full support." This matter involving foreign affairs, whether it is a translator or a staff, if there is no training from Mr. Yan, they are afraid that they will only get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Tell me about it." Yan replied.

"Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, and the officers of Beiyang, I want to be released. And it is unrealistic to extort a large sum of cash from Yuan Shikai. I have a plan that I don't know if it will come true. I want to do a business with Yuan Shikai, Sheng Xuanhuai, and foreigners. ”

Yan Fu listened carefully to Chen Ke's plan, and as the plan was explained, Yan Fu sometimes frowned, and sometimes nodded again and again. Or a serious look, or a look of consternation. When Chen Ke finished talking about all the plans, Yan Fu was a little at a loss.

He pondered the plan that Chen Ke had just elaborated, and finally said, "This is too whimsical." ”

Chen Ke disagreed with Yan Fu's opinion, "We can't do a loss-making business, it's okay to release people, but we have to do something anyway, and contradiction and unity, this is a pair of dialectical relationships." There are indeed some contradictions between us and Yuan Shikai, which are endless. But there are also things we can work with. We also have some common enemies. If cooperation can be reached, it means that all parties involved have common interests. I don't think it's necessary to be antagonistic about anything. Business is business, it's nothing else. ”

Yan Fu moved forward and backward, and finally nodded, "If it can be passed at the party committee, then I will definitely complete the work that I should undertake." ”