When Bei Yihui was immersed in his thoughts, Mei Chuan Shangyi, who was also a cadre school college, rushed into the dormitory, "Beijun, there is a New Year's Gala in the evening, hurry up and prepare to go." ”

"Huh?" Bei Yihui was very uncomfortable with these words and this enthusiasm, and he asked with some disgust: "Mei Chuan-kun, when Mr. Kotoku was killed, didn't you have a sense of mourning?" ”

"Mr. Xingde also had the Red Newspaper Team before, and there are also descendants of the Red Newspaper Team in our People's Party. Don't be so twisted, eat when you should eat, drink, and concentrate on work. If we follow your mourning method, we don't have to do anything else every day. "After spending so many years in the base, Umegawa's style of speaking and acting has become more and more distant from Japan's rigid customs.

Faced with this, Kita had to admit that the BJP's ability to assimilate was terrifying. Most Japanese members of the People's Party, including Umegawa Kamiyoshi, will no longer habitually nod their heads and say "hey" at the same time, nor will they bow their eyes respectfully. They all now held their chests up, their eyes looking into each other's eyes, neither provoking nor evading.

"I still don't really want to go." Kita Yihui said.

"Discipline stipulates that everyone should act collectively and not affect the whole group because of individual emotions." Umegawa said.

Now that Umegawa Kamiyoshi has moved out of discipline, Kita Ikki can't refuse. Organizational discipline cannot be broken, and if he is left alone in the dormitory, someone has to stay with him. Even if we don't talk about the discipline of the People's Party, Japanese culture does not allow individuals to wander outside the organization. Japanese culture does not have a strong sense of good and evil, but attaches great importance to the evaluation of others. In terms of "the end of the disease as a thousand people refer to", Japan is far above China. Before Kita Kazuki became a revolutionary, he was first and foremost Japanese. was said by Umegawa Kamiyoshi, he got up unhappily and followed Umegawa Kamiyoshi.

Dinner is a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the staple food is of course dumplings, which are divided into classes, and each class has a set of eight-color buckle bowls. It is the most common chicken, duck and fish meat that is fried and steamed in a buckle bowl, of course, there is no shortage of Chinese cabbage, which is easy to store. If you want to have another dish, you'll have to pay for it yourself. After swallowing a few mouthfuls of greasy and fragrant dishes, Kita Yihui felt that his depressed mood was also much better.

The cafeteria was very lively, and everyone smiled and greeted each other with a smile of "Happy New Year", and then sat down at the table to eat happily. The BJP is like that, it is so energetic at all times, and it also maintains strict discipline.

After eating, everyone washed their dishes and chopsticks, and gathered to watch the gala. It is said that it is a theatrical evening, but there is no troupe, and what is staged is a drama. This time, there are no traditional plays such as "The White-Haired Girl" and "Put Down Your Whip", everyone can see the difference from the stage set, and the announcer told everyone before the opening that it is a newly rehearsed song and dance drama "Brothers and Sisters Open the Wasteland" to be staged.

The content of the drama is very close to life, a brother and sister were assigned land, because their family was poor, they rented the landlord's land to plant, and under the heavy pressure of life, the elder brother gradually lost his confidence in life. After the land reform, although my brother was happy, he didn't know how to arrange his life. The drama is divided into four acts, first the elder brother is immersed in hard work, and the younger sister is also working hard with the elder brother. In the first act, thanks to the new farming tools, my sister can also do hard work. But after all, I don't have any experience with my brother, and I have encountered a lot of problems. With the help of her brother, her younger sister overcame her squeamishness and willfulness, began to learn from her brother seriously, and finally became an expert in labor.

In this drama, it is all ordinary things in labor, grinding on the hands, breaking the feet, and cooking in a timely manner due to overwork. My brother loves my sister, and while taking on more work, I teach my sister how to do better. The comrades in the audience all came over like this, and they only felt that the relationship between the brothers and sisters made their hearts warm.

In the second act, the elder brother is completely focused on his own land and refuses to learn the new agricultural technology introduced in the base. And my sister not only learns from her brother, but also wants to learn and communicate with comrades in the agricultural technology department. The elder brother was very dissatisfied, thinking that his sister should not show up and talk to the living people like this. My brother also has quite doubts about the agricultural technology that my sister hopes her brother can learn. It's just that under the soft grinding and hard request of my sister, I reluctantly agreed to try new agricultural techniques on three small plots of land.

In the third act, the performance of the three small plots is mixed. The elder brother thought that these techniques were unreliable, and the brother and sister had a heated argument. My sister thinks it's because I haven't done enough, and my brother thinks there's really something wrong with agricultural technology. Faced with a common agricultural problem in the local area, my brother thought that this place was "this fate, and it is impossible to solve". And my sister adheres to the concept of "learning science and using science" that she learned from night school. Under the persuasion of his sister, the elder brother reluctantly participated in agricultural technology training with his sister. After studying, my brother realized that his method was not scientific enough. One of the two cadres in the agricultural sector was somewhat triumphant, while the other sincerely demanded that the comrades seek truth from facts and make a concrete analysis of the specific situation. In the end, the brothers and sisters, agricultural cadres, on the one hand, consulted the old farmers, and on the other hand, conducted scientific research, and finally solved a common local agricultural problem.

In the fourth act, the elder brother is willing to take the initiative to participate in the peasant association and also joins the night school. Not only did he cultivate his own land, but he also worked in the factory in the village during his spare time. With more income, life has also improved.

There are no harlequins in "Brother and Sister Wasteland", and there is no love between men and women, but there is a desire for a better life and an argument about how to live a better life. The language is popular, and it tells about things that everyone often encounters, and the comrades are completely attracted by this song and dance drama. Even Kita Yihui, who was in a low mood for a while, was completely captured by this drama. At the end of the curtain, the comrades hugged thunderous applause and cheers, and Bei Yihui and the comrades applauded warmly.

When they returned to the dormitory, the comrades talked about it. Those engaged in civil affairs believe that they should learn how to communicate with the people, while those engaged in agriculture greatly appreciate the close integration with the masses. Umegawa is engaged in agriculture, and he thinks that the behavior of comrades who start to their tails when they have achievements in the play is very vivid.

In fact, Bei Yihui doesn't care about the specific lives of these people, and he doesn't care about his plans. It wasn't until after watching this drama and listening to such enthusiastic discussions among the comrades that he couldn't help but praise: "If this is really the case, this is the royal paradise." ”

"What does this have to do with the Promised King's Land?" Someone immediately retorted, "Where does a happy life come from, it must be created by labor." ”

"The foundation of the socialist system in the base areas is science and democracy."

Kita Yihui never expected that his exclamation full of Japanese style would be refuted like this, and he also felt a little embarrassed. However, Bei Yihui is also a young man, and he couldn't help but retort: "The socialist system can be called the king's road." ”

This justification has sparked fierce opposition," Chairman Chen repeatedly stressed that the words must be used correctly. The broad masses of the working people are the ruling class in the base areas. Where did Wang Daozhi come from, who should be this prince? The prince is a thing of the decadent exploiting class, and among the cadres in our base areas, such words must not be used. ”

Umegawa Kamiyoshi saw that Kita Ikki's face was getting more and more ugly, and he hurriedly came up to play a round, "Comrade Kita is also used to using it, he will pay attention." ”

Kita Yihui is also very smart, knowing that it is time to "criticize and self-criticize" at this time, he hurriedly promised that he will pay attention in the future and try not to use such words that are easy to cause misunderstanding. Since Bei Yihui has made self-criticism, the comrades have not pursued it exhaustively,

There is no plan to keep Chinese New Year's Eve in the cadre school, because because I participated in the New Year's party, the rest time was much later than usual, and the comrades already felt a little sleepy. Not long after washing their faces and feet, they heard the lights out, and everyone lay down and went to sleep. Although Bei Yihui wanted to think about it for a while, the fatigue quickly dragged him to sleep, and he didn't have time to think at all.

Chen Ke did not sleep, and this time the army carried out equal education, and many comrades raised the issue of married senior officers living with their wives. Although in the end there was no special result from the discussion of this issue, the number of single persons among the cadres of the People's Party, especially the military cadres, is very large, and the married are too conspicuous. On weekdays, comrades in the army sleep in dormitories, and married cadres go home and sleep with their wives in their arms. Although no one dared to point the slightest criticism at Chen Ke. But Chen Ke himself can't just go home with such a big grin. Recently, the Chinese New Year was involved, so he simply moved to the barracks to live.

Recently, the situation in various places has been better, but there is more information from Japan. The "Great Reversal Incident" of the execution of Kotoku Akisui and others made Chen Ke somewhat understand why the communist movement in Japan never became a climate. Hostility to communism in Japan was extremely strong, and when it came to killing communists and cracking down on the workers' movement, Japan by no means began in the era of militarism.

Chen Ke knew that Japan was about to enter the era of "Taisho Heavenly Blessing," which was recognized as a relatively enlightened period for Japanese politics. Even in this period when Japanese politics was relatively democratic in terms of party democracy, the Japanese government was so merciless in killing socialists.

But these are all small things, and Chen Ke is very concerned about the other news. Japan is in contact with Yuan's government to reach an agreement on a coke-for-ore deal. Originally, in 1899, Zhang Zhidong signed a "contract for the mutual sale of coal, coke and iron ore" with Japan. Some of the ore from the industrial steel mill was sold to Japan, and Japan, which was the largest seller of coal and coke in Asia at the time, sold coke to the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.

When the People's Party seized the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, it was an extremely difficult time for the operation of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant. Chen Ke completely failed to understand this "coal, coke and iron ore mutual sale contract". However, he later understood that the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant used coal from Daye's iron ore and Jiangxi's Pingxiang Coal Mine. This has to be bought with money, and the reason why the People's Party used troops against Jiangxi is that coal mines are also one of the reasons.

Now that there is a cheaper source of raw materials, this "coal, coke and iron ore mutual sales contract" will naturally be terminated. This has had a significant impact on Japan. If you want to engage in industry without steel, you can't do it, even if the People's Party imports machinery and equipment on a large scale, it also invests huge strength in the development of steel. Hanyang Iron and Steel Group, Hefei Iron and Steel Group, Zaozhuang Iron and Steel Group, and the Maanshan Iron and Steel Group under construction, in 1911, the annual steel output of these four groups had reached 450,000 tons. This is higher than the entire steel production in China in 1949. And it was expected that in 1912 steel production would reach the level of 600,000 tons.

Chen Ke didn't have any special feelings about this, and this output was only one thousandth of what it would be in 100 years. Moreover, these steel varieties are single and the quality is very unstable. The People's Party is trying to expand the production capacity of synthetic ammonia, but it is not only impossible to produce high-temperature and high-pressure reactors as the core components, but also high-temperature and high-pressure pipelines. The steel pipe in the base area can only be used in some very ordinary equipment at room temperature and pressure.

Technological progress requires accumulation, but economic problems are much more realistic. Chen Ke participated in a discussion at the forum, when a girl from the "Black Republic" came up with data that he slapped his face, Japan's pig iron production in 1911 was less than 70,000 tons, and the steel output was only a little more than 10,000 tons, but in 1912, China's steel production shrank sharply, while Japan's pig iron production soared to 240,000 tons. That's more than three times more than in 1911. At that time, it was concluded that a large amount of Chinese ore entered Japan and became a source of pig iron for Japan.

This is just a corollary, and Chen Ke does not quite agree with it. According to the intelligence, after the signing of the "Japan-Korea Merger Treaty" in 1910, Japan increased its development in Korea, perhaps because Japan developed a large number of mines in northern Korea, resulting in a large amount of iron ore. The People's Party is now unable to solve the North Korean problem, and Chen Ke can only control the current situation to the greatest extent possible, so that Chinese ore does not flow into Japan.

Chen Ke has always been laid out like this, but he didn't expect that after Japan participated in the "Yuan Keding assassination case" and greatly offended Yuan Shikai, it actually had the face to ask Yuan Shikai for cooperation in steel. Chen Ke had to admire the Japanese face. However, admiration is admiration, and Chen Ke has always admired Yuan Shikai's cheekiness. Even after a great conflict, Yuan Shikai was full of anger towards the Japanese. But in the face of the money that can be obtained in front of him, it is not impossible for Yuan Shikai to pull down his face and cooperate with Japan.

The Japanese are hostile to socialism, and Yuan Shikai may not understand what the socialist system is, but Yuan Shikai's attitude towards Chen Ke is also absolutely hostile. Yuan Shikai doesn't do it now, not because he doesn't want to, but because he can't do it for the time being.

Chen Ke doesn't expect to intervene in the Northeast in the short term, so Anshan Iron and Steel Plant doesn't have to count on it. However, the four real steel groups in Chen Ke's plan do not include Hefei Iron and Steel Group, and the fourth place is for Handan Iron and Steel Group. Henan is Chen's hometown, and he knows very well how much agricultural potential this fertile land has in Henan. Henan's grain can feed more than 100 million people, and wheat alone accounts for 40% of the country's output. Every year, the State Council's summer grain work must be the first stop to Henan, and the State Council will have a bumper harvest of summer grain. Since the People's Party occupies the Huanghuai Plain and Xuzhou, it is better to directly liberate Henan and control the essence of the Great Plains.

In addition, there are coal mines, iron mines, gold in Sanmenxia in Henan, oil fields in the Nanyang Basin, and oil fields in the Puyang area. Moreover, Henan is located in the Central Plains, and from the defensive point of view, it is the place of four wars. Similarly, if you start from Henan, you can cross Tongguan to the west to Shaanxi, and you can also get access to Shanxi from Sanmenxia. As for the north across the Yellow River is Hebei, and to the east is Shandong.

When he was a freshman in college, the lieutenant colonel of military education was a native of Zhengzhou, and when he talked about Henan, his evaluation was, "This place is really suitable for war." ”

Chen Ke really wanted to get Henan into his hands.