Until now, it is a well-established fact that the highest decision-maker in the insurance group is Chen Ke. Although Chen Ke repeatedly stressed that it is the People's Party that leads the insurance group, when encountering urgent problems, everyone must convene a party committee to make a decision. However, until now, the practice of the party meeting has been Chen Ke said, and everyone discussed it after listening. This is the first time that party members have voluntarily requested the convening of a party committee to decide on the action of the insurance group, as it is today.

The water detachment is an old unit, and the reconnaissance brigade is an elite force, and Chen Ke has been strengthening the politicized education of these two troops. So the two units now have a total of 600 people, and the number of party members and reserve party members has reached 54. Although the proportion is less than 10%, the total number of BJP members is now just approaching 300, which is already very high in terms of proportion.

As the commander of this operation, Zhang Yu was not in a hurry to express his views, first briefly introduced the situation, and then Zhang Yu asked political commissar Li Zhao to speak.

Li looked at his comrades but did not speak immediately, not because he was playing tricks, but because he found that he could not say anything. The work of the political commissar is actually very embarrassing at this stage, although they claim to be the political commissars of the troops at all levels, in fact, what they want to say and do is arranged by the superiors, or Chen Ke and He Zudao. Among the political commissars at all levels, if they can do a good job in the work assigned by the organization, they are considered very outstanding talents. Let them decide on the actions of the troops themselves in accordance with the program of the People's Party, and even Ho Zu-do, who is recognized as the first political commissar of the army, is only just beginning. Not to mention a newbie like Li Zhao.

But there is always a need to speak in meetings, and Li Zhao's chest was originally boiling with a kind of justice and passion, and when he wanted to turn this justice and passion into his own words and confide in his comrades, hoping to make them accept, an inexplicable fear immediately overrode this emotion. Li Zhao is 22 years old this year, a native of Songjiang Prefecture, and his grandfather's family is considered a middle peasant. Since the opening of the port of Shanghai, relying on the sale of grain and vegetables, life has been passable. The church school does not charge tuition, and Li Zhao's grandfather sent Li Zhao's father to the church school, and after graduation, he worked as a mechanic in the dock shipyard, and he was kind of connected with the British. The Li family's fresh vegetables could always be sold to the British fleet, which guaranteed the Li family's profits. In Li Zhao's generation, he was able to go to Fudan Public School.

followed Chen Ke from Shanghai to Anhui, more than half a year of hard work, under the wind and sun, this young man with a height of 1.65 meters and a round face was tanned, and the bookish anger on his body was already very weak. But when he first publicized it to his comrades based on his own understanding, Li Zhao seemed to suddenly return to the time when he was called up by the teacher to answer his homework. The heart is nervous, the mouth is dry, and there is an indescribable bitter taste. He just stood where he was, not saying a word.

Zhang Yu looked at Li Zhao and laughed in his heart. Zhang Yu, who is four years older than Li Zhao, was born in a small family of officials in Handan, Hebei Province, and his family has always hoped that one of their children can be tested with meritorious fame. In this way, you can completely get rid of the embarrassing position of the family. Zhang Yu used to be a very optimistic person in the family, but when Zhang Yu was 18 years old, faced with the two choices of going to work in Tianjin Machinery Bureau or continuing to study, Zhang Yu gave the opportunity to continue studying to his younger brother, and set foot on the road to Tianjin Machinery Bureau with a small package on his back.

In 1900, when Zhang Yu was 20 years old, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau was reduced to ashes in flames and explosions. Zhang Yu, who participated in the defense of the Machinery Bureau, was seriously injured, but finally saved his life. In the years that followed, Zhang Yu worked in a private factory in Tianjin, and it was not until Chen Ke arrived in Beijing in 1905 that he was introduced by Qin Tongren to work at the Beijing Honeycomb Coal Factory. Next, he resolutely gave up the opportunity to continue working in the honeycomb coal plant, and followed Shang Yuan to Shanghai and then to Anhui. Accumulate merit and become the captain of the water detachment.

In terms of social experience, Zhang Yu is not a little bit more clever than Li Zhao. So Zhang Yu didn't think that Li Zhao could stir up everyone's emotions. Just because of such a view, now that Li Zhao is cold, Zhang Yu does not urge or ridicule. On the contrary, he looked at Li Zhao with a very serious gaze.

"Comrades," Li Zhao finally spoke, "now there is one thing to discuss at our party meeting, whether to help the people of Liujiapu to make a fence." ”

Everyone actually knew what was to be discussed, no one spoke, and the party members and probationary party members waited quietly for Li Zhao to continue.

"I think we need to fight. Our insurance regiment is the people's army, and we cannot watch the people starve to death. This should have been magnificent and loud, but Li Zhao said that there was no momentum at all.

Zhang Yu didn't blink his eyes and listened quietly. But in his heart, he had already written down the first point to refute Li Zhao.

"Since we want to liberate the whole of China, Liujiapu will inevitably be liberated in the future. Liberation now, at least for now, can get the support of the people. The future will also be much easier. Li Zhao continued. But there was a little bit of passion in it.

Zhang Yu felt that Li Zhao had finally found some way, but this was still not the point. In such mobilizations, the focus should be on demagoguery rather than rationality or long-term considerations. This is also the reason why Zhang Yu drove Zhou Yisheng away. If Zhou Yisheng wept bitterly and stated the misery of his own family and the ruthlessness of the landlord in the enclosure, it would be able to arouse everyone's sympathy. Then, he expounded on the just mission of the People's Party, which can also inspire the fighting spirit of the comrades. After arousing the emotions of the comrades, he went on to expound on the many benefits of fighting the fence for the revolutionary cause, and naturally won the support of the comrades.

In the early days of his arrival in Fengtai County, Chen Ke aroused the fighting spirit of his comrades in this way and successfully established the current situation with the People's Party as the core. And Li Zhao obviously did not learn the essence of Chen Ke's speech. He Zudao, who is the first person to be the political commissar of the army, has already mastered these, and Li Zhao is still tender.

Sure enough, as Zhang Yu thought, Li Zhao couldn't grasp the essence of the problem, and the effect of his speech was limited, although everyone was listening carefully, but their brows began to wrinkle. However, Li Zhao was able to climb to this position, and he was not completely dry. He saw that the form was not right, so he didn't say much, and simply ended his speech. "I'll say so much first, now let Captain Zhang share his opinion."

Not bad, not bad, Zhang Yu said secretly in his heart. If you really can't do it, you should immediately give the other party the right to speak, look at the other party's words, and refute it in a targeted manner, which can be regarded as a strategy. This is the strategy that Chen Ke once described.

Zhang Yu stood up and looked around like Chen Ke first. His eyes were blazing, and he looked carefully into the eyes of each comrade. That's what I said. "Comrades, I didn't support the fight in the fence originally, but now I support it a little. But I would like to ask you one thing, whose armament is the insurance regiment. The insurance regiment is the gun, who commands the gun? The party commands the gun! Who does the insurance group have to listen to? The insurance group should listen to the party. We are the party members who are the ones who decide the actions of our detachment now. These words Zhang Yu said sonorously and powerfully, and no one would think that Zhang Yu didn't believe them. This is true even for comrades who wish to send troops now.

"Then, as party members, the higher party organization gave us the power to command this fleet. We can't make our own decisions, we have to be worthy of the higher-level party organizations. Secretary Chen Ke personally saw us off on behalf of the higher-level party organization, and we have to be worthy of Secretary Chen Ke. We can't let Secretary Chen Ke and the higher-level party organizations disappoint us. What is the task assigned to us by the party organization? Comrades, what exactly is the task entrusted to us by the party organization? Zhang Yu asked repeatedly, and then looked into the eyes of the party members one by one. Under the pressure of Zhang Yu's gaze, everyone was thinking about the orders of the party organization.

Seeing the thoughtful expressions of the comrades, Zhang Yu already knew that he had successfully brought the comrades' ideas on his own track. But for such a moment, Zhang Yu's face suddenly changed. He suddenly remembered something, something he had overlooked. Suddenly, Zhang Yu understood the true intentions of the higher-level party organization.

The gaffe only lasted for a moment, and Zhang Yu had already regained his serious demeanor. "Do you want to fight the fence and save the people? Did the party tell us before this mission? ”

This question is asked very cleverly, the party organization has said a lot of things, which sentence is the explanation of whether to fight the fence? Everyone didn't figure it out for a while.

Zhang Yu didn't let everyone think about it much, he directly announced the answer. "Before leaving, Political Commissar He asked us two questions, the first question, this time we must see a lot of tragic things, the party organization asked the comrades if they are ideologically prepared? The second question is whether the comrades want to save these people. How can we save these people? ”

The party members looked at each other one by one, and many of them had suddenly realized. And some people are still a little confused. On the one hand, Zhang Yu was excited and convinced that he had finally grasped the thoughts of his superiors, and on the other hand, he scolded himself for his stupidity in his heart. Now that the decision has been made, Zhang Yu no longer has any stamina left, and he no longer has a hand. He said loudly: "Why did the party organization ask so, why didn't it directly order us to fight the fence." This is the concern of the party organization for us. If you want to save the people, you have to take out the food in a real way. We don't have it. If you want to save the people, you have to help the people get this food. This time it was a temporary job. The party organization did not know the specifics. Let us help the people, naturally it is not possible, let us mobilize the people, we don't know whether the people want to fight with the people in the fence. If we fight on our own initiative, maybe the people will think that we are robbing in groups. It's a bad thing. So the party organization didn't say anything, and Political Commissar He could only say it to this point. ”

As soon as these words were made clear, the comrades suddenly realized. There was immediately a lot of discussion at the meeting, some comrades felt that Political Commissar He Zudao had a lot of flowers, and most comrades felt that Political Commissar He was really a very considerate person. But whether to play a fence or not is no longer the focus of discussion.

"Comrades, be still." Zhang Yu shouted, "Since everyone has this meeting, we have to consider it realistically. Fight the fence, do we fight with the people, or do we fight alone. How is this battle going to be fought? What to do if someone dies in a fight, what if someone is injured. Are there enough doctors, are there enough temporary medical treatment? Do we have enough weapons? Oh yes, now it's right away. Listening to Comrade Lu Zhengping, now the villagers have set off to fight the fence. Shall we rush over now, or shall we send someone to stop them immediately? We're going to make a decision right away. ”

Hearing this, the members of the People's Party immediately began to ponder. This is indeed a big deal, and in the past, this kind of thing was completely decided by Chen Ke and the Military Commission, so everyone just obeyed the order. And now that everyone is in charge, everyone really can't think of a specific way for a while. Everyone's eyes couldn't help but fall on Zhang Yu again.

Being watched by so many people with expectation and trust, Zhang Yu felt that he had been greatly satisfied in his heart. In the past, this kind of gaze was always on Chen Ke and those leaders with higher status. Among those eyes was also the gaze of Zhang Yu himself. Now Zhang Yu is finally able to get such a gaze on his own. He was overjoyed. Glancing at the stunned political commissar of the insurance group, Li Zhao, Zhang Yu already knew that he was now completely above Li Zhao. The object of everyone's convincing is no longer Li Zhao, but he Zhang Yu.

To serve the public, first of all, you must have an attitude in your heart that can really impress everyone and a position that can be recognized by everyone. Zhang Yu, who has experienced the line of life and death, knows this very well. Back then, he followed Admiral Nie Shicheng to guard the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and everyone was moved by Admiral Nie's righteousness. There is no need to even say anything, just Nie Shicheng's eyes, that simple language is enough to let everyone know that the time has come to fight hard.

Although until now, Zhang Yu has not regretted his choice at that time. But after that time, Zhang Yu firmly believed in one thing, justice cannot solve the problem. No matter how righteous you are, how much you have to do that can go down in history, there must be the ability to match this justice. Otherwise, you are just filling in the gap for those who have mastered the name of righteousness. The reason why Zhang Yu followed Shang Yuan and Chen Ke was because these two people not only had a righteous heart, but also had the strength and strategy to implement their ideals. And now, Zhang Yu is very likely to have embarked on the path of being able to stand side by side with these two people. Although Zhang Yu's current strength still comes from these two people, no one is born with the power to "decide justice".

But such a little carried away did not last long, Zhang Yu was a person who had experienced the test of death after all. He knew that thinking too much would only lead to his own misconduct. What makes Chen Ke more clever than Zhang Yu is that he knows what kind of organization he wants to establish, and Zhang Yu is convinced of this. Confucius said, "A gentleman has three fears: fear of the mandate of heaven, fear of adults, and fear of the words of sages." The villain does not know the destiny of heaven and is not afraid, and the lord insults the words of the saint. "Since Chen Ke is far better than himself now, then Zhang Yu should be happy and obedient to Chen Ke's orders, if this is the destiny of heaven, Zhang Yu will definitely not challenge.

Putting aside selfish distractions, Zhang Yu discussed with his comrades simply and clearly, and then sent two waves of personnel.

The BJP meeting was full of twists and turns, but it was full of sparks. On the other hand, the meeting of the Anhui New Army can only be described as a stagnant water and cloudy.

The assembly of the new army was far less rapid than that of the insurance regiment, although the number of people was much smaller than that of the insurance regiment. However, the meeting of the insurance regiment was held for a long time, and the new officers and men were assembled. Looking at Pu Guanshui's gloomy face, the new officers and soldiers were too frightened to speak. They didn't know who had done something wrong to make the co-ordinator so angry. At the same time, they also looked at the dirty victim behind Pu Guanshui with a face like a living skeleton, limbs as thin as hemp stalks, ragged clothes, and a large piece of torn clothes on his chest. How could such a person follow Lord Co-ordinator, everyone felt very puzzled.

"This person is Zhou Yisheng's brother, Zhou Yizheng. This person is now a disaster victim in Anhui. What do you see of him? ”

As soon as Pu Guanshui's voice fell, the faces of every new officer and soldier turned extremely bad. Is it the same with your own relatives? This very practical association made the hearts of the new officers and soldiers feel like falling into an ice cave.

Pu Guanshui's voice was very low, "It's not just this person, but the people of Anhui are like this now." Just now, hundreds of victims have already broken the fence of Liu's shop and found food to survive the disaster year. But as far as I can see, they're afraid they won't be able to break the fence. ”

Hearing this, almost all the new officers and men had sympathetic looks on their faces, but only the sympathy of the dead rabbit and the fox. Seeing such a look, Pu Guanshui was very disappointed. The indignant expression of the soldier named Lu Zhengping of the Fangcai Insurance Regiment Pu Guanshui remembered very clearly. Lu Zhengping's family is in Fengtai County, and it has nothing to do with the people of Liu's shop. Moreover, Fengtai County has managed to maintain the survival of everyone, and it must be worry-free to come to his house. And Lu Zhengping's kind of righteous indignation, the Zhou brothers who live in Liujiapu are far from comparable. As for these new officers and soldiers who should have the friendship of robes, they can't compare.

On the contrary, the new officers and soldiers showed fear, and they were only afraid of Pu Guanshui, who was the co-ordinator. But the fighters of the insurance regiment dared to give their advice to their superiors. The same army, why is the gap between the two sides so big?

"Shall we help Zhou Yisheng?" Pu Guanshui asked loudly.

None of the new officers and men dared to raise such a simple question. After a while, someone finally pretended to have the courage to ask, "Master Pu, isn't this time here to help us bring our family to Fengtai?" ”

"That's right, we're here to help. So should we help the victims of Liujiapu? Pu Guanshui then asked.

No one dared to speak about this question, and in the minds of the new officers and soldiers, "Sweep the snow in front of your own house, and don't care about the frost on other people's houses!" That's the right thing to do. Saving one's own family, relatives and friends is already the limit of good deeds in the minds of these officers and soldiers. What is the benefit of helping those disaster victims who can't hit with eight poles to the officers and soldiers themselves? Apparently not.

And in the current disaster year, except for the outliers of Fengtai County, the people can have something to eat, which one with food is not the enclosure of a large household? Hitting the fence is going to kill people. Why do you give your life to someone you don't know? There is no such reason in the world.

But in the end, there are also people with clear brains, and a pipe band said: "Master Pu, if you let those fences put grain, as long as you go and talk about it in person, I think it will give you face no matter what." We're definitely following you. ”

Hearing this, Pu Guanshui sneered.

Pu Guan Shui is not a fool. He is not ignorant of officialdom and human feelings, Pu Guanshui was born in an official family, so it is naturally impossible not to know this. It's just that he doesn't like this practice at all, and Pu Guanshui has always believed that these conventional practices are wrong. The result of asking for food by himself Pu Guanshui was very clear, it was nothing more than that the other party thought that he was fighting the autumn wind, or he would not let himself into the enclosure at all, and then give himself a gift money, and the tea fee of the brothers of the new army. Or the little courageous, symbolically putting enough food for the people to eat for a few days. It's all useless work anyway. Weizi felt that as long as he could make Pu Guanshui save face, this would be fine. What does the life and death of the people have to do with the landlords in those enclosures?

This is why Pu Guanshui thinks that he is fundamentally different from these landlords. Pu Guanshui sincerely hopes to save China and the people. If he only had such a big concept before, since reading Chen Ke's book, Pu Guanshui has become more and more aware of why this world is so cruel. Although he didn't have much to do with Chen Ke personally, just the set of "Chinese Cultural Inheritance and the Rise of Materialism" made Pu Guanshui believe that Chen Ke was a person who could save China and save the people of the world. That's why Pu Guanshui respects Chen Ke so much and is willing to join the revolution led by Chen Ke.

Seeing the reality of Fengtai County and participating in this operation to pick up the new army, it can prove that Chen Ke is practicing the ideal of saving the people. Taking the world as their own responsibility, anyone can say this kind of big talk, Pu Guanshui has seen so many high-ranking officials, in this era when China was invaded by foreign countries and had internal and external troubles, most of them were talking about it. But such words are nothing more than an excuse for them. And just today, Pu Guanshui saw dozens of young people who intend to take on this responsibility. And these people are not Chen Ke's sworn friends, they are just some ordinary officers and soldiers among the 8,000 soldiers of the insurance regiment.

Today, Pu Guanshui saw many more revolutionary fighters who were willing to use practical actions to save the people than the total number of people he had seen in his life who were willing to do something practical for the people.

And these new officers and soldiers in front of them, even if their fellow villagers are struggling on the death line, they still don't dare to say anything. What are they afraid of?

Although Pu Guanshui was full of passion when he summoned the new officers and soldiers, he only said a few words to the new officers and soldiers, and Pu Guanshui felt a little depressed. He couldn't help but sigh, "If the people are only given a few days of food in the enclosure, as soon as we leave, the people will still starve to death in a few days." What do you think is the use of that? ”

Although it is reasonable for the new officers and soldiers to look at each other, what can the new officers and soldiers do?

"Then we can't break the fence, right? What's the difference between that and banditry? A bold officer said. Pu Guanshui saw that the man's name was Xu Qingnian, and he had a fence in his house.

Yes, in Xu Qingnian's view, breaking the fence is a big rebellion. The people who break the fence are bandits. As for the people who starved to death, they deserved it. Pu Guanshui didn't want to say that Xu Qingnian was wrong. He took a closer look at his subordinates, and if they really wanted to say that there were at least two adults who either had a fence at home, or at least could live in the fence. Let them break the fence, that's something you don't have to think about at all.

I'm still not thinking about it! Pu Guanshui suddenly felt a great powerlessness.

Just then, someone suddenly ran over. The new officers and soldiers stared at the people one by one, Pu Guanshui was disheartened at this time, and he didn't want to spend any effort to turn his head.

"Pu Xietong, our detachment leader is invited." Someone shouted.

Pu Guanshui announced that the new army was now standing here, and followed the people to the headquarters of the water detachment of the insurance regiment, but saw that the headquarters was already extremely busy. As soon as he saw Pu Guanshui coming in, Zhang Yu immediately got up to greet him. "Pu Xietong, we have decided to play the fence. Are there any brothers in the Forces nouvelles who are willing to participate? ”

"What?" Pu Guanshui knew that Zhang Yu was reluctant to fight in the fence, and his attitude had changed so much in such a short period of time, Pu Guanshui was completely confused.

Seeing that Pu Guanshui was silent, Zhang Yu asked again, "Pu Xietong, are any of the brothers of the new army willing to participate in the siege?" ”