The cold wind in early winter in Anhui is colder than that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is Xu Xilin's feeling about Anhui. Xu Xilin has been to many places, and although the winter in the north is cold, it is relatively dry. If you wear more, you can resist it. In the winter of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the air is humid and the temperature is much warmer. Anhui has both cold and damp, and it really feels biting when it is cold.

When he rushed from Hangzhou to Fengtai County, Xu Xilin didn't bring any clothes, and he couldn't remember so much at all. Fortunately, the People's Party provided coats for these distant guests, and finally resisted the cold. Xu Xilin naturally didn't know that this coat was a general winter garment customized by Chen Ke to imitate the style of cotton coats on the railway. And the overcoat itself on the railway was made in imitation of a military overcoat. With a cotton hat and gloves, the whole person seems to be wrapped in a cotton bag, and it is still very warm.

In 1907, this kind of insulated clothing, which could be called "fancy dress", was distributed only to people who ate public meals in the base areas. Different from the cotton robes worn by the wealthy, these cotton coats with high stand-up collars are all breasted, plus the big signs of various departments on the chest, which looks very heroic.

Knowing that Chen Ke was not available to meet him, Xu Xilin was not angry or in a hurry. The people of the People's Party do not like to belittle people, and since Chen Ke does not see him, he should really be unavailable. Xu Xilin didn't wait, he applied to the staff of the reception department to carry out an inspection in Fengtai County. In the end, the reception staff gave them a suggestion for inspection, not only in Fengtai County, but also suggested that they go to the countryside near the county seat.

Military coats are an extremely common garment in Fengtai County, and about one-third of adults wear them. During the inspection, Xu Xilin soon discovered that as long as they are official state workers, regardless of men and women, free cotton coats will be distributed. In this regard, the cotton coat worn by Chen Ke is no different from the cotton coat worn by ordinary workers. But this kind of treatment is completely one-size-fits-all, and if you don't "eat public food", then there is absolutely no such benefit. In the countryside outside the county seat, unless they are on the construction site of a water conservancy project where a large number of engineers are gathered, or if they are regular staff members of local governments, ordinary people will not see such cotton coats unless they do it themselves.

"This coat is good, let's go back and make a batch." The cadres of the Liberation Society, who came with him, praised with their hands in their sleeves.

"Where did you get so much cotton?" Xu Xilin smiled bitterly. He has participated in many fundraisers, and he has also done some trading, and he is very sensitive to price. Now that cotton is so expensive, it costs a lot of money to make this coat.

Xu Xilin's words were agreed by the comrades, and someone then asked: "Mr. Xu, I think the People's Party seems to be very rich here. It shouldn't be. No matter how you say it, Anhui is no better than our Zhejiang. ”

This is the confusion that many people have about the Anhui base area, and when the people's living standards are improved on a large scale, such doubts will certainly surface. Although ordinary people do not have cotton coats provided by the state, they have not seen anyone who is not clothed. In the large-scale newly built red brick houses in the countryside, every family has seen their lives go by. Not to mention anything else, this red brick house alone is not affordable for anyone even in Zhejiang. Not to mention the smell of meat in the air of the village when eating. This could not but surprise the revolutionaries from Zhejiang.

Everyone discussed the prosperity of Anhui and the stability of the people's lives in the base area. But no one mentioned the policies of the BJP. The Liberation Society was aware of the People's Party's land reform policy, and during the two-day field trip, they determined that there were no landlords in Fengtai County. All land was nationalized. Land is distributed according to the person, as long as you are willing to farm, you can get the right to use three acres of land for one person. In this regard, the BJP does what it says. But there were no more landlords.

The Liberation Society is not opposed to the equalization of land, at least Tao Chengzhang and Zhang Taiyan support this policy. However, the Liberation Council now does not have an agrarian programme that is fully agreed upon by all its members, nor does it have the strength of the BJP to translate political ideas into a practical system. These cadres who remained in Anhui knew very well that if they wanted to forcibly promote this kind of land policy like the People's Party, they would be the first to make trouble within the Liberation Society. In conversations with the common people, these people asked the landlords if they were opposed to land reform, and the common people smiled and said: "As long as you are not afraid of death, of course you can oppose it." The soaring murderous spirit contained in these words made the people of the Restoration Society no longer dare to ask what happened to those landlords who were "not afraid of death".

However, there are always times when I can't hold back the words in my heart, and after a few days of visiting, these visitors to the Liberation Society have accumulated a lot of thoughts in their hearts, and this idea is really like a fish in the throat if they don't say it.

Lying on the bed at night, everyone first routinely talked about the details of the visit, but after talking about these things for several days, everyone couldn't lift their spirits. Finally, someone couldn't help but say: "I think the People's Party is stronger than us in one point, they can order and prohibit, and they can do what they say." We're just a mess now. Everyone looked like they were all under the banner of the Restoration Society, but their hearts were not used in one place. ”

As soon as the conversation began, it was naturally impossible to hold back, and someone immediately followed: "Not only is it forbidden to do so, but the People's Party can also be prepared, and it will never be done only to find out that something is wrong." Some of us have mentioned bandaging beforehand, but when we really see a gunshot wound, it is fundamentally different from what we thought before. ”

"They seem to be very good at fighting, but compared to their internal affairs, fighting is not the most effortful. King Yue claimed to have a 100,000-strong congregation, but in fact, they had nothing but fighting. The speaker was an old cadre who had been in Anhui, and he very implicitly mentioned the weakness of the Liberation Society.

At this time, Xu Xilin couldn't speak, and his biggest question was elsewhere, "Although our Restoration Society has thought a lot, we can do less." On the contrary, the People's Party, although it does things one after another, always gives people the impression that it has not been planned for a long time. How the hell did they arrange these things? ”

Xu Xilin did get to the point, and the People's Party did not have so much time to discuss various things. The structure of this organization was such that as soon as the Central Committee gave an order, the departments below would immediately take action, and compared with other political forces of the era, the actions of the BJP were somewhat disciplined. For example, after the National People's Congress, the first to start intensive action was the People's Internal Affairs Committee,

"Land reform must be implemented in all localities. The Party Central Committee has determined that the method of land reform is encroachment. Focusing on the areas where land reform has been completed, it will be carried out to the surrounding areas one village at a time. "Since it is an internal party meeting of the People's Internal Affairs Committee, all the discussions are completely straight to the point, including the methods of implementation, the means of implementation, and naturally there is nothing to hide from the party members. Chairman Qi Huishen made a speech.

"Comrades, there will definitely be people who oppose land reform. Some of them want to earn more benefits for themselves in the land reform because of economic interests. This is up to the government to persuade education. Some of them are against the agrarian policy, and of course they must also criticize education, and if the criticism of education does not work, and these people continue to oppose agrarian reform from the position of the exploiters, then we can only list them in the ranks of counter-revolutionaries. The work of our People's Internal Affairs Committee is to find out the counter-revolution among the opponents and deal with them. ”

Some of the comrades below took notes, and some listened quietly. Qi Huishen said this, paused slightly, and waited for everyone to finish memorizing the contents, and then continued: "What is the difference between a counter-revolutionary and a revolutionary? Can anyone answer? ”

The young comrades looked at each other, and for a moment no one would answer. There is a characteristic feature of the discussion at the party meeting, in general, the first person to speak can easily become the person who says the wrong thing, and everyone is reluctant to make such a fool of himself. Qi Hui knew everyone's thoughts, and seeing that no one was willing to get up and speak, he smiled and said: "Our People's Party really wants to unify our thinking, Chairman Chen talked to me a few days ago and talked about this matter. There is nothing wrong with unifying ideas, but this cannot be turned into the will of the leader. You can't just because you're in a high position that everything you say is right. This is the official standard, and this is not a unified ideology. Just like the distinction between counter-revolutionaries, based on the party's standpoint, we must have a unified view, and we must have a different view. Where is the unity, where is the difference. What kind of consensus will our final party members reach? This is a task that must not be sloppy. ”

This is too theoretical, and the young comrades are even more reluctant to express their views. Qi Huishen was both satisfied and disappointed with the reaction of his comrades, and after holding back his two emotions, Qi Huishen continued: "The core of politics is interests, and the position that we revolutionaries should have is that the power from the party belongs to the party, and this power serves the party. All power from the people belongs to the people, and the purpose of running this power is to serve the people. The power in our hands is not ours personally. In other words, you cannot use the power given to you by the party and the people for your own personal gain. For example, we are sure that there is a counter-revolution in the party, but there are comrades in our ranks who feel that they have a good personal relationship with this counter-revolutionary, and they cannot bear to see that their good friends will not end well. So he privately informed his friends and asked him to try to escape punishment. Do you think that's the right thing to do? ”

The deterrent effect of these words is very great, and some comrades do not have so many thoughts in their hearts, so they show very simple expressions on their faces, and some comrades' expressions are more complicated. Qi Huishen took in these expressions, and he didn't name them directly, but continued: "From a personal point of view, it is human nature to care about family members and friends. We can even praise this attitude in terms of personal conduct and perspective. But, from the perspective of our organization, this person, or these people, holds the power given by the organization to pursue their own personal interests. That's crime. This person, these people betrayed the trust of the organization, which is absolutely unacceptable to the organization. ”

Having said that, it is very clear what Qi Huishen is going to say. There are a few people who are already sitting on their laurels, and all of them are members of the People's Internal Affairs Committee, and they all know very well what the People's Internal Affairs Committee does. Their strange expressions also attracted the attention of the comrades around them, and in the focus of their eyes, the comrades who originally had strange expressions changed their expressions greatly.

Qi Huishen didn't see it, he continued: "Our People's Party does not ask everyone to kill their fathers and mothers to go to the revolution, from a personal point of view, no matter what the reason for relatives and friends suffers, we use our own money to help, and take our own grain to send some, this kind of thing is a personal act, and the organization neither supports nor opposes it. Because this is everyone's own interest, everyone has this power, everyone has this freedom. However, there are some people who use the power they get from the organization to serve themselves and their relatives and friends, which is absolutely not allowed in the organization. Party power is used by the party, public power is used by the public, and their own income and rights and interests are controlled by themselves. These powers are neither mixed nor infringement. However, if some comrades just do not understand this, they think that when they have power, they can use it according to their own ideas, and the party power and public power belong to themselves. I would like to ask you, is this kind of person a qualified party member? ”

"This kind of person is not a member of our People's Party at all." Some young party members have said angrily.

"That's right, they are not party members at all." There were quite a few young party members who spoke like this, and while they expressed their positions, they glared fiercely at those whose faces were as white as earth or who were slightly trembling.

Qi Hui waved his hand deeply, "Comrades, this statement is not right. No matter what such people do, as long as they join our People's Party, they are members of our People's Party. It's a fact. It's like when we draw a stroke on a white wall, no matter how undesirable we think it shouldn't be, how ugly it is, that's a fact. We cannot deny the fact that some people have sinned and become scum just because they are members of the BJP. Facts are facts, and as members of the People's Party, we must learn to face and accept facts. ”

These words were very effective in relieving the mood of the comrades, but this relief was also temporary. After criticizing the comrades who had a wrong understanding, Qi Huishen's spearhead was once again pointed at those comrades who had violated party discipline. "We, the People's Council of Internal Affairs, are a very special institution, and most of the people we have to work with are enemies. If the distinction between party power, public power, and personal power in other departments is only the distribution of work, the situation we are facing is more of a contradiction between the enemy and ourselves. Therefore, after this meeting, all comrades will be investigated. Every comrade must give an account of his own situation, and every comrade must also give a clear account of the situation of other comrades that he knows. It's not about the organization that is embarrassing everyone, it's about protecting everyone organizationally. What about the current situation, we will deal with those comrades who have violated discipline, but we will not kill. Because the current struggle has not yet reached this level, but after this investigation, the reorganized People's Internal Affairs Committee will have stricter discipline, and the punishment and punishment will also be more severe. ”

After saying this, Qi Huishen saw that the faces of all the comrades were not good. It's one thing to deal with others, but it's another thing to investigate to oneself and to give an account to other comrades. After hearing this, people who can still maintain a happy mood can only say that their mental structure is quite special.

Qi Hui smiled deeply and said, "Comrades, this kind of investigation is only part of our work. I don't want you to be whistleblowers, since you use party power and public power, then you have to be responsible for these powers. As members of the People's Party, we must learn to face the facts and accept them. This is part of the ideological construction of party members, and this is also part of the building of party organizations to be strengthened in the future. ”

Seeing that the comrades were still silent, Qi Huishen took out the list and asked some comrades to be investigated first. Most of these people are comrades whose expressions have changed drastically, and some of them are quite unexpected. For example, some comrades who have always performed quite well have also been named and sent out for investigation. Such a fact made the comrades present at the meeting feel extremely surprised. Some of the comrades named were trembling, while others were gloomy. Someone simply shouted: "Chairman Qi, I have been wronged!" ”

Qi Huishen smiled helplessly, "Now that no one wants to convict you, where did your injustice come from?" Go get surveyed and don't delay everyone's work. ”

Most of the people surveyed went out on their own, but one or two people stayed on their stools. Qi Hui waved his hand deeply, and several guards immediately set up the people who refused to move and dragged them out. The young people originally had some sad feelings about the death of rabbits and foxes, but when they saw these leper dog-like guys, they felt a great sense of disdain in their hearts. The original worry has been diluted a lot.

After these comrades went out, Qi Huishen said: "The rest of the comrades, let's continue the content of the meeting. The counter-revolutionary problems that will be encountered in the land reform. How can you tell whether these people are opposed by personal interests or out of opposition to the revolution, and what do you think? ”

It's not just the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs that conducts internal investigations, almost all departments conduct internal investigations within certain limits. Ren Qiying never expected that she would be the first subject of investigation in the government department. After making a report as a government representative at the people's congress, almost all the comrades of the Fengtai County Party Committee believed that it was only a matter of time before Ren Qiying was promoted. As for which position Ren Qiying will be promoted, there are different statements. Some people think that Ren Qiying will be promoted to the post of county magistrate of Fengtai County, and some people think that Ren Qiying will be transferred to other counties to work. There are also some people who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and that Ren Qiying is likely to replace Yuwen Badu and be promoted to the secretary of the county party committee.

Ren Qiying did not have this optimism, she was in a very idle period at this time. When preparing the government work report, Ren Qiying handed over the work to other comrades, and she was completely transferred out of the county party committee office. Now that the government report has been completed, Ren Qiying has still not been notified to resume work. The whole person just hangs here. Therefore, when the comrades of the Discipline Inspection Commission and the People's Internal Affairs Committee came to look for Ren Qiying, Ren Qiying really felt a little uneasy, these two departments were not the personnel department at all, but the department that dealt with people. How will they find themselves?

The investigation team took the investigation team to the location of the People's Internal Affairs Committee, and the joint investigation team of the two departments said, "Comrade Ren Qiying, please put down your ideological baggage and answer organizational questions in a realistic manner." At the beginning of this sentence, Ren Qiying was sure that her judgment was completely correct, and there should be something bad.

In terms of level, Ren Qiying's level is much higher than that of these staff. However, the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the People's Internal Affairs Committee do not care about your rank. This has been repeatedly emphasized in training within the Party and in government departments. There is also a corresponding content in the exam. Although she was sure that she had not made a mistake, she was really investigated by these two departments, and Ren Qiying was still uneasy in her heart. Theoretically, the Commission for Discipline Inspection can take down any cadre at the same level. As for the People's Committee of Internal Affairs, they are famous for their exploits in the suppression of counter-revolutionaries. Ren Qiying knew that if these two departments were deliberately unable to get along with themselves, their official positions and lives might be explained at the same time.

Although her face was forced to be calm, Ren Qiying was a little girl after all, and it was impossible to say that she was not afraid in her heart.

The comrades of the Discipline Inspection Commission first set a tone: The investigation of the application of party power, public power, and private power is the core content of this investigation meeting. Hearing this, Ren Qiying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Ren Qiying's father, Ren Yugang, will talk about these things to Ren Qiying whenever he has the opportunity. The family has the support of his father, and all the relatives and friends who ask for Ren Qiying's door, Ren Qiying will send them to his father Ren Yugang. Ren Yugang never let Ren Qiying do errands for relatives. This is not out of some lofty concept, Ren Yugang is by no means a pedantic person. He has a very thorough view of human nature. He has been educating Ren Qiying, "Girl, no one who asks to come to your door is for you." If they give you something, it's just that they want to buy you. What they give you is definitely going to get back the benefits from you tenfold and hundredfold. Although our family is not a golden branch and jade leaf, I think that if a person can be frank and open, he will not be inferior to him when he sees the emperor. If you are still in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you can't be a bad guy after you become an official. Now that Chairman Chen has built this Anhui, I think good people can have good rewards. ”

Whether a good person has a good reward or not, Ren Qiying doesn't care. Being an official has nothing to do with being a good person at all, but being a frank and unrestrained person, Ren Qiying likes it very much. Being able to be frank means that everyone is equal, and they all rely on their ability to eat. It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, no matter what your background, you can compete freely. It's like giving you a pair of wings to fly freely. If you have to use complex relationships to bind yourself, it can only be said that you are asking for hardship. Whether others want to do this or not, Ren Qiying can't control it, and Ren Qiying herself never wants someone to restrain her wings.

Even if Ren Qiying is so confident in herself, the investigation is still merciless. As long as it is the content that Ren Qiying decides by herself, there will be corresponding investigations. For example, when Ren Qiying was promoting the construction of spontaneous production teams in rural areas, the investigator directly inquired why Ren Qiying had applied for her own relatives to form a production team. It's a tough question, and at worst, it's a pitfall. Since the formation of a production team is likely to be supported by the government, this method of letting the head of the family start trying it first is likely to be suspected of public power and private use.

"I'm afraid that's what I'm going to do, right?" Ren Qiying felt that the hairs on her back stood on end. Although the investigators did not induce them at all, Ren Qiying could sense the danger. She couldn't help but rejoice that she had given up this idea after discussing it with her father at that time, and she decisively gave up all interests with her relatives, and the whole family gave up the rural hukou, gave up the land, and moved into the city. If this does happen, God knows what the trouble will be.

Although she was a little afraid, Ren Qiying still explained her thoughts and process to the censors in a realistic manner. This was the first time that Ren Qiying saw the young men on the opposite side with serious faces that could even be called stern glance at each other a few times, and her expression showed surprise.

Seeing that Ren Qiying calmly answered the previous questions, a comrade from the Discipline Inspection Committee couldn't help but ask: "Comrade Ren Qiying, what are your plans for family arrangements?" ”

Hearing this, Ren Qiying frowned for the first time, and a strong unhappiness arose in her heart. This issue really violated Ren Qiying's private rights. And family arrangements are not a business at all. Just when Ren Qiying was considering whether to make a verbal counterattack, the comrades of the People's Internal Affairs Committee lightly touched the comrades who had just spoken. The young man quickly understood that he had lost his temper, and he hurriedly said: "This is my personal problem, not the content of the organization's review. This is a question you can leave unanswered. ”

Ren Qiying held back her anger and nodded, "Then I won't answer this question." After finishing speaking, Ren Qiying quickly thought that her answer would definitely be recorded. Maybe it will also have a bad impact on yourself. But Ren Qiying didn't care at all when she was angry. She secretly said in her heart: "Let them record it, our family eats by our own ability, why care what others think?" ”

The questioning lasted all day, and in the evening Ren Qiying was not allowed to go home. She was placed in a "break room", which meant that the door was locked on the outside and could be opened from the inside. A simple wooden bed, a futon and that's it. The window is not a floor-to-ceiling window, but a high position on the wall near the roof, Ren Qiying looked at the height, if she struggled to jump up, she might be able to hold on to the windowsill. But it was useless to hold on to the windowsill, which was not a glass window, but a wooden railing. I'm afraid this lounge is only used as a prison.

Thinking of this, Ren Qiying was a little panicked, she pulled the door hard, the door opened at the right time, and the door was not locked from the outside. Ren Qiying looked outside, but saw that there were sentries guarding both ends of the corridor. Without waiting for the sentry to speak, Ren Qiying hurriedly returned to the door and closed the door.

In the morning, he is still the director of the county party committee office, and in the evening, he is in this kind of place. The strong contrast made Ren Qiying feel a great panic. A strong sense of doubt suddenly came to her heart, and Ren Qiying began to reflect on everything she had done. Could it be that I really did something wrong? So much so that you want to give yourself such treatment? But no matter how she thinks about it, Ren Qiying can't remember what she did wrong.

There were no tables or chairs in the room, so Ren Qiying shrank on the bed and wrapped her military coat tightly around her body. In the face of the censors, Ren Qiying can still maintain her composure, but now when she is alone, thousands of thoughts are churning in her mind. Ren Qiying was completely confused.

The review on the second day is still very process-oriented, and after the work that was not discussed yesterday has been discussed. The examiners closed the records, and they said completely formulaicly: "Comrade Ren Qiying, the issue has been discussed. You can take a look at the record and ask for your signature if there are no problems. ”

The record of the meeting is so long, Ren Qiying really can't imagine that she can talk about so many things. Although it was something that had just been talked about yesterday and today, Ren Qiying had a strong sense of strangeness when she looked through the records. Is that what you say? Ren Qiying was puzzled more than once.

After reading everything, Ren Qiying signed her name. Then the censors left Ren Qiying in the room, and they left first. This was Ren Qiying's first serious look at her room, and she suddenly found one thing, this room was actually no different from the room she lived in, the same size, the same high on the wall without glass windows, only wooden fence windows. The difference is that this room only has a table and chairs, while the residence only has a bed. This discovery reminded Ren Qiying of the helpless feeling she felt yesterday, and the room seemed to be immediately cold. Ren Qiying couldn't help but pull the military coat closer.

What's next for you? Ren Qiying's heart is completely bottomless, could it be that she really made some mistakes in her work? Ren Qiying had to think about it. Thinking in this direction, Ren Qiying, who has always been confident, also feels unconfident. For her, solving problems is always about solving the current problem first. As for the long-term arrangement, that is the responsibility of the Party Central Committee. The bureaucracy doesn't have a concept of its own, they just do what they planned. And Ren Qiying knows her own affairs, and her ingenious skills praised by her comrades are just willing to make more efforts in the final analysis, she is just the best to know what the people want to achieve, what Ren Qiying does is to push the people down the relevant departments as quickly as possible, and is willing to lead the people to the accurate "relevant departments" to solve the problem. really said that Ren Qiying did something earth-shattering, it is absolutely impossible to talk about it.

He is just a high-level errand runner, Ren Qiying suddenly realized this strongly. After understanding her role, Ren Qiying discovered the arrogance that she hadn't noticed before, the feeling of thinking that she was superior. In this investigation, Ren Qiying found many very private issues. If it's a typed report, don't say it. There are many things that only a few people discuss together, but the comrades who examined themselves this time also know about it, needless to say, there must have been people who have reported on other occasions. The organization's control over the cadres has reached this level, and Ren Qiying feels afraid and dissatisfied.

However, when she felt that she was just a high-level errand runner, this mood dissipated greatly, if not cleanly. I must have made many comrades unhappy on weekdays, right? Ren Qiying thought of it, recalling her arrogance, Ren Qiying couldn't help but think of many small details in the past. The unconscious resistance of some comrades should be an instinctive reaction to their own arrogance. In fact, many times I am also a big deception, and I just blow up my working methods to solve troubles. If you say that you are at fault, it is definitely your own fault. Thinking of this, Ren Qiying felt that she still failed to meet her father's expectations, and did not really become a frank and unrestrained person.

I don't know how long I thought about it, but the door was pushed open. Coming in were officers from the Personnel Department. He was full of smiles, and as soon as he entered the door, he said happily: "Comrade Ren Qiying, I officially inform you that you are talking about receiving a one-week cadre training. Please come back with me now. ”

Ren Qiying couldn't guess what he would encounter next, since the officer of the personnel department said so, Ren Qiying could only listen. Without anyone stopping them, the two came out of the office of the People's Internal Affairs Committee. When they stopped at the gate of the former People's Party barracks in the county seat, which is now the joint office of multiple organs and the location of military training institutions, Ren Qiying was really sure that he was going to receive training, not the next round of review.

The training room is ordinary, but that just means it's impersonal, but the location of the classroom is crucial. This former barracks is still home to many of the key departments of the heavily guarded People's Party, and is used by senior cadres for meetings. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that there were quite a few people in the room, Chen Ke was sitting on the podium, and below were several senior members of the Politburo Standing Committee who were in charge of the work of various counties. In addition, there are some young cadres in the base areas who have performed very well in various places. These people are not strangers to Ren Qiying, and at the people's meeting that ended just a few days ago, these people were all attendees. It can be said that the elites of the local government and economic work have gathered.

Chen Ke waved his hand to signal Ren Qiying to sit down, and he said loudly: "Since everyone is here." Let's start training. Let me tell you the main point of this training, which is what we are going to do in the first five-year plan. After the end of this counter-encirclement, it is unlikely that we will encounter a large-scale attack by the enemy, provided of course, that the Manchus do not borrow heavily from foreign countries, and then the desperate armed army will launch an attack on us. ”

Ren Qiying couldn't adapt to such a change for a while, not long ago she was like a prisoner, and now she is being trained by Chen Ke with the top cadres. And what Chen Ke talks about is completely different from ordinary work. It turned out to be a matter of overall consideration. This is not a level that the director of a county office can reach.

The level of the meeting seemed to be very high, and paper and pen were already on every table. Ren Qiying almost subconsciously picked up the pen and began to record.

Chen Ke smiled: "I'm not afraid of people saying that I am dictatorial this time. Because there are a lot of things involved, I simply can't fully prove it to everyone. If you must say that I am talking nonsense, then I really can't prove that I am not talking nonsense. ”

The comrades below couldn't help but laugh kindly, Chen Ke has always been more serious, he doesn't like to joke very much. But today Chen Ke seems very excited, which is very different from the past.

"Comrades, the training that began today will talk about my judgment and expectations for the future. In particular, I can clearly tell the comrades now that many of my considerations and many of my previous efforts have been prepared for the realization of this expectation. The reason why I didn't tell you this before is because I think everyone's horizons have not been opened, and the gap between them and my expectations is too big. I'm worried that people won't understand these things. Now here are the first-class cadres in our base, I believe that no matter what the future development will be like, you can grasp your own pace and still be able to do the current work well. And you don't have a wonderful blueprint for the future in your head and end up losing yourself. Most importantly, I believe that everyone can have this realization. I can grasp myself. ”

Hearing that Chen Kexian brought high hats to everyone, many comrades let out a burst of good-natured laughter. This is indeed a rare scenario.

Chen Ke had a radiant feeling, his eyes were shining, and his face was full of high-spiritedness, "Comrades, let's start now." I'll start with the Age of Discovery. Remember, I can't prove to you right now. And I have a limited memory, so I must have misremembered something, or I didn't study it thoroughly at the time. Please take a critical approach to this point. ”

If these words gave the comrades a sense of relief at first, then what Chen Ke said next quickly made people feel a shock. There are some things that Chen Ke has talked about in the textbook, and many more things that Chen Ke has not talked about at all. Chen Ke first started from the Age of Discovery, to the discovery of the New World, to the Great Triangle slave sugar trade. The Spanish Armada, the Coachmen of the Sea, the Dutch, to the rise of England, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, to the establishment of Prussia and Little Germany, the American Civil War.

With the help of various maps, Chen Ke spent three days telling the comrades about the general history of the world. The senior cadres of the People's Party have a cultural background that is absolutely not bad, even the young Ren Qiying. But when the centuries-old history of the planet's major industrial nation unfolds to them, these people are still dizzying. Even if he is as erudite as Yan Fu, he has not been able to study the history of the world so systematically.

Sure enough, as Chen Ke said, what these cadres felt was more doubt, rather than a kind of understanding that suddenly opened up because they had gained knowledge.

The following day, Chen Ke focused on the industrial revolution and the capitalist system. This part of the content was told by Chen Ke.

The highlight is the next two days, Chen Ke made a bold exposition on how to build a new China, what kind of organizational form and ideology this China has, and how to realize these seemingly empty contents, especially in industry, science and technology, and the relationship between these industrial science and technology and the process of social development.

If in the first few days, the comrades still thought that Chen Ke was a polymath, the content of the last few days of training made the comrades almost think that Chen Ke was a "fantastic".

Countless technologies that have never been heard of, or even imagined, are strangely combined in Chen Ke's exposition, but they seem to be reasonable. But these sciences can be organically integrated with society. The most surprising thing is that Chen Ke did not construct a picture of the final social form. Chen Ke repeatedly emphasized the interaction between the process of various scientific and technological development and society, and this strong sense of hierarchy made everyone almost think that these things really existed when listening to lectures. It was as if you had traveled back in time and seen the profound changes that the world would take place in a few decades.

Chen Ke did not dare to tell everyone about the technology of large-scale networks, which is completely out of reality, and what he expounded was only the technological era at the level of World War II. And many of the technologies that have been discovered in this era, Chen Ke has "misinterpreted" them, and directly derived technologies that comrades can probably understand.

Even so, the content is already shocking.

When Chen Ke ended the course with aircraft carrier warfare and told his comrades that if China wants to become a major power in the world in the future, it will ultimately rely on sea power and global liberalized trade to sustain it. All the comrades who listened to the lecture looked at Chen Ke with a look of exhaustion and numbness. They finally understood why Chen Ke made such a statement at the beginning of the lecture, and no one really believed that what Chen Ke described could be achieved. More precisely, they could not have imagined that there was someone in this world who would be able to depict a world to them.

Although the base area has been around for more than a year now, everyone has accomplished what they never imagined they would be able to achieve. But all of this is so insignificant compared to what Chen Ke expounded. To want to cross the barrier of this kind of thinking is really beyond the existing ability of comrades. In fact, not only comrades, but also Chen Ke himself does not have this ability, he has only seen history with his own eyes and understood history. Moreover, the era that Chen Ke experienced was also an era of China's accumulation, as if China had directly entered a great era that could compete with the United States from the second industrial revolution.

After a week of training, Chen Ke no longer had the high spirits he had at the beginning, and the exposition almost exhausted Chen Ke's energy, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Comrades, I still have the same words as before. I'm sure you won't lose yourself in this description. We will definitely be able to go to that era, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, we accumulate little by little, and complete it step by step. All of you here can see that era. ”

"Heh, hehe, haha" Yan Fu suddenly laughed a little nervously. His cultural skills and scientific and technological level are not comparable to other young comrades at all, so among the people present, the last resonance of Chen Ke's narration is Yan Fu.

"Wen Qing, oh, Chairman Chen, you can bear it." Yan Fu stared at Chen Ke with bright eyes, "When I read the book you wrote, I felt that you were already far-sighted. But now I realized that you were just scratching the surface. ”

Chen Ke was a little mentally prepared for such a harsh accusation, he swallowed his saliva, tried his best to make his hoarse voice feel better, and then said: "I have told everyone everything I know, and now everyone is on the same line." All we have to do is realize the world that I tell you. It's a thought I've never changed. ”

No one dared to take this sentence. Everyone looked at Chen Ke with the eyes of a monster, and then looked at each other's comrades. In the eyes of the comrades, everyone can only see extreme confusion.

"Chairman Chen, to what extent do we want to develop our productive forces?" You Yu broke the silence. As the leader of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, You Wei was really frightened by everything Chen Ke explained. There was almost hysteria in her voice.

Chen Ke nodded, "Then let me give you an example." The duckweed in a pond doubles in size every day, and the pond can be covered in 30 days. So how long does it take for this pond to be half covered? ”

The comrades almost frowned, and there were absolutely no parameters that could be calculated from the very beginning. Ren Qiying is not very good at math, but she was the first to have a flash of inspiration, and the answer was actually the twenty-ninth day. After thinking about it several times, Ren Qiying was sure that she was right. She said timidly, "Twenty-ninth day." ”

Almost all the comrades did not suddenly realize when they heard this answer, and some comrades frowned as if they were even more confused.

"That's right, it's the twenty-ninth day." Chen Ke replied, "If someone told the comrades a year ago that we could annihilate tens of thousands of Beiyang troops in a year, would you believe it? At that time, how many people did we have, and how many guns did we have? How big is our base? Compared with then, the strength of our base area has not increased by one or two times. Why are we able to do this? Can anyone tell me? ”

The comrades still did not answer, too much stimulation had taken up most of their spirits.

Chen Ke didn't have any intention of having everyone speak, and he continued: "That's because each of us has done our job. We are united under the banner of the people's revolution and march forward together for a common goal. This is not a victory for me Chen Ke alone, this is a victory for all comrades. It won't take too long, keep working on the ground, and in thirty years, thirty years will be able to achieve everything I said. The young comrades here are also 20 years old, and these 20 years seem to be a long time, but it is really just a snap of a finger. In another 20 years, everyone will think of these 20 years, and it will only be a snap of a finger. I'm saying this to you, and you're not thinking about how much it would be like if we could get to such a situation. I am glad that the comrades were not really fooled by what I said. The next few days will be our new beginning, just like before, let's keep it down-to-earth. That's all for today, class is over. ”

This is the "least intense" response in Chen Ke's previous training, but Chen Ke has no choice. Historically, the party was first and foremost composed of a group of elite "returnees". Second, the Soviet Union is the benchmark in the development of the party. No matter what happened after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the slogan "Today of the Soviet Union is our tomorrow" and the construction of the exhibition room in the Soviet Union during the revolutionary war were very effective in raising the yearning for the communist system.

However, Chen Ke absolutely does not have such conditions, and in the period when the base areas are about to be expanded on a large scale and in practice, Chen Ke cannot guarantee that the regions that have broken away from the direct control of the central government will not embark on the road of resting on their laurels. In this regard, the organizational system that Chen Ke has worked hard to strengthen has become a bad factor. If the leader does not have a high level of pursuit, building a system that can get by, the existing organization can definitely cope with it. This was a devastating blow to the revolution. The rigidity of the organization means that interest groups will soon be born, and Chen Ke absolutely does not believe that he can now have the political skills to eradicate the "mountain" in the organization.

Since you can't choose this way, the remaining choice is to "take a strong medicine". On the one hand, it gives everyone a strong stimulus in the future blueprint, and on the other hand, it begins a large-scale rectification. Interest groups will emerge no matter what, and Chen Ke can only hope to make the scale of the cake as large as possible before interest groups are formed.

In addition to the core cadres, more than a dozen of them were outstanding cadres selected from various places. Chen Ke can be regarded as having accumulated political prestige, but all of his political prestige has been exhausted in this training. Before regaining his prestige, if Chen Ke deviates in any way, these backbones will inevitably have doubts about everything Chen Ke said.

However, the revolutionary career of more than two years has given Chen Ke a kind of consciousness that to do revolution is really to devote himself wholeheartedly, and there will be absolutely no good end for looking forward to the future.

"I believe that the comrades will gradually understand me and accept everything I say." As he left the classroom, Chen Ke said to himself as if he was cheering him up.