Shang Yuan has never been a person who can be easily excited, at least since the age of twenty-five, he has not been a person who is easily excited. Even during the floods, Shang Yuan did not feel frightened. But looking at the crowd in the soup kitchen in the south of the city, Shang Yuan only felt a chill running down his spine and straight to his head.

That's not because of the hundreds of people on the site, Fengtai County used to settle tens of thousands of people in the "concentration camp" during the flood. It's not that the people are unreasonable, the regular army of the insurance regiment has arrived. Everyone has experience in this kind of thing, and the venue is orderly. No one was making a fuss, the people were just queuing up to receive porridge.

What frightened Shang Yuan was the constant appearance of new victims on the porridge factory, which meant that Shang Yuan's worst expectations had become a reality. This is no longer an accidental movement of victims, but a large-scale migration of disaster victims that is beginning to take shape.

The terrible thing about flood and drought disasters is not only in the time of disaster, but also in the flow of displaced people after the disaster. In order to make a living, the victims moved around to "eat". These victims have a clear purpose, looking for food. Everyone is on the verge of starvation, so naturally they are trying their best to survive. First, they beg, and if they can't beg, they buy their sons, sell their daughters, sell their wives, and sell themselves. When you can't survive by doing so, all kinds of desperate actions will erupt. Stealing,*, or even murder and arson. So wherever the victims go, they will cause all kinds of terrible **.

The people who committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river rescued by the insurance group and Pu Guanshui are still far from being afraid of them. These people also have backbone, and they would rather commit suicide than become those outcasts. The insurance team placed them and gave them some work to do, and although these people were weak, they were at least grateful for their kindness. As long as they can work, they also feel that they are worthy of this ration, and they work very hard. But these floating victims ......, and Shang Yuan has no confidence in these people.

"Didn't Brigade Commander Chen come?" Shang Yuan asked Ren Kuroshima, who led the team this time.

"Brigade Commander Chen is arranging work and didn't come." Kuroshima replied respectfully.

"Did he say he wouldn't come?" This is what Shang Yuan is most concerned about.

"This ......, I'm sorry, I didn't ask." Hitoshi Kuroshima said apologetically.

The corners of Shang Yuan's mouth twitched, but he didn't speak. Didn't Chen Ke know how serious this matter was? Shang Yuan didn't even have any anger. In these days of revolution with Chen Ke, the two basically talked about everything. Before each action, Chen Ke would always discuss with Shang Yuan first, and at least inform the content and plan of the action. No matter how outrageous the plan may seem, it's always prepared. And Chen Ke was always able to put this plan into practice.

But this time, Chen Ke neither expected it in advance, nor did he immediately start to solve it after it happened. This made Shang Yuan feel very dissatisfied, and more importantly, the final result of this state of affairs was still far from being able to see. It's going to be a straight game-breaker. He forcibly suppressed his emotions and put his mind on the deduction of the evolution of things.

It is difficult to leave the homeland, and the people have not reached the point where they have no choice at all, and they will never choose to leave their homeland. The pattern of movement of the displaced people in the disaster area is very simple, when they leave their hometowns, their bodies are already very weak, so they often cannot go far. You can only go to the surrounding areas where the disaster is not too severe. If a region that is not too severely affected by the disaster is not able to take care of itself, where can it afford to feed so many people? As a result, the victims have overwhelmed the fragile economies of the less severely affected areas and created new ones. And the health of these new victims is much better than that of the victims in the disaster areas. can go further. They spread to other areas, and the general trend is to spread from areas with strong damage to areas with low levels. Finally a great wave was formed.

In addition to the victims in the hardest-hit areas, the new victims formed by other chain reactions are often not natural disasters, but caused by **. In fact, the anger of the people against natural disasters is often very powerless, and people cannot overcome the sky. You keep cursing God what can you do. And the people who were forced out of the disaster were angry in their chests aimed at "people". So someone raised his arms and shouted, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang could appear immediately.

After clarifying this line of thought, the fear in Shang Yuan's heart became even stronger. Fengtai County is also located in the hardest hit area, and can even be said to be in the center of the flood, Fengtai County is densely packed with rivers and many water systems. If it weren't for Chen Ke leading everyone to rescue the disaster, Fengtai County would have been completely destroyed in this flood.

Faced with the new situation of the influx of disaster victims into Fengtai County, how is Chen Ke going to deal with it? Even though Chen Ke is extremely capable and has a noble character. But even if Chen Ke is a saint, Chen Ke is still a human being. He can't sprinkle beans into soldiers. It is impossible to conjure food out of thin air. The victims didn't really know where to go. They tend to follow the others, and if Fengtai County doesn't have any food like other places, it's fine, but Fengtai County can barely survive now. According to the current situation, it is very likely that more than 200,000 or even more victims will gather in Fengtai County within a month. The victims were not local farmers, for them, the purpose of going to Fengtai County was to find food and survive. In order to survive, people have to do everything. This is bound to lead to a series of fierce conflicts. For the locals of Fengtai County, there is no reason for the victims to eat and drink here for nothing. And Fengtai County does not have so many jobs for the victims.

There are only three ways that Shang Yuan can come up with to solve the problem: first, organize an insurance group to stop the influx of victims by force. However, the victims of the disaster have left their homes in order to survive, and people dare to do anything in order to survive, and the victims must try to find ways to get food rations to survive. In order to survive, the people of Fengtai County must keep their food rations. This will inevitably lead to a terrible bloody conflict between the two sides, sowing terrible hatred. Such an outcome is far from acceptable. He was born in a large landlord family in Shangqiu, Henan, like other landlord families, Shang Yuan began to study since he was a child, and he was able to show his talents in the examination, and he was promoted in the examination.

If Shang Yuan is different from other officials who have also taken this path, it is only that Shang Yuan has a strong sense of responsibility, and he believes that he has an obligation to the country. It is a mission to serve China, to make China the most powerful country in the world, and to make China free from bullying by foreign countries. Shang Yuan firmly believes that this is his life's calling.

And because they want to protect themselves in the flood, they raise their butcher knives against the victims, and this kind of thing is still far from being possible. Shang Yuan would rather die by himself than do such a thing.

Then the second way is to ask for help from the capital city or even the provincial government. Let them support food supplies. Or guide the victims to resettle in other places. And Shang Yuan knows that this is absolutely impossible to achieve.

Shang Yuan's family is also an official eunuch. It is very clear about the officialdom that when encountering this kind of thing, even if the higher-level officials sincerely hope for disaster relief, but not to mention whether they can do such practical work, these officials who can only flatter the higher-level officials, and most of them do not even have the ability to make an overall plan to plan the disaster relief work.

Even if there is a rare official who has ideas and has the ability to control the "small officials" under him. And the Manchu Qing Dynasty itself has been completely rotten, no one does not damage the public and private, and no one does not take advantage of the government. Even if they want to mobilize now, the prefecture and provincial governments also do not have materials that can be called upon at any time. The Manchu government was completely rotten, not because of a few problems, but because of the decay of the whole.

Shang Yuan was born in the late 60s of the 19th century, growing up in the "Tongzhi Zhongxing" period, he once thought that China could get rid of the fate of being bullied, but the First Sino-Japanese War, the Gengzi Incident, China not only did not get rid of the fate of being bullied, on the contrary, it was also invaded more violently by foreign countries. While other intellectuals turned to foreign countries for comprehensive learning, Shang Yuan took a different path.

As a believer in Confucianism, Shang Yuan also worshiped under the famous teacher. Although Mr. Li Hongqi is not famous, he is a true Confucian master. Among Mr. Li's favorite Confucian classics, a passage from Mencius is extremely high. "Love is not kissing, but opposite; Governing people is not curing, but the opposite is their wisdom; The salute does not answer, but respects. Those who can't do it all turn to themselves, and their bodies are upright and the world returns to them. Poetry Yun: Yongyan is worthy of life, and he seeks more blessings. ”

"Those who can't do anything will seek it for themselves, and their bodies will return to the world." In the vernacular, that is, if the behavior does not achieve the desired effect, you should check yourself, and if you behave properly, the people of the world will naturally submit.

It is said that Shang Yuan believes that China is now in such a tattish state that learning from foreign countries and trying to replicate foreign experiences is completely misguided. As the Book of Poetry says, "Eternal words are worthy of life, and they seek more blessings." So Shang Yuan calmed down and focused on the study of traditional Chinese culture. Studying the Chinese system, the result was that Shang Yuan was completely disillusioned with the Manchus.

The current system is powerless to face various challenges, and it is willing to fall. Even if he has the ideal of saving the country and the people, in this system, being able to clean himself and not do anything wrong is already a first-class character.

Before meeting Chen Ke, Shang Yuan didn't even know where China's future was. Shang Yuan does not think that foreign things are suitable for China. Shang Yuan is not blindly xenophobic, on the contrary, Shang Yuan looks at foreign knowledge and culture from a critical perspective. Such a serious attitude made Shang Yuan feel extremely confused. What are the advantages of foreign countries? Why are they able to outperform China?

It wasn't until he met Chen Ke and engaged in a revolution with Chen Ke in Fengtai County that Shang Yuan really knew what the "power of organization" was all about. Although the People's Party is basically dominated by Chen Ke in an all-round situation, the insurance group is a complete organization after all. Not only is it the same mind, but more importantly, there is no class of "officials" in the insurance group, which is equivalent to the "leading cadres" with the "status of officials" in the Manchu bureaucracy directly engaged in the work of "minor officials" in the Manchu bureaucracy.

This result is different from the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty where responsibilities were unclear and people were superfluous. The responsibilities of the insurance group are strict, and Chen Ke is a genius in the organization of the new government. Shang Yuan sometimes even wondered if Chen Ke had ever worked in some government, or even held a high position. If this were not the case, how could Chen Ke know how the "organization" should be structured before doing things?

The Manchu bureaucracy was unreliable, and even if they really had the heart, they were powerless, and it was impossible for disaster relief to be carried out on a large scale for at least half a year. Shang Yuan knew very well that the government did not care about the life and death of the people at all, and if the rich areas around the disaster area were impacted, the government might act faster. However, Fengtai County, which is in the center of the disaster area, has been impacted, and I am afraid that many officials will secretly gloat. Since ancient times, the victims of the disaster have spread from the disaster area to the surrounding area. Now there is a situation where people are gathering in the center of the disaster area, which is what officials could not ask for.

Even hundreds of thousands of victims starved to death in Fengtai County, the center of the disaster area, or hundreds of thousands of people died in a fire with the people of Fengtai County. The bureaucracy only needs to pull Shang Yuan out to "dispose of" it and give an explanation to the world. They themselves don't have to bear any responsibility anyway. They must have laughed in their hearts.

If the first two roads do not work, then the remaining third road is what Chen Ke has repeatedly emphasized countless times -- the people's revolution! God can't be trusted, the government can't be trusted, except for relying on himself, there is no one in the world to rely on. Except for revolution, there is no way to solve these problems.

Whether it is the victims of the disaster or the people of Fengtai County, everyone should live well. This has nothing to do with natural disasters, didn't Chen Ke maintain the basic operations of Fengtai County during the natural disasters? Aren't you all struggling to survive and even see hope for next year? If the system implemented by Chen Ke can be implemented in other disaster areas, how can the people survive.

Chen Ke has always emphasized in the education of party members that the revolution is not to suddenly let everyone enter a "new life", but to gradually replace the old system with a new system. Changing the world is only the end result of a revolution, not a state that can be done suddenly. Therefore, the revolutionary road is to follow the direction pointed out by the revolutionary theory and use the new system to solve the most everyday things one by one. If you can't do this, don't talk about a more intense revolution. Chen Ke said this to Shang Yuan, and also said to other comrades.

In the course of the revolution, Chen Ke gradually showed the ability to match his theory. What Shang Yuan admires most about Chen Ke is that Chen Ke never created a revolution. Revolution is destiny, and the power of one person is insignificant compared to the whole society. Shang Yuan believes that China has fallen to such a point because of its own problems. The destiny of heaven is the people's heart, and instead of arguing all day long to beat the foreign devils out of China, it is better to really solve China's internal problems. Although Chen Ke was a revolutionary party, Chen Ke never quarreled with foreigners, but devoted himself to the liberation of the Chinese people. This is also the reason why Shang Yuan, who is extremely disgusted with a revolutionary party like Sun Yat-sen, supports Chen Ke.

And Chen Ke's "revolutionary journey" was an eye-opener for Shang Yuan. On the surface, Chen Ke is just trying to make all kinds of preparations. Gather manpower, hoard supplies, and train cadres. Relying on the manpower and material resources at hand, he will provide disaster relief in case of floods. On the one hand, disaster relief, and on the other hand, the integration of the people of Fengtai County. After the disaster relief was over, the insurance group, which had expanded violently, had the ability to suppress the landlords in Fengtai County and start production to save itself. In the process of self-help in production, Chen Ke had another opportunity to implement the new order he had formulated in Fengtai County.

Professor Chen Ke's materialist dialectics to the comrades believes that things are dialectically unified. The world is fluid, not static. Colleagues are the cause and effect of everything, and Chen Ke solves the existing problems while also preparing for the next step. This approach is the most clever. Embarked on the trend of the times.

"It is better to ask for others than for yourself." Now the people call the heavens and the earth unspiritual. Natural disasters are ruthlessly persecuting them, and since this is the case, then revolutionize. Since they all want to live, it is impossible for the people to only kill the people of Fengtai, who are also under the natural disaster. If the people are let know, it is impossible for the high-ranking officials themselves to save the people. If you let the people know that if you break the government, break the old system that supports the government, and break the old system that supports the government, you can let them live. If the people were to know that the old system would inevitably lead them to be displaced, live miserably, and die miserably. Shang Yuan believed that the people would follow the People's Party to revolution.

But as soon as this thought came together, Shang Yuan hesitated a little. If he asks himself, he does not want the revolution to turn into a "rebellion". Kill a landlord like Zhang Youliang, Shang Yuan has no pressure in his heart. persecuting the landlords of Fengtai County, Shang Yuan, as a county magistrate, can also sway freely. Anyway, he is also a county order, Baili Hou. On your own turf, it's naturally easy to do things.

However, once the revolution is pushed outside Fengtai County, it will be a real "rebellion". What could have been resolved peacefully by all means must now be promoted in the context of force. With such a military disaster, such a killing ......, Shang Yuan suddenly felt that he did not have enough confidence.

Or do you hold on like this first, and wait for Puguan water transport materials to come in? The thought came to me immediately. But after a while, Shang Yuan dismissed the idea. As the saying goes, sit and eat the mountain. How much grain there is in Fengtai County, Shang Yuan knows very well. Chen Ke wanted to Puguan Water to transport things, machinery and equipment accounted for the majority. Even if those ships were carrying food, it would still not be enough...... With the efficiency of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the food and money for this disaster relief had to be delayed for half a year when they arrived in the disaster area.

So on your own, can you do it? Shang Yuan is extremely familiar with the situation of the People's Party and the Insurance Group. The timing of the disaster victims' entry into Fengtai this time was so poor, Chen Ke had just spread out the work, the original accumulation had been exhausted, and the benefits had not yet been seen. Don't look at the insurance group making a lot of fun now, but in fact, it is the time for the most prostration. Now the insurance group has two options, the first is to shrink the existing stalls. Strive to protect the core points. But as the saying goes, it's easier to pick up than to put down. It's hard to get such a big stall, but it's not like you can put it down if you say it's going to be put down. This means a collapse of the whole.

After thinking about it, Shang Yuan felt that in addition to the crisis, it was still a crisis. There is no one way to solve these problems.

He often breathed a sigh of relief, hoping to regulate his mood. "Wen Qing, can you really come up with a way? Can you win? Shang Yuan was very worried.

In the midst of such annoyance, Shang Yuan suddenly remembered Chen Ke's words, "Revolution is not a dinner party, not a fuss, not a painting and embroidery, it can't be so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and frugal." Revolution is*, the violent action of a class to overthrow a class. ”