On December 22, 1923, Wang Youhong knew that he was dying, and his legs were not only unable to move, but he didn't even feel it when he twisted his hands a few times. This feeling of loss of consciousness is slowly spreading down the legs to the upper part of the body. When this feeling of the chest, not even to the chest, his life will end here.

Wang Youhong felt that he was extremely lucky to die like this, and he couldn't help but give birth to the idea that his ancestors were born and grandchildren. There is no need to be tossed on the sickbed and dying, and there is no need to feel panic and restlessness for the unknowable death, just slowly feel the approach of death, and slowly savor the last time, which is a bit poetic.

But this good mood was completely destroyed after seeing Yu Chen and Zhang Jian's faces. Wang Youhong muttered in his heart, "It's really death that doesn't make people live in peace!" ”

Without Wang Youhong's family members who have worked hard all his life to mourn, and without those useless doctors listening to the bad ideas that can prolong life, if you can sit with an interesting person like Chen Ke at this time and drink tea casually and chat a few words about the sky or something, it will definitely be a great enjoyment. But Yu Chen and Zhang Jian's anxious faces, no matter how you look at it, make Wang Youhong feel that the beauty of the world has been destroyed by these guys.

Thinking of this, Wang Youhong felt that there was no need to waste the rare good situation in his life for the bad things behind him, he said: "Two, I'm going to go to the river to sit, do you want to go together?" ”

Yu Chen and Zhang Jian were stunned for a moment, this request is a bit magical, even if the scenery is good in Nanjing, winter is not the time to see the scenery. However, the two did not dare to stop Wang Youhong's request. The soldiers carried Wang Youhong into the car, and Yu Chen and Zhang Jian got into the car together.

Wang Youhong had already made efforts, and after several rounds of deliberations, the Jiangsu Parliament finally set up a temporary body for the land reform group above the governor of Jiangsu. Zhang Jian served as the team leader, and Yu Chen served as the deputy team leader. Moreover, the parliament also agreed that Yu Chen would take over Wang Youhong's position as governor of Jiangsu, and now Yu Chen is already the official governor of Jiangsu, as long as Wang Youhong returns to heaven, Yu Chen can deserve his name.

But the two people in power still looked embarrassed, and Wang Youhong couldn't help but say: "Things in the world are divided into two types: those who can do and those who can't. What can be done is also divided into two categories: acceptable cost and unacceptable cost. The two of them can do the land reform, with the support of a large group of landlords and gentry, the British and we signed a raw silk purchase agreement, and there is probably hope for the sale of raw silk in the next five years. ”

After hearing this, Yu Chen's heart felt disgusted with "seeing that people don't have a hard time carrying the burden, and they can carry the burden and break the spine". However, as soon as this resentment was born, Yu Chen's face couldn't help but blush. Wang Youhong has the grace of knowing Yu Chen, and handed over the position of governor of Jiangsu to Yu Chen, it is really not appropriate to have such an idea. In such introspection, Yu Chen finally understood how heavy the psychological pressure he was.

Yu Chen had the mentality at this time, Wang Youhong had countless times, just by looking at the subtle changes on his face, Wang Youhong could see through Yu Chen's thoughts. He smiled and said, "Yu Dudu, don't think that I will handle this matter, you can easily take over." If I don't die, how dare those people below make trouble? They don't make trouble, how can you establish your prestige. In such a troubled era, which governor is not a mountain of corpses under the position? Do you think this is the Taiping Emperor? How many Chinese and foreigners has Chen Ke led the People's Party to kill? The corpses were thrown into the Yangtze River, which could be filled in. ”

Zhang Jian couldn't help but shudder when he heard Wang Youhong talk about such a bloody topic in a calm tone. He wanted to keep silent, but Wang Youhong was about to die, and Zhang Jian couldn't help but praise, "Wang Dudu, I really obey you now." ”

Wang Youhong was not interested in these salty words, and he continued: "There is one thing I have to make clear with the two of you, oh, I have said it before, and I will say it again. You must not let the people below mess around, they are following you now, it is forced by the situation, so you must learn from the People's Party, we have seen it for so many years, the method of the People's Party is the most profitable method. You must not listen to the nonsense of the people below! ”

"Don't worry, Governor Wang!" Faced with Wang Youhong's words of such reassurance, Yu Chen's voice was a little choked.

When the car arrived at the riverside, the soldiers carried Wang Youhong down. The weather was very good, the sun was warm, Wang Youhong quietly looked at the scenery by the river, and looked at Nanjing City where he had stayed for more than 20 years. The riverside has been emptied by the army, and there seems to be only the old man Wang Youhong left in this world, the river.

A sudden feeling of dizziness made Wang Youhong's brain dizzy, and then Wang Youhong saw that all kinds of silhouettes of his life were playing around like a new movie from the People's Party, proud, frustrated, happy, sad, satisfied, regretful, all kinds of experiences no longer had strong emotions, and like the Yangtze River next to him, through Wang Youhong's body and meandering towards the unknown downstream.

"If I could do it all over again, I would really like to follow Chen Ke for a while." Wang Youhong had a word in his heart that he had always realized but never dared to say, "If that's the case......"

"Governor! Governor! It seemed that there was a shout from an extremely distant place, Wang Youhong finally heard clearly that this was Yu Chen's anxious and panicked voice, Wang Youhong couldn't help but feel a kind of anger in his heart, this mournful shout ruined his good feeling a lot.

"Don't scream!" Wang Youhong said hard, he didn't know if he really said this, but Yu Chen's shout disappeared, and the feeling from several troops in his body made Wang Youhong seem to realize that someone was holding his hand, and this feeling was not bad. Taking a breath gently, Wang Youhong said with an indescribable sense of satisfaction: "Life is so beautiful. ”

The intoxicating dizziness that had just been interrupted by the shouting came to Wang Youhong again, and in an indescribable lightness, everything Wang Youhong felt gradually dimmed, and a thick and warm darkness wrapped Wang Youhong in its entirety, and took him to some distant place.

Wang Youhong is dead.

Different from Wang Youhong's own soft feelings, the will of his master, which his body betrayed at the last moment, was programmed into the human DNA to run automatically, and in order to stimulate the last life force to fight death, Wang Youhong's face and body muscles were tightly twisted, looking extremely hideous. When Yu Chen was in Wang Youhong's body with a spasm, what he heard was "Don't scream!" "Life is beautiful." Two very unfortunate words. It wasn't until Wang Youhong's body had stiffened and his body temperature was constantly decreasing that Yu Chen realized that his chief had only left his body in this world, and that the strong man who had been in charge of Jiangsu for nearly twenty years had left this world.

An indescribable sense of panic and loss instantly opened Yu Chen's tear ducts, and he knelt beside Wang Youhong, hugged Wang Youhong's leg and cried loudly.

Wang Youhong's death stimulated Zhang Jian even more, he actually didn't like Wang Youhong at all, even now in the face of Wang Youhong's corpse, Zhang Jian dared to say so. But Zhang Jian, like Yu Chen, felt a great loss. At least for Jiangsu, an era has passed. The curtain came down on the Jiangsu era led by Wang Youhong, and for Zhang Jian, who is 70 years old this year, the impact is particularly great. Zhang Jian clearly realized that it would not be long before he would walk on the threshold that Wang Youhong had already crossed.

For Yu Chen and Zhang Jian, Wang Youhong's death has many private feelings in it. For many people, Wang Youhong's death was just a signal. Not even the next day, on the night after Wang Youhong's death, many lawmakers gathered. One of the seemingly influential parliamentarians said loudly in front of everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen! When Wang Dudu was alive, we trusted him, and if he presided over the land reform, we could still follow Wang Dudu. But what are Yu Chen and Zhang Jian? He was a cool guy more than ten years ago! In the name of a military judge, he acted arbitrarily. Zhang Jian couldn't get along in Beiyang first, and after the trade in northern Jiangsu was confiscated by the People's Party, he fled to our Jiangsu. Without Wang Dudu's kindness to take them in, these two people would not have known where they died and where they have today's status. Therefore, our parliament must not listen to them like this, and when the parliament meets tomorrow, we will re-elect the speaker! ”

"That's right! We can't let them preside over any land reform! These two people are unbelievable! ”

"Zhang Jian knew that when he mixed up with those people who did business, he was just a profiteer! How did he know the hard work of our farmers! ”

The parliamentarians shouted loudly as if they had never voted in parliament at all. These people are all more traditional landlords, or they are newly rich people who have saved some money and purchased some land over the years. In general, they live by traditional models such as collecting land rent and lending usury. Once the land reform is carried out, I am afraid that the interests of these people will suffer a lot of losses. Over the years, Jiangsu has long been rich if it knows how to do business. Now those who are still simply digging in the soil are those who can't do big business and can only rely on the land to make money.

As he was talking, there was a sudden sound of slamming the door outside. The parliamentarians were stunned, who smashed the door on this big night? As soon as the servant at the door opened the door, a group of soldiers who were fighting in open flames had already rushed in from outside. The parliamentarians stared at the gang in amazement, and these people could already see clearly that these soldiers were tax policemen.

A tax policeman at the head took out a piece of paper from his arms with a cold face and shouted: "According to the investigation, XXX, XX, XXXX, ......, you people evade taxes, and now you follow us back to be investigated!" ”

The parliamentarians were all stunned, the people who understood here had already thought clearly, Yu Chen didn't wait for these councilors to rise up to resist, and they actually struck first.

"You're so bold!" There are already hysterical shouts from parliamentarians.

Some of them shouted brightly: "We still have the status of councillors now, you can't arrest us!" It's not legal! ”

The tax police officer led by him had already prepared for this law-related issue, and he took out another official letter, "Here is the approval of the Standing Committee of the Parliament, and you have been suspended as a member of the parliament." Come with us now. ”

"You wait! You say it's an instruction, that's an instruction? Let's see! The councillor headed by Fang Cai held back his panic and shouted.

"Okay!" The tax police officer handed the letter to the councillor.

The surrounding parliamentarians gathered around to look at it, but they saw that it was indeed an official letter from the parliament, and the ink was still fresh on it, and the names of the participants were all there, and the names were stamped with the seal of the parliamentary standing committee. All indications are that the operation was indeed well planned.

The landlord is the landlord, and even if he is named a member of parliament, the essence has not changed. A person next to him knew that his gang was in a catastrophe, so he went up and grabbed the official letter and tore it up in a few handfuls.

"Huh!" The tax police officer sneered twice, "You dare to tear up the official letter with the intention of arresting?" Beat! ”

As soon as the words fell, the tax policemen had already swarmed up, picked up the sticks in their hands and began to beat the group of councillors. Professional law enforcement agencies have all practiced, and although they are ruthless, they are all inflicted internal injuries, neither a broken head nor a broken bone. One by one, the councillors were knocked to the ground and howled like pigs.

"Tie it up and take it away. The mouth is gagged, and it makes people sick to listen to them call! The tax police officer shouted.

When Wang Youhong was alive, the whole set of plans began to be implemented, and the Jiangsu National Defense Force had long been imprisoned in the barracks for intensive training, and except for those troops who were finally in the morning, all the unreliable troops were disarmed with various orders, and they were completely cut off from the outside world.

The day after the arrest of the legislators, Yu Chen, in the name of the governor of Jiangsu, began a major purge of Jiangsu's civil service system. A large number of people with political discord were purged from Jiangsu's civil service system. Some of the more appealing ones went to prison directly.

The land reform plan that had been approved by the parliament before Wang Youhong's death immediately began to be implemented, and it is one thing to arrest the people of the parliament, but it is another thing for the land reform plan to be approved by the parliament.

By mid-January, the situation in Jiangsu had finally stabilized. Yu Chen completely controlled the army, and the capital faction led by Zhang Jian also suppressed other factions in public opinion. At least the people of Jiangsu know one thing, the new governor Yu Chen is going to carry out land reform in Jiangsu, and the land reform model is more similar to the People's Party. Everyone should have land, and even tenant farmers should have the opportunity to get their own land. Moreover, it is no longer the local gentry who dominate the township, and the Jiangsu government will rely on raw silk, agriculture and other institutions to lead the production of the Jiangsu people. Even institutions such as agricultural cooperatives and agricultural banks will be fully implemented in the countryside. Jiangsu has a large proportion of yeoman farmers, and the impact of these is limited. What really excited the villagers was that Governor Yu Chen proposed to "eradicate usury, and the government bank will give low-interest loans to the people!" ”

Of course, they will envy the water conservancy facilities under the rule of the People's Party, but the land in southern Jiangsu is good, and the water conservancy construction that the People's Party has spent a lot of effort on is only to make the land in other areas as good as that in southern Jiangsu.

The most painful thing for the people of Jiangsu was the "usury" that the peasants had to bear. Nine out of thirteen returns are even very kind, donkey rolling, rolling profits, short-term three-point monthly interest. After all kinds of usury made the people who had no financial resources hard, most of the profits were taken away by usury. And if you are a little unlucky, you will have to face the situation of a broken family.

The newly appointed governor Yu Chen swore to wipe out the usury, and he won the hearts of the people of Jiangsu.

This is something that the people of Jiangsu can understand, but what the people of Jiangsu can not understand very well is the "universal suffrage" proposed by Governor Yu Chen. In other words, as long as they are registered in the new population hierarchy of the government and pay taxes to the government on time, both men and women over the age of 18 can be "citizens".

At the time of Wang Youhong's time, the "citizens" were all gentry, or at least yeoman farmers who could afford to pay taxes. Citizens can run for parliament, and once they have made laws, they do whatever they want according to the laws. Although I don't know what I can do after becoming a citizen, the people are truly supportive of such a change.

By the beginning of February 1924, the delegates of Jiangsu had finally sent a telegram to the Central Committee of the People's Party. It is hoped that the Central Committee of the People's Party will be able to discuss the issue of the central government dispatching forces to help Jiangsu carry out water conservancy construction planning.