Yao Hongwen really didn't choose to stay in the base area. When Chen Ke asked Yao Hongwen whether he wanted to continue prospecting or to serve as a messenger, Yao Hongwen did not hesitate to choose the task of handing over the letter to the Alliance. He sincerely hoped to be able to do the "big thing" of delivering letters. Since Yao Hongwen would rather be a "postman", Chen Ke did not force Yao Hongwen. Chen Ke also had this mentality, thinking that he had participated in a "big event" and undertook one of the "links", and then he was complacent. In fact, honestly doing the job of a mining school is a more promising job in both the long and short term, and it can even be said to be a very decent job. But when Chen Ke was young, he would always choose things that seemed to be "glorious", but were actually meaningless.

Maybe it's because of the change in mentality, Chen Ke can't remember why he was so stupid back then. Maybe it's because he's no longer the same Chen Ke he used to be, so he can't reshape the way he thought back then. The only thing I can still remember is that Chen Ke himself was lazy at that time, and his hard study was too time-consuming, and what Chen Ke wanted to do was to stand in that ethereal light, and he was absolutely unwilling to do things in a down-to-earth manner.

Before sending Yao Hongwen away, Chen Ke had already sent an intelligence officer to send another letter to the Liberation Society. At the same time as the intelligence officers, there were also letters of notification to the senior cadres of various key departments in the base areas. After dealing with all this, Chen Ke began to deal with the prospecting problem.

Chen Ke has not been exposed to prospecting, and all he knows is some information he has seen from the news and profiles. The impression left on Chen Ke by Chinese prospectors is that of two words: "hard work". I run outside all day long, and I don't come home for many years. Chen Ke's family knew two students of Li Siguang, who were never married and dedicated everything to prospecting. As a high-level expert in prospecting, he ended up unmarried for life, which shows how hard his work is.

Mr. Li Siguang is not only a scholar with excellent practical ability, Chen Ke also has the impression that he has put forward many theories that are in line with the actual characteristics of China's minerals. Chen Ke did not know any of this theoretical knowledge, and there was only one discussion on the characteristics of China's mining industry at the forum.

Faced with the students of the mining school and the soldiers of the prospecting unit selected by Chen Ke, Chen Ke published the first exposition on mining knowledge in his life. "Students, we all know that China has a long history. One of the historical results is that many minerals that are easy to mine in the shallow surface have long been exhausted. Most of what is left on the surface today are minerals that were not easily exploited by smelting technology and smelting processes at that time. Therefore, you can imagine the level of hard work. You have to mine underground. You have to travel all year round in the mountains that are inaccessible, and this is the reality that prospectors face. Are you mentally prepared for this? ”

The officers and men of the prospecting unit replied in unison, "We are prepared for this!" ”

Chen Ke nodded with satisfaction, after all, he is a comrade in the army, and the organizational discipline is different. The prospecting force was organized two months ago, and Chen Ke's map marked the Lujiang Longqiao area as a mining area, and the force had already begun to try to drill for veins in the area. Chen Ke's science and education film in Antarctica, and I have also seen the mode of drilling ice in the movie "2012". The drilling equipment is a power-driven Luoyang shovel, and it feels that there may be a vein underground in a certain area, so it begins to drill down to analyze the rock formations taken out. If you're lucky, start drilling nearby. until the location size of the vein is determined.

Chen Ke felt that this required special equipment, as well as very wear-resistant drilling bits. These high-tech equipment are now not available in the ground, and they can only rely on the way of digging holes. It is impossible to dig a hole straight up and down, not to mention anything else, there is no ventilation equipment, and it is impossible to drill a hole of no size, and the drillers can suffocate to death when they go down to a depth of tens of meters. The People's Party has experience in excavating coal mines, but not in metal mines. The general prospecting mode is to find a mountain that may have ore veins, according to the scientific or unscientific model, I think there may be drama here, and then find a place where there are more places at the foot of the mountain to dig down obliquely, use beams to support the pit wall of the tunnel, and keep digging and digging until the ore veins are dug or decided not to continue digging down.

Prospecting is a big investment, and the geology is complex. God knows if you dig directly into the geological aquifer. The geological aquifer is an area similar to the source of the well water, and if you dig such a place, you can only think that you are unlucky, and the water will roll out and completely submerge the mine. Either wait for the water to run dry, then drain the water that has accumulated in the mine and continue digging. Either the only way to do this is to relocate and excavate a new tunnel. In the past, Chen Ke didn't know how risky prospecting was, he just combined scattered knowledge with mining disaster news, and he could imagine why it was said that if prospecting was successful, it would become a huge fortune, and after the prospecting failed, it would be bankrupt immediately.

Whether the People's Party is "rich" or not is at this time the advantages are revealed. The most feared thing for prospectors is that they can't find out the mine, and the second is that after the mine is discovered, the mineral will be taken away by others. So to dredge up the relationship, to have an armed force. There are also many interests involved. These costs are too huge for ordinary businessmen to bear.

The base areas are different, because they hold political power, financial power, and powerful armed forces. Only the possibility of the BJP exterminating other mine owners and local forces, if other forces do not want to rob the BJP of minerals, then the BJP does not care about killing chickens and monkeys. The enormous power of this unification guarantees the minimization of internal attrition.

Chen Ke was really determined to do this, and no one in the base area dared to disobey the order. Moreover, the labor force in the base area is cheap, and all kinds of materials belong to the unified plan, and will not be increased in price during the purchase process. The calculation formula of the accounting is almost simplified to the extent of "food = labor". Without saying a word, Chen Ke ordered to open a hole at a 15-degree angle, and a tunnel more than 90 meters deep was opened in two months. Chen Ke also spared no expense to provide a gas internal combustion engine as a power for ventilation equipment. In the past two months, in addition to not knowing what the ore looks like like like Chen Ke, the prospecting team has a certain level of blasting drilling to detect the mine. The various stones dug up were piled up. And luckily, I didn't dig up the aquifer.

The students at the mining schools don't have that kind of experience, and most of them are at a loss. The students never thought about working in the field, and for them, prospecting was all about seeing and learning at school. Traveling in the mountains for many years is simply beyond the imagination of the students.

In the face of this group of confused students, Chen Ke's eyes fell on Cheng Xuhu and Ling Huguang. In the exam designed by Chen Ke, these two people were indeed as Chen Ke expected, and their scores ranked in the top two. Cheng Xuhu's score is even higher than that of Ling Huguang. The content of the exam is simple, it is the identification of ores, and the question and answer questions about the properties of metals. Only these two people recognized all the ore specimens they were carrying, and only these two people did not have a blank look on their faces. Cheng Xuhu had a worried look, and Ling Huguang had an indifferent expression.

Chen Ke was not prepared to stir up the enthusiasm of the students, and the ideological work was carried out by the political commissar of the prospecting unit. What Chen Ke has to do is explain the content of the work. "I'm not asking you to come up with any mineral theory for me now, I'm asking you to identify the ore for me. The hardest part of prospecting is figuring out where the veins are, and I now know where some of them are. What you have to do is to find out the depth of these veins, the composition of each section of the veins. Prospecting requires blasting, drilling, drilling and collecting samples. We have a special blasting team to complete these tasks, and students need to learn this knowledge on the job, and analyze samples. I've read all of this knowledge in textbooks. In addition to analyzing the samples, you also have to collect specimens, which is a delicate and tedious job, and it is also an honorable job. Please do a good job. ”

There was no one to speak among the students, and Chen Ke's purposeful imperative reprimand put a lot of pressure on the students. Ling Huguang plucked up the courage to ask, "Chairman Chen, how long are we going to work?" ”

"I'm going to work for five years." Chen Ke replied without thinking.

Ling Huguang hurriedly said: "But the contract between the school and us only says that we will prospect for three years. ”

"You don't have to go back to school from now on, just work in the army. That adds up to about five years. "Chen Ke has read the syllabus, and the students have been studying for three years. Now it's just over a year of studying, and the remaining year or so adds up to almost five years with a three-year contract.

Hearing this answer, Ling Huguang was silent.

"Today the troops will prepare, and tomorrow everyone will set off." Chen Ke made this summary.

There is a unit responsible for commanding the students, and Chen Ke is very relieved. In fact, the prospecting troops do not need to go to the deep mountains and old forests at all, they can just prospect near the Lujiang River.

After solving the problem of the prospecting team, Chen Ke felt that a big stone had been laid down in his heart, and he began to discuss with the Military Commission the military deployment in the Anqing area and the work arrangements for the troops to enter the Dabie Mountains. Many members of the army are still visiting relatives, so the military conference is not only a strategic deployment, but also includes a short-term training course. All military units, from junior to senior cadres, should conduct targeted training. This training is expected to take two weeks.

Three days after the prospecting team set out, they sent people back in a hurry to report that the pyrite veins had been dug up at 92 meters of the prospecting hole opened by the prospecting team in the past two months. Hearing the news, Chen Ke didn't know what to say. The report was reported by the vice-captain of the prospecting team, who had been ecstatic about it, but the excitement of running all the way down the road had also worn out. Now the vice-captain is occupied by a feeling of being overwhelmed. The students took the ore specimen and compared it, and roughly determined that it was pyrite. However, the mine is not very big, how big the entire ore vein is, where it extends, and what the content is, the students are confused, and the cadres and soldiers of the prospecting unit are also confused. The strangest thing for them was how Chairman Chen Ke knew that there were veins there.

The cadres of the People's Party would make full preparations before the report, and although everyone was pleasantly surprised and felt that they had to report the good news to Chairman Chen Ke, they did not know how to proceed after the good news. How to build an iron ore mine, Chen Ke didn't understand. The People's Party has experience in digging coal mines, but the hardness of coal is low, and shovels can deal with it. Pyrite is much harder than coal, and Chen Ke doesn't know how to break up and transport these iron ores out.

Chen Ke couldn't let his comrades wait, he calmed down and said to the deputy captain: "Everyone continue to prospect first, don't relax." To check the information, the books provided by the mining school this time are the source of our knowledge. Organizationally, we will go to Daye Iron Mine to get some technicians, don't worry too much, there will be a way. ”

After finishing speaking, Chen Ke asked the deputy captain to take away all the prospecting books and organize the troops to study by themselves. He felt that it was not enough, so he asked him to go to Fengtai County to transfer some chemistry teachers and coal mine technicians to study together.

After the deputy captain left, the comrades of the Military Commission present were at a loss one by one. Hua Xiongmao looked at Chen Ke's frowning brows and asked, "Chairman Chen, can we make iron by ourselves?" ”

"Far from it. I didn't know anything about prospecting, and I had to rely on the efforts of my comrades themselves. Chen Ke told the truth.

If even Chen Ke is not clear about a question, the comrades will not be able to be optimistic. Hua Xiongmao, who originally wanted to join in the fun, stopped talking. Other comrades did not dare to make a mistake.

Chen Ke knocked on the table, "Don't think about this problem, let's continue to talk about the defensive deployment in the Anqing area." ”

After Anqing fell into the hands of the People's Party again, the opinions of the Central Military Commission were unexpectedly unanimous, and Anqing was too tricky, so it was better to give up. But since the last time Yue Wang was driven away by the Hubei New Army, he has already stinked the streets in Anqing. If Anqing is handed over to the Yue Wang Hui again, not to mention that the Yue Wang Hui will definitely be completely destroyed, and the People's Party will also be implicated this time.

Chen Ke came up with the idea of simply holding an election in Anqing to elect his own local government. But Chen Ke also expressed his concerns, and he could not predict whether this "local government" could be established and how long it would last. Including Chen Ke, they all hoped that Anqing would become a place to consume the Manchu army, and if the Manchus had the idea of never giving up if they did not occupy Anqing, it would be a good thing. The problem is that looking around the area, I didn't find a single Qing soldier with such courage.

Needless to say, the Hubei New Army now has only 10,000 people left, and they are already terrified when defending Wuhan, and it is absolutely impossible for them to leave Anqing. The Jiangnan New Army is now being troubled by the Liberation Society in the south. It would be good that the Jiangnan New Army could now maintain law and order in Jinling. If the new army wants to be in Anqing, it must first defeat the Anhui base area.

Although Chen Ke hoped that the comrades could come up with a good solution, the result of the discussion was still to launch the Anqing local elections first, and you would have to come up with a "maintenance committee" to maintain the normal operation of Anqing. The troops of the 1st and 4th regiments occupied occupied the city of Anqing spent a whole month cleaning up the garbage in Anqing City. Since there was no landfill technology in this era, according to the report of Anqing's garbage cleanup, the outer half of the Yangtze River in Anqing was full of all kinds of garbage dumped into it.

It is impossible for the army to clean up the garbage without any problems, but the new government has no money to hire cleaners. The cost of occupying a city and keeping it running is no small amount. When politics and economics were mixed together, Chen Ke did not dare to make a judgment easily. This problem dragged on and on, and there was no final solution for three days of talks.

The other comrades could not participate in the discussion because they did not understand. Hua Xiongmao knows more, and his troubles are actually no less than Chen Ke. Chen Ke felt that he could not delay any longer, and he proposed to have a final vote. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the vote was voted. The hot potato is solved first. Just before the vote, Zhang Yu, who had not spoken much, suddenly said: "Chairman Chen, I want to go to Anqing to preside over the work." ”

The comrades of the Military Commission were all shocked when they heard this, Zhang Yu actually had such courage.

"How many people do you want?" Hua Xiongmao asked eagerly. What he wanted most was to get the troop vehicle back.

Zhang Yu said, "One battalion is enough." ”

Chen Ke didn't think much about it, "Comrade Zhang Yu, you and I will talk alone after the meeting." ”

The People's Party is in action, and Yao Hongwen is also in a hurry, and he wants to rush back to Shanghai as soon as possible. Yao Hongwen knew Sun Yat-sen when he was in Japan, but he didn't have the opportunity to talk about revolution with Sun Yat-sen. On weekdays, Dr. Sun Yat-sen either took his Japanese concubines around to contact Japanese officials and wealthy people, or talked about the revolution with the leaders of the Chinese revolution in Japan, but in fact he did not have much time to discuss the specific steps of the revolution in depth with ordinary international students.

The People's Party's successive military victories made the League very excited, but when asked who the BJP leader was, it was not clear who the League was. Although Cai Yuanpei, the leader of the Restoration Society, has been inclined to the Alliance, the backbone of the Restoration Society in charge of specific revolutionary work has a tendency to run counter to Cai Yuanpei. The League also asked Cai Yuanpei what kind of organization the People's Party was. Except that the leader of the People's Party was a student named Chen Ke, Cai Yuanpei had no other information to offer.

After a lot of inquiry, the alliance gathered a little bit of information. For example, the leader of the People's Party was actually Yan Fu and Yan Fu's disciple Chen Ke, who did not join the People's Party. There are also bits and pieces of news. Despite the fact that the People's Party already had a huge military presence in Anhui, the League could not find a way to establish ties with the People's Party. This was a huge surprise to the Alliance. So they contacted Yao Hongwen.

As soon as Yao Hongwen returned to Shanghai, he learned a piece of news. The Liberation Society announced its disengagement from the Alliance.

The purpose of the Liberation Society is very similar to the content of the China League's "expelling the Tatars and restoring China," which shows that the two are identical in their anti-Manchu stance. "The Liberation and the Alliance are inconsistent, and the purpose is not very different, and they are all committed to the racial revolution", so when the League was founded, some of the Liberation members in Tokyo, Japan, joined the League.

However, the political platform of the League also contains the content of "equalizing land rights and establishing the Republic of China", which is the key to the fact that the League is different from the old-style party and has become a modern political group. The revolutionaries, led by Sun Yat-sen, advocated the establishment of a bourgeois democratic republic in China after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. On this point, the Liberation Council does not agree. The Guangfuhui advocated the restoration of the Han dynasty and the establishment of a regime ruled by the Han people. Xu Xilin, Tao Chengzhang and even Zhang Taiyan all have different degrees of imperial thought. Tao Chengzhang said: One of the leaders of the Liberation Society: Cai Yuanpei

"A revolution is a rebellion,...... change of dynasty". Zhang Taiyan believes in "The Theory of Deputy" that "the emperor alone governs, which is better than the constitution, and there is nothing wrong with it." On the question of the purpose of the revolution, there were serious differences and antagonisms between the Liberation Society and the League. In addition, in terms of the way the revolution works, the Liberation Society advocates that "in addition to propagating the revolution, the main thing is the power and implementation of the revolution", and that "democratic politics can only be implemented after taking power by violence". He did not agree that "although the League also attaches great importance to armed revolution, its leaders are mostly abroad, and there is more propaganda than practice."

Due to the difference in the purpose of the Alliance, "it is difficult to bridge the gaps", and soon the Liberation Society withdrew from the Alliance, and still carried out its activities on its own in the name of the Liberation Society.