Zhou Yisheng didn't know that there were his old acquaintances next to him, and he had only one thought in his heart at this time, he must compete with his brother Zhou Yizheng in the plowing competition. During last year's floods, the People's Party rescued his older brothers and sisters, and Zhou Yisheng joined the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army with a heartfelt attitude of repaying his gratitude. In the past six months, Zhou Yisheng, who has been a soldier, has always been a platoon commander, although he has participated in many battles, but his performance in the battle can only be described as mediocre, but his brother Zhou Yizheng, who has never been a soldier, has performed extremely eye-catching, and is now a company commander. Zhou Yisheng once asked his brother Zhou Yisheng what the reason was, and even pretended to have the courage to ask the political commissar in the army. The two men's answers were strikingly similar, "You think too much." ”

At this point, Zhou Yisheng did not deny that he was indeed more afraid of death, and every time he fought, he hoped to win with the least casualties. Of course, if the superior of the army gave an order, Zhou Yisheng would always be able to complete the order. But when Zhou Yisheng personally commanded, he couldn't help but look ahead. In contrast, his brother Zhou Yizheng is resolute and resolute, daring to fight and rush. Compared with the casualties, the casualties of Zhou Yizheng's subordinates may not be greater than Zhou Yisheng.

After the Battle of Anqing, the troops were fully transferred to rural work. Due to his strong work instructions, Zhou Yisheng also did a very good job. This time to reclaim the cotton land, Zhou Yisheng learned that his brother had signed up for the land plowing competition. He also signed up and wanted to compete with his brother in the competition.

met an acquaintance, Chang Hengfang wanted to see how capable Zhou Yisheng, a former "comrade-in-arms of the New Army" who was usually inconspicuous, so he stood by and watched. I saw the hoe waving like a small windmill in Zhou Yisheng's hand, struggling to plane, and Zhou Yisheng had already surpassed the people next to him a lot.

"It seems that Zhou Yisheng can win." Chang Hengfang couldn't help but say to Bai Wenwei beside him. Bai Wenwei didn't know Zhou Yisheng, he just casually catered to Chang Hengfang's appreciation. Then the gaze turned to the people who were working the wider land. The dark blue military uniform was mixed with the miscellaneous people's clothing, the same hoe, the same labor. Thousands of people worked in the fields in countless ranks. The hot work scene is very exciting to watch.

"The board in each field says that the ground is ploughed facing east." Bai Wenwei noticed a detail.

Chen Duxiu also noticed this detail, and he also noticed that on the other side of each plot of land were erected a board with another six words written on it: "Facing the West to Plan".

The BJP worker replied: "Yes, this is how we teach people to read." Apply. When the soldiers and civilians were digging the ground, they could see these words when they looked up. When we are resting, we will also teach you these words, and we can always remember them after many back-and-forths. ”

"But these words are simplified." Chen Duxiu asked.

"This is the standard word we are implementing in our base area, simplified Chinese. In the future, all the official documents in our base area will be simplified. To this end, we are compiling a Xinhua Dictionary. It serves as a universal dictionary for the base area. ”

"What? Are you still making dictionaries? Chen Duxiu can still grasp himself, in fact, he wants to say two dirty words to express his mood at this time. Sheng Shicai wrote a dictionary. Every time I compile a dictionary, I will make a lot of noise, and the whole world knows it. Compiling a dictionary is as simple as eating a meal. As a literati, Chen Duxiu felt that this was simply an insult.

"Hmm. It's being compiled, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it comes out. The comrades of the People's Internal Affairs Committee did not think that this was a big deal, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's go and take a look at the logistics management work now. ”

Chang Hengfang didn't have any concept of the dictionary, and since Bai Wenwei was not enthusiastic about the plowing competition, he couldn't help but ask the staff of the People's Party, "This brother, do you see who can win the plowing competition." ”

The staff looked up, Zhou Yisheng took the lead, Zhou Yizheng pulled back at least two meters behind his younger brother Zhou Yisheng, and the staff smiled: "I think Zhou Yizheng can win." Guys, let's go, the game isn't over now. ”

The BJP's logistical work seems simple, but it is nothing more than drinking water, sweat towels, and food. When Yue Wang Hui first saw this, he didn't care too much about it, but when the two thousand people started the first round of rest, they knew that the logistics were very powerful. Several large buckets of water, 2,000 people can drink a bowl for each person. In order to prevent colds and flu, let everyone wipe the sweat off their heads. This requires dozens of people to pay attention to the observation and reminder. The work of the cadres is quite conscientious and meticulous. The cadres of the Yue Wang Association are just used to shouting twice, and the rest of the things are done by the subordinates themselves. In their opinion, if they are disobedient and cause illness, it is a good way to educate, and everyone will know that it is terrible if they suffer once. In their opinion, the meticulous work style of the People's Party is simply nothing to do. Where are the people so squeamish.

There is a special water truck that brings the water and boils it in a large iron pot for boiling water. At the same time, people began to cook, and after more than three hours of drying, everyone rested and began to eat. The crowd first began to wash their hands in front of a dozen wells, and then lined up to receive food. The people of Yue Wanghui were surprised to find that the meals of the troops and the people were exactly the same as what they ate yesterday, pumpkin and potato rice mixed with rice, duck stew with cabbage, and everyone could get a duck egg.

"You give this to the soldiers?" Chang Hengfang felt incredible.

"We only have this food in our base areas now, and our People's Party stresses the unity of officers and soldiers, and everyone is the same. But these who do manual labor, duck meat is given more. For those who do not do physical labor, the ration of duck eggs is one for two days. One per meal for those who participate in manual labor. ”

After listening to the introduction of the staff, Chang Hengfang suddenly remembered that duck eggs were not given in the meals provided by the People's Party yesterday. His face was hard to look at.

The staff members who can be selected by the People's Internal Affairs Committee are extremely keen, and seeing the change in Chang Hengfang's face, the staff smiled and said: "Not only do you have no duck eggs, but Chairman Chen Ke also has no duck eggs." This is the rule of our People's Party, and the reduction of supply starts with the leading cadres. The first reduction was Chairman Chen Ke's rations. Priority is given to ensuring the food of frontline workers. ”

"That's too harsh." Bai Wenwei muttered.

"Chairman Chen Ke said that our People's Party is engaged in a people's revolution, and since it is a people's revolution, there is no reason why those who work in person cannot eat." Although the staff tried to calm their tones, they could not hide the pride and pride from the heart.

Everyone in the Yue Wang Association knows that this is the People's Party setting rules for them. However, such harsh rules are unacceptable to the hearts of the people of the Yue Wang Society. So they didn't answer, but washed their hands with the crowd, and then went to get their own meal.

The afternoon visit was mainly for the storage and dispatch of materials. Although the strict style of the People's Party system made Yue Wanghui very admired, they really didn't understand what the doorway was. The only thing these people can understand is the three words "strict management".

"Why is this reclamation only going on now? I see that other farmland has already been reclaimed, so why not let the people help the army reclaim it? Bai Wenwei was very puzzled by the fact that the People's Party had only now cultivated cotton fields.

"The farmland is cultivated by our Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army with the help of the people, so now we can reclaim the fields of the military cantonment."

Bai Wenwei was even more puzzled, "Why do you want to help the people plow the fields first?" Do you collect land endowments? ”

"Harvest three Narita endowments. However, the people only had to pay three percent of the land endowment, and the rest of the harvest was the people's own. Sancheng Tianfu has a lot, if you don't help the people plough the fields, I'm afraid that the people will be very unhappy in their hearts. ”

Bai Wenwei couldn't understand what the People's Party was thinking at this time, it stands to reason that it is natural to be a soldier to eat grain and an official to collect grain, but the People's Party, a soldier, not only has to grow grain and cotton, but the People's Party also has to worry about whether the people are happy when they collect taxes, and it is natural for the people to pay taxes, and they have not been happy for thousands of years. The People's Party has really done whatever it takes to win the hearts and minds of the people. Bai Wenwei asked, "Aren't you afraid of following your brothers when you do this?" ”

"Why are the soldiers of our troops chilling with us? Our People's Party's army is the people's soldiers, and most of the soldiers are themselves, and when they help the people farm the land, they are helping their relatives. The soldiers' parents, brothers and sisters are all in the base area, and if their relatives can complete the cultivation as soon as possible, they will have the time and strength to do more work and earn more money. Life at home is much better. What are they not happy about? Moreover, the people know that their children are in our army, and they have not eaten, drank, prostituted, gambled, or learned badly. But they really do things for the people, and they are naturally relieved to hand over their children to us. The people were also happy, and the soldiers naturally did not complain. ”

Listening to the staff's explanation, Bai Wenwei suddenly figured out one thing, the People's Party's troops are all locals. In other words, the BJP is simply a local armed force. After figuring out this section, Bai Wenwei was extremely disappointed. He originally thought that Chen Ke and the others were from other provinces, and even if they started a revolution in Anhui, they would be foreign forces. But now it is found that Chen Ke has already taken deep roots in Fengtai County, and if Chen Ke does this in the vast base areas, the People's Party will be quickly localized. Compared with Chen Ke, although Yue Wanghui was born in Anhui, compared with the People's Party led by Chen Ke, they have become out-and-out outsiders.

It is impossible to fight a war or engage in revolutionary construction, and now even the advantage of being born in Anhui has become a disadvantage. Bai Wenwei only felt that King Yue would really fail in a mess. What the staff of the People's Party said later, Bai Wenwei fell into a great frustration, and completely listened to it.

The sun began to set in the west, and Chang Hengfang remembered the matter of the plowing competition, so he urged everyone to go back and have a look. Chen Duxiu and the others had never seen thousands of people plowing the ground together, and they also wanted to see what results thousands of people could achieve in a day. When they returned to the fields of military reclamation, the people of the Yue Wanghui were stupid, and the five thousand acres of land had been planed. The ploughing competition has also entered the final moment, his brother Zhou Yizheng is far ahead, from the morning, his movements have always been so stable and powerful, every hoe down, the sharp hoe is deep into the ground. After six or seven hours of work, his movements didn't seem to change in the slightest. In addition to sweating profusely, my breathing was also a lot heavier. I can't see that Zhou Yi has been digging the ground for a day. And Zhou Yisheng sweated more, his breathing was almost disordered, in addition to being completely behind Zhou Yi just a long ridge, his movements were also completely out of shape, although the hoe was still in the wheel, and the planing to the ground could only insert a shallow layer, obviously to the point of exhaustion. Someone specially wiped the sweat and fed water for the people who were playing.

"How can it be so bad?" Chang Hengfang couldn't have imagined that the result would be like this.

The staff member of the People's Internal Affairs Committee calmly replied: "It's not that Comrade Zhou Yisheng can't do it, it's that he thinks too much. What's the use of just thinking about being better than others? The mind is full of other people, where do you have the heart to think about your own affairs. Comrade Zhou Yizheng just didn't want anything and concentrated on his own work. How much power is used to exert how much power. On the contrary, it can be outstanding. ”

As he was talking, he heard a gong sound, and it turned out that Zhou Yizheng had taken the lead in completing the work of four acres of land. He stood in front of the sign "Ploughing the ground facing the west" with his hoe in his hand, and took deep breaths according to the pattern in the military education of the army to allow his body to recover as soon as possible. The other contestants also stopped their hoes and panted one by one. Someone immediately rushed to deliver water to wipe off sweat. By this time, the troops had been assembled, and a simple commendation ceremony was held at the front of the ranks. All comrades who ploughed more than three acres of land were commended, and prizes of "four duck eggs" were given. And the top three comrades brought big red flowers in addition to the prizes. Received warm applause from all officers and soldiers.

The troops sang songs and marched back to the barracks, and the majestic song of "forward, forward, forward, our team is like the ...... of the sun" made Yue Wanghui and his party frequently turn their heads to look at the queue of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

"Dashuai, why didn't we think of developing in Huaibei at that time?" Chang Hengfang said to Chen Duxiu in a remorseful whisper.

Chen Duxiu was silent, what he saw and heard today made Chen Duxiu have an extremely unreasonable idea, this is not China, this is a completely different country. Chen Duxiu accidentally came to another world. Although he knew that this idea was ridiculous, Chen Duxiu couldn't expel this idea. It wasn't until I returned to the county seat that this strange feeling subsided a lot. Many of the people still have braids, and the familiar traditional characters on the street continue to prove that this is still an ordinary county town in China called Fengtai County.

Chen Ke still didn't meet with the people of the Yue Wang Society, and the Yue Wang Society didn't care about this matter at all. They talked all night, but they couldn't figure out what the BJP was doing. The next day, the people of the Yue Wang Association got up early in the morning again, preparing to meet Chen Ke as they did yesterday. Without waiting for them to go out, the comrades of the People's Party who accompanied them on their trip yesterday arrived, and he brought Chen Ke's order, and now he asked the cadres of the Yue Wang Association to hurry up and return the fat. It is said that Li Yuanhong is preparing to march into Hefei. Chen Ke asked King Yue to prepare the army while waiting for instructions.

As soon as they heard that the Hubei New Army was preparing to attack Hefei, the cadres of Yue Wanghui were anxious. Chen Duxiu asked Chen Ke what he was doing, and the reply he got was that Chen Ke was preparing for a military operation, and he really didn't have time to meet the people of Yue Wanghui. At this time, Chen Duxiu and the others couldn't care so much, and they hurriedly followed the comrades of the People's Party to the wharf by the Huai River. If Yue Wanghui's troops were wiped out by Li Yuanhong again, they would have no capital.

"Wen Qing, is it appropriate for you to lie to King Yue like this?" Yan Fu asked Chen Ke. The principal cadres in the base areas have all gone down to the localities, and now the only senior cadres remaining in the base areas are Chen Ke and Yan Fu, who are in charge of the education system.

"Mr. Yan, we can't rule out the possibility that Li Yuanhong is obsessed with ghosts and attacks Hefei." Chen Ke said with a smile, "And if Chen Duxiu doesn't leave, he must pull us to ask questions." Now everyone is busy like this, where is the leisure time to receive them. ”

"Chen Duxiu is also a talent, why not recruit him to our banner?" Yan Fu still hopes to pull more "celebrities" to join the People's Party.

Chen Ke disagreed, "Chen Duxiu is still following the style of the upper-class revolution, which is nothing more than the way of grasping power and then commanding the people to serve them." Our people's revolution is following the road from the bottom up, and it is fundamentally different from each other. It's all in vain. ”

"But we're short of cadres right now." Yan Fu mentioned a very real problem.

"With so many people, how can we be short of cadres?"

"Then why is literacy still the first priority in the selection of cadres?" Yan Fu asked jokingly.

"We choose cadres because they meet the standards of our cadres and are literate to assign different jobs. Literacy is a tool, not an identity. Chen Ke explained, speaking of which, he remembered something, "How is the "Xinhua Dictionary" compiled? ”

"I have probably written more than 4,000 commonly used words, but the annotations are still incomplete."

"Is Pinyin writing and side query finished?"

"I'm done with this."

Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief, "That's enough, you might as well hand it over to the students of the normal school and let them help proofread." After proofreading, show me the manuscript. When our paper mill is up and running, it's ready to be printed. ”

Seeing that Chen Ke was so anxious, Yan Fu hurriedly stopped, "Don't be in a hurry about the dictionary, if there is an omission, wouldn't it be a joke?" ”

"Jokes are jokes, and these things need to be fast. In the future, it will continue to be revised, and the dictionary will not change for generations. The key is that we need to popularize education on a large scale, and if there is no universal dictionary, it will be a huge delay. ”

Seeing that Chen Ke's attitude was so firm, Yan Fu was not ready to object. He actually had his own questions, "Wenqing, I am very puzzled by the finances in the base area. I want you to elaborate on it. ”

"Mr. Yan, one of the foundations of our revolutionary theory is labor, so the core concept of finance in the base area is that money responds to the precipitation of the products produced by labor."

"I already know this, but Wenqing's newly built bank, as well as the Ministry of Finance, I am very curious about the method of calculating currency issuance, I don't know if Wenqing can talk about it." Yan Fu was very knowledgeable, but like other scholars of this era, he was rich in theory and lacking in practice. Compared with others, Yan Fu is already quite professional. However, Yan Fu was very puzzled by Chen Ke's practice of "creating many departments out of thin air", especially the financial department of the base area created by Chen Ke, which made Yan Fu feel very magical. During the Manchu era, finances were always a big problem. The "renminbi" issued by the People's Party out of thin air is already a popular currency in Fengtai County, and Yan Fu really can't help but want to figure out this matter.