After the execution of Cai Yuanpei and others, the guys who pleaded for Cai Yuanpei all died down. In a sense, the working masses are "fickle and forgetful", and for them, they must follow the changes in society. Cai Yuanpei and others are just one of the figures in the political struggle. Without Cai Yuanpei and others, the sun would still rise in the east and set in the west. For Cai Yuanpei to delay any livelihood, it is irresponsible to himself and his family.

So after Cai Yuanpei's death, the latest hot news on the market became the news that the People's Party's silk factory in Hangzhou was recruiting a large number of workers. After more than ten days, the news of the recruitment of Hangzhou Bamboo Factory temporarily overwhelmed the news of the Silk Factory and became the content of attention on the streets.

The serious problem of unemployment in the late Qing Dynasty has always been the biggest problem in society, and the same is true for Hangzhou and even the whole of Zhejiang. It's not easy to find a decent job, so you have to rely on a lot of relationships and know a lot of top people. Like the People's Party, there are not many opportunities to sign up as a worker as long as you need to go through the household registration.

However, the People's Party built factories and recruited workers like magic. Traditional silk, bamboo, papermaking, and even young men who have changed their name to "salesmen" are starting to recruit. Those who have the strength can also go to various construction sites to be "masters".

The workers of Hangzhou were a little uneasy about accepting the beautifully printed banknotes, but the various grain stores and supply and marketing cooperatives opened by the People's Party only accepted paper money. No matter how uneasy they are, the locals in Hangzhou can only exchange gold, silver and copper coins for paper money, or go to work to earn paper money. The stomach is always hungry very quickly, and in order to survive, the working people have always shown extraordinary endurance.

When the propaganda team of the "Compulsory Education Law" beat gongs and drums in Hangzhou to carry out propaganda, the astonishment of the working masses reached a new peak. It is no longer news that the BJP has made it mandatory for children to go to school, and it is unbelievable that the compulsory education law requires adults to also receive cultural education.

"What do we do when we go to school? Be a gentleman? "Many members of the public are very excited about this. There is a greater element of joy in this mood. Everyone wants to make more money, and everyone has their own evaluation of the industry, salespeople need to know how to calculate, write, and keep accounts. These are not things that the average person can learn.

As for doctors, teachers, and nurses in hospitals and schools, this is the envy of the citizens. In a beautiful big house, the wind doesn't blow and the rain doesn't get in. Of course, these have to go through a longer period of study, have a strict apprenticeship process, and spend a lot of money on more professional knowledge education. Under the rule of the People's Party, it is exciting that these high-ranking industries have also opened their doors to ordinary people. The hot topic of discussion on the streets has become schooling and the increasingly exciting property registration work lately.

In September 1917, the hot news in Hangzhou became the election of the People's Congress. There have been parliamentary elections in Zhejiang and Hangzhou, and the news is very interesting to the local masses. In the past, Hangzhou's election candidates were extremely demanding, and ordinary people were not interested, but now the local election conditions are that Chinese citizens have the right to vote and the right to stand for election if they have a household registration.

The focus of the local discussion is who wants to sign up. After the great trial in 412 and after, the gentry in Hangzhou City were basically all finished, and there were few leading figures left. There are not so many people, and everyone is curious about what kind of election method is.

Zhou Shuren has been told more than once that everyone wants to elect him as a deputy to the National People's Congress. In Hangzhou at present, people's congress deputies are not popular at all, although they do not spend a lot of money to hold elections. But those who can afford to spend a lot of money have been killed and arrested, and the rich people who are lucky enough to escape this thing are dead or alive and refuse to show their faces again. Of course, Zhou Shuren knew that these people were going to avoid the limelight first, and then they said that Zhexi was indeed killed badly. However, in the Zhejiang parliament, those killed by Beiyang and the People's Party, including those sentenced to death in absentia, had a mortality rate of 98 percent, which was basically the same as the massacre in western Zhejiang. The Hangzhou council is slightly better, with a mortality rate of 95%. Zhou Shuren knew about the situation in his hometown of Shaoxing, a member of the Shaoxing local council, who was killed and sentenced to death, and sentenced to death in absentia, which created a 100% miracle.

With Zhou Shuren's acumen, he didn't know what to say about this situation. Do you praise the counter-revolutionaries and the revolutionaries for their firm stance and fighting spirit? Zhou Shuren couldn't say such things. However, Zhou Shuren finally refused to run for the post of Hangzhou People's Congress, not because he did not want to make trouble, but because people's congress deputies could not be government employees. As the Under Secretary for Education, Zhou Shuren is not eligible to run for election.

Just by such a thing, Zhou Shuren clearly felt that the People's Party was ready to completely weaken the attitude of the people's congress. At least in the near future, it is preparing to comprehensively weaken the functions and powers of the people's congresses. The most powerful organization in China is the People's Party, and if this organization gives up its leadership position in the National People's Congress, it will only mean one thing, and this organization is ready to weaken the People's Congress as a power apparatus in an all-round way. No one could have imagined that the BJP powerhouses would bow to the NPC.

As evidence, Zhou Shuren found that the party congress of the People's Party was extremely enthusiastic. This party representative meeting, which was held behind closed doors, had fierce internal competition that even Zhou Shuren, an outsider, felt. In order to win the qualification of the People's Party to be represented at the First Plenary Session of the Third Central Committee, even the Hangzhou region was fiercely competitive.

Zhou Shuren discussed this matter with Fan Ainong, but Fan Ainong was not so sensitive. He laughs: "There are so many jobs at the moment, what do you want to do." What will happen to participating in politics, we haven't seen enough yet? If I hadn't been a fast runner, you'd have had to go to my grave now. ”

It was very easy for Fan Ainong to say this, but it was not a joke, Zhou Shuren really didn't know how to answer, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "Ainong, I want to be a representative of the National People's Congress after resigning." ”

"What?" Fan Ainong was taken aback, "I have a good job, why do I remember to resign?" ”

"You also know that I'm just a name now, a white-collar salary. On weekdays, in addition to writing things, I still write things. It's not a long-term thing, either. Zhou Shuren replied.

Zhou Shuren said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, the Chinese Department of Hangzhou University wants to invite me to be a teacher, and now I also have an income from dramatizing." I really can't get along, and I can always eat when I go back to the hospital as a doctor. Besides, you also know that I sold all the things in my house after the land reform, so I can finally buy a house in Hangzhou. It's not always a problem to live on these two incomes. ”

"Are you ready to concentrate on writing?" Fan Ainong asked.

"Yes. This era has changed so much, and there is so much nonsense of all kinds. I was finally able to confirm that I really like to write, and that it would be better if I could strengthen the spirit of the people through writing. ”

Fan Ainong's expression became even more solemn, "We are all working under the People's Party now, you must know that the People's Party is determined to eradicate literati, so why do you choose this job on the cusp?" ”

"They want to eradicate the literati, but they don't want to eradicate the culture. Now it is because some people can't distinguish between literati and culture, and they entangle the two. Those who have the intention of writing are afraid in their hearts, and those who want to vent their dissatisfaction by writing must be talking nonsense like some time ago. Wouldn't it be good to condone those people to do wrong? At this point, someone has to step up. ”

Fan Ainong shook his head slightly, "Brother Zhou, it's right for you to say that, but it's really difficult to do. Just because the People's Party doesn't do it now doesn't mean they won't do it in the future. Do you think those literati will end well? They can't carry it on their shoulders, and it won't be long before they can't even rely on their ancestral family business. With them the way they look, do you think the BJP will make them officials? After falling like this, what do you think they can do? ”

"Because of that, don't you think there's a greater need for someone to come out and write an article?" Zhou Shuren replied.

Fan Ainong knew that he couldn't persuade Zhou Shuren anymore, and he finally said: "Then Brother Zhou is not afraid that someone will scold you for being a royal literati?" ”

For such a question, Zhou Shuren just smiled contemptuously and didn't answer at all.

Fan Ainong knew that Zhou Shuren had made up his mind, so he poured Zhou Shuren a cup of tea and stopped talking.

Since no upper echelons were willing to run for the people's congress deputies, in the end, the quota of the Hangzhou people's congress became a personnel arrangement, and most of the people elected were those who were quite capable among the laborers. Even if Zhou Shuren resigns from public office, he can be regarded as a celebrity. After a simple election, Zhou Shuren was elected as a deputy to the Zhejiang People's Congress, and after a simple election, Zhou Shuren was elected as a representative of the National People's Congress.

In December 1917, the National People's Congress was officially convened in Wuhan.

In November, the First Plenum of the Third Central Committee of the People's Party (BJP) ended. Zhou Shuren knew very well that this was a national meeting of the National People's Congress, but in fact it was an order. Sure enough, the BJP delegates at the meeting threw out a series of issues.

The national name has been established as the People's Republic of China, the national flag as the five-star red flag, the national anthem as the March of the Volunteers, and the national emblem has been determined. Even the National Day is set by the People's Party, "because China has not yet been truly reunified, the National Day is not fixed for the time being." ”

Feeling that after a series of forced to raise his hand and cast meaningless votes, Zhou Shuren deeply agreed with the resolution. The People's Party did not arrogantly consider itself to be the legitimate government of China in name, so it hastily set a day as the founding day of its own statehood. If the People's Party did such a thing, Zhou Shuren would really feel that he was really looking at the wrong object.

Among all the issues, it is said that the national flag was Chen Ke's suggestion, and the national emblem was a combination of the traditional symbol of the People's Party and the national flag. The national anthem was also made by Chen Ke. Zhou Shuren voted in favor of several other issues, but Zhou Shuren voted against it on the national flag.

This objection is not aimed at the style of the national flag, Zhou Shuren thinks the flag is very beautiful.

Zhou Shuren's dissatisfaction is not aimed at the red background of the national flag, "the national flag is dyed with the blood of martyrs", this explanation is indeed inspiring. And this is indeed a fact, without the martyrs who were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, there would not be China today.

Even the yellow five-pointed star in the visual effects about the visual effects on the "near big and far small" is not the object of Zhou Shuren's dissatisfaction. Yellow represents the color of the emperor in China, and the only thing that can match red on the national flag is yellow.

Zhou Shuren was dissatisfied with the problem of the big stars and small stars, and the explanation of the People's Party was that the small stars represented the working class, the peasant class, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie, and the four classes equally surrounded and supervised the People's Party as the leading party.

In this era, "Xiaoxing" is a metaphor, referring to a concubine. Zhang Chuanshan, a Qing Dynasty person, was one of the four great talents in Shuzhong, and he made a concubine in Suzhou, and the old and unserious Zhang Chuanshan also designed to let the concubine and Zhang Chuanshan's wife meet in the Kezhong Pavilion, and the conversation was very happy, but his wife was kept in the dark. This Zhang Chuanshan was very proud of his methods, and played the essence of the sassy people, and wrote a poem: "Tiansun Leng was laughed at by the cow, and the Milky Way revealed the little star." It means that the Weaver Girl is still waiting at the other end of the Milky Way, but the Cowherd has a concubine.

Although the BJP refers to the national flag as the five-star red flag, it avoids such frivolous arguments to a certain extent. But Zhou Shuren can guarantee that there will definitely be literati who will rise up to oppose it.

However, the opposition of a few people is meaningless, at least Zhou Shuren knows very well that in the Zhejiang People's Congress composed of laborers, none of them are from workers, peasants and soldiers who understand this metaphor. These workers, peasants, and deputies to the people's congress from the military really think that this flag is very beautiful.

Therefore, Zhou Shuren also has to reflect on his own thoughts, if he thinks that "his own vote should be a crucial vote", then Zhou Shuren has reason to think that the national flag approved by others is "uneducated" or "contains malice". However, from the perspective of the minority obeying the majority, since the final voting result was that the majority agreed with the style of the national flag, Zhou Shuren, as a deputy to the National People's Congress, had the obligation to maintain the common voting result. Even if he is unhappy in his heart, he has to admit that this national flag is the flag of China.

Whether it is about law or democracy, Zhou Shuren can't find anything to blame for the voting results. But Zhou Shuren just felt uncomfortable in his heart, and this was really a new experience for him.

In addition to this content, the people's congress, as an organ of power, really enjoys tremendous power. For example, the government's report on the work of 1917 on the work done in 1917 and the budget for 1918. All kinds of data made Zhou Shuren dizzy. What is finance, how does the government issue money, and what does the money return plan mean. Zhou Shuren found that he couldn't understand at all. This is not just a matter of professional terminology, but Zhou Shuren has no way to have a concept of the whole country.

For example, what are the newly established three northeastern provinces like? Why was the province of Rehe abolished? The People's Party has put forward a draft discussion on the purpose of abolishing provinces and establishing counties within the next 30 years. Zhou Shuren found that not to mention the whole country, even Zhejiang abolished the province to build a county, on what basis did it build a county, and how many counties did Zhejiang divide into in the end. As a native of Zhejiang, he can't understand it.

Zhou Shuren feels that the only thing he can understand is "accountability", that is, how to establish the supervision of the working masses over the government, the people's congress and other institutions. Zhou Shuren really understood. However, he was skeptical of the People's Party's "mass line", "rule of law framework", and "protection of civil servants".

The People's Party has really raised the question of "degree of cognition", that is, what is the difference between the degree of awareness of the masses of various systems, the equality advocated by the People's Party, and the equality of the people's cognition. How to deal with this discrepancy.

Zhou Shuren is quite aware of the dark side of human nature, and once he has the power in hand, he will carry out the order, which is the same for everyone. If it is an unequal society, everyone will want to stand above others, and what will be the standard for judgment. It's a very difficult thing to do.

Anyway, the people's congress session is just like that, and the people's congress deputies are more here to study. The People's Party described the appearance of one China to everyone, and everyone was dizzy to listen, set up correct or incorrect ideas, and finally voted in favor of the issues proposed by the People's Party.

Even Zhou Shuren found that when he really faced national affairs, although he wanted to implement the people's power, he could only follow the crowd in specific operations.

What all the deputies at the meeting understood was that Chen Ke was elected president of the country, and even Shang Yuan was elected prime minister, many deputies to the National People's Congress did not know who Shang Yuan was, nor did they know what the wounded had done. When everyone voted for Chen Ke, they still knew what they were doing. When voting for Shang Yuan, many people didn't know what this solemn vote meant.

After this meeting of the National People's Congress, Zhou Shuren felt that he had grown a lot. It's easy to sit in the study and criticize the affairs of the world, and if you really put the affairs of the world in front of you, these people's congress deputies don't know what it is at all.

In January 1918, after the end of the National People's Congress, as Zhou Shuren thought, the literati were extremely opposed to all strata becoming "little stars". There are boring people everywhere who come up with all sorts of ridicule.

However, Feng Xu and Shen Zengzhi, deputies to the National People's Congress, issued an article trying to refute this problem of slandering the Book of Poetry.

"Xiaoxing, three or five in the east. Su Su night march, night in the office, eunuch life is different. It is a chapter in "The Book of Songs 61 Summoning the South 61 Little Star". The two scholars believe that this refers to the feelings of a minor official.

Later, many people explained indiscriminately, thinking that the meaning of this poem was to praise the virtue of the concubine. Zheng Xuan of the Han Dynasty believed that "little stars" were many nameless stars, which were used as a metaphor for the concubines of King Zhou. Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty had a similar view: "The lady of the southern kingdom inherited the transformation of the concubine. can not be jealous to benefit his subordinates, so his concubines are like this. The concubines entered the palace, and they didn't dare to go to the stars when they saw them, and they returned when they saw the stars...... Therefore, it is said that the difference between the distinction given by the noble is that it is to obtain the favor of the lady of the king, and do not dare to complain about the diligence of the correspondence is also "profound." Therefore, Xiaoxing also referred to "concubine" in ancient times.

Feng Xu openly believes that this argument is purely a distortion caused by the thinking of the Three Principles and the Five Constants.

Although there were far more literati who opposed Feng Xu than those who supported him, Feng Xu began to try to establish his position through this incident.

The BJP has no interest in these arguments at all. The real big thing for the People's Party was the October Revolution in Russia in November 1917. Lenin led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Provisional Government and gain leadership of large cities such as Moscow, as well as a considerable territory of Russia.

The Soviets, established by the Bolsheviks, officially sent a telegram to the People's Party requesting the Chinese government to withdraw from the First World War together with Russia. The telegram said that the Soviets had officially sent emissaries to China to conduct formal negotiations with the People's Party.