According to the practice of the past two years, if we want to penetrate the organization deep into the grassroots and firmly control a piece of territory, the number of people who have been proven to be loyal and reliable and have a certain degree of organizational and work ability (which can basically be equivalent to the future Datong Party members) must reach at least 1 in 200 of the population of the base area (including the number of Party members in the garrison necessary to maintain order). Therefore, if the 150,000 Datong party members survive to die, they will be able to barely control one Shandong Province, and if they start with more than a dozen provinces and a population of more than 300 million at once, there will be a big problem

After Yan Fu listened to Li Hui's worries, he was first amazed at his ambition, and then felt a strong puzzle, "Dongyang, why are you so persistent in the countryside?" As long as all the cities and counties are defeated, the country will have no strength to confront you, even if you don't want to continue to follow the old path of squire autonomy, and then slowly train officials to gradually replace them! There is a limit to the speed of development, and in any case, in the next year or two, there will definitely be large tracts of land in the country that you can't control, in this case, of course, you should control the cities with greater value first, so why should you scatter your energy to the countryside? ”

"Because China's cities are all consumption-oriented cities, they can't do without the support of the countryside, and because the countryside is still dominated by the natural economy, even if you leave the city, you can still survive. Therefore, whoever controls China's rural areas will be invincible, and those cities will become isolated islands in the vast ocean, and sooner or later they will still be able to take them." Li Hui's words can be described as deafening, but while Yan Fu applauded it, he was even more puzzled

"Dongyang, what you said is very reasonable, but the county town can't take it, but it can control the vast countryside, where is there such a thing in the world?" Yan Fu's words were like lightning across the night sky, illuminating Li Hui's train of thought at once, and he realized that he had made a very low-level mistake

"I really didn't expect that if I wasn't careful, I would become a dogmatist", Li Hui suddenly realized, subconsciously knocked on his skull, and complained secretly.

It turned out that as a traverser from New China, Li Hui was inevitably influenced by the successful route in history, although in order to take the Beiyang Naval Division and the harbor as soon as possible (because using ships as vehicles for deployment was the most efficient, far more than other methods). Li Hui also helped the rebels conquer many cities and counties, and expanded and built some mines, roads, and seaports in order to make money and train soldiers, but rural work was always the top priority in his overall plan.

And now that he has been severely reinstated, Li Hui found that he had made a big mistake, "The loss of the countryside by the Artillery Party is the main reason for its defeat, but among my opponents, the Manchu regime does not go to the countryside, the great powers are outsiders, and the only ones who can seize control of the countryside are those landlords and gentry. I have plenty of time to wipe them out one by one, not to mention that even if they can really unite and block the supply of essential agricultural products such as grain and vegetables, I have a system to produce, at least in the short term, there is no problem, considering the worthless combat effectiveness of the landlord militia, this time is enough for me to send troops to defeat those rising birds to resolve the crisis."

The more Li Hui thought about it, the more he realized that he was seriously wrong; after the War of Liberation entered the stage of strategic counteroffensive in history, the great man wrote a special article saying that he should pay more attention to urban work in the future, indicating that even in the eyes of the great man who put forward the strategy of "encircling the city from the countryside," the city is more important than the rural area

Not to mention the October Revolution in the Soviet Union, although it was better than that of China, but the Tsarist Russia at that time also had the majority of the population as peasants, and as a result, the Bolsheviks succeeded in winning the revolution almost with the support of the workers in the two major cities. It shows that gaining the support of the majority of the population is not a necessary condition for the victory of the revolution, and that the contrast between the strength of the revolutionary forces and the reactionary forces can determine the key to the success of the revolution."

"In the final analysis, the reason why 'the countryside surrounded the cities' in history was only because the strength in the early stage of the revolution was too weak to take the cities, or even if they could fight them, they could not hold on, so they could only develop the countryside where the enemy's rule was weak. And now I have a strong strength far beyond the Qing army, and it is not difficult to take Beijing and Shanghai, but I still subconsciously put the countryside before the city, isn't this a dogmatic mistake? Li Hui once again made a profound summary.

Historically, before Maozi's October Revolution, the Bolsheviks had only 35,000 party members, and they were still able to quickly take over and control the two core cities, thus laying the foundation for victory.

Considering that China's total urban population was now inferior to that of World War I, and that the number of members of the Datong Party was much larger than that of the Bolsheviks before the October Revolution, Li Hui was confident that he could quickly take control of all the major cities in the country and at the same time raise a quasi-modern army of at least a few hundred thousand men.

In fact, it must be more than that, because the wealth of any country is concentrated in cities, especially in large cities, and precious metals such as gold and silver are even more so, if Li Hui can really win all the major cities in the country, the harvest is unimaginable, and then there will be biochemical troops with silver, and the speed of development can be accelerated a lot

With such strength as a foundation, there was no suspense about the final victory of the revolution, even if the Western powers wanted to intervene. If you go the proxy route, there are no available ports, so how can you send support to the opposition? If you go into battle by yourself, there are six Haitian-class ships patrolling, and the sea route is impassable; As for the land route, Maozi's Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet been completed, and if it is dead, it will send 20,000 or 30,000 people over, which is not enough for the rebel army to plug the teeth

After the Haitian was in Jianghua Bay and the Western powers began to thoroughly investigate venture capital companies, Li Hui realized that he was unlikely to continue to maintain his glory as expected, so he had long been mentally prepared for a head-on confrontation with the West