On the canal construction site, a group of young men in gray and white uniforms, who had obviously just washed their hair, were squatting on the ground holding iron lunch boxes, munching on a lunch consisting of steamed buns, mashed potatoes, vegetables, salted fish and luncheon meat.

Unlike these young people, the young man who surrounded them in the middle was tall, and even when he sat on the ground, his upright upper body was taller than the young man squatting on the ground. He ate something simpler than the young men, potatoes that had just been baked.

His eating motions didn't seem to be as ferocious as those of the young men, but because his unhurried pace was fast and at a fixed frequency. So when the young men had eaten up the lunch in their big lunch boxes, he also ate up more than a dozen fist-sized baked potatoes.

Surrounded by a group of young people at the dredging site of the Grand Canal, the person wearing a gray uniform that had been washed and whitish, was Wang Shuhui, who went to work and inspect the canal dredging site under the pseudonym of Commissar Mao.

Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Wang Shuhui, who led everyone to the pressure well sink on the edge of the canal to wash their lunch boxes and hands, sat down with everyone in the shed that served as a temporary rest place for laborers.

In the shed, everyone comfortably smoked the cigarettes given by Wang Shuhui and enjoyed the lunch break together.

A young man known as Xiao Mao has just recognized his own family with Commissar Mao. Although everyone, including Xiao Mao himself, knows that this is the name of Commissar Mao and everyone who has a closer relationship, but not only Xiao Mao, but also all the people in this team, feel that they are a lot closer to Commissar Mao, who has a lot of knowledge but is very kind.

Xiao Mao looked dry and thin, as if he was only in his teens, but in fact he was twenty years old this year. Unlike ordinary people, Xiao Mao has not been tortured by the burden of hard survival and lost his ability to think, so in this team, he is the most active and likes to ask Wang Shuhui for advice on various issues.

A person who thinks a lot has a flexible brain, and he will think more things and want to know more answers.

Xiao Mao, who was smoking a cigarette, did not work hard to feel the comfort and satisfaction of smoking after a full meal like others, but launched a new round of questions to Wang Shuhui.

"Commissar Mao, the suppression and crackdown that your Baath Party has done during this period of time is really powerful. The Cao Gang, the Yan Gang, and the people who fought in Yangzhou City were all captured and killed by your Baath Party. Even those who committed petty theft and gambling money have been dragged away by you and sent to labor camps, why do you do this? ”

The people in Yangzhou who are now working for the Baath Party are really young and old. Let's put it this way, after the Baath Party took over the city of Yangzhou, the large-scale campaign to suppress the rebellion and strike hard was only one aspect, and it was not even the main opposite. On the contrary, it is the large-scale recruitment of people in Yangzhou and the surrounding areas of Yangzhou to carry out construction is the main thing.

It has only been two months since the Baath Party arrived in Yangzhou City, but in just these two months, nearly two-thirds of the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Yangzhou City have been hired by the Baath Party and have begun to rely on the Baath Party for food.

In the Yangzhou area, where the commodity economy is developed, the small people know how difficult it is to find a master who is in charge of food and housing and pays wages and clothes in today's world. So as soon as he heard Xiao Mao say such unruly words, Xiao Mao's real family, and Mao's third father, who came out of the same village as him, immediately reprimanded:

"It's just you! That's a big deal for the official family, where is it the turn of grass people like us to care! Besides, who are the Cao Gang, the Salt Gang, and those people in the Fighting Lines? It is better to say that they are hard-working people, but it is better to say that they are bluffs who provoke people and do not bully! What's so bad about taking them away! Those people should be arrested, they deserve it! Could it be that you, this guy, still want to avenge that group of bandits! It's not like you didn't go to the sentencing meeting some time ago, how many people have been harmed by those lamas! This is God's opening of his eyes, and let the old men of the Baath Party call the shots for our small people. ”

Second Brother Feng, who was sitting next to Mao's third father, also chimed in:

"Isn't it, the bastard in our alley who bullied us and came to our house to steal things when he had nothing to do was also hanged. I watched him hanged, and I was so happy not to mention it. The people of the Ba'ath Party are all good masters like Hai Qingtian, and now we can eat the good food of the Baath Party's masters, but we can't put down our chopsticks without conscience and say bad things about the Baath Party! ”

In the feudal agrarian society, unless a breakthrough can be achieved in social status, otherwise, because of the backwardness of the feudal system, all young people will be suppressed by the elderly, regardless of whether what they think is right or not.

In Wang Shuhui's opinion, there is nothing wrong with Xiaomao's problem, but the people who jumped out to teach Xiaomao to be a man broke out one by one. Although Wang Shuhui knew that there was a certain intention in these words to slap the Ba'ath Party in front of him, the "public man" of the Ba'ath Party, he was still unhappy to see that the young people who love to think were suppressed.

In fact, this group of "elders" is not really much older than Xiao Mao, and most of them are about four or five years older than Xiao Mao at most. But the four-year-old gap made them feel that they seemed to have more truth than Xiao Mao.

Thinking of this, Wang Shuhui sighed in his heart, quickly sighed the harshness of the anti-feudal work, and then said:

"Xiao Mao's question is very good. We Baathists come from the same poor backgrounds as everyone else. We are all poor people, and we all have to be united and reasonable. Xiao Mao has a question and raises a question, and we Baath Party members must answer the question honestly and seriously. This is true not only for me, but also for other Baath people. Don't be afraid to ask questions in the future, and if you have any questions, you should ask them to the Baath Party. ”

After saying these words, Wang Shuhui threw away the cigarette he had finished smoking and said to his family:

"Everyone thinks that Xiao Mao should not speak ill of the Baath Party after eating the Ba'ath Party's food. Regardless of whether Xiao Mao said bad things about the Baath Party or not, let me ask everyone, why do you think Xiao Mao shouldn't do this? ”

The eldest Mao Sandad said:

"What's the reason for that? That's the rule. Young people have to follow the rules. ”

Wang Shuhui heard this, and then saw that everyone was subconsciously nodding in agreement, so he said with a smile:

"What Mao Sanpa's said is good. Rules are important. As long as we live, we must abide by the rules, and the so-called no rules are not a circle. On the smaller side, for example, young people should listen to older people, and as children, they should respect their elders, etc., this is the rule. In general, as ordinary people, they have to pay taxes, abide by the law, and abide by the laws and systems, which is also a rule. ”

But these rules are all made by people, as long as people have selfish thoughts, they will be selfish, and the rules formulated will be good and bad. For example, if the rent is only three floors, such a rule is a reasonable and good rule. But the rent received seven floors, and such a rule is an unreasonable bad rule. ”

"Rules are not only made by people, but they are also to be followed. In addition to the rules that are formulated to be good and bad, whether or not the rules can be followed is another issue. For example, let's levy a national tax on imperial grain. Originally, the rules formulated by the imperial court were that everyone had to pay, but the landlords and old fortunes did not pay or say anything about it, but instead spread all the imperial grain and national taxes they should pay on us poor people. For another example, it has been a rule for thousands of years to pay for killing people, but if the children of those officials kill someone and break the law, the government not only does not arrest them to pay for their lives, but if anyone is unhappy and says a few words to them, they will be arrested by the government. ”

"Therefore, the rules are good and bad, and the rules are also divided into whether everyone can abide by them."

What Wang Shuhui said was the simplest truth, and everyone could understand such a truth, so after listening to Wang Shuhui's words, everyone nodded gently.

"The question Xiao Mao just asked has something to do with who our Baath Party is and what our Baath Party wants to do."

"Our Baath Party is a revolutionary organization, and what we have to do is to make a revolution."

"What is a revolution? Revolution is the process of breaking all bad rules, eliminating all those who make these bad rules, and bringing down all those who rely on those bad rules and do not abide by any rules at all. ”

"We, the Ba'ath Party, like everyone else, are from poor backgrounds, so we have to work with you to work for the welfare and benefit of those of us who are poor. All those who bully us poor people, all those who harm us poor people, we Baath Party must rise up and beat them to the ground, and this is the essence of our Baath Party, a revolutionary party. ”

Seeing that everyone seemed to be thoughtful, Wang Shuhui continued:

"So what kind of revolution is it going to make in the end? What we have to do in the Ba'ath Party is to break the old and bad rules that are designed to bully us poor people. Then we, the poor people, will be the masters of our own affairs together, and make new rules that everyone is equal, everyone is protected, and everyone must abide by, good rules! ”

"Our Ba'ath Party is such a political party, and our Ba'ath Party wants to make such a revolution!"

So, this answers Xiao Mao's question just now. Why should we arrest all the officials who sat on the heads of us poor people and shit and urinated, officials, messengers, bandits, ruffians, hooligans, and so on. If there are serious sins, accusations, or suffering, we will hang them. If there is no accusation, there is no bitter master, and we will take them directly for hard labor. ”

"The reason why we in the Ba'ath Party do this is because we stand with all the poor brothers and sisters in the world. We want to work with you to defeat these reactionaries who have formulated bad rules, and then use them to oppress and harm our reactionaries. ”

Wang Shuhui had just come to work under the rule of the Baath Party, and the ideological and political work had only just begun, and Wang Shuhui did not expect everyone to immediately develop revolutionary consciousness. Therefore, this simple method of explaining the Baath's propaganda of the Ba'ath Party in the way that everyone wants to be the master of the Ba'ath Party is a last resort.

Fortunately, Wang Shuhui, a teacher who likes smart children, was lucky to find Xiaomao, a young man who loves to think. After listening to Wang Shuhui's words, he immediately asked:

"Commissar Mao, since your Baath Party is with us poor brothers, can I be a Baath Party?"

Wang Shuhui has only been working with everyone on the canal dredging site for about ten days, but the team leader of the team to which they belong, a soldier of the production and construction soldiers of the Fuxing Army who is also a member of the Baath Party, has been working with them for more than two months.

How capable the people of the Ba'ath Party are, how capable they are of the Baath Party of writing and calculating, how much of the Baath Party people are able to endure hardships, and the people of the Baath Party are more tired than everyone else.

Without Wang Shuhui saying anything, Mao San's father and the other workers in the shed laughed at Xiao Mao together. The specific content is mainly Xiao Mao's self-inadequacy and vain attempt to join a group like the Baath Party, which is capable and capable.

Wang Shuhui himself didn't think there was anything wrong with Xiao Mao's idea. Of course, the Baath Party cannot be compared with the great political party of the past, but in this time and space, there is no organization that can compare with the Baath Party in terms of technology, culture, ideology and theory, and the simplest and most direct practice of being close to the people.

An excellent organization is full of excellent talents, and these talents show the ability and attitude to convince everyone, in this case, it is normal for many people to want to join the organization, and it is normal for most people to be full of awe for such an organization.

So Wang Shuhui said to everyone after listening to everyone's words:

"What are the principles of our Baath Party? The principle of our Baath Party is to serve the people. How can we serve the people? This requires that everything we do, think and think for the sake of all the poor brothers in the world. Anyone who wants to join the Ba'ath Party, we in the Ba'ath Party are welcome. However, in addition to having the spirit of sacrificing for the people and being the first to endure hardships and the last to enjoy the last, joining the Baath Party must also have a strong spirit and corresponding skills and skills to serve the people. ”

Pointing to the technicians who were working on the dredging site of the Grand Canal next to him, and then pointing to the staff who were running the steam machinery and the first generation of Baath Party's experimental diesel machinery "Simple 54 Tractor", Wang Shuhui continued to say to everyone:

In other words, not only is it necessary for everyone to be literate and literate, but also to have the ability to serve the people in order to become a member of the Ba'ath Party not only to have a firm belief in serving the people, but also to have the ability to serve the people. This ability requires corresponding qualities in culture, ideology, and technology. ”

patted Xiao Mao's shoulder, Wang Shuhui said:

"Comrade Xiao Mao is a smart person, of course our Baath Party welcomes Xiao Mao's joining, but being a bandit also pays attention to a vote, Xiao Mao wants to join the Baxing Party, in addition to establishing the principle of enduring hardships in the front and enjoying in the back, and adhering to the principle of serving and sacrificing for the people, he must also meet the standards in cultural learning and technical training!"

"Xiao Mao, I think you are a very good talent, as long as you can be more serious and hard-working when you study in night school, I think you can become a member of the Renaissance Party!"

Listening to Wang Shuhui's words, not only Xiao Mao clenched his fists. Everyone is the same young man, and there are several young people in the shack who are ready to strengthen their studies in the evening school in the future.

To be a "good man" of the Baath Party who convinces and admires everyone and can support everyone is something that all young people are willing to do.