In February 1628, the local work conference of the Baath Party was held in the Hubei Assembly Hall in Jingmen County, which had just been completed and could be put into use.

Responsible persons of the Baath Party and government organs in various counties in Hubei arrived in Jingmen County on 1 February to attend the meeting.

After listening to the work reports of the counties over the past year, Wang Shuhui arranged the tasks of the Baath Party in the next stage of its work in Hubei at the meeting.

"Deepening the construction of state-owned farms and comprehensively carrying out the construction of five small industries is the focus of our work in the next five years."

At the central and local work conference, Wang Shuhui clearly pointed out to the responsible persons of the party and government organs in various localities the key points of work in the next stage.

In 1627, when the Ba'ath Party initially took control of the whole of Hubei Province, there were only two main tasks of the Ba'ath Party and government organs in various places. One is to carry out a severe crackdown on all kinds of criminals with the assistance of the Baath Army garrisons in various places. The other is to carry out land work, to strike at and eliminate the feudal landlords and gentry in all regions, and to completely eliminate and eliminate all kinds of reactionaries.

"The year 1627 was the year of laying the foundations. The key and difficult points of our party's local work are this year. In other words, the groundwork was completed, and the construction of the place was to be put on the agenda in 1628. ”

"I've always told you that not only must we be good at destroying an old world, but we must also be good at building a new world. The work of overthrowing and eliminating the feudal landlord class is easy to do, and it is easy to destroy the original backward system. However, it is not easy to lead the masses of the people to carry out the construction of agricultural industrialization and build industrial cities. ”

After Wang Shuhui said these words at the local work conference, he also felt a headache.

In 1627, in just one year, the Baath Party controlled the entire Hubei region and established effective rule in all counties of Hubei. However, the problem at present is that, like the feudal dynasty, the Baath Party's grassroots work in Hubei counties has not yet been effectively carried out.

However, Wang Shuhui was not prepared to completely replicate the development path of New China in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. He was not prepared to transform China in the late Ming Dynasty from the bottom up by carrying out a full-scale agrarian revolution. After establishing a crude but comprehensive industrial system, Wang Shuhui is ready to carry out a comprehensive industrialization of the entire Hubei region.

In other words, Wang Shuhui wanted to completely eliminate small-scale peasant production in Hubei by establishing state-owned farms that used industrialization for production.

From a theoretical point of view, Wang Shuhui's ambitions were much greater than those of ordinary rebels and revolutionaries. If he wanted to carry out a thorough industrialization of China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, then he would not only have to eliminate the feudal ruling class such as the landlords and gentry, but also need to transform the peasants into agricultural workers by means of agricultural industrialization, and completely eliminate the primitive and backward traditional peasants.

We can think that in 1627, with 150,000 modern armed forces and a comprehensive and systematic industrial system, Wang Shuhui had led the Baath Party to eliminate the feudal ruling class in Hubei Province. But in 1628, Wang Shuhui was to lead the Baath Party in a more difficult and complicated task throughout Hubei Province, which was to further eliminate backward traditional agriculture and industrialize the land of the whole province by means of establishing state-owned farms.

This may sound a bit shocking, but it can seem difficult to do. However, in this era of the 17th century, under the general environment of the raging climate of the Xiaoice River, when the agricultural production of the whole world entered a period of serious decline, and a large number of traditional small agricultural producers went bankrupt and flowed into society, it was still feasible to carry out agricultural industrialization in Hubei Province, with a total population of less than 7 million, with the personnel and technology currently mastered by the Baath Party, according to the level of industrial development of the Baath Party.

What is more important is that through the efforts of the Baath Party over the past nine years, at the present stage, the Jianghan Plain, where the population is most concentrated and agriculture is the most developed in Hubei, has initially realized the construction of agricultural industrialization. By 1628, more than 100 large state farms and more than 400 small and medium-sized state farms had been established in the entire Han River Plain. It basically covers more than half of the main area of the Han River Plain.

These 500-odd state-owned farms, which use mechanized means, apply modern agricultural technology, and use high-quality varieties and chemical fertilizers, produce potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rice, cotton, and other agricultural products every year, which can support the consumption of at least 1,200 people for about a year. The current industrial system of the Baath Party is fully capable of providing all kinds of steam-powered agricultural production equipment and high-quality conventional iron agricultural production tools needed for agricultural production on a scale of tens of millions of people.

If you think about it, you can also know why the nine large-scale relative iron and steel enterprises of the Baath Party distributed along the Yangtze River have been working in three shifts year after year.

The mountains of agricultural production equipment and various tools piled up in the Baath Party's large warehouses were actually prepared for the realization of agricultural industrialization in the whole of Hubei Province.

At this stage, Baath's main income is still concentrated in light industrial products. At the present stage, the Baath Party's heavy industry enterprises are still in a state of pure investment. Of course, in 1627 the Ba'ath Party also received a large amount of money in the form of confiscation of the property of the landlords and gentry.

It has to be said that the tens of thousands of landlords and their families who were hanged on the gallows and imprisoned in concentration camps for labor reform did objectively support the industrial construction work of the Baath Party.

On the whole, the work that the Baath Party is preparing to industrialize and transform the whole of Hubei has met in terms of external conditions. However, at the present stage, the Baath Party is still in a serious situation of personnel preparation. The Ba'ath Party, which has less than 30,000 members at the present stage, has a serious personnel gap in the face of the transformation of the 6 million agricultural population.

The use of the military to support local construction work is the solution pointed out by Wang Shuhui.

Of course, this use of the army to support local construction does not refer to the direct participation of the garrisons in various localities in the work of local construction, but refers to the method of using the garrisons in various localities to conduct large-scale paramilitary training and industrialization training for the population in various localities, so as to transform the 6 million agricultural population in Hubei region into production and construction.

Because of the grain production of more than 500 industrialized farms in the entire Hanjiang Plain and the comprehensive support of the Baath Party's industrial system, the task of completing the industrialization of agriculture in the entire Hubei region within three to five years and establishing supporting facilities in various localities in the process of industrial agrarianization is still very operable in theory.

Thinking of the complexity and difficulty of this work, Wang Shuhui, who presided over the central and local work conferences, also felt a deep headache.

It's not that he doesn't know that such a practice is very simple and crude. However, judging from the current situation, from the perspective of the future industrialization of China as a whole, this simple and crude approach is another method that has to be adopted.

"With the support of the central government in terms of food and materials, and with the help of local garrisons, the establishment of state farms and local industries while training the masses in industrialization step by step and in a planned manner is a great challenge and test for our Baath Party."

"I'm here to tell you the truth. As far as our party is concerned, this is the first and biggest difficulty that our party has encountered in the process of advancing. As long as we overcome this difficulty in the next five years, as long as we complete the task of agricultural industrialization and transformation of the whole of Hubei in the next five years. Then the lessons and lessons we have accumulated and the materials we have accumulated over the past five years will become the wealth and foundation for our Baath Party to liberate the whole of China and establish a new China. ”

"I want to make it clear to everyone that in the face of this daunting task, we in the Baath Party can only move forward, not backward. This work is not only a test for our Baath Party as a whole, but also for all our individual members of the Ba'ath Party. ”

"Whether it is progressive or backward, positive or negative, genuinely revolutionary or opportunistic, every member of our Baath Party will be judged in this test in an all-round way."

"Whether you have passed the test and developed and progressed together with our party, or whether you have not passed the test and have been ruthlessly eliminated by our party depends on your own efforts."