In 1631, the old county town of Zhijiang was just a very simple residential area.

The Zhijiang County Party Committee and County Government of the Baath Party are not located in the old town of Zhijiang, so there are no industrial enterprises except for various commercial shops and service industries that have been relocated from the original Dongtankou to Zhijiang County, which makes it rare for the old county town of Zhijiang County to have no industrial pollution.

Wang Shuhui has not been to the old county town of Zhijiang County for many years. The Baath Party has no arrangement in Zhijiang County, but there is a unique thing under the rule of the Baxing Party in Zhijiang County, that is, the Zhijiang County Mansion of Wang Shuhui's father-in-law, Zhu Shuzhen.

The scale of the palace is actually not large. After all, when the palace was rebuilt, Wang Shuhui only repaired it according to the actual needs of his father-in-law and his wife's uncles. As several of Zhu Weiyan's young uncles moved out of the palace, only Zhu Shuzhen and a few old men were left in the current Zhijiang Palace.

This time, Zhu Shuzhen suddenly asked people to send a telegram to Wang Shuhui to come over, and Wang Shuhui was a little strange. You must know that his father-in-law has avoided meeting with him since he found out what was going on with the Baath Party from the newspapers and radio. Although he didn't say it directly, Wang Shuhui could also see the deep jealousy in the eyes of his father-in-law.

This kind of jealousy is not the same as being frightened when he saw Wang Shuhui's decisiveness in the past, it was the jealousy of Zhu Shuzhen, a feudal nobleman with Taizu blood, for the revolutionary Wang Shuhui.

After entering the old county town of Zhijiang and arriving at his father-in-law's house, and seeing the white-faced and beardless old man who greeted him at the door of his father-in-law's house, Wang Shuhui remembered that some time ago, there was a report from the Neibao Bureau, saying that Liu Ruoyu, an old eunuch who was originally under house arrest in Jingling of the Ming Dynasty in Zhongxiang County, applied to serve Zhu Shuzhen in Zhijiang County some time ago. Wang Shuhui didn't take this matter as a big deal at the time, so he agreed.

Liu Ruoyu, who was the eunuch guarding the town of Chengtianfu, clearly understood what was going on with the Baath Party and what kind of person Wang Shuhui, the so-called royal guest of honor, was in the process of transforming and building the entire Hubei base area by the Baxing Party.

After all the armed forces in Chengtianfu, including the Ming army of Jinglingwei, were also transformed into agricultural workers at Zhongxiang Farm, Liu Ruoyu was ordered to take charge of the sanitation of the Jingling "Scenic Area".

At this time, Liu Ruoyu completely understood that Wang Shuhui, who was afraid of following in the footsteps of his predecessor and dealing with it carefully, was a figure who wanted to turn the world of the Ming Dynasty upside down.

At the beginning, Liu Ruoyu thought that this might be the same farce as the "Ningwang Rebellion" when Emperor Wuzong was in the past. However, after observing several criticism meetings, visiting the construction scene of local farms and the military training of farm workers, Liu Ruoyu gradually realized that the chaos that Wang Shuhui was about to make was not necessarily the "Ning Wang Rebellion", but a bit of a "Battle of Jingjing".

In the place where people eat people in the inner court of the Ming Dynasty, step by step from a low-level sprinkler to a senior clerk in the inner duty room, he was able to survive Wei Zhongxian's cleaning of the inner house, and finally found a place to guard the senior position of the eunuch to retire, Liu Ruoyu, the old eunuch, still has the eyesight. Don't look at him as just a eunuch, but after staying in Da Nei for decades, he obviously felt that the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty were declining step by step, and it was getting worse and worse.

Not to mention anything else, just when he was sorting out the paperwork in the internal duty room, he saw how many disasters and chaos in various places. After thinking about this problem, Liu Ruoyu felt that taking refuge in Wang Shuhui's father-in-law was his only choice. After all, he had already roughly realized that there seemed to be no place for a person like him in the Ba'ath Party.

When he saw a strange old man kowtowing to himself seriously, Wang Shuhui remembered that this old eunuch was not simple. This person is famous in the history of later generations for a historical document that records the court system and deeds of the Ming Dynasty. Basically, anyone who studies the history of the Ming Dynasty knows that there was such an old eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Although I don't quite understand why this senior eunuch who has been up and down in the inner court of the Ming Dynasty and even mixed in the celebrant eunuch so solemnly saluted him, out of respect for the elderly, Wang Shuhui still helped him up with his own hands.

"Our Baath Party doesn't pay attention to this set, so Mr. Liu should not be so polite. What is the matter with my father-in-law coming to me this time, you are the one who takes care of him, do you know what's going on? ”

Liu Ruoyu is a person who has been in Da Nei for a long time, although in his eyes Wang Shuhui is likely to be the new emperor of the next dynasty, but he is still very ethical and does not talk much, but says that he is a slave and a servant, and does not dare to participate in the affairs of nobles.

Wang Shuhui is a little sensitive to the word noble. However, for an old eunuch who was full of feudal thoughts, he didn't mean to pursue him.

The reason why Zhu Shuzhen came to Wang Shuhui is actually very simple. He visited the teahouse and bathhouse every day, and had already learned enough information from the radio and newspapers. The Ba'ath Party wanted to go north, and the Ba'ath Party had no scruples about this and publicized it to all the masses in the radio and newspapers.

At present, the news that the Baath Party wants to go north to the Central Plains to save the tens of millions of people who are in dire straits in the reactionaries' war for hegemony is a matter that everyone in the Hubei base area knows. How miserable the life of the people of the Central Plains is, and how evil the reactionaries' unjust war for hegemony is, everyone can now say it with their mouths.

It's just that unlike young people, who are actively responding and are concerned about whether the tasks of the factory will increase because of the expansion of the territory, and they can get more wages and bonuses, or be directly transferred to the new factory to the next level, most people of a certain age are not very concerned about this.

The habit of the masses participating in politics and the people's participation in major state affairs has not yet been formed. This is where the Baath Party's difficulties in implementing the people's democratic system lie.

However, unlike ordinary people, as a member of the feudal ruling class and as the direct beneficiary of the Ming Dynasty's inheritance for thousands of generations, Wang Shuhui's father-in-law, Zhu Shuzhen, couldn't sit still after clarifying the news.

His son-in-law wants to destroy the Ming Dynasty, or his son-in-law wants to pick up the "leakage" of the Ming Dynasty (in Zhu Shuzhen's opinion), Zhu Shuzhen feels that as the dragon son and grandson of Emperor Taizu, he should show an attitude towards his son-in-law.

Wang Shuhui didn't think there was anything abnormal about the demise of the Ming Dynasty at all. So when he heard his father-in-law talking nonsense about "the orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty" in a chariot, his feeling was very absurd.

Seeing that Wang Shuhui didn't think so, Zhu Shuzhen began to quote the saliva of the old literati in the Counselors' Council again, pretending to be compassionate and compassionate, and said something like "how innocent are the people".

Hearing this, Wang Shuhui unconsciously remembered a passage from Old Man Ma's words:

"Thus came feudal socialism, half elegy, half slander; Half echoes of the past, half intimidation of the future; It can sometimes pierce the heart of the bourgeoisie with spicy, playful and snarky comments, but it is always laughable because of its complete inability to understand the course of modern history. ”

"In order to win over the people, the aristocracy waved the proletarian begging bag as a banner. But whenever the people followed them, they found that they had the old feudal coat of arms on their hips, so they laughed and scattered. ”

There are three main attitudes of the "non-nationals" under the Baath Party on the matter of the Baath Party going north to take over North China.

The first is those who have become industrial capitalists in the process of industrialization, either actively or passively, and are considered to be "progressive" landlords. These people were mainly concentrated in some of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River merchant groups under the leadership and organization of the Fuxing Trading Company, such as the Zhijiang Business Alliance, the Qin Merchant Group, and the Wuchang Business Group.

The vast majority of them are very optimistic about the Ba'ath Party. After all, under the leadership of the Renaissance Trading Company, they were fully aware of the strength of the armed forces of the Renaissance Army. Many of them were directly involved in the Baath Party's foreign trade.

Moreover, because of the Ba'ath Party's policy of "promoting commercial development and market prosperity, comprehensively opening up the retail and service industries to invigorate the economy, and promoting and supporting the development of the non-public sector of the light industry," although they were reluctantly or pretended to be deprived of their ownership of land by the Ba'ath Party, all kinds of shops, restaurants, teahouses, inns, and so on operated by them were supported and protected by the Ba'ath Party. The light industrial enterprises such as textile mills, silk mills, paper mills, and food factories that they run also received direct technical and financial support from the Baath Party.

Although the Baath Party's policy of minimum wage and protection of workers' rights and interests made them quite uncomfortable, although because of the preferential treatment of workers in Baath enterprises, they had to give enough benefits to their workers to ensure that there would be no mass loss of workers. However, they can still clearly understand the basic fact that there is meat to eat in industry with the Baath Party.

Under Baath rule, these people did not have any political rights. But in terms of economic gains, they are full of money. Even with the Revival Trading Company of the Ba'ath Party, they can still make the money of those overseas barbarians. They are quite satisfied with this.

Most of these people were small and medium-sized businessmen who had no background and were often exploited under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Under the Ba'ath Party, they also had no political rights, but they were content with the Baath Party's guarantee of the safety of their property.

Therefore, for them, their interests are closely integrated with Fuxing Trading Company. Therefore, they are quite enthusiastic about the Baath Party's further expansion of territory and control of the whole of North China, because they can further expand their industries with the expansion of the Baath Party.

Of course, some of them are older and think about the same as the second group. That is, some ordinary scholars who "escaped" in the Baath Party's agrarian revolution and base area transformation, because they had no bad deeds and relied on their own labor to make a living. It mainly includes some feudal scholars such as children and students in various prefectures and counties in Hubei.

It is true that the Ba'ath Party is anti-feudal, and it is not false that the Ba'ath Party uses very violent means to oppose feudalism, but everything the Ba'ath Party does is based on evidence and action. In the course of the Ba'ath Party's revolution, these people did not clearly express their reactionary stance, hid their thoughts and ideas, did not shout everywhere, did not make any counter-revolutionary moves, and the Baath Party could not have cleaned them up on "trumped-up" charges.

Under the Ba'ath Party, most of these people worked in some private enterprises as bookkeepers, treasurers, or stewards, and made a living by serving private industrial and commercial owners. (Because no unit of the Ba'ath Party will use these people.) ）

In the eyes of these people, what the Baath Party is doing is a great rebellion. These ordinary people under the rule of the Ba'ath Party, those high-spirited mud legs, are all anti-people in the imperial court, and they are all bastards who want to be killed.

On the one hand, they hoped that the imperial army would be able to sweep away Huanyu and clean up these chaotic parties in Hubei, but on the other hand, they were afraid that the imperial army's army would really come, and "good people" like themselves would be burned with jade. On the one hand, they were secretly happy that Baath had lived a better and more stable life under Ba'ath rule, and on the other hand, they were indignant that they had been deprived of all political status and privileges under Ba'ath rule.

In general, their group is very conflicted in their hearts.

The third type of people are the dozens of old literati with less than 100 people in the Baath Party Counselors' Committee, headed by Gu Junen, Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing.

They are supportive of the Baath Party's northward march and are very enthusiastic. But they are very dissatisfied with their position in the Ba'ath Party. Wang Shuhui and the Baath Party regarded them as a bridge and tool to deal with the relationship with the feudal elements, but they positioned themselves in the position of discerning people and heroes from the founding of the country.

Without their place in the Ba'ath system, they cannot expand their power and influence no matter how much they drill, and it is difficult to find any allies in the Ba'ath Party to form any forces. This is why they tirelessly camped beside Zhu Shuzhen and Zhu Weiyan when they were repeatedly cleaned up by Wang Shuhui.

From the bottom of their hearts, they hoped that they would be able to ride the east wind of the Baath Party's people's revolution and realize their dream of being literati in white clothes.

What they don't understand is that the backward ideology of the feudal agrarian society in their heads is completely incapable of adapting to the social structure and organizational form of the industrial society under the leadership of Wang Shuhui. The relationship between the two is completely incompatible. If they hadn't played a certain role now, Wang Shuhui would have cleaned them up a long time ago.

So when he heard that his father-in-law was still talking nonsense, Wang Shuhui began to shift his spirit and observed the arrangement of his father-in-law's house.

Wang Shuhui hadn't entered this so-called palace for about six or seven years. For this so-called Zhijiang Palace, Wang Shuhui used an attitude of paying for his own father-in-law. So in the past ten years, this big house equipped with advanced heating facilities, lighting facilities and various modern living facilities has been maintained quite well.

Next to an ore radio is a neatly organized newspaper rack.

It seems that his father-in-law is still very concerned about current affairs