Comrade Zhang Kegong, chief of the Jinta County Police Department in Gansu Province, said that his official fortunes were good or bad, and he was not bad when he said that he was bad. He was originally a worker in the Anyuan Coal Mine in Jiangxi, and when Mao ZD went to Anyuan to carry out revolutionary activities in 1918, he was developed into a GCD member, and he was considered an old qualification in the party. Later, he followed Mao ZD and Zhou E to fight in the south and the north, and finally pacified the entire northwest, which can be regarded as meritorious. But because I didn't go to school and didn't know a few words, I didn't get much use. After Xinjiang was pacified, he was arranged to be the police chief in Jinta, a small county in Hexi, and he worked for several years, and there was no sign of promotion, and it seemed that he was going to stay in this position for the rest of his life.

Zhang Kegong has no complaints about this, after all, he is a miner, so why not be satisfied with the errand of a county police chief? Although the county is small and poor, there is no oil or water at all, and there are no dozens of people in the entire county police station. However, the title of the county police chief is still there, and now the officials of the Republic of China are paid according to their ranks, and after Zhou E came to take charge of the Northwest Military and Political Commission, he also referred to the salary system of mainland officials to pay everyone. Therefore, the salary of the county police chief in Hexi, Gansu Province and the county police chief in Guangdong is the same, which is 100 yuan per month, but the special expenses are much less, and it is only a few dozen yuan.

However, the price is cheap here in Hexi, and there is no place to spend money, even begging for a little wife is not allowed, so this salary and special expenses can not be spent at all, and you can always save a thousand yuan a year.

Moreover, this well-paid police chief is still very idle, and the social structure of the place is very simple. There are no idle people (all of them have been sent to northern Xinjiang), basically two types of people. One category is those who eat public meals with iron rice bowls, including officials of county and town governments. police officers, but also staff in hospitals, schools, trade unions, peasant associations, shops, factories (i.e. a few handicraft workshops), etc.; One is farmers and herdsmen who depend on the sky for food. The former group of people is under the control of their own units, and their lives are relatively secure, and they will not do anything to commit adultery at all. The latter group of people is also managed by village cadres and village committees, and has always been relatively peaceful.

However, from 1924 onwards, the situation in Hexi quietly changed. After Comrade Zhou Elai left the northwest and was transferred to the Far East Republic of China to become prime minister. The absolute dominance of the Northwest Bureau of China and the Northwest Bureau of Xinjiang and Hexi began to waver, and the Northwest Military and Political Commission was abolished. Xinjiang was divided into three, and Hexi was returned to the Gansu Provincial Government, and the laws and systems of the Republic of China began to be implemented. Most of the industrial and commercial enterprises formerly managed by the Northwest Military and Political Commission were to be turned into privately-owned enterprises. Trade unions and peasant associations also have to dissociate themselves from the government, and I don't know how many iron rice bowls will be smashed!

Even government officials are not peaceful, and it is said that from 1925 onwards, some kind of democratic elections will be held, so that the people can use their votes to elect officials! It also allowed the Kuomintang, the Progressive Party and other political parties that could not get involved in Hexi and Xinjiang to set up branches in Hexi and Sanjiang! Meantime. The Lanjiang Railway was also built to Jiayuguan. Businessmen of all kinds also came by train from the east of the Yellow River to look for business opportunities, and the national defense army that was originally only the Yellow River also sent three armies through Hexi to enter Sanjiang. There are even people who openly recruit mercenaries among the Hui people in Hexi, saying that they are going to the Persian Gulf region to help a reactionary in Kuwait fight!

In short, a series of changes made the people of Hexi panic, I really don't know what the above plans are? Isn't it good for a wife to live a peaceful life like that? Why bother with all the time? And he also picked up this autumn tax to toss.

Don't they know that this time of year is the time when the class struggle in Hexi is at its most severe? The remnants of the land-rich elements who smell the wrong smell still don't seize the opportunity to incite the masses who do not know the truth to conceal their property and resist taxes?

What makes Comrade Zhang Kegong even more depressed is that Comrade Lu Shen, the head of a county in Jinta County, is now the shopkeeper! What kind of gold mine is there in Jinping Town all day long. Isn't it crazy to get rich? In addition to the mountains and sand, where does the gold come from? This negative attitude towards work should be known to the above. Can this county magistrate still be able to do so? I still have to persuade him if I have a chance.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that the county magistrate Lu had returned from Jinping Town, Zhang Kegong immediately went to the county government to ask for a meeting.

……

"Comrade Zhang Kegong, you came just in time."

In the conference room of the county government, Zhang Kegong saw Lu Shen wearing a blue-gray old military uniform, which was the military uniform of the original Northwest Frontier Army.

Standing next to Lu Shen was a tower-like man, also wearing an old military uniform of the Northwest Frontier Army, obviously wearing a small size, but he still looked majestic on this man, and he didn't know where this person came from?

In the conference room, there were more than a dozen men who were also wearing old military uniforms, all of whom stood there straight like javelins, looking at Zhang Kegong coldly, and there was always a little bit of unkindness in their eyes.

Zhang Kegong walked up to Lu Shen, said hello to him, and pointed to the majestic man and asked, "Comrade county magistrate, who is this comrade?" ”

"I'm Ren Fucheng." Lu Shen hadn't answered yet, but the man introduced himself.

"Oh, it's Comrade Ren, I'm glad to meet, I'm glad to be." Zhang Kegong stretched out his hand and wanted to shake hands with the other party, and asked curiously: "Comrade Ren is also from the Northwest Frontier Army?" That part of it? It looks familiar, we must have seen it in the past, right? ”

"Not at all." Ren Fucheng didn't mean to reach out to shake hands with Zhang Kegong, and the scene stiffened.

"Lao Zhang, you don't care about the police chief!" Lu Shen laughed angrily, and said, "Didn't the special wanted warrant from the Nanjing Police Department reach you, the county police chief?" How did I see the wanted warrant of Ren Fucheng, the big leader of the bandits, at the gate of Jinta County? ”

"What? To, the big leader of the bandits!? Zhang Kegong was stunned for a moment, staring at the man in front of him with his eyes beaded, and he was really a little similar to the one on the wanted notice!

Ren Fucheng laughed. patted Zhang Kegong on the shoulder vigorously: "Comrade Zhang Kegong, congratulations, this time you are going to be promoted and make a fortune." Chang Ruiqing offered a reward of 100,000 yuan in order to take me! ”

Zhang Kegong's eyebrows jumped wildly, the most wanted criminal of the National Government was really in front of him! And his top boss, Lu Shen, the magistrate of Jinta County and secretary of the Jinta County Party Committee, also called him "comrade"! Thinking of this, Zhang Kegong subconsciously reached into his waist to touch the gun, but before he could pull out the gun, two big men in old military uniforms pounced on him left and right, twisting his two arms behind his back. He also unloaded his gun.

"The surname is Lu, what do you want to do? You're a party cadre! Zhang Kegong, who knew that something was wrong, yelled.

However, what his roar got in exchange was only a sneer from Lu Shen: "Comrade Kegong." Do you think our party is still a real Marxist party? Our party has abandoned its original revolutionary ideals after taking power, no, it should be said that our party has been selling dog meat from the very beginning! The highest echelons of the party never thought about GCISM in China! ”

Zhang Kegong stomped his foot. "Lu Shen. Are you crazy? Where in the world is there any GCISM, they USSR are engaged in GCISM? The surname Ren, you touch your conscience and say, is the USSR GCISM? Are the common people of the USSR better off than ours? ”

Lu Shen snorted, turned to look at Ren Fucheng and asked, "Comrade Fucheng, what should we do with this traitor?" ”

"Traitor? Who the fuck is a traitor? Your surname Lu is a great traitor who betrays the party and the country! Zhang Kegong shouted.

Lu Shen said with a gloomy face: "Comrade Kegong, recognize the reality, the revisionist line has no future. Their defeat in Persia speaks for itself! ”

"Whew! The surname Lu has a black conscience, where are the GCD and the chairman sorry for you? You were only 24 years old and became the mayor of a county. What else do you want? ”

Lu Shen gritted his teeth and said: "Chang Ruiqing and the revisionist party are sorry for the people, the millions of poor middle peasants in Hexi!" ”

"No matter how poor the people of Hexi are, they are better than the Soviet Union, they have something to eat, and they don't starve to death! There is a famine in the Soviet Union now, and there are unbearable hungry people running to our side in the north every day! Don't you know that the surname is Lu? ”

"Rumors! Those are all rumors created by GCD to deceive the common people! ”

At this time, Ren Fucheng smiled, interrupted the argument between the two, came to Zhang Kegong, and said to him with a smile: "Comrade Kegong, you say, what should we do with you?" ”

"There is a kind of you who will kill Lao Tzu, we GCD people are not afraid of death! Lao Tzu is waiting for you below, and see when you, a traitor, will go to the eighteenth layer of hell! Standing Chairman, ** will definitely avenge me! ”

"It's quite backbone!" Ren Fucheng sneered: "As a materialist, should you believe in such a thing as hell?" Saying that, he shouted: "Take him to prison, and wait until you take the county seat of Jinta and then hold a public trial to shoot him!" ”

The two men got the order and dragged the police chief down. A hint of gloom flashed in Ren Fucheng's eyes, this little police chief actually has such a backbone, it seems that the revisionist regime is much more consolidated than imagined!

Lu Shen only sighed softly, shook his head and said to Ren Fucheng: "After the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Chang Ruiqing turned on the propaganda machine to deify himself, and there are also some people in the party who were blinded by his shameless behavior......"

Ren Fucheng waved his hand and said coldly: "This is all expected difficulties, and the road to the pursuit of truth is full of ups and downs...... Comrade Lu Shen, let's convene the important leaders of the Central G in Jinta County to hold a meeting, and we will take them down in the county government, and then launch an armed uprising, seize the county town of Jinta, and wave the revolutionary banner of our People's Revolutionary Party! ”

……

Nanjing Tangshan, Chang Ruiqing's official residence.

It was dinner time, but the door to the conference room in the residence was still closed, the bright light was shining through the carved glass windows, and the voices could be faintly heard, and it seemed that the meeting was not over. Since the news of the defeat in the Persian Gulf came, the originally calm situation in the country began to stir, and the newspapers appeared one after another to question the dispatch of troops to Persia, and there were also constant alarms on the border defense lines in the northwest, northeast, Far East, and Mongolia, but the most worrying thing was the signs of split in the Kuomintang, Jiang Jishi had persuaded Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, Xie Zhi, Zhang Jingjiang and other Kuomintang bigwigs to advance and retreat with him, and even Sun Yat-sen's son Sun Ke began to waver. Only Mrs. Sun, Soong Ching-ling, and Wang Ching-wei, the "great traitor of history," are still determined to "unite with the Communist Party," and it seems that a truly powerful opposition will soon emerge.

Wang Ruonan and the Zhao sisters pushed the door and walked into the conference room and put three plates of dim sum on the conference table. He smiled at the crowd and quietly withdrew, not disturbing what seemed to be a very important meeting.

"Mrs. Sun, if Hu Zhangong, Jiang Jishi, and Xu Ru are determined to withdraw from the coalition government for them, then what are you and Comrade Wang Zhaoming going to do?" In the past two days, Chang Ruiqing has been in contact with Hu Hanmin, Jiang Jishi and his gang through various channels, and the high-ranking officials have opened a bunch of them, but the other party is unmoved. It seems that he is determined to become an opposition party. However, there are also many people in the Kuomintang who are unwilling to give up their positions of power and want to stay in the Nationalist Government to continue to be officials, and Chang Ruiqing does not want these bureaucrats who are familiar with government affairs to pick their sons and leave.

Listening to Chang Ruiqing's words, it was obvious that he wanted to keep it. Song Qingling was also in a dilemma for a while. She knows very well that the Kuomintang, which is ready to sing against Chang Ruiqing, will inevitably be a fiasco in next year's general election, and it is already a fluke to get 30% of the parliamentary seats! Even in Chang Ruiqing's lifetime, the Kuomintang did not want to taste the taste of central power again.

But. Jiang Jshi's opinion is also very reasonable. The Kuomintang should not become a vassal of Chang Ruiqing and GCD! The Kuomintang must have its own political views and its own voice, so that it can have its own supporters, a Kuomintang that withdraws from the coalition government and is in opposition will be a decisive force in Chinese politics, and a Kuomintang that stays in the coalition government as an official will sooner or later turn into a pile of bubbles, because voters vote for such a vase Kuomintang, it is better to vote directly for GCD! And without the support of the electorate, there would be no seats in parliament, a party without seats in parliament. What is it if it's not a bubble?

However, she was extremely reluctant to ask Soong Ching-ling to give up her current position as president of the Legislative Council and go to the opposition with the Kuomintang. Because she is the same year as Chang Ruiqing. And Chang Ruiqing is still backed by God behind him, it is estimated that he can live for a long time, and he probably can't survive him, do you really want to be in the opposition for the rest of your life?

But Soong Ching-ling also knew that Chang Ruiqing needed her support, because she had great influence within the KMT, especially among the "rightists" of the KMT who were in power. If she can take refuge in Chang Ruiqing and GCD, it will definitely drive a group of capable officials from the Kuomintang to take refuge together. In this way, Chang Ruiqing's regime will remain stable after the KMT exits, and the GCD will have a broader base because of their accession. And this is not an opportunity for her and her comrades. So Ms. Song Qingling smiled slightly and said, "Yaoshuai, what we are going to do depends on your sincerity, after all, many of us are old Kuomintang members for many years. ”

"Has Mrs. Sun ever considered starting a new party? Like the New Kuomintang or the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang? Chang Ruiqing said tentatively: "If that's the case, I will definitely fully support it." ”

Song Qingling smiled faintly, looked at Chang Ruiqing calmly, and said with a smile: "If Comrade Yaoru is willing to serve as the chairman of this new party, we will establish a new party." Of course, if Comrade Yaoru wants to be the chairman of the Kuomintang, I can also persuade Hu Zhantang to let Xian ...... After all, in future elections, the party chaired by the Standing Chairman will definitely be the biggest winner. ”

"This ......" Chang Ruiqing pondered for a while, and already understood what Song Qingling meant. If it's a military dictatorship, a political party or something is just a vase, Chang Ruiqing can certainly control several political parties single-handedly, as he has done in the past few years. But once a democratic constitutional government is implemented, a Chang Ruiqing can no longer support both the KMT and the GCD, he must support a political party, and at the same time rely on this party to govern.

Song Qingling glanced at Wang Jingwei, chairman of Guangdong Province, who was on the side, out of the corner of his eye, and Wang Jingwei said with a smile: "Whichever party the Standing Chairman supports, which party will definitely win more than half of the seats in the parliament, and a coalition government does not need to be formed at all, so we will not form a small party to accompany the prince to study...... If the chairman is really sincere, it is better to recruit us to join GCD! ”

Wang Jingwei joins GCD? Chang Ruiqing looked at this historical traitor with surprised eyes, and quickly calculated in his heart. Joining GCD seems to be the price code for Song Qingling to cooperate with himself. Of course, after joining the GCD with her status, she could not be an ordinary party member, at least a member of the political bureau. However, this Mrs. Sun has always been in the same group as herself, and it is definitely beneficial for her to have one more person in the political bureau. Moreover, she has been the President of the Legislative Council for many years and is familiar with the legislative process, so she can continue to serve as the President of the Legislative Council in the future as the leader of the GCD Parliamentary Group......

"Okay, if Mrs. Sun and Brother Zhaoming want to join GCD, brother, I will definitely welcome you......" Chang Ruiqing was just about to say his offer when the door was knocked on again. This time, it was Ren Yijiang, director of the Secret Bureau, who rushed in angrily.

"Chairman! Something is wrong! The bandits are really in trouble! This is an urgent telegram from the Northwest Branch of the Secrecy Bureau, and just this morning, there is likely to be a riot in Jinta County, Gansu Province! The county town of Quinta has been taken over by unknown bandits! (To be continued.) )