Crimson Dawn

Chapter 54

Just when Chen Ke, led by the concierge, met Mr. Gu Hongming, and the host and guest had a cordial conversation.The meeting of the Shanghai Party branch is in full swing.The meeting had been held for half an hour, but the atmosphere at the party meeting was not as lively as the discussion. On the contrary, a dull mood shrouded the meeting room.

Now there are five members of the Shanghai Party branch, Qi Huishen, Hua Xiongmao, You Gou, He Zudao, and Qin Wuan.Chen Ke's original intention was also very clear, and he hoped that comrades could display their subjective initiative.Complete social survey work.Chen Ke and Chen Tianhua didn't just drop their picks and leave.Before leaving, the two finished their work and clearly assigned the work to the members of Huangpu Book Club.Everyone also said it was okay.At least when the two walked, on the surface, there was no problem.

You Gou gave lectures to these people from the Huangpu Publishing House, Qi Huishen has been in charge of coordinating the affairs of the Publishing House, and Hua Xiongmao is in charge of the construction site.It was a pleasure to cooperate with everyone from the beginning.But the work is getting harder and harder.The most critical is how to analyze the obtained data.

"How to talk to ordinary people is very important. It's not just about being polite." Hua Xiongmao has the most experience in this area. Unfortunately, now that Hua Xiongmao is firmly tied to the construction site, the first dormitory building will soon be completed. Almost done.Except for the necessary party meetings, Hua Xiongmao moved to the construction site for accommodation.

"You have to tell the members of the team about this. What's the use of telling me. I want to go to the front line in person, but I really can't get away." Qi Huishen was under a lot of pressure during this period. A red pimple.It was obvious that he was in a hurry. "It would be nice for Wen Qing to sit in Shanghai."

"Wen Qing finished his report a long time ago. The key now is to let the students investigate in person." Hua Xiongmao was also very depressed. I downloaded a set of my own manuscripts.Regarding the issue of textiles in the late Qing Dynasty, Chen Ke has discussed it many times in the 21st Century Forum.According to the content of those discussion posts back then, Chen Ke wrote a report.

In the late Qing Dynasty, with the development of China's textile industry, the demand for cotton increased rapidly.The smallholder economy is extremely insensitive to changes in the market.No matter how high the price of cotton was, it was impossible for farmers scattered across small plots to switch to cotton production.Farmers can't guarantee food and clothing by growing grain, so who cares about cotton.

Landlords with large amounts of land were even less likely to increase cotton acreage.The reasons for this are more complicated.Simply put, the biggest purpose of the landlords is to increase the land under their own name.Generally speaking, the best way for landlords to increase their land is to stockpile food. In a disaster year, they can expand their land area by purchasing land from farmers who lack food.It is not to the point of desperation, and farmers will not easily sell their land.Farmers have to sell the land they live on in order to survive.Planting cotton will definitely not have such an effect.The food is edible, so what's the use of getting a pile of cotton?

Moreover, the merger itself may not be able to achieve better economic results. The expansion of the land area means an increase in the number of taxpayers.Moreover, the direct result of the small-scale peasant economy is the dispersion of land.The land of the landlord's family is not all contiguous.Instead, they are scattered all over the vast countryside.These realities have directly caused the landlords to be unable to develop and use the land more effectively.Rent collection is the best fit for this situation.

"What one person can do, dozens of people can't do well." Qi Huishen said rather discouraged.He has read the report, and Chen Ke's analysis data in it is very detailed, and the conclusion is very convincing.Qi Huishen was actually very skeptical, no matter how you look at it, Chen Ke didn't look like someone who had been to the countryside, but his views on the countryside were quite pertinent.

There are many things analyzed in this eloquent paper, and comrades in the party have read it. Hua Xiongmao has stayed in the country for several years, and he agrees with Chen Ke's article very much.But if I agree, I agree. The comrades of Huangpu Publishing House are not Chen Ke. When they write such an article, they don't know that it will be the year of the monkey.This is the case with the social survey in front of me. Just asking these people to collect changes in cotton prices in Shanghai is very unsatisfactory.Scatter people, in the past six or seven days, the collected data is piecemeal, either repeated, or the price is outrageous.For the cotton price in 1905 alone, data with a difference of more than two times was collected.

"How did these people negotiate with the merchants? They didn't even know the price." Qi Huishen was in charge of summarizing the data.Looking at these things, he just felt dizzy.Qi Huishen collected as many textile prices as possible in each year according to the plan.In this matter, it was not the students running all over the streets that provided the greatest help, but the statistical yearbook of the concession produced by Wang Bin.

"What exactly does Wenqing want us to do? Do you want us to make a fool of yourself?" Comparing the various data collected by Huangpu Publishing House with the statistical yearbook of the concession, Qi Huishen even had such an idea.

You Gou is in charge of the production of medicines, and the production and sales have boomed recently, so she didn't participate in the social survey. "I said, stop complaining here, both of you. Why did Wenqing organize a social survey?"

"It's not about understanding the current situation in China." Qi Huishen replied angrily.

"But I remember Wen Qing saying that the purpose of conducting social surveys is to expand the ranks of party members."

"Huh?" The eyes of the other comrades fell on You Gou's face at the same time.

"The social survey is mainly to find comrades who can believe in the people's revolution. Before Wen Qing left, he didn't know how many of this group of people can be absorbed into our organization. That's why we need to conduct social surveys. Looking at it now, Wen Qing Qing's plan is obviously wrong. Let's change the method."

After listening to You Gou's words, no one responded.This is the first time that someone directly thinks that Chen Ke's actions are inappropriate.Everyone couldn't fully accept this small shock for a while.

"What is Sister You going to do?" He Zudao was the first to ask.Ever since this kid found out that Yougou was involved in the pharmaceutical industry, he has always respected and supported Yougou.

You Gou continued, "Since those people don't live up to expectations, we don't need to expect them to have the knowledge of Wen Qing. Now we simply rearrange the social survey around Wen Qing's report. Let Those people realized that the problem Wen Qing pointed out is the reason for the high price of textiles today. This is faster.”

This suggestion sounded very good, and You Gou had no intention of opposing Chen Ke at all. According to the new plan, it could also play a role in screening party members.

Seeing that everyone was somewhat convinced, You Gou said while the iron was hot: "Don't talk about those people, we party members, who can write a report of the same level as Wen Qing's article by themselves. Since they can't write it, then It depends on who can understand first. If the radish is about to be washed, it will be a vegetable if it is scooped out into the basket."

Although these words are reasonable, they sound full of a sense of helplessness.Hua Xiongmao didn't object too much.On the contrary, Qi Huishen couldn't accept it.Qi Hui knew that Chen Ke hoped to gather a large number of comrades who could understand the significance of the people's revolution.And didn't Chen Tianhua understand the meaning of the people's revolution?The original intention of this social survey is also the same. Through the analysis and investigation of social reality, young people who are inclined to revolution can discover contradictions by themselves, and then they can effectively expand party members.Although You Gou's statement is reasonable, it is not what Chen Ke and Qi Huishen originally hoped for.

Qi Huishen did not speak, and Hua Xiongmao refused to speak either.The party fell into an awkward silence.He Zudao broke the silence. "Let me say a few words."

Seeing He Zudao who was a little timid, You Gou gave He Zudao an encouraging smile.He Zudao's pink face flushed slightly, but his chest stood up.

"Everyone knows the reason why I followed Wen Qing. Mr. Wen Qing and Sister Yougou have saved my life. This is one of the reasons why I must follow everyone. Since I joined the party, I feel that Wen Qing's words I can understand, and it makes sense. But you let me figure it out by myself, and I can't figure it out in my life. Mr. Wen Qing has never felt that he is anything special. What he thinks he can do, we can too Do it. I think we can do it in the future, but we can’t do it now. Now we just need to find someone like me who can understand Mr. Wen Qing’s words and is willing to walk with Mr. Wen Qing.”

He Zudao himself has always been an image of a good boy, and has never expressed his own views.Such a speech today is already very proactive, although it sounds like He Zudao only said this out of support for You Gou.

The People's Party's inner-party democracy can be said to be the strongest among all political parties, but no matter what kind of organization it is, there will be so-called "seniority" issues.This has nothing to do with party discipline, but a very real human nature.Since He Zudao didn't have any heavyweight performances before, it's impossible for his speech to immediately lead the way.However, after all, the atmosphere of democracy within the party has been established for several months, and everyone has begun to think about what is worthless.It is enough to prove that Chen Ke's efforts have played a considerable role for everyone to pay such attention to the relatively weak He Zudao.

Among the People's Party, He Zudao's status is not the "lowest", and Qin Wu'an's qualifications are even weaker.Seeing He Zudao's statement, Qin Wuan was also encouraged, "I want to speak." He said.

Seeing that Qi Huishen, who was the chairman of this meeting, nodded his head, Qin Wuan said: "Do you think I am a party member?"

Qi Huishen is a very smart person, after hearing this, he already knew what Qin Wuan meant.It was exactly as Qi Huishen expected.Qin Wu'an supported He Zudao's point of view. He said that what needs to be assembled now are qualified party members who obey the party's discipline, not outstanding revolutionaries like Chen Ke.You Gou's suggestion is very reasonable.

Qi Huishen turned his head and took a look at Hua Xiongmao, who happened to also look over.There was some helplessness in the eyes of the two of them.Originally, Qi Huishen's thought was that he and Hua Xiongmao had set the tone for this matter, and then proceeded according to this tone.But in the current situation, according to the organizational discipline of the People's Party, the minority obeys the majority.Now it's clearly three to two. If it comes to a vote, You Gou's new plan will surely win.

Qi Huishen really didn't care much about the possibility of losing the vote.The problem is that if the vote is passed, it will completely overturn Chen Ke's earliest plan.Moreover, Chen Ke's plan at the time was really not the result of a vote, but just an opinion he put forward.So once the new vote is passed, this is the decision of the party organization.According to the organizational discipline of the People's Party established by Chen Ke, even after Chen Ke himself returns to Shanghai, he must obey this resolution before a new discussion and vote is held within the party.Regarding this matter, Qi Hui deeply felt something was wrong.

Qi Huishen is now facing a dilemma. If he insists on implementing Chen Ke's established policy, he will first face a situation that is difficult to implement.The People's Party has never encountered such a situation until now.Today, when Chen Ke, Chen Tianhua, and Wu Xingchen left Shanghai at the same time, Qi Huishen and Hua Xiongmao can be regarded as the "two giants" in the party. people.You Gou is no worse than the two of them.If Qi Huishen insisted on saying that the original plan was formulated by Chen Ke, he would inevitably be suspected of "fake the power of the tiger".He was already very concerned about the faint confrontation with Hua Xiongmao.It is difficult to find real evidence for personal emotions.Catching wind and shadows is not an option.And although Chen Ke had such a plan, it was repeatedly emphasized that inner-party discipline was the most important thing, and inner-party discipline was also formulated by Chen Ke.If someone mentioned that, Qi Huishen would immediately fall into a situation of contradiction.

When Qi Hui was thinking deeply, he heard You Gou say: "Then we will vote on this issue." As long as one person still agrees, a vote must be made.Sure enough, He Zudao supported You Gou's proposal, "I agree to vote."

You Gou, He Zudao, and Qin Wu'an all raised their hands in agreement.Hua Xiongmao was silent for a long time, then slowly raised his hand.In the end, the party organization in Shanghai passed Yougou's proposal with an overwhelming advantage of four to one.

Chen Ke didn't know that at this time the People's Party's first real democratic resolution within the party was born.Of course, even if Chen Ke knew, he would never be angry.At this time, Chen Ke, Chen Tianhua and Gu Hongming had a happy chat.Gu Hongming is thin and his skin is wrinkled like a jujube stone. Now because of his happiness, he seems to be radiant.He knows Latin, and after listening to Chen Ke's detailed explanation on the pronunciation of standard Chinese pinyin, Mr. Gu Hongming was really overjoyed.I simply talked to Chen Ke about the promotion of Chinese Pinyin.Of course, the promotion of Hanyu Pinyin is actually not a problem, it is just a way of how to promote it.Jingshi University is not only the highest institution of learning in the country, but also the highest educational administrative organ of the country, governing schools in all provinces.As a teacher, Mr. Gu Hongming naturally has a lot of ways.Chen Ke can understand Mr. Gu Hongming's enthusiasm, but he has no illusions about the effect of these promotions.The promotion of Chinese Pinyin in New China was carried out on the basis of the improvement of the compulsory education system.Even so, without the development of radio and television, and without the huge demand for text input in the Internet era, Hanyu Pinyin would not have such a profound influence.

Of course, Chen Ke would not be so stupid as to say these things.He just catered to Mr. Gu Hongming's speech very calmly.Later, the topic gradually shifted from pronunciation to translation. Chen Ke firmly supported the translation of inherent nouns based on Latin free translation. An important example is "Mediterranean".The term Mediterranean, for the Chinese, can imagine the ocean in the middle of the land, and in Latin, the word Mediterranean is also composed of two roots, "the center of the earth" and "the ocean".Chen Ke has read some articles, and it is said that some ostentatious "public intellectuals" love transliteration like fools. For foreign proper nouns, they follow the transliteration completely, making the very delicate translated noun Mediterranean become a Nouns made up of long strings of odd-sounding Chinese characters.Chen Ke was quite opposed to this.

Mr. Gu Hongming is very supportive of Chen Ke's opinion. He himself is a staunch supporter of traditional culture.Everyone's topic turned to Chen Ke's book again.Mr. Gu Hongming was also polite, pointing out many strong words in Chen Ke's book directly.As for the inaccuracies in the book, Mr. Gu made it clear that because there are too many unreasonable contents, it is necessary to write a "errata".Chen Ke and Chen Tianhua knew how big this project was.In fact, Chen Ke didn't read many history books, "Historical Records" and "Three Kingdoms" were good. When he read "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", he could just fall asleep while watching it.During the writing process of this book, Chen Tianhua was fully responsible for the collation of historical materials. He had the most right to speak, and the old and the young discussed this issue.The two quoted extensively from many sources and talked happily, which made Chen Ke drowsy.The last two had a result, that is, Mr. Gu Hongming suggested to set up a special editorial team among the students of the Beijing Normal University to complete this book.For Mr. Gu to give Chen Ke such face.Not to mention Chen Ke, even Chen Tianhua was a little moved.

"Wen Qing, Mr. Yan sent five sets of your books at once, and I put three sets in the library. As soon as I put them in, they were all borrowed. I invite you here this time, and I want you to give a lecture. I don’t know the text. How do you feel about it?"

It is really a great honor to be able to give lectures at the Peking University’s predecessor, the Imperial University.Chen Ke was not overjoyed, on the contrary, he felt a little timid.If it is about revolutionary principles, Chen Ke is not afraid.If it is about social structure and economic operation, Chen Ke is not afraid.He was worried that if the students got entangled with him on historical issues, Chen Ke's own historical level, which was not as good as that of a three-legged cat, would definitely be embarrassing.But the purpose of coming to Beijing is to develop comrades, and the lecture is a very good platform.Chen Ke bravely agreed.

"So how about starting tomorrow?" Mr. Gu asked.

"Everything is up to Mr. Gu's arrangement." Chen Ke replied.

Chapter 54

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