Crimson Dawn

The fact that hundreds of cadres asked to leave seemed to have no effect on Wu Xingchen. At least when he appeared in front of Chen Ke and Chen Tianhua, he showed no regret or loss. He said to Chen Ke: "Chairman Chen, Comrade Pang Zi wants to see you. He He knew he was wrong, and he would admit to whatever the organization wanted to punish him. He only asked to see Chairman Chen, and hoped that Chairman Chen would forgive him."

Hearing Wu Xingchen's words, Chen Ke couldn't help laughing out loud, "Commander Wu, I have never been angry with Comrade Pang Zi, which is not a forgiveness at all. He just needs to study hard in the party school now."

Wu Xingchen also said with a smile: "That's right, but Pang Zi has a big heart. If you don't tell him the previous things in person, he will never let it go. If you think it's inappropriate to meet him alone, then Meet comrades who are willing to stay in the party and have a group talk with them. I think it is necessary.”

Chen Ke knew what Wu Xingchen was thinking. These comrades who were punished were worried about being treated unfairly in the future. If Chen Ke could talk to them once, at least the comrades would not continue to worry about it.Thinking about this, Chen Ke replied, "That's fine."

Hearing Wu Xingchen's words, Chen Tianhua sighed in his heart.Wu Xingchen's request was very similar to Zhou Zhentao's, but the two were obviously not the same.Wu Xingchen only needs Chen Ke to assure the comrades that they will not be treated unfairly, after the rectification line conflict is over, it is an excellent suggestion.Zhou Zhentao's request to Chen Ke to ensure that the positions of his comrades would not be affected was outrageously wrong.No wonder Wu Xingchen broke away from the organization for a while, and was still able to become the commander of the military region after he came back.Even if Zhou Zhentao has always followed Chen Ke, he is just a teacher now.This is definitely not the reason why Wu Xingchen joined the party a few days earlier than Zhou Zhentao.There is too much difference in the amount of heart and mind between the two.After such a comparison, Chen Tianhua felt a little enlightened. [

"For this winter conscription campaign, Huaihai Province has completed the recruitment target of 5 troops. Shall we start to form engineering and railway corps?" Wu Xingchen then asked.

"The engineering corps and the railway corps are both technical arms. The current situation cannot be recruited directly from recruits. After the resumption of military training this time, some comrades who are not suitable for the field army, we have to mobilize them to come from the engineering corps and railway corps. At this stage we We must consider the work of recruiting outstanding comrades to become volunteers after military service. After the military service is over, the backbone should try to stay.”

Wu Xingchen nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face, leaving the backbone is an extremely important event for any army.After being happy for a moment, Wu Xingchen put away his smile and said sternly, "Chairman Chen, let me explain first, I have no intention of driving you away. But how long are you going to stay in Huaihai Province?"

Chen Tianhua admired Wu Xingchen for being able to get the point right in every sentence.The situation shown in the rectification of the troops in Huaihai Province, and the rectification of other provinces on their own, will definitely cause chaos that the local party committee cannot clean up.If you don't want to have such a result, Chen Ke must, as before, let other provinces dominate the situation.

"After the rectification movement in Huaihai Province has achieved results, I don't feel at ease when I half-do it and leave the picker, and go to other provinces." Chen Ke replied.

Wu Xingchen had finished asking several main questions, and he hesitated for a while before asking: "If the comrade who left feels that he has made a mistake and asks to come back, what does Chairman Chen think?"

Chen Tianhua immediately cheered up and listened to Chen Ke's answer, but Chen Ke didn't care. "Is it normal if you want to come back? If you come back, you can continue to work, but you don't need to think about reinstatement. If these comrades volunteered , we have to clarify with them."

The conversation between Wu Xingchen and Chen Ke was quick, and Chen Tianhua saw that they were about to jump to another topic, and quickly asked: "Will these departing comrades really choose to come back?"

Wu Xingchen smiled wryly and said, "I've also been out and come back again. I feel wronged in the army, but it's better to be in the army than to be outside. These comrades feel that they are special people. Even if they stay in the base area, they will not really Comrade Tianhua, don’t you know how sad life is outside after leaving the base area? There must be some people who can’t get along and want to come back. In fact, we have been together for so long, I hope they will suffer It's best to know yourself too highly and come back honestly. The world outside is not easy to mess with."

Chen Tianhua felt a little awkward about Wu Xingchen's words, since he was going to leave with a clear-cut banner, and then came back with a faceless face, what is this?If it was Chen Tianhua himself, he would not choose to come back even if he died outside.But looking at Chen Ke and Wu Xingchen's wry smiles, there was not a trace of sarcasm in them. Chen Tianhua didn't know whether to praise the two for their hearts, or think that the two were really "abusive good people". At least he always emphasized the need to distinguish "who Who is the friend, who is the enemy" Chen Ke is too tolerant.

If Chen Tianhua could listen to Zhou Zhentao's heart at this time, he might think that Chen Ke and Wu Xingchen had the foresight.Zhou Zhentao carried a simple luggage and walked back to Shaanxi.Although he restrained himself not to look back, he really felt a sense of loss in his heart.Zhou Zhentao is 27 years old this year. Although the six years in the People's Party are less than a quarter of his life, Zhou Zhentao feels as if he has spent his whole life in this organization.

If it is a group march, Zhou Zhentao doesn't have to think about luggage and accommodation at all. The staff will make a march and battle plan long before departure, and the vanguard will also prepare a station on the road.Zhou Zhentao only needs to complete the command work according to the plan.Although the work is extremely hard, everything is purposeful and well planned.In such a powerful organization, Zhou Zhentao felt extra powerful.

Now he is alone, and there is no need to mention the matter of commanding thousands of troops. It is extremely difficult just how to get back to his hometown in Shaanxi.What road to walk, how far to walk every day, is there a place to rest.It was easier to take a division of more than 2 troops to Shaanxi than Zhou Zhentao went back to Shaanxi alone.

At the beginning, Zhou Zhentao was able to hold on because he held his breath and felt that he had been greatly wronged.Facing the Party Committee of the military region, Zhou Zhentao did not show any weakness.Now no one "oppresses" Zhou Zhentao anymore. Zhou Zhentao is free, so he can suppress himself with great willpower, so that the thought of "Should I go back and confess my mistake to my comrades?" an option.

It's just that human subconsciousness is not so easy to suppress. This idea of ​​wanting to go back is active in Zhou Zhentao's mind in another form, "If they catch up with me halfway and ask me to go back, I will definitely not go back!"

On the fifth day after he left, Zhou Zhentao still believed that those who came to chase him would set off.For this reason, Zhou Zhentao even accelerated his pace.After all, he has received a fairly formal education in the army, and Jiefang shoes are indeed very convenient for traveling.This has already gone beyond the boundary of Huaihai Province, almost to Kaifeng.The "chasing soldiers" chasing Zhou Zhentao have not yet appeared.

But reality is always objective.Zhou Zhentao also had to face the real situation first.When he was in the base area of ​​Huaihai Province, he had nothing to be afraid of.The bandits and robbers have been wiped out long ago, and the base area has always taken a thorough attack on these gangs that disrupted the production order.The junction of the three provinces has always been a "three no matter" area, where order is chaotic and bandits are rampant.The People's Party has made full use of the chaotic order in these three-way areas, and has continuously sent troops to fight against bandits.Of course, the crackdown is not for nothing, and the People's Party officially "exists" in these areas.Starting from the maintenance of order, the next step is to seize the power to collect taxes, and then the land reform and the establishment of grassroots organizations.At the junction with the base areas, such as Lankao and other places, except for a few officials in the county seat, they are locals in Henan. Most of Lankao County pays taxes to the People's Party instead of paying taxes to the Henan Zhengfu in Beiyang.

There is a great feature under the People's Party's rule, that is, there is finally investment in public undertakings.Even if the roads are not repaired, at least there are signposts at each intersection.Every town along the route has public facilities such as state-run hotels, post offices, schools, and clinics.It is even possible to read newspapers, which are quite popular inside the base area, but only appear in big cities outside the base area.

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It is sunny now, and the leveled land on the side of the road is quite neatly divided, and the farmers are working in the fields with farm tools made in the base area.There is a row of trees every few hundred meters between the fields, and two rows of trees are neatly planted on both sides of the road.The well-ordered pattern, albeit monotonous, proves that this is BJP territory.After leaving the territory of the People's Party, or more bluntly, after walking out of the two rows of trees on the side of the road and suddenly not continuing on the road, the scenery in front of Zhou Zhentao's eyes is very different.

As if cast by a spell, the neat square land was immediately replaced by crooked field ridges.Every once in a while, the big thatched huts during the busy farming breaks have become various shacks.There are even no shacks in some places. Peasant couples go to the field together, and the bedding is rolled into a roll, and the children brought out by the adults are playing beside the bedding.The older children brought the children, all dressed in tatters and dirty.

If it is in the base area, the children will be sent to kindergartens, and the older children will go to school.Of course, adults are happy to be freed from these housework.Don't let children go to school, adults will also learn culture and technology.There is a blackboard in every big thatched hut during the busy farming period. When the farmers are working, they will write the characters they need to learn every day on the paper, and stick a sheet on their backs.I can see it when I raise my head to catch my breath.There will definitely be comrades from the Rural Technical Work Team working with the farmers, asking the farmers about agricultural issues during the break time, and also explaining agricultural technical issues to the farmers.

Several years of work experience made Zhou Zhentao think that this is only right and proper.But as soon as he left the base area, Zhou Zhentao discovered that only in the base area could this kind of society be taken for granted.One mile away from the base area, this kind of society disappears.

Even if you just turn your head, you can see from a distance that the large animals in the cooperative are dragging the iron plow, and the farmers are working hard behind the plow, plowing the fields together.But close at hand, farmers are desperately waving wooden farm tools, busy with farm work with extremely low efficiency.

Unlike the People's Party's labor force, which is almost all adults, the number of laborers outside the country is even larger than that of the People's Party.The old, the middle-aged, the young, the young, and the children all mixed together, working hard for a year's livelihood in the fields of Huntian, but the tools and production organization were really bad, so you don't even need to look at it. Zhou Zhentao, who has participated in the farm construction Knowing that two days after the work in the base area is completed, the farmers outside the base area will not be able to finish the urgent farm work.

As for the implementation of the policy of centralizing living facilities in each village in the base area, one of the advantages is that it is very convenient to collect various manures and then concentrate on producing farmyard manure.Outside the base areas, farmers would urinate on their fields every time they took a piss, and there was no concept of large-scale accumulation of manure. Hun Geng is competing with God for time, plowing the land one day earlier and sowing the seeds one day earlier.Sow the seeds one day earlier, and the crops will grow an extra day before harvest.Such a long day is likely to be able to harvest a few more catties of grain, so that the family can eat a few more days before the next planting.

Zhou Zhentao understood this simple truth very well when he was at home, but when he was in the base area, because the base area turned individual family production into the entire socialized production, many of the jobs originally undertaken by the family were borne by the agricultural department, cooperatives, and even The construction of basic water conservancy projects participated by the army will be undertaken.For example, the irrigation network built by the army has turned a large number of dry land that was originally harvested from the sky into irrigated land, and a large-scale accumulation of manure, although there is actually not much in each mu of land.But it is always better than nothing, and the work of the number is not only those large-scale projects, or the neat farmland with monotonous scenery.What the People's Party has done in the past few years is to turn all the land into high-quality fertile fields that can be watered during droughts and drained during floods, which only existed in a few places before.

The countryside is still the countryside, but the new countryside is completely different.

Zhou Zhentao finally stopped. At this time, Zhou Zhentao had to admit that if he continued to go on like this, he would really break away from the base area and the People's Party.At this moment, those arrogance and strong unhappiness were overwhelmed by what the reality saw.You don't need to see it with your own eyes, Zhou Zhentao can imagine that his hometown in Shaanxi is definitely the same as when Zhou Zhentao left.

The revolutionaries can turn over the Qing Dynasty, and even kill all the people, but if this vast countryside does not have the hard work of millions of people, it is impossible to change the appearance of the Hengren Democratic Party base area.Without the implementation of comprehensive land reform, it would be impossible to gather millions of laborers to carry out such hard work.

Standing where he was, Zhou Zhentao felt strong fear for the first time.If he doesn't look back at this time, he will go back to the previous world.And that world was once Zhou Zhentao tried his best to get rid of.

When Zhou Zhentao was feeling uneasy, a group of people appeared in the distance.It turned out to be the clothing of the Beiyang Army.Zhou Zhentao became vigilant almost subconsciously. All soldiers who left the army must hand in their guns, even if Zhou Zhentao is a division commander.However, Wu Xingchen, the commander of the military region, sent Zhou Zhentao a base imitation Mauser 20 rounds of fast and slow machine pistol.Zhou Zhentao's hand had already reached into his arms and grasped the handle of the gun.

"Is the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in front of you, Master Zhou Zhentao Zhou?" The cavalry's speed is not too fast, and the road is so bad that the horses can't run.Seeing that Zhou Zhentao was about to draw his gun, the leading cavalry shouted loudly.

Knowing that this group of Beiyang soldiers really came for him, Zhou Zhentao felt nervous for a while.

The cavalry did not draw their guns, swung their knives, and did not even speed up. The cavalry even slowed down and shouted loudly: "Mr. Zhou, don't get me wrong. We have no malicious intentions. We just heard that Master Zhou is going back to Shaanxi. Ordered by the Governor of Henan Province, I came here to meet Master Zhou and escort Master Zhou to Kaifeng."

Although he didn't know what the Beiyang army meant, Zhou Zhentao was not too nervous.If you break away from the base area, you can only live under the rule of Beiyang.Zhou Zhentao is also psychologically prepared for this.Now that Beiyang has actually reached an agreement with the People's Party to support the fire, it may not be that there are no indiscriminate killings, but they are not that big.What's more, now as long as Zhou Zhentao ran back for a distance, he returned to the base area.

Zhou Zhentao pulled his hand out of his bosom, and said with a smile, "You don't need to bother."

The cavalrymen of the Beiyang Army were already in front of Zhou Zhentao at this time, and jumped off their horses for that man.He first raised his hand to salute Zhou Zhentao, and the man said: "Mr. Zhou, before we came, the Governor of Henan repeatedly explained. This time we came to welcome Mr. Zhou just to do our landlord's friendship, not to detain Mr. Zhou, let alone The meaning is to be unfavorable to Mr. Zhou. You are also a famous person at the moment. Henan is not peaceful now, and there are many bandits on the road. Although Mr. Zhou is a hero, the horse bandits are not under Mr. Zhou's words. But this also delays Mr. Zhou's itinerary. And if someone speaks nonsense and fabricates the news that Master Zhou was killed in Henan, our Beiyang Army will lose face. So Master Zhou, if you don’t trust us, we will give you a horse and you can go back to Xuzhou. If you must go, then let us be your company. I don't know what Master Zhou wants?"

Zhou Zhentao was quite proud of himself. This guy from the Beiyang Army made such a phone call. The core point was still that he was afraid of the People's Party. If something happened to Zhou Zhentao, the People's Party would use this as an excuse. , Zhou Zhentao's division can wipe them all out.

However, this complacency only lasted for a moment.At that time, the base area arranged for someone to accompany Zhou Zhentao back to his hometown, but Zhou Zhentao sternly refused.Now as long as he leaves with this group of Beiyang soldiers, he will also fall into the hands of others.Don't look at the sound of the Beiyang Army at the moment, it's because this place is only a mile away from the territory of the People's Party.As long as Zhou Zhentao walks with these people, God knows what will happen.

Seeing that Zhou Zhentao was hesitant, he smiled and said in a low voice: "We have also heard some things. Mr. Zhou seems to have left the People’s Party. , but we in Beiyang are thirsty for talents. Now that the People’s Party is strong and our Beiyang is weak, if Mr. Zhou is willing to give us this face, it’s too late for us to be happy. How can it be detrimental to Mr. Zhou?” [

What this Beiyang soldier said was very reasonable. From the perspective of Beiyang's interests, it is the best policy to be more respectful to Zhou Zhentao now.Zhou Zhentao also considered this before going overland.Of course, take the train from Kaifeng to Luoyang via Zhengzhou.Then take Sanmenxia from Luoyang, pass Tongguan and enter Shaanxi, which is also the shortest road.

Zhou Zhentao turned around and looked towards the base, but no one came to chase Zhou Zhentao.Sighing, Zhou Zhentao turned around and said, "Thank you very much."

"Mr. Zhou is willing to give you a face. That's great. I don't know if Mr. Zhou is riding a horse or a sedan chair? If you are sitting in a sedan chair, wait a moment, the sedan chair is moving slowly, and it has not caught up yet."

Beiyang was so attentive, Zhou Zhentao also felt that the hostility in his heart was much less, he said with a smile: "We are soldiers, what kind of sedan chair do we ride? We ride horses."

After receiving the reins from the Beiyang Army, Zhou Zhentao got on his horse, glanced at the People's Party base, and then urged the horse to head towards Kaifeng.

The idea is not in mind, but I only feel a strong melancholy in my heart.