It is extremely easy to attack the People's Party, because Beiyang officials originally believed that the People's Party was a murderous political organization, and that as long as Beiyang fought a war with the People's Party in the past five or six years, it would be defeated in every battle. After Duan Qirui listened to Cai Yuanpei's suggestion, organized Beiyang officials to study the People's Party's "Constitution", "Criminal Law", and "Civil Law" documents, and read a number of collected "study contents" of the People's Party, all Beiyang officials completely believed that the People's Party was not only murderous, but also extremely evil.

It is not such an outrageous thing that the corrupt and bribe-takers are severely punished, and Beiyang does not dare to admit that corruption and bribery are correct. However, in response to the various cases that have already occurred, the people should come up with various targeted measures. These measures have closed loopholes in the system. This could not but make the Beiyang bureaucrats panic.

Regarding these problems, the group of literati under Cai Yuanpei used "coolness" to characterize the People's Party. The saying of those literati is, "Employing people is not suspicious, and people are not suspicious, and they are the same as the light." This is benevolence. When the water is clear, there are no fish, and the cool and thin policy implemented by the People's Party is essentially a complete disbelief in the integrity of officials. Commission for Discipline Supervision, People's Committee of Internal Affairs. It is today's East Factory and West Factory. It is a typical manifestation of the People's Party's indifference to people. The officials have read the books of the sages, and they are all people of high moral character, and if they are missing, they must have their own troubles. The fact that the People's Party has blindly practiced brutal politics in disregard of everyone's situation is a clear proof of its coldness. ”

The literati did not criticize the People's Party's people's representative system. As a literati, he originally supported the "republic" and "parliamentary system". Moreover, although Beiyang respected the literati, it refused to hand over power to the literati. In this regard, criticizing the People's Party is criticizing Beiyang. After discussion, Cai Yuanpei and others believed that there must be Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, "for the Venerable". This attitude and approach is necessary. The lesser of two evils, Beiyang still respects the literati enough. Therefore, as for the election system of the People's Party, the literati's arguments point directly to the results.

"Under the rule of the People's Party, all landlords, gentry, literati, and relatives of officials were not allowed to be elected. The chosen ones are illiterate people. These people don't understand politics at all, let alone respect Chinese traditions, and all policies are indifferent. The People's Party destroyed ancestral halls, demolished temples, imprisoned clans, and plundered clan land. Not only that, but they also went against the wind and water, forcibly destroying people's ancestral graves and relocating people's tombs. It's really morally depraved and mad. ”

In recent years, scholars are still quite concerned about ancestral graves, and the People's Party does have the problem of moving graves in the land reform. This is also a matter of no choice, Anhui was flooded that year, and most of the graves were leveled. Therefore, during the land reform, it is possible to implement land planning. However, this is not absolute, and some places still encounter the problem of relocating graves. Chen Ke has always believed that there is no reason for the deceased and the living to have any need to expropriate land. So the BJP implemented a plan to relocate graves.

In order to win public opinion as much as possible, in addition to talking about the realistic argument that "the deceased must take care of the latecomers", the People's Party also hyped up the funeral characteristics of the Confucius era. In the time of Confucius, they were all buried deeply, but no monuments were erected and no graves were built. The aim is not to affect normal agricultural production. The old-timers are still so open, and there is no reason for future generations to "prove their existence with the inconvenience they have given to future generations". After the relocation of the graves, cemetery management was implemented, and if the farmers were willing to perform cremation, tomb towers were built in various places to worship the ashes.

The cemetery has a lot of trees and an elegant environment. Coupled with the land reform policy, it is worth considering whether the people are happy in their hearts, but everyone can at least reluctantly accept the advocacy of the "government".

What literati are most afraid of is not being able to "show their reputation" after death, if their grave is revered, and it really causes unavoidable trouble to future generations, they are actually very happy in their hearts. The new approach of the People's Party may well have been in line with the tradition of the era of "Confucius the Great Sage and the Great Sage", but it completely contradicted the expectations of the literati. Therefore, when attacking the "funeral reform" of the People's Party, the literati came completely from the heart and from the bottom of their hearts.

Officials also could not accept the burial reform, and they did their best to be officials, just to show themselves and win glory for the family. There is no better way to prove your existence than to cause trouble for others. And he finally became an official, and he didn't even have a grave after he died. Or lying in the same cemetery as those ordinary people, just imagination can make many Beiyang officials angry and roar to the sky.

For the People's Party's policy attacks, it must be linked to reality, and Cai Yuanpei and others also launched a grievance meeting. There are several bereaved families of "murdered literati", snot and tears make a review of their personal family history.

"The contemptible grandfather served as a local school administrator in Jiangxi, and during the famine years, my grandfather delayed the collection of rent, and waited until the year was good. Let the tenant farmers make up the rent owed. This is the contract written and the handprint pressed. The tenant farmers refused to pay the rent and rose up to make trouble. The contemptible grandfather had to ask the government to come forward, and the government arrested some people. Some of the Diao people committed suicide after being released. After the People's Party rebelled in Jiangxi, Diao Min sued, and they arrested my grandfather and beheaded him in public after the public trial. The people didn't even let my family collect the body, and punched and kicked my grandfather's body. Woo woo ......" said the wound, and the bereaved family members of the "murdered literati" cried loudly and couldn't cry silently.

"My uncle was admitted to the Jinshi, and when he traveled in one day, there were people rushing to the road. My grandfather's subordinates reprimanded the Diao people, who ignored their dignity and made insulting remarks. My uncle had no choice but to order someone to teach Diao Min a lesson, but he himself was not in good shape, and he died of a sudden illness. When the People's Party arrived in my hometown, they even said that my grandfather had killed people and wanted to pay for the lives of Diao Min. My uncle is a dignified scholar and a rich man with five cars, and he wants to give a heavy car to Diao Min? Is there such a truth in the world? ”

Pile by case, piece by piece, the scholars wept and complained about the history of blood and tears, denouncing the People's Party for ignoring respect and humility, ignoring tradition, and equating the honorable scholars with the illiterate Diao people. Murder to repay debts and debts is a common rule within the same rank. How can this be done between different classes?

"The BJP cries out for equality, but in fact they have absolutely no intention of equality. Under the pretext of equality, they instructed these people to bully the gentry and slaughter officials. This is the biggest inequality, and we must not watch them behave like this! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, wherever the People's Party goes, there will be a public trial. As long as the people advocate something, they will accept it in its entirety regardless of the facts. If Diao Min falsely accuses our officials' families of killing their family, the People's Party will listen to Diao Min's words and kill the official's family and even the official himself, so as to pay for Diao Min's life. If the people falsely accuse our officials and their families of buying something from them, the People's Party will go to the officials and their families and take these things from the officials and give them to the people. There is a difference between respect and inferiority, and the old and young are orderly. If you can't punish a doctor, you can't give a courtesy. This is a tradition that has been around for thousands of years, but the People's Party has no regard for tradition at all, and even wants to let the people climb on our heads to make a fortune, and if the People's Party had gained power, you might have been spared at that time. But if the People's Party doesn't do it himself, the people will not let you go. When the time comes, the People's Party will instruct Diao Min to falsely accuse you and your family members. That's when everyone is really in trouble! ”

There is no electricity in any of the Beiyang officials' families to oppress the people, and that family has not robbed the land and property, and lent money to force people to death. The BJP's land reform policies have become unacceptable to officials, who regard the BJP as their worst enemy. Coupled with the various "bao" actions actually carried out by the BJP, the officials shuddered. He became an official in order to glorify his ancestors and support his family. If it becomes an official, it becomes the reason for the destruction of the family, and the officials naturally refuse to admit it.

"Down with the People's Party!" "Against radicalism!" "Restore tradition!" Officials began to reach a consensus on the political front.

The officials are quite distracted, and the officers in the Beiyang Army are much more straightforward. The literati knew that the vast majority of these soldiers were not from the literati, and they had a strong sense of envy and jealousy for the literati.

"You are all heroes of the country's dry city, born and dead. Many of the Beiyang Army were from Anhui, and when the People's Party stole Anhui, there was not a single enclosure left in Anhui. Almost the entire clan of the landlords and gentry in the enclosure was slaughtered, and you all know these things. Many of your relatives have also been killed. Life in heaven and earth should be both loyalty and filial piety. If loyalty and filial piety can't be complete, then you have to take the lead. If the People's Party can be slaughtered at the moment, you will be loyal to the president, and you can also take revenge. This is the act that can be admired and recited by future generations! ”

The soldiers were relatively straightforward, and after listening to the incitement of these literati, they were also in high spirits.

Yuan Shikai didn't care much about the propaganda of the literati among the officials, but he kept a close eye on the propaganda of the literati in the army. Duan Qirui gave the propaganda draft to Yuan Shikai, who read it in detail and asked the reaction of the entire Beiyang Army. After determining that these propaganda were centered on "loyalty to the president", "revenge and hatred", and "suppression of the chaotic party", Yuan Shikai also put some peace of mind. He said with a smile: "At the moment, the military salary is sufficient, and it is best if everyone can work together." ”

Duan Qirui had long been a little puzzled about Beiyang's diplomacy, and he took this opportunity to ask: "President, I heard that Britain has declared war on Germany, and Britain must let us join the Entente. But I don't know what the president thinks? ”

Yuan Shikai smiled bitterly: "Even if I don't want to join the Entente now, can I not join the Entente?" ”

Duan Qirui said: "President, Germany is a rising star, and Britain may not be Germany's opponent. The People's Party is now forcing our family to join the Entente, and I think there is a great conspiracy. You can't afford to be careless. ”

Whether Britain could win or Germany could win in this war was debated within Beiyang. Many senior Beiyang officers believed that Germany could win. Coupled with concerns about what tricks Chen Ke was playing in it, there were relatively few people in the Beiyang Army who supported joining the British camp. More of an opinion is "wait and see".

Yuan Shikai did not doubt this time, "Zhiquan, who can support us at the moment between Britain and Germany?" If we figured this out, we wouldn't have much to hesitate about. ”

When Duan Qirui heard this, he stopped talking. He knew that Yuan Shikai had not continued to finish speaking, if the People's Party could not be completely eliminated, what would be the significance of a British victory or a German victory to Beiyang?