In the face of the massacre that broke out in early 1915, the BJP never overreacted. From the beginning to the end, the People's Party has only extended a helping hand to half of its allies, the "former Zhejiang West Branch of the Former Liberation Society". Cai Yuanpei was originally worried that the ambitious People's Party would contact the "chaotic party" within the Restoration Society to seize Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so he must carry out a purge of the Liberation Society before the People's Party started, so as to put an end to internal trouble. The People's Party did not move, so that the purge "led" by Cai Yuanpei was completed very smoothly.

If it weren't for the assassination of Zhu Rui as the beginning, there were more than a dozen successful and unsuccessful assassinations in Zhejiang, and the purge would have been a complete success. All the people who advocated land reform in Zhejiang died or fled, and those who advocated Westernization were also killed. The landlords and gentry regained power, and after the local parliamentarians were purged and slaughtered twice, the "moderates" came to power in full force. In Cai Yuanpei's view, the whole of Zhejiang is back on track. The human factor that has the potential to trigger social change is cleansed by artificiality. After this frenzied killing, the British expressed their support, and the weapons and supplies that should have been sent were also delivered.

But Cai Yuanpei felt a faint worry that the whole Zhejiang was too "calm", "calm" to the point of lifelessness. No one dared to discuss political affairs anymore, and as soon as the parliament opened its mouth, it was how to "completely purge the chaotic party". In Cai Yuanpei's view, the chaotic party in Zhejiang Province has been purged, and the most important task at the moment is to reorganize the armament and wage war with the People's Party. However, the landlords and gentry did not mention this matter at all, and the assassinated Tao Chengzhang once vehemently advocated that Zhejiang stay out of the future war in order to seek to maintain the political system of inter-provincial autonomy. These gentry used to oppose Tao Chengzhang, but after they came to power, the landlord gentry's arguments were exactly the same as Tao Chengzhang's.

Cai Yuanpei agreed with Sun Yat-sen's proposition, and in such a situation, he had to write to Sun Yat-sen, hoping to get some theoretical support from Sun Yat-sen. As a result, when the messenger returned, he brought news that Sun Yat-sen, who is now the vice minister of the Ministry of Railways and a member of the National Assembly, went abroad to Japan for "inspection".

"Why?" Cai Yuanpei didn't understand Sun Yat-sen's actions at this juncture.

"The Guangdong parliamentarians demanded that the Beiyang government kill Sun Yat-sen to thank the world on the grounds that the League was promoting radicalism. After all, the equal land rights were proposed by Sun Yat-sen, and the landlords and gentry were extremely opposed to this. Dr. Sun Yat-sen once argued that his equal land tenure and the People's Party's land reform were completely different. Equal tenure respects the landlord's ownership of the land. But a large number of people didn't listen at all, and Mr. Sun Yat-sen had no choice but to go to Japan for refuge. The messenger explained.

However, there are some things that the person who sent the letter did not dare to tell Cai Yuanpei directly. Yuan Shikai made Sun Yat-sen a member of the National Assembly, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways, just to play the role of a thousand golden bones, and the leader of the League, the once most revolutionary political party, also submitted to Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government, and the political significance in this regard is huge. Adhering to the consistent methods of the Beiyang government, Yuan Shikite granted Sun Yat-sen 200,000 oceans to "carry out inspections on the railway issue", and the money was spent in less than a year. Sun Yat-sen applied to Yuan Shikai for 300,000 oceans.

In this nationwide "purge of radicalism", some members of Congress demanded that Sun Yat-sen disclose his financial problems and ask Sun Yat-sen to explain where the 500,000 oceans were spent. Sun Yat-sen could not explain his financial problems, and seeing that the recent situation was not right, he simply ran to Japan to avoid trouble in the name of investigation.

Knowing that Sun Yat-sen was not in China, Cai Yuanpei was quite disappointed. He has carefully studied Sun Yat-sen's three-minism and is a supporter of Sun Yat-sen's thought. In Cai Yuanpei's view, it is still necessary to develop a new system to a certain extent, and Sun Yat-sen is the only person in China who can confront the People's Party in terms of political system structure.

"Mr. Sun is not in Beijing, how is the situation in Beijing recently?" Cai Yuanpei asked.

"Beijing and Tianjin have almost become barracks, and everyone is preparing for war." The messenger hurriedly replied. He knew Cai Yuanpei's appreciation of Sun Yat-sen, if Cai Yuanpei must have asked about Sun Yat-sen's recent situation, the sender really didn't know how to answer.

"When can there be war?" Cai Yuanpei asked, although the whole Beiyang has been shouting for war, but when it is always conscription and training, there is no real movement until now.

"I don't know." The messenger replied.

"I see." Cai Yuanpei replied. He also knew that the messenger went to Beijing to confirm this matter, and now there is a lot of talk in the streets and alleys of the whole country, if what they said was true, then the war would have been fought dozens of times a long time ago. The messenger did not come back to "sell" the rumors heard along the way, which made Cai Yuanpei quite satisfied.

After the messenger went out, Cai Yuanpei sat weakly in the empty room, not only thinking about when the war would start in Beiyang, but he also wondered why the People's Party had not moved until now.

In 1913, some comrades believed that a war of all-out liberation would break out, and in 1914 the party continued to fight, and foreign countries also tried to interfere in China's affairs, and the People's Party believed that a war of all-out liberation would break out. Chen Kedu vigorously defied public opinion and demanded that the base areas complete the work of conscription, training, and industrial and agricultural production in a step-by-step manner.

By 1915, Beiyang had entered the stage of large-scale military expansion and training, and the comrades within the People's Party had sufficient experience in this regard. The Beiyang Army claims to be 2 million, and an army of this size does not have more than a year's worth of training equipment, so it is impossible for it to have combat effectiveness in general, and in particular, the ability to cooperate in combat. According to the information collected and determined by the intelligence department of the People's Party, the command center of the Beiyang Army is not even fully equipped with operational staff officers, not to mention that the staff officers who already have them are basically clerks and have no combat experience at all. Therefore, most comrades believed that the all-out war of liberation would begin in the second half of 1916.

As on the previous occasions, Chen Ke again came out to defy public opinion, believing that the war in Beiyang would begin around August 1915. The comrades did not dare to believe it, and they demanded that Chen Ke give a clear reason. At the end of April 1915, Chen Ke finally convened the National Congress of the People's Party. At the meeting, Chen Ke finally explained the problem, "Beiyang is facing the problem of imported inflation. According to the recent intelligence summary, the imported inflation has broken through the threshold and entered a full-scale outbreak stage. ”

"Input" is a concept established by comrades through specific things such as blood transfusion and water transfusion, while "inflation" is an economic term that they learned in class. The two words are separated, and everyone understands that when the two words are connected, they are given a "sex". Comrades feel that they cannot understand.

Chen Ke also had no intention of letting the comrades speculate, he explained: "The imported inflation encountered by Beiyang refers to the large amount of currency imported into the Beiyang economic system by an economy outside the Beiyang economic system. At a time when the production capacity of the economic system has not been fully improved, the amount of money in circulation exceeds the volume of transactions, resulting in inflation. ”

Such an academic remark still made the comrades feel incomprehensible, Lu Huitian was more flexible in this regard, and he was the first to understand, "Chairman Chen means that the British gave Yuan Shikai a large amount of silver, and Yuan Shikai minted this silver into silver dollars to be issued in Beiyang. The British supplied imported inflation to the North Seas. ”

Some comrades understand, but some comrades still don't quite understand, "This is real money, and it is not an indiscriminate issuance of paper money." How can it be called inflation? ”

The BJP implemented a fiat currency system, and paper money was circulated internally. As for currency issuance, the BJP is very worried about inflation. The central bank is quite careful when issuing currency, and has set up a special project review department, that is, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. If there is no state support, paper money is waste paper, and it is too hard to wipe the buttocks. However, the silver dollar of Beiyang is genuine, and in the concept of some comrades, it is extremely difficult to associate this thing with inflation.

"If it's just an extra silver dollar, it's not a problem." "But instead of entering circulation on an average basis, a large amount of money is now concentrated in a few sectors. The Beiyang Army can't drink the northwest wind, they have to eat. Money entered the food purchasing system in large quantities. At present, we occupy the grain-producing area of the Huanghuai Plain. Beiyang could not support these millions of troops by relying on Hebei and Shandong alone. And why am I talking about thresholds? The people also had to eat, and if the price of grain remained relatively high for a while, the people gradually sold the grain in their hands. Now there is no food in Beiyang, and there is no food for the people. Everyone is waiting for this year's summer harvest. ”

"It's not a bumper harvest of summer grain this year, but it's not a problem, right?" The comrades in Henan are next to Hebei and Shandong, and they have a say in this year's harvest in Beiyang.

"It's just because there's no problem, that's why there's a problem." Chen Ke replied.

This kind of supernatural statement made the comrades feel very dissatisfied, and Chen Ke often did this in major matters, he always relied on what he understood to infer the development of things, and only after the fact that the comrades could understand why things were going the way they did. Before the incident, no matter how everyone discussed it with Chen Ke, there would always be a feeling that the donkey's head was not in the horse's mouth. So dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and the comrades of the BJP are sure of two things. The first is to plan the future strategy according to Chairman Chen Ke's ideas. The second is to carefully observe and gather intelligence. so that the questions can be summarized in future seminars.

In the People's Party, whether or not they can keep up with Chen Ke's train of thought is a very serious question. It is not that the comrades' opinions differ from Chen Ke's will bring any retaliation, but that those comrades who can understand Chen Ke's thinking can be promoted more quickly. This is an issue that cannot be ignored. Since everyone respects Chen Ke as a leader and Chen Ke as a mentor, is there any reason why students don't listen to the teacher's lectures?