Since the beginning of the fight against the Yue Wang Association and the People's Party, Zhang Yu did not think much of the Yue Wang Society. And for Chen Duxiu, Zhang Yu has a strong sense of disgust. This is not just Zhang Yu's attitude alone, but the understanding of the government cadres and functionaries in the People's Party, including the entire base area, is gradually becoming unified. Whoever does not work for anything can be classified as the enemy.

Yue Wanghui himself thinks that he has given the People's Party "great help", but in the eyes of the People's Party cadres, Yue Wanghui is just a group of bastards who rely on the power of the People's Party to do mischief. However, everyone was very busy and didn't have time to think about it so much, and Zhang Yu had to deal with King Yue a lot due to work. He had to pay attention to the Yue Wang Hui that he didn't like.

Zhang Yu knew that he was not a magnanimous person, even if he took the initiative to ask Chen Ke for help, and finally took the position of mayor of Anqing, Zhang Yu did not think that he had grown in the slightest in terms of compassion. He didn't attack King Yue, first, Chen Ke had explained, King Yue would be a snake on the ground, so that King Yue's existence would be more valuable. Second, Chen Duxiu has also begun to rectify the style of the Yue Wang Hui since he returned to Anqing, although the rectification is nonsense in Zhang Yu's opinion, but the Yue Wang Club will no longer drag the People's Party back casually.

Now Chen Duxiu came to Zhang Yu with an open look, and Zhang Yu found that he had no idea of reprimanding Chen Duxiu. It's not that his opinion of Chen Duxiu or Yue Wang Hui has changed, Zhang Yu still thinks that Yue Wang Hui is not a weapon, and Chen Duxiu is an unqualified leader. If there is any change, Zhang Yu feels that he can actually understand these "revolutionaries" including Chen Duxiu.

Chen Duxiu didn't know Zhang Yu's true thoughts, he could just clearly feel Zhang Yu's faint dissatisfaction. Despite this dissatisfaction, Zhang Yu spoke with a genuine exhortation and explanation, without any difficulty. This kind of frank behavior made Chen Duxiu admire Zhang Yu a little. He said: "Mayor Zhang, I admire the merits of the People's Party, and I would like to hope that King Yue will be the same as your party. ”

If it was before, even if Zhang Yu didn't scold it immediately after hearing this, at least he would have scolded secretly in his heart. If King Yue succeeds, then what else is there for the People's Party? Now Zhang Yu not only didn't want to scold, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Mr. Chen, you have taken a fancy to what our people have done, if you really ask you to repeat what we have done, I personally don't think you will have such an idea." ”

What Chen Duxiu wanted to know most was the specific implementation process of the People's Party, and seeing that Zhang Yu had the meaning of introduction, Chen Duxiu's eyes immediately lit up. "Not necessarily."

Zhang Yu originally wanted to talk about the hard work of the People's Party in the past two years, but he felt that it was meaningless. If Chen Duxiu listens to it, he is afraid that his first thought is to find a place where the flood will occur. In fact, in the process of the rise of the People's Party, the flood in Anhui certainly played a great role, but even without this flood, Chen Ke and his comrades would still succeed. Thinking of this, Zhang Yu felt that he had made a mistake, he knew that he didn't actually want to introduce Chen Duxiu's work to the People's Party, but just wanted to gain a sense of psychological accomplishment by stating his hard work.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yu finally pulled his thoughts back to reality, "Mr. Chen, I want to ask you one thing now, what do you want to do this time?" If you just want to hear about the history of our BJP, I can find an old fighter and let him tell you. Whatever I have experienced, so have the veterans. ”

Chen Duxiu showed a disappointed look on his face, and he was even more disappointed in his heart. Even now that he has decided to sincerely join the People's Party, once he has the opportunity to learn about the experience of the People's Party, Chen Duxiu still does not want to let it go. This experience contains success, victory, glory, and an infinite future. Anyone who aspires to make a career will not miss the opportunity to learn "success learning". If Chen Duxiu had not truly realized that King Yue would be too far behind the People's Party, he would not have been forced to give up the interests of his own group.

Forcibly holding back his mood, Chen Duxiu said: "Mayor Zhang, I came this time to talk about King Yue's joining the People's Party. ”

"Do you have the ability to get King Yue to join the People's Party?" Zhang Yu couldn't help but blurt out the truth.

"......" Chen Duxiu had nothing to say for a while, and Zhang Yu's truth made Chen Duxiu feel extremely embarrassed. What Zhang Yu said was the truth, King Yue wanted to learn from the success of the People's Party, but everyone didn't want to give up what they could get their hands on.

"What does Mayor Zhang think?" Shi Dekuan saw that the situation was not right, so he interjected. Shi Dekuan really wanted to join the People's Party, he had a low rank in the Yue Wang Association, but he didn't have so many concerns.

Zhang Yu looked at Shi Dekuan's clean clothes, and he smiled: "Comrade Shi Dekuan, if it were you, I think you could join our People's Party, and I think a few more people would be fine." But for the most part, I don't think they can join our organization. Everyone wants something different. ”

Hearing Zhang Yu's recognition of himself, Shi Dekuan's heart was relaxed, he always felt that the People's Party was very angry with himself, but he couldn't say where his temper was, Shi Dekuan asked: "Where is the difference?" ”

"What is the reason for your Yue Wang's revolution?" Zhang Yu asked.

Chen Duxiu never forgot the purpose of the Yue Wang Society, and he replied: "Gai Yue Wumu resisted Liaojin until death, and I must follow his will and try my best to fill the line." ”

Zhang Yu nodded, the revolutionary parties of this era are all bear-like, and they have nothing but "righteousness". Zhang Yu is also annoyed, as the mayor of Anqing, his work is piled up every day. Being so nonsense with Chen Duxiu is just delaying work.

"Let me say so, Mr. Chen. You Yue Wang will now join our People's Party, and I can't agree to it. Because you guys want to be uncles. Let you collect taxes, you dare to play corruption for me. Let you do the physical work, you feel that you are bent. If you are asked to do the work of the government departments, you will blame the people. Everything you do is for a result, so that the people will recognize that you are capable, that you have ideals and morals. And then willingly put you in the position of high officials......"

Chen Duxiu felt that Zhang Yu was too mean, and was about to refute, but Zhang Yu waved his hand to stop Chen Duxiu's idea of speaking, "Mr. Chen, don't say anything." Let me ask you a question, what kind of work would you King Yue want to undertake in Anqing City? ”

"This ......" Chen Duxiu didn't think about it, except for guarding the camp of the families of the Hubei New Army recently, Yue Wanghui actually didn't do any work.

"If you haven't thought about it, I think I want to give you a job. I want you to be responsible for the municipal sanitation work in Anqing City. ”

"Municipal sanitation?" Chen Duxiu's face became ugly. Municipal sanitation is about cleaning the streets, transporting garbage, and especially cleaning the toilets. In Chen Duxiu's view, this is a rather lowly job. If it weren't for the cadres and fighters of the People's Party who also did these tasks themselves, Chen Duxiu would have refused Zhang Yu's request on the spot.

"If you want to join our People's Party, you have to go through the test. Do you think it's a shame to clean up and dig out the manure pit? When we were in Fengtai County, Chairman Chen personally took us to sweep the floor and dig out the manure pit. Officials from top to bottom of our People's Party have swept the floor and scooped up dung. ”

Chen Duxiu looked at Zhang Yu with puzzled eyes, and the credibility of this statement was actually not low. Although he had never seen Zhang Yu personally dig out the dung, Chen Duxiu had seen Zhang Yu personally sweeping the streets with the soldiers more than once. As long as there is no urgent work, Zhang Yu will take the lead in cleaning the streets in front of the Anqing Municipal Government on time.

"To do it or not to do it." Zhang Yu asked.

"If it's a government officer, we can do it." Chen Duxiu drew the final bottom line. If he didn't have the identity of a government official, Chen Duxiu knew that he would never be able to persuade the comrades of the Yue Wang Association to do these "low-level" jobs.

"Then our Anqing government will hire you for three months first, and these three months are the inspection period. If you can pass the three-month inspection, you can be hired for a long time. If it is not qualified, then we will not bear any responsibility for the personnel who will be dismissed by King Yue in the future. Zhang Yu put forward his own idea. He had long wanted to kick the people of the Yue Wang Association out of Anqing, if the Yue Wang Hui was in Anqing like this, Zhang Yu would have to provide them with food every day, if they chose to become government employees, it would be much simpler, and the unqualified people could let them go.

"That's how your People's Party treats revolutionary comrades?" Chen Duxiu sensed this trap.

Zhang Yu smiled: "I don't ask you to do anything great, I only ask you to do something small within your ability." I ask you to treat yourself as ordinary people, work and live honestly. Mr. Chen, do you think it's easy to live seriously? ”

Chen Duxiu did feel that it was easy to live seriously, and he simply nodded and admitted.

"It's not easy to live seriously." Zhang Yu replied: "Life is to eat and dress. To study, to work, to rest. But in this era, it's actually very difficult to live like this. If you want to eat, you have to have land to grow food first, and the people don't have much land, plus one acre of land can only collect more than 100 catties. In the event of a natural disaster or something, the people have to starve to death. If you want to dress, you have to have cloth, can the people afford it? If you want to learn, you have to have schools, and can China provide these schools now? It is not easy to find a stable and earning a living in rural areas, and it is not possible to work if you want to. As for rest, the purpose of rest is to work and live better, and when the people have no work to do, they start to worry when they sit there, where will tomorrow's food come from? There is no rest at all without a job that can be secured......"

"That's why we want ......a revolution," Chen Duxiu interrupted Zhang Yu.

"Revolution? You can now make it possible for ordinary people to eat, dress, go to school, and rest, and this is the revolution. This is what I rack my brains with my comrades every day and still can't do well. Mr. Chen, if you open your mouth, you will talk about revolution, and when you shut up, you will talk about revolution, as long as you don't involve specific work, you can think and say anything. As soon as it involves specific work, you will pick and choose, either a headache or an itchy egg. This is the biggest difference between the People's Party and the Yue Wang Society. ”

"Somebody's got to fight." Chen Duxiu suppressed his dissatisfaction to the greatest extent and said the work he hoped to undertake.

"You want to work in the military?" Zhang Yu asked.

"Yes." Chen Duxiu replied.

"Yes, but I mean it. When I let you fight, don't say that I, Zhang Yu, borrowed a knife to kill people. ”

"It's a deal." Chen Duxiu felt that when he reached such an agreement, he could always explain it to the comrades of the Yue Wang Society.

"But even if you're in the military, you still have to clean." Zhang Yu followed up.

Hearing this, Chen Duxiu suddenly remembered that the troops of the People's Party still had to clean and clean the toilet every day. He thought about it again, and it seemed that no one in the BJP troops he had seen could avoid such work. This is also where Yue Wanghui looks down on the People's Party the most.

"In this way, Mr. Chen, you will discuss it after you go back, and see if you are willing to work and live honestly. If you are willing to work and live honestly like us, then talk about it, if you don't, we can't accept you. In addition, Comrade Shi Dekuan, if you are willing to come to our People's Party, I can arrange a job for you now. ”

Shi Dekuan looked at Chen Duxiu in embarrassment, if he followed the People's Party now, it meant that he had left the Yue Wang Society. This is to bear the reputation of "unrighteousness". Shi Dekuan could not accept such a reputation.

"Comrade Shi Dekuan, if you think that reputation is very important, then I will not force you." Zhang Yu said with a smile.

"I ......, I'm willing to work here now." Shi Dekuan hurriedly replied.

"So be it, Mr. Chen, is there anything else to say?" Zhang Yu gave an eviction order.

After Chen Duxiu left the city government, Zhang Yu arranged for Shi Dekuan to work in the police department. Shi Dekuan was engaged in inspection work in the Yue Wang Society, and Zhang Yu knew that the Yue Wang Society was able to maintain the current discipline, and Shi Dekuan contributed a lot. This is also the reason why Zhang Yu is willing to accept Shi Dekuan. Anqing's urban management department lacks cadres, and Shi Dekuan, a non-local who is unsympathetic and familiar with the situation in Anqing's urban area, is on the contrary a suitable person to lead the work of the urban management department.

got a general, and had a showdown with Chen Duxiu, Zhang Yu's mood became a lot easier. He leaned back in his chair with satisfaction and looked at the map of Anqing on the wall. A big reason why Zhang Yu was able to become the mayor of Anqing was that Chen Ke believed that Zhang Yu might have the ability to command a strategic direction. The Hubei New Army will definitely have to be dispatched, and Chen Ke cannot put a regiment in Anqing, and the level of Zhang Yu's command ability is of great significance to this front.

Although he hoped that Zhang Yu could show his strength, Chen Ke still gave Zhang Yu the freedom to give up Anqing. Zhang Yu is very grateful for this. He did not want to confront the Hubei New Army, so flexible command authority was of great significance to military commanders.

After staring at the map for a while, Zhang Yu still found that he did not have enough troops to complete the strategic concept. If you want the Hubei New Army to stop near Anqing, it is not possible to resist hard. If nothing else, it is impossible to withstand the shelling of the Hubei New Army on the waterway alone. The only way is to cause problems within the Hubei New Army. After confirming his thoughts again, Zhang Yu asked the political commissar Lu Zhengping to call back.

Lu Zhengping was arranging for those "liberation fighters" of the Hubei New Army, and now facing the attack of the Hubei New Army, Lu Zhengping had no way to fully trust these "liberation fighters". Since these "liberation fighters" had decided to join the revolution, Lu Zhengping asked them to cut their braids first. He had expected that these "liberation fighters" would hesitate. Unexpectedly, the "liberation fighters" agreed without care.

After cutting his braids, Lu Zhengping arranged for the new comrades to stay, and did not inquire about the internal situation of the Hubei New Army. Such a considerate approach moved the soldiers very much, "Lord Lu, we want to tell you about the Hubei New Army." "These fighters offered to ask for intelligence.

"Comrades, I ask you one thing first." Lu Zhengping said. The "liberation fighters" immediately stood up and waited for Lu Zhengping's lecture.

"In our People's Party, there is no distinction between high and low, I am the same as you, everyone is equal. Everyone in the army calls each other comrades, my name is Lu Zhengping, you can call me Comrade Lu Zhengping, or you can call me Political Commissar Lu. But you can't call me an adult. Please remember this. ”

After listening to Lu Zhengping's words, the new soldiers looked at each other one by one. They also knew about this when they were in the prisoner of war camps, but they always felt that it was an internal matter of the BJP itself, and many people laughed at the BJP at that time for not knowing how to be inferior. I didn't expect the People's Party to treat these recruits so equally. The new fighters felt very wrong.

"Regarding the military discipline of our People's Party, we have a military song called "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", and I don't think you need to learn anything else today, but first follow our literary and art committee members to learn this song and sing it as soon as possible. What are you going to do, it's all very clear in this song. ”

In these years, the new army also has military songs, and the content on discipline will also be made into songs to sing. At least that's the case with the Beiyang Army. As soon as the new fighters were arranged to start learning songs, the correspondent came to Lu Zhengping. Handing over the work of the new soldiers to the literary and artistic committee and the life officer, Lu Zhengping rushed back to the city government.

A brief introduction to the situation of the new soldiers, Lu Zhengping made a small summary, "The new soldiers look quite simple, and the information says that most of the new troops in Hubei are children of good families, which should be true." ”

"Let's not expect too much from these people, they can become qualified fighters." Zhang Yu explained.

"Mayor Zhang doesn't want to take advantage of this repatriation?" Lu Zhengping was a little puzzled.

"If we intervene now, the intention is too obvious. On the contrary, it will have the opposite effect, and Chairman Chen specifically mentioned this matter in his letter. Zhang Yu said.

Lu Zhengping was born as a scout, and the scout is the most courageous and offensive unit. Even if he knew Chen Ke's arrangement, Lu Zhengping didn't want to be so passive. He also hopes to do better in the next war.

"I don't want to give up Anqing on my own initiative." Zhang Yu said. Hearing this, Lu Zhengping's eyes lit up. Zhang Yu has never expressed any opinion on the war, and it seems that now Zhang Yu is finally going to break the silence that has been there.