"The most direct criterion for whether a regime has a place in the hearts of the people is whether the people believe that the regime can exist for a long time. This bereavement pension must not be turned into a short-term life-buying bereavement pension. Institutional bereavement benefits must be developed. Otherwise, we would like to be sorry for these comrades who sacrificed their lives for the revolution. Chen Ke's words were categorical. The cadres of the Department of Political Science and Industry listened with solemn faces, and many people couldn't help but nod slightly.

Lu Huitian was in charge of civil affairs, and he took the lead in asking: "Chairman Chen, what is the principle of this kind of institutional bereavement pension?" The comrades engaged in civil affairs and construction work agreed with this question, and everyone's eyes first fell on Lu Huitian and then turned to Chen Ke. It is no secret that Shang Yuan, who was originally in charge of government work, wants to go to Hebei to work. Since the top leader of the administrative work is leaving, someone will inevitably be promoted to this position. Lu Huitian and Yuwenba are both in charge of civil affairs, but everyone knows that Yuwenba can sit in this position more because he is a native of Fengtai County, and in order to let the people of Fengtai County have a sense of closeness to the People's Party, he was allowed to take this position.

Whether it is qualifications, prestige, or ability, Yuwen Ba is far inferior to Lu Huitian. Everyone believed that once Shang Yuan left the base area, Lu Huitian would inevitably become the new government leader. In particular, in this Anqing Campaign, Chen Ke, Shang Yuan, and others all left the base area, and the comrades who remained in the base area were basically engaged in civil affairs and construction work, and everyone subconsciously followed Lu Huitian's side.

"I don't think the amount of the pension has to be too high. If a martyr is unmarried, a pension is paid to his parents. If married, the pension is paid to the martyr's wife. If there are no parents, wives, but only children, the pension is paid to the children of martyrs. And the pension should not be issued with silver and silver dollars. We are going to open a bank soon, and the pension will be issued in RMB. We will discuss the specific amount after the meeting. The key now is to embody institutional bereavement in the spring ploughing that will begin soon. First, first, the army should help the families of local martyrs cultivate their land to make up for the losses of the martyrs' families. Second, we will soon set up some new government departments and factories, and give priority to recruiting the families of martyrs under the same conditions when recruiting new personnel. But, beyond that, the families of the martyrs cannot have any political privileges. Since we want to create a new system in which everyone is equal and there are no unearned people, no one should have political privileges that are different from others. ”

After listening to Chen Ke's proposal, the comrades felt that there was no problem, and some comrades began to ask Chen Ke for more detailed implementation methods. Lu Huitian, like other comrades, agreed with the solution proposed by Chen Ke. But he couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart. This time, Chen Ke personally commanded the Anqing Campaign, and two of the Seventh Standing Committee members went. The civil affairs work in the base area was entrusted to Lu Huitian and Yuwenba. In the eyes of others, it was only a matter of time before Lu Huitian took over Shang Yuan's position. But Lu Huitian didn't think so, because Chen Ke handed over the party affairs to Qi Huishen. Qi Huishen has been in charge of work in Shanghai for the past year, and he has no influence in the Fengtai County base area, and most of the newly developed comrades in the base area have not even heard of Qi Huishen's name. But Lu Huitian knew very well that among the older comrades, Qi Huishen still had a high reputation. What's more, Chen Ke assigned Qi Huishen to be in charge of party affairs, and the status of party affairs work is higher than that of government affairs. In other words, if Chen Ke encounters an accident in Anqing, Qi Huishen will take over the power of the People's Party.

From the bottom of his heart, Lu Huitian definitely didn't want Chen Ke to have three longs and two shorts. But he couldn't fully accept the fact that Qi Huishen's status was still above him. If Chen Ke wanted Qi Huishen to take over the position left by Shang Yuan, Lu Huitian would definitely not be able to stop him.

Because of his thoughts, Lu Huitian didn't listen much to everyone's discussion, and when his attention finally focused, he heard He Zudao ask: "Comrade Wu Liuyi has only one widow in his family, what should I do in this situation?" ”

Chen Ke didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Then recruit Comrade Wu Liuyi's mother to our government unit and arrange a job for Wu's mother to undertake." To Mother Wu, let's give birth, raise and bury. ”

There were fewer and fewer comrades asking questions, and Lu Huitian secretly gritted his teeth and mustered up the courage to ask a question: "Chairman Chen, now that the base area has expanded to this extent, are we considering moving the capital of the base area to another place?" ”

Originally, some of the comrades of the Central Committee asked Chen Ke questions, and some were discussing in low voices. Hearing Lu Huitian's words, everyone fell silent. Many people looked at Lu Huitian with surprised eyes. Lu Huitian knew that he had become the focus, he suppressed the excitement and a little uneasiness in his heart, and looked at Chen Ke intently.

This is the first time that Lu Huitian has put forward his own thoughtful proposal. In the past, it was not without comrades who took the initiative to raise strategic issues, but at that time, no one had any practical work experience, and in addition to the unprecedented flood, the opinions put forward by everyone were quite unreliable. Chen Ke easily refuted these views every time, and then unswervingly implemented his opinions. The accumulation of these things has made Chen Ke today's status. Even the thousand-mile surprise attack on Anqing, which seemed so unreliable in advance, did not dare to oppose it when Chen Ke proposed it.

Of course, the victory in the Battle of Anqing raised Chen Ke's prestige to a higher level. The idea of opposing the idea in the hearts of the comrades has now become a more supportive mentality for Chen Ke.

Lu Huitian was born as a student, and his attitude towards these things is the same as everyone else's, and he trusts Chen Ke from trust to trust. But after all, he had been doing government affairs for so long, and Lu Huitian suddenly realized something. In government affairs, at least within the People's Party, there are only two ways to gain status, the first is to become Chen Ke's firm iron core like He Zudao. In this regard, Lu Huitian felt that he could not compare to He Zudao. It's not that He Zudao has any special and unusual ability to pat horses and whiskers, but that Lu Huitian knows that he will never be able to fully accept what Chen Ke proposes like He Zudao.

For example, Chen Ke repeatedly mentioned "serving the people", and Lu Huitian did not object to this concept. However, Lu Huitian accepted Chen Ke's concept of "serving the people" from an administrative point of view, "Only when we have the power to serve the people and let the people do without the services provided by our People's Party, can we grasp the will of the people and the political power." ”

He Zudao implemented the concept of "serving the people" from another angle, that is, from the perspective of politics and party spirit. He is always very patient to understand the people, understand the ordinary soldiers in the army, and can really look at problems from the perspective of ordinary grassroots, and then solve problems. Lu Huitian thinks that he will never be able to do this.

For Lu Huitian, the first thing he needs to maintain is the smooth operation of government departments, so that the government-led work in the base area can be carried out smoothly. From this point of view, what Lu Huitian has to do is to command, to dominate. Therefore, Lu Huitian didn't think that he could get status by becoming Chen Ke's iron core like He Zudao.

If you can't be like He Zudao, the only way to gain status is to become a representative of a certain policy. In other words, Lu Huitian must become a figure who represents the ideas of a part of the comrades in the party. The relocation of the BJP's capital is the policy that is most likely to change at this stage.

After the capture of Fengyang Province, the main work of the People's Party was to conduct the Anqing Campaign. Now that the Anqing campaign had been successfully completed and the Manchu ruling center in Anhui had been uprooted, it was necessary for the administrative center of the People's Party to move to a new area. In the days when Chen Ke led the troops to leave the base area, the party members and cadres who stayed in the base area discussed this issue a lot in private. The comrades who remained in the base area had a general "consensus" on this, and Fengtai County was not suitable to be the capital of the new base area. The general view is that Fengyang Mansion is the appropriate new capital, and even if it is not moved to Fengyang Mansion, at least the capital must be moved to Shouzhou City. In this matter, a large part of the comrades wanted to go to the city rather than stay in the country. Of course, this reason is also very sufficient, if Fengyang Mansion is too far away, Shouzhou City is close to the base of Fengtai County, originally Fengtai County is the territory carved out from Shouzhou, and the capital is set in Shouzhou, which is far more appealing than in Fengtai County.

It can be seen from Chen Ke's expression that Lu Huitian's suggestion was beyond Chen Ke's expectations, and the unbearable joy on the faces of many comrades also let Lu Huitian know that his proposal did have many supporters.

Chen Ke frowned slightly, resting his elbows on the table, his ten fingers slowly crossed together, and his chin was picked with two thumbs. When the comrades looked at Chen Ke's appearance, they all felt that Chen Ke would fall into a deep thought. Unexpectedly, Chen Ke only took two heavy breaths, and then returned to his posture of sitting upright. "No, we don't have the capital to enter the city yet. The countryside surrounds the city, and the new countryside should be built first, and then the matter of entering the city will be discussed. ”

These words dealt a heavy blow to the enthusiasm of many comrades, and it was obvious that many people had disappointed looks on their faces. Chen Ke didn't want to say anything more critical. Young people want to go into town. If Chen Ke was not a traverser, in his eyes, the city in 1907, no matter how big or small, was really vulgar, and Chen Ke himself was afraid that he might want to enter the city even more.

"The next task is to build a new economic system dominated by banks, and all comrades must undergo a tentative two-day theoretical training. What is the small-scale peasant economy, and what is the idea of industrialized capital operation. This training is very important, and all comrades in the party, government, and military departments must undergo training. Leave of absence under any pretext is not permitted. Therefore, everyone hurriedly arranged their work and officially started the training the morning after tomorrow. ”

Chen Ke's words did not have much effect, and many comrades were still immersed in the disappointment of not being able to enter the city. There was little response to important training. Seeing that the basic work had been completed, Chen Ke announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Thanks to the overtime work of the engineering troops, and the use of bricks and cement, a simple cemetery of martyrs was finally completed before the memorial service began. On the small square in front of the martyrs' cemetery, a memorial service was held on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. The memorial service was grand and simple. All the leaders of the party, government, and army, the families of the officers and men who died in Fengtai County, and all the officers and men of the troops in the Fengtai County base area attended the memorial service. In addition to these people, the remains of the martyrs were also present at the venue.

After the Battle of Anqing, there was a small internal controversy among the military commissions on the front line over the issue of the remains of martyrs. In the past, because of the small scale of the battle, the number of soldiers who died was very limited, and the bodies of the soldiers were transported back to the base area. The remains of the soldiers in the Battle of Anqing could not be considered particularly large, but due to the distance from the base area, the fleet was already stuffed with captured materials, and it was impossible to transport the remains of the soldiers more. The transport of troops by land is also huge, and it is very difficult to move the remains of soldiers. Whether to transport the remains of the soldiers back after the sparks, or simply bury them temporarily near Anqing. Although everyone wants to transport their comrades-in-arms home and let their parents take a last look. However, in the face of practical difficulties, the CMC had to consider more effective methods of operation. In the end, the bodies of soldiers whose families were no longer based and their parents could not arrive in time were cremated on the spot and the ashes were transported back to the base area for burial. After the bodies of more than 40 fighters whose families were in the base area were embalmed and sterilized with lime, the troops transported them home. For this, the troops have worked extremely hard.

When Chen Ke spoke, he was confronted with rows of martyrs' bodies and rows of soldiers holding urns. Seeing this dense existence, Chen Ke really felt a sense of heaviness. In the 21st century, Chen Ke has always had a sense of resistance to this kind of official-style writing. However, when he himself stood in front of the stage and delivered this kind of speech to the vast number of officers and soldiers and the bereaved families of the martyrs, this heavy feeling in the face of the sacrificed soldiers had completely overwhelmed Chen Ke's feeling of resistance and ridicule for those official articles. Chen Ke no longer thinks this kind of cliché is ridiculous. He suddenly found himself wanting to say something, and he felt like he had something to say.

If it weren't for Chen Ke's appearance, these people would not have ended their young lives in such a way. Perhaps these people did not fully understand what the future depicted by Chen Ke would look like, but these martyrs did believe that they would be able to live a better life by following the People's Party led by Chen Ke. So they sacrificed their lives. And their sacrifice was exchanged for the victory of the Battle of Anqing. In exchange for this, the BJP has the strategic initiative for the next year or more.

If they hadn't met Chen Ke and the People's Party, these officers and soldiers might have disappeared silently into the flood and into the long river of history. No one will remember them, and no so many will mourn them. But such thoughts did not make Chen Ke feel the slightest sense of ease. If you just use these martyrs in front of you as tools that can be discarded after they are finished? Chen Ke may have been able to think this way before, but now he can no longer accept such an approach.

Standing on his military hat, Chen Ke began to speak, "Today, we hold this memorial service with a heavy heart. Commemoration of the 137 cadres and soldiers who died in the Battle of Anqing......"

The draft of the memorial service was written by Chen Ke himself, and he praised the sacrificed officers and soldiers for their belief that the revolution would be able to create an equal and happy new China, and that the martyrs fought bravely for this goal in the Battle of Anqing and sacrificed everything for the revolutionary cause. These martyrs were glorious in life and great in death. Chen Ke called on the whole party and the whole army to carry forward the legacy of the martyrs and carry out the revolutionary cause to the end.

These time-honored official articles have been tempered a lot, and both political correctness and the exposition of facts are the most correct. The eulogy that once made Chen Ke shudder did not make Chen Ke feel uncomfortable at all. Not only that, Chen Ke felt that this eulogy was apt to say what should be said.

When he wrote this eulogy, Chen Ke felt very embarrassed, but now he doesn't feel that way anymore. It is Chen Ke's obligation to deliver a eulogy. Chen Ke feels that this is not only his responsibility, but also his own obligation. He has the obligation to pay tribute to these martyrs and to convey the thoughts and spirit of these martyrs to the whole army and to the families of the martyrs.

The officers and soldiers below and the families of the military martyrs listened quietly, and everyone did not think that Chen Ke's eulogy was not hypocritical. Because there is not a single sentence in the eulogy about the martyrs being sacrificed out of allegiance to Chen Ke or the BJP. Chen Ke told everyone that because the martyrs believed in the people's revolutionary program of the People's Party, believed that they could live a good life through the revolution, and believed that this good life could be continued, they fought bravely regardless of life and death.

These words resonated greatly with the officers and men. Everyone was willingly loyal to Chen Ke and the People's Party. And the original reason for this loyalty was that the BJP had indeed saved everyone and led them through a year of calamity that they would not have been able to survive at all. In addition, housing and land were provided in the disaster year. In this world of natural and man-made disasters, when is it not death? Therefore, everyone is willing to believe that the new world described by Chen Ke and the political commissars exists. At least they felt that they needed to follow Chen Ke and the People's Party before they died silently in this desperate world. Follow behind Chen Ke and the party members and political commissars to see if there is a new world at the end of the battle. Then, everybody wins.

When Chen Ke announced the content of the pension, although the pension is not high, the families of the martyrs can receive help from the army, and the families can be recruited to work in the base area on a limited basis. The soldiers even felt a sense of relief in their hearts. Everyone who became a soldier in a disaster year is that the family can live a better life. When they knew that if they died in battle, their families could enjoy the treatment of life, rearing, death and burial, the soldiers really felt very satisfied.

The memorial speech was not long, after Chen Ke finished speaking. It's the next step to fire a salute. Twenty-one fighters fired three shots into the air as a tribute to their comrades.

The next step is to cremate the remains. After the floods, there was a lack of wood, and the families of the martyrs were persuaded to cremate their bodies because of the fear that putting their bodies directly into the graves made of cement and masonry might cause a plague. But when the masked health team carried the white cloth-wrapped body to the cremated coal pile, the family members immediately cried out to see the body. The vigilant troops pulled the family members. When the body was sent to the coal pile and burned, the cry was even more shocking.

Some of the fighters couldn't help it, and they stepped forward to help persuade the families of the martyrs they knew. But when the martyrs turned around and asked the fighters why their own family members died and not others, the soldiers' faces couldn't help but change. The soldiers can understand the mood of the martyrs, but many people can't stand this practice, and the soldiers have to retreat in disdain. Fortunately, the political commissars saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly brought the family members of several families who were too excited to go down. The memorial service was able to continue.

A simple monument was erected at the gate of the Martyrs' Cemetery. It is also a masonry and cement frame, with a piece of marble embedded in the front, and the large characters "People's Heroes Are Immortal" written and carved by Shen Zengzhi, a captured person who is proficient in gold and stone lettering. The marble on the back is engraved with the names and dates of birth and death of the martyrs. No one is comfortable at the memorial service, especially when there are family members at the scene. Chen Ke was even thinking about whether his arrangement was wrong. The troops should be separated from their families. But at this point, even if we want to improve, we can only talk about it next time.

This burial is not only the 137 officers and soldiers who died in the Battle of Anqing, but also the ashes of the officers and soldiers who died in the previous battle have also been moved here. In a gloomy cloud and gloomy mood, the memorial service finally ended.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the theoretical class within the People's Party officially began.