Ji Ye never thought that he would be able to meet Li Shouxian again, and they became classmates together in the cadre school of the People's Party. It has been three years since the two separated from Guangde County. In 1908, Ji Ye was still a 17-year-old female doll who had just defected to the Restoration Society and was full of revenge for her brother. Now she is also a senior cadre of the Liberation Society.

When Tao Chengzhang learned that the People's Party was going to hold a new round of cadre training schools, Chen Ke was busy and dizzy. He didn't bother too much, and asked for 500 guns and corresponding bullets, and Tao Chengzhang once again said that if the People's Party needed it in the war against foreign devils, it must notify the Liberation Association.

Not long after Tao Chengzhang returned, Xu Xilin sent someone to ask if he could let the comrades of the Liberation Association come to the People's Party to participate in the cadre study. Chen Ke didn't care much about this kind of thing, the People's Party had not yet completed the education on class struggle, and more students would not have made the situation worse. As a result, a group of young comrades from the Xu Xilin Group of the Restoration Society, including Ji Ye, arrived in Xuzhou.

Ji Ye didn't know what tone to use to talk to Li Shouxian, and in the end she could only choose a normal greeting, "Brother Li, long time no see." ”

"Comrade Ji Ye, hello." Li Shouxian's attitude did not seem to have changed much from three years ago, and in the face of old acquaintances, he replied very politely, "In addition, just call me Comrade Li Shouxian, we don't have any big brothers and second brothers here." ”

"Oh, ...... Li, Comrade Li Shouxian, when I was in Changxing County, many of the things you said could come in handy, thank you!" Ji Ye said very seriously.

There are now three forces in Zhejiang, the largest is Beiyang, they occupy most of Zhejiang, and the headquarters of the Restoration Society under the command of Cai Yuanpei and Tao Chengzhang not only occupies the southern part of Zhejiang, but also has a certain influence in the neighboring Fujian. The other force is based in Changxing County and occupies the Xu Xilin Group of the Guangfuhui in the three counties of western Zhejiang.

The Liberation Society has a lot of connections with the People's Party, and Xu Xilin and Chen Ke have known each other for the longest time. Ji Ye knew that not only did the Beiyang Army, which was entrenched in most of Zhejiang, regard the Restoration Society as a branch of the People's Party, but even within the Restoration Society, it was not a minority who thought that Xu Xilin's group had defected to the People's Party.

Xu Xilin didn't care about this kind of evaluation, and the comrades within Xu Xilin's group didn't particularly care about this kind of evaluation. These people were originally the most daring and warlike group of people in the Liberation Society, and they were seriously injured during the attack on Nanjing, and were taken back to the base area by the People's Party for treatment. At that time, Xu Xilin asked the comrades to follow the People's Party to learn about the local affairs of the construction base area. After everyone had recovered from their injuries and received education, Xu Xilin led his troops into Changxing County, which was next to the People's Party's base area, and established the base area of the Guangfuhui.

Ji Ye and others soon became cadres in Changxing County. Changxing County already has a thick tradition of silkworm and tea production. In this regard, the Xu Xilin group, which closely followed the People's Party, soon made considerable profits. Especially after the people's party's silkworm and tea trade greatly impacted the trade of Jiangsu and Zhejiang counterparts, Xu Xilin Group decisively reached a contract with the People's Party for silkworm and tea and other products, not only did not suffer the impact, but also made full use of the impact to expand its power to two neighboring counties.

It was not until long after the end of the Wuhan Party School of the People's Party that Xu Xilin got the news. This time, the news of the People's Party's cadre training school reached Xu Xilin, and he naturally refused to let it go.

"No thanks, it's good to be able to use it, it shows that you are very serious about learning." Li Shouxian was still very polite, "I still have to sign up, let's talk about it when I have a chance." ”

Ji Ye couldn't force Li Shouxian to speak, she had to say, "Oh, then goodbye, Comrade Li Shouxian." ”

As soon as Li Shouxian left, several female cadres of the Liberation Society who had long been unable to help themselves had already chattered around Ji Ye and said, "This person is Captain Li that you always mention?" ”

"Isn't he already the mayor of Wuhu? Why do you come here to study? ”

"It's not Captain Li, it's Brother Li."

Being watched by such onlookers, Ji Ye was also a little embarrassed, "What nonsense are you all talking about!" ”

"You said it, not us." He Xiuning, a female cadre of the Liberation Society, said with a smile, "What's so embarrassing about this, I think Comrade Li Shouxian is very good." ”

Because of the reason why the wives of Tao Chengzhang and others joined the Restoration Society, and because of Qiu Jin, a female revolutionary, there are many women in the Restoration Society. Xu Xilin's Zhexi Group has completely studied the constitution of the People's Party in terms of system, and has also vigorously encouraged women to come out and participate in social labor, and a considerable number of women have taken up leading posts. Of the 100 cadres who came to study this time, 40 percent were women.

"I'm angry when you say it!" Ji Ye frowned.

Seeing that Ji Ye was really angry, He Xiuning smiled, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about it!" ”

Ji Ye just turned his head, but he heard someone behind him pinching his throat and imitating Ji Ye's voice and said, "Brother Li! ”

Coincidentally, all the female cadres giggled.

"What are you doing in school?" A man shouted in Hubei, with a slight hint of Mandarin.

Ji Yedeng, who was about to get angry at his companions, was stunned, only to see two cadres with armbands striding over. This is the comrade in charge of discipline supervision. No noise is allowed in the school. This is the rule that was emphasized at the time of admission, but the two inspectors obviously didn't know how to deal with a group of women, and stopped about ten paces away from the female cadres, and the two inspectors exchanged glances, and then shouted: "Hurry back to the dormitory." ”

The female cadres didn't know how to deal with it, and when they heard this, they walked away like birds returning to the forest.

"What should I do next time something like this happens?" The Hubei inspector felt that it was not a way to disperse like this, not only the female cadres of the Liberation Association, but also the number of female cadres in the People's Party.

Another inspector replied in Jiangxi dialect, which had a hint of Mandarin, and said, "Then increase the number of female comrades patrolling the inspection team." "There are no female ombudsmen, but the gay men don't give them many patrol assignments. Looking at it now, that doesn't seem like a good fit.

Huaihai Province is the newest base area, and the number of cadres is very insufficient, both in terms of quantity and construction. This is also the reason why Chen Ke put this cadre school training in Huaihai Province. Another reason is that walking thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books. Socialized large-scale production is first and foremost based on having a sufficient understanding of society as a whole. Chen Ke feels that one of his strengths is that he has traveled too many places to visit friends. It is not easy for a person whose range of activities is completely confined to a hundred miles within the perimeter of the family to construct such an idea.

The reason why the 25,000-mile long march was able to create a strong team was not only because the team had gone through so many hardships and hardships, but also because this long journey also opened the team's eyes. Let these seniors rely on their own legs to travel all over the great rivers and mountains. This vision alone is by no means something that ordinary people can achieve.

For now, it is unlikely that the People's Party will face the brutal situation that the party has faced in history, so it is very important to expand the horizons of comrades in other ways and let them see more of the whole picture of China.

The female cadres of the Liberation Association still lagged behind in their understanding of Li Shouxian's intelligence, and now Li Shouxian has been promoted from the mayor of Wuhu to the secretary of the Wuhu Municipal Party Committee, and he is really the number one in the Wuhu area. Li Shouxian had long forgotten about Ji Ye, although he still remembered Ji Ye after meeting, but the reason why Li Shouxian refused to say a few more words was not to avoid Ji Ye, he was really in a hurry to attend a policy seminar. Li Shouxian has already made up his mind to have a good argument with Xu Yuanshan at this meeting.

By the time I entered the conference room, the large conference table made of five tables was already full, and only two or three seats were empty. Li Shouxian's target this time, Xu Yuanshan, has arrived.

As soon as he sat down, Li Shouxian said: "Comrade Xu Yuanshan, I would like to ask what you said yesterday about allowing private existence to be done. ”

This is a very acute topic, and Xu Yuanshan's boldness greatly surprised many comrades. He dared to put forward a public proposal for the BJP to include the private sector in the social management system.

In the recent work of the People's Party in the Wuhu region, there has been a great deal of conflict between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises. Li Shouxian is very concerned about this.

Faced with Li Shouxian's seemingly menacing question, Xu Yuanshan did not know what Li Shouxian wanted to say, he replied: "We should allow some private enterprises to exist, and in some industries, we should also allow private enterprises to exist." For example, the restaurant industry. ”

"The catering industry is not a problem related to the core area, and in the entire industrial chain, the catering industry is only an end industry. What I would like to ask is your view on the existence of private enterprises in the overall industrial structure. Li Shouxian replied immediately. He came prepared this time, so naturally it was impossible for Xu Yuanshan to be fooled with such a few words.

"In the entire industrial chain, it is naturally impossible for us to give up the basic industry. I insist that in the whole industry, there is no need to let go of any industry until it is not necessary. Xu Yuanshan replied.

"Is that so?" Li Shouxian said with a frown.

At this time, the comrades felt that they couldn't understand that Li Shouxian seemed to be menacing at first, and he had the intention of violently attacking Xu Yuanshan. I didn't expect the key issue to be so simple, and Li Shouxian had the intention of withdrawing troops.

"Comrade Li Shouxian, what's going on?" Shang Yuan, who was present at the meeting, asked. He knew that Li Shouxian was quite valued by Chen Ke, so he could be assigned to work in Wuhu. The resources of the Wuhu region alone are already extremely considerable, the People's Party has opened many new factories in Wuhu, and a considerable part of the silkworm cocoons in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Wuhu are reeling silk in Wuhu, and these raw silks are also woven into silk in Wuhu. Not to mention that the People's Party built the Ma'anshan Iron Mine almost at the same time as the Zaozhuang Iron Mine, so that the Wuhu area has a real heavy industry. Many comrades who have been to Wuhu said that in terms of immediate prosperity, Wuhu is only second only to Wuhan in the People's Party base area.

Such a cadre in charge of the elite region was so excited, and it was definitely not a momentary whim.

Li Shouxian calmed down, and he said: "I am now nicknamed Li Yan Wang in Wuhu, as you know, Wuhu is a rice market, and in the past two years, private rice processing enterprises have gone bankrupt in competition with our People's Party. In the previous paragraph, someone made an offer for two thousand taels to buy my head. ”

It is not uncommon for private enterprises to go bankrupt in the BJP's competition for state-owned enterprises. Many comrades not only do not sympathize with these closed private enterprises, but also have some proud attitudes. However, if someone dares to pay for murder, the businessmen in Wuhu are too bold.

Li Shouxian did not intend to discuss the intention to buy a murder, and he began to talk about the problem at hand.

There are two major factors in the formation of the "rice market": first, it is located in the center of rice production, and there are a wide range of rice sources, which is convenient for concentration; Second, the transportation is convenient, and the water and land transportation is developed, especially focusing on water transportation in ancient times. There have been two theories about the identification of the "four rice cities" for a long time, except for Jiujiang in Jiangxi, Wuhu in Anhui, and Wuxi in Jiangsu, where there is no doubt, the disputed ones are Changsha in Hunan and Shashi in Hubei. Based on the current base of the People's Party, if we calculate it according to the five rice cities, the People's Party already owns three of them. Wuhu, Jiujiang, Shashi.

Another factor that has become a rice market is rice processing. Rice hulling requires specialized equipment, and the rise of the Wuhu rice market is actually a recent thing.

"In the eighth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Li Wenzhong Gong (Li Hongzhang's nickname Wenzhong) asked the brigadier to move the grain market from Zhenjiang Qihaokou to this place." It is a fact that Li Hongzhang supported the rice market, but the specific operator was Zhang Qiaoye (Zhang Yinhuan), and he got acquainted with Li Hanzhang (Hongzhang's brother) of Guangdong Grain Governor during the Tongzhi period. In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), Li Hanzhang served as the governor of Huguang, Li Hongzhang served as the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, and Zhang Yinhuan served as Wuhu Guandao. Li Hanzhang instigated Zhang Yinhuan to come forward, under the banner of a prosperous Wuhu commercial port, to give advice to Li Hongzhang, relying on the power of the imperial court, to move Zhenjiang Rice City to Wuhu. Li Hongzhang advocated that it was the best policy to let rice merchants move themselves. Discuss the results and set specific preferential measures, so that rice merchants can be profitable, and they will see profits and compete for relocation. Zhang Yinhuan personally went to Zhenjiang and took advantage of the friendship of his fellow villagers to make a promise to the Guangchao Rice Gang: Wuhu Guandao will issue a license for the monopoly rice industry, and there will be a patent in Wuhu; The cost of packing rice grains is paid by the seller; There is no additional price increase for the outer ship water foot silver, that is, it is still calculated according to the Zhenjiang transportation to Shanghai from Wu. Sure enough, the Guangchao rice gang came to Wu to invest in opening a rice number. More than 20 Ning and Yan gangs followed. The four rice gangs are the pillars, which promote the rise of the rice market where "piles are like mountains, and sales are like rivers".

The Wuhu area not only produces a large amount of rice by itself, but also takes rice processing as its main business. The People's Party attaches great importance to industry, and the rice processing enterprises in Wuhu still need to buy equipment, while the People's Party produces its own equipment. After the land reform, in order to stabilize grain prices in the base areas, the People's Party not only built state-owned farms on a large scale, but also implemented the policy of unified purchasing and marketing in several major grain-producing areas. The Wuhu area is naturally the area where this kind of policy is implemented.

The direct result of this series of policies and their implementation was the complete bankruptcy of private rice processing enterprises in Wuhu. The BJP did not target them when it formulated its policies, but completely ignored the interests of these people. When it was executed, it was not deliberately difficult. However, it was a time of war, and the People's Party had occupied a considerable part of the Yangtze River, and grain merchants from other places did not dare to take the risk of coming to the People's Party. From the end of the Qing Dynasty from 1900 to 1911, natural disasters were frequent everywhere, and transporting grain to the disaster areas was a good business. Who would want to come to Wuhu here to take an adventure.

All the local rice is under the control of the People's Party, and rice from other places is not shipped to Wuhu, and in addition to the fact that the People's Party has a sufficient number of its own grain processing enterprises, it is impossible for private rice processing enterprises to go bankrupt in the face of such a situation.

Most of the comrades know that the development of the Wuhu area is good, but this is the first time that they have heard of a real case in the development of the Wuhu area. The southern part of Huaihai Province is a plain with a lot of land, and it is designated as a major grain producing province in terms of policymaking. After listening to Li Shouxian's account, Shang Yuan couldn't help but ask: "It is conceivable that the grain merchants are engaged in speculation, but they refuse to transport any grain into the base area?" ”

Of course they won't. The grain policy of our base areas is to fix the price of grain, and grain is the basis for the pricing of the RMB currency issued by our base areas. Li Shouxian has obviously put a lot of effort into studying these issues.

The vigorous promotion of household registration and grain books in the base area is not that Chen Ke has a strange attachment to ID cards. With a complete household registration system, it means that the BJP can roughly estimate a basic amount of food supply. It is guaranteed that in all kinds of more extreme disaster years, we can ensure that the people in the base areas will not be unable to buy food. Therefore, the price of grain was nailed to the quota of two cents and five pounds of rice.

As long as you have five cents, you can buy two catties of rice. According to a family of four, this can ensure the most basic survival. This is also the financial basis for the stable issuance of currency in the base area. However, this price is relatively low compared with other regions, and after nailing this price, grain merchants have no opportunity to buy low and sell high in the base areas. There are no grain merchants willing to go to the base areas to do such business.

"Then Comrade Li Shouxian, what is your view on the existence of private enterprises?" Xu Yuanshan asked. Contrary to just now, now it is Li Shouxian who has become the party being questioned.

"This conflict is acute. It's not just the big private grain processing companies in Wuhu that are going bankrupt. At present, there is a trend of total bankruptcy of all kinds of handicraft workshops and small workshops in the base areas. Li Shouxian replied with a cold face.

Li Shouxian was right when he said that the bankruptcy of private enterprises or private workshops is an extremely common phenomenon in the current base areas of the People's Party. This is really not who the People's Party estimates will rectify, everyone can now see that since the completion of the land reform, the bankruptcy of these small workshops has been a predestined situation. Unless there is a change in policy, the workshops that are still surviving today will not survive next year.

No one expected that many workshops that had survived tenaciously for decades or even hundreds of years would be so completely destroyed in just a few years.

"We are not on the side of the propertied people. They went out of business, and there was no way around it. Xu Yuanshan replied. But there was no schadenfreude in the voice. It's a real helplessness.

"The one who paid for my head is a rice factory owner in Wuhu. Nice people. There was nothing unreasonable before doing this. When he did this, he really felt that our People's Party was too domineering and really hated me. After being arrested, he still has a mentality of doing the right thing for heaven. There was a considerable degree of regret in Li Shouxian's voice.