"If it weren't for Chairman Chen!" This is no longer a rhetoric of the People's Party, but a real belief. After the second anti-encirclement campaign, the People's Party's confidence reached an unprecedented height. The comrades did not think at all that there was anything to fear from the Manchus or Beiyang. It was not until Chen Ke went to the Dabie Mountains area to start grassroots work that the entire work in the base area was handed over to the Party Central Committee. The comrades personally took charge of the base areas, and almost every member of the Politburo or Politburo Standing Committee of the Central Committee discovered something that they should have discovered a long time ago, even if Anhui was only a small piece on the map, this small piece was still an unknown world for them.

When Chen Ke was presiding over the work of the Central Committee, everyone was able to ask Chen Ke all kinds of questions. Although Chen Ke had to work all night in order to solve the problem, or to come up with an answer that could convince his comrades, he had to work all night. However, Chen Ke was able to solve the problem by working all night alone, and the comrades of the Party Central Committee who worked all night often could not solve the problem.

In the early days of the revolution, comrades thought that Chen Ke was an out-and-out international student, and many even thought that Chen Ke was born and raised overseas. By mid-July 1908, this view had changed significantly. The comrades of the Central Committee believed that Chen Ke probably only went abroad for extreme times at all, and spent the rest of the time traveling around the country. Otherwise, how could Chen Ke have such a deep understanding of China?

Yuan Shikai will command the troops of the three towns of Beiyang to attack the base area in the south, and with other troops, the total strength will reach 50,000. The original 20,000 troops of the People's Party were restored, and 10,000 were restored. Only 10,000 remained. During this critical period, Chen Ke led a large army of 30,000 recruits from the Dabie Mountains to the Fengtai County base area. The regular field army was instantly organized from 10,000 men into two divisions of 40,000 troops. The more than 10,000 people who had been restored, as the main force of the militia forces in various localities, were soon organized into a 60,000-strong militia transport force.

In a short period of time, the military strength of the base area has become 100,000 people, twice as many as the total number of Beiyang troops that will invade the base area in the future. The original panic dissipated, completely overwhelmed the Beiyang Army, and the perception of the third victory against encirclement and suppression became the mainstream idea of the central government.

However, after Chen Ke returned, a "rumor" appeared in the base that made most party members extremely angry, and the rumor said that the purpose of Chen Ke's return with troops was to see his wife give birth. It's a difficult question to argue, and not long after Chen Ke returned, on July 27, Chen Ke's daughter was born. The "rumors" are also quite able to keep pace with the times, and the circulating content immediately changed to "Chairman Chen saw that he had a daughter, so he continued to work." ”

Chen Ke repeatedly said in the party, "Don't be afraid of being scolded, our People's Party has grown up in the scolding!" But it was the party's respected chairman Chen Ke who was so attacked, saying that Chen Ke was prioritizing his personal affairs, which clearly showed that he was not "scolding", but full of malicious rumors. Even the broad-minded ones couldn't help but be angry when they heard such news.

Although the People's Party cannot talk about "destroying people's desires by preserving heavenly principles," it will not allow cadres to run home to see their wives without asking for leave. In the People's Party's policy, women are liberated and the legitimate interests of women and children are protected. Girls and girls are protected. These two rumors, especially the latter one, have been felt by many keen comrades to be vigorously attacking the "Law on the Protection of Women and Children" recently implemented in the base areas.

In this era, there was a common situation of infant drowning everywhere. Mr. Zhu clearly recorded in the article "Memories of My Mother", "My mother gave birth to a total of thirteen children. Because of the poverty of the family, they could not support them all, so only eight were left, and they were forced to drown in the future. What a miserable, sad and helpless thing this is in my mother's heart! The mother raised her eight children single-handedly. But most of her time was taken up by housework and farming, and she couldn't take care of the children, so she had to let them crawl in the fields. ”

As a poor place, Anhui naturally cannot be different. Before the management of the People's Party reached the grassroots level, the problem of infant drowning was very common. At the beginning of the work, the BJP comrades had no experience, and they decided to pay for the purchase of newborn babies from the masses ready to drown. The young comrades, including Chen Ke, were immediately confronted with a result that was extremely perplexing to them. There were crazy rumors in various places that the People's Party was "buying babies", so the price of infants and young children in Anhui once skyrocketed to an astonishing level.

With "supply and demand", many people immediately turn the nature of having a child into a "transaction". In the case where the buyer is a BJP government with seemingly unlimited financial resources, it is natural for the seller to raise the price high enough.

The "baby trade" turmoil, which taught the young revolutionaries a profound lesson, ended with the People's Party's strict ban on human trafficking and mass executions of all kinds of traffickers. After executing all the traffickers it could find, the BJP informed the base areas that if there were children they did not want to raise, they would send them to the government, and the government was obliged to raise children who were unable to work.

The pity of the young comrades of the BJP, detached from the realities of the situation, suffered a shameful defeat. This is one of the few things that Chen Ke has declared the People's Party wrong. A significant portion of the population would rather drown or starve their children to death than allow the government to obtain custody of their children in order to prove that they are unqualified parents.

The indignant young cadres redoubled their enthusiasm to support the implementation of the Law on the Protection of Women and Children. In this law, the government has the right to interfere in the lives of people's families. The right to take necessary measures to deprive parents of custody. Especially in terms of the protection of female babies and girls, Chen Ke even openly said at the party committee meeting: "If I had to choose who to save between adults and children, I would definitely choose to save children." If I had to choose between a boy and a girl, I would definitely choose a girl. ”

In the movement to forcibly emancipate the productive forces in the base areas, the female labor force is naturally the most potential part. This is also the first time that there has been opposition from the people. Therefore, the rumors against Chen Ke have made the young comrades who already have a strong antagonistic mentality in these aspects more vigilant.

However, at the moment of the great enemy, comrades with work experience believe that contradictions should not be artificially intensified. Just put up with this breath for the time being. However, there are still many comrades who have written down the black account in their hearts, and they are ready to settle the account after the Beiyang Army is settled.

As the initiator, Chen Ke is not so excited, in the life of urban youth in the 21st century, giving birth to a girl is not a sad thing at all. The brothers and sisters around Chen Ke generally believe that you have two daughters in your family, and you are happy to die. Because the main point of the revolution in 1908 was the emancipation of women, Chen Ke never dared to express his true thoughts.

The matrilineal system has been maintained for tens of thousands of years, and even in the thousands of years since the patriarchal system was established with the development of productivity and technology, women still have a strong say in the upper echelons of the ruling class. Now the existence of Cixi is one of the proofs. As for the continued development of the productive forces, under the impetus of the Party, women were given full labor and financial rights. Women's natural patience and instinctive pursuit of the family have led to the internal power of the family being in the hands of women. Although the restoration of matriarchal societies is unlikely for the time being, the trend towards women taking the lead in the family is almost irreversible.

This future-based view is not suitable for propaganda now, so Chen Ke can only remain silent about it.

War is not something that can be fought at the first order, and the People's Party is the most important preparation. Two years of experience in the revolution is that "as long as you are not prepared, you can drop the chain at any time." "Military organization, training, and political work are absolutely indispensable.

After the young people from the Dabie Mountains joined the revolutionary army, they had to make special arrangements for them because of their numbers. First of all, it is not possible to completely disrupt the source of the grouping. The ultimate goal of the People's Party's military work is to "join the army in other places and break up the establishment." "Relatives are not allowed in a unit as much as possible. No matter how advanced the theory of revolution is, it is still an acquired summary. For creatures like humans, it is a universal instinct to pursue familiar surroundings as much as possible and to be with familiar people.

War is not something that can be fought at the first order, and the People's Party is the most important preparation. Two years of experience in the revolution is that "as long as you are not prepared, you can drop the chain at any time." "Military organization, training, and political work are absolutely indispensable.

After the young people from the Dabie Mountains joined the revolutionary army, they had to make special arrangements for them because of their numbers. First of all, it is not possible to completely disrupt the source of the grouping. The ultimate goal of the People's Party's military work is to "join the army in other places and break up the establishment." "Relatives are not allowed in a unit as much as possible. No matter how advanced the theory of revolution is, it is still an acquired summary. For creatures like humans, it is a universal instinct to pursue familiar surroundings as much as possible and to be with familiar people.

Therefore, the units are divided by geography first, for example, the youth of a village are prioritized together. Reliable personnel selected from among them serve as deputy commanders. The main posts and political commissars are held by members of the old units that have been reorganized. In this way, while ensuring that there are no problems in the command of the battle, the new fighters can also become familiar with the organizational system of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army as soon as possible.

One veteran brings three recruits, which is also a more reasonable method. To deal with the Beiyang Army, especially against the huge number of Beiyang Army, there is no need for such elite soldiers. As long as the operation of the people's army is fine, the number of Beiyang is the disadvantage of Beiyang.

Beginning on July 18, the BJP began to carry out large-scale recruitment formation and training. Since Chen Ke is in charge of the central government, even the action of sharpening guns in battle still reassures the comrades.

And Yuan Shikai finally got a new official position on July 22. He was dismissed from the post of Minister of Military Aircraft and transferred to the post of governor of Henan. He is also the supreme commander of the crusading army. Cixi did not give Yuan Shikai the power to meddle in Jiangsu. Since he was the governor of Henan, Yuan Shikai naturally used the Jinghan Railway to transport troops and launched an attack on the People's Party from the direction of Henan.

And Yuan Shikai did not hold back, after arriving in Zhengzhou on August 10, he summoned Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen to Zhengzhou for a meeting. A new command center was quickly formed.

"Yuan Gong, are you really ready to fight Chen Ke to the death?" Wang Shizhen asked Yuan Shikai privately.

"It's not that I want to fight to the death with Chen Ke, but Chen Ke wants to fight to the death with me." Yuan Shikai replied.

Such a meaningful answer made Wang Shizhen speechless for the time being. Yuan Shikai wrote a suicide note before sending out the army, and even arranged the aftermath, which was widely spread in the officialdom. Wang Shizhen once thought that Yuan Shikai was too aggressive. After such a simple answer, Wang Shizhen understood that Yuan Shikai had deceived everyone very effectively.