The fleet loaded with doubai stopped in Shuyang for a while, and then divided a small branch and went upstream, heading for Qingjiangpu. In addition to Lu Wan, who led the team before, there was also Fei Yugui, who had returned to Jiangsu earlier to do Xu Baoshan's work, he had been in Jiangbei for many days, and he knew that he knew that so many boats of grain going to Qingjiangpu must have been robbed. Food is not important, but the safety of Mr. and the representatives is extremely important, but Yang Rui is determined to let the representatives see the power of the grass people and the misery of the grass people. Fei Yugui was helpless, and after explaining to the boss of the boat, he sent a boat of peasants and soldiers to follow, for fear that someone would be injured.

The grain boats with the flag of agricultural reclamation and the flag of the Red Cross are very eye-catching in the salt river, and some people run after the flag not far from Shuyang, but perhaps because they are too hungry and bitter, most of these people fall to the ground after running for a while, and they can't catch up. However, there are disaster victims along the coast, and this disaster relief grain ship has attracted countless disaster victims to come one after another, and at night, the boat boss did not dare to rest on the shore like yesterday, and took advantage of the bright moonlight, and went forward a long way, and finally found a place with a wide water to stop the boat for the night, so as to wait for dawn to go again.

"This is going to take us to endure hardships." Deng Wenhui, a representative of Jiangxi, looked at the same boat, and Huang Shizhong, a representative of Guangdong with a sad face, smiled heartlessly. He has mixed with the party, and he has endured a lot of hardships, and he is happy to be tight.

"Everyone suffers, and I am willing, but this sleep is too difficult to sleep." Huang Shizhong was just a newspaper literati, unfamiliar with the peasants, and had never suffered much.

"Everyone sleeps the same, what's not to sleep on." Xie Zhangtai interjected. As he spoke, he brought the quilt out of the cabin and gave it over.

Huang Shizhong took the quilt and said, "Can't you sleep on the shore?" ”

"On the shore, haha." Deng Wenhui laughed, "The boat is parked here, if you sleep on the shore, it is estimated that you will be trampled to death by the victims tomorrow morning." I'll teach you a good one, if you encounter a disaster victim grabbing food tomorrow, it is good to jump off ship and swim ashore immediately. ”

"So scary?" Huang Shizhong still didn't believe it.

Yang Cangbai from Sichuan next to him also said: "This river is so wide, those people can jump over?" ”

Deng Wenhui had seen the floods in Hunan a few months ago. Seeing that these scholars still didn't believe it, they still smiled and said: "If you don't believe it, you can see it tomorrow, but you won't succeed tomorrow." This will be the case the day after tomorrow. This ship can't get to Qingjiangpu. ”

While the few of them were chatting, Li Changling, a representative of Hubei, was reporting to Yang Rui on the work in Hubei: "The case of the Rizhi Conference implicated the arrest of several people such as Ti'an, but fortunately, the backbone of the Rizhi Society are all church believers. Zhang Zhidong has concerns and is not good for death. Coupled with the concern of the U.S. minister, these are now only imprisoned by the government, not executed. Most of the backbone of the Association and the Japanese Association are still there, and they can still be used as the foundation of the sports and military circles. I think what Mr. Cheng said about the peasant movement in Shanghai is very reasonable, but after all, the peasant movement is a new project, and the current relationship is completely useless, so it is a pity to give up like this......"

Li Changling is in his forties. A native of Tianmen, Hubei, he is the secretary of the battalion headquarters of the 31st standard of the eighth town of the Hubei New Army. He had the appearance of a peasant. The Qing soldiers had arrested him when the case was reported, but he argued that he was not a member of the party, and the Qing soldiers who led the team saw that he looked like an old peasant, so they let him go.

"Brother Xiaoxiang, I'm glad I hurt you this time." Yang Rui said politely that he had no opinion on Hubei not taking the rural road, but everyone was treated equally, so he had to bring him over. "Over in Hubei, judging from your report, it's better to start with the soldiers of the New Army, and as for the officers at the top level, I'm afraid they won't be able to move."

"That's good! That's good! Li Changling breathed a sigh of relief, "The people are the foundation of the country, and the revival will be people-oriented, and the revolution will be successful, not to mention that there are even presidents who take the lead, why should everyone suffer?" ”

"Hey. I'm afraid that some people don't realize the importance of the people. "Yang Rui stood at the bow of the boat, and a faint full moon was reflected in the water, but there were always some corpses that would float down from the upstream to destroy this beautiful scenery." By the way, Brother Xiaoxiang, Wuchang can build an additional peripheral organization, and then bring in the people of the Rizhi Association and other associations, otherwise in such a small place, everyone is active, in case of mutual misunderstanding, it is not good. ”

What Yang Rui said was exactly what Li Changling thought, he said: "What should be the program for the truthful establishment of peripheral organizations?" ”

The issue of the program was something that Yang Rui did not expect, although it was just a few simple sentences, it was the key to making the members of the inner and middle schools join the revival association in the future. He said: "This issue should be discussed after returning to Shanghai, Wuchang is an important place for nine provinces, and it is not allowed to be sloppy, and the way to recruit members is very good, but it is better to change some methods." There are so many soldiers in the new army, there are always such and such differences, and after classifying them and then studying them carefully, they can always do what they like, and there is not only one routine to pull people. ”

Yang Rui is still talking about market segmentation and target customers, in his opinion, the two books of the revolution are the most important, one is Mao, which talks about the philosophy of struggle, and the other is the marketing of market segmentation to understand the demand, but Li Changling does not understand this kind of modern marketing routine. He said: "Can the association send people to Hubei to assist in the work of recruits?" At present, our people are mainly in the engineering battalion and the 29th standard, and they are mainly recruits, but they basically retire after three years, and if they have to do things in four or five years, I am afraid that they will not be there by then. ”

"Then let's take a step forward in the recruit's work. Mainly do the work of those non-commissioned officers. However, the things that non-commissioned officers think are different from those that recruits think, although their status is higher than that of soldiers, but if they don't raise the flag, they can't be promoted. Yang Rui said that this is very lamenting that there are very few insurance companies in this era, if there are a few gold medal salesmen who sell insurance to come in, it will be twice the result with half the effort, that is, there is no insurance, and it is good to sell 'Li'an'.

Although Yang Rui was young, he was impressed by Li Changling when he spoke and acted in everything, and when he saw that Yang Rui had roughly mentioned his thoughts, he felt a little enlightened, and the two of them chatted about a few important things again and went down. As soon as Li Changling left, Jing Bemu came up again. When the revival society happened, he escaped under the protection of the Brotherhood, but Chang Zixin did not have such good luck. When he was arrested, he was killed by the Qing soldiers because he resisted with a gun. He came to Shanghai this time because he actually wanted the headquarters to support him in carrying out the work of the party, but the party meeting has always been not supported by the revival association, so his affairs are very difficult.

"Sir, there are now nearly 1,000 members in the whole of Shaanxi, and as long as we intensify our activities to join the party, the revolution will be able to succeed immediately. Can things in the countryside be put aside first? "Jing Bemu is 88 years old. He is only eighteen years old this year, but he lost his father at a young age, and he is sensible very early. It's just that he's also anxious. A lot of work is done on the surface, and there are many members who are admitted, but they are mainly party members, and they are not really revolutionaries.

"Wen Yuan. I've read your report. It's written very carefully, I couldn't do these things when you're your age. However, there is a premise in the meeting, but you forget for a while, our revolution is not only to push the Manchu Qing down, but also to re-establish a new country, so we can't be in a hurry, and the meeting did not set targets for each locality, how many members must be there. How many members are not critical. In general, if there are key people in key places, then there will be victory. What is the key place? For the overthrow of the Manchus. Xi'an is the key place, the city of Xi'an is the key place, but for the establishment of a new country, the countryside is the key place. The country's tax burden comes from the rural areas, and the people's sufferings are also in the rural areas, which can only be seen by people in the cities. Yang Rui said seriously, Jing Bemu is a rare talent, he cherishes it very much; Shaanxi is also an important place in the northwest, and several Qing court escapes went to Xi'an. In the future, when the revolutionary guns started and the northeast was occupied, it was very likely that the Manchus would flee to Xi'an.

"Sir, but ......" Yang Rui said is indeed reasonable, overthrowing the Manchu Qing and building a new country are two concepts, this truth is well understood, "but I don't understand how to mobilize the people, can they really do it?" ”

"Why not?" Yang Rui said with a smile: "Without the help of the people, how did those emperors sit in the world in ancient times." You don't understand that it doesn't matter if you mobilize the people, there will be special courses that will teach you how to mobilize the people. In addition, Shaanxi is extremely important, and the headquarters will send a working group to the city at the beginning of next year, so that the work there can be directly guided by the working group, so that there is no need to come to Shanghai for instructions. ”

I heard that the headquarters will shoot the working group in the past, Jing Bemu is very happy, and Yang Rui is actually helpless, the local proverb is called: 'If you want to be a soldier, Brother Bayern', most of the army in Shaanxi is a party, Jing Bemu is blindly tinkering, and when the time comes, it will drum up a party revival meeting, and it will be difficult to clean up if it becomes a warlord in the meeting.

After Jing Bemu left, Yang Rui's conversation today was over, the moon was shining, he took advantage of the moonlight to write down the key points of today's work, just to close the book, Cheng Ying had already handed over the tea. He couldn't help but smile, having a woman next to him is different from a man next to him, Chen Guangshou is not so considerate.

Yang Rui took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "This day, this day, hey!" …… What a blessing. Cheng Ying thought he was lamenting something when he heard this, but it turned out to be happiness, and he immediately laughed. In the bright moonlight, Yang Rui seemed to be able to see her smiling eyebrows, stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms, but hugged her and let her go, in addition to the boss of the boat, there was also Zhang Taiyan and the provincial representatives on the boat next to him, standing too close at the bow of the boat would be laughed at by others.

The moon is like water, and the dream is like spring, but when the sky is slightly bright the next day, Yang Rui, who doesn't know how to wake up, finds himself deep in the horror movie, and both sides of the Salt River are full of zombie-like victims, all over the mountains. They were silent, just staring at the grain boats in the river as if they had lost their souls. He was busy shaking Cheng Ying awake, and when he was about to hand over the boat boss, several victims who were exploring the way in the water shouted loudly, and these people shouted together, and the people on the shore also shouted, and jumped into the water and rushed into the river in a daze, and the sound of water splashed only woke up the people on the boat.

A few startled boat bosses had to lift the oars that supported the boat, but the boat was not rowed before the victims climbed onto the boat, the oars were swept away, and a row of victims went down, but this side went down, and the people on the other side came up again, so the yellow-faced and thin people really didn't know where the strength came from, and they only dragged more than a hundred pounds of sacks off the boat.

One sack was dragged off the boat, and more people climbed onto the boat crying and shouting, and then more sacks went into the water, and the boat boss and the boatman couldn't catch up with a few oars, and those people couldn't get off the boat even if you slapped them. In the end, they had to stand on the sidelines. It was like a locust crossing the border, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the beans on the ship were swept away. The boat was empty, but there was another rush in the river and on the riverbank, and finally some of the weak ones fell directly into the river and did not get up again. However, for Yang Rui and others, the victims are still safe just grabbing food and not people. When there was no one on the ship and no food, Zhang Taiyan came back to his senses: "It was done." Is this the power of farmers? He didn't seem to wake up, and he looked like he was sleepwalking.

Yang Rui smiled when he heard this: "After training, it will not be much worse than the regular army, the key is to organize." ”

I thought that I would be robbed if I was close to Qingjiangpu. Who would have thought that Shuyang County would be robbed. Yang Rui had no choice but to summon everyone to the shore and had a brief meeting, and now there was nothing to discuss, he pointed to the map that Chen Guangshou had spread out. Said directly: "Comrades. Now we are still in the territory of Xin'an Town (now Guannan County), dozens of miles ahead is Andong County (now Lianshui County), you can buy some grain in Lianshui, if nothing else, you can probably get to Qingjiangpu tomorrow night. ”

After Yang Rui finished talking about the arrangement of the itinerary, he glanced around at everyone, and saw that everyone had no opinions, so he continued: "Now we have entered the disaster area. Although it is on a boat, be careful. In particular, you can't do anything alone. Because everyone doesn't dress like the victims, the clothes on their bodies can still be exchanged for a bite to eat when they are snatched to the pawnshop; Also, don't go into the water, let alone drink raw water, there is a high probability that there are plague germs in the water......"

Yang Rui got on the boat after explaining the important things, and now that Doubai is empty, dozens of people took two boats to go south to Andong County, and the other empty boats are going home. Huang Shizhong looked back at the returning grain ships and was very reluctant, and when the ships were far away, he asked Xie Zhangtai next to him in the vernacular: "Why do we want to go to Qingjiangpu?" ”

Before going to bed last night, Huang Shizhong was complaining that he couldn't sleep well on the boat, and Xie Zhangtai knew that he did not approve of Yang Rui's peasant movement, so he said: "Because Jingcheng is going to Qingjiangpu, because he is our leader, we will also go to Qingjiangpu." ”

"However, can going to Qingjiangpu show that the peasants should be mobilized? What does it look like for the peasants to mobilize? It's like grabbing food just now! If such a peasant is mobilized, the world will be in chaos! They don't know what revolution is, they just know how to eat! Although he was a revolutionary, Huang Shizhong believed that the revolution could never start a peasant revolution.

Looking at Huang Shizhong, who was a little excited, Xie Jintai said: "Shizhong, in fact, when we held a meeting two days ago, we were right, revolution is actually an urgency to change the status quo, and from this point of view, our revolution is not as good as that of the peasants. What they lack now is someone to lead them, organize them, and once they are organized, then the whole world will change into another color. What is a revolution, this is a revolution! ”

Huang Shizhong and Xie Jintai chattered along the way, while the others looked at the increasingly dense victims on both sides of the river bank and panicked, fortunately there was no food on the boat, otherwise they would have to eat themselves. Before the city gate was closed at 6 p.m., everyone arrived at the county seat of Andong, but the whole county was surrounded by boundless shacks, and the city gate was not opened last month. Although the city knew that these people were here to relieve the disaster, seeing that they had no food in their hands, they were even more worried that as soon as these dozens of people entered the city, the victims behind them would also pour in, so they would not open the city gates.

Seeing that it was dark, everyone had to return to the boat and walk a little further south before finding a place where no one was to rest. The grain was all robbed, but fortunately, the boatload of peasants and soldiers brought some and all kinds of cooking utensils for the march, so they found a place to avoid the light and began to make a fire to cook. The weather in the north at the beginning of October was already a little cold, and when the raw water was hot and they drank a sip of hot tea, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and it was not until the rice was cooked that the hungry people gradually settled down.

Although there is food, none of them can eat with peace of mind. In fact, this place is a dry river, and the peasants cut a small piece of reeds before clearing the place, but fortunately it is in the reeds, otherwise there would be a fire cooking here, and the victims not far away would have poured over. When everyone was eating and drinking soup, they could hear the shouts of the hungry people outside, some of them wailed, some of them seemed to howl with ghosts, they had food to eat, and the people outside were going to starve to death. Zhang Taiyan, who was sitting next to Yang Rui, stopped after eating half a bowl, straightened up and wanted to take out the remaining rice for the hungry people. was stopped by Chen Guangshou and Lu Wan, who were in charge of the guards, and the others also wanted to send the food out, but they were also stopped one by one.

"Let's let them go." Yang Rui pointed to the people who landed and said: "Don't suffer from poverty, suffer from inequality. As soon as the others don't get their food, something will happen. At the very least, they are still soldiers, and the sticks in their hands can still scare some people. ”

Everyone was so disturbed just now, and seeing that what Yang Rui said was reasonable, they also handed over the food to the peasant soldiers. But though their conscience was so peaceful, they were not full after all, and they felt hungry after a short time when they sat by the fire. But at this time, there was no food, so he could only drink soup, and Yang Rui could only ask Chen Guangshou to go to the boat to sweep some bean and cypress seeds and distribute them to everyone. This kind of food that is not usually eaten can now be eaten, and in the end, everyone eats beans and cypress while drinking soup, and they are happy. However, the most interesting thing is that Zhang Taiyan is talking about the Chinese Congress, the Su report and other things in the past, which everyone has not experienced. They all heard it with relish.

“…… Then. Tang Cai often convened everyone in Shanghai to convene the Chinese Congress, and hundreds of people came, including Rong Hong, Yan Fu, Wen Tingshi, Wu Baochu, etc., but the purpose of the meeting was contradictory, one said that he did not recognize the Manchu government, and the other said that he wanted to support the Guangxu Emperor, and there were more Manchus and Mongols in the meeting. That's where my full schedule began. At that time, Guangxu was praised by Kang Liang as the emperor of the world, and he said that the destiny of heaven returned. You must know that the "Mandate of Heaven" comes from "The Mean", although it is respected by the predecessors, saying that it can know the future in advance, but "The Mean" starts with the "Mandate of Heaven", but ends with "the load of heaven, silent and odorless". In this way, the 'Mandate of Heaven' is the beginning of the founding of Manchuria, and the 'Load of Heaven' means that Guangxu will be the end of the Manchurians. ……”

Zhang Taiyan's words about the Mandate of Heaven were written in his "Refutation of Kang Youwei's Book on Revolution", everyone has read it, or people who are knowledgeable and cultured have read it, but some people who are not so knowledgeable and literate have not read it. If it is so promoted, it is very good for the people in the movement. ”

Deng Wenhui, a representative of Jiangxi, also said: "Exactly. If this is to be propagated, then the movement of the people should be useful. ”

Zhang Taiyan said with a smile: "The overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not in the existence of the 'Mandate of Heaven', but in the difficulty of manpower. Today, Mr. Jingcheng led us to take the road of rural revolution, but he set things right and rebuilt the broad road of China. Zhang Taiyan's words were just right, and after speaking, he said again about the old things reported by Su: "As soon as I refute Kang Youwei's book came out, coupled with the revolutionary army of Wei Dan and the purpose of the revival association, the Manchu court was suddenly shocked, and the telegrams from the north and south of the river were flying back and forth, and I couldn't wait to catch a few of our revolutionary parties immediately, and it was good to connect the nine clans and break the bones and ashes, but the Manchus were still afraid of foreigners, so they saved their lives, but they didn't want Wei Dan's little brother to ......" Zhang Taiyan said this, he couldn't help crying, he choked and said: "Wei Dan is a life, In exchange for my life, if Wei Dan does not die, I will die...... Fortunately, Cheng Cheng was not there at the time, otherwise if the three of us were arrested together, I am afraid that I don't know how many people we can live. ”

The bonfire was blazing, the bright moon was a relative, seeing Zhang Taiyan talking about the old things, Yang Rui couldn't help but be melancholy, and after he finished speaking, he also recalled and said: "At that time, I went to Europe, I wanted to find some old relations, buy some guns and go to the Northeast to fight a war with the Russians and the Japanese, although the Northeast is called Manchuria, but since the Han Dynasty is my territory of China, and Japan is also a wolf ambition, the first day to swallow Liaodong can't, and now under the pretext of helping China expel the Russians, send troops into the country, ridiculous This Manchu Qing is also 'outside neutrality'." ”

When Yang Rui said this, Cheng Ying glanced at him with emotion beside him, either because he was arrogant or because he cared about trust. Yang Rui never explained to her the reason for leaving, and only now did Cheng Ying know the reason why he went. Yang Rui also glanced back at her gently, knowing each other, even if he was speechless, he understood.

Yang Rui finished talking about his plans at that time, and said: "I went abroad to the United States when I was young, and after my parents died, I lived on the North American continent, wandering from the westernmost part of the United States to its easternmost side. When he first returned to Shanghai, although he was very supportive of the revolution, he did not expect that he would one day become the vanguard of the anti-Manchurian struggle and the president of the Revival Association.

At that time, I couldn't bear to face the tragedy of China's partition, so I had to borrow wine in a tavern to kill my sorrows, but I didn't want to be seen by the people, so I was dragged to Zhang Yuan to give a speech.

'Mourn your fellow man, mourn your fellow man, the time of death is coming, the time of death is coming. Outsiders are cunning and cunning, they don't need knives to slaughter me, and guns and cannons don't need to kill me......

Mourn the compatriots, mourn the compatriots, the country is gone, the country is gone, the country is gone. Outsiders look at me as fat, cut at will, and abuse me without telling ....... At that time, all of my blood poured up at once, and I only felt that China could not be revolutionized without revolution, and it was impossible to carry out the revolution without arming it. ”

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On the beach of the Salt River outside the city of Andong, next to the roaring bonfire, more than 20 revolutionaries narrated their past, some were deep, some were witty, some were crying, and some were pointing at the heavens and scolding the earth. If it weren't for this, some would still be literati, some would still be party members, some would still be martial artists, and some would still be merchants. The conversation only talked about the late night and it was not over, and the people who couldn't help but sing the military song of the Renaissance Army again, and when they were excited, Deng Wenhui shouted at this day: "Tartars, your life will not last long!" The rest of the people laughed, and they even felt that they had thousands of soldiers and horses in their chests, and they could enter the Forbidden City tomorrow. (To be continued......)