Chapter 5 The Peasant Association

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There is nothing big about business other than the listing of Coal & Iron Works and Mines Co., Ltd. in the United States. Among them, Yang Rui is attracted by the Jiangnan shipyard's diesel engine and hot ball machine began trial production, the diesel engine is more difficult, but the hot ball machine is not difficult, early next year can produce a batch of large fishing boats with steel bones and wooden shells, these fishing boats will be sold to the fishing company below the agricultural reclamation company, to meet the needs of food companies. However, he didn't see the fishing boat in his eyes, and thought of the submarine, which can still be scared when the plane can't drop a torpedo.

Business is basically fine, so the education will be bigger. Jiang Weiqiao elaborated on the shocking changes in the past two months: "At the beginning, we were detained, and Duan Fang personally asked, saying why there are so many revolutionary parties in the schools below the education association, I said that the imperial court has not yet opened a congress, and the students will inevitably go on a crooked path out of eagerness to save the country...... He later said that the education association is now large-scale, it is better to merge into the school, I said that if it is merged into the school, then the gentry may not be able to donate, at this time Duanfang's face sank, and he brushed his sleeves and left. Later, I learned that the trick they played, that is, I and Songcen (Jin Tianxi) and Haowu (Ye Han) were given the grade of three grades, and became officials of the Qing Dynasty, probably to prove to the students that we were recruited by the Manchu Dynasty, and the schools under the Education Association, in addition to primary schools, middle schools and above have been sent special superintendents, and some courses have also been adjusted, and some things have been added to praise the Manchu Qing and Guangxu......"

The Manchu Qing can be regarded as painstaking. However, Yang Rui still thinks it is mild, at least you are the superintendent, not the principal. He doesn't care about anything else, though. He only asked, "How is Hosei School?" ”

"The same is true of the School of Law and Politics." Jiang Weiqiao replied.

"How's the youth league doing?" Yang Rui saw that he didn't know, so he had to ask again.

"Also... It's still there. "The Youth League is an organization for students, and it has been around since middle school, but like the Revival Society, it is a secret organization, and its activities are all underground.

"I want to see the files of the youth league members, all aspects, the education committee can do a screening first. Those who are resolutely revolutionary and those who are born in the countryside can be sent to Guò, and those who are not from the countryside but have a resolute revolutionary will can also be sent, but they must be classified. When Yang Rui said this, he added: "I remember that those child labor students in the factory, there are also youth league organizations in it, and as long as they have a strong revolutionary will, they can send them over." ”

Looking at what Yang Rui said, Jiang Weiqiao nodded heavily. After the key things were said, I hurriedly arranged them. Jiang Weiqiao is gone, and the next person to see is Wang Xiaolin, the China Times was blocked, which greatly affected the propaganda of the Revival Association, after all, there is no way for tabloids everywhere to compare with the China Times with an international vision.

Wang Xiaolin was the first batch of students in the management training class, starting from the Su Bao case. is regarded as the Minister of Culture and Propaganda of the Revival Society, although he has a very high position in the Revival Association, he still thinks that he is a student of Yang Rui, and he does not dare to sit in front of Yang Rui, but he is just in the room. With his green shirt, it looks like a letter office mailbox. Yang Rui saw him like this. I didn't want to force him to sit down, but asked, "What are you busy with all this time?" ”

"After the China Times was blocked, it is now exposing the shortcomings of the people, and then it is to publicize the massacre in Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places." Wang Xiaolin was very serious when he spoke, and he looked like he was solving a math problem. "By the way, Qiu Jin's tomb has been destroyed by the Manchurians again, and it has been moved several times."

Qiu Jin's matter is Cheng Ying first told Yang Rui, after the capture of Hangzhou, Tao Chengzhang's Shaoxing militia under could not resist, was driven to the mountains, Qiu Jin returned to Shaoxing to investigate the news, was recognized by the former Shaoxing Yamen in the official, after exposing the traces of her hiding in the city, but when the Qing army threatened to set fire, she came out with righteousness, and then, was shot dead in the night of the same day, and died in Xuantingkou.

This Yang Rui heard from Cheng Ying, Cheng Ying said it while crying, but Yang Rui couldn't cry, Qiu Jin died heroically, but the same is true for those soldiers who have no names. If he really wants to cry, he can't stop crying, and the first thing he has to do now is to stop the loss and let the remaining people of the Hangzhou Uprising survive, these immortal people are strong revolutionary fighters; The second thing is to stabilize the internal situation, especially the people's hearts, so that everyone can see that the Manchu Qing will be defeated and the revolution will win; Finally, and most difficultly, how to make the revival of the party turn into a more thorough revolutionary party, but this has another problem: when the Manchu Congress has not been completely defeated, a more thorough revolution may not be accepted by all members, especially if it is not at a life-and-death juncture like the Yanzhou side, and the routine of the agrarian revolution may be difficult to implement.

No man's understanding can go beyond his time itself, which is an established underlying principle, and also the advantage and sorrow of the traverser, and it is said to be an advantage because many of his things are ahead; It is sad that if he is too ahead, he will not be understood by everyone, and it is better to be one step ahead and half a step ahead. Now Yang Rui is entangled in how to take the lead by half a step, especially his former students may not support him and respond to him under this kind of lead.

Yang Rui was distracted again, and when he turned around, he saw Wang Xiaolin still standing there, so he said: "If there is no place to bury, then it can be sent to Japan, hey, don't send it to Japan, just find a temple and store it, one day." We're going to bury them! ”

Although Wang Xiaolin is not dealing with internal affairs, since Yang Rui said it, he agreed. After he agreed, Yang Rui said again: "The purpose of the external declaration is only to cause chaos to the Manchu Qing, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now turning to the people's hearts and the general trend, which is not something that our newspapers can shake, and the most important thing now is internal propaganda." I have heard a lot of public opinion saying that the Hangzhou Uprising was the sole initiative of Mr. Xiao Min, and that the Revival Committee was making trouble, and this statement must be refuted, because this is the Manchu Qing Dynasty to sow discord! The Hangzhou uprising was unanimously decided by the committee, and Mr. Xiao Min only assumed the heavy responsibility of leading and commanding the headquarters when the headquarters was destroyed by the Manchu Qing collusion patrol house and we were not there. It is remarkable that he is such a literati who can do this. In particular, he has the determination to die, not everyone has it, more people are facing death are defective and surrendering, how can the revolution succeed without the belief that it will die? ……”

After thinking about it for a long time some time ago, Yang Rui had to say that Cai Yuanpei's mistake was the mistake of all the committee members, or his own mistake. But. Even so, he was very worried. After explaining to Wang Xiaolin, he sat in the room for a long time, and finally went to the study.

After he wrote on the manuscript paper "A spark can start a prairie fire", he hurriedly began to write:

Before the Hangzhou Uprising, many comrades based on our own strength. Based on the advanced tactics of our soldiers and the bravery of our soldiers, we thought that as long as the red flag was raised, the Manchu Qing would fall immediately, and the revolution could be easily victorious, but Hangzhou was defeated. This blind optimism was naturally shattered in the face of the guns of the Manchurian New Army.

The reason why many comrades think this way is because they can't see through what the Manchu Qing Dynasty really is. Is it just those Manchurian nobles in the capital? Is it just five million full people? Is it just a little pitiful and the patrol battalion does not differ much from the new army?

Neither!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was just a title, and it included not only the Manchu nobles, the five million Manchus, the new army and patrol battalions in various places, but also the gentry large and small in various places, as well as those good young people who were deceived by the Constitutional Congress. In addition to these, the Manchus also included various powers with strong ships and guns. Arguably. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was an extremely tight system of control on the heads of the people, the sum of vested interests at home and abroad, and although it was rotten, it was still huge, and although it was crumbling, it never fell. This is the first lesson of the Hangzhou uprising: we have not fully recognized our enemies before.

Westerners, the government, the gentry, and the common people, these four kinds of people constitute the entire Chinese society from high to low, and everyone knows about the other types, but they do not have a deep understanding of the gentry, they are the foundation of the survival of the Manchu court, and they are the ultimate end of the oppressive class, but many of our comrades cannot realize this. Here, I can't help but make an analogy, such as a bat, people who have seen it will wonder what it is, saying that it is a beast, and it can fly; Say it's a bird, it doesn't lay eggs. The same is true of the gentry, in front of the government, he is the people, if the official is coercive, he can ask for the people's life and incite the people to make trouble; But in front of the people, he is the government, and the people are disobedient, so they can use the government to threaten them. When Hangzhou had just been conquered, the gentry and parliamentarians came, and when the Manchus were about to hold a parliament to encircle and suppress us, they left again, and, most painfully, the loss of the 1st Brigade was entirely due to the betrayal of the gentry.

The bat nature of the gentry is pointed out here, because this is the second lesson of the Hangzhou uprising: in the revolution of great change, we do not distinguish well which are our friends.

Recognizing the enemy and distinguishing between friends is the key issue of the revolution, and relying on true friends to fight the real enemy is the key strategy of the revolution. But before that, the most important thing is to build up the confidence to win. Some comrades who are blind to the revolution think that our army is better than the Manchus and think that the revolution can be succeeded very easily, but once it fails, some comrades think that the revolution is too difficult. In fact, these are two manifestations of a lack of understanding of the revolution. The former has already been mentioned, and the latter is mainly mentioned here.

As soon as Hangzhou was defeated, many comrades had no hope for the revolution and believed that the revolution had failed. On the contrary, I realized that the Hangzhou Uprising was actually a general rehearsal of the revolution, which laid the foundation for the victory of the revolution in the future. Consider the vulnerability of the Manchus at the time of the occupation of Hangzhou, and the troops of three provinces besieging an army that lacked guns and ammunition and had not completed its training, and you can see where the hope for the victory of our revolution lies.

With the defeat of Hangzhou and the unfolding of the Manchus abroad, the revolution had temporarily fallen into a low ebb, and in the next four to five years all we had to do was to go to the provinces and prepare for another large-scale uprising, which was long, arduous, and sometimes unbearable, but it was the only way for the revolution to win.

Although the uprising in Hangzhou ended, the revolution in the whole country had just begun. Any comrade who is determined to make a revolution and to save the country must have the conviction to persevere, and this is the historical responsibility of our generation and the historical responsibility of every member of the rejuvenating country.

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Du Yaquan read Yang Rui's article in Tonghua Ordnance, and he was very accustomed to reading Yang Rui's vernacular text, at the beginning. He felt very abrupt to see such plain words being turned into lead characters and printed on the conference journal, if it were not for the profound and attractive things in it. He only wondered if the revival would have a new president.

The Hangzhou incident also had a great impact on him, at first he was excited and puzzled, and then regret and anger. Unlike those who betrayed, Du Yaquan saw that the revival would defeat the Manchus in a hurry, but in the end it failed due to lack of training, lack of guns and ammunition. He even thought that if the northeast side also raised things, it would rely on those tens of thousands of troops. Victory was imminent, but when I thought of the Zhejiang Front, which lacked guns and ammunition, and then thought of the military factory equipment that was still being installed and debugged, this idea was abandoned, and now the war was different from the past, and victory could not be achieved without sufficient ammunition supply.

The Tonghua Arsenal brought back all the military equipment in June. As soon as everything entered the customs, the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the customs began to strictly inspect the various materials of the Tonghua Railway Company, but it was too late to do so, and everything to be transported had already been brought in, that is, the equipment of the new sulfuric acid plant had already arrived. At the beginning of August, the first bullet was made. Then the first rifle was built. It can be said that the current revival army really has a foothold in Liaodong, but even so, many things still have to be careful, and the military factory is not large. The monthly output is 1 million bullets of various types and 1,000 imitation Mauser 96 rifles. Mortar shells for a thousand (the previous fantasy of producing 100,000 per year could not be realized), and 3,000 grenades.

Although the military factory is small, it is self-sufficient in raw materials, steel, copper, and explosives are all produced for its own use, and many of the minor raw materials such as tung oil, white lead, and white tin can also be found locally. Now it's time, and the more time passes, the more ammunition will be produced, and the stronger your own power will be.

When Du Yaquan returned to Tonghua New Town after reading the newspaper, Liu Boyuan, the military political commissar, came to find him. Du Yaquan knew what was going on as soon as he saw him, and hurriedly asked the assistant to move the personnel information of the agricultural reclamation company, and asked Liu Boyuan: "The information of all the members of the agricultural reclamation company is here." Do you want a farmer's trading company? ”

"Farmer's Trade Company......" Liu Boyuan only said that he wanted to farm before he came, and he didn't know that there was also a farmer's trading company, "Let's take it too." ”

"Okay, let's go get it." Du Yaquan said as he asked his assistant to bring the information of the agricultural trading company.

The agricultural reclamation company is a company that organizes immigrants to farm, there are people from Shandong to all over the northeast, they pull people out of Shandong, and then transport them to the place where they need to exercise, give the displaced people a certain amount of food and a shack, and then give them a piece of land and seeds and fertilizer, and then these displaced people settle down here, although it is a shack, but it is also a village, and when the farm is not working, the village chief will organize the displaced people to build better houses. In addition to the house, the land is also allocated to them, but the expenses from Shandong to the land reclamation, seeds, land, and farm tools are all counted as money, but this money is not much, and it can be paid off in about six years.

The revival members of the Farm Reclamation Company are the leaders of the village chiefs of each village, and they are actually the displaced people who arrived earlier, and because of their ability and enthusiasm, they joined the revival society after the inspection, and it is not known how many of these people joined the association because of their livelihood or because they really joined the association.

Excluding the agricultural reclamation company, the agricultural trading company is a company that collects agricultural goods and sells agricultural materials, and each market has a store of a agricultural trading company, and the backbone personnel are not only the displaced people, but also many early graduates of the Tonghua Law and Politics School - at that time, there were not many people who knew the number among the displaced people, so they had to quickly train the students in the school to go out and use them. Unlike the members of the agricultural reclamation company, the members of the agricultural trading company are basically revolutionaries, and the reason for this is that they have seen too much suffering among the people when they go to the villages, and how to change this situation is often on their minds.

After understanding the difference between the two, Liu Boyuan's selection of people is very simple, the agricultural reclamation company chooses less, and the agricultural trading company chooses more, but because the number of people in the agricultural trading company is small, he chooses sixty people, and Du Yaquan can't stand it. The farmer's trading company was in charge of a large area alone, and as soon as these sixty people went, the counties were empty.

Liu Boyuan's selection was actually arranged by Yang Rui, and when he telegraphed to Shanghai to determine that there were only ten people, he exchanged all the files to Du Yaquan, who was relieved.

When Liu Boyuan was done here, Zhong Guanguan, who had just returned from Europe, looked at Yang Rui's stack of manuscripts and asked, "Do you really want to run a school?" ”

"Hmm. It's about building a school. Originally, I wanted to build it in Qingdao, but I thought that it could only cover the north. In the end, I still think it is better to build in Shanghai. "Now Yang Rui has basically recovered his health, but his body is not as strong as before. "If the revival is going to be transformed, it must start with training." ”

"Training?" Zhong Guan asked, "What training?" ”

"Moving the farmer's knowledge," Yang Rui said frankly, "Now we can only take this road." ”

"Do you want to kill local tyrants like Yanzhou and divide the land?" Zhong Guanguan had heard of Yang Rui's statement for a long time, and he was different from Wang Jitong about it, and he was inclined to support it in his heart. As for why this is so, in Yang Rui's opinion. Wang Jitong's father, a Qing official, has been an official for several generations, and has a natural rejection of civil unrest, while Zhong Guanguan's father is just a small dyeing shop owner, and his family is not wealthy. His father couldn't help him, so he had to give up, and he finally won the show to be regarded as a glorious lintel.

"Yanzhou is in the context of war, and if you want to survive, you have to do this." Yang Rui thought of the current situation of the Fuxing Association, and felt that it would not work to completely kill the local tyrants and divide the land, and this could only be tactfully advanced. "We can only start with the workshop."

"Workshop?" Bell sightseeing savor the name. But literally, it doesn't look like it's famous.

"I guess it's called a farmer's training center." Yang Rui added: "Our members must go deep into the countryside, and if they want to move the peasants, they must first educate the peasants. The course also includes some knowledge of agricultural technology and health care. It is also possible to read newspapers to the peasants and talk about the forms of the whole country, but eventually it is necessary to establish peasant associations in various places. ”

Looking at Zhong Guanguan's thoughtful appearance, Yang Rui simply gave him the truth: "The original purpose of the peasant association was to resist donations, and to oppose the extortion of those official canons in the yamen, and to unite the peasants to reduce the rent to the landlord during the disaster year. In fact, if we don't organize this situation, it will naturally exist, and our appearance will only make it a large-scale organization. ”

Zhong Guanguan thought about what Yang Rui said, and asked, "What if the donation and rent reduction are successful?" ”

"After success, they will wonder if they can also reduce the rent when it is not a disaster year, and farming is very hard, and if they give more to the government and landlords, then they can eat less in their stomachs. As long as they are united now and can fight for their own interests, then they will earn a fortune. It can be said that this is like a steam train, as long as it moves, it is not that we push it away, but that it drags us away. When Yang Rui said this, he couldn't help but think of a simple description of the peasant association during the Great Revolution in a Republic of China novel.

"But if you keep fighting like this, how can you control it?" Zhong Guanguan also thought of this.

"Regulate it from the very beginning, and control the intensity of the struggle on the resistance to donations, the reduction of rents and interest rates, and do not involve killing local tyrants and dividing the land." Yang Rui has been thinking about this question for a long time, and it has finally been built theoretically in the past few days, of course, this is just a theory. "But if the gentry collude with the government to eliminate the peasant associations, the struggle will escalate, and in the end they will really kill the local tyrants and divide the land. But this will only exist in a few areas," Yang Rui said, spreading out a map of China, "The relationship between the landlords and tenant farmers in the mountainous areas of southwest Shandong is extremely bad, and according to the investigation, the two are hostile; In the Taihang Mountains, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there are many bandits, and this kind of place is a place where you can establish a base area. As long as peasant associations are established in such places, then with the intensification of the struggle, it will naturally spread to the point of killing the local tyrants and dividing the land, but it is impossible for this kind of base area to expand to the mountainous areas, because it is possible to survive inside the mountains, but it is difficult to survive outside the mountains. That is, even if the struggle will intensify, only a few places in the country will be able to establish base areas. Because our strength was not yet big enough to occupy the prefectures and counties, the peasant movement was mostly moderate under the butcher's knife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it could not be violent even if it wanted to. After all, the root base can only survive in the mountains. ”

After Yang Rui's tirade, Zhong Guanguan asked: "That means that our goal of struggle is going to change, it was full before, but now it is going to turn to the countryside." ”

"That's it, that's it!" Yang Rui said with some excitement, "The Manchu court is not just the Manchu court itself, it is a strict control system from top to bottom, and there are still many powers outside, and the object we want to overthrow is this control system, which is the three mountains of 'feudalism, bureaucracy, and imperialism'." We don't need to mention the dangers of foreigners, and we don't need to say much about corrupt officials, and now the Propaganda Department is stepping up its criticism of feudalism, with the slogan 'Go to the bottom and support the workers and peasants!' ’。 ”