Volume E, Chapter 55: Irrefutable
After several days of conversation, Lenin and his comrades were finally sent away on an unnoticed night. He still returned to Europe as he came, but he only had different expectations from when he came. He left with pounds and confidence. The conversations these days made him increasingly believe that the Bolsheviks would win the revolution within a few years and that the world would change.
Like the soldiers who were happy to send him off, Yang Rui went to the airship landing ground to send him away. Seeing the airship disappear under the brilliant starry sky, Xie Zhangtai asked, "It's done, it really takes him to succeed. Will he fulfill the agreement?"
His concern was also Zhang Taiyan's concern. Liu Boyuan next to him also heard it. Yang Rui smiled and said, "What counts or not counts? We have the strength, and the agreement will become real. If we don't have the strength, then the real will become fake."
"But is the concession land outside the northeast?" Xie Zhangtai said, "The railway and the harbor are in hand, but it has been leased for thirty years. It is hard to say if you want to get it back in the future."
"No!" Yang Rui was sure, but he could not say that during World War II, the Soviet Union would seek China, so he had to say, "Just take back the sovereignty. If they occupy the railway port, we will immigrate on a large scale, and millions of people fill it in. If not ours, it will become ours. In fact, in my opinion, although the northeast is large, except for that lake, and Jilin and Hei provinces with sea outlets, everything else is worthless. In a strategic sense, there is no comparison with Central Asia. And I think that the more stable we occupy in Central Asia, the safer the northeast will be, and that is the Soviet... Russia's heart is pressed on its heart. The northeast in the mouth is finally going to let go."
Yang Rui almost told the Soviet Union. Fortunately, his concealment was quickly changed to Russia. As he watched the people in the carriage pondering, he changed the topic and said, "Have Mr. McKinder from Britain invited me?"
McKinder proposed the "Heart Zone Theory". First, the Intelligence Bureau went to investigate and found that he was a member of Congress who was bored, not valued, had no dislikes or favors to China, Xie Zhangtai invited him in the name of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At this time, the new Chinese government caused an uproar in the West because of the appointment of an American as minister. When McKinder was invited, he felt that his theory should be valued by those in power in this country. Although he is now a member of the United Party Congress, he still readily agreed.
At the same time, in an era when Mahan's theory of sea power was widely valued, the theory of land power was only a heresy. Therefore, the British government welcomed him to go to China, hoping that he could influence China's strategic direction decades later - according to McKinder's theory, leading China toward Central Asia and Russia. Then consuming each other was the best choice for the British and French South Asian colonies.
"He has agreed to come, but he is a member of Parliament and can only leave after the House of Commons recess. That is, after Christmas, it will probably be early December to go to China." Xie Zhangtai said, and then asked with concern, "It turns out, you won't really believe his trick, right? He is a member of the House of Commons in the UK."
"The correctness of the maritime power theory does not mean that the maritime power theory is incorrect." Yang Rui changed McKinder's "Heart Zone Theory" to a common name in later generations, but he knew the name. But he only heard of the theory in it. This is actually the reason why he invited McKinder to China. "China's territory determines that he is a land power and a sea power power. Of course, if Taiwan is still there, it does not mean that he is a member of Congress. The key point is whether what he heard is useful to China. If it is useful, no matter what motive he is for, it is beneficial. If it is useless, even if he is a Chinese, it is harmful."
"But we are the National Quotes Party." Xie Zhangtai smiled, "I asked foreigners to be ministers and foreigners to be consultants. Are you not afraid that Sun Wen and others say that we are also admiring foreign countries in our bones?"
Xie Zhangtai's statement only made Yang Rui laugh, and said, "Chinese people who are full of rationality and are completely Westernized are more harmful than purebred foreigners. At least foreign colonies will respect the habits of local people. For example, Hong Kong is still using the lunar calendar now, and it is not said that they can only be monogamous, and the legal ethics have not changed. I don't say that it's good to think that colonists are good, I just say that those Chinese people who are full of Westernization are more harmful than Western missionaries."
Yang Rui's idea of national qualities. Xie Zhangtai, an overseas Chinese who grew up overseas, just shook his head. He could not understand his praise of Western culture while being constantly alert. He did not understand, but Zhang Taiyan understood that Yang Rui only talked with Lenin three times because of his busyness. The rest of the time was mainly because he and Lenin were discussing Maxist theory. 'Materialism, capitalism, surplus value, class struggle...' He finally found the source of some of Yang Rui's previous ideas - of course, this is just one of the roots of Yang Rui's thoughts, not all. After all, more than a hundred years later, Western rationalism has been completely deconstructed and withered into postmodernism.
But apart from this gain, Zhang Taiyan only felt that he had fallen into an abyss of rational logic. Even if he was knowledgeable, he could not get out of this abyss. Yan Fu's natural choice turned into a slave society, a feudal society, a capital society, a socialist society, and a crazy straight evolution of Datong society on Lenin's side. This seems to tell people that as long as they keep moving forward, they can reach the end of heaven. To reach the end, they must unite around Comrade Lenin, carry out class struggle extensively and deeply, and strive to realize Datongism.
It's a crazy and logical truth! Zhang Taiyan finally understood what Yang Rui said about scientific religion, but even though he understood that China had never had a slave society similar to that in the West - because there was no large-scale slave transaction in China in all dynasties, or rather, China only had a pariah and no slavery; he also understood that China's feudal society had collapsed as early as the Qin Shihuang period - because "county" was the "hanging" of ancient Chinese, what was "hanging"? It was because "hanging but not sealing", so the establishment of the management agency of "county" had already declared the collapse of the feudal system; but he still could not argue about what Lenin said about the "materialist historical development concept".
These are appetizers, and there are also concepts such as "productivity, production relations, means of production, labor time, labor value, surplus value". These things that make people understand more and more, but become more and more messy make him dying like he has been baked in a sauna for a few days. The white paper fan is no longer as free as before, but is always held in his hand, as if he is holding a gun.
After leaving behind the others, Yang Rui and Zhang Taiyan went to the study room of Prince Zheng’s mansion alone. Looking at Zhang Taiyan who was a little dazed, he said with concern: “Brother Mei, how are you arguing with Lenin?”
Yang Rui's question made Zhang Taiyan react a little. He was powerless, "I can't tell him, but in the end, I was called "evil idealism" and "reactionary historical nihilism expert". It turned out, this... this..."
Zhang Taiyan didn't say a word for "this" for a long time, except for the great Lenin's criticism of him. However, this kind of criticism cannot be blamed for the great Comrade Lenin for being merciless. But when Zhang Taiyan introduced himself, he only said that he was a literati and did not reveal his identity as a member of the Revival Society and Minister of Rites. At that time, he actually wanted to do research with the great Maxist and revolutionary mentor Comrade Lenin and test the power of Bolshevism. Now he has got what he wants, but people have become pickled vegetables.
When Yang Rui wanted to laugh, Zhang Taiyan finally came up with a little thought and said, "It turned out. What he said sounded very reasonable, but I didn't listen to it but realized it. I felt that he was very wrong, but in this way I became 'evil idealism', and his stuff was really impossible to debate.
By the way, I said at the time that since you said that labor created human beings themselves, why for ten thousand years, the monkeys who worked on the mountain were still monkeys, but we became humans. But he said that those monkeys did not work, but those monkeys who became humans did were labor...
I also said that capitalists are equivalent to revolutionary leaders. Without a good revolutionary leader, it is difficult for a revolution to succeed. Therefore, in a workshop, the shopkeeper contributes the greatest contribution, because the helpers can be replaced at any time, but the shopkeeper cannot be replaced. No matter how good the workers have no capital, the business will not be prosperous. If they don’t have money, they will have to close the door. But he asked me about the family composition. After I told him bluntly, he said that my background determines my words and deeds will only defend the bourgeoisie, because I am a petty bourgeoisie myself..."
Zhang Taiyan said this and Yang Rui couldn't help but burst into laughter. This was really interesting! Yang Rui was hilarious, but Zhang Taiyan was still worried. When Yang Rui finished laughing for a long time, Zhang Taiyan stomped his feet and said, "It's true, why can you still laugh?! If his theory was spread to China, it wouldn't be a destruction of the country and the world. It would be like to cut off my China roots!"
"Uncle Mei, why are you anxious? Haven't we started to reduce rent and interest rates now? Although the land property rights are still owned by the landlords, their income is limited. The farmers' livelihoods are not worried about, so who will rebel?" Yang Rui said.
"But what should factories, capitalists, workers, and trade unions do?" Zhang Taiyan said anxiously. "Isn't the Ministry of Works engaged in industrialization now? If there are too many factories, the workers will be recruited more and more workers will be recruited. Then... for these oppressed proletarians, they will go on strike and riot. What do you think they will do?"
"This is also easy to do." Yang Rui never worrys about manipulation. What he is worried about is the culture itself. "There are so many ways, and I can think of two extremely safe ways in my mind."
"Speak quickly, don't keep it!" Zhang Taiyan's face flashed and he leaned over anxiously.
"One, go out and turn left, and go to the western section of Chang'an Street. I forgot what the name is. Anyway, it's the one that makes clothes and quilts, and customize the largest and largest flags. You must use a red cloth and write the words "Proletariat" and then hang it at the door of Prince Zheng's mansion. By the way, you have to make one side of Chengtian Gate and hang it, and that's all..." Yang Rui wanted to laugh more and more as he said, but in the end he couldn't help but squatted down with a smile.
He did this, but Zhang Taiyan was very serious. He said furiously: "Yang Jingcheng! I'll tell you seriously, what's your business, you!" He turned around and wanted to leave, but was pulled by Yang Rui.
"Uncle Mei, why are you angry? My method is absolutely effective, it is really effective." Yang Rui wanted to look very sincere, but the smile on his face was still strong.
Zhang Taiyan really couldn't think of a solution, so he had to endure it in the end, but said to Yang Rui with a cold face, "You! You don't even mention that you have shares in Tianzi, you also set up a fruit packaging factory in Wenzhou because that was the matter before joining the association. The scale was small, so it was not merged into Tianzi. No matter how big the flag is, the words "proletariat" are written well. You are also a capitalist, so how different is this to steal the bell?"
Yang Rui held back his laughter and said in a very hooligan way: "But my flag is the largest, I have a gun in my hand. I said I am the proletariat, I am the proletariat; I said those workers are capitalist lackeys, capitalist thieves, then they are lackeys. If they dare to strike, then suppress them. I am the proletariat, I am the biggest!
If the fruit packaging factory is annoying. If it is donated to the country, I can also not have the salary. But if this is done, the welfare of central cadres will be increased. There must be a sanitary in the Aral Sea. There must be a villa on Lake Baikal. There must also be Sanya, Hainan. Every year when it is cold, I have to go there to spend the winter. My children and the country always have to keep them. In this way, it is better to become a proletarian."
"But you are a scoundrel! You are selling dog meat under the guise of sheep!" Zhang Taiyan finally understood that Yang Rui was telling the truth, and that he was really a scoundrel, which made him extremely angry.
"What I do is selling dog meat with the head of a sheep. I hold a gun in one hand and a pen in the other. Do those workers bit me?" Yang Rui suddenly became a little violent. "After the advice, those bastards dared to make trouble. They sent them all to the northeastern to mine and log me, and they will die there forever. If there is no industry in the country, it means that people have no backbone. I would rather be buried with them than build the industry."
Yang Rui showed his murderous aura, but Zhang Taiyan was slightly frustrated. He asked, "Aren't you two ways? There is another way? Let's talk about it."
"There is another way?" Yang Rui was stunned when he heard this. The tyrannical symptoms subsided. He said, "There is another way to give the backbone of the workers and the foreman to also give some factory shares to them, so that they can become small capitalists. Then we will either establish a trade union in the factory or simply not allow the construction of a trade union. As long as someone wants to make trouble, it is not organizational or discipline. Anyway, prepare a few more hats to facilitate those who make trouble."
"Is there only these two ways?" Zhang Taiyan said. He felt that this was shameless.
"Uncle Mei, people are always lazy. Who doesn't want to work less and get more money? But is this possible? Foreigners have colonies, but we ourselves are colonies. We have just developed. There are only 315 factories, including foreign-funded factories, and only 320,000 workers, and the country is 99% illiterate. With such a foundation, if you don't squeeze yourself, you will never keep up with the steps of foreigners." Yang Rui thought of the current situation, and the joy agreed with Lenin suddenly disappeared. No matter how bad Lenin defeated Russia, it was a country with millions of tons of steel. Compared with it, China was just a beggar, and it was right not to force the Soviet Union.
"But what should the Bolsheviks do? Don't the young people like to pursue the most advanced things now? Now Lenin says he is the most advanced, and the students have to follow him." Zhang Taiyan went back again. It seems that he was scared deeply in the past few days. "The ban on vernacular is only useful to the people, and those students are like this. It's true, can you not argue with Lenin?"
"I can't argue with him, I just don't believe what he said." Yang Rui said, "Didn't we say that on the student side before? It would be better if the Youth League is here. In addition, there are all sensitive words such as "surplus value", "exploitation", and "labor time". Anyway, all these sensitive words are registered by Wang Xiaolin and sent to newspapers and printing factories. Each word is set at a price. If you want to print it, they will pay a fine first and wait for the deposit to play. That is illegal printing. The government has a reasonable and well-founded ban."
After all, it was still a vulgar trick. Zhang Taiyan stamped his feet again, "Are we the only rogue who can be like this?"
"Yes. I really didn't think of any other way except for the rogue." Yang Rui admitted, "But at least we can't say the Bolsheviks, but we can stop its spread."
"But what if those members of the Revival also believe it?" Zhang Taiyan sighed and then asked the question he was most concerned about, "After Lenin seizes power, the two countries will always establish diplomatic relations before they can divide the land. If our own people believe in his things, it will be fatal."
"No!" Yang Rui said, "Nationalism and Bolshevism are completely incompatible. Nationalism only divides oneself and outsiders, while Bolshevism divides proletarians and proletarians. If you don't help proletarians in other countries for the benefit of your own nation, that is, you will be traitorous. Although Chinese culture is not good, there are also 'good' places. It is still easy to install Qin Hui and Wu Sangui's charges. After all, loyalty, traitors and traitors have been instilled in the people for thousands of years."
"This makes sense." Zhang Taiyan nodded, "Is there any other way?"
"Other way?" Yang Rui suddenly smiled strangely, "that is to start the second purge."
Zhang Taiyan's face changed when he heard the scrubbing. He shook his head and said, "It's true, do you want to come again? Although there was no murder last time, there were many people who committed suicide. At the beginning of the founding of the country, everyone will be panicked."
"But what else can I do?" Yang Rui also looked solemn. "But this time it is not as urgent as the last time. We can spend a year or two to clean up the members from all over the country. In order not to be afraid, let's change the name and call it training. By the way, the third National Congress will be held soon, and the Ministry of Rites will prepare some materials. In particular, they must separate the national treasures and Confucianism. Now they are entangled. When the time comes, the national treasures will be defeated, and the national treasures will suffer."
Correcting the origin and separating the national treasure from Confucianism is the first priority in preserving the national treasure. Zhang Taiyan and others have been doing this for a long time, but things are not that simple. Zhang Taiyan thought for a while and said, "We are trying our best to separate the national treasure from Confucianism, and we must verify the history of the rebellion between Shang and Zhou dynasties. There was too little historical materials at that time, and it took a long time to search. However, I heard that there was a Qing Dynasty legitimate in the capital named Wang Guowei who studied this deeply and also inquired that this person was writing a theory of the Shang system, but he didn't know what it was written in it."
"Wang Guowei?" Yang Rui was a little surprised, "Three Hengwangs, the country's country, the maintenance of the Wei?"
"Yes, this name is what you know?" Zhang Taiyan said.
"I don't know." Yang Rui could not have heard of this person. "It's a pity that he is a man of the Qing Dynasty! Let's do this, I'll send someone to find an obedient person in the pile of Qing Dynasty princes and ask him to borrow Wang Guowei's manuscript of the Shang system theory to read. If the things inside are useful, then use them."
In order to clarify the root of Confucianism, Yang Rui had to let someone steal books. The third congress of the Revival Society should have been held before the Dragon Boat Festival, but because the righteousness can only be pushed back, and after the righteousness, he had to accept the regime and stabilize the local area, he had no time in the second half of the year. After the peace talks with Japan were progressing smoothly, Yang Rui ordered that the delayed meetings be held in the middle of the 10th lunar month.
Unlike the previous two congresses, this congress can only be said to be a real congress. People in all states and prefectures must attend, which is simply an expanded version of the congress. The contents of the meeting are actually three, one is transformation and the revolutionary situation has changed, so the revolution and discipline in the new era will be different, and the thoughts of members must be different, otherwise they will not be able to keep up with the pace;
The second is to purgate the peasant association. The farmers' association has expanded very rapidly over the past period, but the peasant association cadres cannot keep up with the pace, so the backbone members recruited in various places are getting worse and worse. In the past, during the revolution, they specially recruited bad people, but now they are in the world. Not only can the bad people not be able to be collected, but they also have to be purgated, so purgation is very important.
The third is to prepare for the general election. The provisional parliament has formulated a temporary election law. The farm work has been completed between December and the beginning of spring. It is a good time for the election. Although the Revival Association is sure to win, it still cannot slack off. In addition, Yuan Shikai was the center, which attracted many gentry and officials. In addition, Song Jiaoren, a parliamentary fan, the Kuomintang's election preparations are now very exciting. If Zhili wants to keep it, it needs great efforts.
Finally, there is a thing that can only be understood but not expressed in words, that is, the cake: direct descendants, not direct descendants, have merits, hard work, military, government, peasant association, parliamentary, anyway, there are a lot of people, and everyone's positions must be implemented in less than a month. Not only must they be implemented, but everyone must also be satisfied. However, Yang Rui did not consider the matter at the bottom. He only wanted to have seven members, such as Yu Zixun's problem. The reason why the conference took so long was because Yang Rui wanted to complete negotiations with Japan to reduce his reliance on the United States. Now the United States seems to have become Yu Zixun's backer. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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