"There is absolutely no such thing in the world as love without reason or hate without reason." This is Grandpa Mao's teaching. Chen Ke deeply agreed with this. He believed that a revolutionary absolutely cannot and is impossible to create "revolution." Revolution is originally bred within social contradictions and exists in class oppression. The reason why the people cannot see through these is just that they are deceived by various complicated social appearances and deceived by the twisted explanations deliberately fabricated by the old system. The reason Chen Ke became a communist was that the thoughts of Marx, Lenin, and Grandpa Mao pointed out the true status quo of society to him. Telling Chen Ke how to see the core contradiction from complicated appearances and be able to solve this contradiction effectively.

Learning the new situation that refugees began to pour into Fengtai County, Chen Ke didn't say a word when working in the fields all afternoon. For him, what exactly to do was not difficult to determine. The common people in the disaster area pouring into Fengtai County, even if the total number reached two hundred thousand, as long as everyone was united from top to bottom, holding on until the first batch of grain harvest wasn't too big a problem. Moreover, those who could flee famine here were mostly young and strong. An eight-thousand-strong Insurance Corps could force the landlords of Fengtai County to hand over their land obediently. If there were fifty thousand people, the landlords in other areas would probably have to hand over even their underpants.

The current difficulty was how to make the comrades of the People's Party genuinely agree with the path Chen Ke chose. After thinking over and over again, Chen Ke felt he must make the comrades completely sure that only the common people were the truly reliable force. As long as policies and methods were operated reasonably, refugees were not only not a burden but the greatest wealth of the revolution.

But this first required the comrades to firmly believe that only the people were reliable. This required People's Party members to stand on the position of the working masses. Since he called himself a believer of Grandpa Mao and a revolutionary of socialist revolution, Chen Ke wouldn't wishfully think that People's Party members could really have this consciousness. Consciousness is forced out under circumstances of having no choice. At the current stage, the People's Party was not so much a revolutionary party as a small group with Chen Ke as the core.

The degree of advancement of Party members was actually the strength of loyalty to Chen Ke personally. Just like comrades who performed very excellently like Hua Xiongmao and He Zudao, they were merely full of trust and loyalty to Chen Ke. Then they implemented what Chen Ke hoped them to achieve. Moreover, many Party members just had no way out during the flood and had to work desperately to survive. After the flood, because they poured huge efforts into the revolution in Fengtai County, they felt it would be a loss to leave after investing so much effort for nothing. Moreover, the rapid advance of the revolutionary situation in Fengtai County allowed these comrades to see hope. But Chen Ke knew very clearly that the biggest difference between these people and those exploiters in the old era was merely that they did too much work and had become accustomed to the working state.

In any case, facing this challenge of "refugees pouring into the base area," Chen Ke would absolutely not allow anyone to stand on the exploiting class at this critical moment, especially not allowing the People's Party to consider itself as new power holders and a new exploiting class. The People's Party must stand on the position of ordinary workers. This was also the reason why Chen Ke wanted Party members to undertake such hard work. As the saying goes, big waves wash away the sand; the hard work necessary for revolution will eliminate all those who are not firm. And those remaining after the washing of revolutionary work will all be gold.

Sure enough, as Chen Ke expected, the earliest one to think the common people were reliable was You Gou. You Gou had always undertaken hard work. As far as Chen Ke knew, You Gou consistently adhered to the leading role of a Party member. Chen Ke had always regarded You Gou highly; there was the consciousness of a "soldier" in You Gou. As long as a job was given to You Gou, then You Gou was like a pawn crossing the river, advancing without retreat. People are like this; without the slightest retreat, they will think of every means to complete the mission. No one is born knowing everything. As long as the attitude is serious and subjective initiative is exerted, a person will progress and awaken quickly. You Gou was like this.

When You Gou publicly stated that the government was unreliable, the comrades of the People's Party all felt it was very correct. But You Gou stated "the people are reliable." Chen Ke saw different opinions in the expressions of many people.

"That's right, the common people are the only reliable force." He Zudao continued to speak. His speech made the corners of many comrades' mouths twitch slightly. Quite a few people knew about He Zudao admiring You Gou in his heart. This was not only shown in details in daily life; in Party meetings, the first person He Zudao supported was Chen Ke, and the second person he supported was You Gou. Everyone saw it in their eyes and was clear in their hearts.

Of course, this could only be said to be prejudice. He Zudao's speech was not to support You Gou. As the number one person in the army's political work now, He Zudao sincerely believed that the common people were reliable.

"Do comrades feel very hard leading the people to work, so have a bellyful of grievances?" Chen Ke asked with a smile, "Everyone think about it; you did do a lot of things. But without the common people, without the masses, relying on just us few people, could we accomplish such big things in Fengtai County? Comrades, the vast majority of work was not done by ourselves. It was done by the common people. If the people are unreliable, who can be reliable?"

Chen Ke's words had a realistic basis that couldn't be refuted. At least the local Party members in Fengtai County agreed deeply. They all knew how much work their fellow villagers did. These people could become People's Party members; without exception, they all performed excellently in work. Although other Party members might not necessarily be convinced by this statement, Chen Ke had spoken to this extent, and the Party members already understood Chen Ke's meaning. No one had the intention to oppose anymore.

Seeing everyone accepted his attitude willingly or unwillingly, Chen Ke continued: "We must maintain the current working method. Party members must take the lead. Without doing so, our Party and our revolution have no future."

Seeing no one opposed, but many people had expressions of disapproval, Chen Ke laughed: "Just talking about these things, everyone definitely feels very empty. Let me tell everyone my vision. How to solve this grain problem."

Chen Ke's plan was not complicated. Nothing more than raising grain, raising money, opening land, and rush-planting. But the first plan surprised the comrades. "It's not that there is no grain in the disaster area; there are plenty of fortified villages around Fengtai County. Which fortified village doesn't have three years of grain? We fought Zhang Youliang; how much grain did we wipe out? Since the refugees want to live, we have to lead them to fight back. Relying solely on our Fengtai County definitely won't work."

"Secretary Chen, we fight back? What if the local government moves out? Our Insurance Corps are not bandits." Someone asked urgently.

"Not us fighting over, but the common people wanting to fight back, asking us to help. Wait for me to finish speaking first."

"Second, raising money is not quite the same as raising grain. On one hand, conquering fortified villages will yield grain and also some money. But raising money requires the government to contribute. Comrade Shang Yuan will come forward to ask the government for money. The government has no grain, but it won't lack money. With money, we can go to other places to buy grain."

"As for opening land and rush-planting, there is so much land outside Fengtai County. As long as we rush to open land now, we can definitely rush-plant some results. Just do what we did in Fengtai County again in other counties. This is my general plan."

After the comrades listened, military cadres were all rubbing their fists and wiping their palms. Breaking fortified villages, grabbing money, grabbing grain—they were most enthusiastic about these things. With the example of Zhang Youliang, everyone was very confident about obtaining combat victory.

But civil affairs cadres all showed bitter faces. Current work was already so hard; doing it in other counties too, to what extent would the workload increase?

Chen Ke laughed: "Comrades, this is hard work, I know. The army has to face bloodshed and sacrifice. Civil affairs will be even harder. I can tell everyone now; everyone will only be harder than now in the future. But why do we do this? Why do People's Party comrades have to work so hard? Because we have the ideal of liberating the whole of China. Crying out in pain just after stepping out of Fengtai County, what does this count as?"

"We are not afraid of hardship." Hua Xiongmao stood up. As the number one person in the army, Hua Xiongmao was very happy to be able to fight fully. Army Party members sat on Hua Xiongmao's side. Seeing Hua Xiongmao stand up, Chai Qingguo immediately followed to stand up. "Breaking fortified villages, fighting big households. I am willing to lead the charge." Following Chen Ke for so long, Chai Qingguo finally waited for large-scale combat. Although it was not the cavalry battle he was used to, Chai Qingguo was still terribly high-spirited.

Looking at the enthusiastic military cadres, other comrades also had nothing to say.

"Then everyone discuss according to my plan," Chen Ke said, striking while the iron was hot.

In the Party history of the People's Party, the meeting held between September 7 and September 9, 1906, is called the "Yuezhangji Meeting." This is an event of great commemorative significance. In this meeting, the People's Party formally reached the program of "liberating the whole of China through armed struggle" within the Party for the first time. Since the People's Party paid special attention to the preservation and management of materials, the meeting materials were very rich. After the meeting materials were declassified, historical researchers could get a glimpse of the content of the meeting at that time.

Party history researchers easily discovered that although this meeting established the line of military struggle, the military part was not much. Relatively, education and training establishing the stance of people's revolution occupied a huge space. In the rich meeting minutes, researchers saw that those predecessors with illustrious names didn't have very high revolutionary consciousness in the early days of joining the People's Party.

Euphemistically speaking, most early Party members hoped to achieve their life values through revolution. Speaking bluntly, everyone hoped to gain status and prestige through joining the revolution and through revolutionary victory.

And Chen Ke, as the leader of the People's Party, completely grasped everyone's mentality. He emphasized "People's Revolution." The People's Party is the vanguard of the revolution, wanting to create tomorrow for the Chinese working people. Wanting to serve the working people. The people are the masters of the country; the People's Party is the servant of the people, not the master of the people.

As for the revolutionary armed force Insurance Corps, firstly, this was not an old-style army in the traditional sense, but a new-style army. The Party is the leader of the army. And the Insurance Corps is the army of the people's sons and brothers. In this "Yuezhangji Meeting," Chen Ke proposed renaming the Insurance Corps to "Chinese Revolutionary Army" (*Zhonghua Geming Jun*). This proposal received the unanimous consent of the participating comrades.

The meeting discussed Chen Ke's plan in detail and subdivided it. The first stage, first investigate the refugee situation. And organize these refugees as soon as possible to reclaim wasteland nearby and restore agricultural production. At the same time, send reconnaissance troops to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the surrounding areas.

The second stage, expand the area of restoring production rapidly. Unite local common people and strike at stubborn opponents.

The third stage, prepare to liberate Fengyang Prefecture next year. And penetrate the Huainan Plain to the maximum extent.

The "Yuezhangji Meeting" only lasted for three days, but this meeting determined the action plan of the People's Party for the next half year. So it is generally considered the beginning of the People's Party's formal revolution. Although the formal revolution had not unfolded with real swords and guns yet, the sparks of revolution had already burned in Anhui, where wailing was heard everywhere in 1906.