After the Military Commission meeting adjourned, Hua Xiongmao hurried away from the venue. His heart was full of insights into the people's revolution. Just as he was about to step out of the military camp gate quickly, he suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting from behind: "Zheng Lan, don't go yet."

Hearing Qiu Jin's shout, Hua Xiongmao was shocked. After Qiu Jin came to the base area, Hua Xiongmao tried his best to avoid meeting her. He knew Chen Ke and the Party Central Committee's attitude towards the Yuewang Society and the Guangfuhui very well, and Hua Xiongmao himself supported this attitude. The People's Party had no obligation to provide military and political assistance to the Yuewang Society and the Guangfuhui. The greatest significance of these two revolutionary parties now was merely attracting the attention of the Manchu Qing in Anqing and Chizhou. Chen Ke was not a "good person"; after the Battle of Anqing, the reason why the People's Party handed Anqing and Chizhou over to the Yuewang Society and the Guangfuhui contained cruel considerations in Chen Ke's plan. The Yuewang Society was a local secret society party, and the Guangfuhui was a revolutionary party from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was unlikely that these two would be completely eliminated by the Manchu Qing. And the Manchu Qing would definitely want to exterminate these two political parties that created such a "commotion." Just rooting them out would consume a great deal of the Manchu Qing's strength. These two political parties would inevitably buy a lot of time for the People's Party.

Hua Xiongmao knew that Chen Ke was not plotting against Qiu Jin personally, but Qiu Jin was Hua Xiongmao's aunt after all. Hua Xiongmao could not violate confidentiality discipline to reveal internal secrets of the People's Party to Qiu Jin, and he had a sense of guilt towards Qiu Jin. The result was that Hua Xiongmao tried every means to avoid contact with Qiu Jin. Today, one slip in a hundred precautions, he was still blocked by Qiu Jin.

Pretending not to hear Qiu Jin's shout was certainly a way to solve the problem temporarily, but Hua Xiongmao couldn't bear to do so. He stopped his steps and turned his head, seeing Qiu Jin running over quickly.

Stopping in front of Hua Xiongmao, Qiu Jin said straight to the point: "Zheng Lan, I have something to beg you. Lend me some soldiers. You decide the number; not many, ten or twenty will do. But they must be able to help me and your uncle Xu Xilin."

"Aunt, I can't help with this matter." Hua Xiongmao replied regretfully, "Our People's Party is the Party commanding the gun; without the order of the Party Committee, I can't move a single person."

Qiu Jin stared at Hua Xiongmao as if looking at a monster. After a good while, she asked in that angry tone peculiar to being fooled: "Zheng Lan, you have thousands of people under your command, right? You refuse even when I ask you to lend me ten people?"

"Aunt, I'm not fooling you; our People's Party has such a system. Once the Party Committee makes a decision, I have to go out to fight with thousands of troops. Without the Party Committee's decision, I can't take away a single person." Hua Xiongmao tried hard to convince Qiu Jin.

"Zheng Lan, do you think these words can fool me?"

Hua Xiongmao didn't know how to explain to Qiu Jin because he had never thought about this problem. While trying hard to think, a thought suddenly flashed through Hua Xiongmao's mind. This was something he hadn't considered before, but now this thought flashed through his mind like lightning, giving Hua Xiongmao a sudden feeling of enlightenment. "Aunt, it is precisely because our army has such discipline that our People's Party can be invincible. Our army is the Party's army, not my personal army. Our army can win battles because we fight for the common people. If the army became my personal army, who would be willing to listen to me?"

If these words were said to the Military Commission of the People's Party and the soldiers of the troops, Hua Xiongmao could definitely convince them successfully. But he was facing Qiu Jin outside the People's Party now. Qiu Jin couldn't understand what Hua Xiongmao was saying at all. Because Qiu Jin also held important positions in Chizhou, she knew that as a leader of a political party, one must set an example. So Qiu Jin could understand the reason why Chen Ke couldn't agree to lend people. Today, when the People's Party also had to face the Manchu Qing siege, it was inconvenient for Chen Ke to explain to the people under the People's Party. Thinking over and over, Qiu Jin felt Hua Xiongmao could definitely help. With thousands of people under Hua Xiongmao, supporting a dozen or twenty people should be a very easy thing, right? She never expected that Hua Xiongmao would refuse her with such an incredible reason as "without the order of the Party Committee, I can't move a single person myself."

"Zheng Lan, can't you lend me a dozen people from your guard unit?" Qiu Jin was completely angry.

"My guard unit?" Although he saw Qiu Jin's angry face, Hua Xiongmao almost laughed out loud hearing this. Military cadres of the People's Party did not have their own guard units. The only guard battalion was the directly subordinate unit used to protect the Party Central Committee. The guards of commanders at all levels were all arranged by Commissar He Zudao. To put it bluntly, even if Hua Xiongmao was willing to follow Qiu Jin himself now, he dared not even bring a guard. Because the guard might not necessarily agree with Hua Xiongmao's idea of leaving privately. But this kind of problem couldn't be explained to Qiu Jin no matter what; Hua Xiongmao knew very well. Even if he explained it, Qiu Jin wouldn't be able to understand the organizational model of the People's Party at all.

Just when he didn't know how to handle it, Chen Ke's guard appeared. "Teacher Qiu, Chairman Chen invites you over."

These words finally saved Hua Xiongmao from the awkward situation, but this feeling of rejoicing didn't last too long. Qiu Jin glared at Hua Xiongmao with eyes full of anger. That resentment caused by extreme incomprehension made Hua Xiongmao feel a chill in his heart. He suddenly felt a grievance. The organizational model of the People's Party put an end to the private control of troops by military cadres in the army. The troops were completely controlled in the hands of the Political Department. All Hua Xiongmao's power came from the authorization of the Party Committee. Although Hua Xiongmao himself had a high status in the army, he was only a Standing Committee member in the Party Committee. He, this Standing Committee member, also had to accept the resolution of the Party Committee. And could not issue orders on his own initiative.

Qiu Jin didn't leave Hua Xiongmao a chance to explain; she turned and left with Chen Ke's guard.

Hua Xiongmao turned dejectedly and walked out of the military camp. To be honest, since following Chen Ke, Hua Xiongmao never thought he could become a commander in charge of military orders for tens of thousands of troops so quickly. But the organizational model constructed by Chen Ke didn't show anything special at the beginning. Like-minded comrades were all young; facing the sudden flood, everyone had no experience, and everything had to be discussed. At that time, Chen Ke personally set an example on the front line, leading everyone through birth and death. Since Chen Ke wasn't afraid, what else could everyone say? Follow the founder of the People's Party, Chen Ke. A whole set of systems was established unknowingly in Chen Ke's seemingly inadvertent arrangement. Every comrade seemed to shoulder their own responsibilities, and every matter could find a relevant person in charge. Hua Xiongmao was very satisfied with this system. Today, he discovered that even for himself in a high position, it was absolutely impossible to use this system to do some private things for himself that violated the principles of the People's Party. If he wanted to send troops to help Qiu Jin privately, he must let this established system have huge artificially created loopholes. And Hua Xiongmao asked himself; he didn't want such artificial loopholes to appear.

What support Qiu Jin could get from Chen Ke had long been discussed by the Party Committee; the People's Party would send someone to escort Qiu Jin back to Chizhou. Since the systems of the Guangfuhui and the People's Party were completely different, any help given to the Guangfuhui could not have any real effect. Rather than wasting comrades' lives, it would be better simply not to help either side. The Guangfuhui once cooperated with the People's Party; as a return, the People's Party had already handed Chizhou over to the Guangfuhui. In the view of People's Party comrades, even if Chen Ke's strategic design was not indifferent [simple?], the Guangfuhui had greatly publicized its existence by occupying Chizhou. Capturing a city was something the Guangfuhui needed to pay a huge price to accomplish, and the People's Party did it for the Guangfuhui. Everyone had already cleared accounts with each other according to the originally agreed plan. As for what would happen later, the Guangfuhui got what it sought. They should have no complaints. However, Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin were Hua Xiongmao's relatives after all. Knowing they faced danger but being unable to help, this feeling was still very bad. Hua Xiongmao lowered his head and left the military camp. The guard had already prepared a horse for him; this was a warhorse of the New Army captured in the Battle of Anqing. After Hua Xiongmao mounted the horse, he couldn't help looking back at the direction of Chen Ke's office. Qiu Jin should have already started arguing with Chen Ke about the issue of aiding the Chizhou Guangfuhui at this time. Hua Xiongmao couldn't help sighing slightly thinking of this, and then urged the warhorse to rush towards the station in Yuezhangji.

The dispute between Hua Xiongmao and Qiu Jin happened at the gate of the Fengtai County military camp; many cadres saw it. Yan Fu came out with Hua Xiongmao; he also saw this scene of relatives arguing. Seeing Hua Xiongmao's dejected appearance, Yan Fu even felt a heartfelt sympathy. Sympathy aside, Yan Fu didn't think there was anything wrong with Chen Ke's attitude towards Qiu Jin. Yan Fu knew Chen Ke and Qiu Jin were old friends. Both wore expensive watches of the same style on their wrists, which was enough to prove that the relationship between the two was quite unusual. And as the Chairman of the People's Party, Chen Ke took the interests of the People's Party as the highest criterion. Yan Fu agreed with this attitude very much.

Before the Battle of Anqing, Yan Fu also had some illusions about the Yuewang Society. Hoping to get help from the Yuewang Society when attacking Anqing. Before Yan Fu mentioned the Yuewang Society, Chen Ke didn't even know the existence of the Yuewang Society. But Chen Ke could grasp the characteristics of the Yuewang Society based on imagination alone. In the Battle of Anqing, Chen Ke's positioning of the Yuewang Society was "malicious neutrality." At the summary meeting after the Battle of Anqing, everyone exchanged many things that happened when contacting the Yuewang Society, and comrades praised Chen Ke's foresight endlessly. "Secret societies" are unreliable; this was the unified idea of the People's Party high level.

But with Yan Fu's experience, the bottom layer he could imagine was just secret societies. Although Yan Fu heard Chen Ke say "people's revolution" countless times. But Yan Fu still couldn't quite accept the "people's revolution" mentioned by Chen Ke. In Yan Fu's view, the people need education from superiors. Whatever the People's Party says, the common people just follow. Isn't it only right and natural for superiors to guide and educate the people?

Yan Fu could feel that Chen Ke also had many thoughts like his in his heart, but Chen Ke himself tried hard to fight against such thoughts. Chen Ke not only constantly educated People's Party comrades "The people know reason, the people can distinguish right from wrong, trust the people." Moreover, Yan Fu could see that Chen Ke also tried hard to persuade Chen Ke himself to believe in this attitude all the time. When formulating policies, Chen Ke required People's Party cadres to explain clearly to the people in words the people could understand before execution. Yan Fu felt this was where Chen Ke contradicted himself. If the people can only understand the significance of the policy when they get benefits, doesn't this practice mean that the people are a group of villains who don't understand righteousness and only know how to pursue their own interests?

Whether secret societies or the people, neither is reliable. Yan Fu couldn't help thinking. However, Chen Ke still had relatively good vision. When conquering Anqing, he at least grabbed a batch of female students from Anqing Girls' School, preparing to train these female students into teachers. Although this method was really a bit radical, Yan Fu felt that in the long run, this was a good method. Moreover, Anqing was about to become a new battlefield soon; Yan Fu didn't believe in the military discipline of the New Army. Once the New Army retook Anqing, there would inevitably be a military disaster. These female students were much safer in the base area instead. The future base area defense war could not involve water battles. The Party Committee hoped Yan Fu would strengthen the education system of the base area as soon as possible. So Yan Fu decided to go to the Normal School to take a look.

When Yan Fu arrived at the Normal School, the female students had just completed the farming task of the day. Coming to the base area for so long, the habits of young ladies had weakened a lot. Everyone wiped their sweat with cloth towels while sitting on small stools they carried to rest. At this time, it was confirmed that Ren Qiying, acting as the temporary ideological commissar, was speaking to everyone.

"Students, everyone said yesterday that simplified characters are ugly; I admit this point. But simplified characters are easy to learn and recognize, far easier to learn than those traditional characters. We will all be people's teachers in the future. We teach, teach everyone to read, the purpose is to let the people master the tool of writing. Writing is a tool, not a symbol of status. Through reading, through learning culture, the people can learn many skills through more books. These skills can make the people's lives better. This is the purpose of education. We educate the people to teach the masses a skill for a better life. Not to cultivate a bunch of bastards who want to be people above people just because they recognize a few broken characters."

"Then Mr. Ren, why does the base area still conduct exams? I see in the regulations of the base area, civil servants recruited in the future all need to take exams?" a girl asked.

Hearing the girl's answer, Ren Qiying smiled. "The civil servants of the base area are public servants of the people. If they can't read, a lot of work will be inefficient. As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen; mastering cultural knowledge as a tool can work better. We promote cultural education to let everyone work better, not to be officials. This is the biggest difference between our base area and other political organizations. We must realize that at any time, we ourselves are common people exactly like everyone else, not becoming high-and-mighty masters just because we recognize a few characters. We are all equal."

"According to what you said, Chairman Chen Ke is also an equal common person like us?" the girl asked slightly timidly.

"Correct, in the base area there is only a difference in division of labor, no difference in status. Chairman Chen Ke is a political leader; this is an actually existing fact. But this does not mean Chairman Chen Ke has privileges overriding us."

"Then when we farm, why doesn't Chairman Chen Ke farm together?" A girl who looked slightly naughty whispered.

Ren Qiying was not angry at such a complaint. She laughed: "Then when Chairman Chen Ke fights battles, why don't you go fight?"

Hearing this, the girl who complained in a low voice flushed and dared not speak again.

"This is the difference in division of labor. Because we believe Chairman Chen Ke is indeed stronger than us in this aspect, we recommended Chairman Chen Ke to sit in the Chairman's position. Comrades, our People's Party does not engage in privileges. Chairman Chen Ke becoming the Party Chairman is also the result of everyone's vote. As a member of the People's Party, I also participated in the voting. Chairman Chen Ke was elected by us, not self-appointed by him. Nor did he get this position by coercion and bribery."

Hearing this, the girls who originally didn't agree with Ren Qiying's political education from the bottom of their hearts couldn't help widening their eyes. They originally didn't know that the instructor in front of them had such great power, actually able to participate in such a big event as electing the Chairman of the People's Party. In their view, Chen Ke was at least equivalent to a county magistrate. Manchu Qing magistrates were never elected by voting. This fact greatly impacted the girls' worldview.

And Yan Fu frowned slightly after hearing Ren Qiying's words. This was not because Yan Fu found it incomprehensible that Chen Ke was elected by People's Party members. In Yan Fu's view, education is a means for the government to transform the people, while in Ren Qiying's statement, education only lets the people master a tool to transform themselves. This almost diametrically opposed view made Yan Fu feel a true shock.