Section 6 Contact

  "In your opinion, the shopkeeper and the partner will not eventually part ways, so you want to establish a board of directors and formulate store rules, thus ensuring that the shopkeeper and the partner always walk together. Is that right?" Director Zhou asked.

  Zhuang Jihua thought for a moment and felt that this way of speaking did not misunderstand his own meaning, so he nodded.

  "What do you think is the reason for their breakup?"

  Zhuang Jihua silently said: "Their business philosophy is different."

  "But now although there are some differences, their goals are the same."

  "Yes, but they took different measures."

  "However, we think that the partner can work together with the boss to manage the store well. Although the boss has some health problems, they can still be treated."

  Zhuang Jihua thought for a moment and said, "I once had a friend who fell ill. I wanted to take him to the hospital, but he refused, saying he wasn't sick. However, he was indeed ill. I insisted on taking him to the hospital, so we ended up arguing. He punched me and left. After that, until I left, he never came to see me off."

  Director Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Your friend may be confused, but the shopkeeper is clear-headed. He also thinks he's ill, so he wants his partner to help him often."

  "It's not necessarily so, minor illnesses untreated can lead to serious diseases being hard to prevent."

  As soon as the words came out, Zhuang Jihua realized that something was wrong. Sun Yat-sen is not dead yet. Sure enough, Director Zhou stared at him, as if to see through his innermost thoughts.

  "Do you think the shopkeeper might get confused?"

  Zhuang Jihua didn't utter a word, he chose silence.

  Director Zhou also didn't speak, and the room suddenly became quiet, with the leaves outside the window rustling softly.

  "It's windy." Jiang Xianyun looked out the window, got up to close it, his footsteps were heavy, he fully understood the two people's riddles, his mood was very heavy and also very surprised, Wen Ge was too bold, he actually suspected the Premier.

  Zhuang Jihua knew that the two had misunderstood each other, but for a moment he didn't know how to explain it. He watched as Jiang Xianyun pulled over the window and suddenly had an idea.

  "I like sunny days, especially the sunny days in Guangzhou, with a clear blue sky and bright sunshine, it's so great; rainy days always make me feel gloomy, but no one can keep the sky sunny all the time."

  Director Zhou seemed to be deep in thought, and he somewhat understood. He then continued smoothly: "The wind and rain can wash away the dust."

  "Heavy rain may become a disaster." Zhuang Jihua immediately added.

  Heavy rain can be prevented, and it's just right to repair water channels and rivers because of this.

  "Some rain may come suddenly and be difficult to prevent."

  "There is always a sign of change in the weather."

  Zhuang Jihua understood that Director Zhou had understood his words, and Jiang Xianyun saw the two of them talking about the weather again, hesitated for a moment and also understood, then said: "Who can stop the rain when it's going to fall? Moreover, isn't the air fresher after the rain?"

  When it's going to rain, no one can stop it. Zhuang Jihua fell silent. If you can't stop it, then what choice do you have? So...

  "Wouldn't it be better if heavy rain turned into light rain, which can refresh the air and also repair waterways and rivers?"

  "One should not be afraid of the storm, one should welcome it like a sea swallow." Jiang Xianyun retorted.

  "But a storm might destroy the shop and cause more suffering for Dongjia."

  "But, Cultural Revolution, have you thought about it? In your design, store rules are a very important rule, but how can we ensure that everyone follows the store rules? The reality is that there are many behaviors that break the store rules." Director Zhou then raised another question, and the issue of the storm was temporarily put to rest.

  Since the Xinhai Revolution, the Provisional Constitution has been repeatedly destroyed by the Beiyang government. For thousands of years, China's political environment has always been one where might makes right, not relying on law. Those with power can destroy the law at will, from Li Shimin in the past to Zhang Zuolin and Duan Qirui in recent times. Therefore, Director Zhou's question is extremely sharp.

  "After a moment's thought, Zhuang Jihua said: 'We should first solve the problem of the board of directors. With a strong board of directors, the store rules can naturally be maintained.'"

  "Then what if the board of directors breaks the store rules?"

  "No," said Zhuang Jihua resolutely. "The store rules were formulated by the board of directors, and the board relies on them to manage the store. If he breaks the rules, the store will collapse."

  "But the shopkeeper thought he could set up a new board of directors."

  "Otherwise, if the shopkeeper destroys the old board of directors, then there will also be other members of the board of directors destroying the new board of directors."

  Director Zhou nodded in agreement with this conclusion. After this silent struggle, he felt that Zhuang Jihua was indeed thoughtful and profound on some issues as described by Jiang Xianyun, but somewhat one-sided and even idealized on others.

  Zhuang Jihua felt a bit weak at this time, the old man was taken away, so he decided to change this situation, and after talking for so long, he still hadn't figured out their high-level views.

  "Director, actually there's another question," Zhuang Jihua looked at Director Zhou: "Do the partners and their friends believe that the shopkeeper's illness can be cured."

  "Of course, the current partners and bosses are friends, and the partner's friend also thinks that the boss's illness can be cured." Director Zhou said calmly.

  "I'm afraid it's probably just what his friends have concluded."

  "This is their consensus." Director Zhou was tight-lipped, but he was secretly shocked. How did he know about the divisions within the party's high levels? Was it Jiang Xianyun who told him? He couldn't help but glance at Jiang Xianyun, only to see that Jiang Xianyun also looked at him with some confusion.

  "But I don't quite trust the partner's friends, some of their behaviors are inexplicable, and they don't understand the store, nor do they understand the boss, yet they still interfere with the store's operations and the relationship between the partner and the boss. I'm worried that in the future, it might lead to a split between the partner and the boss." Zhu Jihua suddenly threw out this question, leaving Zhou Director and Jiang Xiuyun somewhat caught off guard.

  "But both the partner and the shopkeeper think that friends are trustworthy, which is different from the shopkeeper's current understanding." Director Zhou said sternly. Zhuang Jihua's words almost immediately made Director Zhou categorize Zhuang Jihua as a rightist, and a more dangerous type at that.

  "It's like this now, but I'm talking about the future, after the rain. My intention is that partners should make their own decisions as soon as possible. After all, this is a matter for the store, and friends also have stores, which need to be operated, it's impossible to completely compromise his store's interests for the sake of his partner's store, or even harm his partner's interests for the sake of his own store." Zhuang Jihua looked at Director Zhou without backing down. Now that he roughly understood the high-level Communist Party's understanding, despite some disappointment, he decided to remind them and end this conversation.

  "We don't think so, the shopkeeper and his assistant both believe that friends are sincere."

  "What happened in the north this June, even if the partner thinks it's normal, does the shopkeeper think it's normal? If similar things happen in the northwest and northeast in the future, how should the partner behave, and how will the shopkeeper judge?"

  Director Zhou and Jiang Xiangyun fell silent at the same time. In June 1924, Outer Mongolia declared independence, and the Soviet Union sent troops into Mongolia to protect its independence. On the other hand, it also signed the "Outline Agreement on Sino-Russian Settlement of Outstanding Issues" with the Beijing government. This treaty was strongly opposed by Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang, and as a result, Sun Yat-sen had a fierce quarrel with Borodin, which almost ruined the three major policies of allying with Russia. However, the attitude of the Communist Party of China was to support the signing of the treaty, undoubtedly this was a decision made by the Comintern for him.

  "The shopkeeper has a knife in his hand, so the apprentice should at least hold a stick."

  This remark will pull him back from right-wing to center-left again.

  After Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun left, Director Zhou felt that he still couldn't grasp Zhuang's political attitude. Throughout the conversation, Zhuang only showed his sharp edge at the last moment, while at other times he was patiently explaining his thoughts, which should be said to be very cooperative. At one point, Director Zhou thought he had grasped Zhuang's political attitude, but his attitude towards Soviet Russia and his suggestion that the Communist Party should take control of its own armed forces left him perplexed. The former was an absolutely right-wing remark, while the latter was an extreme left-wing statement. The Nationalist Party explicitly stated that it did not want the Communist Party to have any involvement with the military, even a famous left-winger like Liao Zhongkai did not want the Communist Party to have any involvement with the military. The number of workers' inspection teams and peasants' self-defense teams were also clearly regulated. In the past, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had made contributions in suppressing the merchant corps, but afterwards they were all disbanded. Zhuang Jihua actually proposed that the Communist Party should take control of its own military forces.

  After dinner, neither Zhuang Jihua nor Jiang Xiyun showed any interest in talking. After this conversation, no one wanted to say anything else. He sat at the desk with a book, but it was unclear whether he was reading it or not. Zhuang Jihua lay on his bed, thinking back and forth about his conversation with Director Zhou. The dormitory seemed much quieter than usual.

  Zhuang Jihua made an effort to recall history, at the beginning Zhou was also in Guangzhou and Huangpu, but the Zhongshan warship incident still occurred, 4.12 the Communist Party still had no power to fight back. Thinking of these things, Zhuang Jihua once again felt uneasy, was he pinning his hopes on him too high? Even if he could persuade him, could he decide the Communist Party's high-level decisions? It is worth noting that Chiang Kai-shek is now a "red general", at least this is what the Soviet advisors think.

  4.12 The weight of the boulder-like situation was crushing Zhuang Jihua's heart, and if he didn't make a change, it would be impossible to avoid. Zhuang Jihua thought again about the forces he could rely on and mobilize, but in the end, he found that he had nothing. His classmates? He Zhenhan was a supporter of the Nationalist Party and Chiang Kai-shek; Jiang Xiyun was a supporter of the Communist Party and intra-party cooperation. If he asked them to support him, it would definitely not work with Jiang Xiyun, and it seemed unlikely to work with He Zhenhan either.

  It's better to be carefree, no need to play politics. Zhuang Jihua sighed in his heart, a relaxed life of chatting with girls online is much more comfortable, it's like heaven compared to now. Thinking about going online, he couldn't help but think of the topic he started "How many temptations under a suspender skirt", and wonder how many bricks and flowers he got. Suddenly, an idea struck him, I'll start a thread here too, let's see how many replies I get.

  Little did he know, this sudden impulse almost made him irretrievable.

  Damn it, this chapter is too hard to write!