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Chapter 15: Limited Cooperation (1)

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Deng Enming has been traveling between Jinan, Qingdao and Jiao County since the second half of 1922, and has made a lot of preparations for establishing the Party, Youth League organization and carrying out the workers' movement in Qingdao.

In the spring of 1923, Deng Enming was sent to Qingdao by the organization to carry out activities with teaching and newspapers as a cover, and he also devoted his main energy to the establishment of the party and youth league organizations and the workers' movement.

After applying for a primary school teacher in Nanyao but was pushed back by Zhao Zhenzhong, in August 1923, Deng Enming and Wang Xiangwu, a Communist Party member who worked in the engineering class of the Jiaoao Commercial Port Supervisory Office, formed the Qingdao Group of the Communist Party of China, and Deng Enming served as secretary. This was the first Communist Party of China organization in Qingdao's history.

Wang Jinmei came to Qingdao in October as the secretary of the Jinan Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China to guide the party and the workers' movement. Shortly after coming to Qingdao, she introduced Yan Bozhen, a teacher at the public Qingdao National Primary School, to join the party with Deng Enming. This was the first party member of the Communist Party of China to develop in Qingdao.

Deng Enming and Wang Xiangwu developed the first group of members of Qingdao. On November 18, 1923, under the leadership of Wang Zhenyi, a special commissioner of the Central Committee of the China Youth League of China and Wang Jinmei, secretary of the Jinan Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Qingdao Branch of the China Youth League of China was established, and Deng Enming served as secretary.

After nearly two months, by the end of November, Wang Jinmei and Deng Enming transformed the Christmas party with a feudal guild nature into the first group in Qingdao that was under the leadership of the Communist Party.

While busy, when Wang Jinmei and Deng Enming talked about the work in Qingdao, Deng Enming gave a detailed report to Wang Jinmei about the situation where he went to Nanyao to apply for a primary school teacher in early August but failed to work as a primary school teacher and Wang Zhijian, but later was driven away, and about the situation of Nanyao Yixue, Sihai Industry, Sihai Restaurant, Sihai School, etc.

"Although on the surface, from Nanyaoyixue to Sihai Industry, Sihai Restaurant, Sihai School, etc., it was from the Taiqing Palace, the Taoist priests surnamed Li and several secular families, but from our understanding of the situation, there are several young people who cannot be ignored, especially this young man named Zhao Zhenzhong. He joined forces with Germans and Americans to contribute to the joint investment."

"Your work direction is right, but the working method needs to be improved." After listening to Deng Enming's report, Wang Jinmei thought for a while, and then said: "If they rented land in Taiqing Palace to take in orphans, rescue refugees, and started the orphans taken in Yixue Teaching, then we should not treat them as exploiting classes."

"But he founded Sihai Industry and Sihai Restaurant, not only hiring labor, but also colluded with Germans and Americans. How could he not be an exploiting class?" Deng Enming was puzzled.

"Then do you think they started their own business and restaurants to make money to provide their own enjoyment?" Wang Jinmei reminded.

"I haven't heard of any squandering and enjoying this. I took in a large number of orphans and rescued many refugees." Deng Enming was also a little confused.

"Have you ever seen an exploiting class who doesn't enjoy it after making money, but uses it to take in orphans and rescue refugees?" Wang Jinmei asked again.

"I have never seen this before. But they colluded with Germans, Americans, and capitalists of Qingdao Chamber of Commerce. Through Sihai Industry and Sihai Restaurant, this is not fake, right?" Deng Enming retorted.

"I always feel that they are not the exploiting class we used to call it, at least not exactly." Wang Jinmei said thinking, "They may have other reasons for starting an industry with the Germans, Americans and the capitalists of the Chamber of Commerce. Just like we also passed a resolution to ask all members of our party to join the Southern political parties in their personal names? Although we have the intention of joining the Southern political parties to help them reform and development, it is more important to use the various resources of the Southern Party to develop rapidly and strengthen our own strength."

Deng Enming began to think after hearing Wang Jinmei's words.

"If you have time, let's go to Nanyao to have a look and talk to them." Wang Jinmei continued, "If possible, develop them into one of us. Using everything they have can enable our party to achieve leapfrog development and growth in Qingdao, and also help us develop our work throughout Shandong."

"Are they so important?" Deng Enming asked in surprise.

"You think it took them less than five years to start a charity school, industry, restaurant, and Sihai School equivalent to middle schools. What kind of development speed is this?" Wang Jinmei further inspired: "If our party can also have such development and construction speed, what kind of scene will we have in the future?"

"Is this possible?" Deng Enming was a little stunned.

"What will happen? Let's see it and talk to them again."

One day in mid-December, the fourth day after Zhao Zhenzhong led the team back from the mountain, he arrived on Nanyao Island after arranging the rangers to continue training the more than 530 trainees. He was about to go to Sihai School, but he met Li Yunxia who was responsible for the daily affairs of Yixue School on the way. "Uncle Shi, two people came to Yixue School and said they wanted to meet the people responsible here. Grandpa and my father were not here, and Zhou Shigu was busy sorting out some summary at the factory. You can come to see them."

"How many people came? What are they doing?"

"Two people came here. I heard that one is a primary school teacher in Jinan and the other is an editor of a newspaper in Qingdao."

"Didn't ask you anything?"

"I asked a lot of questions, don't say a lot. I don't know. Even if I know, I can't just talk nonsense." Li Yunxia smiled and said, "Don't worry, uncle, grandpa and my father have told us that we should not tell the situation here to outsiders."

"Okay, I'll go and meet them with you." Zhao Zhenzhong followed Li Yunxia to Yixue.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw "Ding Youmin" sitting and a tall and thin person with short hair and big ears beside him. Zhao Zhen understood in the center that the founders of the two Shandong red political parties had arrived.

"It turns out it's Mr. Ding. I wonder what Mr. Ding is doing this time?" Zhao Zhenzhong was not polite and straightforward.

Deng Enming and Wang Jinmei were surprised when she saw the person in charge who came in, the young man Deng Enming once said. Wang Jinmei stood up and introduced herself: "I am Wang Jinmei, a teacher at Yucai Primary School in Nanguan, Jinan." Deng Enming also stood up and said: "Let me get to know again. I am Deng Enming, the editor of the supplement of Qingdao Jiaoao Daily. I used a pseudonym for some reasons last time. Please forgive me."

"Zhao Zhenzhong. Speaking in this place should be quite practical." Zhao Zhenzhong said concisely and asked immediately, "I wonder what the two gentlemen will teach you this time?"

Looking at Zhao Zhenzhong's attitude of being lukewarm on the surface but keeping others out of the door at heart, both Wang and Deng felt that the interview was not optimistic.

"We want to learn about the experience of Nanyao to see if it can be applied elsewhere, and to help some orphans and refugees." Wang Jinmei brought up the topic.

Looking at the founders of the two red political parties in front of him, Zhao Zhenzhong shook his head and said meaningfully: "Other people's successful experience may not be able to succeed even if you copy and apply it. Everything must be decided based on your own actual situation. Blind copying may backfire, and you can make a tiger but not a bad dog." Looking at the two of them thinking, Zhao Zhenzhong continued: "It is of course good to be able to rescue more refugees and orphans. We can also tell you the experience here, but I don't think you can apply it in other places."

"I hope Mr. Zhao will give me some advice." Wang Jinmei did not treat Zhao Zhenzhong as a usual teenager, but talked with him on an equal basis.

"First of all, our master and Taiqing Palace have some incense relationships, which is a major reason why we can stay here."

"Secondly, all the land we cultivate here is cultivated by our own human resources. The land belongs to the Taiqing Palace, and we only rented it. We did not destroy the mountains and forests that Taiqing Palace belonged to, and we could also add land and rent to the Taiqing Palace. We also took in orphans, rescue refugees, and started good deeds such as Yixue. This is another major reason why Taiqing Palace supports us and even rents the entire Nanyao Island mountain farm for us to develop."

"As for starting an industry, it is not only to increase the input and accumulate materials to retain orphans and rescue refugees, but also to allow these refugees to learn a skill and survive in this troubled time."

"How much land have you reclaimed to support more than a thousand people?" Wang Jinmei asked.

"Due to environmental restrictions, we have only reclaimed less than 200 acres of land. However, we cultivate carefully and can cook three times a year. Add high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, as well as various mountain goods harvested from the mountains and fish caught in the ocean, which is enough for us people's daily needs."

"Three-mature ripening a year? How can I do it?" Wang Jinmei, who was born in a poor tenant farmer, was particularly interested in allowing more people to have enough food.

Zhao Zhenzhong immediately explained in detail how to interplant different crops in the fields according to different seasons and how to strengthen field management. Wang Jinmei was repeatedly praised; Deng Enming heard that Zhao Zhenzhong was indeed able to harvest more food than others, and began to change his understanding of Zhao Zhenzhong. He no longer thought that he was a young man arrogant, but felt that he really had some real skills.

"Mr. Zhao, how did this Sihai Industry be established?" Wang Jinmei, Deng Enming has always been engaged in the workers' movement, and the question raised by Deng Enming is also concerned about Wang Jinmei.

"I have already mentioned the purpose of Sihai Industrial's establishment before. Now I will talk to you about how to establish it."

"Sihai Industrial is currently engaged in food processing, mainly producing various canned meat and canned fruits, most of which are exported to Germany, a small part is exported to the United States, and a small amount is sold domestically."

"I designed several types of transportation machinery for the Germans. After the Germans gained benefits, they gave me some compensation. I used this money to start Sihai Industrial. Later, seeing that the industry prospects were good, Germans and Americans joined in."

"Then aren't you compradors who exploit the Chinese people for foreigners?" Deng Enming asked.

Zhao Zhenzhong frowned and said in a deep voice: "The compradors serve foreigners, mainly based on the interests of foreigners. Although we also provide products to foreigners, we are the main body of the industry, and foreigners are just small shareholders in the industry. We are by no means compradors of foreigners! In addition, I don't think we are exploiting or exploiting Chinese people. Without us taking in them, those refugees are probably starving to death, dying from illness or freezing to death. Now, these workers not only eat full and wear warm clothes, but also have wages to support their families. Mr. Deng has found a few more industries that exploit Chinese people like us to come out to see it?!"
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