The Party's political work had always been both meticulous and frank. For example, a widely circulated saying was "One pig is worth half a political commissar." And historically, uprisings started with white steamed buns were not rare. Although Chen Ke knew this was true, he only knew it as a fact. When he personally encountered such things, he was still quite shocked.

Lu'an, Anhui, was an old Red area. Chen Ke knew that the masses in this place had a strong demand for revolution. After meeting with the Lu'an Municipal Party Secretary, Chen Ke formulated the action program of "Clearing out local tyrant landlords and uniting the revolutionary masses" at the Party Committee meeting. Local comrades in Lu'an targeted seven local tyrants and landlords who had blood debts. Among them, a local tycoon surnamed Liu even had a grudge against Duan Qirui's grandfather. After Duan Qirui's grandfather killed someone from the Liu family, he moved his whole family to Shouzhou for refuge. At that time, Duan Qirui's grandfather was already a commander of the Huai Army, which showed how arrogant the local tycoons were.

"Strike the local tyrants, divide the land!" Once this news spread, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Lu'an area. The reconnaissance team found that the tyrant landlords didn't flee at all but shrank into their fortified villages. In the days before the scheduled attack on the fortified villages, common people from all over had already gathered in Lu'an County, everyone excited.

Learning that Chen Ke in front of them was the famous Number One leader of the People's Party, the gathering masses, carrying sacks and shoulder poles, enthusiastically requested to work with Chen Ke.

"Great King Chen, we heard long ago that making a living is easy over in Shouzhou; you must take us with you."

"Great King Chen, after you conquered Anqing, the Anqing area became much better. But you can't ignore us in Lu'an."

The simple words contained the pursuit of wealth and a better life. Chen Ke always believed that the people would not follow the revolution for nothing; the revolution must give the people a reason to follow it. Simply killing people and dividing family property could not trigger a true revolution.

"Folks, you must have heard that we, the People's Party, have killed quite a few people. We've killed people from the government, we've killed local tyrant landlords. We've also killed government troops fighting us on the battlefield. But we, the People's Party, have principles in killing people; killing the innocent indiscriminately is not allowed. Why kill that person? Folks, we have to make it clear to ourselves first!" Chen Ke shouted loudly to the hundreds of gathered common people.

The common people looked at each other in blank dismay. Chen Ke actually didn't actively announce the evil deeds of the targets and then lead everyone to attack them together, but instead asked the masses for the reason. Following the People's Party to attack fortified villages was something everyone could easily follow. As the saying goes, when a wall is about to fall, everyone pushes it. After breaking the fortified village, getting things was the serious business. As for why? The reason was simple: because stomachs were hungry. Those local tyrant landlords indeed oppressed the common people, but truly speaking, the masses who had made up their minds that those people must die were still the minority.

"They bully people!" Someone hid in the crowd and shouted.

"Who are they! Whom have they bullied!" Chen Ke asked without hesitation.

Below immediately became silent. This was asking the victims to come out and speak. Since Chen Ke made the determination to learn to "listen", all actions were striving in these directions. The common people were always very honest; they knew very well that once they stood out, they would have to be responsible for what happened after standing out. No one was willing to be responsible for such things; only common people with true blood feuds would come forward.

After a moment, finally, a man with an ashen face came out from the crowd. He arrived in front of Chen Ke, suddenly knelt on both knees, and shouted heart-wrenchingly, "Great King Chen, I have no grudge or enmity with those people in the fortified villages. I came here to beg you for one thing..."

Chen Ke hurriedly pulled the man up, "This big brother, I am not some mountain king. You can just call me Chen Ke."

Although the man saw Chen Ke was tall and big, he didn't expect Chen Ke's strength to be quite great; just one pull lifted him up. The man couldn't care about so much; he tightly grabbed Chen Ke's arm, "Chen... Great King Chen, I heard you fight the government. My family had five brothers; En Ming ordered four of them killed. Great King Chen, if you are willing to avenge us, I will sell my life to you!"

This man was named Fan Youdi, from Huoshan, Lu'an. Because he participated in anti-foreign religion actions, En Ming ordered the suppression of mass activities in 1906. His whole family suffered disaster; only Fan Youdi escaped with his life. It wasn't until the People's Party conquered Anqing that Fan Youdi returned to Lu'an. During this period, Fan Youdi also went to Anqing and joined the Yue Wang Society which occupied Anqing at that time. After the Yue Wang Society was defeated and retreated, Fan Youdi didn't go with the Yue Wang Society but returned to his hometown in Lu'an. Hearing that the People's Party fought their way here this time, he came alone to beg Chen Ke.

Chen Ke was very satisfied with this entry point. In these years, "religious cases" were extremely numerous. The focus of the conflict was, on the one hand, the customary conflict between foreign religions and the people, and on the other hand, the purpose of believers joining foreign religions was to obtain a superior status. After having such status, the church used the background of foreigners to coerce local officials, always able to get the support of the government in civil conflicts. For those believing in Christianity or Catholicism, oppressive policies in religion were the essence of the Christian/Catholic religious system. Let alone engaging in this hierarchy of believers in China, even in England, the English who believed in Protestantism still oppressed the Irish who believed in Catholicism.

To expand their sphere of influence, foreign missionaries in China adopted this method of creating a believer group with a higher privileged status to expand the influence of religious forces. And those who defected to foreign religions were mostly people who couldn't occupy a position in the mainstream of the populace; most of them were even rejected by the masses. That was why they believed in foreign religions to raise their status. The original "lowlifes" suddenly got the support of the government; how could the masses accept this change? Not to mention, after these guys believed in foreign religions, they thought they followed the right master and were very arrogant and domineering among the people. The "religious cases" at the end of the Qing Dynasty were filled with this kind of intense struggle.

"Brother Fan, you want to seek revenge on En Ming; I can promise you. But you have to do something for me." Chen Ke stared at Fan Youdi and said.

Fan Youdi never expected Chen Ke to speak so clearly in public. He immediately shouted, "Great King Chen, you say it. Mountain of swords or sea of fire, I, Fan Youdi, won't even frown."

Chen Ke nodded, "Brother Fan, the Huoshan common people harmed by En Ming are not just your family. Go back and bring the harmed common people to Lu'an; our People's Party will definitely uphold justice for everyone."

Regarding En Ming's end, the People's Party had never announced it to the outside. Many people simply didn't know that En Ming, who had disappeared for a long time, had fallen into the hands of the People's Party. Hearing Chen Ke's words, a look of disappointment appeared on Fan Youdi's face. Just because of this young man Chen Ke's empty talk, he had to run back to Huoshan County? And bring those many harmed common people back to Lu'an together?

Just as Fan Youdi felt Chen Ke was deceiving him, he saw Chen Ke ask the staff behind him to bring a bag and a string of coins. Fan Youdi hesitantly opened the bag; revealed inside were white steamed buns.

"Brother Fan, can't let you make the trip for nothing. These steamed buns are for you to eat on the road, and this money is for you to use on the road. Please invite those harmed common people to Lu'an. Our People's Party will definitely uphold justice for everyone!" Chen Ke said seriously.

When Fan Youdi left, he was very silent, with neither words of gratitude filling his mouth nor any special expression. Chen Ke very much doubted what choice Fan Youdi would make. To believe the People's Party? Or not to believe the People's Party?

Regardless of whether the common people believed the People's Party, at least the People's Party should believe the masses. Chen Ke silently explained to himself in his heart.

Fan Youdi left, and the enthusiasm of the masses seemed to have dropped a lot. The People's Party's white steamed buns and that string of coins left the masses somewhat confused. It was the People's Party that said "Strike local tyrants, divide the land." But now the People's Party made it clear they wanted the masses themselves to state the reasons for "Striking local tyrants, dividing the land." This approach greatly exceeded the masses' imagination. In any case, words like "Rob money, rob grain, rob women" couldn't be spoken. And asking themselves honestly, the purpose of most common people was related to looting, but there was an inexplicable gap in between.

"Folks, our People's Party wants everyone to live a good life! But I wonder if you folks have thought about what a good life looks like in your hearts," Chen Ke smiled.

"A good life is just having enough to eat and not being poor," someone replied.

"What does having enough to eat and not being poor have to do with striking local tyrants and dividing the land?" Chen Ke pressed.

The common people couldn't quite grasp Chen Ke's questions. After a long silence, someone said, "With more land, naturally one won't be poor."

Chen Ke smiled, "If the land of local tyrants is distributed to everyone, with so many common people in our Lu'an, after dividing it equally among everyone, how much more land can one get? With this little extra land, can one not be poor?"

This saying wasn't actually Chen Ke's original creation. When striking local tyrants in Anhui, local tyrants had questioned the People's Party cadres and soldiers like this, and had once rendered the cadres and soldiers speechless. Hearing this, the masses of Lu'an were also speechless.

The popularization discussion of these revolutionary issues should originally have undergone a preparation of quite a long time. Because people all have inertia; if the land were really distributed, the masses would be too lazy to pay attention to the People's Party. If the entire Lu'an area couldn't be included in the scope of social transformation, and only a minority of masses daring to take risks got benefits, that wouldn't be a promotion of the revolution, but a huge regression.

On this point, after Chen Ke arrived in Lu'an, he praised the cadres in the Lu'an area for not taking rash actions. The comrades spent great energy investigating the specific situation of Lu'an. These precious preliminary preparations greatly reduced the difficulty of Chen Ke's work.

Facing the silent masses, Chen Ke shouted loudly, "Striking local tyrants is because they owe the common people blood debts. In the past under the Manchu Qing, they could do whatever they wanted. Now that the People's Party is here, these people should pay the price for their actions! Heavenly principles and justice have returned!"