The death of Chen Ke caused the entire world to go crazy immediately after a brief moment of silence. This man, who rose in the early 20th century and held the highest authority in China for half a century, had won almost every struggle. The fathers of the current rulers of NATO had suffered greatly in their struggles against Chen Ke. The most powerful adversary standing in front of them had finally died, and coupled with a series of strategic victories recently where they seized actual control of many countries, how could the NATO countries not rejoice?

As for the Soviet Union, due to Khrushchev's comprehensive opposition to Stalin, a huge rift had appeared between China and the Soviet Union. China did not adopt the Soviet model economically, but instead continuously implemented a market-oriented model. After the end of World War II, nationalization had been a huge trend. In order to counter the Soviet Union, nationalization in Europe had always been the trend. China moving against this trend made the Soviet Union believe that China had betrayed the communist ideology and the socialist system. Regarding Chen Ke's death, the Soviet Union also had no grief to speak of.

For China, Chen Ke's influence was undoubted. However, Chen Ke had already established an effective second-generation system. After the Standing Committee members of the Politburo, such as Li Runshi and Wu Xiangyu, clearly stated that they would absolutely not change the established guidelines and policies, the hearts of the Chinese people were quickly stabilized. Before his death, Chen Ke had publicly stated that the handling of his death would be decided entirely by the Party. However, things were as Chen Ke expected; the first generation of leaders had an obligation to become gods. Since Chen Ke represented the legal tradition of the People's Party, this legal tradition had to be manifested.

Regarding the situation in China at that time, after the country entered the information age, various new enterprises sprang up like mushrooms after rain. In an environment where industrial development brought about a greatly reduced fertility rate, the family planning system, starting with the civil service system, was also implemented without any resistance. Li Runshi was also able to continue promoting the establishment of China's new system.

At this stage, the second-generation leadership group with Comrade Li Runshi as the core held a good hand. Based on the selfless dedication of two generations of Chinese powerhouses represented by Chen Ke, there was stable employment and sufficient fiscal surplus. Cities entered the second stage of reconstruction. Since the initial urban design was quite reasonable, sufficient redundancy was left. Reconstruction only required building higher and more comfortable residential buildings and adjusting existing problems. 50% of the population already lived in cities, and even in rural areas, homesteads were cancelled, realizing centralized living in buildings.

The only problem was environmental pollution. China's half-century of industrial construction had caused serious environmental pollution problems. Even though China had invested early and researched early in these aspects, and the corresponding level of clean environmental protection technology was very high, the environmental pollution problems caused by industry were still serious.

Environmental problems were not just a problem for China alone. In the 1960s, industrial countries all over the world were extremely serious in this regard. China had at least been very careful about heavy metal pollution and oil pollution decades ago. In the late 1960s, what appeared in China was air pollution caused by burning coal for power generation.

New Yorkers in the United States believed that the United States only had cities and the countryside. New Yorkers were city dwellers, and everyone else was a country bumpkin. As city dwellers, New Yorkers were proud of not knowing how to drive because the developed subway and public transportation system made it unnecessary for them to learn to drive. China could solve transportation through a good transportation system and railways that had been sped up to 150 kilometers per hour. But when generating electricity, it wouldn't work without coal.

In the late 1960s, Europe, America, and the Soviet Union all began to build nuclear power plants in large numbers. The high standards proposed by China's Project Zhurong meant that China's nuclear power plan would still need more than ten years to be completed. As soon as Chen Ke died, someone suggested that since China's uranium power generation technology was obviously higher than other countries, why not turn to building such power plants now? This suggestion was completely rejected by the Central Committee.

Similarly, the plan hastily proposed to put the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor, which had been completed but still needed to be improved, into commercial operation was also rejected.

Li Runshi withstood domestic pressure, but when facing foreign challenges, he did not ignore them.

At this time, NATO had already driven Chinese engineering units out of West Africa, and other resource-rich African countries were also repeatedly subverted by countries led by NATO. The Soviet Union readily joined the scramble for Africa at this time. The only African partners China retained were Tanzania and Madagascar.

Tanzania did not have overly abundant resources or a huge population, but the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Revolution) possessed a considerable degree of national operational capability. A road and railway network was initially built. Relying on the agricultural system after land reform, Tanzania had its own education and social service systems. Although it could not be counted as an industrial country, it could at least be considered to have a government in the modern sense.

However, a political party with national operational capability and possessing a government in the modern sense became Tanzania's original sin in the eyes of NATO. What NATO needed in Africa were obedient slaves, not governments capable of managing their own domestic affairs.