This novel mainly describes postwar Japan under American occupation. Short-lived governments keep changing and people are struggling in poverty. Japan's * * * Production Party resumed its activities.

Jiro Furukawa, who retired from the Kwantung Army, returned to TEPCO's Kawada factory, an arms factory that moved to the mountains during the war. The war left a psychological scar on the young man. He drinks all day, curses everything, and feels greatly cheated, but he can't understand all this.

Ikebukuro, a mechanic who shares a dormitory with Furukawa, has always had an opinion about the war launched by Japan, but he just feels inhuman. At the end of the war, the pool fell in love with a girl named Niazelian. Bird Zelian is a high school graduate with a rich background. Although she is warm and lively, cheerful, but the pool always feels that she is not suitable for her poor, and her heart is very contradictory.

Araki, director of the workshop where Furukawa and Ikebana are located, is a very thoughtful person. In the debate on rebuilding Japan after the war, he clashed with the factory headed by the factory director Xiang Liang. Depressed, Araki once overheard a speech by Tokuyuki, the leader of the Japanese * * * production party, and was very inspired, so he began to read the literature produced by * * *. Araki's behavior led to Ikebana and Furukawa. They also began to read literature and red flags, and gradually had a superficial understanding of the * * * production party and * * * productism.

At the same time, they got in touch with party member Dalin, an old lawyer, and began to organize trade unions in the factory under the influence of the slogan of * * * Production Party "Down with the Emperor" and "Establish People's Republic of China (PRC)". However, in the process of organizing trade unions and demanding higher wages, it was blocked by the factory. When they and the workers tried to break through the obstruction and set up a trade union, the trade union was split by the factory and the "trade union right" came into being. This struggle is very hard.

Bird Zelian is the secretary of the factory director. She was influenced by the thought of * * * and decided to join the workers. However, shortly after she moved to the girls' dormitory, she clashed with the girls' thoughts and feelings. Bird Zelian was in great pain. With the help of the pool, she finally got familiar with the female workers and gained the trust and love of the pool.

Furukawa took an active part in trade union work, but the influence of the war and the old habits of the army made his understanding of capitalism still very vague. The factory came to woo him, transferred him to the organs, and instilled in him the idea that the emperor was a permanent democracy from the west. This was a test for Furukawa. He didn't give in and was kicked back to the workshop. Furukawa hated the despicable behavior of the factory and fell ill in a rage. Everyone came to visit him. A girl named Chujiang, who has fallen in love with him, took care of him enthusiastically, which moved Furukawa very much. They fell in love, and love washed away the repressed guilt about women's crimes in the war.

The reactionary forces constantly launched an offensive against the Japanese * * * production party, deliberately dividing the workers' movement. Araki has joined the * * * production party and led the workers to campaign for the * * * production party. In the struggle with the Socialist Party, Tianlong Society and other organizations, Ikebe and Furukawa further realized that the Japanese * * * production party is an organization representing the Japanese working class.

In Kawada factory, the factory also took measures. In the name of transfer, they want to transfer trade union activists to pieces, thus splitting the workers' movement. They want to make workers fight among themselves in the transfer. This is a severe test for trade union leaders such as Araki, Furukawa and Ikebe. Faced with this situation, Furukawa felt that he needed the help of the organization, so he wrote an application to join the * * * production party to find the pool, and the pool also wrote an application. They went to the headquarters of the producer of * * * together. The sun rises against them and the mountains are behind them. They are determined to carry this struggle to the end under the leadership of the Party.

Niaozawa Village, not far from Kawada Factory, is the hometown of Chu River and Niaozalian. After the war, Japanese countryside was still ruled by feudal forces. In Niasawa village, there are Kakura families, who have been owners here for generations and shareholders of Kawada factory. Farmers not only live a hard life, but also are bound by feudal bad habits. In the village, only Gu Zewen and his son Gu Zeyuan were the party member in * * *. Since they set up a branch in Araki and a factory in Kawada, they both belong to the Kawada branch, and according to the party's instructions, they will set up a farmers' association in Niaze village to carry out the "cultivated land reform" stipulated by the Potsdam Proclamation for Japan.

However, farmers simply don't understand the Potsdam Proclamation, landlords are still overbearing, and the government has delayed the "agricultural land reform" again and again. In this case, it is quite difficult to set up a peasant association. Bird Wen Ze and Bird Yuan Ze also went to various lobbying groups, but they didn't get much. Soon, according to the instructions of the government, the village will set up a "cultivated land Committee". Landlords privately planned to open a list of committees, excluding poor peasants and farm labourers from the Committee. Bird Wen Ze also learned about this situation. On the day when the Committee was established, it exposed this conspiracy to the villagers and recommended itself as a representative of the poor peasants and farm labourers in the Committee.

In the committee, Bird Wen Ze also struggled with the landlord's representative, exposing the landlord's trick of concealing the cultivated land area and selling the cultivated land first without telling the poor farm labourers. He also strongly discouraged farmers from buying the land of landlords, because according to the Potsdam Proclamation, the land would be distributed to farmers or sold cheaply.

In this way, Bird Wen Ze also gained the trust and support of some poor farm workers. And at that moment, the long Ichiro incident happened in the village:

Kuiyilang, a poor farmer, rented several acres of land from the landlord Mao Xiong to grow it. In order to escape the "land reform", Mao Xiong suddenly wanted to take back the land and sell it. Kuiyilang begged and was caught by Mao Xiong and led out of the door. Kuiyilang had no livelihood, was disabled, and committed suicide by lying on the tracks in grief and indignation.

This incident alarmed the villagers. Bird Wen Ze and Bird Yuan Ze also led some farmers to settle accounts at Mao Xiong's house and taught Mao Xiong a good lesson. Taking advantage of the vigil for Kuiyilang, Niyaze also contacted some poor farm workers and set up a preparatory meeting for farmers' associations. At this time, another thousand generations of events happened:

Chiyo Endo, who moved from Tokyo to Niazawa village, is a "war widow", dragging three children and making a living by selling rice. However, the life of the villagers is getting worse and worse, and there is no extra rice to sell to her. She has to sleep a liter of rice with the landlord Taiyichiro every day. However, things came to light. Unfortunately, Chiyo is called a prostitute. In this way, Chiyo only needs to carry earth on the road construction site. One day, when she passed through the valley, she was raped by several American troops; The Qing dynasty, who was in the same trade, stepped forward to stop it, but was pushed off the cliff by the US military and died.

When the news came, the whole village was furious. Bird Wenze and some villagers also complained to the village chief and asked the government to negotiate with the US military command. However, as a result, a group of policemen came and arrested Chiyo, saying that Chiyo was harboring robbers. The villagers were shocked, and the poor farmers felt that their fate was very dangerous, and they all supported the peasant associations. Kawada Party Branch sent Furukawa, Ikebukuro and others to help Tanizawa do the work, and the peasant association was formally announced, and Tanizawa was elected as the chairman.

After the establishment of the peasant association, it fought against some landlords in the village who opposed the Potsdam Proclamation. The landlord shinya yamanaka is Chihiro's uncle, the wife of Yuan Ye Guze. Because of his opposition to "opening a mountain forest", Tanizawa and the people of the peasant association fought a hard struggle with him. The old man counted the horses with high blood pressure and died of cerebral hemorrhage. This incident made He Qian's family very angry and broke off the relationship with Gu Zeyuan. He Qian's heart is also very contradictory. He thinks that Yuan Zeping, a bird, never cares about her, so he wants to commit suicide in a rage. Faced with this situation, Bird Yuan Ze was both distressed and ashamed: "Even his wife can't lead the revolutionary road. Is this a revolution? " So he found He Qian, comforted her kindly, and reflected on the contemptuous attitude of Japanese men and even many * * * party member towards their wives. In this way, He Qian finally gave up the idea of suicide and returned to his side.

At this point, * * * is in full swing. Bird Yuan Ze was also supported by the Farmers' Association, and elected the village head of Bird Ze on behalf of the * * * Production Party. The party instructed the Kawada branch to fully cooperate with Yuzeyuan in the election. Pool and Niazelian came to Niazelian to fight side by side. The song "The Internationale" echoed in the night sky of Wuze Garden, and the towering mountains in the distance and nearby seemed more silent.