没有坚强的政权工作，财经建设、除奸司法等工作无成绩，不仅不能建立根据地的秩序，而且要影响到军需民食，这样也会影响到根据地的巩固与坚持，太行区一九三九年的例子可以证明这点。

• If our political power is not strong enough and little is achieved in building financial and economic systems, eliminating traitors and administering justice, then it will be impossible for us to maintain order in the base areas, meet the needs of our troops and people, and consolidate and hold the base areas, as was borne out by the situation in the Taihang area in 1939.