A mere day after the seizure of power, Wang Ming and the 8 Bolsheviks immediately set to work. A phony meeting of the Politburo was called, in which the members who voted no were immediately arrested by the 8 Bolsheviks. As a show of force (and perhaps quite a bit of arrogance), Wang Ming ordered the immediate execution of Zhu De.

The gunshot rang clear through the halls of the assembly, and the body of Zhu dropped to the floor with a sickening thud.

The immediate consequences of the seizure of power were clear - the empty slots of the Politburo were immediately filled by the Bolsheviks, and the 8th Politburo of the Communist Party of China declared. The Purge had begun, and any Mao loyalists who resisted the alignment with the Soviets would be harshly punished.

The Politburo was quick to vote on the creation of an Intelligence wing of the Party - to be headed by Kang Sheng. Wang Ming was to inform the Soviet leadership of the initiation of the Purges and the necessity for renewed revolution, and to ask for both Soviet assistance and expertise in creating this new intelligence department, and the lending of Soviet intelligence to assist with the uprooting of the traitors.

The arrested members of the Politburo were to be imprisoned in the Ya'an, under tight lock and key.

With the start of the Purges, as well came official news of Mao's retirement from the realm of Chinese politics. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one, Wang Ming was officially announced to be the new leader of the Party, and with that announcement came more official re-alignment and re-organization towards the Soviet sphere.

Wang Ming announces the official establishment of the Northeastern Chinese Soviet Republic, a direct successor to the Chinese Soviet Republic, and issues a public call to the Soviet Union to abandon the KMT and the false Chiang Kai-Shek. A call is further issued to the Chinese people, claiming that victory was within sight and to continue the fight against the Nationalists.

There was to be no re-organization of Land Reform policy or general major shifts in stance at this time - the primary focus remained in the Revolution and the liberation of the Chinese people.