Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 11: Chaotianque, Section 1: The Eyes of an American Journalist (11)

"The news that the Soviet Union launched an offensive in the Far East made the entire theater command very nervous. Although Director Hua from the theater propaganda department came out to say something that sounded bad, the serious expressions of the officers entering and leaving the army showed that the Northeast War Zone was touched by this news. As many as one million Chinese teams gathered in the northeast border area began to operate at high speed.

This is a strange alliance, and it is also a fragile alliance. Historically, after the pride of the Central Empire was shattered by the Opium War in 1840, the empire quickly slid into the valley, and the West and the East invaded this country one after another. Among these countries, which country was the country that harmed the country more severely. The Chinese have never forgotten that Tsarist Russia cut off 1.5 million square kilometers of land from China through a series of treaties. The size of this land is equivalent to the area of ​​three France or three California states.

At the Tehran meeting, Stalin made a demand for the Northeast to China, which aroused strong vigilance from the Chinese government. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek responded strongly, but the Chinese remembered the greed of the polar bear again.

Last month, two not-so-powerful armies confronted Mongolia, and the fragile alliance was on the verge of breaking down, President Roosevelt sent Hopkins to put out the fire,

The Soviet army was attacking, and the Chinese had to attack. In my opinion, the Chinese aim was to enter the Northeast before the Soviet Union to avoid allowing the Soviet army to enter the Northeast.

In the Tehran Declaration and the Cairo Declaration, both the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union clearly recognized the Northeast as Chinese territory, but China was not a guarantee of the Soviet Union.

Just as Napoleon did not Tilsit's Treaty, Hannibal did not Rome, the Chinese were never Russia.

As the foreword, among the most active powers invading China in a hundred years, Japan and the Soviet Union ranked first, and the latter even surpassed the former. In terms of the rulers and people of the Central Empire, they were not worried about threats from the ocean, and they were more vigilant about threats from the north.

This is not without reason. In the thousands of years of history of this ancient country, the Han people who were engaged in farming and the grassland peoples who were engaged in grazing fought for two thousand years. Countless times, nomadic people riding horses drove their swords to move south from the northern plateau, and horse hooves stepped across fields and villages.

In order to resist the threat from the north, rulers of all generations have been strengthening the northern border defense. The Great Wall is the masterpiece of this policy. This city wall that stretches for thousands of miles silently records the wars over thousands of years.

The Han people rely on this wall that spent countless capabilities to build on the steep mountains and ridges to block threats from the north, those nomadic peoples in ragged clothes, straddling short Mongolian horses and wielding sabers, from the Huns, Turks, Khitans, and Mongolia thousands of years ago.

Threats from the north have always lingered on the heads of rulers of every era in the Central Empire. Historical books over the past thousands of years have recorded countless battles that occurred on the land under my feet, those battles that flowed into a river of blood.

These history is recorded in historical books of this empire, but ordinary people do not. Their word of mouth Yue Fei and Yue Wumu, a famous general hundreds of years ago, was called the God of War by the people; they remember Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, generals of the Han Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago, defeated the powerful Huns.

These word-of-mouth history seems so simple, and even has some mythological elements, but these simple, to some extent, absurd legends have rooted some of the most basic ideas in the thoughts of this nation.

The village I rented is a traditional courtyard. The landlord's wife is in her fifties. She doesn't divorce. In her simple thinking, divorce is either a man's vest or a ** watery poplar flower, which is absolutely wrong. She kindly wanted to introduce me to a partner, but was stopped by the landlord.

Although we have been getting along well these weeks and I even thought we were a family, at this moment, I am still a Westerner with white skin, gray eyes, and yellow hair. In cities like Shanghai, Peking, and Guangzhou, intermarrying with Westerners is already very common, but in the vast rural areas, this is a ruthless thing, almost equivalent to traitorism.

I have been in China for a long time and have visited the northwest to investigate the famine there, but I have never lived in rural farmers' homes for so long. The experiences in the past few weeks have given me a further understanding of China.

This is a strange country. On the one hand, in the city, Western civilization has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. People yearn for the Western scientific, cultural and social system. On the other hand, this country is vast and the rural areas that account for the vast majority of the population are still very backward. They retain their living habits and understanding for thousands of years.

Modern civilization and traditional ignorance exist at the same time. Tangshan, less than 100 kilometers away from this village, is already a city close to modern times. But here, this village still cannot divorce. Men can divorce their wives at any time. Girls rarely go to school. Remarrying widows is a manifestation of infidelity.

General Zhuang Jihua promoted social reforms throughout China, but this reform can only bring economic benefits to poor rural farmers, but cannot change the farmers' understanding. This understanding can only be achieved through long-term education. This great idea requires a generation.

‘China’s problem is first and foremost to solve the peasant problem.’ When I interviewed the GCD leader MZD in Yan'an, MZD said such words. In Chongqing, General Chiang Kai-shek and General Deng Yanda said similar words. Those who can determine China’s future destiny all realize that the biggest obstacle to China’s move towards modern civilization is.

But their choice to solve the problem is completely different.

Yan'an believes that more intense means can be used to break the existing social structure in the countryside and guide farmers to realize the requirements from an economic perspective, and then turn this requirement into a political demand.

The National Government of Chongqing hopes to maintain social stability and promote social transformation under the existing social structure. This method originated from Sun Yat-sen's division of China towards modern times. After leading the Tongmenghui to overthrow the Qing government, Sun Yat-sen proposed three stages of moving towards modern society: military and political, tutoring and constitutionalism, and set specific tasks for these three stages. After General Chiang Kai-shek achieved China's unification more than ten years ago, he announced the implementation of tutoring.

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Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 11: Chaotianque, Section 1: The Eyes of an American Journalist (11)

Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 11: Chaotianque, Section 1: The Eyes of an American Journalist (11)
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