Chapter 5 Veterans of Phu Quoc Island
"The foreign ministers of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France decided in West Berlin that representatives of 19 countries participating in the Korean War went to Geneva to hold a Far East meeting in June, and they would discuss two issues, one was the North Korean issue and the other was the Indo-Sponsored issue."
The four business tycoons thought, and Li Weimin picked up the newspaper and pointed to the international news above and said slowly: "War is a continuation of politics. If the Vietnam League can take Dien Bien Phu before the meeting begins, they will take the initiative at the negotiating table. Such examples are common. Isn't the Korean War just a fight and talk? In fact, this is one of the reasons why my nephew believes that Dien Bien Phu will fall within two or three months."
From the perspective of international trends and geopolitics, the ideas are clear and reasonable.
Li Guanyun was very relieved and thought that he would send him to study in the United States and that he would give him the right amount. Tens of thousands of dollars were spent in vain. His efforts were not in vain. With time, he could hand over the family business to him with confidence. After working hard for decades, he was really tired. He could go to Hong Kong to be a residence, help him take care of his children, and enjoy his carefree life.
What I have come back from the United States is different. I can think of so much and see so far. Unlike my two sons, who have not learned anything in France for a few years, Wu Shounan was filled with emotion and couldn't help but ask: "For the people, which university do you study in the United States?"
Thinking that the future president of the Republic of Vietnam should be an advisor at his "almaster", Li Weimin smiled excitedly: "I barely admitted to Michigan State University and studied finance and management at the business school for several years."
Compared with well-known American higher education institutions such as Harvard and Princeton, Michigan State University is not particularly famous, but they can get into the exam by relying on their real skills. Unlike many Chinese and Shang children who rely on their connections and money to study in France.
Wu Shounan nodded slightly, and while greeting him to sit down, he smiled and said, "For the people, my family Chang Ming and Chang Chun have just returned. You are both young people. You should walk around more and have time to sit at my house."
"I should have visited the three uncles earlier, but my nose was bruised and swollen, which was hindered from the viewing, and I was ashamed to see people."
"Then go when the injury is healed."
The young man is thin-skinned, and it is indeed embarrassing to go out like this. Wu Shounan smiled and said sideways: "Three, I think it makes sense for the people. No matter what, it will take some time for the Vietnam League to reach Saigon, so we can wait and see first. However, the business in Hanoi cannot be done anymore. What should be closed and what should be withdrawn."
Li Guanyun echoed: "I'm not afraid of ten thousand, but I'm afraid of one, so I should make plans early."
Boss Qian put out the cigarette butts and suggested worriedly: "It's better to go to the guild hall tomorrow to talk to Mr. Ma. There are many trendy people in Hanoi. Please remind me if you can. If you can, you can help, and you can't watch them be liquidated by the Vietnam League."
In the eyes of the Vietnam League, most Chinese are capitalists and exploiting classes. The lessons of the mainland are there. Chaozhou people have always been known for their unity, and this proposal has been unanimously recognized by everyone.
If Saigon cannot be preserved, where to go in the future will become the next issue.
The Li family has industries in Hong Kong, so Li Guanyun naturally proposed to go to Hong Kong and planned to slowly transfer business to Hong Kong from now on. Wu Shounan is familiar with Malaysia and wants to go to Malaysia or Singapore. Boss Qian and Boss Zhang want to go to Thailand, while the other think the environment in the Philippines is good.
The four of them negotiated for nearly half an hour and finally decided to send someone to a few places to see them first, contact fellow villagers and patrons there, and prepare for future shelter.
He was not in his position and did not do his own affairs. Before taking over the family business, Li Weimin was not qualified to participate in such a decision. He sat respectfully with his sister and served tea and water to the four elders.
The war is tight and air tickets are tight, so they can't be bought with money.
Where did they choose the Li family's passenger and freighter? Just talked about when the Greater China ship will arrive in Saigon, and a noise came from outside.
When I went out and saw that the people who pried the bark had a fight again!
More than a dozen local residents waved sticks to chase and beat two foreigners, one in their forties and the other in their teenage clothes, ragged and covered in dirty faces. Although they were weak, they could fight back under the siege of so many people. They hid among two giant trees with a diameter of nearly one meter, with their backs on each other and covered each other. More than a dozen locals would not be able to get close to them for a while.
Pingchuan sent police not far away. If someone died, they would be blackmailed again.
It is okay to pry the bark of a tree, but you can't fight in a wooden factory, and you can't cause any death. Wang Bo dealt with such an emergency too much, immediately threw down his account book, greeted the guards of the wooden factory and the transport team drivers, and scolded him sternly: "Stop, stop me! If you want to fight, go elsewhere, don't make trouble for me, you, put down the stick! And you, let me make trouble for you, don't think about coming here to pry the bark in the future."
"Did you hear me? I won't stop calling the police anymore!"
The Chaozhou people were not united at one point. Someone was causing trouble in the wood factory. All Chaozhou people from nearby warehouses and factories ran over, arguing with all kinds of guys, and they were always on the verge of fighting.
The people who pried the bark were all poor, so how could they dare to fight with them? What's more, if they offend them, they wouldn't even be able to eat in the future. After Wang Bo glared at him, he put down his sticks in disappointment, carried bags of bark and hung his head and scattered his birds and beasts.
"It's okay, go back."
Wang Bo took out a few boxes of cigarettes from the driver's pocket and dispersed them to the Chaozhou fellows who came to help. He ran to the factory gate until he sent them away and smiled bitterly: "Master, this is not enough. I have been hit three times this month."
Not all the Vietnamese people took action, and nearly half of them were mainlanders who fled. They could not speak dialects, could not reach fellow villagers, and could not get help from the Five Gangs, so they could only make a living.
Li Guanyun sighed lightly and said expressionlessly: "You have to give them some food, stare at it, don't let them get killed."
"OK."
What surprised him was that Li Weimin suddenly jumped onto the wood and pulled the besieged middle-aged man in Mandarin and asked in Mandarin: "I heard that you are from Northeastern, why did you run to Xidi? There are really not many people from Northeastern here."
Running over from the car, he was dressed in exquisite clothes, a pair of shiny leather shoes, and sunglasses. He looked very fashionable. Don’t ask, you know that he is the eldest master of a rich family.
Wang Jingui pulled his son behind him, fearing that he would be young and ignorant and cause trouble, so he put down his big bag and said carefully: "Best Master, we are from Northeast China, and we came from Phu Quoc Island. The child is sick and there is no medical treatment or medicine on the island. He wanted to come here to work and make money, but he has never found a living."
The brother must have been kind again. The little girl was afraid that he would be deceived, so she came over and asked, "Pugu Island, are you a national army?"
"The subordinates of Chief Huang, the First Corps, have been retreating to Vietnam for several years."
The little girl was weird and not that easy to deceive. She pouted and muttered, "No, the First Corps has gone to Taiwan long ago. My dad has also practiced for Chief Huang. How could there be any national army on Phu Quoc Island?"
Dozens of drivers and wood factory workers stood aside with a fierce look. The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake. The phoenix is not as good as a chicken. Wang Jingui really dared not offend him. He explained carefully: "Back to the young lady, the big army has gone to Taiwan, but not all of them are taken away. Some work everywhere, some have started their families and businesses in Vietnam. There are more than 100 people on the island now."
On the eve of the national liberation, the remnants of the Eighth Army under the command of Li Mi, a general from the Kuomintang, retreated into the Golden Triangle area on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, where they planned to counterattack, and even defeated the Myanmar government troops. In fact, the national army retreated to foreign countries at that time not only the remnants of the Eighth Army, but also the little-known First Corps of the National Army.
After they were defeated in Hunan, they retreated to Guangxi, and were disarmed and entered Vietnam controlled by France, preparing to "fake the way to enter Vietnam and transport it back to Taiwan."
They entered Vietnam from Aidian, and the People's Liberation Army pursued the troops and blocked the pass. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of New China put pressure on the French side, accusing France of being neutral to the Chinese civil war, and that since France was neutral to China, it should not allow the Kuomintang army to enter.
French officials in Vietnam urgently asked for instructions from Paris. Paris sent instructions, ordering General Alexandri, the French commissioner in Vietnam to Vietnam to inform Huang Jie that France would disarm the national army under international public law and at the same time declared not to intervene in the Chinese civil war.
The French and Vietnamese authorities have another consideration for the stay and stay of the national army in Vietnam: they hope to select elite troops from it and establish a strong strategic mobile force to curb the "Vietnam Alliance" that is more and more people fight.
Therefore, the colonial authorities transferred the national army to temporary detention to house arrest, and would rather spend $3 million to support them every year than to detain them. In March 1950, the national army in the concentration camps of Mengyang and Lem Francs in Tonkin were transferred to the southern Phu Quoc Island to be detained in centralized detention.
It was not until last year that they were allowed to go to Taiwan with the efforts of Taiwan.
Li Weimin worked in Vietnam for nearly four years in his previous life and traveled to Phu Quoc Island. Not only did he know that the Kuomintang troops were imprisoned there, but he knew that there was a "Fu Quoc Island" in Taiwan. Huang Jie, who had been imprisoned for three years, was known as "Su Wu on the Sea", but he also planned to use Phu Quoc Island, which was far away from the Vietnamese Communist Party, as the first base for the retaliation plan.
The veteran who came to the door, he could not refuse. He took the cigarette from Uncle Wang, handed over one and asked, "The big army is gone, why don't you leave?"
"When we first arrived on the island, we had nothing. We had to walk several miles to see a family. There were jungles everywhere, no roads, and no houses. The French only supplied very little food on time. We cut down trees and built barracks ourselves and looked for wild vegetables everywhere. We really couldn't eat enough and had to take care of our wives and children, so we escaped to work as a coolie."
Wang Jingui looked back at his son and continued with a frustrated look on his face: "Captain Huang still wants to counterattack. He reorganized the troops on the island and used fake guns and artillery to train. Those who did not participate in the reorganization and did not participate in the training were considered to have left the troops, and they did not bring us with him when they went to Taiwan."
The little girl frowned and asked, "Are you a deserter?"
"I want to support my family, and I have no way to survive without escaping my wife and children."
Tens of thousands of people are detained like prisoners, and how many people die of illness and starve in foreign lands. Is it interesting to have those erratic airs for the so-called image of the state government? Just escape, at least you can be a responsible husband and a competent father.
Li Weimin helped him light a cigarette and asked with interest: "The child is so old, he should be forty. What is the military rank of being such a young soldier?"
"I went back to the eldest master, my surname was Wang, my name was Jingui, and I was in the 11th period of Huangpu. When I retreated to Vietnam, I had the rank of major."
"Huangpu Phase 11?"
"In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Japan invaded China, and reported that the Japanese army occupied our territory, insulted our people, and caused trouble every day. In order to save the nation, many exiled students in the Northeast occupied areas like me applied for military academies. The recruitment was issued in July and the ranking was released in August. I was assigned to the Second Corps. The captain Yi Long, the captain of the First Corps, Tang Guanying, the principal of the First Corps, Jiang Zhongzheng, and the chief of the Education Chief Zhang Zhizhong."
Huangpu Student seems to be popular in the previous few issues. It is not surprising that he has been ranked in more than ten issues like him and has fallen into such a field. After all, this is Vietnam, not Taiwan, and he can't find it even if he wants to find a relationship, and he is a disgraceful deserter.
No matter what, meeting is fate.
Li Weimin weighed the pros and cons, and stood up and said, "Brother Wang, their father and son are so pitiful. Please arrange a job for them."
There are still people from Chaozhou who have no food to eat, so how can there be so much work for people from Northeast China? Uncle Wang reminded with a sad face: "Young master, the wooden factory is not short of people!"
"There is no shortage of people to go to the warehouse for the wood factory, and the warehouse for the warehouse for the goods factory to let them get on the ship. By the way, give them some money, buy some medicine, and find ways to help them take it to the island."
These days, it is really not easy to make a living. My wife is so sick. How could Wang Jingui miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? He hurriedly grabbed his son and thanked him: "Young Master, we have the strength to take in. We can do any job. You are our reborn parents, and you are the noble person in our destiny..."
In order to survive, for his wife and children, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War who should have fought many wars, and a once respected military officer of the National Army, fell into such a situation. Li Weimin was mixed with emotions and patted his arm and said, "Don't thank you, I'll do it here first, and I'll talk to you in detail when I come back from the United States."
"Yes, I heard from the eldest young master, so I will leave this life to the young master. In the future, only the young master will follow him and will go through fire and water."
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