Soon it was the day of departure, and this task did a good job of internal secrecy, and it was not until the team members met before departure that Yu Zecheng confirmed that he was the highest person in charge of the team.

Yu Zecheng was not very surprised by this. As for the reason, it involves some "traditional rules" of the military command.

Generally speaking, the military rank of the people in this institution is not high, and even the current head Lao Dai is just a major general (posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the army), which of course has something to do with the size and level of the department and the establishment tradition, but it is not important, the actual power and energy of the military commander are amazing, this is a fact recognized by everyone.

Although military rank is not important, and everyone basically makes a fortune on extra money, since there is a military rank, there must be a personnel tradition derived from the military rank within the organization, which can also be called the unspoken rules of the department.

This set of rules is basically like this: the stationmasters of military command stations in various provinces and large cities are generally with the rank of major general, and the school soldiers who come down belong to the transitional military ranks, which are all left to pave the way for the cronies of the superior bosses to become station commanders. Generally speaking, the rank of colonel is reserved for the kind of sleepy spies who go deep behind enemy lines or the heroes who succeed in assassinating high-level targets, which is also the highest military rank that people with no money and no background can get by playing with their lives.

Speaking of which, everyone should understand why Yu Zecheng is not surprised that he led the team to the rice team, right? Because Yu Zecheng's current rank of lieutenant colonel is more suitable to be the leader of this team, most of the colonels who are higher than him are performing extremely dangerous tasks, and those who can survive to become colonels are all workaholics full of "self-motivation", and they are not too interested in this kind of idle estimate.

Not to mention the colonels and major generals who go up, they are all big shots who belong to the princes of one side, and in the current situation that the defeat of the island country is decided, people are busy making a fortune, and they will come to lead the team to do this kind of oilless work when they have a brain disease.

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Everything was ready, and the 50-person team set off after the president personally greeted him.

Let's start with the staffing of this team. Yu Zecheng took a cursory look at these team members at the meeting yesterday, in addition to the two bastards in the design committee, there are three or four bastards from other departments of the headquarters in the 50-person team, in addition, as long as Yu Zecheng can know the people are the kind of elites in computing, Xiao Chiyo is one of these elite members. At the same time, the team of 50 people is almost all women, and there are only 2 male compatriots who "stand out from the crowd" with more restrained expressions.

In addition to Yu Zecheng, there is also a deputy with the rank of major, this person Yu Zecheng knows, Cao Kai, who is half a round older than Yu Zecheng, and is currently inferior to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Statistics, serving as the head of the enemy situation analysis section of the Intelligence Department. The president regards himself as the principal all the year round, and in his eyes, even the Whampoa elite is a little ghost, and he doesn't trust anyone from the bottom of his heart. Truth be told, this character is a natural politician, but not a qualified leader during the war years.

Let's guess which channel did Yu Zecheng and others go to rice through and which route did they take?

In 1944, although the defeat of the island country was decided, its naval strength on the western front of the Pacific Ocean was still not to be underestimated, at least on the mainland, so the 50-person team to the United States naturally did not choose to cross the Pacific Ocean to the United States by water, and the United States required "urgent work", and the waterway was not only dangerous, but also took too long.

Then apart from the waterways, only the air lines remain.

First of all, there is no transport plane on the mainland that can carry more than 50 people and sail safely and reliably for dozens of hours.

Why is this happening? Is there no money to buy it? Actually, there is money, and in the early 30s, when patriotic movements and trends of thought occupied the mainstream ideology of society, there were many patriots from all over the country who donated money to prepare for war. It's just that the money was not used to buy planes in the end, and the reason will not be explained here, but it is enough to say that the person in charge of the purchase of strategic aircraft was the wife of the president, who was then the director of the Aviation Committee of the Continental Air Force and a lieutenant general.

Although I don't have a plane, but Mi Fang does, this is the task you requested, and it is only natural for you to send someone to pick it up.

The Mi side is also very good, and immediately arranged for the air force transportation department to arrange for the carrier plane to pick up the 50-person squad to go to the United States, and the carrier plane will take the famous Hump route.

Although after the 70s of the 20th century, the United States slowly developed into a purely financial country and gradually became the world's number one bastard, it cannot be denied that it made important contributions and great sacrifices in the anti-fascist war in the late World War II.

Aside from anything else, in order to provide aid to the mainland, the United States has specially opened up this hump route, which is absolutely no less dangerous than any air force combat mission, I don't know how many young and valuable pilots of the United States died on this route, according to incomplete statistics, a total of 1,500 pilots and crew members of the United States died or disappeared on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas.

On a sunny day, these aluminum pieces will shine in the sunlight, even if they are sacrificed in an unknown valley, even if there are no bones, the internationalist spirit of these Mi pilots who fought bravely against the brutal fascists will live forever.

We should not criticize the heroes of the past with the impression of the present, and the hero's past cannot become a baffle for the atrocities of the present, people and things are subject to change, the world is ups and downs, only the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is always red, which is called historical materialism.

To get back to the point, the 50-person team to the rice team on the day of departure 3 hours in advance at the end of the Hump route, Kunming Wujiaba Airport is ready to go, Shangfeng has negotiated with the Mi side, the transport plane to transport aid materials is responsible for transporting the 50-person team to the rice when returning.

While everyone was waiting for the arrival of the Mi side transport plane, some were whispering, some were frowning and thinking, and some were smoking to pass the time, Xiao Chiyo was talking to female colleagues, Yu Zecheng was putting on a leadership style and closing his eyes to recuperate, and he was constantly sneering in his heart.

As soon as he arrived at the airport today, Yu Zecheng found that in addition to the personnel responsible for seeing off and monitoring, there were many Chinese and Michiao staff present at the airport, and it was not surprising that there were handover personnel from both sides present at the stall where the aid materials arrived, but many of these people Yu Zecheng knew, and not only did some of them have no obvious affiliation with today's mission, but some even had nothing to do with it. These people are here today, and they can definitely have nothing to do with Yu Zecheng's mission to rice.

So, what are these "people now" doing at the airport in the open?

With Yu Zecheng's brain power and analytical power, he quickly thought of an answer, which was verified after the transport plane arrived at the airport.

Are you ready for the explosion of the three views? Let's take a look at the truth of the matter.

First of all, I would like to tell you that most of the aid supplies sent by the Militan side to the mainland are supplies to the more than 100,000 troops stationed in Yunnan on the mainland.

The only thing that the president of the mainland can receive is some of these ammunition, weapons, and oil, which are very difficult to use as hard currency to make a fortune on the black market or hoard them to raise prices; although it cannot be ruled out that some bold people dare to fight the idea of such materials, but after all, they are very few, and generally speaking, these materials are not "pretty" at all except for being able to fight wars.

It is perfectly true that the rice side took such a big risk and mainly transported supplies for its own troops, but at the same time, a question arises: where do the luxury goods that can be used as hard currency in the black market, such as canned shoes, shoe polish and silk stockings, come from?

The answer is self-evident, these materials sold on the black market are all provided by the Mi garrison, or even directly peddled, and one of the biggest sources is provided by the pilots of the Hump route.

I would like to ask you a question, are the Mimenian pilots who still participate in the Hump route even though they know that they are dying?

Excluding a small number of heroes who have a deep hatred for fascism or have lofty beliefs, most people will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages as long as they are not crazy, stupid, deaf or blind, and the farther away from this dangerous task, the better, this is biological instinct, and there is nothing to do.

And it is impossible for the Hump route to operate smoothly with only a few heroes, so how to get a large number of pilots who are unwilling to participate in it?

If you do not participate in the transfer to a military court and be sentenced to death? This is the next policy, the so-called twisted melon is not sweet, people's subjective initiative is very important in the task, and with the mentality of extreme resistance to the task, can the task be successfully accomplished? Of course, it is impossible, and it must be known that "grinding foreign workers" is originally the patent of foreigners.

What is the best way to stimulate subjective initiative? There is a saying that "as long as the wages are more, there are always more ways than difficulties", and in the capitalist values of the United States, as long as the money is enough, then no one will worry about playing with their lives.

Therefore, in order to encourage experienced pilots to take the initiative to participate in the Hump route, the superiors promised to distribute the materials airlifted over to the pilots as a reward, and these pilots naturally do not need so many luxury goods such as canned stockings, and they will immediately dispose of these materials on the spot to the black market in exchange for rice dollars, as for whether the money is for their own squandering or saving to send to their families, this is a reward that people deserve by playing hard, and we have no right to ask.

This is the real history, although the heroes who are not self-interested deserve to be remembered and respected forever, they will always be only a very small number of people, and most of us are vulgar and self-interested lives.

Second, although the Mi side only provides weapons and ammunition and guards against luxury materials like thieves, after a long time, many bigwigs who want to make a fortune have successfully won over the Mi garrison and pilots on some routes, and they have combined to form a complete chain of interests, and they have not forgotten to make a fortune while fighting the war.

Of course, there is nothing to blame for this, everyone abandons their wives and children to go out to fight, and they may lose their heads at any time, shouldn't they make a small fortune by doing such a risky job?