Yu Dian and Tang Qingying carried the bowl upstairs, and pushed each other with General Li before winning the right to wash the dishes.

So, they were washing dishes in the kitchenette, and General Li sat straight in the living room next to him and watched TV.

The news was playing on the TV.

"On September 13, 2017, ****** visited Yishan by car for a poverty alleviation inspection ......"

"Through the porthole of the aircraft, the rolling ...... of the Dayi Mountains"

"In June this year, when participating in the deliberations of the Yizhou delegation at the Fifth Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress, I learned from the representatives from Liangshan Prefecture about the progress of Yishan's poverty alleviation......"

"Until the 13th, before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the **** vehicle drove along Provincial Highway 307 to Dayi Mountain. The winding mountain road of more than 70 kilometers was bumpy and bumpy because of the steep slopes and sharp bends, and it took nearly two hours to drive. …… Along the way, the general secretary learned more about the local economic and social development and poverty alleviation from the responsible comrades of Yizhou......"

"The vehicle drove into a few kilometers of mountain road, bumpy for more than 20 minutes, the general secretary came to **county**township**village, where the housing and road conditions made the general secretary a little worried!"

"The general secretary walked into the village, walked along a section of uphill road to a house one foot deep and one foot shallow, bent down and knocked on the door......"

……

General Li looked at it in a daze, listening to the commentary on the TV, he couldn't help but be a little sluggish.

The houses in this village do look a little poor, not compared to the tall and upright skyscrapers around the Anju Hotel, which are mostly earthen walls, with green tile roofs and many cracks in the walls. But General Lee felt that these houses were already very good in his own world, at least not with thatched roofs. And after the outbreak of the catastrophe in his own world, when the alien race crossed, even the thatched huts were all reduced to wasteland!

As for the stone road, which was 'potholed and even cracked on the surface', General Li was even more silent when he heard it—only such a road could only be seen in a city at the state capital level in their world.

The next simple chicken coop and pigsty that gave a lot of shots should have made General Li envious, but in the mouth of the news host, it seemed to be a kind of thing that made men silent when they watched it and women would cry when they saw it......

The more General Lee looked, the more silent he became.

He only heard the TV host talk about the general secretary's sadness for the difficult life of the people in this place, but no one knew that he was really sad when he saw it.

Aside from last night and this morning, it's been an unknown amount of time since he last had eaten meat and eggs. Under the raging war, it was difficult for these front-line soldiers to even have enough to eat, and there was no livestock or poultry to be found in a village in the rear. I have been guarding Cangshan for more than a year, and it is difficult to find even frogs and insects on the mountain.

I could hear that this village in the Great Yi Mountains seemed to be the poorest place in the country, and the poverty was so different from the rest of the country that General Li felt that if the people of his world could have such a life, they would probably be so happy that they would not be able to sleep.

Seeing the man with the position of 'general secretary' lifting the mattress and touching the quilt, asking the master's family about their food and clothing, seeing an incandescent lamp hanging overhead, and listening to the master's family talk about the big house that the government is building for them for free, the two cows and breeding sows purchased with the village's interest-free loan, and the apples, peppercorns, and artichokes grown in the soil, as if chatting about family life, General Li became more and more distracted.

After a long time, he turned his head to look at Tang Qingying and Yu Dian, who were whispering flowers while washing the dishes, opened his mouth, and finally didn't say anything.

It wasn't until Tang Qingying and Yu Dian went downstairs after washing the dishes that Cheng Yun walked up, and General Li pointed to the **** who was listening to the master's youngest daughter singing on the TV, and asked, "......Who is this general secretary?"

"General Secretary?" Cheng Yun glanced at the TV before saying, "Oh, it's the leader of our country." ”

"Leader, King, Emperor?" General Li said in a daze.

"No, we are a republic, there is no emperor. He is one of the highest-ranking officials. Cheng Yun said, pausing before explaining, "He has the highest rights in the country, but there is still a fundamental difference between him and the king and the emperor." The biggest difference is probably that he does not have the power of life and death, and he is not the supreme existence of the state organs. And his position is not hereditary, but is elected by the people of the whole country. ”

"......" General Li was a little incomprehensible for a while.

"Anyway, you know that he is the most powerful person in our country. Cheng Yun said, "And our country has long had no emperor, and now there are not many countries in the world with real power emperors." ”

"Then who will control the country?" General Lee said.

"Ourselves!" Cheng Yun smiled, "At least in theory." ”

"Oh......" General Lee nodded, still a little incomprehensible. He grew up and fought under the glory of Emperor Mingchuan for the first half of his life, although he is not one of those generals who can bring his own background music when he shouts 'For the glory of His Majesty', but after all, he is not comparable to Cheng Yun, a young pioneer who grew up under the red flag.

General Lee continued to look at the television and watched as the most powerful man in the country sat on a small bench and talked to the old man in a family in that small mountain village.

The old man was inarticulate and spoke strangely, and the general secretary surnamed Xi often had to react for a long time or even ask the people around him to figure out what she was talking about.

But the two kept talking.

This scene undoubtedly touched General Li greatly! Before this, he had always thought that the late Emperor Youren was one of the most benevolent emperors in the world, but now that he thinks about it, no matter how much Emperor Youren loves the people like a son, he is still an emperor after all.

Cheng Yun took out two cans of Sprite from the Xiaoice box, handed one to General Li, and sat down next to him, watching the news with Erlang's legs crossed.

He won't be on duty during the day today.

Most of the news of Yizhou Satellite TV is based on provincial policies and some current affairs of people's livelihood, and there are also national news, but it is very miscellaneous and there is not much rule, and the world situation is simply a hot spot. After watching it for a while, the report on ***'s visit to Yishan finally ended, and then the conversation turned to the Sino-Indian conflict that attracted much attention a few days ago......

"A few months ago, the border clashes with India triggered by the country's legal road construction in the Doklam area ended at the end of last month with the Indian side withdrawing personnel and equipment that crossed the border, but the follow-up caused by this incident is far from over. ”

"In this regard, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement: I hope that some people in India will learn the lessons of history and stop clamoring for war ......"

"China does not want a military conflict with any country, but it is also not afraid of war, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army has the confidence and strength to deal with provocations from any enemy!"

“……”

General Li stared at the screen intently, and said without looking back: "Your border is not very peaceful!"

"yes. Cheng Yun sighed, "In recent years, the world situation has been more or less turbulent, and many countries are at war, resulting in the displacement of people in many areas and the transformation of prosperous cities into ruins. Our country is already very peaceful, but maintaining this peace is not an easy task. ”

"The military is the foundation of peace. ”

"Pretty much. Cheng Yun nodded, "Thanks to the soldiers who stand guard in the border areas, the soldiers who shed blood in places we can't see, and the people who contribute to the country's economy and science and technology in the rear." ”

"Peace is not easy to come by!" General Li sighed.

"yes. Cheng Yun took a sip of Sprite, "In order to help us keep this precious peace, those people at the top of the government are also under great pressure, and there are still some unappreciative people in the society who shout that 'the country needs a war'......"

The corners of General Li's mouth hooked up a smile, Cheng Yun said that he had also encountered this kind of person in Cheng Yun's mouth who didn't understand what war looked like at all, but opened his mouth and wanted to call the frontier soldiers to shed blood and sacrifice, but he didn't expect that there would be such a person in this world. Presumably, they can empathize with the fight by smashing the heavy shield in their faces, right?

……

After reading the news, Cheng Yun planned to show General Li a few movies to let him feel the world of science and technology.

Before anything else...... Start with the war he is familiar with.

Cheng Yun successively vetoed "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle", "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Dunkirk", which were released in the past two years, and finally chose a more classic but also anti-war and humanitarian World War II movie - "Saving Private Ryan". He felt that this movie might not only tell General Li what he wanted him to understand, but also resonate with General Li.

Before the opening of the movie, in order to give General Li a better viewing effect, he first explained: "In fact, our world has also had wars that have swept most of the world, but unlike you, we did not have a foreign invasion, but a chaotic war of various countries that broke out due to interests in the process of world development. ”

"We call it a world war. ”

"There have been two such wars in modern times, so we call them World War I and World War II. Since the level of military force in our world mainly comes from the development of science and technology, and after the First World War, the science and technology of the world's major countries advanced by leaps and bounds, so the casualties caused by the Second World War far exceeded that of the First World War. ”

"My country was also involved in this war, so much so that the whole country was devastated, and tens of millions of people died in just a few years. It was a miserable time. ”

This story took place more than 70 years ago in the course of World War II. ”

"Hmm. General Lee only nodded.

The movie opens quickly, and the opening scene is a scene that is almost irreplaceable in the history of world war film - the 26-minute-long Normandy landing reappears! The simple and crude modern war charge picture also violently impacts people's senses, without the direct blood of the knife when charging on the battlefield with cold weapons, but the roar of machinery and artillery is even more shocking!

The film truly recreates the brutality of this military plan, codenamed 'Operation Overlord'.

General Li looked at it in a daze, he realized how Yin Nuxia said at the beginning, 'If you blow up a person, if you blow up a house', you can do it.

Although Cheng Yun has already seen this movie, it is not bad to rewatch it at this time.

I saw that he grabbed a handful of peanuts from nowhere, and peeled them while staring at the TV, the crisp sound of peeling peanut shells and the roar of artillery fire on the TV mixed with each other.