When Director Gao heard this, he hurriedly complied. Tang Cheng asked Director Gao to write down the address of this Miao Manling family.

Tang Cheng turned his face and asked the old man, saying: "You can go back with peace of mind, take care of your body, about the remains of the martyrs of Miao Manling, this kind of thing, you don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to worry about your family, leave it to our government to handle it, we promise to invite the bones of the martyrs back! Let the martyrs go home!"

Tang Cheng said this! Miao Manling's sons and daughters were all in tears, and they wanted to kowtow to Tang Cheng to thank them! Tang Cheng hurriedly said: "The two of you. It is I who should apologize! It is our government that bears the responsibility for this, and it is I, the governor, who have failed to do my duty! I should thank you for reminding me that I, the governor of the province, still have a lot of work to do! One of them, I want to let all the martyrs who went abroad to fight for the country in a foreign land and shed their blood on the battlefield in a foreign land, and who sacrificed their lives in a foreign land, and even their bones were scattered in a foreign land, go home!

Miao Manling's matter, under Tang Cheng's direct intervention, the director of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs personally grasped it, and Sun Zhenglu, director of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, personally led people to Miao Manling's hometown, Shaoyao Village, Kaihe Town, Guangxian County, Sun Zhenglu went to Guangxian County, and the secretary of the county party committee and county magistrate of Guangxian County accompanied Sun Zhenglu to Miao Manling's hometown for investigation.

Sun Zhenglu said to Chi Jilai, the county leader and secretary of the county party committee, who accompanied him: "Secretary Chi, this matter was personally arranged by Governor Tang, and we must not be careless! The governor instructed that the bones of the warriors who fought for the country and died in other places should be brought back at all costs. Since it was Miao Manling's family who found the clues to the bones, they must find the bones back, and our government will bear the cost of how much it costs. ”

When Chi Jilai heard that this matter was personally arranged by the provincial governor, and the director of the Department of Civil Affairs personally came down to supervise it, he did not dare to be careless, and immediately said that he would immediately start arranging this work and send a special person to accompany Miao Manling's family to Myanmar and ask for the remains of the martyrs.

Sun Zhenglu nodded and said okay. Immediately, Sun Zhenglu went to Miao Manling's house to offer condolences to the martyr's widow and his relatives. Gifts and condolences were brought.

The day after Sun Zhenglu left Guangxian, the Guangxian county government convened a special standing committee to study and discuss the work of accepting the remains of the martyrs who died in other places that year, and to determine that the expenses for accepting the remains of the Miao Manling martyrs would be borne by the county finance. Ten days later, Cheng Yaojie, the head of the Guang County Civil Affairs Bureau, Miao Manling's son Miao Kaijiang, nephew Miao Kaiyu, and Guan Zhijun, deputy director of the County Civil Affairs Bureau, went to Myanmar to bring back the martyrs' remains.

At that time, the Chinese government formed an expeditionary force to fight in Burma, reopened the international communication line, and made the international aid to China continue to be transported into China. The Japanese army was driven out of the southwest gate of our country, and the prelude to the frontal battlefield counteroffensive against Japan was opened. It pinned down and severely damaged the Japanese army in northern Burma and western Yunnan, and made great contributions to the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Since the entry of our team into Burma, the Sino-Burma-India War lasted three years and three months, with a total of 400,000 troops and nearly 200,000 casualties, and Japan invested a total of more than 300,000 troops in the Burma-India theater and was annihilated more than 185,000 people. The blood and life of our country's expeditionary force have written an extremely tragic and glorious stroke in the history of the Chinese nation's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

However, this expedition also left many regrets, that year, more than 100,000 people died on the battlefield, and the corpses were not transported back to China, and all were buried locally. At present, only a few bones have returned home, and there are still more than 100,000 bones of soldiers who cannot go home.

Soon, the bones of Miao Manling's heroes were found from a foreign land.

The remains of Miao Manling were found by the local mountain people, in a certain mountainous area of Myanmar, when there was a war here, the United States of America, England, and our country together formed a joint coalition army, and Japan carried out many battles, many Chinese expeditionary force soldiers, sacrificed in this place, at that time, because of the limited conditions, during the war years, many soldiers sacrificed, buried on the spot, or handed over to the local people to bury the situation. Dead bodies cannot be brought back to the country. Some will engrave their names, places of origin, and positions and bury them together. so that they can be retrieved later.

At that time, the armies of the United States and England also participated in this war, and it was the armies of their countries and ours that formed the Union Army to fight against Japan, and now, there are also soldiers of the armies of their two countries who died in other lands. The remains of the martyrs are also stranded in Myanmar, but the two countries have not given up the work of searching for and retrieving the remains of the martyrs.

More than 60 years after that war, the United States and England are still searching for the remains of American and British soldiers who have gone missing in countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The United States is "digging three feet into the ground" to fulfill its promise to "let everyone go home." The work never stops. People in any country or region can get $400,000 to help them apply for immigration to the United States if they find the remains of American soldiers who have died in battle. Compared with them, we also want to let the bones of martyrs go home, which is the demeanor of a nation with a cohesive centripetal force.

Just because, the above three countries are actively looking for the remains of martyrs, and many locals, after finding the remains of martyrs, want to take the opportunity to make a small fortune.

Soon, under Tang Cheng's direct care, Miao Manling's bones were brought back from abroad.

Miao Manling's remains were invited back to Guangxian County, and according to custom, they were to be buried in his hometown of Peony Village.

When the bones of the martyrs were sent back to Guang County, the Guang County Armed Forces Department organized veterans in their respective jurisdictions to hold a grand homecoming ceremony for the Miao Manling martyrs, which was held in the auditorium of the county armed forces department. When dozens of white-haired veterans saluted the bones of the Miao Manling martyrs at the scene, that scene was solemn and touching!

At this time, an astonishing news came, Miao Manling's wife, Miao Anshi, heard that her husband's bones were invited back, and the old man passed away suddenly, realizing her long-cherished wish that she and her lover could not rely on each other in life and died in the same cave.

Everything seems to be providential.

Guangxian County reported the situation to Sun Zhenglu, director of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, who immediately went to Tang Cheng's office, met with Tang Cheng in person, and made a detailed report to Tang Cheng on the entire process of going abroad to bring back the bones of the martyrs, what happened, and the way various countries treated the bones of the soldiers who died abroad! Director Sun said objectively: "We should admit that compared with those two countries, we have not done a good enough job in this work of bringing the remains of every martyr of the expeditionary force home. ”

Tang Cheng nodded.