"The news of the Soviet Russian offensive in the Far East made the entire theater command highly nervous, and although the director of the theater propaganda department came out to read something that sounded good, the grim expressions of the officers in and out showed that the Northeast Theater was touched by this news, and the squadron of up to one million people gathered in the northeast border area began to operate at high speed. /.0M\\

This is a strange alliance, but also a fragile alliance, historically, after the pride of the Central Empire was shattered by the Opium War of 1840, the empire quickly slipped into the valley, the West and the East invaded this country one after another, among these countries, which country did more harm to this country, Japan and Soviet Russia were indistinguishable, and the Chinese never forgot that Tsarist Russia ceded 1.5 million square kilometers of land from China through a series of treaties, the size of which is equivalent to the size of three France or three California states.

At the Tehran Conference, Stalin made a claim to the northeast to China, which caused strong alarm in the Chinese government, and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek reacted strongly, but the Chinese once again remembered the polar bear's greed.

Last month, two not-so-powerful armies faced off in the ancient territory of Méng, the fragile alliance was on the verge of breaking, President Roosevelt sent Hopkins to put out the fire, the Soviets were attacking, the Chinese must also attack, and it seems to me that the Chinese aim to enter the northeast before the Russians in order to avoid allowing the Soviet army to enter the northeast.

In the Tehran Declaration and the Cairo Declaration, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union all explicitly recognized Northeast China as Chinese territory, but China did not believe in Soviet Russia's guarantees.

Just as Napoleon did not believe in the Peace of Tilsit and Hannido did not believe in Rome, the Chinese never believed in Russia.

As prefaced, in the past 100 years, among the most active Eastern and Western powers that have invaded China, Japan, Soviet Russia, has taken the lead, and the latter has even surpassed the former. In the eyes of the rulers and the people of the ** empire, they are not worried about the threat from the sea, they are more vigilant about the threat from the north.

This is not without reason, in the thousands of years of history of this ancient country, the Han people who engaged in agriculture and the grassland peoples engaged in grazing fought a war for two thousand years, and countless times, nomads on horseback, wielding war knives from the northern plateau to the south, horseshoe passing through the fields and villages.

In order to resist the threat from the north, successive rulers have strengthened the northern frontier, and the Great Wall is the masterpiece of this policy, this wall that stretches for thousands of miles, silently records thousands of years of conquest.

The Han people relied on this wall, which cost no doubt to build on the lofty mountains and mountains, to resist the threat from the north, those nomads who were dressed in rags, straddling dwarf méng ancient horses, wielding sabers, from the Xiongnu thousands of years ago, Turkic, Khitan, and méng ancient.

The threat from the North has always haunted the rulers of every era of the Central Empire, and the annals of history have recorded countless battles in the land beneath my feet, battles in which rivers of blood flowed.

These histories are recorded in the history books of this empire, but the common people do not know it, what they know is the oral tradition of Yue Fei Yue Wumu, a famous general hundreds of years ago, known as the god of war by the people; What I remember is Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi, generals of the Han Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago, who defeated the powerful Xiongnu.

These oral histories seem so simple, and even have some mythological elements, but it is these simple, to some extent, somewhat absurd legends that root some of the most basic ideas in the minds of this nation. The village I rented was a traditional courtyard, the landlady was in her fifties, she didn't know what divorce was, in her simple thinking, divorce, either a man's vest, or nv people**水xìng Yang huā, was absolutely wrong, she kindly wanted to introduce me to someone, but was stopped by the landlord.

Even though we got along well these weeks, I even thought we were a family, but at this moment I knew that I was still a white-skinned, gray-eyed, yellow-haired Westerner. In cities like Shanghai, Beiping, and Guangzhou, intermarriage with Westerners is already a very common thing. But in the vast countryside, this is a great rebellion, almost equivalent to treason.

I've been in China for a long time, and I've been to the northwest to investigate the famine there, but I've never lived so long in a rural farmer's house, and these few weeks have given me a better understanding of China.

This is a somewhat strange country, on the one hand, in the cities, the Western civilization has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and people yearn for the Western scientific culture and social system, on the other hand, the vast rural areas of this country, which account for the vast majority of the population, are still very backward, and they retain the habits and understandings of thousands of years.

Modern civilization and traditional stupidity exist at the same time, Tangshan, which is less than 100 kilometers away from this village, is already a city close to modernity, but here, in this village, NV people still can't divorce, men can divorce their wives at any time, NV children rarely go to school, and widowhood is a sign of inchastity to remarry.

General Zhuang Jihua promoted social reforms throughout China, but such reforms only brought economic benefits to the poor rural peasants, but could not change the peasants' perceptions, which can only be achieved through long-term education, which will take about a generation.

"China's problem is first and foremost to solve the peasant problem." When I interviewed the leader of the Communist Party in Yan'an, Máo, he said something like this, and in Chongqing, General Chiang Kai-shek and General Deng Yanda said something similar, and these people who could determine China's future fate all recognized what the greatest obstacle to China's progress to modern civilization was, but they chose different ways to solve the problem.

Yan'an believed that it was possible to break the existing social structure in the countryside by more radical means, and to guide the peasants economically to realize their own demands, and then turn such demands into political demands.

Chongqing's national government, on the other hand, hopes to maintain the stability of the social system and promote social transformation under the existing social structure. This approach stems from Sun Yat-sen's division of China into modernity, and after leading the League to overthrow the Qing government, Sun Yat-sen proposed three stages of moving towards modern society: military administration, discipline government, and constitutional government, and prescribed specific affairs for these three stages. General Chiang Kai-shek, after achieving the reunification of China more than a decade ago, announced the implementation of discipline and government.

I can't comment on the merits of either approach, but it is clear that both parties are vigorously pursuing their own policies, and in the process of doing so, there is a great deal of conflict that may even jeopardize the peace of the country after the war, but unfortunately there is no sign of concession on both sides, and they are strengthening their forces to prepare for the post-war period.

In the West, it is customary to negotiate solutions, but not in the East, and the political tradition of this country is that it is not allowed to sleep soundly next to the couch, a phrase from the history of China, hundreds of years ago, the emperor who occupied the Central Plains said a famous phrase in the face of arguing ministers about whether to wage war against the obedient southern separatist forces.

For hundreds of years, Chinese politics has been guided by this famous saying: Lying next to the couch, it is not allowed for others to sleep soundly; Chinese can compromise in the face of economic disputes, they can compromise in the face of foreign wars, but they will never compromise in the face of another domestic regime, and there is only one solution to all regime disputes - war.

Chongqing, Yan'an, two regimes, two political parties, two armies; This scenario has been repeated many times in the history of this country, and history tells us that there is only one way to solve it.

I have a deep concern that this country, this nation, after seven years of war, will this country be covered in wounds, going through a civil war that will be full of blood. The light in Webber's room was on again overnight, and when it was daylight, the landlady found that Weber had not slept, but had breakfast with them red-eyed, and then changed into a suit and went out of the mén.

Weber's mood was a little sad, he did not send this article out, he has been in this country for more than ten years, he is full of affection for this land, and he is full of affection for the simple people here. He didn't know why he had written such a pessimistic prediction, which was a sad prospect.

When I arrived at the Mén entrance of the theater headquarters, under the morning light, the sentry at the mén entrance looked tired, and the headquarters seemed very calm, as if yesterday's tension had been digested by the long night, which was a strange feeling, but only a sensitive person like Webb could feel it.

He didn't plan to enter the headquarters, it's not that he couldn't get in, he had a yellow sè pass on him, which allowed him to enter the outer courtyard of the headquarters, but he knew very well that even if he went in at this time, he wouldn't get any news.

"Mr. Webb, why is this plate here so early?"

Webber turned around but it was Feng Yi, Feng Yi seemed to be sleeping well, jīng was very good, seeing Weber's appearance, Feng Yi was stunned for a moment and then smiled: "Look at your eyes are red, stay up late again." ”

Webber smiled faintly, he had been in contact with Feng Yi many times, this old guy was so slippery, it was more difficult to get the truth out of his mouth than to ascend to the sky.

The two of them walked out along the village avenue, the quiet village had woken up, there were more villagers on the road, they were lively and shouting, Yu Li took all kinds of farm tools, and rushed to be busy with yesterday's endless farm talk.

Feng Yi seemed to notice that Weber's mood was not high, and he wondered slightly, what happened to this keen foreigner today? Speaking of which, there are a lot of news clues in the headquarters today, the arrival of Xiong Shihui and the attack of the Soviet army, these two are big news, how could Weber not react.

Weber looked at the dark and simple faces around him, and the sadness in his heart deepened, although the war was not over, but their faces had already appeared yearning for a new life, but they could not control their own destiny at all, their fate was in the hands of Chongqing and Yan'an.

This is a group of ants, they are free to farm in their own small space, suffering from the fruits of hard work, ordinary life, but can this kind of life continue?

The outside world is already turbulent, all sides are sharpening their knives, and when the time comes, this calm will be ruthlessly crushed into powder...

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