Webb agreed, but he had a slightly different idea, and he hoped that from another angle,

Solve this war from a historical and cultural perspective

Among the Western journalists in China, Weber is now a big name and has faintly become the first Western journalist in China, although Charles has been in China for a long time, but he is always one step behind in fame, which of course has a lot to do with China's high-level support, Weber can always get first-hand information in the shortest possible time. Whole \ Ben // Small \ Say // Net

The three of them stood in the courtyard and chatted, an officer walked out of the courtyard with a few soldiers, the time for the change of guard came, there were not many reporters who were qualified to live here, except for the three of them, there was only Mei Youlan, but Mei Youlan has become a little abnormal recently, she didn't even participate in the press corps organized by the war zone, and she didn't spend much time in Tangshan, and recently went to Tianjin.

The reconstruction of Tianjin is in full swing, Tang Shizun and Zhang Tingcao secretly teamed up with He Xiwu in the name of Chahan Jiān, collected a large amount of funds, and the consortium from the southwest started a large number of buildings in Tianjin, Zhang Jingjiang attended the establishment ceremony of the Tianjin branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in a high-profile manner, and announced that he would invest 200 million yuan in a few years to support the reconstruction of Tianjin.

The biggest support came from the Ministry of Finance, and with the settlement of the Sino-Soviet issue, the obstacles to China's issuance of bonds in the United States were cleared, and the US government agreed to China's issuance of $200 million in construction bonds in the United States. The smooth issuance of construction bonds eased the financial pressure on the Nationalist Government, which announced that it would invest 500 million fiat currency in the reconstruction of North China.

At the same time as investing funds, the Nationalist Government announced that it would implement a series of favorable policies aimed at promoting the recovery and reconstruction of North China in North China, and the Nationalist Government announced that Rehe, Suiyuan, Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei, would be exempted from agricultural tax for one year, and the industrial and commercial tax would be taxed for three years.

Chiang Kai-shek Soong Meiling personally attended the 10th anniversary of the New Life Movement held in Chongqing At this meeting, Chiang Kai-shek made an important speech, in which Chiang Kai-shek made an estimate of the prospects of the war, he believed that it would take only one more year to completely defeat the Japanese, and he told the people that after seven years of war, the country was now in great difficulty, and the state finances were extremely tight, and even after the end of the war, the state finances would not immediately improve, and hoped that the people of the whole country would unite around the government and tide over the difficulties together with a hard and simple attitude.

With Chiang Kai-shek's speech, the New Life Movement was once again set off across the country, and this time the New Life Movement was no longer limited to the old three kinds of production, art, and militarization in terms of content; What is more frugal and organized is life.

The New Life Movement arose in various places, and students took to the streets again, and Beiping Sheng stayed in front of high-end hotels, demanding that the restaurants publish the prices of meals, and that the restaurants print on the menus: "All citizens should live frugally and do not eat and drink!" ”

Some of the students joined the rural task force to implement rent and interest reduction in rural areas: after ten years of publicity and promotion, rent and interest reduction has been recognized by most of the society and government leaders, although there are still a few gentry secretly slandering, but it has been unable to stop the promotion of rent and interest reduction.

The social reform led by rent reduction and interest reduction was vigorously carried out in the Guangfu District, and the society of the whole of North China began to be reorganized and reconstructed in the process of reconstruction.

Mei Youlan was not in the headquarters, which made Weber a little regretful, and he vaguely guessed her thoughts, but Zhuang Jihua never said that Mei Youlan had a hard time for this.

Weber doesn't understand very much, in China for decades, he still doesn't understand this kind of implication in the East, in the eyes of the West, a widowed and an unmarried, two lovers, is their freedom, but Zhuang Jihua and Mei Youlan, these two people with Western backgrounds, but adhere to the tradition of Eastern responsibility.

Along the avenue in the village, the three of them chatted while walking.

In the east of Hebei in June, the golden ears of wheat covering the endless fields have disappeared, and there are several newly built straw piles at the head of the village, which quickly dry and yellow under the fiery red sun, and there is a curling smoke in the village, which is the women busy cooking at home and sending them to the drying field.

"Big sister, what are you doing?"

Walking in front of Weber were several women, carrying willow baskets made of wicker, covered with a white cloth that covered the food inside. In the hot weather, even in such a closed countryside, the women's clothes became simpler, and simple shirts made of white cloth covered all body parts tightly.

"Sister-in-law, what else can you do, the steamed buns with big white noodles, sister-in-law, what are you doing?" The one who spoke was obviously much younger, and he walked as he went, and his speed of speech was a little fast.

"Hehe" The sister-in-law smiled and changed the burden on her shoulders, but did not answer the young woman's question: "Brother and sister, that young man is not bad, I think he is honest, he is also diligent, my brother has been gone for a few years, the family is deserted enough, recruit a son-in-law, this is also good." ”

"Sister-in-law, what, he's better than me. ，… The young woman replied, but even Weber could hear the regret in the woman's words, the war had led to a large decrease in the number of young men, and there were more women than men, and after the army was stationed here, a large number of young men in the army were popular with the women here.

When the army first entered the station, almost every household was closed, no more women, and even children rarely went out, but then, the army set up a task force to help the villagers carry out rent and interest reduction, help the villagers carry out summer planting and summer harvest, and help the villagers rebuild the houses destroyed by the war.

These actions quickly brought the relationship between the military and the people closer, and the villagers found that these were completely different from the previous ones, and they never forced them to buy and sell, never forced the people's husbands, and gave money even if they took a straw from the villagers' homes. Relations between the military and the people quickly became harmonious, and next, the army requisitioned those close to the ancestral hall

school, a group of new soldiers entered the village. The security of the village was immediately raised, and the guard posts at the entrance of the village were increased, and even if they did not know the rank of the officer, the villagers knew that there was a big official in the village.

"By the way, fifth sister-in-law, do you know who lives in the good school?" The young woman suddenly asked the middle-aged fu girl on the other side mysteriously.

"Who? If you are an official, maybe you can't be an official. The fifth sister-in-law's tone was full of indifference, when a flute came from a distance, and a train rumbled by.

The village is not far from the railway line, you can clearly see the cannons and tanks carried on the trains, after emergency repairs, Bac Ninh has been reopened to traffic, military transport has become very busy, Weber and Bai Xiude once pointed, in two hours, there are twelve trains full of supplies through.

"Fifth sister-in-law, I don't know" There was a hint of smugness in the young woman's tone: "Tell me, it's Commander Zhuang, our biggest official." "Commander Zhuang?" The sister-in-law looked up at the drying field at the entrance of the village, and unconsciously repeated: "What, Commander Zhuang, there are a lot of commanders this year." ”

"Blind, those commanders are under the control of Commander Zhuang" The young woman's tone was a little dissatisfied: "I can tell you that this Commander Zhuang is the reincarnation of Wuquxing, and he is here to kill devils." ”

With the victory of the Battle of North China, the folk spread to Zhuang Jihua more and more gods, Yue Wumu, Han Xin, Qi Jiguang, etc., the most widely spread is this martial music star.

Weber shook his head slightly, in Hua's view, this represents the closure of rural China, and even this village with a school cannot escape such strange expectations.

On the drying field at the entrance of the village, the men are shirtless and raising wheat, and the crowd is mixed with many soldiers in military uniforms, everyone chatting while raising, most of these soldiers are from the countryside and are very familiar with farm work.

From time to time, there was a burst of laughter in the drying field. When they arrived at the drying field, the women put down their burdens and loudly beckoned the men to come over for dinner.

Webb and Charles did not stop at the drying field, and continued to walk out along the road, and there was a forest not far from the drying field, and several guards were chatting in the woods, and their eyes were paying attention to the general who was playing Tai Chi not far away. Webb knew the general who was doing tai chi, and it was He Guozhu, the new deputy commander of the Northeast Theater.

The Northeast Army has completed its reorganization and is being transferred to the Northeast Theater one after another; in an order issued by the Nationalist Government not long ago, the Northeast Army and the Northeast Ting Army were reorganized into three armies, the 51st Army, the 53rd Army, and the Second Cavalry Army.

Even foreigners like Webb know that in this reorganization, the former Northeast Army has completely disappeared. Zhuang Jihua's two descendants served as the commanders of the 51st Army and the 53rd Army respectively, Xia Yanglin served as the commander of the 51st Army, Lu Ruishan served as the commander of the 53rd Army, and only Xu Liang, the former general of the Northeast Army, continued to serve as the commander of the Second Cavalry Army.

Zhou Fucheng, former commander of the 53rd Army, was transferred to the commander of the 59th Army, Zhou Yuying, former commander of the 51st Army, was transferred to the post of deputy director of the Northeast Theater Operations Division, Ma Zhanshan was appointed director of the Military Justice Division of the Theater, and He Zhuguo, commander of the 15 th Group Army, was appointed deputy commander of the Theater.

In the 51 st Army and the 53 rd Army, many officers who held the posts of division commander, brigade commander, and regiment commander were also adjusted, and the newly formed 16 th Army and 59 th Army were transferred to the new Army.

The entire reorganization operation proceeded very smoothly with the cooperation of the senior generals of the Northeast Army, and immediately after the reorganization, the troops changed their uniforms, and the 53 rd Army as a whole was replaced with American-style equipment, and the 51 st Army was replaced by Chongqing-made equipment, and the two armies were all under the 33 system, with 50,000 men in each army and 100,000 in the whole army.

Weber was actually eager to interview He Zhuguo, who, with his nearly twenty years of experience in China, had a hard time relinquishing control of the military by Chinese generals, and in many cases, they would even take risks in order to keep the army. Before the war, Chiang Kai-shek had been working hard to eliminate these so-called warlords, but he never did.

However, Zhuang Jihua did it, and Zhuang Jihua succeeded in reorganizing nearly one million puppet armies and local troops in Hubei, Henan, and Shandong, and except for Hao Pengju, none of them caused trouble, thus creating a precedent for the reorganization of local troops.

Seeing Weber stop and look at He Zhuguo, who was doing Tai Chi, Bai Xiude smiled and said, "Weber, why are you interested in Deputy Commander He?" ”！

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