Chapter 8: Brother No. 1
The wooden house is not soundproofed, and Peng Ti's mother is also suffering.
Luo Ya lives next door to Liu Weimin, and the sound of flint and steel will sound every once in a while, and Liu Weimin can really hear it. He knew that Luo Ya was smoking vigorously, so he gritted his teeth and whispered through the board, "Auntie, don't be sad." If you can't stand it, just say a word, I'll kill Dogday's Heienberg? β
Luo Ya in the next room was stunned in the dark for a moment, choking on the smoke and coughing a few times, but finally calmed down a little, she gasped and said, "Sad fart...... Fart...... My daughter is pretty, if you can't stand it, my aunt will accompany you...... I think my aunt is old, let Peng Ti accompany you, she loves you so much......" said, sighed again, and said, "Forget it, you are not ordinary people, auntie is joking." Alas, Kana is a waste, my daughter is only twenty-one years old, you are a younger brother, you can't bear to let her stay a widow for the rest of your life? β
Liu Weimin is too deep in the play, but he has always regarded Peng Ti as his sister. The fat pig-like Heienberg became a "brother-in-law", which made him feel disgusted. But after listening to Luo Ya's words, the anger in his heart suddenly disappeared, like a deflated ball......
Luo Ya couldn't sleep either, she sighed long, and simply pulled up a family routine with Liu Weimin across the wooden wall.
Kana was accidentally wounded and disabled by the Annan army, but he was able to stay and save his life, but he never lifted it again. Luo Ya used to be a rural primary school teacher when she was young, and she was very insightful, and after listening to her story, Liu Weimin was still silent. When he was in Vientiane, the team collectively supplemented the Khmer information provided by the Naga team, and Liu Weimin had a deep understanding of what the Khmer Rouge did. Now that he has listened to Luoya's story, his mood is still extremely heavy.
The Khmer Rouge, as a political force, purely from the perspective of its internal affairs, after seizing the national power, "leftist" to the extreme, made the Khmer Rouge pay the price of the people's will, morality, and political power.
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge conquered the capital Phnom Penh, and immediately drove all urban residents above the county level to the countryside to work in agriculture, including the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the pregnant. The original intention of the Khmer Rouge was to mobilize the strength of the whole country to quickly produce food and survive the great famine. However, the dismissal of the population objectively caused the rapid withering of the city, which became an important reason for its loss of popular support.
Then, currency and commodity trading was abolished throughout the country, and a "supply system" was introduced. Long before seizing power in the country, the Khmer Rouge asked China to help print the new Khmer currency, the riel. However, after the arrival of the regime, the currency of the Lon Nol period was abolished, but a new currency was never issued. Without the circulation of money, shops, restaurants, post offices, telephone offices, telegraph offices, and public transportation, all of the most basic conditions on which modern people depend, all disappeared. The whole of Khmer turned into a pool of stagnant water.
The expansion of the purge directly damaged the vitality of the Khmer Rouge. During the Sihanouk period, the three famous leftist ministers Khieu Samphan, Fu Ning and Hu Rong were all Cambodian members and had high prestige among the people. During the anti-rebellion movement, Fu Ning and Hu Rong were executed successively, and although Qiao Sampan saved his life, he only became a "symbol" with no real power. Senior cadres such as Han Sanglin and Hun Sen fled to Annan one after another. The expansion of the suppression of rebellion has weakened the party's strength.
What puzzled Liu Weimin the most was that the Khmer Rouge was also "anti-Chinese".
After the Khmer Rouge seized power in the country, on the one hand, it was one-sided diplomatically and completely dependent on China. It only accepts aid from China and does not accept aid from any other country, which has once become a heavy burden for China. At its peak, there were thousands of engineers and technicians from China aiding Cambodia. On the other hand, a large number of overseas Chinese and Chinese were also driven to the countryside to work in agriculture. This also led a large number of overseas Chinese and Chinese to be dissatisfied with the Chinese government.
After returning to Pag Village, what Liu Weimin saw and heard made everyone in the team feel very heavy.
In May, the Songgo Mountains have already started to be sweltering, and the South Asian jungles have a lot of rain in the rainy season. That night was another rainstorm, and in the pouring rain, Camp Pug received a group of mysterious, distinguished guests.
In the evening, three guerrilla detachments of the people of Cambodia set up a cordon in the Pag camp and the surrounding hills. Ivanov's squad was on strict alert, but the Kamp-Cambodian guerrillas did not invade the camp. Although Yang Mingtao and Lingyu repeatedly said that there was no danger in the evening's activities, Li Haichao and Yu Songyuan still made all preparations.
At eleven o'clock in the night, Li Haichao and Yu Songyuan accompanied Yang Mingtao and Lingyu to wait in Yuanmen in person. The soldiers of the People's Republic of China had already lined up a high-level alert array in the dark rain, and after a while, a group of mysterious figures with umbrellas braved the torrential rain and stepped on the mud to come to the camp with difficulty.
After Yang Mingtao and Lingyu had a brief conversation with them, they took them into the conference room of the big wooden house in the center of the camp. It was only at this time that Yang Mingtao introduced everyone to Li Haichao and Yu Songyuan.
It turned out that accompanied by Liu Qun, head of the "Second Office" of the Chinese Embassy in Siam, and Ying Sali, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier in charge of foreign affairs, Pol Pot, secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Nong Chea, deputy secretary, Khieu Samphan, chairman of the State Presidium, and Song Cheng, chief of the General Staff, personally visited the Cambodian Communist Party.
This surprised Li Haichao and Yu Songyuan. The leaders of the people of Cambodia, the legendary four leaders, would all gather in the little-known small mountain village of Pag on this dark and rainy night.
Yu Songyuan looked at this old man with a legendary aura.
After Annam occupied Khmer, he led the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cambodia and more than 20,000 fighters to retreat into the Melai Mountains on the border between Khmer and Siam, insisting on armed secession and resistance to invasion. At this moment he had come all the way from Mount Merley with a stick, and the rain had already soaked his clothes.
Disheveled white hair, a salt-stained undershirt, a pair of knee-rolling black trousers, a checkered towel around his neck, and a pair of mud-stained rain boots on his feet. The rain boots were already filled with muddy water, and when he walked to the corridor of the headquarters on the second floor of the wooden house, he took off the rain boots, poured out the muddy water inside, and laughed with everyone.
This scene made Yu Songyuan suddenly feel a sense of intimacy with him. If it weren't for Yang Mingtao's introduction, Yu Songyuan felt that he was a kind uncle next door, which was far from the image of the "secretary uncle" who made Annam and the Khmer people fearful.
Yu Songyuan personally brought a bucket of water, and the old man picked up the water ladle and made a few clicks to wash the mud on his legs and feet. Then he turned around and sat down at the large wooden table. Huang Jinxiu and Niu Rao were serving noodles, the old man first thanked Huang Jinxiu and Niu Rao politely, and then picked up the big bowl in front of him, looking at the yellow cancan's egg lying on the noodles, he choked up......
ββ¦β¦ I can eat hot rice again, I feel like I have come to China again, and I have seen ...... I really miss them......" He whispered something, Yu Songyuan carefully discerned, and still understood most of them.
Yingsali on the side hurriedly comforted and said, "'Brother No. 1', we didn't lose, we have the backing of great China......
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The level of the meeting after late at night was high, and even Huang Jinxiu, Niu Rao and Xiao Niu'er, who were in charge of service, could not enter, and Li Haichao made an exception to attend the meeting. The meeting lasted all night, and it was only before dawn that the guests quietly left. During the entire meeting, the team was in the next war room, and they only spoke Khmer fluently, but they clearly observed the whole meeting.
The two sides were in harmony, but the meeting was not harmonious, and the words were even full of gunpowder.
At the beginning of the meeting, Liu Qun, Pol Pot, and Yang Mingtao made courtesy speeches respectively. Then, on behalf of Pol Pot and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cambodia, Nong Chea went straight to the point and took the lead, saying, "We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the great Chinese party and government for directly sending military fighters into the Khmer to help the suffering Khmer people resist the Annam aggressors......
The other party directly explained the intention, and Yang Mingtao and Liu Qun were stunned when they heard this. Yu Songyuan and others in the room were even more shocked, this characterization is not a joke. Sure enough, Liu Qun immediately spoke and corrected Nong Xie's statement. He made it clear that China has always adhered to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and firmly supported the Khmer people in resisting the Annam aggressors. That determination has never changed and will not change. "However, we will not be directly involved in the Khmer war, this is the bottom line of our country."
Yang Minh Tao went on to explain, "In the name of the United Nations, we sent several fighters into Khmer just to familiarize themselves with the battlefield situation and to further strengthen our assistance to the Khmer people in their anti-aggression war. Another purpose of this mission was to rescue two of our intelligence agents who had been imprisoned by Annan. After the mission is completed, the team will secretly withdraw outside the Khmer Territory! β
As soon as these words came out, the venue was silent. Several important figures in the Republic of China were speechless for a while.
For a long time, Pol Pot broke the silence. In his capacity as general secretary of the Cambodian Communist Party, he demanded that Yang Mingtao and Liu Qun accept the "Jianyì" of the Cambodian Communist Party, that is, the Chinese armed personnel entering the Khmer must fight together with the Cambodians, and the Cambodians have the obligation to be responsible for the safety of the Chinese comrades!
Pol Pot also made it clear that China, as a fraternal party and big brother, has an obligation to send more fighters into the Khmer to fight. "For example, you can send volunteers...... With 200,000 troops stationed in Khmer, Annam cannot liberate the Khmer people and rebuild the country with our own strength alone! β
This is a bit of an exaggeration, because of friction with China in the border areas, Annan has withdrawn a large number of troops, and the actual field troops in Khmer are definitely less than 200,000. Moreover, whether or not Chinese combat units will enter the Khmer war can only be decided by China's own national interests, and how can it be decided by the word "obligation"?
The two sides have come and gone, quarreling and debating loudly several times, and the smell of gunpowder is very strong...... Yang Mingtao is worthy of being the Nantian Pillar Stone, he is unmoved, reasonable, beneficial, and modest, and resolves the pressure one by one.