May 5, 1942. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoYunnan Ruili.

Some northerners are recruiting people to Myanmar.

Since September last year, many northerners have come to Ruili. In the eyes of the locals, those from Guizhou are considered to be from the north. Before, they had never seen any outsiders, and the horse gang ran hundreds of miles, so it was too far away. Later, they also participated in the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. After the highway was repaired, a large number of outsiders drove to China to transport supplies. At this time, the locals knew that many overseas Chinese in Nanyang had returned to China to resist the Japanese, and many of them were driving. There were also foreigners passing by on the road, including Americans, British, and expeditionary forces.

However, this group of northerners is different. They have some real northerners.

These northerners all came by car, very low-key, and they didn't leave when they stayed in Ruili. Their leader was named Li Wei, who only visited the local mayor and the leader of the chamber of commerce, and then did not show up, but his subordinates were very active, and bought a large number of houses and wasteland in Ruili.

Within a month, they had bought all the wasteland near Ruili Town.

In addition, they also built some houses in the corners of the town, all in some inconspicuous places, all of which were built by local craftsmen. They are paid very fairly, they are never in arrears, and if there is a problem at home, they give some money, they call it a subsidy, and they only need to press the handprint. Of course, if you can write, signing is the best.

At first, I was dealing with the locals, and it was a matter of healing. Some northerners can't stand the local humidity and heat, so they find local langzhong to get herbs. Only then did everyone know what a real northerner looks like.

Soon, the northerners recruited a permanent group of craftsmen to enclose and build houses in ravines far from the highway towns. These craftsmen soon became their people, and when outsiders inquired, the craftsmen said nothing.

These craftsmen, who became their insiders, all changed as individuals, began to attend their evening classes, became literate, learned arithmetic, learned reasoning, and spoke differently. Young people, in particular, change after a month. In addition, these people began to receive salaries, and even people built houses for them, corrected the land, and so on.

They also brought some people and cleared the land. The locals also have some contacts with the people they brought, and I know that some of the people they brought are from Kunming, Dali, Chuxiong, and other provinces, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan.

Among them are also college students from Kunming and other places in the northwest.

The local youth gradually learned about their lives and were naturally envious. Because he knew that the first batch of craftsmen who joined had work, paid salaries, provided materials for housing, and could attend night school, he asked if he could join.

The number of people who joined was very fast.

The college students are night school teachers and teach a lot of truths. Young men and women were very lively together.

The most trusted and grateful to the locals are their doctors, who do not charge a penny as long as the patient's family is poor. Later, the people learned that the medicine they gave was only available in gold, and they were very grateful to these northerners.

The strangest thing is that since they came here, all the bandits who robbed the road in the vicinity have disappeared, and some of them are said to have been killed, and the little bandits have been recruited by them. Insiders have relatives who say that these outsiders are very capable of fighting, but unlike the officers and soldiers, they do not fight directly, but look for the homes of these bandits, and if they come and go, the bandits will be finished.

As soon as they came, the peaceful days of the local people came, and some people wanted to come nonsense, but somehow they heard the prestige of these people, and they didn't dare to do it.

In addition, these northerners cooperated with some large local households and handed over some goods to them to sell, so that the people along the Yunnan-Burma Highway did not disrespect these northerners.

There are many people in Ruili who go to Myanmar, and they traffic goods from Yunnan and even China to Myanmar, and then sell back the local products there, and the income is good.

Because the roads are not smooth, therefore, they use horses to carry goods, therefore, they are also known as caravans.

The world is not peaceful, and the caravan has ** earth cannons on them to defend themselves.

Within a month of their arrival, the northerners made contact with several caravans, and in October last year, they followed them into Myanmar. Someone saw it, and they went to a few hundred people.

Some of the relatives in the family said that these northerners were in business, and they had their business along the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and there were their farmlands everywhere near the highway, and the road was a little farther away, and there were factories that they owned. They also said that these northerners eliminated the bandits and rescued the caravan, and the caravan was grateful to them.

Some people say that not all the people they brought were in business, and many of them were soldiers. The most recent people who went to Myanmar were soldiers.

Less than the Spring Festival, there was shocking news from Myanmar that the Wa State and Kokang in northern Myanmar had become independent regions from the British and Burmese colonial governments and the Japanese-Burmese colonial governments.

They regard the Republic of China as their suzerain.

This news did not cause any turmoil in the international community at all, and the former suzerainty of the colony, Britain, did not recognize it, nor did Japan, the current suzerainty of the colony.

However, in these two newly independent areas, there were armies, and the armies all had guns, and the guns were very advanced, and I don't know where they got them. Soon, the two teams drove away the Burmese who had limited territory in the territory.

The Kokang's ambitions seemed to be great, and they were originally on the east side of Ruili, but the Kokang army marched westward to the Indian border, occupying a large part of the mountainous area.

In April, the democratically elected prime ministers of Kokang and Wa issued a public appeal to the Chongqing government to send troops to help them resist Japanese aggression. The Chongqing government was very inexplicable, because at this time, the Japanese army had not yet reached their borders.

After the Spring Festival, the national army prepared to enter Burma, and the Kokang and Wa states issued a statement resolutely supporting the Republic of China to raise a benevolent and righteous army to save the people and the fire.

In addition, they also wrote to Stilwell to inform him of the actual situation in Kokang and Wa State, and thanked him, the chief of the general staff, for the good things he had done for them.

It was only then that the British House of Parliament took note of the statement made by the two small countries, each with an area of less than 30,000 square kilometers, categorically recognizing their existence.

Although the Wa State occupied a large part of the French colony, namely parts of Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and inaccessible mountainous areas, the French government-in-exile recognized the legitimacy of these two small states.

The two small countries began to issue statements in which they were very surprised that Britain had taken a fascist position at the climax of the world anti-fascist war. They asked the British, "Are you on the same side as the Japanese fascists?"

There is Stilwell's report that the United States was originally prepared to recognize the independence of these two small countries, but Britain objected, and the United States did not express its opinion in order to save Britain's face, but only gave moral sympathy to their resistance to Japanese aggression.

The proclamations issued by these two independent countries were all in Chinese, and the declarations to the West were also in Chinese and English. If English is not accurate, please refer to Chinese.

However, almost all the counties on the border of Yunnan have more contact with the Wa state of Kokang, like Ruili.

By this time, a small half of the people of Ruili depended on the northerners, and the gentry and big merchants were their companions, and everyone had already regarded them as their own family. Ruili trusts the northerners very much, and everyone spreads that the Wa State and Kokang are the northerners who are independent.

Actually, this is not a rumor, because many people on the border of Yunnan do things for the northerners, and after a month or two of getting acquainted with them, the northerners invite them to enter the Wa State and Kokang, and many things are done with their help, including contacting the head of the Wa State and contacting the patriarch of Kokang.

By April, the northerners were not only doing a prosperous business in Kokang in Wa State, but also in Myanmar and Laos, and a large number of Burmese native products, white rice and even rubber were transported into Ruili, and from Ruili back to Kunming. Goods from Kunming, and even Dali, are sold to Burma in large quantities, and no matter how tight the situation is, the business of these people will not be affected.

And the person who operated all this was Li Wei, the two prime ministers of Wa State and Kokang State were his subordinates, not even Burmese, one was from Guizhou and the other was from Yunnan, and the reason why they were chosen was because they had relatives in Wa State and Kokang.

And both armies were expanded by him on the basis of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army that he had collected, and the total number of troops was more than 5,000 people.

The weapons were of his own production, and the production base was in southern Sichuan, Panzhihua. Panzhihua is the base chosen by Xiaolu, and later, everyone smelted steel, and only then did they know the importance of this base.

There is an iron ore mine in Panzhihua that Mr. Chang Longqing spent two years to find in 1935. In 1936, he found a coal mine again, and Panzhihua could build a steel base.

In 1939, Mr. Chang Longqing drew up a plan for the development of "six factories and three mines" in Panzhihua. The proposal was submitted to the government and was shelved. The government of the Republic of China now uses all its financial resources in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, one is to support the government, and the other is military spending. Where is the money to build high, to build a steel base?

Chang Longqing was extremely disappointed.

Chang Longqing entered Peking University in 1922 and worked as an investigator at the Central Geological Survey after 1930. In 1932, Lu Zuofu founded the Western China Academy of Sciences in Beibei, and under the recommendation of Li Siguang and others, Chang Longqing served as the director of the Institute of Geology, and was an authority in the prospecting of minerals in the southwest. In 39 he was appointed commissioner of geology with the rank of major general. Later he was known as the father of Pangang.

Just when he was disappointed, under the introduction of Lu Zuofu, Li Wei and He Wenyuan found him. The two sides hit it off, and a small steel mill was built. He proposed to build an alcohol plant to produce alcohol instead of gasoline to drive cars. Li Wei and He Wenyuan happily agreed.

Under the care of Madame Chiang and Director Dai, the construction of the mine went smoothly, and by 40 years, the equipment shipped from the United States raised the level of the factory, and soon, the factory not only produced qualified steel and copper, but also produced submachine guns. The talents of the factory were transferred from Yan'an, Chongqing and Yichun.

Of course, these arsenals are secret.

Because the steel mill is the most promising to make money, Director Dai Changan inserted a few people here. What they saw was a factory with American equipment, and after a few months, overcoming a difficulty, one of the first pieces of steel produced was given to Madame Chiang as a gift. However, Madame Chiang asked American experts to appraise the steel, saying that the quality of the steel was too poor to make agricultural tools.

Under the cover of this steel mill, another steel mill has long been built, and deep in the mountains far away, the arsenal has also been built long ago.