Liao Chengzhi is the director of the Hong Kong office of the Eighth Route Army, and Pan Hannian was transferred to Hong Kong because his identity was exposed in Shanghai. One of these two people is more capable than the other, and the other is more refined than the other. The two of them took the lead in organizing the transfer of Hong Kong's cultural elite.

Early in the morning, Liao Chengzhi and Pan Hannian, who had changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, led He Xiangning, Liu Yazi, Zou Taofen, Ye Yiqun, Ge Baoquan, Mao Dun, Hu Cheng, Hu Feng, Liang Mingming, Ouyang Yuqian, Liao Mosha, Xia Yan, Qiao Guanhua, Sa Konglao, Butterfly, Wang Ying and others to the military headquarters to meet Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin was holding a big bowl and Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, Cai Zhong, and Li Yu were squatting on the ground and drinking cabbage and radish soup.

Pan Hannian had never seen Liu Yimin, Liao Chengzhi had experienced the Long March, knew Liu Yimin, hurriedly stepped forward, raised his hand and saluted, and reported: "Report to Commander Liu, gentlemen are in a hurry to see you, I can't stop it, so I have to bring everyone here." I beg your pardon! ”

Liu Yimin laughed: "You Liao Chengzhi, do you report it in advance, take a look, let me be embarrassed in front of all gentlemen, right?" Come on, everyone go into the house and sit, it's cold outside. ”

As he spoke, Liu Yimin took the rice bowl and led everyone into the conference room of the headquarters.

After entering the conference room and inviting everyone to sit down one by one, Liu Yimin drank the vegetable soup after dividing it by two, and then said: "It's a bit rude to make the gentlemen laugh." Originally, I said that I would go to see everyone after dinner, but I didn't expect the gentlemen of labor to come over. I can't say it! ”

Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, and Cai Zhong also followed. Everyone sat in groups. Luo Ronghuan has already met these cultural celebrities, so he will introduce them to Liu Yimin one by one.

After the introduction, Liu Yimin asked again if he had breakfast?

Liao Chengzhi reported that he had eaten.

He Xiangning was the wife of the assassinated Kuomintang leftist leader Liao Zhongkai, the mother of Liao Chengzhi, and the first female member of the League. The pioneer of the Chinese women's liberation movement, highly respected. Seeing Liu Yimin and his comrades-in-arms squatting on the ground drinking cabbage and radish soup together, and speaking so cordially and homely, he said with a smile: "General Liu, if the marshal and general of the Japanese army can see that Liu Yimin, who makes them tremble, drink a big bowl of cabbage and radish soup in the morning, I am afraid that they will admit defeat without fighting." ”

He Xiangning is praising Liu Yimin and the soldiers for eating the same pot of rice, not special!

Liu Yimin smiled and said, "Mrs. Liao." You don't know, there are also generals in the Japanese army who can eat with officers and soldiers. The commander of the North China Front, General Okamura Ninji, was such a guy. I heard that when Okamura Ninji went to the army, he not only shared a pot of rice with the soldiers, but also personally took a rice spoon to cook for the soldiers, talked with the soldiers, and boosted their morale. That's a great guy! Of course, Okamura Ninji is a special case. The marshals and generals of the Japanese army were all warlords, and they would not eat and live with the soldiers. In that case, what is the point of them waging a war of aggression? ”

He Xiangning nodded. The smile is silent.

Liu Yimin glanced around, only to know that he had made a mistake when he read the telegram, Hong Shen did not come to Shandong, he should be in the rear at this time, and it was the great dramatist Ouyang Yuqian.

Liang Shuming was revered as the "last Confucian" by later generations, when he was not yet 50 years old. This man is not only a university scholar, but also a social activist, who taught and educated people in Shandong before the Anti-Japanese War and initiated the rural construction movement, and is now one of the main leaders of the Democratic League.

Seeing that Liu Yimin was heroic and simple, Liang Shuming said: "Commander Liu." Before the Anti-Japanese War, I founded the Shandong Rural Construction Research Institute in Zouping, and I wanted to start with rural construction and use education to transform society, but with little success. These days, when I have been inspecting the villages in this area, I have found that the Eighth Route Army has run many literacy classes, literacy classes, cadre training classes, women's training classes, and medical training courses. What other car repair classes, motorcycle repair classes. Commander Liu, I would like to ask you for advice in person, how did you come up with the idea of using education to open up the wisdom of the people? ”

Liu Yimin replied: "Mr. Liang, the rural construction campaign you have carried out in Shandong cannot be said to have achieved little results, but it should be said that the results are still obvious. Some of our cadres and fighters were influenced by the rural construction movement and entered the school. However, there are obvious shortcomings in your rural construction movement, that is, the coverage is small, and in nature, it is only an attempt to improve society. Think about it, how effective it would be to rely on Han Fuqu's government to support your rural construction campaign? If you ask me how I came up with the idea of using education to open up the people's wisdom, we all know this truth, illiterate is like being blind and deaf, and if China wants to really stand up, it must first solve the problem of illiteracy. In fact, these various literacy and literacy classes are only primary literacy education measures. In the future, it is necessary to rely on a sound education system to popularize primary and secondary education throughout the country, improve the cultural quality of the whole people, and enable our laborers to become educated, cultivated, and skilled workers. ”

Liang Shuming's eyes suddenly brightened, and his tone of voice was extremely eager: "Commander Liu, you said that in the future, you will popularize primary and secondary education throughout the country?" Isn't there no illiteracy in the whole country? ”

Liu Yimin nodded affirmatively and added: "A reasonably existing government must be a government that protects the rights and interests of the people. The right to education is one of the most basic rights of citizens. Any government that engages in a policy of ignoring the people is a reactionary government, a government that should be overthrown. ”

Later, when he attended a CPPCC meeting after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he raised in his speech the issue of taking care of the peasants' interests in carrying out development plans, and also gave an example, saying that the living standards of the workers in the cities have improved rapidly in recent years, but the life of the peasants in the countryside is still very bitter. This remark aroused the disgust of the chairman, and he criticized it without naming him. As a result, Liang Shuming believed that he had no intention of opposing the general line, and asked for a speech to explain, which confronted the chairman face to face. The future situation can be imagined. It is said that during the Cultural Revolution, Liang Shuming wrote a limerick poem, saying that "ten Confucianism and nine beggars existed in ancient times, and now they are also known as the stinky old nine." The old nine of the ancient times are still called people, and the old nine of today are not as good as dogs. Dictatorship is all about knowledge, and reaction is all about knowledge. If Marxism-Leninism is born in this life, he also needs to find out and walk all over the streets. ”

Liang Shuming listened to Liu Yimin's words, and felt that he had met a bosom friend, and sighed: "I can't imagine that in Shandong, one of the main battlefields of resistance against Japan, the generals of the Eighth Route Army attached so much importance to education while fighting bloody battles with the Japanese invaders, and it was really rare to attach so much importance to education. It's rare! ”

Liu Yimin was not excited by Liang Shuming's praise, pondered for a while, and said: "Mr. Liang, it's not okay not to pay attention to education!" Not to mention the big truth, you are all everyone, Confucian, deeper than I know. For example, if the army fights a war, it is not enough to be brave alone, it is necessary to fight with brains and knowledge. As a simple example, if we have captured a Japanese plane, if we have a pilot or navigator, we can immediately take off and go into battle. If not, it can only be burned. For another example, the soldiers of the Japanese army generally have a junior high school education level, and they have a thorough understanding of the performance of weapons. Like their gunners and observers, they calculate the coordinate parameters quickly and accurately. Therefore, the Japanese artillery hit very accurately. As for the squadron, most of the soldiers are strong men who are brought in, and there are many illiterates, and they can't even write their names, let alone quickly calculate more complex ballistic parameters. In this way, the gap in the combat effectiveness of the two armies will come out. This is also the fundamental reason why when the Japanese army is making campaign plans, it often compares a division with a wing or even a brigade. You may not know that even the Japanese infantry is also very good at shooting, and the proportion of excellent shooters is very large. Especially the infantry of the little devil's permanent division, as long as you are within his range and are seen by him, it is basically a gunshot, and if you don't die, you have to be injured. As a result, the ratio of casualties to the Japanese has remained at a high ratio of 10 to 1. It can be said that every victory is at the cost of blood and life, and there is also a deep sadness of the thick cultural and educational gap in the middle! ”

These words were very heavy, and Liang Shuming and the others stopped talking, and sat there in deep thought.

Liu Yimin didn't want these cultural celebrities and national treasures to suffer a spiritual blow, so he changed his words and continued: "It's not terrible to have a gap, and it's not terrible to be backward, the important thing is to find the crux of the backwardness and gap, and take measures to catch up." Why was the main force of our Shandong troops able to win successive battles? In addition to the correct strategy and tactics, the most important thing is to find ways to improve the quality of the individual soldiers of the soldiers. You may not know that since the reorganization and establishment of the 18th Red Regiment in Xiangjiang, our army has put the study of cadres and fighters in the first place, and the slogan of the area is to be a learning commander and a learning combatant. After the capture of Shaanxi, we not only compiled the Red Army's infantry training outline, but also compiled the Red Army's primary and middle school textbooks, and organized cadres and soldiers to study them. These textbooks were all written by me and examined and approved by experts in the educational circles in Shaanxi. After these years of study, some of the cadres and fighters of the main force of the Shandong Eighth Route Army have completed the middle school course, and the others have also completed the primary school course. Some of them are fluent in Japanese, and some of them have mastered both English and Japanese. With this level of education and professional training, all kinds of equipment captured by our army can be put into use immediately. For example, we captured Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles, and directly mounted troops on the battlefield. In particular, when all kinds of artillery and light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were captured, the muzzle and muzzle of the guns could be turned and the Japanese weapons and ammunition could be used to destroy the Japanese army. In this way, the combat effectiveness will naturally go up! ”