In the evening, Xiaolu and Xue Rui's family invited Carlson to dinner. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThese few nights, almost every reporter has come to Xiaolu's house to talk. Everyone was amazed at the simplicity of their home, except for a bed, two boxes, and two bookshelves, and the rest was just a simple eater. The only good things are the book and the two words hanging on the wall, but if you look closely, those two words are written by Xiaolu himself.

The rice is bought in the cafeteria, but in fact, it is just a change of place to eat in the cafeteria.

After eating, Xue Rui boiled boiling water for them, prepared to return the Chinese-English dictionary, and went to the office.

The two began a conversation between English and Chinese.

Carlson said: "I'm curious, Pu Yi is not in prison, but at home. Why don't you kill Pu Yi? ”

Xiaolu said: "The prison is his home. The tradition of our army is to be good to prisoners. Ordinary puppet soldiers are willing to participate in the welcome of our troops, and if they don't want to, it's okay to leave, we will pay the passage fee and send him home. The Japanese prisoners, on the other hand, were put in prisoner-of-war camps, educated, and reformed. Unless the most heinous and worthless villains are tried by the government and then guessed to be shot. ”

Carlson said: "Pu Yi is valuable? ”

Xiaolu said: "Pu Yi has already admitted his mistakes and written several reports to expose the crimes of the Japanese. We will hand over these reports to Yan'an. The most interesting, you know? It took Pu Yi almost a year to learn how to do laundry. Today, he can cook. Actually, we've already paid him a salary. ”

Carlson said, "Your system is not war communism, is it?" ”

Xiaolu said: "Yes and no. Our soldiers are paid a small salary. Public employees are paid a small amount of money, do not pay for food, and are subsidized. Housing, private housing is still private, but the housing that public officials and even the army help to build is public, everyone lives in it, it doesn't cost money. The most important thing is that the land is private, and a large amount of public land has been given to private individuals. Of course, taxes are needed. Regarding the system, we can interpret it as a united front. This is basically the same as the base areas in Hebei and other places. ”

Carlson said: "What is your attitude towards the United States?" I know it's a big problem. ”

Xiaolu said: "First of all, our people have a good impression of Americans, probably because Americans are similar to Yichun people, and they started by labor. Our organization also wants to have normal ties with the U.S. government. I'm just an officer, that's my personal opinion. But I think that's what many of us agree on. ”

Carlson said, "Why are you in contact with us? ”

"There are three reasons, first, we have a common enemy, so we have common interests. Second, we will play a huge role in the Chinese battlefield, and our strength is very strong. We have a lot of huge advantages over other political forces in China. Third, the Chinese battlefield was important for the Soviet Union and for the United States. Especially the United States. ”

Carlson said, "Do we have a common enemy? There was no war between the United States and the Japanese. ”

Xiaolu said: "There is a common enemy. It's the Japanese. If there were no such big wars in Europe, you could say that I was talking nonsense, but once the big war in Europe began, some of them were possible. Please send a message to the U.S. government: If you have strategic needs, you can come to Yan'an. Let's first analyze the Japanese, the Japanese government, and the Japanese army. Then, we analyze Japan's southward expansion strategy. ”

Smedley is not in good health, and has been in much better condition after using Yichun's antibiotics in the past few days.

On April 11, 1940, the press corps left Yichun and returned to Chongqing via Vladivostok.

Soon, the journalists wrote dozens of articles, each taking hundreds of photos. Later, these were published in newspapers and magazines in various countries. There were also several articles in the Guotong District, but they were quickly banned and kept underground. The article refers to Yichun as China's second pure land outside of Yan'an.

Later, Xinhua News Agency translated and compiled these articles into a book, which made more people yearn for Yichun.

Soon after, Carlson wrote several secret reports on his trip to Yichun, especially his three meetings with Xiaolu, and submitted them to some congressional committees.

The report estimates that Yichun has 100,000 to 200,000 of China's highest-quality troops, capable of producing antibiotics, capable of producing simple weapons, and has a large scale of state-run and a large number of private light industries. There are simple chemical enterprises and simple military-industrial complexes. These enterprises are basically joint-stock companies

Plus, they have a strong education system. Unlike the universities in Yan'an, it is not easy to graduate from a university here, and it takes hundreds of credits.

In order to graduate, several generals of the Military and Political University of Military and Political Science have captured a city called Qiqihar once in order to graduate.

The most important thing is that they have a clean and efficient government, and the government is the most economical and clean. They have a pragmatist, democratic, very human, plus utopian, quirky and lovely society.

The report also mentions several of Yichun's new weapons, including a submachine gun, which performs well, and a long-range anti-aircraft gun, which appears to be the most advanced anti-aircraft weapon in the world.

In the end, he included Yichun's senior leadership in the report. In the report, he described in detail the people he met, and in the report analyzed in detail the personalities and political leanings of several people, and concluded that General Lu Zhongzhong was not a true communist, but a nationalist. And

Lieutenant General Lu believes that Mao has not been to the Soviet Union, and Wang Ming, who came back from the Soviet Union, does not like Mao because Mao is a nationalist.

However, Lu Zhong's understanding of the strategic situation in the world is extremely profound. We could not have imagined that in a ravine there would be someone with such a clear understanding of the war situation in Europe. He also has a lot of predictions about the war situation, and he hopes that these predictions will not happen, and that will be a disaster for the United States.

Several members of the committee attached great importance to the report, and they had an impression of Yichun, and several members of the committee even became interested in him. However, they were very unimpressed by General Lu's words. Will the United States strategically look to China's guerrillas? It's just delusional.

Eventually, the report ended up in the file bag as garbage.

Later, some of them remembered the report and found it with great difficulty.

However, because of Zhao Yiman's interview, many Chinese Americans have a deeper impression of Yichun. Because Yichun actively resisted the Japanese and the government was well connected, they felt that their donation was worth it.

The report on Yichun also set off a wave of Yichun fever in Nanyang.

The news of the arrival of the press corps in Yichun reached Xinjing on the day they arrived in Yichun, which attracted the attention of the top brass of the Kwantung Army.

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1, Evans Forders Carlson, a U.S. Marine Corps officer, was the captain of the guard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. military attache in China, the first to go deep into the anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines in North China during the Anti-Japanese War, trekked 2,000 miles, obtained a lot of first-hand information, and after returning home, he tried his best to publicize the heroic and good fighting of the Eighth Route Army and the prohibition of trade with Japan. He is the author of "China's Twin Stars", a book that reflects the cooperation between the two parties in China.