Chapter 470: The Great Southwest Associated University
July 28, 1941. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Kunming. Southwest Associated University.
The day before leaving Chongqing, Xiao Lu and Zhou Gongchang talked all night, and no one else knew what the two of them were talking about. The next morning, the others saw that they were in good spirits, and did not seem to be tired at all.
Xiaolu talked with Zhou Gong this time, mainly to talk about the content of the conversation with Mao Gong in Yan'an, and said his own suggestions and Mao Gong's thoughts.
In the current war between Germany and the Soviet Union, Xiaolu had to take a series of actions to fight for China's greatest interests, as long as it was to trap Japan, take advantage of Japan's madness, and take advantage of Japan's hesitation and controversy in advancing south and north, to win China's development opportunities.
One of the main purposes of Xiaolu's coming to Chongqing with great fanfare was to confuse the Japanese and make the Kwantung Army think that the Eighth Route Army in the northeast would not work, its big bandit capital was gone, and the few people who relied on the Soviet Union were left, what could they do?
The purpose of Xiaolu's visit to Kunming this time was not only to confuse the Japanese, one was to lay out the southwest, and the other was to extensively contact the intellectuals in Kunming. Zhou Gong had high expectations for him.
Follow in the footsteps of the Japanese. Wherever the Japanese go, we go. Wherever the Japanese are going, we will go.
Xiaolu made some preparations for this and brought a lot of medicines. He Wenyuan organized a batch of gold, which has now arrived in Kunming and is ready to do a big job in Kunming.
When he arrived in Kunming, Xiaolu was going to arrange to visit Long Yun and others, but unfortunately Long Yun and other senior generals were not in Kunming, saying that they were going to handle the relevant matters of the Flying Tigers. Xiao Lu said happily: "That's good, let's go directly to the Southwest Associated University." ”
Kunming is now a large rear, and when there are no air raids, there is no smell of war at all. On the streets, you can often see people wearing ethnic minority costumes, coming and going. From time to time, I saw American soldiers whizzing past in jeeps, and there were naturally women in the car.
From time to time, I saw American planes whizzing by, which were planes of the Flying Tigers.
The car left the city of Kunming and arrived in the northern suburbs, where I saw a dilapidated gate in the distance, with a few clumsy characters written on it: National Southwest Associated University.
Southwest Associated University is a joint venture of Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University. In the future, China's leaders in various fields will come from here. Southwest Associated University is a special phenomenon during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, and it is also a great achievement in the history of education.
A number of exiled universities, represented by the Southwest Associated University, cultivated a large number of talents during the Anti-Japanese War. In these tattered universities, the light is shining, and countless future national leaders and scientists who have influenced the history of mankind are wearing tattered clothes and studying hard. These talents were the basic force for China's construction and rejuvenation in the future. Its effects can reach decades or even centuries,
At present, the government is in financial difficulty, with very little money allocated to universities and dilapidated school buildings. Teachers do not get paid and live in embarrassment. Most of the students were exiled to Kunming, with no contact with their families, no financial resources, and the situation was very difficult.
The Eighth Route Army had a liaison office in Kunming, and they had already made official contact with the Southwest Associated University and other universities, saying that anti-Japanese generals from the northeast would come to visit the university.
When Xiaolu set off from Chongqing, the Southwest Associated University received the news that he was coming. Because General Lu became famous in the First World War in Nanjing, he has a good reputation in the Southwest Associated University. Southwest Associated University has always asked General Lu to give a speech to students.
Xiao Lu didn't expect that his reputation here was so good and so famous. The university welcomed him and asked him to give a speech at Southwest Associated University. After a brief meeting with the principal and straight to the point about his thoughts, Xiaolu and the principal went directly to the playground.
Students and teachers sat on the playground and listened to the trail speeches. The following is the speech.
Distinguished principals, distinguished teachers, students, hello everyone.
This morning, I met with a couple of principals and they asked me to give a presentation. Actually, I'd like to talk to you about it.
I am a graduate of Northeastern University. I have to state that I dropped out of school not because of my poor academic performance, but because of the chaos in our northeast. In those years, when you were quietly studying in the universities of North China, our desks in the northeast had long been overturned by barbaric forces.
In the beginning, I was self-taught. Later, by chance, I helped several students from Northeastern University to find a school in Beiping, and then embarked on today's path. On the North China Road, near Tangshan, one of our classmates was killed by the Japanese army, and he is still buried on the side of the road in Hebei.
When I arrived in Beiping, I saw that Northeastern University had reserved their student status for students, even if they had not been able to attend classes for several years. I also saw them overcome difficulties and continue to run schools in exile.
I passed the exam, entered Northeastern University, and became a student. However, it may have been the events on the North China Road that stimulated me, I couldn't sit down to study, and soon caused a big incident in Tongxian County, and arrested the big traitor Yin Rugeng.
I offended the Japanese army and had to leave school.
I took the car to Nanjing, on the way I met two professors who had taught at Northeastern University, Mr. Liang and Mr. Lin, I was touched by their dedication to academics, but I felt that the peaceful days in North China would not be too long, and I persuaded them to move south as soon as possible, and persuaded the university to move south as soon as possible.
(Liang Sicheng and Lin Weiyin sat in the audience and nodded to Xiaolu.) Liang Sicheng said: "If we had left early, we would not have suffered so much. ”)
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin did not leave when Beiping fell. Like Zhou Zuoren, they also received a request from the Japanese occupation forces to take up false positions. The couple was unwilling to fall and fled from Beiping overnight. All the way to Tianjin, take a ship to Jinan, and bump to Changsha.
In Changsha, they encountered a bombing by the Japanese army in Changsha.
According to his son Liang Congjie's recollection: At that time, Liang Sicheng, who was in the room, heard the sound of an airplane, and thought that the Soviet Union's plane to aid China had arrived, so he ran to the corridor to look, but saw a small black dot falling on the plane, shouting that "not good" was a bomb, and he had seen the red plaster mark of the Japanese plane.
So Liang Sicheng picked up his daughter, and Lin Huiyin hugged his son and pulled his mother and ran down the stairs.
Lin Huiyin was at the corner of the stairs when a bomb landed on the back wall of the house and exploded.
Liang Sicheng had already run into the yard at this time, Lin Huiyin was still sitting on the corner of the stairs with Liang Congjie in his arms, and the bomb on the plane flew into the yard from that corner, but fortunately, no one was injured.
When Liang Sicheng returned to the bombed house the next day, at the back door, he saw a person's blood mark on the wall, which was the air flow of a bomb that washed the whole person to the wall, although the body was taken down, the blood mark of the dead person was left on the wall.