Every time I talk to Li Kongrong, I have learned, and Chen Jiageng has figured out the left and right factions this time, but the doubts have not only not decreased, but have become more. The whistle of the pen, the fun www.biquge.info and the pavilion whistle sounded, and the lights of the lighthouse in the distance flickered, and he stopped walking, but stood under a palm tree and said again: "Hansheng, I think I should be a leftist. Is it better to be left or right? What's bad about the left? ”

Tan Kah Kee has done a lot of relief work, so he will say that he is a leftist, but listening to Li Kongrong's meaning, the leftist is not good, and he wants to know what is wrong. Li Kongrong was still thinking about why he had to be a rightist, and when he heard this, he said: "Each has its own good and bad." If there are too many rightists, society will be cold-blooded and mercenary; There are too many leftists, and they seem to be full of warmth, but everyone is waiting for relief, and who will work? Before the outbreak of the last world war, the right was in charge, and after the war, the left was in charge, and the war was so cruel that everyone still felt that the world without war was better. ”

"yes, it's not good to fight." Tan Kah Kee nodded deeply, he couldn't agree more.

"Fighting a war is like fighting, a man who doesn't dare and is not good at fighting can't protect his wife and children." Li Kongrong objected. "A man can throw away anything, but he must not lose a gun. Because everything he needs guns to defend, but the left feels that guns are tools of violence and should be thrown away, and is convinced that if everyone loses their guns, the world will be at peace. The Paris Non-War Convention is a product of this kind of thinking, and no one with a little normal common sense would do such a thing, but the French did, and they were happy, and they would be conquered by the German Nazis within this year, just because they were too left, and there was no reason not to lose the country.

Although people do not want to hear it, let alone admit it, all the rights that people have actually come from force. They are all Chinese, why are the Nanyang Chinese and the Chinese in China rich and poor? In addition to the Straits Settlements, which were the key points in East Asia, and in addition to the rubber and tin mines of Malaya, one of the most important reasons was the military protection of the British Empire. A more obvious example is the Shanghai Huajie and the Shanghai Concession, which are just one road apart, and the houses on both sides are very different, and the land prices are even different. Why? Because the concession was protected by foreigners, and the Chinese was only protected by the Guoli Party, everyone avoided the concession instead of the Chinese realm in a war, and the tour capital also followed. The Shanghai Concession is about to be 100 years old, and it has been like this for the past 100 years, and everyone has taken refuge in the concession every time there is a war, because the force of foreigners and no other force in East Asia dares to offend easily, and property and lives can be protected there.

The left hates force as a source of violence; They also do not see competition, and they especially dislike the capitalists, believing that all they earn is the blood and tears of laborers. These people do not know or do not want to know that he can write articles in the concession to scold imperialism and belittle the murderous war, precisely because he is protected by imperialist force, without which he would not have the freedom to write articles; These people are also reluctant to admit that the coffee they drink, the cigarettes they smoke, the matches they scrape, and the suits they wear are all produced by the mercenary capitalists who spur the laborers day and night, and that without the capitalists there would be no large-scale industrial production, and there would be no cheap and massive commodities. Anyway, I think the left is either ungrateful, or too idealistic and naïve. Wherever there is a left, there will be a decline, this has almost become a rule, and the navy does not like the left. ”

Li Kongrong felt that he had said too much and ended it in a hurry, but Tan Kah Kee listened with great interest, although he considered himself a leftist, but as an entrepreneur, of course he knew the role of capitalists. "Does that mean that the Kuomintang is a rightist and the Communist Party is a leftist?" He continued to ask with interest. What I said before was all theory, and now it is beginning to connect with practice.

"They're all leftists, but the Communist Party is a bit more left than the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang believed that the capitalists should be restrained and the wealth should be left to the petty capitalists, and the Communist Party advocated the need to eliminate the capitalists and concentrate the wealth for distribution. Lee Kong Rong went on to elaborate that he must have Tan Kah Kee's support on this issue.

"But now it seems that the Kuomintang has not restrained the capitalists, but has made some corrupt officials and corrupt officials." Tan Kah Kee did not believe that the Kuomintang was also a leftist, and after returning to China many times, he only felt that those people were tyrannical and domineering.

"This is a common problem of officials governing the country." Li Kongrong said, "China has been a typical country ruled by officials since the Qin Dynasty, and for more than 1,000 years, officials have not only paid attention to but also had a special culture. The result of the Kuomintang party's curbing of the big capitalists among the people is to rely on bureaucrats at all levels, and the bureaucrats naturally want to be greedy when they have power, and the company commander who shot the dog-stealing soldier he said in the afternoon was a typical bureaucrat. ”

"What about the Communist Party?" Chen Jiageng asked, "The Communist Party seems to be ......"

"The Communist Party relies on bureaucracy at all levels, even more so than the Kuomintang. Now I can't hear about corruption, that's because northern Shaanxi is very poor, and it will be different when I enter Beiping later. In addition, the Communist Party's control over society is much stricter than that of the Guoli Party, Chongqing can publish Xinhua Daily, but Yan'an cannot publish Central Daily, and if you go to Yan'an Library, it is difficult to find books that can be seen in ordinary libraries in the Guotong District. You don't hear about the popular uprising, it seems that everyone is in favor of the government, and people with a little social experience can see that this is fake.

The Kuomintang often rebelled because of conscription and tax payment, why didn't northern Shaanxi? Could it be that the common people in northern Shaanxi are more patriotic? Of course not. Ordinary people everywhere are unwilling to serve as soldiers and pay for food, this is the nature of the Chinese. Like the Japanese, hanging themselves after failing to pass the physical examination is the result of decades of militaristic education, and the Communist Party has been in northern Shaanxi for a very short time, and it is impossible for them to change this disposition, and the only explanation is that the grassroots level of society is very tightly controlled, and the local government knows exactly how many men you have in your family and how much grain you collect each year. ”

"Really?" Chen Jiageng believed Li Kongrong, but what he said was completely different from what he usually heard.

"Northern Shaanxi is very barren, and the reason why the War of Resistance behind enemy lines is feasible is because some places are too barren for the Japanese to want, and in barren places you can't raise soldiers if you don't do this." Li Kongrong said, "No matter how much a government wins the hearts of the people, there will be opponents, let alone bad governments, such as Chongqing, but a government is full of praise without the slightest criticism, the reason can only be that the people are controlled and dare not speak, at least dare not speak locally." There are such people in Chongqing, mainly landlords who have come from exile to complain, but now that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are cooperating to resist Japan, the Chongqing court does not dare to accept their complaints, and the newspapers do not publish their news. ”

"Is there such a thing?" What Lee Kong Rong is describing seems to be another world, which Tan Kah Kee cannot imagine.

"Mr. Jiageng really wants to study carefully, and when he arrives in Chongqing, he can ask them to provide information in this regard, but he should be aware that the intelligence department of the Kuomintang will definitely add to it, and it has long been their habit to smear the Communist Party. Of course, the extent of the harm to the people is not credible, but it is credible that the Communist Party has all kinds of methods to control society, otherwise we will definitely hear a lot of popular uprisings. Li Kongrong smiled, and he came up with another idea: "If Mr. Jiageng is still free, it is recommended to go to Ruijin in southern Gannan to see, where is the previous Yan'an, but now there is no Communist Party, and many things are very clear after the truth is revealed." ”

"Ruijin? It's very close to Changting. Chen Jiageng said, his thinking suddenly pulled from northern Shaanxi to Fujian.

"Yes, Changting seems to have been part of the Soviet District before." Li Kongrong said, lighting a cigarette. "After the Communists left southern Jiangnan, they were defeated at the Xiangjiang River, saying that 20,000 or 30,000 people died. How could so many people die, did the Hunan army have rows of machine guns, that is, many soldiers deserted and ran back to their hometown in southern Gansu. If the people there are willing to speak, they should be able to hear some truth.

That's exactly what happened. If the Kuomintang cannot control the entire society, it will not be able to absorb the strength of the entire society, and not only will it not be able to absorb it, but it will also attract abuse and attacks from all kinds of people in society. And it relies on bureaucrats to control part of society, and the common problem of bureaucrats is that they will use power in their hands to enrich themselves and enrich themselves, which just proves that it is a bad government. It is better if there is no war, but now is the time of war, all kinds of resources are lacking, the contradictions between the government and the people are particularly intense, and at the same time, the front line cannot defeat the Japanese, the army is losing and retreating, all the contradictions are mixed together, some things are really unbearable to listen to, unbearable to watch, this is the current Chongqing government.

Yan'an was a war of resistance behind enemy lines, and behind enemy lines was originally a place beyond the reach of Japanese troops, and the military pressure was lighter than that of Chongqing; Although northern Shaanxi is poor, the entire society of northern Shaanxi is firmly controlled, and resources are also arranged as a whole, and of course there is no chaos and popular unrest. As soon as the two governments are compared, you will feel that the hope of the War of Resistance lies in Yan'an. In fact, no, Yan'an only has hundreds of thousands of troops, many of them are militiamen, and there is a shortage of weapons, and they are inferior to Chongqing in terms of quantity and quality. It is impossible for Chongqing to counterattack, and even more so for Yan'an, and the defeat of the Japanese can only rely on our navy. ”

"Hehe......" Tan Kah Kee couldn't help but laugh. The hope of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Navy has become a slogan, and everyone says this about Li Kongrong, New York, aviation schools in various parts of Nanyang, and personnel from the Singapore Maritime School (Merchant Marine School). Nanyang Siang Pao also often advocated this kind of thinking, especially after Wang Jingwei's attack and death. "Han Sheng, you are advocating your naval war of resistance again, my ears are about to hear the cocoon."

"Haha." Li Kongrong also laughed, he felt that he had indeed said too many such things. "But it's true. A reporter in New York quoted General Bai Jiansheng, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command, of deliberately overestimating the army's military expenses for the counteroffensive, believing that the counteroffensive should be enough for 1,000 planes, and that the price ......of artillery shells should be even more unreasonable, and that mountain artillery shells are only $17 and 60 cents a round, and that a large-scale order could be cheaper, but they did not deny that without enough planes and shells, the counteroffensive would be nothing more than talk on paper. The cost of a counteroffensive from the sea is much smaller, although an aircraft carrier plus aircraft costs 20 million US dollars, but only five to six aircraft carriers can wipe out the Japanese Navy, and the next thing is that the Japanese island will be blockaded by the Navy from a distance......"

"Alright, alright." Li Kongrong himself was not aware of it, and every time he talked about the navy's resistance to Japan, he was endless. These words have been said countless times like the theory of the naval war of resistance, and Chen Jiageng's ears are still calloused. "Let's talk about China, I'm going to go next month."

"Let's talk about China." Li Kongrong couldn't stop the car a little. "What Mr. Jiageng wants to know, I must know everything."

"I want to know, what kind of person is Mr. Chang Kaishen Chang?" Tan Kah Kee asked.

"Chang Kaishen?" Li Kongrong thought for a while, "He was originally a bad person, and in the end, he was determined to be a good person." ”

"Haha." Unexpectedly, Li Kongrong's description of Chang Kaishen was like this, and Chen Jiageng's laughter was a little dry. "How could he want to be a good man, he had someone assassinate you?"

He believes that the source of China's backwardness and poverty is because of the warlords' melee, and I am a warlord and I do not listen to the command of the central government, so he naturally wants to be the first to get rid of it. From this point of view, it is understandable that he sent someone to assassinate me. Li Kongrong said.

Chen Jiageng believed Li Kongrong's evaluation of the two parties in China, especially the evaluation of the Guoli Party, because he was originally the target of the assassination of the Guoli Party, and under normal circumstances, he would not have said good things for the Guoli Party and Chang Kaishen, but this is not the case, and now he is saying good things about Chang Kaishen.

"Is he doing the right thing?" Chen Jiageng didn't know how to ask.

"Of course not." "Eliminating the warlords is like the Chinese in Malaya trying to drive out the British Empire. Driven out of the British, without the protection of the British Empire, Malaya will soon be conquered by the Japanese and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the life of the common people will definitely be more miserable. There are warlords in the country, such as Henan, which is now under the control of the Japanese army, the state. The army, and Wanxi Bei Tingfang are divided, where is the people's life the best? It is not a occupied area, nor a nationally controlled area, but a mountainous area in Wanxi controlled by Bei Tingfang.

The taxes there are twice as high as those in other counties and cities in Henan, and Bei Tingfang has a bad temper and kills people at every turn, but the people are still grateful to him. Because Wanxi's taxes are real, other counties and cities pay less than half on the surface, but they can pay more than ten times more in secret. And then Wanxi's tax is actually the protection money that the people handed over to Bei Tingfang, if someone bullies him, he will report the name of Bei Dashuai, bandits and rebels must give Bei Dashuai face, if you don't give Bei Dashuai, you will be very angry, and the consequences must be very serious.

It's different in other places, where the people pay the same taxes, but they don't even know the county magistrate's surname. It's useless to know, the bandits are not afraid of the county magistrate, the county magistrate doesn't say anything if he doesn't have soldiers, the police may not be able to command, and besides, other people's families will be transferred away after two years as the county magistrate, what does it matter to him whether he is dead or alive? Promotion and wealth are the big deals. If Mr. Jiageng goes back, if he is free, he can go to western Anhui to see, if there is hope in China, hope is in Wanxi. It's a pity that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can't tolerate such people, they are doomed to be wiped out. ”

"Wanxi? Bei Tingfang? I'm going to definitely check it out. "Tan Kah Kee made a note of this place and this person." What does Hansheng mean that Mr. Chang wants to be a good person, but what he does is a bad thing? ”