It's rare to come to Saigon, of course, to go back to the embankment.

Thanks to the efforts of the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association", the Chinese district, which was once known for its dirty and messy area, has undergone earth-shaking changes.

With the rapid development of the economy, people's living standards have improved significantly.

Almost all of them wore fashionable shirts and trousers, and the clothes with the characteristics of the Republic of China have become a thing of the past and can only be seen from movies or TV series. The low-rise shops on both sides of the road have been transformed into reinforced concrete buildings. The streets are wide and clean, and there are no more beggars and garbage everywhere, let alone horse-drawn and ox-carts.

Gangs, gambling houses, brothels and tobacco houses are among the targets of severe crackdown, and the Pingdong Industrial Village is so close that there are more employment opportunities, and there are naturally fewer idle people.

With a permanent property and perseverance, their own business or a good job, their own family, and a happy life, who would risk losing their heads to oppose the government?

Facts have proven that as long as the economy is developed and public order is maintained, the "Hua-Yun" will not be able to set off any storms in the Chinese area on the embankment. Their so-called "hoeing" operation is considered terrorism by most people. Their situation on the embankment can be described as "everyone shouts and beats the rats crossing the street".

In terms of administrative divisions, the entire Chinese district is divided into several counties.

The county magistrate has no real power, and there is not even an administrative body called the county government, let alone a street or neighborhood committee. Freedom can no longer be free, democracy can no longer be democratic, everything is based on autonomy, but relying on "autonomy" is not good to maintain law and order, so the police station plays a pivotal role here.

If Americans come to visit, they will find that the embankment police system is very similar to the New York City Police Department, the largest police department in the country. The organization is huge. The police force is sufficient. The number of police officers is as high as 6,000. That's twice as much as the police force in the urban area.

It is divided into four major departments: public security, transportation, fire protection and housing.

The public security department fights crime and maintains public order; The traffic department manages motor vehicles and maintains traffic order; The fire department, which was once independent of the police system, was also a paramilitary unit and was integrated into the police system to specialize in fire fighting and rescue.

The housing department was a freak in the push for Chinese naturalization, and was initially responsible for clarifying land ownership. After the dissolution of the Five Gangs, a large amount of property was left behind, a large part of which was real estate. At that time, there were many refugees who needed to be resettled, so they took over the "public land and public housing", specializing in leasing, auctioning, repairing and developing.

All schools, temples and hospitals are all "public property", so the security of each school and hospital and the worship of each temple belong to the housing police, so the department must accept the supervision of the Xidi Chinese Asset Management Company while accepting the management of the directors of the police sub-bureaus.

As the deputy mayor of Saigon Military Administration City, who is in charge of the embankment, Jiang Chao introduced the situation as follows.

He pointed to a construction site not far away, and said with a smile: "Those small factories and workshops have all moved to the industrial village. Real estate development has speculated on land prices so high that building factories in industrial villages can be exempted from corporate income tax. The bosses were very active and there was little mobilization for the relocation. ”

This is the place where I have lived for more than ten years. Wu Lijun, who never asked about business, asked uncharacteristically: "Mayor Jiang, all the factories have moved to the industrial village, who is in charge of the county tax bureau to collect taxes, and what can be used to pay salaries to so many government personnel without tax sources?" ”

"Mr. Wu, the tax of the factory is actually not much, at least the proportion of the embankment finance is very low. At present, the government's revenue mainly comes from land transaction tax, real estate transaction tax and business income tax of major shopping malls and merchants. Land and property transaction tax is easy to collect, and business income tax in major shopping malls and wholesale markets is also relatively easy to regulate, and the most difficult ones are those merchants. In order to crack down on tax evasion, the Inland Revenue Department intends to set up a tax police force like the Customs......"

The compatriots are too shrewd, there are policies and countermeasures, the tax rate is already very low, and they are still trying to find ways to exploit legal loopholes.

Reasonable tax avoidance is excusable, who makes you lag behind in legislation. Those who knowingly break the law and deliberately evade taxes must not be forgiven and must be severely cracked down.

Li Weimin nodded slightly, motioned for Ah Cheng to stop, put on a polite hat, put on a pair of sunglasses, hugged his son under the protection of plainclothes, took his wife, and started a "private visit to Weifu".

Look here, wander there, all the way to the "New Student Bookstore" near Mingde Middle School and Kaiming Middle School.

In addition to Chinese books, Vietnamese books, textbooks, magazines and reference books, it also sells stationery and records. For political reasons, the government banned the import of books published in the mainland, and only books and magazines published in Hong Kong and some in Taiwan.

The Chinese schools affiliated with Xidi Chinese Asset Management Company generally use "revival" or "enlightened" textbooks. The two Chinese schools run by Fr. Ruan Lehua use textbooks published by Taiwan's Zhengzhong Book Company.

Li Weimin opened it with great interest for a while, and found that the news censorship did not have a great impact on the cultural life of the Chinese area, and here you can buy the Hong Kong edition of Ba Jin's "Home, Spring, Autumn", "Fog, Rain, Electricity" and Liang Yusheng's "The Legend of the Grass and the Dragon and the Snake in the Dragon" and "The Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" published by the Hong Kong Wenzong Publishing House.

A wide variety of Hong Kong magazines are regularly arranged, such as "Little Friend", "Children's Paradise", "Haiguang Geography Magazine", "Knowledge Semi-Monthly", "New Language", "Literary Century", "Companion Semi-Monthly", etc., which are beautifully printed and dazzling.

"Asian Hollywood" is in Pingdong Industrial Village, with the vigorous development of the film industry, and the continuous "creation" of Li Da musicians, pop music has become the mainstream, most of the shelves are local records, looking for only a few Hong Kong versions of the mainland song "Liu Sanjie", Huang Mei tune "Tianxian Pei" and Hong Kong's Ling Bo's "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

The only thing that remains unchanged is the new style of poetry, and there are dozens of poetry collections and poetry magazines.

Now that you're in, you can't go home empty-handed.

Let Tian Tian pick two Hong Kong children's magazines and help the old man buy a record of "Liu Sanjie", while Wu Lijun picked four poetry collections in a row.

The night of the harbor shone faintly with a few stars

The night was deep

The tropical wind hummed a hypnotic tune

Glide through the shimmering waves of the harbor

The tired lights of the houses on this side of the port fell asleep early

People are trapped in nightmares night after night

Peace breaks its wings in a nightmare......

In the car to the Li family's mansion, Li Weimin opened it and read a paragraph, frowned and said: "No disease**, what a mess." ”

Wu Lijun took it and looked at it, and said angrily: "This "Port Night" is very well written, realistic, the author is worried about the country and the people, and he will not appreciate it, don't comment blindly." ”

"It doesn't rhyme at all, the sentences don't flow very well, and I still like the old style poems."

Her husband is talented, but he is limited to business and music creation, Wu Lijun sneered: "If you like old style poems, then you memorize how many poems." ”

Li Weimin hugged his son and laughed: "It's too much, the bright moonlight in front of the bed, the noon of hoeing day, there are several songs!" ”

The old man was taught at home to memorize Tang poems and Song words every day, memorize the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names", and test him in turn every night, he could only memorize all two poems, "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names" only remembered the first few sentences.

Thinking of this, Wu Lijun laughed wildly, shook his arm and said, "Husband, don't go to school, don't let Mr. Wu know a few poems, otherwise his old man will be angry with you for your school life." ”

Jiang Chao, who was sitting in the co-pilot, suddenly remembered something and said with a sad face: "Chairman, Lieutenant Wu Yongning, the eldest grandson of Mr. Wu, died in a military operation in the Zhensha area half a month ago. Just after the event was completed the day before yesterday, Minister Liu and General Zhang Yinggui took special time to attend the funeral, and their bodies were buried in the military cemetery. ”

Mr. Wu is a Mandarin teacher at Ngee Ann Primary School, and most of the Teochew people under the age of 40 who have studied on the embankment have received the enlightenment education of his old man, and he is still serving in Nghe Ann Primary School.

Reasonable, kind, truly virtuous, real peach and plum all over the world.

The most painful thing is that the white-haired man sends the black-haired man, thinking of his grandson who died young, Li Weimin felt very uncomfortable, and was silent for a while before he whispered: "I have time tomorrow morning, I will go to see his old man." ”

It was the elite who sacrificed.

Jiang Chao leaned on the back of his chair and said solemnly: "From the beginning of the round battle to the present, a total of 59 young people on the embankment have died, 163 young people on the embankment have been injured, and more than 70 of them are disabled to varying degrees. I, the deputy mayor, attend funerals once or twice a month, and go to military cemeteries once or twice a month. ”

"Isn't the price too much?"

"For us, maybe it's just a number, for those families, for those relatives, a loss is a loss, and there is no way back, and I don't know how long it will take for this psychological wound to heal."

Jiang Chao paused and continued: "Director Han has counted that since taking over the security of the embankment, a total of 58 police officers have been killed in the line of duty, and more than 300 have been injured in the line of duty, of which 6 police officers were assassinated by 'Hua-Yun' elements. For the sake of future generations and for the future of our children, we are mentally prepared to pay a heavier price, but ordinary people are different. ”

Li Weimin lowered his head and said categorically: "It is necessary to intensify propaganda, vigorously carry forward the fearless spirit of the heroes who are willing to sacrifice through various means, and set up a special organization to be fully responsible for the work of 'supporting the army and giving preferential treatment to their families,' and we must not let the heroes shed blood and then let their relatives shed tears." ”

Wu Lijun couldn't help but propose: "Or, let DreamWorks make more movies, let more people know the deeds of heroes through movies, so that they will never be forgotten." ”

"Movies, TV dramas, radio dramas, novels, songs, heroic deeds reports, start the propaganda machine, and carry out all-round publicity."

Li Weimin took a deep breath and continued: "The public opinion front must not lose, and the atrocities of North Vietnam and South Liberation must be made public, so that everyone can understand why they are fighting, and let the officers and soldiers know why they are fighting." Because we have no way out, if we want to maintain the current way of life, if we want to keep everything we have now, we must resolutely fight back and be ready to fight for ten or even twenty years! (To be continued.) )