Back at 78 Hamui Road, the yard and living room were full of people.

Wu Lijun sat in the garden to talk to Chen Lichun, and Wu Tingyao sat on the sofa in the living room like a master, talking to a national army officer and several middle-aged people with glasses. The ashtrays are piled up like hills, and a good home is made into a miasma by them.

"For the people, Qiyuan didn't embarrass you, right?"

"No, as you said the day before yesterday, they are now sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, just waiting to see our jokes."

Chen Lichun didn't ask anything more, pointed to the living room, and motioned for him to go in quickly. Professor Anderson really took this seriously, and he didn't like their way of doing things so much that he turned around and went to the embassy without even saying hello.

Ngo Dinh Nh, who was busier than his brother, didn't have time to stay here for a long time, so as soon as they met, he got up and said, "For the people, let me introduce you, this is Captain Nguyen Chi Ren, who just came from Hue yesterday; This is Professor Chen Shiguo, and this is Mr. Wu Andong. Professor Kok is an economist who has been teaching at the University of Indochina. Mr. Dong is a legal expert and studied in France. ”

It turned out to be sent over, Li Weimin showed an extremely enthusiastic look, stretched out his right hand and said, "Li Weimin, it's a pleasure to know the three of you." ”

"Hello Mr. Li."

Professor Tan Sai Kwok said excitedly: "Mr. Li, the industrial estate project is not only huge but also great, and I am very honored to be able to assist Mr. Li in his work and to be able to participate in such a great industrial development project. ”

Wu Andong was also very excited, looked at the more than 20 intellectuals behind him and in the courtyard, and said excitedly: "Mr. Li, we really can't wait, we really want to start working now." ”

Nationalism gave rise to a large number of patriots, of whom they were clearly part, but they were right-leaning and chose not to choose Vietminh but to support Ngo Dinh Diem.

Of course, supporting now does not mean supporting forever.

There were too many people in the living room, and it was inconvenient to speak, so Li Weimin smiled and proposed, "Mr. Yao, why don't we go upstairs and talk?" ”

Some things really have to be explained in front of him, Wu Tingyan agreed, walked up the stairs, and came to the living room on the second floor, Wu Tingyan smiled sideways: "For the people, you are the president of the industrial investment company, and the formulator and executor of the industrial village plan, you say it first." ”

"Okay."

Li Weimin took out a sketch of a plan from his study that was completely different from the one he had raised money on the embankment, spread it on the coffee table and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the industrial village plan is not only a huge industrial development plan, but also a huge national defense plan. An industrial village is a military base that secretly trains reserve forces while secretly developing the defense industry. Our task is very heavy, to ensure the development of industry, to take into account the needs of national defense, to find a balance between the two. ”

Nguyen Chi Nhon was introduced by his second brother, Tran Shih Quook was a middle school classmate, and Vu An Dong was a devout Catholic, and they were the most reliable people they could find right now.

Wu Tingjiao took over the conversation and said with a serious face: "Three, there are too many pro-French factions in the national army, there are secretly developed organizations in the Viet Minh, there are warlord elements, and there are a large number of corrupt officers. The nationalization of the army is difficult and will take a long time. In the meantime, the government cannot but be prepared. ”

The main road on the planning sketch is actually an airstrip, the land reserved on the south side of the main road is actually a helipad, the gas station is a strategic oil depot, and the building of the industrial investment company is in fact the headquarters and flight control tower...... And more than a dozen such industrial villages are planned from north to south.

Chen Shiguo was stunned, and was stunned for a while before asking in a low voice: "Mr. Yao, just to develop industry, you need a lot of money, build so many military facilities, and train so many shadow troops, where does the money come from?" ”

Wu Tingjiao and Li Weimin glanced at each other, and said with a smug smile: "The construction of military facilities will be paid in advance by the industrial investment company for the time being, and when all the factories in the industrial park are developed, they will be paid from the operating income tax paid by the factories in the form of sharing with the joint investment company." As for weaponry, I'll think of other ways. ”

No matter how well it is done, it is still a reserve, and since it is a reserve, it is not so easy to pull into the battlefield.

More importantly, the industrial investment company is only a platform equivalent to the "management committee of the development zone", and it is the factory owners who can really exert influence on the reserve officers and soldiers, and after all, it is the real interests.

The better you do now, the more "inheritance" this young master will be able to inherit in the future, unless your Wu family brothers don't plan to be dictatorial, and they won't make people angry. But this possibility is very small, because this plan is actually to develop Vietnamese industry and revitalize Vietnam's economy, and at the same time, secretly develop a private army belonging to your Wu family, which has nothing to do with the nationalization of the army.

As for finding a group of intellectuals to rub sand, I don't know how this wishful thinking is played!

It is really incomparable to the Chinese in the armed forces, but it is better than the intellectual youth who have received systematic education. Not to mention the more than 10 million people in South Vietnam, even if you add the more than 10 million people in North Vietnam, there are not as many middle school students as there are in the Chaozhou Gang and the Fujian Gang.

The French regarded Indochina as a development colony, and their focus was on the production and export of raw materials and agricultural products, such as rice, rubber, tea, coffee, pepper, coal, etc.

At its peak (1940), there were only 34,000 French in Indochina. Algeria, which is also a French colony, has more than 1 million immigrants this year alone, and the local population of Muslin is only 9 million.

There were not many French people, and they had not thought of industrializing the Indochina colony, so they were not very enthusiastic about education.

The period from 1939 to 1940 was the best period for the development of education in the colonies, when there were only 3 million primary school students, 5,000 secondary school students, and 700 university students.

After returning to Vietnam at the end of World War II, the University of Indochina in Hanoi began to expand its enrollment in order to ease relations with the Vietnamese and at the same time to cultivate more pro-French intellectuals and consolidate French colonial rule in Vietnam.

However, the anti-French movement intensified, and primary and secondary education was severely affected.

There are more university students, but there are fewer primary and secondary school students than before, and a large number of them have gone to the Viet Minh under the influence of nationalism.

Thanks to the efforts of the Five Gangs, the embankment is like a paradise, and primary and secondary education has hardly been affected. There are more than 6,000 students in Ngee An Middle School alone, and no less than 100,000 students in Di'an Chinese School, including primary schools! As long as they are Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, Fujianese and Hainanese, no matter how difficult their family background is, as long as their children are willing to study, basically all of them will go to school.

If Chinese schools in other provinces are included, there are more students in school. As a result, the literary atmosphere on the embankment is getting stronger and stronger, and more than a dozen Chinese-language newspapers don't know how many submissions they have to receive every day, either new style poems or old style poems, making them look like all of them are poets.

Although there are no higher education institutions for the Chinese, families who can afford it will send their children to study in Hong Kong, France or Singapore, and vocational education is doing very well. For example, in the Asian professional school, the teacher taught the students the principle of diesel engines, and more than a dozen diesel engines of various types were disassembled.

The industrial village project needs Chinese capital, and a large number of Chinese bosses will emerge and a large number of Chinese intellectual youths will be accepted.

Interests are tied together, and with the guidance of the Chinese Youth Federation, it is better for Vietnamese workers to create an atmosphere of Chinese and Vietnamese families. Not to mention 20 or 30 people, even if there are 2,300 or 2,300,000 people, even if there is a big change of blood for the industrial investment company, it will not affect the overall situation of the Chinese actually controlling the industrial village.

But since you are here, and you are so enthusiastic and patriotic, you should help do something serious first.

Li Weimin coughed twice, and said very seriously: "Three, don't hide it, there is indeed a big gap in funds." Professor Anderson and I had just returned from the embankment, and in order to reassure the overseas Chinese on the embankment and invest boldly, I set up a military order to promise to raise $10 million overseas by the end of the year. Encouraged by this, they pledged to underwrite a portion of the bonds.

The issue of relief and resettlement of refugees is imminent, and in order to put the plan into practice as soon as possible, I plan to make the sale of industrial investment bonds a top priority in all my work when the company's personnel are in place. When the time comes, a meeting will be held to study and formulate a set of scientific and reasonable bond sales plans, and the responsibility will be assigned to everyone, and there will be rewards and punishments.

Rewards for completing bond sales tasks within the specified time, heavy rewards for overcompleting tasks, salary reductions for failing to complete tasks, and dismissals for failure to complete tasks and problems with work attitudes. In short, the industrial investment company does not support people who do nothing, let alone idlers. Only in this way can the industrial village plan be implemented smoothly and successfully. ”

Ngo Dinh Ngai has been organizing social movements all these years, knows a lot of people, and his wife has a rich family, and he doesn't know how difficult it is for ordinary people, especially those who have just come from the north and are not familiar with Saigon, so he happily said: "There are rewards and punishments, this is a good idea." For the people, I also set up a military order to underwrite 500,000! ”