Phu Quoc Island is like a pure land, without the hustle and bustle of the city, without the brilliant lights, without the crowds. There are only weeds all over the mountains, fresh air, clear skies and blue seas.

When Huang Duqing first arrived on the island, he really felt like a paradise.

He was the prison warden in name only, and all the anti-French elements, especially the Viet Minh, who were imprisoned here were released in accordance with the Geneva Agreement, and the prison was empty, except for him, the prison director, and more than 30 guards.

There are only a dozen aboriginal families on the island, plus veterans of the Kuomintang First Corps who are stranded here, a total of 212 people, and they are very scattered. I could only go back and forth between the airport and the small pier every day, and I was so lonely and panicked that I became a prisoner.

The short silence was soon broken.

First of all, officials from the "Refugee Committee" of the new government, and volunteers from the International Red Cross, the Catholic Church, the Viet Youth Association and the Chinese Youth Association arrived one after another to prepare for the arrival of a large number of refugees.

Immediately afterwards, Han Shuo, the captain of the Foreigner Management Police Brigade and a former subordinate, sent a group of Chinese prisoners. The prisoners had just been settled and organized to build roads for labor reform. The Foreigner Police Brigade, the Embankment Five Gangs Association, the Hoi An Five Gangs Association, and the Chinese Youth Association sent another batch of addicts.

He, the prison warden, has become the director of drug rehabilitation in a daze, and there are not enough prison guards, and he does not have the funds and authority to increase manpower, so he can only let the guards watch the prisoners, and let the prisoners watch the big smokers. Fortunately, there is the sea on all sides, and they can't run away if they want to.

It was not until the Phu Quoc Industrial Village Branch of the Industrial Investment Company was officially stationed that the situation of a small number of prisoners and a large number of drug addicts was improved.

Gu Jianhua, deputy director of the security department of the Industrial Investment Company and head of the security team of Phu Quoc Industrial Village, took over the defense affairs, and more than 800 officers of the security team drawn from the Nong army and the Vietnamese National Army, as well as security guards recruited from the Vietnam Youth Association and the Chinese Youth Association, formed six squadrons to quickly take over the defense of the airport, docks, and prison perimeters, and set aside a mobile squadron to maintain law and order on the island.

From the 12th of last month to the present, ships loaded with refugees and resettlement materials have arrived one after another.

The capacity of the small pier is limited, and many personnel and supplies have to be ferried or barged by landing craft that have just been allocated to the security team. The mountains of machinery and equipment were all imported from abroad by the industrial investment company for real money, and could not be left outside in the sun and rain, and all French-style buildings, including prisons, were requisitioned as warehouses.

Prisoners, smokers, and arriving refugees, including the warden, had to live in stilt huts or tents made of wood.

Phu Quoc Island is different from ordinary refugee settlements in that it is a planned heavy industry base and an export processing zone, and everything is decided by the industrial investment company, where the industrial investment company is the government.

Representatives of the Refugee Committee, the Joint Conference on Refugee Relief, American advisers, media reporters and Bank of East Asia staff all housed at the dockside, with six rows of tents surrounded by barbed wire and tall antennas in between, jeeps parked in the open space outside the tents, and heavily armed security guards patrolling the area.

Huang Duqing accompanied Qian Xinlin, Gu Changgeng, Gui Qingshan, He Tianming and others who came over last night to go around inside and out, and while walking towards the No. 1 resettlement point, he introduced with a smile: "Manager Qin is very capable, and he has arranged so many people and such a large company in an orderly manner. Whether we are Nongs or Vietnamese, even American advisers and volunteers have great respect for him. ”

Qin Nanjian is thirty-nine years old, a Hakka family, in the prime of life, and has received higher education.

During the French colonial period, he held public office in Hanoi, and there are very few Chinese like him who participated in politics in Vietnam. The fly in the ointment is that he is not a member of the "Vietnamese Chinese Literature and Art Research Association", and the stakes are very high, and it is necessary to listen to his words and observe his deeds before investigating and inspecting them.

Qian Xinlin and others came to Phu Quoc Island because they wanted to learn about the resettlement of the Nong villagers on the spot, and second, they wanted to talk to him, listen to the tone, and find out his position. Facts have proved that the environment can change people, and his position is biased towards the Chinese, whether in conversation or in actual action.

Qian Xinlin made up his mind to wait for Li Weimin to come back, so he arranged a time to talk to him frankly and officially recruited him into the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association".

The construction of roads for roads, the land for leveling the land, the deafening sound of bulldozers and truck engines transporting all kinds of supplies, all around people, a whole big construction site, it is not appropriate to talk about these things now.

Qian Xinlin looked around and sighed with emotion: "General Huang, today it is desolate, and next year it will be brilliant!" 100,000 people is not a lot, but it is planned that 500,000 or more people will work and live here in the future. ”

The whole island is planned as an industrial area, a living area, a seaside tourist area and a green protection area, and refugees will automatically become workers as soon as they get on the island. ”

"As long as industry can develop, there is no need to worry about food security at all."

Qian Xinlin smiled, pointed to a vacant lot not far away, and continued: "In addition, this area will no longer be used as a living area, the industrial investment company is bidding in Saigon, and will build an industrial university here next." ”

"University?"

Mr. Li discussed with Ngo Dinh Diem that some of the aid he had received from abroad would be used to develop higher education. Saigon University will be expanded, and Hue University, Dalat University and Phu Quoc University of Technology will be established at the same time. Mr. Ding Yousong has become the president of the University of Technology and is selecting the deans and professors of various colleges around the world. ”

Huang Duqing reacted, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "There are three of them, and one of us?" ”

"Not only in higher education, but also in other areas. He won ten dollars in aid abroad, and at least two dollars had to be spent on the Chinese, otherwise what would Mr. Li do so much? General Huang, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, we are really inferior to Mr. Li in this regard. ”

"That's it."

Speaking of this, Gu Changgeng couldn't help but smile and said: "Tianming, Mr. Li held an auction in Hollywood yesterday, promising to help an American movie or an American star compose a theme song or song every year for the next five years, and finally fetch a sky-high price of 1.2 million US dollars."

All the proceeds from the auction will be donated to the newly established Vietnam Youth Development Foundation, which will be temporarily deposited in the Bank of East Asia, and will be managed by professionals after returning, and a part of the investment income of the fund will be allocated every year for the activities of your Chinese Youth Association and the Vietnam Youth Association. ”

The Chinese Youth Association is developing too fast, and it has to provide help to the Vietnamese Youth Association, which has no source of funds, and the funds are really tight.

He Tianming was overjoyed and blurted out: "Really? ”

"Really, if you don't believe it, ask someone at the Bank of East Asia."

"Great, I'm short of money right now."

"I can give you money, but the dozen or so primary and middle schools must be set up, and the children in the resettlement sites must not be left without education or school."

"Mr. Gu rest assured, we have all arranged it, everyone is very positive, some people are willing to be full-time teachers, and some people are willing to take time to teach to ensure that every child goes to school."

Gu Changgeng nodded slightly, and added: "Mr. Li has won 600 study abroad places for your two youth associations, and several universities in the United States have provided scholarships and grants. At the end of the month, the university will send professors to interview for the written exam, you should hurry up and review, Mr. Li hopes that we can get at least 400 exams. ”

When it comes to exams, the middle school students of the Youth Association really can't compare with the Chinese Youth Association.

He Tianming smiled proudly: "Mr. Gu, don't say that you can get 400 of them, even if you get 500, it's no problem, we won't miss this opportunity." ”

Qian Xinlin was very pleased that the protégé was so confident, and said with a sideways smile: "After being admitted to the United States, we will set up an international student association, unite Vietnamese students, and cooperate with some activities of the industrial investment company." Therefore, it is best for several of you, the president, vice president, and branch president, to participate in this exam.

Mr. Li's fiancée, Wu Lijun, and his sister Li Weiqing, who have just arrived in the United States, will study in the United States next, and Wu Lijun was admitted to the School of Music at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. ”

"Isn't Mr. Li getting married next year?"

"Getting married and going to college are two different things, and it's normal to go to college with your children in your arms."

Huang Duqing asked curiously: "Mr. Qian, why do they have to be in Michigan and can't go to other universities?" ”

Qian Xinlin patiently explained: "There are several reasons, one is that Mr. Li's alma mater is in Michigan, where they will be well taken care of; Second, Michigan is a major manufacturing center in the United States, with 10.9% of the arms produced in Michigan during World War II, second only to New York (there were only so many states at the time), and many large companies are located there, and the industrial investment company has a representative office in Detroit. In addition, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor's School of Music and Business School are very good, ranking high in the United States and known as the Ivy League of public universities. ”