Like the Chinese New Year in later generations, the New Year was kept until zero o'clock, and the firecrackers were in the sky, and the city was full of roars.

The firecrackers of the rich are more than ten meters long, scattered and red. People who don't have money can also light a string or two of small whips, and everyone has me, and everyone is happy.

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, the lion dance teams of the major martial arts halls took turns to worship the gods in various temples in the noisy sound of gongs and drums, and then went to the door of the reservation households and companies to pay New Year's greetings under the chase of a group of children wearing new clothes and making a New Year.

"Chaoqun" and other troupes and performing arts troupes just returned from performing in the Haiphong refugee camp a few years ago, and they set up a stage to perform a gong performance. After the embankment performance, he went to the nearby towns and villages to perform for charity, and did not come back until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Compared with Chinese New Year's Eve, the Lantern Festival is more lively.

All literary and artistic groups and schools have organized singing and dancing performances, holding lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, and parades of floats, and everywhere the procession goes, people greet each other in the middle of the road, and every street corner is crowded with people watching the excitement, and the main roads such as Sailor Street, Meishan Street, Laozi Street, and Confucius Avenue are all blocked, and passers-by are unable to walk an inch.

"Ah Bing, have you entered?"

As soon as the parade passed, people talked about the hottest topic of the Spring Festival.

The middle-aged man who was asked smiled triumphantly: "I entered early, my wife and nephew were deputy directors of the Chinese Youth Association, I went to find it in the third year of junior high school, I entered in the fourth year of junior high school, and the whole family entered, what about your family?" ”

"Hunger marketing" has achieved remarkable results, and a few years ago it was rumored that once the decree was promulgated, if you want to be naturalized, you must meet the conditions, the review will be very strict, and those who fail to pass the application will be deported.

I can't go back to my hometown, my business is all in Vietnam, where will I go after being expelled, and what do I rely on to make a living?

The gang leader will not lie, and the people at the consulate of the National Government said the same. No one can sit still. Start weighing the pros and cons. Start looking for a way out.

As previously emphasized, naturalization makes no difference to ordinary people.

And for some wealthy people, going to Western developed countries such as Britain, the United States and France, the current Vietnamese passport is better than the national government passport.

Some shrewd people found that it is very easy to become naturalized now, so why do they have to wait until after the promulgation of the decree to apply, so with the help of well-intentioned people, the spread of ten, ten to hundred, from the second day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the representative offices of the branches of the Chinese Youth Association and the foreign police brigade have accepted more than 300,000 applications for naturalization.

A large part of the young overseas Chinese who supported the Vietminh went to North Vietnam. Things came so suddenly, and at the critical juncture of the Spring Festival, I didn't react for a while, I didn't know how to deal with it, I didn't take any action in a daze, and I didn't fan the flames everywhere like later generations.

The middle-aged man who asked the question just now smiled and said, "It's in, but it's not as fast as your family, and it was just done at noon, and the handling fee can't be less." ”

"The handling fee has to do with it and it doesn't matter, isn't it all 260 per person?"

"260 isn't a lot of money. The key is to be steadfast. The foreigner management police brigade is not the Pingchuan police, they have a brain. I just know how to do things according to the rules. When the time comes, if the application fails, they will turn their faces when they say they will turn their faces, and they will arrest people when they say they will arrest them. ”

……

Meanwhile, Mr. Lee was sitting in an office on the left side of the second floor of the Independence Palace, studying yesterday morning's naturalization statistics.

Ruan Minh Xiu and Chen Runwei went to Phu Quoc Island, and Pan Hongshan and Su Youcai went to Cambodia together, with three new secretaries around them.

Sang Pingxiang is a member of the Chinese Youth Association who has just graduated, and is also a member of the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association" that has just been inspected, replacing Su Youcai to be responsible for the affairs of the "Research Society" and the Chinese Youth Association; Lai Daxiong is from the Vietnam Youth Association, and has gone abroad with the "beggars' group" to raise funds, and is responsible for liaising with the Refugee Committee, the Foreigners' Management Committee and the Vietnam Red Cross.

Jiang Chao is thirty-one years old, the oldest, and was arranged by the industrial investment company.

In fact, the official identity is not a secretary, but the assistant to the chairman of the Vietnam Industrial Estate Investment and Development Company, who served as the deputy director of the comprehensive department of the industrial investment company for four months before coming.

Instead of receiving and sending messages, he has two new subordinates who are proficient in telecommunications, and are now in charge of the codebook, officially as the confidential secretary of the government's Aliens Control Committee.

They were all in the big office opposite, and only Sang Pingxiang, who was in charge of the affairs of the Chinese Youth Association, stood alone at his desk.

Li Weimin put down the statistical report, picked up the cup and asked: "Three hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and twelve, counting the seventy-four thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven who were naturalized before, how many people in Xidi are still unnaturalized?" ”

Sang Pingxiang was more competent than he imagined, and replied without thinking: "About 90,000, not more than 100,000." Because with the rollout of several industrial village plans, many people have gone to Vung Tau, Bo Lieu, Te Thi and Phu Quoc to do business. Those places are like big construction sites, it is easier to make money than embankments, and it is easier to find a job, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been diverted unconsciously. ”

"So much?"

"At first, we couldn't believe it, but after asking many relatives and friends, we learned that many people did not return to the embankment for the Chinese New Year, and all of them were doing business or work in several industrial villages."

"The power of capital is really not small!"

Li Weimin sighed lightly, beckoned him to sit down, and asked with a smile: "What about the remaining tens of thousands?" ”

"Tianming they have analyzed, some of these tens of thousands of people are economically difficult, most of them have fled from the north, some can't afford to pay the fees, some don't care about broken jars, in the words of some people, it's better to eat in prison than no food, just waiting for the foreigner police brigade to expel them to Taiwan;

Some people are in a better economic situation, worried about the political instability after naturalization, and want to leave but can't leave, so they pin their hopes on the national government, and the consulate is overcrowded during the Spring Festival, and they run there every day; There are also a small number of people who have businesses in Vietnam and Cambodia, or have businesses in Vietnam and Hong Kong, have a choice, and don't care. ”

Compared with Xidi, it is easier for Chinese people in other places to do it. After all, the number of people is small, and the trouble will not be successful, and even if the impact of the trouble is not so big in the West Dike.

The hard bones have already gnawed a large part, and the remaining half must be solved, and no aftermath can be left.

Li Weimin pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said: "For the first part of the people, the naturalization fee can be waived completely, but it should be waived in other names, such as holding a fundraising activity to help them raise the handling fee required for naturalization, and make the movement bigger, so that everyone knows." At the same time, it coordinates with the industrial investment company. Set up a business persuasion group. Strive to arrange them to find jobs in various industrial villages in the shortest possible time. ”

Sang Pingxiang picked up the pen and quickly recorded it. Li Weimin continued: "There is nothing good to do about the second and third categories of people now, and I will discuss with other members of the Foreigners Administration Committee to formulate some regulations on the residence and business operation of foreigners as soon as possible." ”

"Okay."

As soon as Sang Pingxiang walked out of the room, Wu Tingjiao knocked on the door and walked in, his expression was solemn, he must have received some bad news.

Li Weimin got up and closed the door, and pushed open the window by the way. He sat down on the desk and asked, "Mr. Yao, is Li Wenyuan moving?" ”

"Hmm."

Wu Tingjiao nodded slightly, took out a cigarette and said: "Half an hour ago, the 'United Front of National Forces' that he proposed was officially established, and all the warlords of all factions went to the embankment, including Zheng Mingshi and Fan Gongji. At the meeting, he scolded the prime minister as a 'fool' and accused the prime minister of dictatorship and nepotism. Say that as long as they unite, they can overthrow the government and remove the prime minister. ”

"How could Zheng Mingshi join in the fun?"

"A warlord is a warlord, duplicity. Left and right, it is unreliable at all. ”

Wu Dinh Yao took a sharp puff of his cigarette. He continued: "They elected Pham Gong Ji as the supreme leader of the 'United Front of National Forces' and Hoa Ho Ho Le Lai as the commander-in-chief of military operations. ”

Li Weimin pondered for a moment and then asked, "Did you make any political declarations?" ”

"Yes, several."

Ngo Dinh Yao shook his cigarette ash and said sarcastically: "The first is to form a coalition government and let those who oppose the prime minister enter the cabinet, and the current government will be called the 'interim government';

The Provisional National Assembly will be convened before May, and of the 86 deputies in the Provisional National Assembly, 60 will be allocated to factions, 16 to North Vietnamese refugee groups, and 10 to us. At the same time, the Extraordinary National Assembly will recommend a new prime minister to the university; The second is the establishment of a Supreme Advisory Council, whose members are the leaders of various factions; The last one was similar to what Nguyen Van Xin had mentioned, which was to expel our brothers from the country and exile them to a foreign country. ”

"Prepare to use both soft and hard, scare first, scare not to achieve a coup d'état?"

"Their pro-French attitude and notoriety have determined that the people will not support them, and the prime minister will not compromise, and they have just issued a decree prohibiting young people from going to gambling houses and brothels run by the Pingchuan faction, prohibiting all sectarian warlords from continuing to set up cards to collect taxes, dismissing Lai Wencai from their posts as police chief and Lai Wencan's public security chief, and ordering the Pingchuan faction to withdraw the army and police from the capital within a week."

Li Weimin could imagine that Wu Tingyan must be studying a counterinsurgency plan with Li Yuzhen, Yang Wenming and others next door, and ordered the national army that was taking over other cities or villages to urgently return to help, and after thinking about it, he asked sincerely: "Mr. Yao, what can I do?" ”

"On April 18, 10 days later, there was a meeting of Asian and African countries in Indonesia, attended by more than 20 countries, and North Vietnam sent Pham Van to accompany it. The situation is here, the prime minister really can't get out of it, I hope you can lead a delegation to Bandung with your wife and uncle. ”

After the current hurdle, we can usher in a long period of relative peace.

It was the time of "sharing hardships", how could Li Weimin accept such an arrangement, looked around the office that he had moved in the morning, turned around and smiled: "Mr. Yao, this office is good, I have only been sitting for a few hours, it is okay to drive me away, but it is definitely not now." ”

He was asked to attend the Asian, African and Latin American Conference because he did not want him to stay in such a dangerous place. Ngo Dinh Ngai was very moved, and said sincerely: "For the people, this is what the prime minister meant." ”

"I know it's the Prime Minister's kindness, but I really don't want to leave right now."

"No one knows if the French will interfere, it's too dangerous here."

Li Weimin smiled mysteriously and said, "I bought insurance, the insurance of Yuehua Insurance Company." ”

Wu Tingjiao was ridiculed, and seeing that he had made up his mind, he could only agree: "In that case, then I'll ask Lichun to help you clean up your room." (To be continued......)

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