Letting Wu Lijun study in the United States is purely a last resort.

He became famous with several theme songs of "Freedom Road", and was known as the "Chopin of Vietnam", and even appeared on the cover of Time magazine, becoming a veritable public figure. It would certainly be selfish in the eyes of Americans to ask his equally "talented" fiancée to give up her studies and marry as a housewife at the age of eighteen.

Fortunately, with my sister and Justina as companions, three girls of about the same age go to the same university and live in the same dormitory, so they can take care of each other, otherwise I really don't feel at ease.

On the plane back to Saigon, he was a little depressed and always felt sorry for his fiancée.

Ruan Mingxiu is a person who has come over, how can he not guess his thoughts, and whispered comfort: "If the two love for a long time, how can it be in the morning and twilight." It's a long time coming, don't sigh. ”

"Cousin, I'm nothing, it's just ...... I'm just worried that they won't get used to it. ”

"I don't know the place well, so I will definitely be a little uncomfortable at first, but with your teachers and classmates and colleagues from the representative office of the industrial investment company, I think they will soon be able to integrate into the new environment."

"I hope so."

The fundraising task was overfulfilled, and this overseas trip was a full return.

When they were almost home, the members of the Vietnamese "beggar group" who returned on the same plane were excited, thinking about how many people would greet them when their plane landed.

Hearing the whispers of a few people in the back row, Li Weimin turned around and said: "Everyone, the news of our return has not been announced in advance, and there should be no one to greet us after arriving at Xinshan Nhat Airport. ”

Fr. Nguyen Van Thanh, the representative of the Vietnamese Church, was able to understand, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Mr. Min, what should we do when we go back?" ”

"In accordance with the Geneva Agreement, the French Expeditionary Force withdrew from Hanoi a week ago and handed over to the Viet Minh, leaving us with only a few camps in Haiphong in North Vietnam. I sent a telegram to Mr. John Bage and Father Harnett for advice, and we agreed that the Joint Conference on Refugee Relief had accomplished its mission.

They are settling the previous accounts and distributing the remaining donations and supplies. The joint meeting, which was originally on a temporary basis, will be disbanded tomorrow, and the rest of the humanitarian aid work will be carried out by the Red Cross, the Church, the Charity Federation and other public welfare organizations, as before. ”

It was established quickly and dissolved even faster, and Father Nguyen Van Thanh was really a little reluctant.

Looking at his disappointed look, Li Weimin smiled and added, "Father, the distribution plan for donations and aid has been decided. Half of the money is allocated by the Refugee Committee, i.e. the Government, and the other half is distributed proportionally to all the organizations and agencies involved in fundraising, according to the principle of who collects and who uses. The church should raise the most resources and allocate the most resources. ”

In the United States and Europe, many donations go to the church, and the priest smiles knowingly.

There are not many overseas Vietnamese and overseas Chinese, and the more the Youth Association raises more than that, and half of it has to be given to the government, the more Pan Hongshan thinks about it, the more frustrated he becomes.

Overseas Chinese are far more than Vietnamese Chinese, and the trip raised a total of more than $600,000, half of which seems to be a loss to the government, but in fact it is the opposite, which can be called a big profit. This is because half of the money and relief materials raised by the Church will go to the government, which will spend all of them on the resettlement of refugees under the supervision of organizations and institutions such as the Church and the Red Cross.

Nongs account for one-fifth of the total number of refugees, and if you count the aid of the United States government, you can divide nearly 30 million US dollars!

Under the banner of the Vietnamese government, with the aid and donations of the US government and the international community, more than 300,000 Nong compatriots and secretly sheltered Chinese refugees were resettled.

Failing to notify the government is not the same as failing to notify others.

The passenger plane landed safely on the runway, more than a dozen cars drove all the way to the tarmac, some from the church, some from the Red Cross, and some from the Prime Minister's Guard, which had just been transformed into the security team of the Industrial Investment Company.

The "Joint Conference on Refugee Relief" is about to be dissolved, and even if it is not dissolved, there is no office in Saigon.

Everyone was reluctant to say goodbye, got into the car that picked them up, and went back to their own homes to find their mothers. The Yue Qing Association and the Hua Youth Association did not have a car, so Li Weimin's security supervisor Ah Cheng arranged for someone to take them back.

It was not until this moment that the volunteers who participated in the fundraising action really understood the style of "Mr. Min".

It raised so many donations and materials, sold more than $20 million in bonds, and signed more than 120 joint venture and cooperation agreements. Even the diplomatic missions that went with them made small gains, securing an additional $30 million in aid from the United States, and a cement plant, a fertilizer plant, and a feed mill from the governments of West Germany, Australia, and Japan.

The partner did a better job than expected, and Professor Anderson greeted him personally, holding on to the car door and saying with a regretful face, "Lee, we should actually celebrate." ”

Li Weimin asked with a wry smile: "Professor, the situation is chaotic like this, how can you celebrate?" ”

"That was the day before yesterday, and now it's all good, everything is going in a good direction."

"What do you mean?"

He did not come back directly from the United States, but first to Australia, then to the Philippines, then to Japan via Hong Kong, and then from Japan. Passing through several countries, the schedule is very tight and the information is not well-informed.

Professor Anderson slipped into the car from the left and said, "Your friend to the general is more difficult than you think, and has the support of the French and the Führer. Premier Yan proposed to Bao Da to let him resign and go to France for 6 months, but Bao Da called back and said that he did not agree.

After he learned about this, he claimed again and again that he wanted to carry out a coup d'état, to overthrow the government, and even sent troops to demonstrate around the Independence Palace in an attempt to scare away Mr. Prime Minister. Mr. Prime Minister could not bear it anymore and unilaterally announced his dismissal. He responded by only following the orders of the head of the Baoda, and at the same time decided to take substantive action. ”

"And then?"

"The feud between them was very unsettling to the embassy, and Ambassador Heath said in a telegram sent back to Washington that 'South Vietnam is politically and militarily paralyzed, and if the situation is not reversed, it is estimated that North Vietnam will take South Vietnam before the 1956 general election'. At Washington's request, Colonel Lansdale cooperated with the military advisory group at a critical moment and tricked several of Nguyen Van Xin's subordinates into going to the Philippines to investigate, changing direction and sabotaging a coup d'état. ”

Knowing that Lansdale would not die without help, Li Weimin couldn't help but laugh and said, "The colonel did a good job." ”

"There's even prettier."

Professor Anderson rolled down the window and continued: "Professor Fisher's friends in Washington say that President Eisenhower has had enough, and that why should we be tortured by the French? If he did not act, Ngo Dinh Diem would be overthrown, and there would be no one in South Vietnam to replace him. So he and Mr. Secretary of State finally decided to have a showdown with Paris, making it clear that the United States supported Ngo Dinh Diem and asked the French side to let Nguyen Van Tan go. ”

"Are you gone?"

"Gone, left yesterday, I don't think I'll ever come back."

Professor Anderson flipped through a newspaper behind him and said with a smile: "In fact, not only Nguyen Van Xin, but also the US ambassador to Vietnam and the French Supreme Commander in Vietnam were replaced at the same time. Ambassador Heath was replaced by General Lawton-Collins, and the commander of the French Dispatch Force was replaced by General Eri. ”

Li Weimin took the newspaper and asked, "How is Ambassador Collins, is it easy to deal with?" ”

Anderson shrugged: "It depends. ”

"Don't get along with Mr. Prime Minister?"

"I don't think his first impression of the Prime Minister was very good, and at last night's diplomatic reception, he and Professor Fischer bluntly said that the Prime Minister was shy, lacked self-confidence, had little personal appeal, and was indecisive. At the same time, he was very dissatisfied with the Prime Minister's policies, believing that the new government should adhere to democratic liberalization reforms, and put pressure on the Prime Minister on this issue during the first meeting. ”

Expected.

Li Weimin sighed lightly and said with a bitter smile of helplessness: "Professor, he obviously has a preconceived notion that Vietnam should be another Illinois or California, and there should be human rights and democracy like the United States. And people like him are not the first, let alone the last, and I can imagine what kind of pressure the government will have to face in the future. ”

"Your concerns are very justified."

Professor Anderson pointed to a newspaper report and whispered, "I found a special group in Saigon, including writers, university professors, journalists, lawyers, engineers. They were educated in French-speaking schools in France or Vietnam and belonged to the elite during the colonial period.

In order to resettle the refugees, the government bought back the land given to them by the French at a low price, infringing on their vital interests, and was very dissatisfied with the government. Under the guise of promoting democracy, they criticized the dictatorship of Mr. Prime Minister. Although there are not many of them, they can speak French or English, and it is easy for them to communicate with journalists who have just arrived in Saigon, which is very influential. ”

The wall fell and everyone pushed it.

When later generations mentioned why the South Vietnamese government collapsed and why Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown, almost everyone would say that he was a fanatical Catholic, who used the land of South Vietnamese peasants to settle Catholic refugees who fled from North Vietnam, and even gave the whole of South Vietnam to the Virgin Mary.

If that were the case, would he be in power for seven or eight years before being overthrown?

Infringing on the interests of the South Vietnamese peasants, intensifying religious contradictions, and shooting himself in the foot, not to mention that he is not a fool, he will not do such a stupid thing, even if he is really stupid and really wants to do it, he will not be able to do it.

Because millions of refugees were in fact resettled with the help of the U.S. government and the international community, there are now U.S. advisers in every government department, there are many projects of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Special Economic and Technical Mission in rural areas, there are medical teams from the United States, Australia and the Philippines providing medical care to farmers, and there are volunteers from Western countries everywhere in the refugee camps.

If he really did this, there was no need for Nguyen Van Xin to overthrow him, Uncle Sam would be the first to let him go.

Part of what was actually used to house Catholic refugees was unclaimed wasteland, part government land, and part of what Professor Anderson called land taken from the pro-French elite at a low price. There was no ruling foundation, and it was too late to buy the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese peasants, so how could they deprive the peasants of their land.