Getting married is a big deal, and it's also a very personal thing.

From the bottom of their hearts, Li Weimin and Wu Lijun really hope that it can be simpler, but both of them are not ordinary families, especially the Li family has now become the leading wealthy family in South Vietnam, if it is too simple, others will think it is a show.

The wedding date is set for the day before Christmas, and the invitation must be sent half a month in advance.

When it comes to the safety of the president, vice president and other senior government officials, as well as foreign diplomats and their wives in Vietnam, the Presidential Guard, Ngo Dinh Dieh's "special forces", the Saigon Police Department and the Security Department of the Industrial Investment Corporation are required to set up security measures during the wedding based on the guest list.

I didn't dare to say it, but there were many people who secretly opposed Li Weimin.

There are Viet Minh elements who have not yet been unearthed, there are remnants of sectarian warlords, and even internal people, and Ngo Dinh Diem attaches great importance to it, looking at the invitation sent by Li Weimin personally yesterday afternoon, he asked: "Is it all arranged?" ”

Wu Tingyao said with a smile: "It has been arranged, the police station of the fifth and sixth counties and the security team of Pingdong Industrial Village are in charge of the embankment, and the church and hotel are in charge of Chen Jinxuan. On the day of the wedding, all the intersections around the ceremony site were under martial law. On the way from the embankment to the city, the Presidential Palace Guard is responsible for security. ”

Wu Tingyan nodded slightly, put down the invitation card and said with a smile: "Human exchanges are inevitable. He is a well-known 'God of Wealth', who wants to contract the industrial village project, and there are so many people who want to touch him, so many people finally have this opportunity, may not give gifts? ”

"He had already prepared to ask volunteers from the Red Cross to help with the reception of guests, and no matter how much money or gifts anyone sent, the volunteers would register them and donate them to refugees outside the city in the name of the giver after the wedding."

"He's too cautious."

"He can't help it, the two are ready for a few years. Marriage is such a big thing, you can't say that you can't do it if you don't do it, and you can't take the lead in corruption while catching corruption. ”

Wu Tingjiao paused, and then said: "On the day of the wedding, the industrial investment company went to work normally, and the work was not affected. It seems that some candy has been prepared. Send it before you go to work. The Li family and the Wu family's company had a holiday that day, the supervisor of the Pingdong Industrial Village went to the embankment to help, the staff went to the embankment to drink wine, and the other industrial villages celebrated in each industrial village. ”

"Chen Shiguo, Liu Jiachang and Wu Andong are not going?"

"They go to the Queen Hotel after work and don't attend church services."

"It's hard for him to have a good wedding, it's so troublesome."

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At the same time, Li Weimin was attending the first plenary meeting of the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association" in an empty factory in Pingdong Industrial Village.

The so-called plenary session. Not all members will be able to attend.

Qin Qinnan Jiangang, general manager of Phu Quoc Industrial Village, was appointed chairman of the Phu Quoc Special Zone Management Committee and will be in charge of Phu Quoc affairs. At the same time, as a "provincial governor-level" high-ranking Chinese official, like Li Weimin and Liu Jiachang, it is impossible to play missing and go to Saigon to attend the meeting.

For example, Su Youcai, the former vice chairman of the Chinese Youth Association, went to Cambodia a few years ago, and in the next few years, he will only have secret contact with Li Weimin and Qian Xinlin, and will not return to Saigon easily. You can't show your head in Saigon.

Another example is to study abroad and some members in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, it is not easy to make a round trip. Anything can only be reported secretly.

Those who can sit in the factory and drink tea are all core members and some unnoticeable ones.

One of them has the most special identity, just a few days ago officially joined, before the official start, Li Weimin smiled and introduced: "Everyone, this is Mr. Zhang Muxiang, the director of OCBC Bank Indonesia, the president of Jakarta Daya Company, and the chairman of the Indonesian Fujian Alumni Association, which I mentioned in the telegram. ”

"Hello Mr. Zhang. Huang Duqing, the warden of Phu Quoc Island Prison, is honored to know Mr. Zhang. ”

"Zhong Lianbo of the Fifth Infantry Division, welcome Mr. Zhang to our big family."

"Han Shuo of the Fifth District Police Department, welcome Mr. Zhang to lead a delegation to Vietnam for inspection."

"Jingui is the king of Jinou Village, and I am very happy to know Mr. Zhang."

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Those who serve in the army are more straightforward. One by one, Qian Xinlin introduced sideways: "Mr. Zhang, Major Wang Jingui's external identity is the captain of the militia of the Nong resettlement villages on the Jinou Peninsula, and he is actually in charge of the militia of the 14 resettlement villages in the south. The Zhensha resettlement site is special and is in charge of the security team of Vung Tau Industrial Village. ”

A militia battalion in one village, with Nong officers and soldiers who moved south, some of the Chinese National Army routs in containment, and some members of the Chinese Youth Association who had passed from the embankment, although he had no official military rank and was not appointed by the government, he was in charge of 14 battalions.

There are members of Congress, commanders of regular army divisions, police chiefs, general managers of industrial investment companies, deputy directors of the security team, and Mr. Qian, Mr. Gu and other high-level talents who have strategized last night, Zhang Muxiang was flattered and hurriedly stretched out his right hand: "It turned out to be Major Wang, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

"You're all very busy, it's not easy to get together once, we're formal."

Ngo Dinh Yao's eyes and ears are everywhere, Viet Minh elements are everywhere, it is very dangerous to hold such a meeting, Qian Xinlin did not dare to waste even a little time, and smiled casually: "First of all, like the usual small gathering, first analyze the situation, Mr. Li analyzes the international, Chang Gung analyzes the domestic, and after the analysis, everyone speaks freely." ”

"Okay, I'll do it first."

"For us and for South Vietnam as a whole, the international situation is mainly reflected in Franco-Vietnamese relations and US-Vietnamese relations, which have become the most important international relations at present with the eradication of the Phuong Chuan warlords supported by the French Expeditionary Force. From last autumn to the present, the US policy toward Vietnam has two important characteristics: First, it has actively replaced France as the dominant force in South Vietnam; The second is to undertake the obligation to support South Vietnam without reservation, and at the same time express doubts about Ngo Dinh Diem's competence;

There are two different opinions in the United States, and some senior officials led by Secretary of State Dulles believe that Ngo Dinh Diem is irreplaceable, and the United States must and can only support it; The current ambassador, Collins, who served on the Army Staff, represents the opinion of a section of officials from the Pentagon and the State Department.

He believes that it is wise for the United States to let Baoda and its agents take power, and believes that this will objectively prevent the escalation of the contradictions between the United States and France, which will then affect the situation in Europe. In other words, the U.S. center of gravity is still in Europe, so they now want to strengthen the armed forces of South Vietnam without overburdening the U.S.

On the one hand, in violation of the Geneva Accords, he secretly or openly increased the number of military advisers stationed in Vietnam in an effort to help Ngo Dinh Diem train government troops; On the one hand, he has repeatedly rejected Ngo Dinh Diem's request to expand the size of his army, and has tried to limit and curtail aid. Combined, the result is a situation in which cooperation and dispute go hand in hand, generosity and stinginess. ”

A member from the 5th Infantry Division asked, "Cooperation and contention, generosity and miserliness?" ”

He had never been abroad, and he did not know how generous Uncle Sam was to European countries, especially West Germany. He was stationed in Tay Ninh and didn't know what was happening in Saigon.

Li Weimin patiently explained: "This is mainly reflected in several aspects, such as when the armistice agreement came into effect, the government army was about 210,000, although there were more than 30,000 troops originally belonging to the expeditionary force, but compared with North Vietnam, which was all soldiers, 240,000 troops could not guarantee the security of South Vietnam."

As a result, the United States, on the one hand, believed that the government army lacked training, lacked officers, and had low morale, and could not withstand the Viet Minh attack with its current strength, and on the other hand, it strongly demanded that the number of troops be reduced to 80,000. The reason is simple: if the United States does not streamline, it will need to bear more military spending.

This is national defense security, but also domestic security.

According to Ngo Dinh Diem's idea and MSU's plan, more paramilitary security forces were to be formed in South Vietnam. The U.S. government endorsed an agreement by MSU for 'technical assistance' for the establishment of the security corps, and MSU's 30-member team of experts has been tasked with designing and training since May.

But now in trouble, Mi-Tek experts believe that the security force should be a lightly armed police organization, and Diem, with Lansdale's support, has demanded that it be made into a supplementary army with heavy weapons such as armored vehicles and helicopters. As a result, Washington partially adopted the MSU's advice and forced Diem to abandon his demands by refusing to provide funds. ”

If this plan can be rolled out, the resettlement villages of the southern Nong people will definitely benefit.

Wang Jingui asked eagerly: "Mr. Li, what do you mean by partial adoption?" ”

"There is not so much funding, there are not so many weapons to be provided, and with the efforts of Professor Anderson, we can only ensure that the security team of the industrial village cannot be built in other places."

Li Weimin sighed lightly and added with a wry smile: "The paramilitary security forces are still like this, not to mention the 'self-defense forces' composed of village-level militias. Ngo Dinh Diem proposed the establishment of a Self-Defense Force and asked for funds and weapons and equipment. The Military Advisory Group agreed that this was needed to eradicate the Viet Minh's influence in the countryside and to accomplish the task of appeasement, but Washington allocated only a symbolic amount of money. ”

"Americans are so stingy?"

"I know, so I have to rely on myself next, in fact, Wu Tingyan also realized this. Yesterday, when I sent the invitation, he specifically asked the Industrial Investment Corporation to build a military factory capable of manufacturing light weapons and conventional ammunition as soon as possible. ”

"Then can we build it?"

"From the cost point of view, it is better to buy imported steel than to produce it by itself due to technology and production lines. In the long run, it must be built, otherwise its own safety will not be guaranteed, and it will always be controlled by others. I plan to try to get as much assistance as possible, and at the same time build a small-scale factory to accumulate experience and train talents, and when other machining enterprises in the industrial park develop, these problems can be solved. ”

Qian Xinlin muttered: "Yes, first build a small factory to give Wu Tingyan an explanation." Light weapons and conventional ammunition are not aircraft and tanks, and the technological content is not so high, as long as the industrial villages can be developed, as long as the government is willing to place orders, it can produce as much as it wants in the future. (To be continued.) )