In terms of background and strength, none of the warlords in South Vietnam, large or small, including Le Van Yuan, can be compared with Nguyen Van Xin, who was born into a famous family, had the support of the French and Bao Da, and once had the command of the national army.

As a result, Ruan Wenxin did not scare away Ng Dinh Diem, but was forced away by Ng Dinh Diem.

The "Xinyan Incident" deeply shocked a group of warlords, big and small, who finally understood that no one wanted to replace Ngo Dinh Diem without the support of the Americans, and finally understood that they could only fight for their own interests through negotiations.

No one is clamoring for a coup d'état, no one is risking the world's condemnation to overthrow the government, every three days a meeting, two days a small meeting, tireless bargaining, and the annual Spring Festival is approaching, Saigon finally ushered in a period of relative calm.

Li Weimin was not in Saigon, did not participate in the negotiations, and was not interested in the progress of the negotiations.

Time is of the essence, there are so many things to do, so many places to go.

I spent three days in Vung Tau Industrial Village, learned about the progress of the industrial investment company's infrastructure projects and several Chinese and Vietnamese investment projects, and held more than a dozen forums with the management of the industrial village, officers of the security team, representatives of investors, contractors, suppliers, workers, representatives of nearby villagers, and representatives of the Chinese Youth Association and the Vietnamese Youth Association, which have established branches in the industrial village to develop members.

Unify your thinking and look to the future.

After inspecting the preparation of various materials and entertainment arrangements for the Spring Festival, everything was seen, asked, and talked about before rushing to the next stop, Da Nang Industrial Village.

As when he set out from Saigon, he automatically switched to the status of a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the executive chairman of the Vietnamese Red Cross Society when he left the industrial village, carrying dozens of tons of humanitarian relief supplies all the way to visit refugee camps and impoverished villages.

When we arrived at Hoi An Ancient Town, 11 truckloads of supplies had been distributed.

Hoi An is an important overseas Chinese settlement in South Vietnam, and I spent an extra day here, giving a banquet to the leaders of the Five Gangs, influential Chinese businessmen and representatives from all walks of life, thanking them for their support for the work of the "Foreigners' Management Committee" and the industrial village project, and at the same time giving them their early years, and finally squeezing out a little time to go deep into the overseas Chinese community to visit the lonely and widowed elderly, and according to the tradition, the children are given a fortune in the city.

Further north to the industrial village, the group returned to Vung Tau, replenished humanitarian supplies at the Red Cross warehouse in Vung Tau, and rushed to Bo Liao Industrial Village while visiting poor villages.

The roads and bridges along this road were completely destroyed, and it happened to meet the construction team of the United States Agency for International Development and the Special Technical Mission that built the road and bridge, and the national rural cadre team that took over the countryside with the cooperation of the national army, so that safety could be guaranteed, and the road would not be bored.

According to the Geneva Agreement, the Vietminh will only take over Hanoi this year, Haiphong is still under the control of the French Expeditionary Force, and refugees are still gathering in Haiphong from all directions, and the evacuation of refugees to the south is still continuing.

At the same time, the Viet Minh guerrillas in the south have not all withdrawn north, and they are mobilizing more people to go to North Vietnam together, waiting for the French Navy to send warships to see them off.

On the river bank ahead, there is a Viet Minh outpost, the Viet Minh flag flutters in the air, and a Viet Minh soldier wearing a red five-star beret stands guard at the post. He may have received orders in advance, and he was on high alert, but did not fire a shot to stop the American construction crews from building the bridge.

The soldiers of the Nationalist Army who cooperated with the takeover were afraid of misfire, and the accompanying observers of the International Monitoring and Supervision Commission crossed the river in small boats to communicate, and after a while, the flag was lowered and the Viet Minh soldier disappeared from sight.

With observers from India, Poland, and Australia, American advisers and American engineers, a Philippine medical team, a battalion of national troops, and 21 battle-hardened escorts, and now that a cease-fire agreement has been reached, Li Weimin does not believe that the Vietminh dares to start a war first, and sits on the riverbank eating fruit like no one else.

It is surrounded by a variety of fruit trees, including bananas, mangoes, dragon fruits, papayas, coconut palms and thatched huts. A large group of people gathered here were waiting to build the bridge, and a few brave villagers rowed over to sell their produce.

It turned out that the legendary Americans were not so terrible, there were more and more boats on the river, the men were wearing black pajamas and pants sitting on the bow of the boat, the women were wearing small white shorts and fat pants rocking the stern of the boat, some wearing hats, and some wearing turbans to block the sun.

I just asked Ah Cheng to go down and buy some fish, planning to eat barbecue at night.

An old lady suddenly shouted a few words to this side, and the American adviser Phillips could not understand Vietnamese and turned back in confusion.

Li Weimin smiled and translated: "Captain, she asked if you want to go to the other side, she can send you over, of course it's not free." ”

"Thanks, I just brought my local currency."

Having already passed, Phillips saw this as an opportunity to win the favor of the Vietnamese, pulled out two banknotes and ran to the river without hesitation.

The old lady took the money and beckoned him to get on the boat, and as soon as she jumped on it, the old lady reached out and touched his arm, and the Vietnamese people in the small boats around him all laughed. Phillips didn't know why, and he didn't know why they were laughing, and the old lady shrank aside as if she had made a mistake.

Li Weimin also laughed breathlessly, threw down the fruit peel and said: "Captain, she has never seen hair grow on people's arms, you are the first, she is very curious." ”

"My God!" Phillips was made ridiculous and simply rolled up his sleeves to let more people see it.

The bridge was finally repaired, and the locals did not have to have so much trouble crossing the river in the future, and they won a little favor in a sense, and the subsequent takeover work was smooth sailing.

Officers of the national army shouted over loudspeakers that they were government troops, troops under the command of Prime Minister Dim Dinh Diem, and that they had come to help the villagers.

More than a month ago, Philippine President Magsaisai launched a "brotherly operation" to form a medical team and send a large number of doctors and nurses to Vietnam.

Other cadres of the village team went to each family, took the portrait of "Uncle Hu" issued by the Vietminh guerrillas, replaced it with a photo of Ngo Dinh Diem, talked with the villagers, helped the village dig wells and roads, and then helped the village to set up an autonomous organization as planned.

As the executive chairman of the Red Cross, Li Weimin, of course, could not just walk away, and distributed a little supplies together, and mingled with the young villagers as he did in other places.

"Mr. Min, why are the Americans here?"

"Why do Americans want to get our small, pitiful country? Don't they already own the richest land in the world? ”

No one believed that the Americans were here to help them and kept asking this question without results. This is not the first time I have encountered it, I have been asked more than a thousand times in the Hai Phong refugee camp in Hanoi, in the countryside around Vung Tau and Da Nang.

In their minds, Vietnam is the richest and most attractive country, which can be called "gold and silver".

In fact, it is not only the Vietnamese, but also the Cambodians and Laotians, who are as stubborn and pretentious as they believe that their land is the most fertile, their women are the most beautiful, their food is incomparable, and their history, music and traditions are unparalleled.

All the governments representing different races in this world radiate jealousy and are unconsciously plotting to occupy their country.

Based on this awareness, they believe that the whole world is looking for this land, and even some well-educated Vietnamese people believe in the Viet Minh theory.

Nationalism is too powerful, Li Weimin sighed secretly and patiently explained: "Folks, things are not as complicated as you think, and they are not as simple as you think. The current Vietnam is like North Korea before the armistice, North Korea has heard of it or not, and it doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. ”

He drew a map of the world on the ground, and while making a comparison, he said: "The world is now divided into two camps, some countries listen to Soviet Russia, and some countries agree with the US system and way of life, forming a situation of confrontation between the two camps. The United States, supported by Soviet Russia, will oppose it, and Soviet Russia, supported by the United States, will also oppose it. So there was a situation in which the Soviet Russian camp supported the Vietminh and the United States supported the government (South Vietnam).

Just as the United States, the Philippines, West Germany helped us, the USSR and its allies helped the Vietminh. North Vietnam has the same foreign government aid, the same foreign advisers, the same foreign medical teams, the same foreigners helping them build bridges and pave roads. Neither the USSR nor the USA ever thought of occupying our country, and what they did in North and South Vietnam was completely a confrontation between them, which was not the same as the French. ”

The villagers did not seem to understand, but Li Weimin continued: "The Vietminh must have said that the United States had helped France maintain its colonial rule in Vietnam until the French decided to evacuate and decide to give Vietnam independence. In fact, it is, but there is a reason for it.

Fundamentally, the United States is opposed to colonial rule and hopes that all nations can gain independence, which even Uncle Hu has acknowledged more than once, and even quoted the United States' Declaration of Independence when he declared independence at the end of World War II. But in Europe, the homeland of the French, the American camp is facing a challenge from Soviet Russia, and the Russian camp has the upper hand.

If they did not support France, Soviet Russia would probably continue to expand in Europe, so on the one hand, they opposed colonial rule, and on the other hand, they supported the French colonial rule in Vietnam against their will, and now that the French are withdrawing from Vietnam, they no longer have to worry about offending the French, so they will come to help us, although more out of confrontation with the Soviet Russian camp. ”

To look at a problem, we should look at the essence through the phenomenon.

Pan Hongshan, the secretary of the secretary, was very aware of the current international and domestic situation, and said with concern: "Fellow villagers, compatriots, this is the Cold War period, why is there a Cold War, because the United States and Soviet Russia both have atomic bombs, and one atomic bomb can kill tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people!"

None of them dared to use it, because after blowing up others, they would be bombed as well, and when the time came, it would all be over, and as a result, it was very tacitly agreed that no one would use it, and let the countries or forces they supported separately fight, so there was a hot war in the Cold War like the Korean War.

We are now in a similar situation to North Korea, which is divided into two parts, the North and the South, and if the general election is aborted, if the Vietminh starts a war, then our country will escalate from a cold war to a hot war. In Mr. Min's words, it is the gods who fight, and the little ghosts suffer. ”

The War of Resistance Against France lasted seven or eight years, and so many people died, especially in the countryside.

Thinking of his dead brother, a villager asked again and again: "Mr. Min, can you not fight?" ”

"No one wants a resumption of fighting, but that's not something we can control. In the final analysis, it is still that we are too poor, too backward, too disunited. If one day we can unite and work together to build and develop this country, then we can say with confidence, you are against you, don't bring us with you. ”

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