From the end of World War II to the present, the situation in Vietnam has never really stabilized.

Especially in the era of Baoda, the prime minister kept changing. Although Ngo Dinh Diem worked for several years, he did not achieve "unification of government decrees" and "nationalization of the army."

The Hoa Hao and Cao Dai armies still control many rural areas of the Mekong Delta, but they have changed from large warlords to petty warlords. Even the Binh Chuan faction army, which had been disarmed a few years earlier, had re-emerged and started its activities, and some of them had joined the local forces led by the South Bureau of the Workers' Party of North Vietnam.

Coupled with the Catholic militias that had been withdrawn from the north but had not been properly accommodated, the Nationalist army on the hills inside, and the "industrial and investment" forces that had sprung up, the situation in and around Saigon remained very chaotic.

In addition to the support of the U.S. government, the secret police system of the People's Workers' Party and private armies such as the "Special Forces" and the "Einsatzgruppen Army" have contributed to the fact that the Yan government has been able to hold out to this day.

From emperor to head of state, from prime minister to president, from semi-feudal and semi-colonial to constitutional monarchy, and now to the republic. The French, the Japanese, the British who took over the South at the end of World War II, then the French again, and then the Americans everywhere......

The political scene in Saigon is dazzling, and the just-aborted coup d'état has hardly affected the normal work and life of the citizens, let alone the peasants who are indifferent to politics.

The embankment business district is still bustling with traffic, shopping malls, wholesale markets, and shops of all sizes are still crowded, and there is not even the slightest tension.

After working at Ngee Ann High School for several years, Teo has become one of the most respected teachers at Ngee Ann Middle School.

However, the achievements on the secret front are far from comparable to the achievements of being a teacher, and the underground organization of the first, fifth, sixth, eighth, and eleventh counties has not yet developed.

Reactionary Chinese police, Chinese YMC spies, and "joint defense members" bewitched by the puppet government of South Vietnam were everywhere, not to mention organizing strikes, school strikes, or market strikes. Even holding a meeting was fearful, the White Terror was terrible, and the environment for struggle was harsh, and the embankment "Hua-Yun" led by him could be called difficult.

The Southern National Liberation Front was about to be formed and was preparing to carry out a major operation, and the Fifth and Sixth District Police Stations were joined by other police stations and the security team of Pingdong Industrial Village the night before. There was a raid to collect illegal weapons and ammunition and to check for outsiders.

More than 20 comrades from the north were arrested, the underground printing house was destroyed, three traffic stations were exposed, and more than 60 peripheral students entered the "introspection class," and their parents were being interviewed by the reactionary police.

Hanoi was very dissatisfied with the work of the "Hua-Yun" Saigon Party Committee, especially the embankment district committee, and specially appointed Ngo Jun Hui, a cadre who had been ordered to study in North Vietnam during the split between the north and the south, to return to the embankment and demand that a "three-person group for the study of key strategies of the Chinese movement" composed of Wu Junhui, Zhuang Shiwu, and him be immediately set up to jointly lead the future work of the Saigon Party Committee.

Although the raids to collect illegal weapons and ammunition and to check for outsiders have ended, there are still sentry posts checking passing vehicles and people at large and small intersections. There were three times as many old men and women in the security team, and they were like thieves watching all the strangers they thought were suspicious.

It is said that it is a paid post, 500 piasters per person per month, and there is another reward for assisting the police in catching "criminals".

Although there is not much money, they have nothing to do.

Many people work as informants for reactionary police officers while watching stalls, which is equivalent to making them an extra piece of money.

Wu Junhui is different from other comrades, he is a native of the embankment, overseas Chinese, and studied here in primary and secondary schools. Before going to Hanoi to study, he participated in and organized many strikes and strikes.

Many people knew that he had gone to the north, and the security police ran to his house twice in three days. Reactionary propaganda was carried out against his family and attempts were made to find out his whereabouts through relatives.

The wind was too tight, and Zhang Qianwen didn't dare to let him come to the embankment.

Fortunately, today happened to be a Sunday, so there was no need to go to class, so my colleague borrowed a bicycle under the pretext of going to the countryside. Together with Zhuang Shiwu, they came to a village twelve kilometers northwest of Pingdong Industrial Village.

The grocery store at the entrance of the village is an important transportation station.

Comrade Hu Anh often took advantage of the opportunity of deliveries to come here to deliver information and escort or greet the leaders of the "Hua-Yun" and the Workers' Party of Vietnam, and Comrade Le Duan had visited here on his return to Hanoi.

In extraordinary times, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Hu Ying came out an hour and a half early.

She stood in front of the grocery store and talked and laughed with the boss. A few children were looking through the woven bags on the tricycle while the adults were not looking, wondering if there was anything they liked inside.

This was a code that had been agreed in advance, confirming that there was no danger, and Zhang Qianwen and the others as if they did not know her, they got down and pushed their bicycles to turn left, walked along an overgrown ridge of the fields, walked forward for about five minutes, and came to a grass hut by the river.

"Comrade Junhui, I've kept you waiting."

Wu Junhui was in his thirties, wearing a straw hat, old black clothes, bare feet, high rolled pants, and dark skin, looking no different from a local peasant.

"Don't be so polite, drink saliva first."

The three shook hands, exchanged a brief pleasantry, and sat down to get straight to the point.

“…… Now is not the time for review, but to convey two important instructions: the higher authorities have asked us to organize a hundred young people to enter the liberated areas as soon as possible to replenish the strength of the 7th and 9th factories; In addition, 50 young people were organized to participate in the transportation work of the Cheung Son Corridor and the military work of the Guchi tunnel. ”

The 7th and 9th factories were the code names for the main KPA divisions, and the Changshan Corridor was an important route for transporting troops and equipment to the south.

Zhang Qianwen realized that there would be a big move in the future, and the situation of the struggle would change dramatically, so he was both excited and nervous, and hesitated for a while before he wanted to speak and then stopped: "Comrade Junhui, if it had been four days ago, let alone organizing 150 young people, even if it was 200 people, it would have been no problem. The surprise operation carried out by the reactionary police the day before yesterday caused us too great losses. Unfortunately, many comrades were arrested, and dozens of students from the periphery were arrested, causing panic among the people, and some who were not firm in their stance have already retreated. ”

Before I came here, I heard that the work of "China-Movement" on the embankment had not been done well, but I never thought that it would be so serious that even 150 young people could not organize it.

Wu Junhui frowned and asked, "How can this be, is there a traitor inside?" ”

Zhuang Shiwu nodded solemnly, and said with a solemn face: "Comrade Junhui, in the past few years since you went to Hanoi to study, the embankment has changed too much. The Five Gangs Association and the Chinese Council were dissolved, and the Huaqing Association, the Xidi Chinese Asset Management Company, and the Xidi Chinese Charity and Public Welfare Foundation relied on the support of the puppet police station and the Pingdong Industrial Village, and took advantage of their economic advantages to integrate all the Chinese gangs and groups, including the Mingxiang Association and the Sanjiang Gang.

Their control over the Chinese is all-encompassing, from schooling and medical treatment to employment, involving all aspects of people's lives. Accept their claims and obey their management, and you can live a relatively good life. They have spared no effort in promoting a decadent capitalist way of life.

Small favors and small favors, catering to the psychology of the majority of the people, have directly led to the increasingly bad environment for struggle and the deterioration of our mass base. As the principal responsible persons of the Saigon Party Committee and the Embankment District Committee, we could not but carry out our work, so we did not do a good job in the issue of developing our strength, which caused heavy losses to the organization. ”

The fact that no one responded to the call of "China-Yun" means that the development personnel cannot be picky, otherwise the work will not have to be done.

Wu Junhui could understand their difficulties, and took out his cigarette and motioned for the two to continue.

"From 55 years to the present, the reactionary Chinese police, led by Han Shuo and Zhang Wei, have organized one or two raids every year, and each time they have caused us huge losses, like cutting leeks, cutting stubble after stubble. Comrade Tong Wen and I have wondered more than once whether our principal leaders have been exposed, and whether they are casting a long line to catch a big fish.

Therefore, from the second half of the previous year, we asked the comrades who came from the north and the comrades of the Workers' Party of Vietnam to observe in the shadows whether we were being followed and monitored, and even made psychological preparations for sacrifice. ”

"What's the problem?"

"There is an underground radio station in the city, there is no embankment, and the code book used by the radio station is changed regularly, and at the same time there is no mention of some peripheral personnel in the telegram, it can be determined that the problem will not be with the radio station. Thinking about it, there is only one possibility, the Huaqing Association constantly sends people to disguise themselves as hot-blooded youths to try to break into us.

However, the situation of the struggle was so grim that we did not have the ability to carefully screen each one by one, and the peripheral organizations were constantly infiltrated and destroyed by them, and finally a vicious circle was formed. ”

Most of the revolutionaries were poor, and the overall living standards of the Chinese on the embankment have always been higher than those of the locals.

After the reactionary Chinese capitalists headed by Li Weimin set up an industrial investment company and comprehensively rolled out the industrial village plan, the Chinese people on the embankment lived a better life than before, with a way out, something to do, a future, and money to make.

Remembering what his former superiors said, Wu Jun said expressionlessly: "Whether there are internal problems must be thoroughly investigated, and external problems must be solved as soon as possible." Next, we must concentrate our efforts on eradicating reactionary capitalists and puppet government officials such as Li Weimin, Liu Jiachang, Wu Jingchen, Ma Anyi, Wu Changming, Han Shuo, and Zhang Wei. Only by solving these extremely harmful black sheep can we achieve a deterrent effect and truly open up the situation! ”

It's easy to say, but it's not that simple to do.

This is not a matter of fear or sacrifice, Zhang Qianwen sighed secretly and said in a low voice: "Comrade Junhui, Li Weimin's whereabouts are uncertain, and he can't see others at all; Liu Jiachang is now the Minister of Economy of the puppet government, and he has many guards around him; As for the reactionary capitalists such as Wu Jingchen and Ma Anyi, they rarely returned to the embankment, and almost all stayed in the industrial villages. ”

"What about Han Shuo and Zhang Wei?"

"Han Shuo was originally engaged in intelligence, very cunning, we organized three hoeing operations, but none of them succeeded, and Zhang Wei was similar. What's more, they are not as unpopular as the corrupt bureaucrats, and they will make our situation even more difficult. (To be continued.) )