Chapter 5 Veterans of Phu Quoc

"The foreign ministers of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France decided in West Berlin that representatives of the 19 countries participating in the Korean War would go to Geneva in June to hold a conference on the Far East to discuss two topics, one was the Korean issue and the other was the Indochina issue."

The four business tycoons were thoughtful, Li Weimin picked up the newspaper with his hand, pointed to the international news on it, and said slowly: "War is a continuation of politics, and if the Vietminh can take Dien Bien Phu before the start of the meeting, they will be able to seize the initiative at the negotiation table." Such examples are not uncommon, isn't the Korean War just a fight and a talk, a talk and a fight? In fact, this is one of the reasons why the younger nephew thinks that Dien Bien Phu will fall in two or three months. ”

From the perspective of international trends and geopolitics, the thinking is clear, reasonable and well-founded.

Li Guanyun was very relieved, and secretly wanted to send him to the United States to study and send him away, tens of thousands of dollars were not spent in vain, and all his hard work was not in vain. In time, the family business can be handed over to him boldly with confidence. After decades of hard work, he is really tired, and he can go to Hong Kong to be a housekeeper, help him take care of his children, and live carefree life.

Coming back from the United States is different, you can think so much and see so far. Unlike his two sons, who went to France for a few years and didn't learn anything, Wu Shounan was full of emotion and couldn't help asking: "For the people, which university did you study in the United States?" ”

Thinking that the future president of the Republic of Vietnam should be working as an adviser at his "alma mater", Li Weimin smiled excitedly: "I was barely admitted to Michigan State University, and I studied finance and management in business school for several years. ”

Compared with Harvard, Princeton and other well-known American institutions of higher learning, Michigan State University is really not particularly famous, but people are admitted by real ability, unlike many children of Chinese businessmen who rely on connections and money to go to university in France.

Wu Shounan nodded slightly, and said with a smile while beckoning him to sit down: "For the people, my family Chang Ming and Chang Chun have just come back, you are all young people, you should move around more, and have time to go to my house to sit." ”

"I should have visited the three uncles earlier, but my nose and face were swollen, which hindered my view and was ashamed to see people."

"Then I'll go when the wound heals."

The young man was thin-skinned, and it was indeed a bit embarrassing to go out like this, Wu Shounan smiled and said sideways: "Three, I think it makes a lot of sense for the people." In any case, it will take some time for the Vietminh to reach Saigon, and we can wait and see. However, the business in Hanoi can no longer be done, and it should be closed and withdrawn. ”

Li Guanyun echoed: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, you should plan early." ”

Boss Qian snuffed out the cigarette butt and proposed worriedly: "It's best to go to the guild hall tomorrow to talk to Mr. Ma, there are a lot of hipsters in Hanoi, remind them if you can, help them if you can, you can't watch them being liquidated by the Viet Minh." ”

In the eyes of the Viet Minh, most of the Chinese are capitalists and exploiting classes, and the experience of the interior is there, and the Teochew people have always been known for their unity, and this proposal has been unanimously approved by everyone.

In case Saigon can't be saved, where to go in the future becomes the next issue.

The Li family has an industry in Hong Kong, so Li Guanyun naturally proposed to go to Hong Kong, and planned to slowly transfer the business to Hong Kong from now on. Goh Shou Nam is familiar with Malay and wants to go to Malaysia or Singapore. One of Boss Qian and Boss Zhang wants to go to Thailand, and the other thinks that the Philippine environment is good.

The four of them discussed for nearly half an hour, and finally decided to send people to visit a few places first, contact the villagers and customers there, and prepare for the evacuation in the future.

is not in his position, he is not in his position, Li Weimin is not qualified to participate in such a decision-making before he takes over the family business, and he sits respectfully on the side with his sister and pours tea and water for the four elders.

The war is tight, and the air tickets are also tight, and you can't buy them with money.

As soon as they talked about when the "Great China" ship would arrive in Saigon, there was a commotion outside.

Go out and see, the people who pry the bark are fighting again!

More than a dozen local residents brandished sticks and chased two outsiders, one in his forties and the other in his teens, ragged clothes and vegetables on his face, although he was weak, but he was able to fight back under the siege of so many people, hiding between two giant trees with a diameter of nearly one meter, back to back, covering each other, and a dozen locals would not be able to get close to them for a while and a half.

The police sent by Pingchuan are not far from here, and if they kill people, they will be blackmailed again.

It's okay to pry the bark, but you can't fight in the woodyard, and you can't kill people. Uncle Wang dealt with such an emergency a lot, immediately threw down the account book, beckoned the guard of the wood mill and the driver of the transport team to surround him, and scolded him with a loud voice: "Stop, stop for me!" If you want to fight, go somewhere else, don't make a fuss with me, you, say you, put the stick down! And you, give me another trouble, don't think about coming here to pry the bark in the future. ”

"Don't you hear me, stop calling the police!"

The Teochew people are not united at one or two points, there are people in the wood mill who make trouble, and the Teochew people in the nearby warehouses and factories all run over, arguing with all kinds of guys, and they are about to start a fight if they don't stop.

The bark of the tree is all poor, how dare you do it with them? What's more, if you offend them, you won't even be able to eat in the future. Under the angry gaze of Uncle Wang, he put down his sticks one by one, picked up bags of bark on his back, and drooped his head to scatter the birds and beasts.

"It's okay, let's all go back."

Uncle Wang took out a few boxes of cigarettes from the pocket of the driver of the convoy, and gave a walk to the Chaozhou villagers who came to help, until he sent them away, and then ran to the factory gate and said with a wry smile: "Master, it's not okay to go on like this, I have already played three times this month." ”

Not all of them were Vietnamese, and nearly half of them were mainlanders who had fled. They don't speak in tongues, they can't climb their hometowns, and they can't get help from the Five Gangs, so they can only make a living from it.

Li Guanyun sighed lightly and said expressionlessly: "You have to give them something to eat, keep an eye on it, don't let them make trouble." ”

"Okay."

To his surprise, Li Weimin suddenly jumped onto the wood and pulled the besieged middle-aged man to ask in Chinese: "Listen to the accent you are from the northeast, why did you run to the west embankment, there are really not many northeast people here." ”

Running from the side of the car, dressed in elegant clothes, a pair of polished shiny leather shoes, wearing a pair of sunglasses, looking very foreign, don't ask, you know that it is the eldest young master of a rich family.

Wang Jingui pulled his son behind him, for fear that he would be young and ignorant and cause trouble, so he immediately put down his big bag and said cautiously: "Master Hui, we are from the Northeast and came from Phu Quoc Island. The child was sick, and there was a shortage of doctors and medicines on the island, so he wanted to come to work and make money, but he never found a livelihood. ”

My brother must have been kind again, and the little girl was afraid that he would be deceived, so she ran over and asked, "Phu Quoc, are you **?" ”

"The subordinates of Commander Huang of the First Corps have been evacuated to Vietnam for several years."

The little girl was eccentric, not so easy to deceive, pouting and muttering: "Nonsense, the First Corps has already gone to Taiwan, and my father has also practiced it for Chief Huang, what is there on Phu Quoc Island." ”

Dozens of drivers and carpentry workers stood on the side, the strong dragon did not suppress the snake, the phoenix in distress was not as good as the chicken, Wang Jingui really did not dare to offend, and carefully explained: "Back to the eldest lady, the big army is going to Taiwan, but not all of them are picked up, some are working everywhere, some are starting a family in Vietnam, and there are still more than 100 people on the island." ”

On the eve of the liberation of the country, the remnants of the Eighth Army under the command of the Kuomintang Yunnan general Li Mi retreated into the Golden Triangle region on the Thai-Burmese border, entrenched there with the intention of counterattacking, and even defeated the Burmese government army. In fact, at that time, it was not only the remnants of the Eighth Army that retreated to foreign countries, but also the little-known **First Corps.

After their defeat in Hunan, they retreated to Guangxi, where they were disarmed and moved into French-controlled Vietnam, where they prepared to "enter Vietnam and transfer back to Taiwan through the false route."

They entered Vietnam from Passian, and the PLA pursuers followed them and blocked the pass. The new Chinese premier and foreign minister put pressure on the French side, accusing France of not allowing Kuomintang troops to enter the country since it remained neutral to the Chinese civil war.

French officials in Vietnam urgently asked Paris, and instructions came from Paris, ordering General Alexandri, the French commissioner in northern Vietnam, to convey to Huang Jie that France would disarm under public international law, and at the same time declare that it would not intervene in the Chinese civil war.

The French and Vietnamese authorities have another consideration for staying in Vietnam: they hope to select elites from among them and establish a powerful strategic mobile force to curb the "Viet Minh" in which more and more people are fighting.

As a result, the colonial authorities changed the temporary detention of Liuyue ** to house arrest, preferring to spend $3 million a year to support them, and in March 1950, they transferred the ** from the two concentration camps in Mengyang and Lyme Franc in Beiqi to the southern island of Phu Quoc for centralized detention.

It was only last year that they were allowed to go to Taiwan thanks to Taiwan's efforts.

Li Weimin worked in Vietnam for nearly four years in his previous life and traveled to Phu Quoc, not only knowing that he had been imprisoned there, but also knowing that there was a "Fuguo Island" in Taiwan, and knowing that Huang Jie, who had been imprisoned as a prisoner for three years, was known as "Su Wu on the Sea", and planned to use Phu Quoc Island, which was far away from the Viet Cong, as the first base of the revenge plan.

The veteran who sent it to the door, he couldn't do without, he took the cigarette from Uncle Wang's hand, handed one and asked, "The army is gone, why don't you leave?" ”

"When I first arrived on the island, there was nothing, and it was miles to walk to see a house, there was jungle everywhere, there were no roads, there were no houses, and the French were only supplied with very little food on time. We cut down trees to build barracks, looked for wild vegetables, but we couldn't get enough to eat, and we had to take care of our wives and children, so we ran away to work as coolies. ”

Wang Jingui glanced back at his son, and continued with a depressed expression: "Chief Huang still wants to counterattack, reorganize the troops on the island, and use fake guns and fake artillery drills. ”

The little girl frowned slightly and asked, "Are you a deserter?" ”

"I want to support my family, and if I don't run away from my wife and children, I won't have a way to live."

Tens of thousands of people are being held like prisoners, how many people are dying of disease and starvation in a foreign land, is it interesting to engage in those showmanships for the sake of the so-called image of the government? Just run away, at least you can be a responsible husband and a competent father.

Li Weimin helped him light a cigarette and asked with interest: "The child is so old, he should be forty." When that year soldier, what rank? ”

"Back to the eldest young master, my surname is Wang, my name is Jingui, the eleventh phase of Huangpu, and I have the rank of major when I retired to Vietnam."

"Whampoa 11?"

"I applied for the examination in Nanjing in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, when Japan's invasion of China was urgent, and there were reports in the newspapers every day that the Japanese army occupied our territory, humiliated our people, and created incidents. In order to save the country, many exiled students like me from the occupied areas of the Northeast applied for military schools. In July, I was recruited, and in August, I was assigned to the second team, the captain Yi Long, the captain of the first team Tang Guanying, the principal Jiang Zhongzheng, and the director of education Zhang Zhizhong. ”

Huangpu Sheng seems to have been popular in the previous issues, and it is not surprising that a person like him who has been in the queue for more than a dozen issues has fallen into such a field. After all, this is Vietnam, not Taiwan, and you can't find a relationship if you want to, and it's a disgraceful deserter.

Anyway, it's fate to meet.

Li Weimin weighed it up, got up and said, "Uncle Wang, their father and son are weird, please arrange a job for them." ”

There are still people in Chaozhou who don't have anything to eat, how can there be so much work for the people of the Northeast to do, Uncle Wang reminded with a sad face: "Young master, there is no shortage of people in the woodyard!" ”

"There is no shortage of people in the woodyard to go to the warehouse, and there is no shortage of people in the warehouse to get them on board. By the way, give them some money, buy some medicine, and find a way to help them get to the island. ”

It's not easy to eat these days, his wife is sick like that, how could Wang Jingui miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and hurriedly grabbed his son and thanked him again and again: "Young Master Xie took it in, we have the strength, we can do any work, you are our reborn parents, you are the noble person of our life......"

In order to survive, for the sake of his wife and children, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War who should have fought a lot of battles, and a once respected ** officer actually fell into such a situation, Li Weimin had mixed feelings, patted his arm and said: "Don't thank you, do it here first, and talk to you when I come back from the United States." ”

"Yes, I listen to the eldest young master, and this life will be handed over to the young master. In the future, Jin Gui will only look forward to the young master, and he will never give up when he goes to the soup and fire. ”

……………………………………………

PS: When a new book is uploaded, whether it can be successfully signed, whether it can be recommended by a website, data is particularly important.

Ask for recommendation votes, ask for collections, ask for clicks, ask for evaluation votes, ask for rewards (not for much, but for good looks), ask for everything you can ask for, please brothers and sisters!