The Tonle Sap River is the only river in the world that reverses its direction due to different seasons.

During the rainy season from June to September, the river flows from the Mekong River into the Tonle Sap River, expanding the river's area by 10 times, making it the largest freshwater river in Southeast Asia. From October to May of the following year, the river flows back into the Mekong.

Since March last year, there have been many cement boats from Vietnam on the river.

The small ones can carry more than a dozen tons of goods, the large ones can load nearly 100 tons, powered by diesel engines, and only need two or three people to operate, and they can continuously transport Vietnamese-made goods to Phnom Penh, and then sell them to all parts of Cambodia through Chinese businessmen in Phnom Penh.

Dadong Trading Company is located on the banks of the Tonle Sap River, in addition to wholesale daily necessities, some time ago actually obtained the franchise rights of Phu Quoc Iron and Steel Company and Dishi Cement Company in Phnom Penh, with a dedicated wharf, cranes, warehouses, and six French-made trucks.

The only thing that is different is that the company's manager, Chen Dafu, is very young, only 22 years old this year.

The embankment is nothing in the rich businessmen, and it is rare in Phnom Penh, where the economy is far more backward than the embankment. Regardless of whether the Five Gangs or the locals, Manager Chen is extremely praised, which can be called a model of young and promising.

At around 8 a.m., the riverside was busy again.

Inland river cargo ships docked, and porters hummed to carry bags of goods to the shore, and only steel and cement were hoisted ashore by cranes.

Chen Dafu finished counting the goods with several Chinese businessmen, and was about to arrange a truck to help them deliver them, when an equally young and familiar figure appeared in front of him.

"Ah Hui. You take care of it. I accompanied Manager Li to the office for a while. ”

"You're busy. I'll leave it to me here. ”

The office is on the edge of the warehouse, a two-story French-style building, and the guests walked into the living room, and the accountant who settled the accounts made eye contacts, and the two went upstairs directly, closed the door and teased each other.

"Boss Chen, your business here is very good."

"That is, it can't be like you. You will only spend money and will not make money. ”

If the people who went abroad to raise funds with Li Weimin a few years ago were here, they would definitely be recognized at a glance that they were not Chen Dafu and Manager Li, but Mr. Min's two secretaries, Su Youcai and Pan Hongshan.

Phnom Penh also has five gang associations, but the number of people in Chaozhou accounts for more than 70%, unlike the embankment where there are so many Cantonese, Hakka and Hokkien people.

With fellow villagers, relatives, connections, and the support of industrial investment companies, Su Youcai's business is thriving, and since June last year, he has not paid attention to Nguyen Minh Xiu, assistant to the president of Phu Quoc University of Technology, asking for funds. And the business has been done in the north and west of Cambodia, and even Laos has a branch.

The right time, place and people. He took it all, Pan Hongshan bowed to the wind, picked up an account book and asked: "Youcai, do you really plan to get married, do you really plan to marry a local girl?" ”

"Questions?"

"No problem, it just feels a little sudden."

The girl she wants to marry, Su Youcai, really likes it, she says that she is a local, but she is actually half of Chinese ancestry, and she is a classmate of the current princess of Cambodia. With this relationship, the next work is much easier, at least don't worry about those military police.

He went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and Su Youcai asked curiously: "When did you come, what is the matter, do you want me to help?" ”

It's all for work, Pan Hongshan didn't need to be polite, and said bluntly: "I just arrived last night, and I want to send a group of people and a little goods to the north, I want you to borrow a few cars, and I want you to help me on the road." ”

"Sending someone to the north?"

"Heading towards the Changshan Mountain Range, Staff Officer Wu suspected that the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff had internal ghosts, and he didn't want to go from the country, so he handed over this task to us. After the people and goods are delivered, we are also responsible for supplying. ”

The "purge operation" in the country is intensifying, and if North Vietnam continues to sit idly by, the last remaining spark in South Vietnam will not be saved, and it will certainly use the long border line to infiltrate South Vietnam.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps has never trusted the Saigon bureaucrats, let alone the CIA, and has been weaving its own military intelligence network.

Su Youcai reacted and asked in a low voice, "How many people, how many goods?" ”

"16 people, more than 20 tons of goods."

Pan Hongshan took out a cigarette and said casually: "I am responsible for going from Kampong Son to Phnom Penh, and I will hand it over to you from Phnom Penh to the destination." ”

Those people are certainly not engaged in intelligence, but to develop guerrilla units like the Vietminhists, and the so-called goods should be weapons and ammunition.

Su Youcai didn't dare to be careless, took the cigarette and asked, "When will you act?" ”

"The people and goods are still on the island, and you will act when you arrange it."

"Phnom Penh is full of Viet Minh eyes and ears, so many people can't go together, give me three days to prepare."

"No problem."

After talking about business, Su Youcai asked with interest: "How is your old man doing during this time?" ”

"Stubborn, still like that. I heard that Miss Minh Xiu said that Ngo Dinh Diem was forced by the pressure of the United States and decided to release a group of oppositionists. If it were possible, I would rather not release him and let him stay on the island and go to jail. ”

Looking at his old friend smiling bitterly, Su Youcai sighed: "It's not stubbornness, he has his persistence, and Wu Tingyan's nepotism is indeed engaging in dictatorship and family life." As a patriotic old statesman, he had reason to object. ”

"He can't solve the problem, and if he continues to make trouble, it will only make people worry."

"With Mr. Min here, what can happen?"

Speaking of Li Weimin, Pan Hongshan suddenly asked: "Talented, Miss Mingxiu said that Mr. Min and Wu Tingyan reached an agreement to provide the government with 40 million US dollars per year from next year, do you know this?" ”

"I just found out yesterday, what, do you have an idea?"

"You don't?"

Su Youcai smiled and patiently explained: "Please, the government is the government, and Ng Dinh Yen is Ng Dinh Yen, and it can't be mixed up." To some extent, this money will help Diem maintain his dictatorship, but it will also help the government maintain the situation. If the government is paralyzed and the national army crosses, it will not be your father who will be the happiest, but the Viet Minh, North Vietnam.

And this matter is not as simple as it seems, the industrial investment company was developed with the support of the United States, although the United States cut aid to Vietnam, but it does not mean to give up South Vietnam, they are just reluctant to spend so much money. If I'm not mistaken, the U.S. side has approached Mr. Min. ”

"I didn't expect this floor."

"It's not that you didn't think about it, but you didn't think about it."

Su Youcai lit a cigarette and continued: "The share of the products exported to the United States by enterprises in the industrial park exceeds 40% of the total export value, and they enjoy the most preferential tariff policy, and even have orders placed by the US military, so the United States must not be offended."

Taking a step back, companies don't really support the government as much as it sounds.

A 20 percent cut in the Merchandise Import Program could also be exchanged for more than $10 million, which means that the United States will give away 5 million a year. Coupled with the taxes and fees that should be levied, plus the land, wharves, mines and other fixed assets that the government has actually invested in the industrial investment company, this amount of money is really nothing. ”

The government invests so much in the industrial investment company but does not occupy the shares, if it is calculated according to the equity, the dividends must be worth so much.

Thinking of this, Pan Hongshan smiled embarrassedly: "If you care, it's chaotic, it seems that I think too much." ”

Su Youcai has one more identity than him, and often comes into contact with Qian Xinlin, He Tianming and others who are resident in the Parrot Point area, and has a higher "consciousness" than him, and has a greater sense of the overall situation than him, and said meaningfully: "Hongshan, since we are determined to do this, we must endure loneliness." The Wu family brothers are angry, isn't Mr. Min in a hurry, he is just as anxious, but he has to weigh the pros and cons, and consider whether it is more beneficial to support your father and their opposition or to maintain the status quo. ”

Industrial development requires a stable environment, the building of reserve forces takes time, and the development of forces in the Cape Narot and Kampong Son areas requires not only a stable environment, but also time.

Pan Hongshan muttered: "Of course, it is more beneficial to maintain the status quo, but we think like this, we can endure loneliness, others may not think like this, others may not be able to endure loneliness." ”

"There is nothing to worry about on the side of the industrial investment company, Mr. Guo, Mr. Liu, Deputy Manager Dong, and Director Ren are very rational, and they know how to do what is more beneficial to the industrial village plan like Mr. Min, but our old friends are really a little worried."

The Republican Youth League is now in a miasma, and even some businessmen in their forties and fifties have turned into members for profit.

Former YYC members are better, and YYC members now have opted out, turning from former supporters to oppositionists. Some coveted glory and wealth, and completely fell to the Wu brothers to prepare to go to the black.

Pan Hongshan sighed lightly: "Everyone has their own ambitions, regardless of them." ”

"That's right, we can't manage it if we want to."

While chatting, the accountant who was watching the wind downstairs suddenly ran upstairs, knocked on the door and said, "Manager Chen, something happened!" ”

Su Youcai was taken aback, got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"President Ngo Dinh Diem presided over the opening ceremony of the former Nguyen Dynasty minister and current Governor of Buon Ma Thuot Province in accordance with the usual practice to hold the Buon Ma Thuot Agricultural Exhibition in order to attract tourists and develop the tourism industry. At the end of the opening ceremony, when Diem visited the stalls, someone suddenly threw a grenade and landed not far in front of him, but fortunately it did not explode.

The chief of the guard was about to protect President Yan from the scene, when someone in the crowd opened fire with a submachine gun, and the chief of the guard was shot and killed. The presidential guards immediately returned fire, and the murderer was killed on the spot, and President Yan was in danger and unharmed. ”

Pan Hongshan didn't care whether Wu Tingyan was alive or dead, and blurted out: "What about Mr. Min, did Mr. Min go with you?" ”

"Mr. Min was invited, but was unable to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a project in Vung Tau Industrial Village."

As long as Mr. Min is fine, he will be fine, and he asked again: "Who did it, have you found out?" ”

The telegram said that the murderer did not have any documents on him, and his identity could not be investigated, and it was impossible to find out who the mastermind was behind the scenes. This telegram was sent by Mr. Yao, who asked us to pay attention to the activities of the Vietminh organization in Phnom Penh and to find out whether it was the Viet Minh elements. ”

The case that occurred in Buon Ma Thuot, asking the Phnom Penh workstation to help investigate it is simply ridiculous, no wonder the Reserve Officer Training Team does not believe the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Defense.

Su Youcai sighed secretly, sat down and said, "Got it." (To be continued.) )