Chapter 242: Finale!
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As soon as Chen Jinxuan, the head of the secret police, decided to defect, the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association" gave up its plan to "add fuel to the fire" of the Buddhists who were becoming more and more violent.
Unable to imagine that his most trusted subordinate would betray him, Ngo Dinh Ngai acted as planned on the day of the 25th anniversary of his second brother's tenure as bishop.
The media controlled by the "Vietnamese Chinese Literature and Art Research Association" and the "Department of Industry and Investment" have long been prepared, refuting and propagating one by one.
Strikes in the embankment business district and Hoi An Chinese district, and the Chinese working in the electricity, communications, banking, transportation and government departments went on strike. More than 100 Chinese businessmen from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines have been interviewed and expressed their intention to withdraw their investments.
The "second generation" of Chinese divested, and the "first generation" of Chinese will definitely be affected.
Factories are closed, companies are closed, where do you go to work, and what do you live on? Almost all the Vietnamese workers of Chinese-funded enterprises have taken to the streets to demonstrate and hold various opposition activities.
782 stocks fell sharply across the board, and the real exchange rate of Piaste against the US dollar fell from 53:1 to 96:1. People who have deposits in the bank have lost nearly half of their assets overnight. More than one million shareholders who have invested in stocks to maintain their value have suffered even more serious losses.
The economy collapsed overnight, society became more volatile overnight, and people flocked to malls, markets or kiosks to snap up all kinds of daily necessities as if they were the end of the world.
The little confusion created by the Buddhists is nothing by comparison.
Ngo Dinh Kyung had long expected that the Chinese clique would make such a counterattack, and he was mentally prepared to "kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 of themselves."
However, what he never expected was that Chen Jinxuan actually defected at the most critical moment and ordered the police system of the Ministry of the Interior to arrest more than a dozen cities at the same time. The secret police and special forces that should have organized and incited the people to besiege the Chinese areas and industrial villages were all brought under control at the first time.
Chen Jinxuan not only arrested people, but also claimed that all this was a conspiracy of the Southern Liberation Army.
Waiting for Ngo Dinh Yen and Ngo Dinh Yen to react, they obeyed Chen Jinxuan's orders from some policemen. They have already stationed in large and small media outlets that have taken over the control of the government, and have wantonly searched for those "Southern Liberation elements" in radio stations and newspapers who have stirred up ethnic contradictions, sabotaged the national economy, and created chaos in society.
It is worth mentioning that his actions were highly praised by the American side.
His hands were cut off, his mouth was sealed, and the next thing he could do was to watch the news media controlled by the "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association" and the "Department of Industry and Investment" sing a one-man show.
Under the overwhelming publicity, people finally knew that the "second generation" of Chinese were invited back by the industrial investment company through investment promotion, and they took a great risk to invest and build factories in Vietnam. I finally know how much the Chinese have contributed to the country's economy and people's employment.
I finally learned that the Chinese were fighting against the Southern Liberation Army. There are more than 3,000 martyrs lying in the Xining Military Cemetery, Saigon Military Cemetery, and Zhensha Military Cemetery. Finally, I learned that the reason why there are so many Chinese generals in the Fourth Tactical Zone is that it was reorganized from the industrial village security team for its historical reasons......
Fang Rong, Ruan Shi Mei, Pan Ke Shi Lian, Fei Qingfang and more than a dozen well-known stars. In an interview with reporters, he said with tears in his eyes that everything that is happening must have broken Mr. Min's heart!
Although South Vietnam has been in the midst of war, its economy has not collapsed, and people have finally realized how much they have contributed to this by either going abroad to attract investment or going abroad to promote Vietnamese businessmen.
Mr. Min must be asked to come back and clean up the mess, if he doesn't come back, the economy will really collapse.
Money is worthless, and it will become harder to make money as Chinese businessmen withdraw their investment. The vital interests of all are involved, so the attitude on this issue is surprisingly unanimous among ordinary people, government civil servants, army soldiers, and even the political opposition. All kinds of petitions and petitions flew to the headquarters of the industrial investment company in Vung Tau one after another.
Although Mr. Min was indeed heartbroken, he did not disappoint everyone, confirming that the people did not regard the South Vietnamese Chinese as Chinese living in South Vietnam, but as citizens of the Republic of Vietnam. Fly to Saigon on American Airlines.
To welcome Mr. Min's return, Johor Son Nhat Airport was crowded with flowers and applause.
At a brief meeting at the airport, Mr. Li spoke about saving the economy, which had almost collapsed.
He implored all businessmen who invested and built factories in South Vietnam to trust the government and the South Vietnamese people, and not to rush to withdraw their investment; Call on all listed companies to take on more obligations. Immediately raise funds to actively repurchase the shares of their respective companies to recover the losses of shareholders as much as possible; Announced the issuance of an additional US$300 million of industrial investment bonds overseas, and all the funds raised will be used for infrastructure construction such as roads, hydropower stations, and rural water conservancy projects, so as to stimulate the economic development of South Vietnam......
His return to China is good news in itself, as the stock market, which had been plummeting when he was coming back, is no longer falling, and is now trending upward.
No matter how stupid Diem and Ngo Dinh Diem are, they understand that it is not only the Chinese clique that is fighting back against them, but that some government insiders, senior military officials, and the United States have reached an agreement on this issue. The brothers have become truly loners.
Li Weimin did not go to Gia Long Palace, and did not even stay in Saigon for a long time.
Chased by nearly 100 domestic and foreign reporters, he went to the Catina Street Stock Exchange to visit the shareholders who had suffered heavy losses, and summoned the Bank of East Asia, Saigon Bank, and Nanyang Bank at the Burj Al Arab...... The presidents of more than 40 financial institutions held a meeting and went to the embankment business district and Pingdong Industrial Village to stabilize the people's hearts.
Field trips to industrial villages, non-stop participation in meetings of representatives of various industry groups, and then led a delegation abroad to attract investment and promote Vietnamese businessmen
The "Yuehua Literature and Art Research Association" and the "Department of Industry and Investment" turned bad things into good things in the shortest possible time, and with very little money, they bought back the shares that had been sold at a high price, and the bosses of those listed companies became the big winners of the whole incident.
In the eyes of others, this incident sounded a wake-up call for the "Department of Industry and Investment" and the Chinese in South Vietnam.
Therefore, the Industrial Investment Company and the Fourth Tactical Zone have devoted almost all their energies to maintaining internal stability, and the industrial village management committees, the military, and the factories are all engaged in unifying their thinking, holding a general meeting every three days and a small meeting every two days, and they are all busy with "national unity."
Buddhists, who had been robbed of the limelight once, were again active, and thousands of monks and nuns gathered in Hue to celebrate the Buddha's birth in 2527. Prior to this, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ngo Dinh Lik's tenure as bishop, the Catholic flag flew in Hue. Ngo Dinh Jin, who was looking after the imperial city in Hue, even issued a ban at this time: monks were strictly forbidden to hang Buddhist flags.
In response, Buddhists launched a series of protests. The police went so far as to shoot at the unarmed crowd. Among the victims was a woman and eight children!
The situation has returned to the trajectory of history again, with Buddhists protesting, monks immolating themselves, Chen Lichun speaking freely, and American dignitaries unable to bear it......
The "Department of Industry and Investment" has just encountered an unprecedented crisis and is solving internal problems, and the newly appointed ambassador to Vietnam, Lodge. We can only hand over the heavy responsibility of changing the government to Yang Wenming, Chen Shanqian, Li Wenji, and other high-level leaders of the national army.
The only difference from later history is that the Presidential Guard resistance was less resolute. Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Ngai failed to escape from Gia Long Palace, and were beaten into a hornet's nest by the coup soldiers who stormed Jia Long Palace.
When the military corps led by Yang Wenming came to power, it not only wanted to attack the US Military Aid Command in Vietnam, which was parallel to its own power, and tried to get Washington to transfer Paul Huggins, a four-star army general they did not like, but also to reorganize the 5th Infantry Division and incorporate the 25th, 26th, and 27th Divisions of the Fourth Tactical Region.
Carried away and embarrassed Washington.
Anyway, they just came to power, and they want to give them some face.
Considering that Paul Huggins' term of office has come to an end. The U.S. side decided to replace the president of West Point, a four-star general of Westmoreland, and the change of direction met their demands.
The "Workers' Department" also made some compromises and agreed to reorganize the 5th Infantry Division, but only handed over the defense area and weapons and equipment, and did not leave any officers and soldiers for them. As for the incorporation of the Fourth Tactical Zone, this is a matter of principle, and Li Weimin, Chen Shiguo, and other bigwigs of the "industrial investment department" refused without hesitation.
Relations between the two sides are too tense. Directly affecting the military operations in the Midwest, Ambassador Lodge intervened to mediate. Considering that Li Weimin's influence and appeal are too great, he can't let go of his hands and feet at all with him in the military ruling corps.
In the end, the two sides reached a compromise, and Li Weimin was "exiled" and resigned as chairman of the company. He served as the ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to South Africa, and maintained the status quo in the military administration of the six lower provinces.
In fact, it turns out that Yang Wenming is not as capable as he imagined.
Saigon remained chaotic after taking office, with monks and nuns continuing to make trouble, and more religious people who had self-immolated than they had been under Ngo Dinh Diem, and his men had no administrative experience and were sloppy. Corruption is worse than it was during the time of Ngo Hin Diem.
The aura of the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem slowly faded, and the Americans were no longer optimistic about him and were disappointed in him. The common people were equally dissatisfied, and people once again took to the streets to demonstrate and demand his resignation.
On January 30, 1964, a few months after Yang Minh Minh came to power, paratroopers, tanks, and armored vehicles marched into Saigon under the pretext of exercises, staging a no-no to the citizens.
Yang Van Van was dismissed from his post and his Revolutionary Council member Le Van Kim, Commander of the Armed Forces and Minister of National Defence Tran Van Dun, Minister of the Interior Zun Mung Ding, and Minister of Public Security Mei Huu Xuan were taken into custody. The 12-member Revolutionary Committee was disbanded, and Yang Wenming, who had become a prisoner, was invited to join the three-member military ruling group and served as its chairman.
However, he, the nominal chairman, did not serve for a few days, and in less than half a year, he was exiled abroad by Nguyen Thanh and Tran Son Chien.
It was during this time that US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Vice President Lyndon Johnson came to power. And Ambassador Rocky, who was once tough, thought that Nguyen Khanh, who had great potential, also did not do well after taking office.
He was too eager to show his desire to govern the country well, but Buddhists, student groups, and some opposition figures found that he was inclined to move towards dictatorship, centralization, and centralization, and began to march in the streets again, and the voices against him became more and more fierce. staged a coup d'état, he came to power as well, he could wear the same general star, and some officers in the army who were dissatisfied with him also opposed it.
However, not everyone is as lucky as he is.
Commander of the Third Tactical Region Yang Van Duc and Deputy Commander Lam Van Huat attempted to launch a coup d'état, but half an hour earlier, Nguyen Khanh, Air Force Commander Nguyen Gao Qi, Prime Minister Phan Hue Shih and other senior officials all went to Vung Tau for a vacation.
At the Civil-Military Salvation Committee in Saigon, Yang Van Duc and Lim Van Huat called for the expulsion of Nguyen Khanh from the army and his arrest, opposing dictatorship and advocating unity while still receiving U.S. aid. Nguyen Chinh Thi, a former paratrooper brigade officer who returned from exile in Cambodia and was promoted to major general, proclaimed himself the "commander of the liberation of Saigon." Sang "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with Lin Van Huat and Nguyen Qing, who was hiding in the remote command of Vung Tau Industrial Village.
All have soldiers. The situation is in chaos.
Chen Shiguo, who succeeded Li Weimin as chairman of the company, was worried that the Vung Tau Industrial Village would become a battlefield for them, so he had to intervene with the new US ambassador Taylor and General Westmoreland of the Military Aid Command.
As a result, Nguyen Thanh left, and the Saigon political arena formed a delicate pattern of Nguyen Gao Qi, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Nguyen Zheng Thieu's "three Nguyens". Since no general had actual full power, they established a collective leadership mechanism under the auspices of the Military Council to maintain the balance of power in the tactical zones, but this expediency did not last long.
It is worth mentioning. During the coup d'état in the 3rd Tactical Zone, a US ship was attacked by North Vietnamese Navy speedboats in the waters of Tokyo Bay.
The military power of the "industrial investment system" has not yet developed. The government forces were busy with the coup d'état, there was no one to be found in the whole of Saigon, and South Vietnam was in danger of being occupied by North Vietnam at any time, so Lyndon-Johnson reversed the cautious attitude of his predecessor and sent more American troops to Vietnam.
Just when the U.S. military was helping to fight the guerrillas, there was no room for three tigers on one mountain, and Nguyen Van Thieu, Nguyen Gao Qi, and Nguyen Chinh Thi made trouble again. In this round of confrontation, Nguyen Zhengshi ended in defeat and was first driven out of the center of power. He went to the 1st Tactical Region as a commander, and then he was relieved of his duties, and even his military posts were dismissed.
"Flying General" Nguyen Gao Ki became the prime minister of the Republic of South Vietnam, and began to fight openly and secretly with President Nguyen Van Thieu.
The radical monk Shi Chi Quang, who had been making a lot of noise and trying to put the whole country under the leadership of the Buddha, dealt with Ngo Dinh Diem, Yang Van Minh and Nguyen Khanh. It's not easy to deal with Ruan Gaoqi at all.
When summoning the monks' representatives, Nguyen Gao Qi clearly warned: "You can overthrow me with democratic elections on holidays, and I will accept the entire elected person." But if you choose the insidious method instead of the choice, I will not hesitate to kill every Buddhist leader before I quit my post! ”
"Zhi" is one foot high, and "Qi" is one foot high.
encountered such a master who is going to collapse you today and his master tomorrow. Shi Zhiguang did not dare to make any more waves, and said to the believers in frustration: "Other people's regimes are persecuting Buddhism, and Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Gao Qi want to destroy Buddhism." ”
At the same time, the "industrial investment system" is still in the development of the head.
The "Vietnamese Chinese Literature and Art Research Association" has launched a series of charity and public welfare projects, such as adopting orphans in war-torn areas, but instead of establishing orphanages, mobilizing Chinese families in the six lower provinces and industrial villages to adopt. For each orphan adopted, the corresponding foundation pays an adoption subsidy.
Turn Vietnamese children into Chinese children, and change the direction to increase the number of Chinese.
The US military is getting deeper and deeper in Vietnam, and the pressure of "anti-terrorism" is increasing, and it is impossible to withdraw if it wants to, so it can only ask for help from allies. South Korea sent troops to Vietnam, and the Fourth Tactical Region sent troops on the scale of battalions to the north to fight in rounds until Nixon came to power.
Kissinger, a good friend of the Chinese people, is definitely not a good friend of the South Vietnamese people. As soon as he became Nixon's secretary of state, he began to find ways to get American troops out of Vietnam.
It must be admitted that he has his own bitterness. The U.S. military won almost all the battles in Vietnam, but it never won the war, and the number of GIs killed and wounded increased, and the anti-war sentiment in the United States became higher and higher. The overseas department of the industrial investment company tried its best, but it was unable to restrain the mainstream public opinion in the United States.
At a time when Kissinger was vigorously promoting the "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War, Li Weimin, who had served as ambassador to South Africa for 10 years and only returned to China once a year, officially resigned from the post of ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of South Africa and returned to Phu Quoc to take over as president of Phu Quoc University of Technology.
For the first time, the "Department of Industry and Investment" made clear its political stance, resolutely rejecting the provisional government of the South Liberation and strongly opposed Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government to participate in the negotiations.
At the same time, the "Red-Color-Khmer" launched a major counteroffensive, surrounding the cities from the countryside all the way to Phnom Penh, ordering all the citizens to leave the cities on the grounds that the US military wanted to bomb the cities, and at the same time abolishing the currency, no matter what money it was, all the waste paper.
The United States ran faster than a rabbit and complacently claimed a smooth withdrawal from Cambodia.
They don't care, and the "industrial investment system" can't be ignored.
The Industrial Investment Company, the "Vietnamese Chinese Literature and Art Research Association," and the Fourth Tactical Zone quickly extended a helping hand to the "Freedom Khmer," dispatched volunteers, provided weapons and equipment, and assisted the Chinese and some Cambodians in withdrawing to the Kampong Son and Cape Naroti areas respectively, and contained the defeated Cambodian government troops to join the "Freedom and Khmer" troops, and established the "Freedom and Cotton Provisional Government" to build a defense line on the spot to resist the attack of the "Red Khmer Rouge."
It has been preparing for more than ten years. More than 60,000 well-trained and well-equipped combat units, a steady stream of logistical supplies, and strong air support from the Fourth Tactical Region Air Force were dispatched to successfully contain the "red-Khmer" offensive and bring the tide of battle to a stalemate.
On Saigon's side, Nguyen Van Thieu found that the general trend had gone.
In order to obtain more military aid and economic assistance from the United States, they finally sat down at the negotiating table. The United States got its wish and signed an agreement with them. He thought he could withdraw from Vietnam in a dignified way.
Just as they had finished withdrawing American troops, the North Vietnamese tore up the agreement and launched a full-scale offensive. Nguyen Van Thieu not only did not actively resist, but instead ordered the Nationalist Army of the 1st Tactical Region to withdraw to the south, which directly led to the rout of the three divisions of the 1st Tactical Region.
The "Department of Industry and Investment" had already made preparations, and the security team of Da Nang Industrial Estate organized the reserve force to complete the reorganization as soon as possible.
Three infantry divisions and the Hoi An Garrison Division, which was also urgently reorganized, immediately withstood the offensive of the North Vietnamese People's Army with the cooperation of two artillery regiments and one tank regiment secretly deployed to Da Nang in advance, and gathered the Nationalist army to fortify Da Nang-Hoi An.
The People's Army's labor division expedition, although the "industrial investment system" troops are well-equipped, but they are not the main force. Moreover, the more than 10,000 national-army armies that have been collected need time to be reorganized, and neither side can help the other, and the Da Nang-Hoi An war situation has entered a stalemate stage. However, the North Vietnamese attacked from several directions, and from the map, Da Nang-Hoi An was in an encirclement, and no one thought they could hold it.
In several other main directions of attack, the KPA is gaining momentum. It was fought all the way to Tay Ninh and Bien Hoa, north of Saigon.
Nguyen Van Thieu, who was ousted from power, once again created a miracle by staging a coup d'état within the Air Force, and immediately ordered all air force combat units in the central and western regions to transfer all aircraft, radars, and spare parts to the six lower provinces.
Although the national-army air force is supported by the 4th Tactical Zone. Several waves of air strikes were carried out on the KPA, but they were unable to resist the offensive, and the vanguard fought all the way to the outskirts of Saigon.
The situation was out of control, and U.S. officials in Vietnam decided that the fall of Saigon was only a matter of one or two days, and immediately ordered everyone to evacuate. And Nguyen Van Thieu was also disheartened, so he resigned from the presidency and flew to Taiwan, where he was replaced by "Mr. Yes" Chen Van Huong.
The Lower Six Provinces did not want to be occupied by the North Vietnamese. The provincial governor and the speaker of the parliament held an emergency meeting with the senior management of the Industrial Investment Company and the generals of the Fourth Tactical Zone, announced the establishment of a "National Emergency Committee," and implored Li Weimin, president of Phu Quoc University of Technology, and Tran Shiguo, chairman of the board of directors of the Industrial Investment Company, to serve as chairman and vice chairman, and appointed the commander of the Fourth Tactical Region as the commander-in-chief of the South Vietnamese Republican forces.
How could Chen Wenxiang not know that he was receiving a hot potato, and immediately handed over power to the "State Emergency Committee" through the radio, ordering the government and the army to accept the command of the "State Emergency Committee."
Retired veterans, village militiamen, and reservists from industrial villages went to various conscription points to assemble one after another, and officers of the tactical district headquarters rushed to various assembly points to receive troops; in just two days, the "industrial investment department" had 27 divisions and more than 50 local garrison regiments.
The 25th Division, which had been deployed in advance at Binh Dong Industrial Village, the new 6th Division, which was assisting in the defense of the "Khmer Rouge" in the Parrot Point area, and the new 7th and 9th Divisions, which had been urgently reorganized in Binh Dong Industrial Village, quickly launched an encirclement of the North Vietnamese People's Army attacking Saigon.
The new 11th and 13th divisions in Boliu Industrial Village and the new 19th, 21st and 25th divisions in Kam Ou province quickly boarded ships to support Da Nang, Hoi An and Vung Tau from the sea.
While everyone's attention was focused on the battlefields of Tay Ninh, Bien Hoa, Vung Tau and Da Nang, the 26th and 27th Divisions, which were the most combat-ready in the Fourth Tactical Zone, appeared in Dong Hai in North Vietnam, cutting off the supply lines of the North Vietnamese People's Army and making it difficult for its main forces to take care of it, just like MacArthur's Inchon landing on the Korean Peninsula.
A large number of new weapons that surprised the Americans appeared on the battlefield, such as the Stone Tea Falcon helicopter gunship, the Big Black Cat infantry fighting vehicle, the heavy-fist anti-tank missile, and the multiple rocket launchers manufactured by Hongsheng Company......
When it reached the city of Saigon, the ammunition of the North Vietnamese People's Army was running out, and the disparity in strength was so great that it could withstand the great counteroffensive of the armed forces of the "Gongtou Department", and Wen Jinyong had to order the troops to withdraw westward.
If you want peace, you must beat them to hurt, cripple, and fear!
Their armed forces in the south were all exposed, and how could Nguyen Chi Nhence and Tran Runwei miss this opportunity to order the troops to encircle and suppress and take advantage of the pursuit of victory. At the same time, the second group of newly formed troops was ordered to continue to board the ships and join up with the 26th and 27th Divisions, which had penetrated deep into North Vietnam, by sea, and make a posture of attacking Hanoi.
The troops that entered the south were basically crippled, and the northern areas of Vietnam were scattered by the landing forces, one of which had been fighting for more than 10 years, and the other had been preparing for more than 10 years.
In order to show his sincerity, Li Weimin ordered the troops that had penetrated deep into North Vietnam to shrink to the south, and at the same time to intensify the encirclement and suppression of the enemy in the south.
Talk, talk, talk, and the two sides finally signed a ceasefire agreement on January 24, 1975.
Li Weimin announced that a national election would be held in 1976 for South Vietnam, and after the new government was formed, the "National Emergency Committee" was automatically dissolved, and at the same time, political reforms were carried out nationwide, as in the lower six provinces, and the "Central and Western Development" plan was immediately launched.
As everyone expected, in the 1975 general election, he defeated the United Party candidate with 78% of the vote to be elected president of the Republic of South Vietnam, Tran Thi Quoc was elected vice president, Thien Nam Kian was nominated as prime minister, Vo An Dong was appointed Minister of Justice, Nguyen Chi Nhence was appointed Minister of National Defense, and Tran Yun Wei was appointed Chief of General Staff...... End of book
To be continued.
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