The China-Myanmar Railway starts from Myitkyina and passes through Mandalay to Yangon. Sandwiched between the Salween and Irrawaddy rivers, it is more than 1,000 kilometers long.

The area around the railway is five kilometers wide, and it belongs to the territory of China. In Mandalay and Yangon, nearly 1,000 square kilometers have been carved out as China's territory. In the past 14 years, the railway has become the busiest transportation line in Southeast Asia, from the beginning of the survey to the start of construction.

Fourteen years on, the lives of the indigenous people here have been turned upside down. At that time, Chen Shao did not expel these aborigines, but directly regarded them as his own people. Because he knows that for the sake of long-term considerations, we must make efforts to make the indigenous people of Myanmar sincerely accept China and consciously support China.

This is by no means impossible, and the lives of the indigenous people in Southeast Asia are even more difficult than those of the Chinese people at the beginning. Chen Shao did not suppress them, gave them fair treatment, and enjoyed the rights of all kinds of ordinary citizens. Whether it is farming or planting fruit forests, seeds and seedlings, the government is responsible for it.

Primary and secondary schools were built, handicraft workshops were set up, light industries were established, technical schools were opened, and young men were recruited into the army.

At that time, many people were very puzzled by Chen Shao's actions, and after three or four years, those who were puzzled understood why Chen Shao did this. This is to attract them with a good life, and to quietly assimilate them with culture. Let those aborigines gradually accept the fact of becoming Chinese citizens, and use a rich life to attract more aborigines from abroad to join Chinese nationality.

This is the purpose of Chen Shao's establishment of pilot cities in Southeast Asia, which is more thorough and effective than the slaughter of the indigenous people. After all, the massacre will inevitably slip through the net, and it will also arouse the determination of all ethnic groups in Southeast Asia to resist, and China's road in Southeast Asia will be difficult to move forward in the future. Assimilation, this method is time-consuming, but it works well. No matter what era in history (history, not including the future), which people, as long as they can eat and drink without worry, they will embrace you. Careerists also could not find anyone to support them, and could only be assimilated.

If it were the kind of place in Africa, Chen Shao probably wouldn't have any pilot cities, because it would be too difficult. There are many reasons for Chen Shao to set up a pilot city in Southeast Asia, and these reasons are conducive to his plan. First, many Chinese in Southeast Asia have migrated here since ancient times to settle down, and many aborigines who know Chinese have spread out, which is convenient for Chinese education and more acceptable to the aborigines. Second, the Chinese had the same experience as them before, and they were not treated as colonizers, which was more acceptable to the aborigines. Third, the Red Police Barracks, the biggest bug in this time and space, is very convenient for Chen Shao to control. As long as the aborigines stay in the barracks for two years, they can get a group of soldiers with good combat effectiveness, which can drive the speed of the aborigines' return. Today, whether it is in Myanmar or other pilot cities in Southeast Asia, good results have been achieved, and the biggest contributor to this is the Red Police Barracks.

As the aborigines slowly saw themselves as members of China, Chen Shao did not stop their own traditions, but encouraged them to maintain those fine traditions. This also makes it easier for indigenous people to accept their new identity.

The good results and the increasingly affluent life have also attracted many aborigines from the surrounding areas, and China will not refuse to come from those who come from all over the world. With the coming and going of spring and autumn, the railway side of Myanmar and various pilot cities in Southeast Asia have become the most densely populated places in the whole of Southeast Asia. There are Chinese people, as well as Southeast Asian ethnic groups who have become Chinese nationals, and with the help of the government, they are living in harmony.

And these places have also become the safest places in the whole of Southeast Asia. Without the oppression of the colonists, there is no need to worry about when you will be dragged to work as a coolie, and you don't have to worry about being killed for some reason. Living a worry-free life is the secret of success.

It is not a simple task to do this. At the beginning, I encountered a lot of difficulties, but fortunately they passed quickly. It is said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, but Chen Shao's eyes are always staring here, and he is most worried about the conflict between ethnic groups, or the slackness of officials, which will lead to adverse consequences. Perhaps because of Chen Shao's consistent attention, what he was worried about did not happen. Everything was peaceful.

However, this peaceful life has been shattered in the past half a month. The Japanese attacked Southeast Asia, and the Anglo-French allies were driven away. Compared to the Japanese, the British and French in the past can be said to be extremely benevolent. It was like locusts crossing the border, with nothing left but burning houses and corpses everywhere.

Since the implementation of militarism in Japan, Japan's domestic economy has almost collapsed, and social contradictions are very serious. Finally, the war began, and the war could be used to divert the attention of the people at home. However, the economy was still very poor, so when the attack on Southeast Asia was first planned, the Japanese military issued an order.

"All the troops participating in the battle must be responsible for their own supplies, and if they are not enough, they will be transferred by the military department. And collect enough provisions, don't hand them over, keep them for yourself. "To put it bluntly, it is to feed the war with war.

Compared with later Japan, the Japanese in this time and space had the support of Germany earlier, and their military strength was much stronger, but in other aspects, they were far inferior to later Japan. The main reason is that the lack of one province in Taiwan and the three northeastern provinces has added many problems to Japan in terms of food and daily necessities for the troops.

Although Japan also had a strategy of using war to nourish war in the war of aggression against China in later generations, it was not as thoroughly implemented as it is now. As a result, the wildness of the Japanese soldiers completely broke out in Southeast Asia, and they really resembled locusts in transit. That is, except for the young men and women who were arrested as coolies, everyone else fell under the wildness of the Japanese, the Vietnamese version of the three-light policy.

Many indigenous people in Southeast Asia fled their homes and came to the Chinese border, hoping that China would take them in.

At this time, on the border outside the pilot city, many indigenous people have gathered here. If it weren't for the weapons in the hands of the border defenders, they might have rushed closer to China. And in the distance, a steady stream of aborigines arrived. For half a month, it has been crowded with refugees fleeing the war.

If it weren't for the fact that China had built a barbed wire fence along the border and soldiers patrolling it all the time, I am afraid that these people would have smuggled into the country. After all, it's not safe to stay here, and the Japanese are coming later.

Many aborigines who know Mandarin keep shouting here, hoping to let them pass. But the effect is not very good, after all, there are too many of them, if they are released, a swarm of flocks will flood the border, it will have a lot of negative effects on the security and other aspects of the pilot cities.

Located on the border between Laos and China, several roads into the country were cut off by iron rejection horses, and behind the rejection horses, a battalion of soldiers stood by to prevent refugees from rushing through the border. And in the distance, there are several armored vehicles, which act as a deterrent.

"Master Jun, let's go over! Otherwise, if we stay here, we will all be killed by the Japanese devils. ”

"Please, let us pass! The people in our village have been killed by the Japanese devils, and we are the only ones left, so I beg you. A woman held a child, crying and kneeling in front of the Chinese soldiers, constantly kowtowing.

"Master Jun, please, I won't go over, but let my son go over, okay? He's only ten years old, he can't die at the hands of Japanese devils! "A woman put her arms around her son, expecting the Chinese soldier on the opposite side to let him cross the border.

…… Du Yuming was standing on this border line at this time, and when he saw the dense number of refugees in front of him, he felt a lot in his heart. At that time, there was no shortage of such scenes on the land of China.

However, he did not order the soldiers to let the refugees go, and sometimes compassion depends. He doesn't want to do bad things with good intentions.

If these refugees were Chinese, he didn't even have to think about it, didn't say a word, didn't even ask for instructions, and just let them go. But these refugees in front of him are not Chinese, they have no Chinese nationality, there are no orders, and there are no proper arrangements in the rear, how can he let them go? It's just that they are released, how will these refugees be resettled? Where do you want to concentrate? A release order is simple, but the follow-up questions are troublesome.

"Commander, the order of the Ministry of Defense has come down." Du Yuming's adjutant hurriedly came from a distance, still holding a telegram in his hand.

"Did you say you could let it go?" Du Yuming asked the adjutant beside him.

"The order of the Ministry of Defense is for us to let some people go over first, and as for how much, it is up to the commander to decide who to release."

Hearing the adjutant's words, Du Yuming grabbed the telegram and read it. After reading it, he shook his head, and instantly made a decision in his heart.

"Order all units on the border line to set up a checkpoint, as long as the Chinese descendants and those who can speak Mandarin are allowed to pass, women and children, friends or relatives of Chinese nationality are confirmed, they are also released, and others are suspended. Also, order the cooks to boil some rice porridge and give it to them. Du Yuming ordered.

"Yes."

Du Yuming was not merciful to the enemy, but when he was in the military academy, there was a sentence that he always remembered. War is the responsibility of soldiers, and soldiers exist to protect the people.

Although these people in front of him are not Chinese, he can't be truly indifferent to those refugees who are begging for them.

In Du Yuming's view, this is also to erect a positive image for China. He also knows more or less the purpose of the establishment of the pilot city. Now is the time to officially buy people's hearts, and doing so does not go against Chen Shao's original intention.

Killing can't solve the problem after all, and subtlety is the best strategy. Iron blood should be iron blood, and when it should be soft, it should also be gentle.

(To be continued)