At this time, Meng Qingshan did not know that the eyes of the Japanese had been fixed on the Heihe area, and he was inspecting the steel mill under construction in Aihui County, Heihe Province. A modern new city has begun to take shape, with factories rising up around Aihui County, chimneys piercing the blue sky, and cars rushing back and forth, a busy scene.

Meng Qingshan couldn't help but feel excited when he saw this, and said to Li Fuchun and Lu Dongsheng, who accompanied the visit: "Comrade Fuchun, Comrade Dongsheng, you are really not simple, you have built this place into such a prosperous place in less than a few months, you have really created a miracle!" ”

Li Fuchun also said with emotion: "There is infinite motivation in the masses to build our own industrial base, and all the workers who participated in the construction showed great enthusiasm. We can't just let the soldiers work on the front line, and we can't hide in the rear. ”

"This is all the strong support of you, Commander-in-Chief, otherwise we wouldn't be able to build it like this."

"By the way, Comrade Fuchun, have all those equipment in Jiangbei arrived?"

"It's been shipped back."

"When will the equipment be installed?"

"The equipment has been installed, the technicians have already started to operate, other factories have already started, and here is also a construction and production, we would rather let people wait for the machine according to your order, not let the machine wait for people, when the equipment is not there, we call the technicians together after a short training, now they can work immediately, by the winter of this year can be all completed, is expected to produce 500,000 tons of iron this year." It produces 450,000 tons of steel and provides sufficient steel for the entire industrial base. ”

"Good. You're doing a great job of training technicians. How many of those Jewish technicians were there from Jiangbei before? Are you enthusiastic about your work? ”

"There are more than 10,000 people, all intellectuals and industrial workers. They are all young men and girls, there are almost no old people, they have knowledge and skills, but Jiangbei doesn't treat them as people at all! When you didn't see them coming, they were miserable, all of them were yellow and thin, some were skinny, many people were tortured, many people were sick. Some of them don't work when they look at it, and when I see this stance, I can't believe that our big brother is so ruthless. Fortunately, Commander Lu prepared in advance and used a lot of medicine to treat them, only 40 people died, and the rest survived.

"What's the matter, I have prepared houses, clothes and quilts in advance according to the commander-in-chief's advice, and allocated enough food, vegetables, and meat to help these people who are more pitiful than refugees settle down and recover. Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought of that. Now they are all physically fit and can work hard! If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have been able to build so fast, and the only problem was the language barrier. ”

"The language barrier allows us to take our time and not rush. How are their jobs arranged? ”

"We have registered everyone, including their place of birth, date of birth, family status, education level, major, specialty, work they like to do, etc. We have placed them in education, health, research institutes and enterprises in various industries, according to their expertise and the needs of the industrial area. ”

"Are they emotionally stable now? Is there any homesickness? Not used to life? ”

"You can rest assured. We have freedom of speech, sufficient living materials, and abundant spare time, without oppression and discrimination. I won't treat them like Jiangbei and the German fascists, it's not me who blows it. Now I just drive them back and no one goes back! Last week I was chatting with them at the newly established cement factory, and they offered me to join the party. ”

"Comrade Fuchun, you have to tell our comrades that since these Jews have joined our base area, it means that they believe in us and are part of us, and do not discriminate against them because they look different from us, they have suffered serious injuries physically, physically and mentally in those days abroad, and we must make them feel the warmth of home, they are the main force and teachers and predecessors of our industrial development. You have done a good job before, we need to care about them in life, feel at ease in work, use them boldly, and believe in them. Among them, those who have worked actively and made outstanding contributions can be allowed to join the party, and we have also received a lot of Jewish people before, and there are more than a dozen villages in Sun Wu, and there is also a regiment of Jewish soldiers, and they have performed very prominently in this battle against bandits. ”

Then Meng Qingshan under the leadership of Li Fuchun visited the thermal power plant, cement plant, machinery factory, coke factory in Aihui County, all the way down Meng Qingshan is very proud, the current Aihui County is probably not comparable to Shanghai, Meng Qingshan believes that Zhou Bao Zhong will be surprised to see Heihe develop like this, and Meng Qingshan is also looking forward to the upcoming war between Soviet Russia and Russia, this is an opportunity faced by the Anti-Japanese Federation, but also a crisis, as long as the Anti-Japanese Federation grasps it well, then Meng Qingshan believes that the Japanese will not be able to stop him at all, With the unconditional support of Meng Qingshan, Heihe Province has become the most brilliant pearl of the three eastern provinces decades ahead of schedule

Meng Qingshan also attaches great importance to education, in addition to some basic enlightenment of the three-character scripture and thousand-character text, in the upper grades of primary school and junior high school tutorials are compiled into a lot of selected fragments of the works of the central leaders brought from Yan'an, such as the famous "A spark can start a prairie fire" The essence of the part was selected into the textbook at the high school level, in order to break the enslavement of the Japanese army and educate and propagate patriotic thoughts, Meng Qingshan squeezed out some time to follow the memory in his mind to "Southern Song Dynasty Yue Fei Anti-Jin", "Southern Song Dynasty Wen Tianxiang", " Red Turban Army" and other patriotic stories were compiled and distributed in books to enhance students' extracurricular reading.

As for foreign language teaching, under Meng Qingshan's insistence, the principle of voluntariness was adopted, and in addition to retaining some Japanese courses, Russian and English majors were also opened.

In order to ensure the quality of teaching, so that students can develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and laboriously in an all-round way. Meng Qingshan also launched a thrift campaign in the army, starting from himself, calling on every soldier to donate a part of the allowance to the school in every surplus. After the school was built, with the money saved, each school was equipped with sports equipment and musical instruments specially imported from Jiangbei.

Meng Qingshan's enthusiasm is very high, but due to the difference in thinking, he does not think very long-term. He only took into account the resumption of classes for students in primary and secondary schools, and promised that no child in the base area would be left without books, because he knew that these children were the hope of the country, just like Mr. Liang Qichao's article wrote that if the youth is strong, the country will be strong, the youth will be wise, the country will be rich, the youth will be independent, the youth will be free, the youth will be free, the progress of the youth will be the country's progress, the youth will be better than Europe, the country will be better than Europe, the country will be stronger than the earth, and the country will be stronger than the earth, and China's future will depend on these teenagers to complete.

After bargaining with Jiangbei, the Anti-Japanese Federation finally won a certain number of international students who were provided part of the scholarship by the other side every year at the cost of several weapons drawings. In addition to the children of martyrs of appropriate age, the Northeast Bureau will select 200 young students, progressive soldiers, and workers from the base areas to study in Jiangbei starting at the end of the year.

Jiangbei means that according to the actual needs, these international students will be in accordance with the ratio of arts and sciences to four or six ratios, after completing half a year of preparatory studies, and after passing the examination, they will enter Moscow University, Minsk University, Kyiv University, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and Stalingrad Polytechnic Institute to study corresponding liberal arts majors such as law, literature, and translation, as well as science majors such as chemistry and power.

However, Meng Qingshan insisted that he would not go except for the universities of the Far Eastern Military Region. Meng Qingshan's attitude not only confused Jiangbei, but even General Political Commissar Zhou Baozhong and Organization Minister Li Yanlu did not understand what he meant.

Although Jiangbei has repeatedly persuaded him, the level of university teaching in China is generally higher than that in the Far East. And the recommended universities are all well-known comprehensive universities. For example, Kyiv University and Minsk University, as well as the Leningrad Institute of Engineering, and even famous universities in the world. But no matter how Jiangbei persuaded him, Meng Qingshan was unmoved.

In the end, after repeated discussions, Jiangbei finally agreed to open a number of study abroad classes for this group of students at the Vladivostok Medical University, the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute, and the Ural Kirov Polytechnic Institute. Students will learn from the medical, metallurgical, mining, machine building, chemistry and other specialties that are in short supply in the base.

Afterwards, Zhou Bao and others also asked Meng Qingshan many times, and Meng Qingshan just smiled and did not answer, which made people look very mysterious, in fact, Meng Qingshan also had suffering, Meng Qingshan did not know the high level of teaching in European universities, and he also wanted to send people to study, but now the whole European war is the same as going to death, and going to other schools in the Soviet Union, in a few months the Soviet Union will go to war, the whole Moscow will be destroyed, and the people in Moscow will be killed and injured. Could it be that Meng Qingshan could watch the elites selected from the base areas walk into the fire pit, and it would be safer for the United States to be in a foreign country, but if you want to reach the United States, you need to take a boat, and the route passes through Japan, with the relationship between the Japanese and him, Meng Qingshan believes that if the devil knows that the fate of these people can be imagined, only the Far Eastern Military Region, which is next to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, is the only place where he can choose.

(To be continued.) )