Chapter 137: Overseas Chinese Leader

After initial contact, Hu Weidong discovered that Smedley also has a strong sense of justice, an active personality and seemingly inexhaustible energy, and the combination of the three makes her like a time bomb that can cause unforeseen events wherever she is placed. Therefore, even though Hu Weidong admired her revolutionary enthusiasm, he did not want her to go to Yan'an to make a big disturbance as in history, and he also did not want her to stay on his side and cause unnecessary interference, so he took the opportunity of the interview to explain to Smedley the dangers of the pesticide DDT, which had not yet been discovered at this time, so that she would have something to do and no longer be annoying.

Smedley, who had an overdose of justice, immediately returned to the United States to verify that DDT, although not very toxic, was extremely difficult to degrade and would rapidly accumulate through the food chain to reach high concentrations, thus causing great harm to human health. After a laboratory confirmed that Hu Weidong's claims were true, Smedley immediately called on governments to ban DDT immediately, but was caught in pigtails for violating the interests of farmers in Shili, a large part of the United States (with her character, it would be too easy to find a crime). She was imprisoned again, and it wasn't until after the end of World War II that the dangers of DDT were well known to the world, and the U.S. government was forced to ban DDT altogether, that Smedley finally ended her second prison sentence.

Soon after her release from prison, she returned to China, but because the leaders of the Red Party had already met too many foreigners, Smedley's place in their hearts was far from comparable to that of history, and the turmoil and tragedy caused by it were avoided. It is also worth mentioning. As the first to call attention to the issue of pesticide residues on Shijie, this controversial figure in history has a much more positive reputation in this time and space, which reassures Hu Weidong, who was already a little guilty of causing her to go to prison

Smedley's visit was expected by Hu Weidong, the leader of overseas Chinese in Nanyang (Chen Kah Kee really became the leader of overseas Chinese in Nanyang recognized by the world after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. But now he is also quite respected among the overseas Chinese in Nanyang. The arrival of Mr. Tan Kah Kee, an industrialist and educator, was very surprising to him. Although he knew very well that with Mr. Tan Kah Kee's patriotic zeal, he would be deeply encouraged by the achievements of the Red 15 th Army after it advanced into North China, but in 1936 it was when Tan Kah Kee's enterprise was on the verge of a desperate situation and was struggling, where did he have the time to visit the Soviet area? As everyone knows, it was precisely because of the successive victories of the Red 15th Army in North China that aroused Chen Jiageng's patriotic enthusiasm, so he spended his efforts to raise donations widely among the Chinese and overseas Chinese in Nanyang, regardless of the crumbling of his own enterprise, and sent donations of no less than one million legal currency to Luoyang to comfort the meritorious soldiers.

Tan Kah Kee originally thought that the Soviet area was very poor. After passing through the Guotong area in eastern Henan, where the people's livelihood was withering, he became more and more sure of his guesses, but when he came to the Soviet area, he was immediately taken aback, although less than a year was not enough time to make the peasants in western Henan rich, but the fields were generally planted with grain and other crops and ushered in a bumper harvest. Even some of the newly occupied counties of the Red Army were organized for the first time and the peasants were no longer as scattered as before, which was enough to dazzle Chen Jiageng's eyes, and countless farmland and water conservancy facilities and highway bridges were under construction. Chen Jiageng has never been seen in China.

Compared with the countryside, the vigorous development of industrial and mining industries in Luoyang and its surrounding counties is even more unexpected for Chen Jiageng, although the most important military industry and some other strategic departments are hidden underground or in the mountains, but even the tip of the iceberg is exposed. It was enough to move Chen Jiageng, and to his surprise. Some of those factories were privately owned, which greatly changed the Red Army's reputation for the achievements of the Anti-Japanese War. But Tan Kah Kee, who still thinks that the Red Party aims to eliminate the rich, is very surprised. …,

Although in order to avoid trouble on the road, Chen Jiageng and others disguised themselves as ordinary vendors, Hu Weidong, who had always admired him deeply, happened to come to the reception to inspect the work, and as a result, he recognized this "overseas Chinese banner and national glory" at a glance, and immediately bowed his hand and said, "I didn't expect you to come here, Mr. Chen, this is really an honor for our Soviet region." ”

Chen Jiageng was suddenly surprised, thinking to himself how the young man in front of him could know his identity, and after seeing the staff at the reception saluting Hu Weidong, he finally understood that the young man in front of him, who was not as old as his own sons, was actually the hero who eliminated tens of thousands of devils in North China, and couldn't help but say with half sighs and half doubts, "It's really a hero out of a young man, but the general can recognize the old man?" ”

"For us overseas Chinese, how many of your big names don't know?" , Hu Weidong now finds that the fake identity he fabricated at the beginning is still quite useful.

"General, you have returned from overseas? I don't know where the hometown of overseas Chinese is? Chen Jiageng is a little unbelieving, Hu Weidong's style is more foreign, but he can't hear any dialect accent of Chinese, it's too good, right?

"It's a home from all over the world, and I just returned to China a few years ago." , Hu Weidong replied, seeing that Chen Jiageng didn't believe it, he couldn't help but have a headache, although the identity he made up made can be said, but it is indeed bizarre, if Chen Jiageng continues to ask, it is inevitable that he will not show his feet. When Hu Weidong was worried, his heart suddenly moved, and he casually sang the famous song "My Chinese Heart" by Zhang Mingmin in later generations, "The rivers and mountains are only in my dreams, and the motherland has not been close for many years, but no matter what, it can't be changed, my Chinese heart"

"This song expresses the voice of our overseas Chinese!" Although Chen Jiageng is a well-cultivated person, he couldn't help but cry at this time, and finally no longer doubted Hu Weidong's background, and was deeply proud of the emergence of a young hero like Hu Weidong among overseas Chinese.

"I felt it for a while, and it made you smile, Mr. Chen." , Hu Weidong sighed, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that this level is in the past. As long as Tan Kah Kee has a preconceived idea in his heart that he is indeed a Chinese returning from overseas, then even if there is a little unreasonableness, he will unconsciously ignore it. In fact, Hu Weidong didn't know that the fake birth he made up at the beginning would cause trouble in the future, but unless he said his identity as a traverser, there was no more explanation (your support is my biggest motivation.) )