"Tell me about this self-reliant guy."
"Zheng was born in the rural areas of South Vietnam and received secondary education. He hated the French. During World War II, the Japanese army cultivated anti-French forces. A guerrilla training camp in Cambodia recruited many Vietnamese. Zheng Yizhong participated in the Japanese attack on the French.
After the end of World War II, France returned to Vietnam. He joined the Gaotai Sect and became an officer of the Gaotai Sect. The Chief of Staff organized and commanded 12 mobile guerrilla detachments to launch raids on the Vietnamese League and the French army many times to drive them out of the Gaotai Sect. "
Li Min deliberately paused until he finished recording, and then introduced, "Three years ago, he left the Gaotai Sect, and his own armed forces claimed to be the National United Army. Many Gaotai Sect militiamen threw themselves into his flag, and his father and four brothers also took part in the cross-alliance battle of his army. His father and four brothers were killed.
Because the two-front war was under greater pressure than other warlord forces, the French army attacked them after a Viet Nam battle. Zheng was forced to assassinate the French commander who directed the attack and succeeded, so the French hated him very much and vowed to kill his own commander for revenge. "
Pingchuan Sect, Gaotai Sect, Zheng Shi, Hehao Sect, Catholic militia …
After introducing the influence of warlords in South Vietnam, how late is it? How early is it? At dinner, Professor Henry was hungry, and he was very concerned about Vietnam. Professor Henry was still unfinished.
He weighed it a little and said seriously, "Henry, I believe Li knows Vietnamese best in the United States. If possible, I’d like to invite him to join the research department as my assistant."
Professor Henry shook his head and smiled without thinking. "Dude, it’s a pain in the neck. You just asked the Vietnamese warlords who didn’t know who was the richest in Vietnam and who controlled the economy of that hellhole. The Li family, the Vietnamese business community, has comparable influence. Li is the sole heir of the family and a multimillionaire."
"God, are you kidding?"
Looking at him, Li Min smiled and confirmed, "Although it is not as exaggerated as Professor Henry said, I do want to inherit the family business, and the Chinese Council of Vietnam to which we belong does have some influence on the economy."
"Are you from China?"
To be exact, it should be Chinese. I was born and raised in Saigon. My family in Saigon has a history of nearly a century, and many of my friends, including some business partners, have a longer history in Vietnam, which can be traced back to more than 1000 years ago.
Professor Henry Gherardini added, "It’s only a few years since the United States became independent. Because of the chaotic nationality system of the French colonial authorities, Li and his friends are now neither China nor Vietnamese, but third-country nationals living in Vietnam."
Thinking that Wu Tingyan wants influence in Vietnam, he wants the army without influence, and he wants money and money. Professor Sheshe smiled unhappily. "These are not important. What matters is economic strength. Li, I sincerely invite you to be a consultant of the government research department. I wonder if you are interested?"
Li Min held out his right hand and said very seriously, "Professor, I am very honored to accept this invitation, because I, my family and my business partner, your friend Mr. Yan, have the same goal. If there is no strong person to lead a strong government, my family and my business partner will not only seriously damage their interests, but also be likely to become a prisoner of the Vietnam League, and they will be persecuted to death."
Common interests can lead to common undertakings. Professor Sheshe excitedly asked, "Li says you are willing to support Mr. Yan?"
It has to be "support" rather than "follow"
Li Min is very satisfied with this positioning. After all, Wu Tingyan is now down and out, and he is not qualified to be followed. More importantly, French colonial rule is unpopular, and Wu Tingyan’s future rule is not much better. If you follow it wholeheartedly, you will die.
"The situation is in such a mess that I can’t imagine who is more suitable than Mr. Yan to save the situation. Besides, whether he can finish his mission depends on the support of France, Emperor Bao and the Chinese Council in Washington. At this stage, it is not very helpful for him."
Where is it like a student who has just graduated for a year, where is it like a businessman and a politician?
Professor she was satisfied with Li Min’s performance. She stared at him with a smile in her eyes and asked, "Li, I wonder if this is the question. Can you represent that Council?"
Sidi pulls tiger skin as a banner. How can the United States not pull tiger skin as a banner?
Li Min nodded heavily and solemnly confirmed, "To teach the truth, it is necessary for me to explain on behalf of the Council that our Chinese Council is composed of five groups whose ancestral homes are from different parts of China.% Chinese enterprises and individuals are these five groups. Of course, the total membership exceeds one million, accounting for half of Saigon citizens."
"Great! Mr. Yan needs your support now!"
Chapter 15 First Meeting Wu Tingyan
Professor She seems that his Vietnamese friends need not only support but also confidence now.
Wu Tingyan went to Japan a few years ago and was rejected by MacArthur. When he came to the United States, he and Cardinal Francis Spelman introduced a lot of dignitaries, but his attitude became colder and colder. It seemed that the world was not interested in that "chubby" from Vietnam.
Anyone who runs into a wall everywhere will be disheartened
It is a shot in the arm for Wu Tingyan that the business group represented by the graduates of the school can support it at this time.
In order to let Wu Tingyan know the good news for the first time, he sent a newspaper to Paris overnight, saying that Li Min was the most outstanding Asian student since Michigan Agricultural Science University was founded, with more than a dozen words, such as unique insights, compassion, great sense of justice and mission.
It’s better to give charcoal in the snow than to add flowers. This trip to the United States is to "burn a cold stove."
Li Min naturally won’t let him speak colloquially. He has a big red envelope of $20,000 from his father-in-law. He generously donated the 50,000 he asked for at home and entrusted Professor She to remit it to France the next morning.
According to the official quotation, 1.75 million Piaster is equivalent to 24.65 million francs (old francs). The sudden news and this "huge sum" really excited Wu Tingyan. First, after being away from Vietnam for so long, someone still remembers him and supports his proposition. Second, the newspaper and the remittance represent not one person, but a group with strong economic strength, which can hardly represent some people in the group.
Then everything became logical.
He replied to a newspaper apologizing that he can’t leave Paris now and reiterated his position on the "third force"
Li Min is not interested in his ideas, but in him.
On the fourth day after receiving the report, Professor She arranged for travel-stained to rush to a shabby old apartment on Bertier Avenue in Paris, where she met this person who was often associated with American imperialism in the history of later generations and was called "the lackeys of American imperialism in South Vietnam" and had no reputation.
The first impression he gives is not that he has green face and fangs and wants to eat people, but that he is an amiable, short and very elegant person.
He is wearing a white double-breasted suit, with black hair neatly combed and a wide face. He looks like a person who likes to laugh. He is as enthusiastic as the young priest in the monastery said, and he extends his right hand as soon as he meets.
Li Min clasped his hand and said apologetically in Vietnamese, "Mr. Yan took the liberty of visiting to keep you waiting."
Wu Tingyan, who can write beautiful calligraphy after reading a lot of poems, can’t speak Chinese, but smiles and welcomes, "It’s a pleasure to have friends from afar. It’s time to wait."
"thank you"
Li Min nodded slightly, turned around and paid the taxi driver off. While walking with him to the apartment, he explained, "Mr. Yan came here to see if he could help. A Saigon resident who was born in Saigon always wanted to do something in the face of this crisis, but he didn’t know what to do until he met Mr. Wesley."
"Mr. Li, you have been a great help."
Wu Tingyan pushed the door to greet him and said bluntly, "No matter what you do, you need to remit the 50 thousand dollars. I have already remitted it back to my brother and brother in Saigon."
"You mean that Bishop Bi (Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Th?c, Wu Tingyan’s second brother), Mr. Jin (Wu Tingjin), Mr. Yun (Dinh Nhu Ngo) and Mr. Lian (Wu Tinglian) also ran away?"
Wu Tingyan did not answer this question directly, but was surprised to ask, "Does Mr. Li know my brother?"
"Your father can be an old gentleman, and his official position is clean and respected. My father has made my brother Kui’s father’s river killed more than once. My father often told Chaozhou gang Ma Guoxuan, Wu Shounan and others that if the Viet Nam army went south, I don’t know how many people would be ruined."
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Zhihe declared independence, "dissolved" the Communist Party of Vietnam, established the Labor Party, the Vietnamese Nationalist Party and other political groups to form a Coalition government. He planned to appoint Wu Tingyan, the eldest brother, and served as the political minister of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Wu Tingkui thinks that they will change their medicine, but in the end they will still engage in Stalinist communism and refuse to join the Viet Cong. Finally, Hue with her son was buried alive by the Viet Cong.
After Wu Tingyan was caught by the Viet Cong, he questioned Hu Zhi face to face and said that it was a mistake. At that time, the country was in chaos and there was nothing to be done.
I was saddened by this incident and thought that I had escaped from the jaws of death. Wu Tingyan was a little excited and clenched his fist and said, "Hu Zhi is a schemer and a criminal. I will never forgive him."
Li Min whispered, "History will not forgive him."
"I will not forgive history."
Wu Tingyan took a deep breath and adjusted her mood. She looked up and smiled. "I know Mr. Ma Guoxuan and your father."
Li Guanyun does know him, but he only knows him. After all, it is normal for Saigon to be so big and influential and so many people to look up and not see him.
Even so, Li Min asked in surprise, "Really?"
"Well, there is no deep friendship."
"So … so … so you know my father … so it’s God’s will to make people travel halfway around the world to have the honor to visit you. Mr. Yan, don’t call me Mr. Li again. You are an elder and you can’t call my people in disorder."
Calling Mr. Li by his first name is more cordial because he is about the same age as his father.
Although Wu Tingyan is a devout Catholic, he has also been influenced by Confucianism, and his father Wu Tingke has been a etiquette minister and attaches great importance to seniority and etiquette.
People have done so much and the younger generation thinks he is very happy, very gratified and Gherardini and asks, "So I’ll call you by your first name?"
"Of course you should."