Weber agreed, but his idea was slightly different. He hoped to go from another perspective.

Interpret this war from a historical and cultural perspective.

Among the Western journalists in China, Weber is now famous and has become the number one Western journalist in China. Although Charles has been in China for a long time, he is always one step behind in fame. This is of course closely related to the support of China's senior management. Weber can always get first-hand news in the shortest time.

Three people stood in the yard and chatted. An officer led a few soldiers to the outside of the yard. The time for changing the duty was up. There were not many reporters qualified to live here. Apart from the three of them, there were only Mei Youlan. However, Mei Youlan has become a little abnormal recently. She did not even participate in the press group organized by the war zone. She didn't have much time in Tangshan. She recently went to Tianjin again.

Tianjin reconstruction is in full swing. Tang Shizun and Zhang Ting accidentally joined forces with He Xiwu in the name of investigating Hanjiān to collect a large number of funds. The consortium coming from the southwest started construction of a large number of buildings in Tianjin. Zhang Jingjiang attended the establishment ceremony of the Tianjin Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and announced that it would invest 200 million yuan to support Tianjin reconstruction within a few years.

The greatest support comes from the Ministry of Finance. With the resolution of the Sino-Soviet issue, the obstacles to China's issuance of bonds in the United States were cleared, and the US government agreed to China's issuance of 200 million US dollars in construction bonds in the United States. The smooth issuance of construction bonds eased the fiscal pressure of the National Government. The National Government announced that it would invest 500 million legal tender to rebuild North China.

While investing funds, the National Government announced the implementation of a series of favorable policies in North China aimed at promoting the restoration and reconstruction of North China. The National Government announced that Hebei Chahar, Shanxi, Hebei, one year of exemption from agricultural tax, and for three years of industrial and commercial taxation, the National Government once again appealed to the whole people to live a tight life.

Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling personally attended the 10th anniversary of the New Life Movement held in Chongqing. At this meeting, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an important speech. In this speech, Chiang Kai-shek made an estimate of the prospects of the war. He believed that as long as another year was another, he could completely defeat the Japanese. He told the people that after seven years of war, the country is now in great difficulty and the country's finances are extremely tense. Even after the war is over, the national finances will not improve immediately. He hopes that the people of the whole country will unite around the government and overcome the difficulties together with a simplicity of hardships.

With Chiang Kai-shek's speech, a new life movement was launched again across the country. This new life movement is no longer limited to the old three production, artistic and militarization; the more are the simplicity and organization of life.

The new life movement is emerging everywhere, and students are taking to the streets again. Peking students are guarding in front of high-end hotels, asking the hotel to announce the dining prices, and requiring the restaurant to print them on the menu: "All citizens should live a frugal life and not eat and drink!"

Some students participated in the rural work team and promoted rent reduction and interest reduction in rural areas: After ten years of publicity and promotion, they have been recognized by most social and government senior officials. Although there are still a few gentry secretly slandering it, they can no longer stop the promotion of rent reduction and interest reduction.

Social reform led by rent reduction and interest reduction was vigorously implemented in the Restoration District, and the entire North China began to reorganize and restructure the society during reconstruction.

Mei Youlan was not in the headquarters, which made Weber feel a little regretful that he also vaguely guessed what she was thinking, but Zhuang Jihua never expressed that Mei Youlan had a hard time living for this.

Weber didn't understand it very much. In China for decades, he still didn't understand the implicitness of the East. In the eyes of the West, one widowed and the other unmarried, and the two are in love with each other. However, Zhuang Jihua and Mei Youlan, two people with Western backgrounds, adhere to the tradition of East responsibility.

Following the village road, the three of them walked and chatted.

In June, in Jidong, the golden wheat ears covered in the endless fields had disappeared. There were several newly built straw piles at the entrance of the village. Under the fiery sun, the straw piles quickly dried and yellow, and the village had smoke surrounds. It was women who were busy cooking at home and sent to the drying yard.

"What are you doing, big girl?"

Walking in front of Webber and the others were a few women. They were carrying willow baskets made of willow branches, which were covered with a white cloth to cover the food inside. In the hot weather, even in such a closed countryside, women's clothes became simple. Simple shirts made of white cloth covered all body parts tightly.

"Sister-in-law, what else can I have? Big white steamed buns, sister-in-law, what did you do?" The person who spoke was obviously much younger, and he spoke a little faster while talking.

"Hehe" the sister-in-law smiled and changed the burden to her shoulders, but did not answer the young woman's question: "My brother and sister, that young man is not bad. I think he is honest and diligent. My brother has been away for several years, and the family is deserted enough. It's good to hire a son-in-law at home."

"Sister-in-law, what are you saying? He is younger than me... The young woman replied, but even Weber heard the regrets in women's words. The war caused a large number of young and middle-aged men to decrease, with more women and fewer men. After the army entered here, a large number of young and middle-aged men in the army were very popular with women here.

When it comes to military-civilian relations, there is also a process for military-civilian relations here. When the army first entered, almost every household closed. Not to mention women, even children were less likely to go out. But then, the army formed a working team to help villagers reduce rent and interest, help villagers plant and harvest in summer, and help villagers rebuild houses burned by the war.

These actions quickly brought the relationship between the military and civilians closer. The villagers found that these *** are completely different from the previous ones. They never forced to buy and sell, never forced to recruit civilians, and even if they took a straw from the villagers' homes, they would pay for money. The relationship between the military and civilians quickly became harmonious. Next, the army requisitioned the small close to the ancestral hall

At the school, a group of new soldiers entered the village. The alert for the village was immediately increased, and a guard post was added to the entrance of the village. Even if the rank of the officer was not known, the villagers knew that a high-ranking official had come to the village.

"By the way, sister-in-law, do you know who lives in a good school?" The young woman suddenly asked the middle-aged woman on the other side mysteriously.

"Who is the one who is an official? Maybe it's not a young official." The fifth sister-in-law's tone was full of care. At this time, a flute came from a distance, and a train rushed by.

The village is not far from the railway line, and you can clearly see the cannons and tanks carried on the train. After emergency repairs, Beining has been reopened to traffic, and military transportation has become very busy. Weber and Bai Xiude once passed by. Within two hours, twelve trains were loaded with supplies passed.

"Fifth sister-in-law, you don't know this." The young woman said with a hint of pride in her tone: "Tell you, it's Commander Zhuang, our biggest official." "Commander Zhuang?" The sister-in-law looked up at the drying yard at the entrance of the village and repeated unconsciously: "What, Commander Zhuang, there are many commanders these days."

"Blind, those commanders are all under the jurisdiction of Commander Zhuang." The young woman's tone was a little dissatisfied: "I tell you that Commander Zhuang was reincarnated by Wu Quxing, and was specially designed to kill the Japanese."

With the victory of the North China Battle, the folk legend of Zhuang Jihua became more and more amazing. Yue Wumu, Han Xin, Qi Jiguang and others were the most widely circulated. Wu Quxing was the star.

Weber shook his head slightly. In Hua's opinion, this represents the closure of rural areas in China. Even this village with schools cannot escape such strange expectations.

In the village drying ground, men were shirtless and raising wheat. There were many soldiers in military uniforms mixed in the crowd. Everyone chatted while raising. Most of these soldiers came from the countryside and were very familiar with farm work.

There was a burst of laughter from time to time on the drying ground. When the drying ground arrived, the women put down their burdens and shouted to the men to come for dinner.

Weber and Charles did not stop at the drying ground, and continued to walk along the road. Not far from the drying ground, there was a small forest. Several guards chatted in the woods, and from time to time they watched the general who was practicing Tai Chi not far away. Weber knew this general who was practicing Tai Chi was He Guozhu, the new deputy commander of the Northeast War Zone.

The Northeast Army has completed its reorganization and is being transferred to the Northeast War Zone one after another. In the order issued by the National Government not long ago, the Northeast Army and the Northeast Ting marched into three armies, the Fifty-first Army, the Fifty-third Army and the Second Cavalry Army.

Even foreigners like Weber knew that during this reorganization, the former Northeast Army had completely disappeared. Zhuang Jihua's two direct descendants served as commanders of the 51st and 53rd Army respectively, Xia Yanglin served as commanders of the 51st and 53rd Army, and Lu Ruishan served as commanders of the 53rd Army. Only the former Northeast Army general Xu Liang continued to serve as commanders of the Second Cavalry Army.

The former general of the Northeast Army was transferred from the former troops, the former commander of the 53rd Army Zhou Fucheng was transferred to the commander of the 59th Army, the former commander of the 51st Army Zhou Yuying was transferred to the deputy director of the Northeast Theater Operations Department, Ma Zhanshan was appointed as the director of the Military Law Department of the War Zone, and He Zhuguo, commander of the 15th Army, served as deputy commander of the War Zone.

Among the 51st and 53rd Army, many officers who served as division commander brigade commander were also adjusted, and the newly formed 16th and 59th Army were transferred respectively.

The entire reorganization operation went smoothly with the cooperation of senior generals of the Northeast Army. After the reorganization, the troops immediately changed their clothes. The 53rd Army was replaced with American equipment as a whole, and the 51st Army was replaced with Chongqing. The two armies were all in the three-three system, with each army of 50,000 people and the entire army of 100,000 people.

Weber actually wanted to interview He Zhuguo. With his nearly twenty years of experience in China, it was difficult for Chinese generals to give up their control of the army. In many cases, in order to protect the army, they even took risks. Before the war, Chiang Kai-shek worked hard to eliminate these people called warlords, but he never did.

But Zhuang Jihua did it. Zhuang Jihua reorganized nearly one million puppet troops and local troops in Hubei, Henan and Shandong, and all of them were successful. Except for Hao Pengju, nothing else caused trouble, thus setting a precedent for reorganizing local troops.
Chapter completed!