Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

Harvard University is one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the Star-Spangled Banner Republic.Its headquarters is located in the historical and cultural city of Cambridge, Boston, and its medical school and business school are located in downtown Boston.In Cambridge, adjacent to Harvard University is the equally famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit), and there is no clear boundary between the two campuses.

The first target plane, at the end of November 1943, the headquarters of Harvard University in the Republic of the Stars and Stripes—Cambridge City, is currently launching a large-scale exhibition event called "Yanhuanghong Party Construction Achievement Exhibition Week".The layout of the entire display area refers to later investment exhibitions, taking the form of photos, black-and-white film rolling, combination of physical models, and distribution of paper promotional materials.Since there was a contract with the Stars and Stripes on the purchase of aerial bombs, the Red Party Border Region Government has no shortage of dollars at this time.With money, in a country like capitalism where banknotes are king under normal circumstances, Wang Fan (who has already disguised himself as a middle-aged man Tang Wei) sprinkled dollar bills in large numbers in well-known newspapers such as the Washington Post and the Boston Morning Post. After extensive advertising and continuous publicity, everyone in the Star-Spangled Banner Republic finally knew about this exhibition.

Considering that it was winter, the entire exhibition was arranged in a long orange-red building with a large area. In addition to the massive pictures and other materials brought by Wang Fan and the others, the information disclosed was very valuable.Among them, there are as many as 700 photos showing the improvement of ordinary residents' living houses and student teaching and school buildings in the area under the jurisdiction of the Red Party Border Region Government, and the same Yanhuang people's houses are used here, and the huge changes before and after are compared. Some methods of construction photos, as well as pictures of up to 100 new-style public schools to compare and display the layout of each school gate, fully illustrate the improvement of people's livelihood and democratic progress under the rule of the Red Party.

The focus here is on people's livelihood and democracy, and it is Wang Fan's idea and persistence to deliberately avoid disputes over "isms".Before setting off for the working group (about 50 people) of the Republic of the Stars and Stripes, Wang Fan deliberately interviewed one by one, focusing on the "red" complex and flexible "emotional intelligence" of the interviewees.In Wang Fan's words: This trip to the Stars and Stripes is not to spread socialist ideas, nor is it to argue that communism will win and capitalism will lose.We have only one goal, which is to win back Yanhuang students, experts and professors who are currently studying in universities and colleges in the Star-Spangled Banner Republic.If people in the working group don't understand this point, going there will only add to the chaos, so they can quit now.

Therefore, the core of the "Exhibition Week" is the "people's livelihood" brand, a large number of photos, film and movie copies, which truly describe the improvement of the living standards and quality of life of the people of Yanhuang under the rule of the Red Party.

In the exhibition hall, in addition to standing in the respective display areas and explaining the content, the working groups also worked with the hired locals to divide several large areas with wooden partitions. Roads, so that visitors can browse the entire exhibition very conveniently.

It needs to be mentioned here that in the history of the main plane, due to the invasion of Yanhuang by Japanese pirates, the work of Yanhuang students studying abroad has almost stagnated since 1937.It wasn't until the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 that the Republic of the Stars and Stripes became increasingly close to the Republic of China because of the needs of the war.Then around March 1943, as the advantages of the Pacific naval battle changed hands, the Yanhuang people saw that the victory of the War of Resistance was in sight, and Chairman Jiang of the bald party published "The Destiny of Yanhuang", proposing that in order to adapt to the post-war national construction, it is necessary to Start preparing your talent pipeline.

For this reason, the Ministry of Education of the Central Government of the Bald Party formulated the "Five-Year Education Plan for Studying Abroad", "The 1943 Outline of the Plan for Sending Publicly Sponsored Elite Students to Study Abroad", and "The Measures for Sending Self-Financed Students Abroad". A large number of foreign students were dispatched for the first time.But it is quite ironic that when these students graduated and prepared to return around 1943, the bald party was gone, lost the Yanhuang Continent, and had to retreat to a corner of Baodao.

Therefore, in the history of the main plane, these students were later split into several parts, some joined the Red Party government, some stayed in the Stars and Stripes to develop, and very few went to Taiwan.However, since the target plane has just arrived in 1943, and the future of the Pacific War is still uncertain, not only the life trajectory of these students has changed, but also the total number of Yanhuang students and professors in the Republic of Stars and Stripes at this time is much smaller than that in 1949 up.

But the so-called condensed is the essence, although the number of these people is small, there are many big cows!Among them are the "two coins" in the "three coins" of the later Jianguo science and technology giants: Qian Xuesen and Qian Weichang.

Qian Xuesen, the "father of Chinese missiles", had obtained a doctorate in aeronautics and mathematics from Caltech in the Republic of the Stars and Stripes, and was an assistant professor at Caltech in 1943. The "Father of Chinese Mechanics" Qian Weichang received his Ph.D. in 1942 and was doing postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Jet Propulsion in the Republic of Stars and Stripes.They got to know each other because of their working relationship and research exchange needs. After seeing Wang Fan’s vigorous advertisement in the newspaper, they couldn’t help their doubts and impulses. They came to Harvard University to watch the exhibition together with Lin Jiaqiao and Guo Yonghuai.

As soon as a few people enter the hall, they can see the hanging paintings of "Minsheng" written in Chinese in large brush characters, and then walk to the left along the main visiting road, and they will see wooden walls covered with photos one after another. Included: the happy smiling faces of the children in class, the excitement of running on the playground, the clean and brand new classrooms, the bright glass of the classrooms that welcome the sun, complete fluorescent lamps and teaching equipment; the interior furniture of ordinary houses, freshly painted Neat cottages, country roads paved with cement or asphalt, old farmers in the fields driving tricycles with sunny faces and laughing endlessly~~~~.

Picture after picture, scene after scene, ordinary citizens of the Stars and Stripes walked through the photo wall just for a general overview. The four of them watched it for a whole morning. Zhang smiled, as if he wanted to find a kind of trace, a kind of evidence, a kind of evidence that could prove that all these unbelievable changes of Yanhuang were not fictional, not fabricated evidence.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the four people who had a hasty lunch continued to come to a small studio in the exhibition hall to watch black and white movies with sound (note: the first sound movie appeared in 1926, so it doesn't seem obtrusive here), quietly Watching the changes in the mountains and rivers of the motherland that have been away from the motherland for many years from the movie, I saw:

In an elementary school classroom, students are in class.

Most of the classrooms are male and female students around the fourth and fifth grades, wearing neat school uniforms, sitting upright with their upper body, listening carefully to the teacher's lecture on the podium in front of them.Every elementary school student has a very serious expression, and his eyes reveal his desire for knowledge.The chairs under them are in the same style as the desks in front of them, and they look like newly made wooden desks and chairs.The textbooks spread out on the desk are also very beautiful. Although they are not as colorful as those of later generations, the elegance of the blue book cover is still in place.

Each student also has their own independent pencil case. In the clips of their homework, from time to time, a child gently takes out the pencil sharpener, puts the pencil in carefully, and turns it carefully, for fear of using too much force. The core is broken.The second half of the teaching segment seems to be in the afternoon. The students happily assembled some wooden models. The thin wooden strips became orderly and regular combinations under the teacher's explanation. Soon, the outline of a wooden biplane appeared. When it came out, each student held it up and down happily.

"Can the lives of the people in the Northwest really improve to this level?" Qian Xuesen became more and more puzzled as he watched, muttering to himself.

"It shouldn't be fake. We carefully analyzed those photos all morning, especially the photos of the 100 schools. Looking at the details, it is not a fictional patchwork of several schools taken from different angles." Qian Wei Take a long talk.

"If this is the case, then the future of our country is now..." Guo Yonghuai hesitated to speak.

"Do you want to say that the name is not correct, and the words are not right?" Lin Jiaqiao took a look at Guo Yonghuai, and then said.

"Yes, after all, the central government is still in Chongqing, and the Red Party's propaganda of the Stars and Stripes this time is very obvious. It's an obvious intention to replace it." Guo Yonghuai nodded.

"Getting the right way will help you a lot, but being wronged will help you little." Qian Weichang didn't add too much, just commented with ancient famous lines.

"I need to think about it carefully!" Qian Xuesen answered abruptly. After the other three heard it, they tacitly did not speak, but they all understood the meaning of Qian Xuesen's words. It was indeed time for them to carefully consider what they should do.

As for the rest of the Stars and Stripes folks, they were drawn to two other black-and-white films.

On the screen in the studio next to Qian Xuesen’s location, accompanied by melodious background music and star-spangled English, a farmer from northern Shaanxi in a gray coat appeared, making some kind of pasta with his wife. He explained that this kind of pasta is called "huangmomo" in the northwest of Yanhuang.After steaming, rolling, and fermentation, the original millet with a slightly poor taste has become a delicacy that people love to eat.On the screen, the old man in his [-]s is sweating on his forehead, rubbing and crushing the original ecological scene, which suddenly brings out the unique life atmosphere in northern Shaanxi. For example, steamed mutton, Lanzhou ramen, and meat in cured sauce with Baijimo were presented one by one, which stimulated the throats of most audiences present, and an unspeakable intimacy and simplicity flowed in the hearts of everyone present.

Karl is a mechanic, and he is more rational, so although he yearns for the temptation of delicious food, he is not uncontrollable.However, rationally, he was also nailed to one place at this time, unable to move for a long time. On another screen in front of him, a 40-year-old Yanhuang blacksmith was concentrating on putting an iron bar into a thousand-degree heat. Burn red in the blast furnace, then take it out while it is hot, sprinkle iron powder as an adhesive, stick a small piece of steel ingot, and continue to put it into the blast furnace to heat and turn red, take it out quickly after a few minutes, and then hit it hard with a hammer to make it The steel ingot and the iron bar gradually melted into one, and finally, under the introduction of the narration, this rough embryo went through more than 100 processes, and it became a beautiful product of Yanhuang knives.And in front of the small projection room, several groups of such handmade knives are placed in layers, shining brightly against the illuminated light.

"Carl, what's the matter?" asked his colleague Simon.

"Simon, although they are still making knives in a very primitive way, the finished product is beautiful and the process is very artistic, very attractive, isn't it?" Carl asked.

"Well, there is a kind of dedication and touch, a kind of persistence and love for one's own career." Simon replied.

"I've decided, I'm going to Yanhuang Northwest." Carl said with a sudden emphasis.

"What? Are you crazy?!"

"No! I just want to go there and see for myself, see this blacksmith, and feel this kind of life!" Carl, who made up his mind, said seriously.

In this way, under the influence of the "Exhibition Week" held by Wang Fan, nearly half of the Yanhuang students and experts studying in the Stars and Stripes, as well as some Stars and Stripes citizens of the Republic of Stars and Stripes, with an attitude of affirmation or curiosity about the lives of the people under the rule of the Yanhuang Red Party, set up Boarded one after another DC-47 transport plane to Yanhuang.