The most important soul condiment is lemon juice, finely shredded papaya, and passion fruit, also known as egg fruit locally, mixed together, it is full of sourness and very authentic.

There are not many activities at the border inspection station. The biggest organized entertainment is watching movies. The movies are provided by the provincial film company, and people are specially arranged to come and report. The police officers, including Hu Pingtao, will come here to gather during their breaks.

Change the taste.

Hu Pingtao picked up the wine glass: "Dad, I respect you."

After clinking the glasses, Hu Chong took a sip first and praised: "This wine is not bad."

Hu Pingtao smiled and said: "This is the rice wine made by the landlady herself. If you like it, I will buy you some when you leave later."

Hu Chong said "hmm" first, picked up a piece of barbecue with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing slowly: "Are you used to working here?"

"It's okay." Hu Pingtao diligently put vegetables in his father's bowl.

Hu Chongxian continued to ask: "Lao Yang said that you solved an armed drug trafficking case a few days ago. What exactly happened?"

If his father did not have his current status and rank, Hu Pingtao would not answer this question anyway.

He lowered his voice and briefly told the story of the arrest.

Hu Chong first listened carefully, put down his chopsticks, and asked seriously: "Is Zhang Qingbao dead?"

Hu Pingtao nodded slowly: "I guess he was already dead by the time he was sent to the hospital. I know the power of that anti-infantry grenade, an Annan imitation. The situation in Myanmar is turbulent all year round. As long as you are willing to spend money,

You can buy anything from guns and ammunition.”

Hu Chongxian asked calmly: "What is your attitude towards Zhang Qingbao's family?"

"The Qingbao martyr application has been submitted, and it is expected to be approved soon. The pension and subsidy will not be less, and the station even made a special donation. I don't want to donate too much, so I only donated two

thousand."

After listening, Hu Chong was silent for a long time, then raised his cup and said, "Done."

Hu Pingtao understood the meaning of his father's words.

This glass of wine is not a tribute to myself, but to the deceased Zhang Qingbao.

After finishing the glass of wine in one gulp, Hu Chongxian suddenly moved his chair about half a meter closer to his son. Like an old friend, he raised his hand and patted his shoulder heavily several times, and then hugged him hard.

"I'm very happy today...you are very nice."

Hu Pingtao was stunned.

In my memory, my father has never been so affectionate to me. Even when I was a child, he rarely behaved like this.

He has always been very serious. The images stored deep in his memory were of him being beaten or scolded. He was beaten with an armed belt, a stick, leather shoes... in short, he used whatever came to hand.

When I was a child, I was naughty and was really frightened by being beaten by my father. Seeing him was like seeing the most brutal Tyrannosaurus rex, I couldn't help but tremble.

Hu Pingtao suppressed the excitement in his heart and laughed in a low voice: "Dad, have you drunk too much?"

Hu Chong glanced at him with disdain: "What's this little wine? When I was young, I participated in the war. After returning home, I had a celebration banquet. There were ten people at a table and two boxes of white wine. I drank half of the box by myself."

As he spoke, his expression suddenly became gloomy.

"Back then, many comrades-in-arms died on the battlefield. I thought that there would be peace from now on and there would be no more wars. But later I discovered that even in peaceful times, conflicts continued on the border and people often died."

Hu Pingtao felt deeply about this: "Yes! Border inspection work is really difficult."

Hu Chong first picked up the wine pot, filled up the two empty wine glasses, then picked up his own cup and drank it all in one gulp.

He was spitting out a strong taste of alcohol: "How difficult... how difficult is it?"

"Boy, you should read more history books. I won't talk about the distant past. Let's just say that our country was founded in 1994. The second year, that is, the 50th year, was really difficult at that time."

"Although Chairman Mao announced on the Tiananmen Gate Tower that the People's Republic of China was founded, we still have to face millions of remnants of the Kuomintang and thousands of bandits of all sizes, as well as

There are hundreds of thousands of lurking spies, as well as three natural strongholds in Taiwan, Hainan, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau."

"Before Bald's retreat, he had already established the so-called "Southwest Guerrilla Base Area" in the southwest region, and specially trained more than 4,000 guerrilla backbones. They were scattered in the deep mountains and forests of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and there were as many as fifteen guerrilla areas.

There are more than 600,000 armed bandits, threatening the security of New China's rear area."

"In the northwest, more than 200,000 bandits are stubborn and still dreaming of armed separatism."

"We wanted to liberate Hainan Island and Wanwan, but we did not have a navy or an air force. At that time, General Xiao Jinguang was transferred to the navy commander and went to the coast to inspect defense. Because there were no warships available, he could only rent an old fishing boat from local fishermen. The fishermen

I’m very surprised: You are the commander of the navy, and you still want to rent my boat?”

"New China was so poor that the big brother of the Soviet Union gave a loan of 300 million yuan. Prime Minister Zhou Yi was very careful and wanted to buy warships to solve the sea crossing problem, but time waited for no one. Seeing that there was no hope for naval support, the soldiers in the fourth field had no choice but to

He took the risk and launched the Hainan Island Campaign."

"Just think about it, there was no navy or air force, so we just sailed across the sea in a wooden sailboat, and killed Wang Enhua, the commander of the Kuomintang's second fleet. We defeated the modern warships with a wooden boat and defeated the then Hainan Island country.

Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the 1st Democratic Party, was dumbfounded."

"It was still the 1950s. We wanted to recuperate, but the Americans wanted to support Syngman Rhee, so the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea began."

"This is a contest with great disparity in strength. On one side is Blue Star's absolute military and economic hegemony, and on the other side is a backward agricultural country that has just stood up from the ruins of the war. Even our die-hard ally at the time, the Soviet Union, did not dare to do so.

I don’t believe that the Volunteer Army dares to confront the United States head-on.”

"There are many military books at home, and you also read a lot of news records about the Korean battlefield when you were a child. Song Shilun's Ninth Corps was stationed in Fujian at the time. Why was he selected as the main force to enter Korea? It was because of the millions of people in the southwest and northwest.

Banditry, hundreds of thousands of spies entrenched in major cities in the country, and bald heads eyeing across the strait... No matter how you look at it, this is a dead end!"

"But that's not the whole problem. In the southwest, that bastard Nehru is staring at the Tibetan Plateau, and he is biting the "McMahon Line."

"In 1950, 30,000 soldiers of the 18th Army set out from Sichuan. With no roads available and extremely scarce logistics, they started the Battle of Qamdo, followed by the Lhasa Expedition. There were many difficulties along the way, including the ability to withstand cold and hypoxia.

One-third of the mules and horses died from exhaustion."

"General Zhang Guohua, commander of the 18th Army, said: For the sake of the liberation of the Tibetan people, we must crawl as far as Tibet."

"When fighting a war, we fight about economy and logistics."

"How bad was our economic situation at that time? The fourteen-year Anti-Japanese War, the four-year Liberation War, and the economic data after the founding of the People's Republic of China were appalling. Compared with the data in the previous highest years, agricultural output dropped by 20% and grain production dropped by 100%.

By 25/25, cotton and coal production fell by half, and steel production fell by 80 percent."

"Corresponding to this is a huge population that needs to be fed."

"Due to widespread disasters across the country in 1949, there are still 40 million rural victims and millions of urban unemployed people in need of relief. Against this background, the fiscal revenue in 1949 can only meet one-third of the expenditure. By May

Year 0 was even more difficult. There was a serious shortage of materials, and the inflation data was terrifying: from July 1949 to January 1950, in just four months, the currency expanded nearly fourteen times.

.”

"Such a basic market is already terrible, but we are still faced with unpredictable malicious sabotage. The remnant forces of capital with evil intentions continue to launch desperate attacks on the economy. In the early 1950s, the "Silver Dollar War" and the "Rice and Cotton War"

The epidemic broke out one after another, and the price index in 13 key domestic cities increased by a full seventy times compared with the end of 1948."

"What is this concept? Think about it: one hundred yuan could buy a 20-kilogram bag of rice the year before last. This year, if you want to buy a bag of rice of the same weight, you will have to spend at least 7,000 yuan."

"Internationally, the United States has launched a comprehensive economic blockade since the founding of New China in 1949."

"In January 1950, the U.S. Department of Commerce stopped exports of refined oil to China."

"In February of the same year, the United States asked the United Kingdom to impose an embargo on China."

"In March, the United States announced the "Strategic Materials Control Measures" and implemented comprehensive trade controls with China on more than 600 commodities, including machinery and equipment, transportation, metal products, and chemical raw materials."

“In April, the United States threatened to cut loans and required all countries aided by the Marshall Plan to ban strategic supplies from going to China.”

"Many people believe that the Soviet Union gave us a lot of help during that period. I admit that during the first Five-Year Plan period, they helped us very much. This is an indisputable fact. However, there are two aspects to the matter.

Look, when we were fighting to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, the 11th Soviet Union

They sold a large amount of old World War II equipment. These things were not given to us for free. They cost us a total of 4 billion. From then on, we shouldered a huge repayment burden until 1960, when we tightened our belts and

Finally, we used high-quality agricultural products and resources to compensate and pay it off."

"All of this looks miserable enough."

"But that's not all!"

"Annan and North Korea, two brothers and sisters who once fought side by side, also came to ask for help one after another."

"In January 1950, Ho Chi Minh, who was in his sixties, walked barefoot in the mountains for seventeen days, bypassing the French army's heavy blockade and coming to the imperial capital, begging New China to assist the people of Annam in driving away the French invaders."

"In May, Kim Il-sung came to the imperial capital and requested New China to deploy troops in the northeastern border areas as soon as possible."

"We all agreed."

"We allowed more than 20,000 Annan troops to enter for repairs, provided equipment, supplies and training, and used the best resources to create an iron-blooded lion for Ho Chi Minh. Generals Chen Geng and Wei Guoqing led dozens of

Commanders and soldiers who have experienced many battles went to Annan in person, and under our extremely difficult circumstances, they took out only 2,000 tons of rice to fully support the Annan people in winning the border battle."

"At the border between China and North Korea, all the Korean soldiers from the Fourth Field were gathered together, organized into a reinforced division, equipped with the best weapons and equipment at the time, and asked to bring them to Kim Il Sung."

"Son, take a good look! Standing on the ruins of 1950 and looking around, no country has given us real help. On the contrary, there are a lot of obstacles and hindrances."

"That year, the whole world was enjoying the happiness brought about by the post-war economic recovery. New China could only go hungry, grit its teeth, endure the severe pain in its body, and use unyielding roars over and over again to warn itself.

You must not fall down.”

“That year, the average weight of young adults aged 20 to 40 was only 52 kilograms and their height was only 1.61 meters. The urban illiteracy rate was as high as 80%, and the rural illiteracy rate was as high as 90%.

Five, it is even far inferior to India next door.”

"In the 1950s, when Song Shilun led the Nine Corps into North Korea to fight, even the North Koreans shook their heads and thought how could such a "beggar army" defeat the Americans?"
To be continued...