As Halsey said, Roosevelt heard that the Northeast lacked generator sets, without saying a word, transferred three large generator sets from Westinghouse Electric Company in the United States. Even when Wright Bay was already in a panic at that time, he still drew out the Victory Row and several warships and an escort aircraft carrier to deliver them to Zhang Chi as fast as possible.

According to Roosevelt, "The more stable China's Northeast China is, the easier it will be for the United States to enter Japan. Therefore, we do not allow any unstable factors in Northeast China, even the Soviet Union will not do it!"

Roosevelt was telling the truth, because in negotiations with the Soviet Union, he quickly changed from wishing the Soviet Union to demanding that the Soviet Union not interfere with the Chinese army's battle with the Japanese army in the Northeast.

Roosevelt also said this beautifully: "We had always hoped that the Soviet Union could focus on the overall situation and work with the Chinese troops to drive the Japanese out of China's land, but the Soviet Union did not agree. Not only did it fail to agree, but also put forward a series of unacceptable demands... Now, we only hope that the Soviet Union will not interfere in this matter!"

Another meaning of this sentence is "You ignored me yesterday, but you can't stand the me today!"

After saying these words, Roosevelt even laughed happily. Through this incident, he can be said to have further improved the reputation of the United States and even his personal internationally, which is also crucial to his election next year.

These three generator sets were not transported to Jilin until more than 20 days later... The speed was already quite fast, mainly because the United States is more than 10,000 kilometers away from China, and the speed of the victory wheel is only 17 knots per hour, and it takes sixteen days for just sea transportation.

With these three generator sets, there were technicians and engineers with a total of 200 people... The technicians came to install the generator set and put them into use, while the engineers came to guide the construction of the hydropower station that had not yet been constructed.

Zhang Chi warmly received the technicians and engineering personnel in this group, and immediately searched for relevant talents everywhere in the Northeast and arranged them to study with these technicians... Zhang Chi knew very well that in the future, the society would not be limited by people, but more importantly, technology, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

The technicians are headed by an old professor named Smith. After leading the visit to Fengman Hydropower Station, he frowned and said to Zhang Chi: "Col. This hydropower station is even bigger than we imagined. With the current situation... the problem of restoring power supply is not big, but if you want to continue construction..."

"What, is there any problem?"

"Construction problem!" Smith pushed his glasses on his nose and then raised the collar of the cotton coat. He was a little uncomfortable with the coldness of minus ten degrees northeast.

"This requires a lot of machinery!" Smith continued: "Otherwise, a lot of manpower is needed!"

"How much manpower does Dale need?" Zhang Chi asked.

"Wait..." Smith spread out the drawings and looked at them, then calculated on the draft paper, and replied: "Preliminary estimates that if it is done with manpower, it will take at least 30,000 people!"

"Yeah, no problem!"

Smith looked at Zhang Chi in a bit incredible and said, "Col. This is 30,000 people, and it is a high-intensity work... I heard that you just fought a big battle, and I'm afraid there are not so many supplies to pay the workers' salaries!"

Smith said this correctly. The Northeast had just been recovered from the Japanese. The currency of the pseudo-Manchukuo, the Manchukuo Yuan, became waste paper. Before the new currency was established, more physical items could be used to pay workers' salaries, especially food.

"We don't need to pay much salary to the workers!" Zhang Chi replied: "Because... we have 70,000 Japanese prisoners in our hands!"

Smith's expression changed when he heard this and said, "Col. I have to remind you that this does not seem to comply with the Geneva Convention. You must treat the prisoners well..."

"Yes!" Zhang Chi nodded and said, "Professor, please bring your people with me!"

Smith was a little confused, but under Zhang Chi's arrangement, he took the technicians and engineers to take a car and followed Zhang Chi's jeep out of the hydropower station.

The car stopped within ten minutes, and before everyone got off the car, they smelled a stinking smell in the air.

When they got off the car, everyone exclaimed... It turned out that there was a natural ditch more than 100 meters long, six meters wide and four meters deep on the side of the road. It was filled with corpses, and at least thousands of them were rotten into bones, while others were still carrion.

"Professor!" Zhang Chi said to Smith: "The Fengman Hydropower Station started construction in 1937. It has been six years since it was built. The civil engineering project has been completed by 89%. And you know... the Japanese basically have no mechanical equipment, so how did the Japanese carry out the construction?"

Smith obviously didn't think about this, and couldn't help but stare at Zhang Chi with wide eyes.

"Look at the bunkers, barbed wire and fences around!" Zhang Chi said: "These are not built by us, they are left by the Japanese... On the way you came, you must have passed by a barracks area, which was dedicated to imprisoning Chinese workers. Guess how many Chinese workers the Japanese used to build this hydropower station?"

Smith was shocked and shook his head slightly to express his incredibleness.

"I tell you, 110,000 people!" Zhang Chi continued: "In the past six years, the Japanese army has recruited a total of 110,000 Chinese workers. They told the workers that they could 'eat, accommodation and high wages, and send them home for free after three years'. But in fact, once they entered this place, they were equivalent to entering the gate of hell. They had to work more than ten hours a day, and tens of thousands of people were constructed at the same time every day. They did not cover their bodies, food and belly. When we rescued them, we found that their clothes were wrapped in broken sacks for construction, and many of them were even teenagers..."

"This is not true!"

"Of course this is true!" Zhang Chi said: "Look at the mass pit in front of you, there are Chinese workers who have been abused to death... The Japanese are too lazy to even bury them, but they just throw them into the ditch on the side of the road so simply!"

Smith looked at the ditch that smelled foul in disbelief, and then looked at Zhang Chi.

"These are all true!" Zhang Chi nodded: "And I can tell you that this is just one of them. We found three such ditches. If you want, I can take you there one by one!"
Chapter completed!