The next day, Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi flew to Changchun.

This can be regarded as a inspection of the Northeast by the commander of the Expeditionary Force and the deputy commander, or it can be fulfilled by Wang Mazi's wish to return to his hometown.

Of course, the latter will have a larger component. As for the former... everything in the Northeast is going on in an orderly manner. To be honest, Wang Mazi's inspection will not play a big role.

As soon as Wang Mazi got off the plane, his steps became heavier.

He walked slowly on the snow for a few steps, looked around the empty, and sighed: "This is the Northeast, I finally got back!"

Zhang Chi can understand Wang Mazi's mood at this time. The "Northeast" he said in his words is actually more appropriate to use "China", because for Wang Mazi, this means... after so many years, he finally set foot on his own territory again.

"Salute!" Two soldiers from the airport salute.

Li Huakun came up with his adjutant and saluted Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi, "Commander, Deputy Commander!"

"Yes!" Wang Mazi nodded and looked at Li Huakun a few times.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward. Wang Mazi had been stationed in Rabaul for a long time, and he was not familiar with officers outside the New Division.

"Oh, this is Li Huakun, the commander of the 50th Division!" Zhang Chi introduced, adding a sentence at the end: "Our own!"

"Oh! Commander Li!" Wang Mazi shook hands with Li Huakun at this time.

Wang Mazi was always afraid of Principal Jiang's eyes and ears, especially at this time he set foot on China's land, and many other Chiang-based troops stationed in the Northeast were Chiang-based troops... Even though most of these Chiang-based troops were conquered by Zhang Chi, Wang Mazi's psychological pressure could not be eliminated in a moment.

On the way back, Li Huakun, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and said to Zhang Chi: "Deputy Commander, you are back. I have been so annoyed by me during this period!"

"What's the matter?" Zhang Chi asked, and at the same time, he thought that it was the Chiang army that caused Li Huakun some more problems.

But Zhang Chi guessed wrongly.

"It's just about recruiting talents!" Li Huakun shook his head and replied.

"What trouble will there be to recruit talents?" Zhang Chi asked: "Is there insufficient funds?"

Funding is indeed a problem. The Americans don’t say that they can give as much as they pay. What they give is limited to combat supplies. Regarding the development of the Northeast... Zhang Chi has to solve it himself.

The Northeast is in chaos. The Japanese army had previously plundered the Northeast so that even the copper nails at the city gate were to be dismantled to make bullets and shells, so they really couldn't make much money for a while.

But Zhang Chi guessed wrong again.

"It's not that there is insufficient funds!" Li Huakun said: "It's those talents... I'm saying that this doesn't work, that doesn't work, and I don't know how to deal with them!"

"Oh, they are still picking on the trick?" Zhang Chi couldn't help but laugh: "What kind of talent are you searching for?"

"Didn't you say you're back from overseas?" Li Huakun replied: "There are quite a lot. Those who have returned from studying in Japan and those who have returned from studying in the United States... More than 300 people have been invited during this period! And there are others... There should be thousands of them!"

"There are so many?" Zhang Chi was shocked when he heard this.

Later, Zhang Chi realized that these "returnees" were not all from the Northeast... After hearing that the Expeditionary Force recovered the three northeastern provinces, they tried their best to use their resources to transfer to the Northeast to join the Expeditionary Force.

This is one of the benefits of winning a battle... After winning a battle, the people will see hope in the darkness and will have a siphon effect on talents.

Zhang Chi wanted to know what these people were opposing, and Wang Mazi came here to inspect, so the first step was to meet these people.

The meeting place was arranged in a conference room.

Of course, Zhang Chi could not meet more than a thousand people at once, so Li Huakun called more than a dozen representatives to attend the meeting.

"Commander, Deputy Commander!" More than a dozen people who attended the meeting paid tribute to Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi one by one.

Zhang Chi asked straight to the point: "I heard you have any opinions on our policies in the Northeast?"

"That's right!" A young man in a long gown and a top hat stood up.

Li Huakun introduced: "This is Liu Zhenguo, who returned from studying in Japan!"

"Deputy Commander!" Liu Zhenguo took off his hat and bent towards Zhang Chi, then said in a stern manner: "What we disagree with the most... is the education issue!"

"Is there any problem with education?" Zhang Chi was a little puzzled.

Since the Japanese textbooks were scrapped, the ones they replaced were all from China. Zhang Chi took a look at them and did not think there was any problem.

"Deputy Commander!" Liu Zhenguo said: "I wonder if you realize that these textbooks are outdated? They will even make the Chinese people lose their will, blur their minds, and be unable to distinguish right from wrong..."

"Wait!" Zhang Chi interrupted Liu Zhenguo and said, "Textbooks make people confused and confused about right and wrong? What are you specifically referring to?"

"For example, the Analects of Confucius!" Liu Zhenguo replied: "To be precise, even Chinese books cannot be learned!"

After hearing this, Zhang Chi could tell what Liu Zhenguo meant...

"You mean... Chinese books are useless?"

"It's not just Chinese books!" Another person stood up: "It should be said to be Chinese culture!"

"Yes!" Another stood up and said, "It is Chinese culture that makes us so weak, and even more so, we should abolish Chinese characters!"

"So..." Zhang Chi looked at these people incredibly: "What do you think you should do?"

"Taking foreign textbooks as textbooks!" Liu Zhenguo said: "I think it's good to introduce textbooks from the United States!"

Zhang Chi was a little confused when he heard this.

Later, Zhang Chi realized...he knew too little.

In fact, during the period from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China in history, Chinese youth have been trying to find the original sin of China's failure in amidst invasion and continuous failure...

At first, I thought that "the weapon is inferior to that of a human being", so the Westernization Movement established the Beiyang Navy.

But the Beiyang Navy looked powerful but was defeated by the Japanese Navy in just a few seconds.

The patriotic young people carefully analyzed the reasons for the failure, and at this time they thought it was "better than people"... That is, the system of the Qing Dynasty was not good, so the Kang-Liang reform came.

With the failure of the Kang-Liang reform, patriotic youth thought that "culture is inferior to humans"... They extremely believed that it was because of the etiquette, benevolence and righteousness promoted in Chinese culture that China became an unarmed sheep for arming, so they proposed to "destroy the Confucius Family Store" or even "abolition of Chinese characters" to fully learn Western culture.
Chapter completed!