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Before Xian Yaowen took his gaze away from the hill, Xie Tingyun patted his waist. He turned to look at Xie Tingyun, only to see that she was looking back with her head tilted. He looked over there and saw a jeep driving in the opposite direction, no, the car was driving backwards.

"what happened?"

"There were two people in the car, a US Army lieutenant colonel and a foreign woman, who were staring at the gentleman just now."

As soon as Xie Tingyun finished speaking, the jeep was parallel to the rickshaw, and a woman's hand stretched out of the window and made a gesture to stop.

"Master, please stop for a moment."

As soon as the rickshaw driver stopped, Xian Yaowen buttoned his suit, got off the rickshaw, and stood in front of the stopped jeep, waiting for the people in the car to get out.

When he was in New York, he contacted Charlotte Arrowood and asked when the American Military Assistance Technical Group (Advisory Group) would arrive in Taiwan. Arrowood not only told him that today was the last day for the group members to report to Taiwan, but also gave him a surprise - Arrowood's cousin Lieutenant Colonel Lucas was a member of the advisory group.

He had informed Arrowood when he landed in Taipei today. At this time, a US Army lieutenant colonel came to intercept him. There was no need to guess, the most likely person was Lucas. As for the woman, he wanted to guess Lucas' wife, but he probably missed the mark.

The doors on both sides of the car opened at the same time. He first saw a woman coming out of the passenger seat where he had a better view. Before he could take a closer look at her appearance, the woman was already standing in front of him, chewing bubble gum and looking at him wantonly.

After looking at him for a while, the woman asked in a frivolous tone: "Adam Hepburn?"

Xian Yaowen cursed in his heart, the woman had frizzy hair, a bracelet-sized earring on her left ear, and heavy makeup on her face that made it difficult to see her true appearance. She was wearing a denim suit and a pair of cowboy boots, dressed like a rock girl from the 1960s.

In this era, her outfit is quite explosive.

Needless to say, this woman is definitely Joan Charlotte. I don't know whether dressing like this is her nature or she is trying to stage a clichéd story of "resisting arranged marriage".

"Joan Charlotte?"

"Lucas Charlotte, Adam, hello." Without waiting for Joan to reply, Lucas got out of the car and took over the conversation.

"Hello, Lucas, are you guys coming to pick me up?"

Lucas looks quite similar to Kirk Cameron in his early thirties, with very obvious laugh lines and a face that loves to joke.

Lucas pointed at Joan and grinned, "Joan, my sister, I'm going to report to the Zhongshan North Road Football Field soon. Adam, I hand her over to you. I hope she will be complete when you return her."

"Could it be a corpse?"

Lucas shrugged, picked up the sunglasses hanging on his collar and put them on, got into the car quickly, and drove away as if he was avoiding the plague.

"Corpse?" Joan said with a playful look on her face.

"It's just a joke." Xian Yaowen pointed to the seat of the rickshaw, "We'll talk about our business later. Those who are watching the fun are all my family."

After hearing what he said, Qiong didn't make a fuss. She waved to everyone and sat down in her seat.

Xian Yaowen got on the car and the convoy continued to move forward.

On the rickshaw in front, Chen Changtong turned his head back, feeling thundering in his stomach.

It is not easy for ordinary people to find a few small cars in Taipei, but as a manager of Bank of China, he has influence in the financial and fiscal systems. Things that are difficult for others are not difficult for him. However, he holds a contemptuous attitude towards Xian Yaowen and is unwilling to speak up.

A young man in his twenties marrying a concubine in her early forties was unbelievable. What was there to be obsessed with about his sister-in-law? After thinking about it, it was only his brother-in-law who was worth being concerned about.

So I came to Taiwan to get something I had been thinking about.

He originally thought so, but now it seems necessary to change his mind.

He didn't know the American soldier just now, but he knew the identity of the other party's US military advisory group, and he was also clear about the deeper meaning behind the advisory group.

Although Taiwan was a colonized country under Japanese rule and was a second-class citizen who could not enjoy the same political rights as the Japanese, its hardware construction was at the scale of a modern country. Even though many powers were suppressed, its understanding and imagination of modern countries and their citizens were definitely at the forefront of the times.

In the 1920s, in response to the atmosphere of Taisho democracy in the East, the intellectuals of the province conducted a large-scale "petition movement for the establishment of a Taiwan parliament" that lasted for more than ten years. Although it ultimately failed due to the rise of Japanese militarism, it did gain a certain degree of local autonomy. Although the scale may have been limited, it was an important political enlightenment for the people of the province.

The locals did not need a liberation-style rescue, but rather a chance to unleash and liberate the vigorous vitality that had been suppressed for a long time by the rulers. Unfortunately, such expectations brought about the exact opposite result. The new rulers were no different from the Japanese, and were even worse.

In terms of mentality, the Taiwanese who once fought for the Japanese and were deeply influenced by Oriental culture are seen by many Chinese as enemies who fought on the battlefield not long ago. Although the official authorities have tried their best to downplay this, the huge cultural gap still exists between the two different ethnic groups.

What is more serious is that cultural differences also involve differences in values ​​between progress and backwardness. Life under Japanese rule is far superior to that on the other side, both in terms of material and value. In the absence of awareness and sincerity among those in power to solve problems, conflicts are inevitable.

The chaos of Chen Yi's government after the war, in the name of receiving, was actually corruption and embezzlement, which turned into robbery. Tang Xianlong, a reporter from Nanjing Dagang Daily who was in Taiwan at the time, could not help but criticize: "The content is not easy to write, it will not pass."

The transformation of taking over into robbery reflects a more fundamental problem. The huge distortion brought about by the war tested both the victorious and defeated sides after the war. The government had to return to normalcy from the wartime system and try to establish new norms on the scorched earth where order had been destroyed and to contain the ugliness of human nature released during the war. Such reconstruction work was a great test for any government.

Judging from the results, Chiang Kai-shek was almost helpless in the face of such a process. He was unable to focus on one thing while neglecting another. In just three or four years, he went from being the popular Chairman Chiang to being forced to step down and live in a corner.

The chaos caused by fleeing is definitely greater than that caused by receiving people. Just imagine that a land with a population of only more than 600 million people quickly increased by 200 million after the war, most of whom moved in between 1949 and 1950. To settle such a large number of foreign population would be a thorny problem even in the next century.

Chiang Kai-shek adopted an arrangement that was almost a dual-track system of isolation, setting up military dependents' villages and quarters in the civilian sector, and politically creating a military, public servant and education system dominated by mainlanders. These arrangements certainly had political considerations and calculations, and were also drastic measures that had to be taken in order to settle the displaced population in a relatively short period of time.

The implementation of a dual-track system has created a gap and conflict between outsiders and native Taiwanese, which has become an important political issue in the future. The native Taiwanese groups, who have been hit the hardest in the process, have mostly chosen to remain silent, while a small number of them have picked up the banner of the "native independence movement" again, but this time the target of their struggle is no longer the Japanese.

They ran to Japan, re-established their organization, transformed themselves into "Taiwan independence" elements, and tried to find support from the famous quotes recorded in "Red Star Over China" and from the editorial "Taiwan Autonomy Movement" of the Yan'an Radio Station.

Chiang Kai-shek was naturally a jerk to these people and would punish them if they didn't obey.

Last year, Chiang Kai-shek was summarizing the lessons of his defeat in his temporary residence on Caoshan. A Red Banner man named Aisin-Gioro jumped in front of him and rapped, "Yo yo, check it out, drop Huashan and Huangshan, drop Huangshan and hide in Caoshan, Hi, Man, Don't Know, what is grass, come on, come on, I Tell You, grass is fallen grass, Before The was a bandit..."

Chiang Kai-shek changed the name of Caoshan to Yangmingshan with a stroke of his pen, cheering for his idol.

As a little fan of Wang Yangming, he still knows how to reflect on himself. He remembers that man once said, "If you want to keep your position secure, you have to chop, chop, chop. Dawasili Jiang, open your eyes wide and watch carefully. I will only show you once."

As a result, laws such as the "Martial Law" and the "Temporary Provisions during the Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of Rebellion" were promulgated. Chiang Kai-shek established an authoritarian system and used intelligence agencies at all levels to promote the elimination of the "White Terror" and once again control dissidents in the province.

Whether it was the provincial elites or the "progressive thinkers" from other provinces, they were inevitably caught in the vortex, and the already tense political atmosphere became even heavier.

Thought control and authoritarian leadership can be seen as Chiang Kai-shek's self-reflection on the loss of territory. In addition to eradicating dissenting voices, he also actively established propaganda organizations for official ideology, such as the "Revolutionary Practice Institute" and the "Youth National Salvation Corps", to promote and cultivate talents.

Faced with internal and external troubles, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely depressed. He couldn't sleep for whole nights and pulled his hair strand by strand. Just when he didn't know how to break the impasse, the Korean War broke out. The strategic significance of Taiwan to the United States soared.

After more than half a year of negotiations, aid and an advisory group finally arrived. Although Chiang Kai-shek knew that Washington disliked him and might kick him out of office if given the chance, he had to use the advisory group while also guarding against it. But having it was a good thing, as it would at least help him get through the current difficulties and give him a chance to talk about the future.

At this moment, the advisory group is Mr. Jiang's guests of honor.

Chen Changtong could guess 70% of Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts. At this critical moment, a US Army lieutenant colonel came to give a foreign girl to his dear brother-in-law. It seemed that he should hum a song "A Loving Family".

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Well, it has been reduced from 6,700 words to this number, and it has been changed beyond recognition. Please use your imagination to guess the parts that don’t make sense. Those are the contents that had to be deleted.

This chapter and the next chapter are in the wrong order, and the contents are interchanged. Don't worry about the chapter title. (End of this chapter)