Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Otherwise, the matter is settled. So Wei Hongjun really wanted to see who the other party was and whether it was worth Nie Shuai and Luo Qirong to act as a matchmaker for Wei Hongjun.

"Zhai Min, 18 years old, works in the secretariat of the Military Region Political Department. She is the youngest student at China Women's University and the only one who was specially approved to attend the university at the age of , as the university requires an -year-old to enter.

Wei Hongjun didn't say anything.

Marshal Nie wouldn't have introduced her to him if it were just these conditions. There were many female cadres working in the Military Region Political Department Secretariat, many of whom graduated from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Although Wei Hongjun handled the daily affairs of the Military Region, he was primarily responsible for headquarters work, while Luo Qirong was in charge of the Political Department. So Wei Hongjun didn't really know which one Zhai Min was.

Marshal Nie continued, "Both her parents died as martyrs in the 30s. Zhai Min was only six years old at the time and was entrusted to her uncle, a teacher at Wanping Elementary School and a member of our Party. After the July 38 Incident, he participated in the formation of the Pingxi Guerrilla Unit, but he, too, died in 14. Zhai Min, then 39, passed through your Sheng County, arrived in Jin-Cha-Ji, and eventually made her way to Yan'an. In 15, due to her family's unique circumstances and her own high level of education, she was admitted to the regular class of China Women's University. She was only 18 at the time, not yet . It was Comrade Zhang Qinqiu's special approval that secured her admission. After graduating, she studied for a year at the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and then came to our Jin-Cha Military Region. There are countless people in Yan'an and our Jin-Cha-Ji region who are eyeing this girl. If you're slow, she'll be someone else's wife. Director Luo and I will arrange a position for you. Please make time for it."

"Yes."

"I'll send someone to notify you when the time comes."

After sending Wei Hongjun away, Marshal Nie said unhappily, "Look, he's already thirty, and he's not in a hurry at all. If we don't intervene, he might not even be able to find a wife by the time he's 35."

Marshal Nie has always been very concerned about Wei Hongjun's marriage problems.

Because Wei Hongjun's status is different now. And recently Wei Hongjun has been making too much noise in Hebei, Rehe and Chahar, and some people have reported it to Marshal Nie.

"Commander, there are many girls who are suitable for Comrade Wei Hongjun. Why did you choose Zhai Min?"

Luo Qirong was a little confused.

Zhai Min's conditions were good. She was a descendant of a martyr, and her family had produced many martyrs. She was also well-endowed, beautiful, and well-educated. But that was all. Given Wei Hongjun's current situation, there were many girls with good family backgrounds and excellent personalities.

Marshal Nie smiled and said, "The Red Army is strong enough on its own and doesn't need anything else. As long as the enemy is in good condition, that's enough. Comrade Zhai Min is in good condition and won't cause any trouble for the Red Army in the future."

If Marshal Nie really wanted to find Wei Hongjun a partner with a good background, it would actually be very easy.

There are many girls in Yan'an with strong backgrounds, connections, and good conditions. Some are relatives of central leaders, some have prominent families, and some even have families that are well-connected in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

But Marshal Nie did not choose them.

It was because Wei Hongjun didn't need this kind of strength right now. Wei Hongjun himself was already good enough and didn't need these extra things.

In comparison, although Zhai Min may not seem to have much help, she is the descendant of a martyr, and her family is full of martyrs. This identity is more suitable for Wei Hongjun now.

There was one more thing he didn't say.

Zhai Min's parents had worked for the Shunzhi Provincial Committee (Shunzhi comprised Shuntian Prefecture and Zhili Province, encompassing Hebei, Shanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Chahar, Rehe, Suiyuan, northern Henan, and northern Shaanxi, with the provincial committee headquarters located in Tianjin). Marshal Nie, then a member of the Shunzhi Provincial Committee's Standing Committee and Head of the Organization Department, worked alongside them. Although Marshal Nie was transferred to work in the Central Committee in Shanghai after Zhai Min's parents' death and had not seen them for over a decade, upon seeing Zhai Min's file, Marshal Nie recognized her as the descendant of an old comrade who had fought alongside him in Tianjin. Marshal Nie remained unmoved by Zhai Min's file and did not offer any special attention to her.

Now he feels that by entrusting Zhai Min to Wei Hongjun, he can also give an explanation to his old comrade who had sacrificed his life.

Chapter 651 Zhai Min

Marshal Nie moved quickly.

Just a few days later, Wei Hongjun was notified to come over.

The arranged place was Marshal Nie's home.

"Red Army, hurry up!"

"sister in law."

It was not Marshal Nie who received Wei Hongjun, but Marshal Nie's lover Zhang Ruihua. Zhang Ruihua was a heroine who participated in the "May 30th Movement" and later was admitted to the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, she and the female team were assigned to the military medical department of the teaching regiment. During the Nanchang Uprising, the organization arranged for her to participate in the uprising, but after arriving in Nanchang, she found that the uprising troops had already left. So she continued to follow Marshal Ye's teaching regiment south to Guangzhou and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, she has been doing underground work, mainly in the organization department.

After the Long March, he arrived in Yan'an and enrolled in the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. After graduating from the university, he participated in the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Public School and served as its Party Secretary. After Marshal Nie established a base in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, she followed him there, serving as an officer in the Organization Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Provincial Committee and Party Secretary of the Provincial Party School.

Later, he was mainly responsible for women's work in Jin-Cha-Ji.

She is currently the secretary of the Women's Work Committee of the Jin-Cha-Ji Central Bureau.

Wei Hongjun walked into the room and saw a girl standing there.

She also looked a little nervous, her hands constantly buttoning her clothes. Maybe because she is a girl from the north, she is indeed not short.

Wei Hongjun came from western Fujian, and his family wasn't well off, but he wasn't short, just over 1.7 meters. By comparison, his two older brothers were only 1.67 and 1.68 meters tall. But when Wei Hongjun was in the village, everyone said the Wei family's children were tall. This girl, by the looks of it, was around 1.65 or 1.66 meters. In any case, the first impression of Wei Hongjun was his height.

Because she was looking down, Wei Hongjun didn't see what she looked like at first glance.

"Come. Hongjun, she is Comrade Zhai Min. Comrade Zhai Min, you are a highly educated woman of the new era. He is our famous Comrade Wei Hongjun of Jinchayi.

Zhang Ruihua is impetuous.

After hearing Zhang Ruihua's words, Zhai Min started talking.

Wei Hongjun finally got a good look at Zhai Min. He was indeed good-looking, with a heroic air, possessing the cultural aura of a scholar, and a heroic spirit from his military service. Perhaps it was because Zhai Min and his group were at a good age.

Because when they left the campus, the Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei was almost over.

There is no need to be like other female cadres in the early days, who were always busy and had no time to manage.

The age difference between the two is nine years.

In that era, this age gap was perfectly normal. Many veteran Red Army soldiers and cadres, now in their thirties, were dating teenage girls. After liberation, even more cadres abandoned their wives to marry university students in their twenties.

Wei Hongjun extended his hand and said, "Comrade Zhai Min, hello.

Initially quite nervous and shy, Zhai Min said openly this time, "Hello, Comrade Wei Hongjun."

"There's a resting area in our backyard. You two can go over there and chat, and then have dinner at my place tonight.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"go Go."

Wei Hongjun and Zhai Min came to the backyard, where there was a small table and a few chairs.

This is where Marshal Nie sometimes sits when he receives guests.

Wei Hongjun and Zhai Min sat down, feeling a bit awkward for a moment. Wei Hongjun found it amusing; this was probably the awkwardness of a blind date. Fortunately, Wei Hongjun worked in political science, so he started the conversation: "Comrade Zhai Min, how is your work going now? Is the work in the Political Department Secretariat tiring?"

“Our daily work is to classify documents, mainly according to the severity of the procedures.

"If the revolution succeeds, what do you want to do? Do you want to stay in the army and work in the secretariat of the military region's political department?

When talking about this topic, Zhai Min was obviously interested.

"My uncle often told me that when all Chinese people can read and write, then China will have truly gotten rid of ignorance and become truly powerful. Originally, after graduating from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, I wanted to participate in the literacy campaign in Jin-Cha-Ji and applied for the job. However, the literacy work group thought I was too young, so they didn't accept me and first arranged for me to teach at a normal school. Later, the military region moved to Zhangjiakou, and I followed the military region to Zhangjiakou and became a member of the Political Department Secretariat. After the revolution is victorious, I want to do a nationwide literacy campaign to make people across the country literate.

When talking about this, Zhai Min's eyes sparkled.

Wei Hongjun smiled.

It was like watching a child talk about their dreams. But Wei Hongjun quickly gave a wry smile. He hadn't expected that at thirty, he already had the mentality of a fifty- or sixty-year-old. This wouldn't do.

Wei Hongjun also needs to maintain a young mentality to participate in the subsequent revolutionary work.

Therefore, Wei Hongjun said: "Illiteracy eradication is indeed a major national task.

When we were building the base areas, some policies we announced were completely useless in the countryside. This was because the vast majority of farmers in the countryside were illiterate, and even those who could read couldn't understand our government announcements. This resulted in the base area government formulating policies that repeatedly happened without the knowledge of the local people. We later discovered that our policy announcements were far less effective than a play performed by a military drama troupe in the countryside. This was because the farmers could understand the stories and the morals of the plays. Therefore, whenever we formulated policies, we tried to make them as simple as possible so that they were understandable. Of course, this alone wasn't enough. Since many policies and regulations couldn't be explained to the farmers every day, the best solution was to make our newspapers accessible to the people. Only when our people could understand our newspapers could they understand the government's policies. This was one aspect of the problem. Another was that after the founding of New China, industrial development required a large number of workers, and the best workers were those who could read and write.

Zhai Min couldn't help laughing when he saw Wei Hongjun seriously commenting on the significance of the "literacy campaign".

Only then did Wei Hongjun realize that he was not giving a lecture.

Hence the head scratching.

"Comrade Zhai Min, please don't mind. I'm used to it.

"No, you speak very well."

Zhai Min indeed thought that Wei Hongjun spoke very well.

Wei Hongjun's name is known to everyone in Jin-Cha-Ji.

It should be said that the name of the Jinchayi Eighth Column was well-known throughout China. When Zhai Min was attending the Women's University in Yan'an, she often heard the names of Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun.

Some time ago, Wei Hongjun led his troops to a great victory, and the whole Zhangjiakou celebrated this victory.

But when Zhai Min saw Wei Hongjun today, he found that Wei Hongjun was very different from the general he had imagined commanding thousands of troops.

"I used to just think that Chinese people should also be able to read and write. There's a saying that goes, 'Education can save China.' But I didn't quite understand why that was the case. But what you just said has given me a deeper thought."

"The benefits of reading are not insignificant. As Comrade Zhai Min just said, the day when all the people in the country can read and write, then our country will truly be strong.

Wei Hongjun changed the subject and asked, "Are you very busy with work now?"

"Not busy. Compared to before, work is very leisurely now. Everyone is so focused on the impending peace that even the military district's daily workload has been reduced by more than half. The most common thing happening in the military district offices right now is blind dates and marriages."

After chatting for a while, there were no more constraints.

The "peaceful nation-building theory" is currently very popular in Jin-Cha-Ji. Of course, this is inseparable from the eight years of arduous resistance against Japanese aggression in Jin-Cha-Ji, and everyone is somewhat war-weary. Now that they hear that there is no need to fight, many people are relieved.

Zhai Min explained the current situation at the military headquarters. Wei Hongjun was stunned and frowned, "A blind date and marriage?"

"That's right. After eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many cadres were eligible to get married. But the war delayed their efforts. Now everyone is talking about peace and no more fighting. So, they're all rushing to resolve their personal issues. There are few female cadres in the military district's headquarters, but there are so many male cadres eligible to get married. So, now, all the female cadres in the military district are married. There was a female cadre in our military district whose leader introduced her to a teacher at the Party School. But she didn't like him. She fell in love with a cadre in the army. So, she kept putting it off and didn't respond. The leader who acted as matchmaker was very unhappy, and the teacher at the Party School was also very popular. So, many colleagues urged the female cadre to agree, which put her in an awkward position.

Wei Hongjun frowned.

The horses are put to rest in the southern mountains. This is the current situation of many cadres in Jin-Cha-Ji.

After so many years of fighting, no one wants to fight anymore and everyone wants peace.

Wei Hongjun also somewhat understood why Marshal Nie believed in peace, because this was the current situation in the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.

Both the military and civilians long for peace.

Including those old cadres who have been single for more than ten years.

Everyone wants to marry a wife and live a happy life.

Wei Hongjun pondered the current situation. Wasn't he also on a blind date? Still, he asked, "What do you female comrades think? If the organization arranges blind dates like this, it's very likely that someone like the woman you mentioned will end up like that. While we oppose arranged marriages, some cadres feel embarrassed and might be unfavorable. Would that put some cadres in an awkward position?"

"Actually, the female comrades didn't object much. Men should marry when they're old enough, and women should marry when they're old enough. Currently, the female cadres in the military district headquarters are generally in their twenties, with some older ones being in their seventies or eighties. They're all of marriageable age. Previously, because of the war, not only did the male cadres delay marriage, but the female cadres as well. And if the organization didn't intervene, the female cadres in the officer corps would have no choice but to resolve the issue within the military district headquarters. However, if a blind date doesn't work out, the female cadres are always the most affected, and there will be a lot of gossip."

Wei Hongjun understood what Zhai Min meant.

After so many years of fighting, there was little opportunity for male and female officers to get to know each other, understand each other, and fall in love. With so much fighting going on every day, there was no time for romance. Not only did the male officers want to get married, but the female officers, when they reached that age, also wanted to get married.

Organizational introduction is the fastest and most effective way.

However, as Zhai Min pointed out, female cadres are often more affected than male cadres if a blind date fails. Wei Hongjun nodded and said, "Although our Party advocates gender equality and free love, the constraints imposed on women by feudal society are not only reflected in the women themselves, but also in public opinion as a whole. Even though it's a blind date between a man and a woman, if it doesn't work out, public opinion tends to focus more on the female cadre. This is wrong. Only when this social consensus is completely reversed can we truly achieve gender equality."

Wei Hongjun had no way to deal with this kind of thing.

Our Party is cracking down on rural gentry and clans, promoting gender equality, free love, and so on. Formulating policies is easy, but truly gaining acceptance in rural areas is much more difficult. One of the greatest contributions of the People's Republic of China since its founding was to quickly sweep these feudal dregs into the dustbin.

"I asked you to go on a blind date, who asked you to give a lecture here?"

Marshal Nie laughed and scolded Wei Hongjun.

As soon as Marshal Nie entered the backyard, he heard Wei Hongjun talking about the issue of gender equality again.

Wei Hongjun and Zhai Min stood up and said, "Commander (chief).

"Let's go eat first. There's not much going on right now, so you have plenty of time to meet up, chat, and get to know each other."