Chapter 33 Reflection and Decision Making (Revised)

  Fortunately, He Bao Wen is not the kind of person who clings to a family secret and won't let go. From his father's generation on, they already knew that big knives and long spears can't compare with foreign guns and cannons. So if someone asks him for guidance, he is happy to generously impart his knowledge. After all, Chen Xiaoqi also passed down a set of military-style boxing, didn't he?

  He Bao Wen is not a master of knife fighting, but the family's traditional moves and routes are indeed tactics for dealing with long guns and big knives on the battlefield, which coincides with Japan's bayonet technology. It can be said that in this world, only Chinese people know how to use spears, and only Chinese people can break through spear thrusts. So after getting the oral formula, He Bao Wen could also guess the key points of this move more or less. Anyway, it's not bad to lay a good foundation for now, and he can still ask for advice from a master when he returns home.

  He Bao Wen's "Po Feng Ba Dao" was released, and Li Junfeng found that his bayonet tactics were not as effective as he thought. On the battlefield, they couldn't form a bayonet formation, and one-on-one combat wasn't a match for China's double-handed big knife. Chen Xiaoqi knew this would be the result, and the battle at Jipengkou was a legendary big knife fight that left the Japanese army shattered. From then on, they dared not go to battle without an iron neck guard. What a mighty feat! If the Chinese army all learned the art of big knife fighting, combined with sufficient supplies, the Japanese bayonet tactics would be rendered useless!

  After completing the basic training, Chen Xiaoqi began to organize six people for further special warfare tactics and skills training. The conditions do not allow them to conduct some basic tactical essentials and skills that they can still do now, because it is not suitable for them to lead an American-led escort team at this time. Americans cannot listen to a group of Chinese people's shouts, let alone these few who are not fluent in English!

  So, apart from training, they took on the task of external security patrols, especially at night. Fully armed, they would train during the day and go on patrol at night, making covert rounds around the huge Meihua laboratory complex. During this time, they had discovered several people with ulterior motives trying to sneak close to the area, which might not have been possible during the day but could happen at night. The US security patrols were still effective, but if something big happened, it was unclear whether they would be of any use.

  Two months later, Chen Xiaoqi selected 100 people from the newly recruited Chinese Americans and joined them in batches to the guard training. At this time, he timely introduced the internal security and external security separation system. These convinced Chinese guards, led by He Bao Wen, formed an armed patrol team, while the gate guarding was still done by Americans.

  Huang Zhen Shan temporarily took over as the instructor of the training ground, responsible for training those selected reliable Chinese into soldiers. Li Jun Feng still served as his deputy and also took over the ideological guidance work, that is, the position of instructor. This division of labor helped to guide those who could join the core team in their thinking and grow rapidly.

  Zhu Dacheng and Hu Qian, as Chen Xiaoqi's followers and bodyguards, began to enter into substantive work, occasionally helping out in the training ground, living a very comfortable life. Zhou Yunpeng finally did not escape his fate as a student, after enduring two months of cruel training, he was immediately caught up in supplementary English and German classes. This child from a noble family with excellent innate conditions had a great personality, Chen Xiaoqi and the others were happy to teach him some practical skills, so on the surface it seemed like six people were taking turns tormenting him, but in reality they were unintentionally enriching his knowledge and skills, making the most of everyone's strengths.

  In his daily life, Zhou Yunpeng has an image of a harmless big boy, always smiling with everyone, and easily mixed into the group of American Chinese. Unintentionally, he can gather a lot of useful information to help Chen Xiaoqi and Li Junfeng analyze the reliability of this person and whether they can be absorbed into the system. After several months, his English has improved greatly, and he can already joke with those American bodyguards, chatting about family matters, and unknowingly became a very useful nail that was hammered in.

  Those US citizens of Chinese descent who can enter the Chen Xiaoqi system and receive full military education, each one's family background has been strictly verified through other channels to rule out the possibility of sending spies from other forces. Chen Xiaoqi was very patient in hiring several private detectives and powers to verify for a long time whether these people's backgrounds were temporarily set up, with some taking several months and others taking years, being extremely cautious.

  So after a year, when the second batch of domestic people came over, there were still only thirty people who could be incorporated into the military system. However, through years of training, they were tempered like steel and iron, each one a top-notch master.

  During this period, at least a dozen batches of external forces tried to probe this laboratory, and there were not a few who wanted to sneak in secretly. Basically, they were all discovered and warned, then sent away with courtesy. However, among them, two were finally proven to be Japanese, and Chen Xiaoqi was not so polite. He directly subjected them to severe torture and interrogation, extracting useful information before silencing them. At the same time, he let these new recruits who had never been involved in killing before experience some stimulation and get used to it.

  The Japanese want to hear not only the announced inventions, but also Chen Xiaoqi's new research results. Although the papers on dynamite and sulfonamide inventions are publicly available, industrialization requires buying Chen Xiaoqi's patents, otherwise, self-research requires a lot of repeated experimentation, which is very time-consuming and naturally not as easy as stealing or cheating. Chen Xiaoqi is very clear about the style of the Japanese, they absolutely do not think that stealing others' patents is shameful, for example, during World War II, the famous Zero fighter plane may have been stolen from Howard Hughes' invention.

  Apart from the Japanese, all major powers have them. In this era, it was already a remarkable thing for companies to set up laboratories, and for such a small laboratory to produce so many inventions in a short period of time is even more astonishing. If someone with a keen mind didn't try to investigate further, that would be abnormal.

  In this era, many Chinese people still rush to the United States every year. Although the lie of "Golden Mountain" has been shattered for a long time, the chaotic situation at home still makes some people unable to help but run out. Many people landed in San Francisco or other places and came to various parts of the United States after repeated twists and turns, and had to engage in many shady industries, such as opium dens, brothels, etc., and a large number of them died silently in foreign lands as miners and railroad workers.

  In the early 20th century, the anti-Chinese movement in the United States reached a new peak, especially on the West Coast. Chinese people had almost no place to stand, and large numbers of Chinese were stranded on so-called "Angel Island" waiting for "interrogation". If not for coming under the guise of studying abroad, it was almost impossible to travel freely in the United States, and laborers could hardly take a step.

  Chen Xiaoqi initially chose to settle in Illinois, on the one hand, in order to attend the University of Illinois, and also because at that time, the state's anti-Chinese sentiment was much weaker. Chen Xiaoqi's success would not have been praised by Americans, but instead would have attracted a lot of unnecessary hatred. During the era when the KKK was rampant, Chinese people and many non-whites lived in extreme hardship.

  When Chen Xiaoqi started his business, why did he grab all the patent rights into his own hands but gave up the name of the legal representative to Stern Mate? One reason is that many unnecessary troubles will be caused by a moment's carelessness, and he tried to avoid them.

  Many Chinese laborers without American citizenship came to him after much hardship, seeking Chen Xiaoxi's help. He would either arrange for them to work in unimportant positions, such as daily necessities and clothing, or not dare to take on important departments at all. Many Chinese people who could not make a living in other states also gradually came here, becoming the growing backbone of Chen Xiaoxi's power. These people were different from those without American citizenship; they did not strive to stay alive, but had ideas about changing their own fate and status. This was exactly what Chen Xiaoxi needed. He repeatedly explained to these people that a nation's lack of status in the world is because it does not have a strong country as its backing. Why were the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty so powerful in ancient times? It was precisely because of the strength of the country and the flourishing of national culture that there was a brilliant era.

  The great Song Dynasty, despite having 40% of the world's wealth, still gained respect from surrounding small countries and ethnic groups due to its cultural prosperity, but was eventually destroyed by barbarian nations due to its military weakness and the incompetence of its rulers, resulting in "100,000 scholars drowned at sea, and no China after the mountains".

  The eunuch Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty, led the strongest fleet in the world at that time, traversing the Western Ocean. What a magnificent scene it was! At that time, who dared to be disrespectful to the Han people? Even during the late Ming period when the world was in great chaos and the abandoned people became pirates, they could still compete with the powerful pirates from afar on the sea.

  But since the Manchu rule, the people have been unable to make a living, and all industries have declined. The blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of Chinese people have only supported several million slaves, and the heroic spirit of the descendants of the Huaxia has been exhausted. As a result, when foreign enemies came, the descendants of the Han people who once wielded cannons and dominated the seas were unable to even fire a foreign rifle under the "great and wise" leadership of the Manchu.

  The reason why foreigners look down on us is precisely this. If a country with a prosperous culture, strong military and independent sovereignty as its backing, who dares to look down on you? Is it just because of these barbarians who have been civilized for less than four hundred years?

  So, if you want to stand up straight and be a person, if you want others to look at you with equal eyes, if you want to restore the grandeur of the great Chinese nation standing tall in the world, you must establish a strong and independent country as a backing, otherwise, even after hundreds or thousands of years, this situation will not change.

  It was a little bit like this, instilling his own ideas, Chen Xiaoqi explained to these homeless wanderers the words that had been lingering in his heart for a long time, depicting the strong, independent and free country in his mind, giving them hope, direction in life, motivation for hard work, unity of purpose, and common struggle.

  Affected by one person, seven new people were influenced, and then the seven people influenced thirty people. This group was slowly expanding, and its core theory and development path became increasingly clear. Before the next wave of people arrived, Chen Xiaoqi already had enough lower-level training personnel as his ideological disseminators to quickly instill these ideas in newcomers, especially those Chinese who had suffered oppression in the United States.

  Those rootless Chinese, Chen Xiaoqi didn't dare to let a single one of them into this core group. He understood that people without any roots often have no bottom line, and they are more likely to use other people's secrets as capital for their own survival. So he was extremely cautious not to make any mistakes in this regard. At times, he would rather spend money to buy a ticket to send these people back home than risk the happiness and safety of many others, including his own future plans. Knowing what to prioritize is essential to achieving great things - this phrase is both ruthless and helpless.

  Li Junfeng was originally very repelled by these party ideologies and the like. In his view, no matter what ideology or thought, they were all just excuses for seeking power and speaking loudly, while the core thing was still to rely on fists to speak. The mission of a soldier was to protect the country, maintain national dignity and independence, and even sacrifice blood was worth it, but it couldn't become a weapon or chip for mutual attacks between parties. Because he couldn't stand the ugly internal power struggles within the Beiyang Army, he angrily resigned, but after arriving in America, Chen Xiaoqi's repeated patient explanations finally made him understand that this was something that could not be shaken off, because no matter who it was, living in the world could not escape one thing - interest.

  Everyone is selfish, everyone has their own interests that cannot be touched. No matter how noble a person is, as long as they become part of a group, there will be a common interest that exists, and this core is what unites people together to face others with one mind.

  As a political party or ideology, standing on the national righteousness, ultimately it is to let the governed people and those who follow you live happier, gain greater freedom, gain their own dignity and power, and gain their deserved interests.

  Those who demand others to make selfless contributions are actually the biggest selfish people, swindlers. Such people are everywhere in this era, every corner of the country, and whenever they loudly shout with a tragic and generous appearance, but when you uncover their shell and look inside, you will find no difference, all bare private desires.

  Chen Xiaoqi's personal life experience would not have led him to summarize these points, but there are too many talented people on the internet who will tell the truth. A person who is not too foolish can usually distinguish between them. This is similar to the awkward situation faced by the first batch of people who went abroad in the early 1980s. The education they received from a young age told them that the masses under Western capitalist control were living in dire straits, waiting for them to come and rescue them. However, when they arrived, they discovered that others looked at them with the same gaze. Similarly, on 21st-century forums, some people say how good American life is, only to be countered by others who say that Americans maintain their lifestyle by occupying 80% of the world's resources through their hegemony. They drag the whole world into economic crisis for their own private interests and are not a good thing. But if it were Chinese people who occupied 80% of the world's resources, would you still be willing to selflessly contribute what you have to give to the poor people of the world?

  Maybe someone will, but it's already good if there's one in a million. Standing from different positions and angles, what they say is actually nonsense. From the standpoint of our own nation, as long as we can make our own nation strong and live a happier life, whether others are alive or dead is something to worry about when you have the ability and leisure to do so. Now, when you can't even eat a full meal, it's hypocritical to care about whether there's meat in someone else's bowl!